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"(EW.com) -- Oof.",
"The Miami and Dallas audition rounds of \"The X Factor\" brought us a few solid acts -- and one stunning one -- and an utterly ridiculous amount of screentime dedicated to losers and fools.",
"Have I been suckered into recapping \"America's Got Talent?\"",
"Thankfully, Simon and company redeemed themselves by sticking a grey-sweatered dagger into that festering zit of a human being Xander Alexander (stage name) at the very end of the show.",
"If you look up \"the worst\" in a dictionary, you will find this tattered seafoam creature, standing all alone with only his terrible attitude and a trash-basket Pepsi to keep him company.",
"FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. Books are timeless.",
"I'd love to have seen more footage of promising \"yeses\" like Jeremiah Pagan (one of \"only like seven\" male sopranos in the world -- as if), or blink-and-you'd-miss-her Ma'at Bingham Shango.",
"31-year-old blonde-banged Hannah Jackson, I know you've just become able to fly out of your birdcage, but come back to me!",
"Hog farmer Kyle Corr, sing to me some more!",
"I almost always feel like a pig, so I promise it won't be weird.",
"Stick with me, people!",
"No dice. In lieu of more quality time spent with promising acts like girl group 2Squar'd, country singer/teacher Kendra Williams, and music instructor Brandon O'Hara, we got entire segments devoted to the likes of a defective Justin Bieber doll (if Justin Bieber dolls had been around in the '80s) and motormouth yawns like Ashley Nothing At All Like Pink and Ashley Ghost Hunter.",
"(The ensuing inter-judge antics re: ghosts was pretty much the dumbest thing I've ever seen, and I've been watching \"Dancing With the Stars\" for 13 seasons.)",
"The airtime devoted to yellow-bloused high school junior Caitlynne Curtis was a little easier to swallow, because it's been a while since we've seen Pauler put on her thinking cap and concoct a delicious scheme to trot up and hug someone.",
"That poor girl's life would have been a lot worse from that moment forward if Paula hadn't done that.",
"And she was sweet, you know?",
"I would have hugged her myself.",
"I cannot say the same about Dreamcatcher Crotch.",
"But Nicole might.",
"Despite an inspirational visit from local hero Gloria Estefan and a giant rainbow-colored beach ball, the talent in Miami was dreadful.",
"\"Honest to God, nothing,\" complained Simon.",
"\"I hope this is the worst session.",
"I'm beginning to wonder why we came here.\"",
"Way to inspire people to keep watching, boss.",
"And.... cue music! Meet Vanilla Ice Nick Voss, 21, who got fired from a job at the airport because all he wanted to do was dance.",
"Silly airport.",
"Those planes don't need to know where they're going!",
"What Nick lacks in vocal talent and fully-grown-in eyebrows, he makes up for with fancy footwork and enthusiastic family members.",
"Stevecrest Jones even did an overhead clap during Nick's rendition of Elvis Presley's \"Trouble.\"",
"A beaten-down L.A. Reid immediately gave in, \"because this is really the entertainment business.\"",
"Wise Paula suggested Nick lose the Michael Jackson choreography and focus on his vocals, and Simon declared \"Nick, I absolutely love you.\"",
"He had to. The episode was getting that bad.",
"But Melanie Amaro, 18, redeemed it completely.",
"FINALLY! We heard her entire amazing performance of Beyonce's \"Listen\" -- cutting her off would have seemed illegal.",
"I got total Whitney Houston/Leona Lewis vibes from Melanie's voice alone.",
"The fact that she has such a real, unassuming personality on top of the voice makes me want to go buy her entire album right now.",
"It was so refreshing to see such a good-natured reaction to the crowd's overwhelming reception.",
"There's nothing worse than an 18-year-old who knows she's the s---.",
"The judges were nearly passing out with excitement.",
"\"This is why I do this. People like you inspire me,\" said Nicole, who will never come close to singing as well as Melanie in her life.",
"She's the best contestant we've seen by far.",
"Dexter Haygood, 49, used to tour with Hall and Oates as part of a band called Xavion.",
"I took the liberty of googling this up and now I'm kind of obsessed with him: .",
"Here's where I finally felt the potential magic of \"The X Factor.\"",
"I mean, seriously?",
"This guy? \"Why NOT this guy?\" seems to be the whole point of the show.",
"It'll take some getting used to -- especially when I'm not instantly sold on a contestant's performance quality in present-day -- but I can legitimately see myself becoming invested in real people with real, living-out-of-their-car problems (who aren't, like, 17).",
"First Dexter broke out a rote James Brown tribute act with \"Sexy Machine.\"",
"Ladies loved it; girls adored it, but Simon could see right through it and asked him to sing 15 seconds a cappella.",
"During that entire commercial break I honestly wondered if maybe this guy would freeze up and either refuse for some creepy reason or not be able to think of just the right song.",
"But he did! Nicole, who'd been switching up her dialects according to the occasion, called Dexter \"one of the funkiest cats I've seen up here.\"",
"Ooh. Two hours of actual funky cats auditioning for The X Factor probably would have flown by.",
"Along with Melanie, Caitlyn Koch, 21, gave the most American Idol-esque audition.",
"She was un-jaded, pretty, intrigued Simon before even singing (rugby coach!",
"), and I loved the way she rearranged the Supremes.",
"Nicole once again adjusted her critique to the personality in question and tossed Caitlyn a \"tough jock girl\" bone by awarding her \"a big ol' fat juicy delicious YES.\"",
"You guys, I have no idea why I'm only spotlighting Nicole's lines.",
"I know they're the worst!",
"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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"We heard Melanie Amaro's entire amazing performance of Beyonce's \"Listen\"\nDexter Haygood broke out a rote James Brown tribute act with \"Sexy Machine\"\nPaula suggested Nick lose the Michael Jackson choreography and focus on his vocals ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Liv Tyler highly approves of her rock-star father Steven's choices -- both in love and career.",
"Asked about the \"American Idol\" judge's recent engagement to Clear Channel executive Erin Brady, Liv tells PEOPLE that she's an enthusiastic supporter of it, explaining that the two have been together \"for a long, long time\" and adding, \"I like her very much.\"",
"Speaking to PEOPLE at the Sundance Film Festival, where she's promoting her new movie \"Robot and Frank,\" the actress, 34, also revealed that she's finally following in her father's footsteps -- into the music business.",
"\"I got to record a cover of INXS's 'I Need You Tonight' for a Givenchy commercial,\" says the model, who has a longstanding beauty contract with the European cosmetics company.",
"\"It was fun and terrifying and wonderful,\" she says of recording the song, which is due out soon.",
"It's a logical step for a woman whose roots are in music.",
"\"I always thought when I was a little girl that I'd be a singer,\" she says.",
"\"My mom [Bebe Buell] was always in bands.",
"My dad. And my stepfather, Todd Rundgren, is an incredible musician.\"",
"As for her dad's dicey performance of The Star-Spangled Banner on Sunday?",
"Liv hadn't seen it yet.",
"\"Somebody told me my dad just sang the national anthem,\" she said.",
"\"I've got to go Google it.\"",
"Or, you know, maybe not.",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Liv Tyler says she's a supporter of her father Steven Tyler's engagement .",
"\"I like her very much,\" she said about Erin Brady .",
"Tyler is promoting her new movie \"Robot and Frank\" at the Sundance Film Festival ."
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"(CNN) -- For years, all Hannah Pool knew was that her biological parents had died shortly after her birth.",
"An Eritrean-born girl adopted as an infant by a British academic, Pool found herself spending her first years in Norway before landing in the UK at the age of seven.",
"At times, she remembers, growing up in the northwest English city of Manchester as a Norwegian-speaking black girl with a white father was a source of confusion for people around her.",
"\"When I was walking down the street holding my dad's hand, people would sometimes check that he wasn't sort of taking me, that he wasn't kidnapping me,\" says Pool, who today is a writer and journalist in the UK.",
"\"There were lots of incidents like that which actually are just part of my upbringing, part of my DNA almost -- I'm used to having to explain myself, explain what I'm doing in the room, explain my relationship, whether it's with my dad or my brother or my sister,\" she adds.",
"But a few years later, Pool's already unconventional life took an even more astonishing twist.",
"Almost two decades after she left the Eritrean orphanage where she was adopted, Pool received a letter from the east African country informing her that her father was alive and well, living back home with her brothers and sister.",
"The news left the then 19-year-old Pool reeling.",
"\"It was a complete shock,\" she recalls.",
"\"And it wasn't a creeping thing like 'maybe you have a cousin' or 'maybe you have an aunt' -- it was like BAM!",
"'you have a father,' BAM!",
"'here are your brothers and here's your sister,'\" she says.",
"\"My head went into a spin, I didn't know what to do or how I was supposed to respond to this -- was I supposed to get on a plane and go to Eritrea, was I supposed to go back to all the people who I told my story to and tell them 'actually that story is not right, this story is right' and the whole sense of the story of me was just pulled from beneath me like a rug.\"",
"Shocked by the revelation, Pool initially decided to ignore it and continue her university studies in Physiology.",
"But the thought she had a large family living in Eritrea was always with her \"as a kind of an itch.\"",
"So about 10 years later Pool felt that she had to get on a plane and travel to her birthplace.",
"Meeting her father and the rest of her family for the first time face-to-face was \"incredibly emotional,\" says Pool.",
"At the same time however, it was completely different to what she had expected.",
"\"It was almost like an outer-body experience -- I watched myself go in the room, I was quite detached, I was surprised.\"",
"\"The thing that hit me the most was the language and I hadn't prepared for that -- I had prepared for this beautiful reunion where everybody looked the same as me and we all kind of connect immediately.",
"\"And it wasn't like that and the main barrier at the time was the language.\"",
"Pool quickly understood that her European upbringing was marking her as different in her birthplace, in a similar way that her Eritrean background was singling her out in the UK.",
"\"I thought I'm going to feel at home with everyone and initially that's how I felt -- I stepped off the plane and thought 'wow, I'm at home, this is where I belong,' but I realized very quickly that actually I do stand out from everyone.\"",
"Since then, Pool has visited Eritrea three times.",
"She describes her relationship with her family there as a \"work in progress\" and has started learning Tigrinya -- the local language -- in order to help her have a \"normal family relationship.\"",
"A talented writer, Pool documented her journey to trace her family in a book entitled \"My Father's Daughter,\" a project that took about a year to complete.",
"\"I wrote the book that I wish had been around when I was tracing myself,\" she says.",
"\"There are a lot of books about adoption but usually it's from the point of view of the parents, there's very little from the point of view of the adoptees ... and I think it's important to get the debate they're in from their perspective.\"",
"An emotional memoir, Pool says the hardest part was not writing the book but going through the whole experience -- initially, she was afraid of how her fathers would respond to the book but in the end they were both very proud and supportive, she says.",
"\"Both reactions were the best reactions I could possibly hope for,\" she says.",
"An extract of the book was also published in Tigrinya in an Eritrean newspaper.",
"\"That was amazing to see,\" says Pool.",
"\"To see that my family were able to read an extract of my book on their own language -- that was a really proud moment for me, that was incredibly important for me, and they were really amazing about it.\"",
"Today, Pool proudly describes herself as British-Eritrean and says she would love to make the African country her home one day.",
"\"I'm proud to be Eritrean and that's something that has come with time, with tracing and knowing where I'm from.\""
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"Writer Hannah Pool was adopted as an infant from an orphanage in Eritrea and grew up in England .",
"At 19, she found out that her father was alive and well in Eritrea .",
"Years later, Pool embarked on a journey to trace her unknown family ."
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"Yasuf, West Bank (CNN) -- Vandals burned a mosque in the West Bank on Friday in an attack a Palestinian official said reflected Israeli settler rage over a government moratorium on settlement construction.",
"No one knows who set ablaze and vandalized the mosque -- located in the West Bank village of Yasuf.",
"But the governor of Salfit district, Munir al-Abboushi, told CNN he believes Jewish settlers were responsible for the attack.",
"\"The mosque was completely burned,\" al-Abboushi said.",
"\"They burned the praying carpets and Quran holy books, and set the mosque completely on fire, they even burned the loudspeakers where the Imam preaches inside the mosque.\"",
"Al-Abboushi said the culprits had scrawled Hebrew graffiti at the entrance of the mosque that read \"price tag -- with regards from Effi.\"",
"\"Price tag\" is the expression radical Israeli settlers have used to denote reprisal attacks against Palestinians in response to moves by the Israeli government to evacuate illegal West Bank outposts.",
"Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak called on the Israeli military, which occupies the West Bank, to find those responsible for the attack.",
"\"This is an extremist action that is meant to harm any effort by the government to advance political processes for Israel's future,\" Barak said in a statement released by his office.",
"Settler leader Dany Dayan -- chairman of the Yesha Council, a group of Jewish municipal councils from the West Bank -- told CNN, \"I hope that Israeli police will uncover the perpetrators whoever they are and will bring them to trial.",
"This act is wrong and foolish.",
"If this act was carried out by a Jew it fills me with great shame.\"",
"Al-Abboushi said later Friday morning, after word of the mosque attack had spread, residents of the village were prevented by the Israeli army from approaching the area which resulted in minor clashes with exchanges of rocks and tear gas between the residents and Israeli soldiers.",
"Al-Abboushi expressed doubt that the attack would be investigated properly.",
"\"What do the police and Israeli army do when they attack our holy mosques and houses?",
"What do they do to the settlers? But when they attack us they do nothing.\"",
"Last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a 10-month freeze on new settlement construction in the occupied West Bank.",
"The move has been met with fierce opposition by the politically powerful settler movement and confrontations have erupted almost daily in the West Bank, with groups of settlers forcibly attempting to keep away government inspectors enforcing the ban."
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"Mosque in West Bank village of Yasuf set ablaze and vandalized .",
"Local governor says he believes Jewish settlers were responsible .",
"Israeli Defense Minister Barak calls on Israeli army to find those responsible .",
"Israel has ordered 10-month freeze on new settlement construction in West Bank ."
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"(Oprah.com) -- Look for the actress in ABC's new drama Pan Am -- as well as on the couch reading books rich in imagination.",
"The Chronicles of Narnia .",
"By C.S. Lewis . \"I would reread them every summer,\" says Christina Ricci of the children's series featuring a deity named Aslan, a benevolent lion.",
"\"I actually prayed to him, convinced that he would come into my room and take me to Narnia.\"",
"By 19, Ricci no longer prayed to Aslan, but she found another expression of her devotion: She had Aslan's image, her first tattoo, inked on her shoulder.",
"Oprah.com: See the complete list of Oprah's book club selections .",
"She's Come Undone .",
"By Wally Lamb .",
"\"I have given this book to so many people and reread it, I think, a million times,\" says Christina Ricci.",
"\"I love it because it's about surviving.\"",
"The novel's unforgettable protagonist, Dolores Price, endures sexual abuse, parental neglect, and years in a mental institution -- but never loses her fighting spirit.",
"\"As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.\"",
"Oprah.com: 8 books to read with a broken heart .",
"Just Kids . By Patti Smith .",
"The sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll of the 1970s \"always scared me,\" says 31-year-old Christina Ricci, who hadn't yet been born when rocker Patti Smith and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe were making music and art together, as chronicled in this 2010 memoir.",
"\"Their story sort of restored my faith in people.",
"They went through so much but could still forgive and love each other.\"",
"Oprah.com: Your favorite women writers .",
"The Fountainhead . By Ayn Rand . \"When I was struggling with a sense of identity, this book helped me feel empowered about being a little different,\" says Christina Ricci.",
"A teenager when she read the popular 1943 novel, she knew nothing about the book's polarizing ideology, nor was she drawn to its iconoclastic protagonist, Howard Roark.",
"\"I didn't like that guy,\" says Ricci.",
"Oprah.com: Books that made a difference to James Franco .",
"The Story Sisters .",
"By Alice Hoffman .",
"\"Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults,\" says Christina Ricci, who bought this novel about traumatized sisters at an airport, not knowing what to expect.",
"\"It was very sad, but in a way it was also uplifting because they never lost the love they had for each other.\"",
"Hoffman's take on magical realism -- the sisters construct their own language to protect themselves from hurt -- \"was so beautiful.",
"I was in tears for most of the flight!\"",
"Oprah.com: 31 classics that have stood the test of time .",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now! TM & © 2011 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved."
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"Christina Ricci shares some of the books that have impacted her life .",
"Ricci loved \"The Chronicles of Narnia\" so much that she has a tatoo of Aslan .",
"The actress recommends \"She's Come Undone\" to all of her friends ."
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"(CNN) -- BlackBerry customers slammed by last week's global outage are being offered free apps, not cash, as payback for their troubles.",
"At least a dozen apps, which would cost about $100 on the BlackBerry App World site, will be made available in the next few weeks, according to a statement released Monday by BlackBerry maker Research In Motion.",
"\"We truly appreciate and value our relationship with our customers,\" RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis said in the statement.",
"\"We've worked hard to earn their trust over the past 12 years, and we're committed to providing the high standard of reliability they expect, today and in the future.\"",
"An October 10 failure at a data center caused outages in Europe and elsewhere, RIm said.",
"RIM throttled service to help address the outage, which spread over the next few days to Europe, the Middle East, India, Africa, Latin America and North America.",
"Full service was restored on Thursday, according to the company.",
"The free apps include: .",
"* SIMS 3 . * Bejeweled . * N.O.V.A. * Texas Hold'em Poker 2 .",
"* Bubble Bash 2 .",
"* Photo Editor Ultimate - Ice Cold Apps .",
"* DriveSafe.ly Pro .",
"* Drive Safe.ly Enterprise .",
"* Nobex Radioâ„¢ Premium .",
"* Shazam Encore .",
"* Vlingo Plus: Virtual Assistant .",
"More apps will be added later, according to the statement.",
"The first ones will become available on Wednesday and they'll stay free for the rest of the year.",
"Business customers also will be offered a free month of technical support.",
"The offer seemed to please at least some of BlackBerry's roughly 70 million customers.",
"\"Only 1 simple word for this...",
"AMAZING!!!\" wrote one visitor to a post on the BlackBery fan site, Crackberry.",
"\"I wasn't expecting this at all, but it is welcome.\"",
"\"Trust restored RIM!",
"... ,\" wrote another.",
"\"This also tells you RIM is very, very serious with surviving.",
"No giving up for them.\" But response was more measured among less-enthusiastic customers.",
"\"What a useless 'compensation',\" wrote one commenter on the website for London's Guardian newspaper.",
"\"What [if] somebody uses their device for communications (e.g.",
"e-mail) rather than using loads of apps?",
"The value in apps is totally worthless.\"",
"Many had been hoping to at least be reimbursed for the amount of time their service was out.",
"By comparison, after Sony's PlayStation Network went down this spring, the company offered players free games, a weekend of free video rentals and a free month of PlayStation Plus, a premium subscription service offering exclusive titles, discounts and other perks.",
"That PlayStation outage lasted the better part of a month for some customers."
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"BlackBerry users being offered free apps after worldwide outage .",
"No cash back or service credit is being offered so far .",
"Some BlackBerry users saw outages between Monday and Thursday of last week .",
"More than $100 in apps will be available between Wednesday and end of the year ."
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"(CNN) -- Despite complaints by some owners about underwhelming battery life, the iPhone 4S scored \"very well\" in tests of its battery performance by Consumer Reports, which gave the device its official blessing Tuesday.",
"Consumer Reports' laboratory tests also determined that Apple's new phone doesn't suffer the \"death grip\" reception problem that was found in its predecessor, the nearly identical-looking iPhone 4.",
"That antenna flaw, which depleted signal strength when the user held the phone a certain way, led Consumer Reports to not recommend the iPhone 4.",
"\"Overall, the new iPhone 4S scores higher in the ratings than the iPhone 4, thanks to such enhancements as an upgraded camera, a faster \"dual-core\" processor, and the addition of the intriguing Siri voice-activated feature ...\" wrote Mike Gikas in a post on Consumer Reports' site.",
"Those upgrades were not enough, however, to let the iPhone 4S outscore the best new Android-based phones in Consumer Reports' ratings.",
"Those top-rated models included the Samsung Galaxy S II phones, the Motorola Droid Bionic and several other phones that boast larger displays than the iPhone 4S and run on faster networks.",
"Battery life has been an issue for the iPhone 4S since it went on sale October 14.",
"According to Apple's official specs, the phone should have enough juice in its battery for up to eight hours of talk time, six hours of Internet surfing, 10 hours of video viewing and 200 hours on standby.",
"(All of these activities are on a 3G connection; 2G and Wi-Fi produce different figures).",
"But online forums soon filled with complaints from users saying their new iPhones weren't lasting even close to that long.",
"On November 2 Apple acknowledged it had found a \"few bugs\" affecting battery life on the iPhone 4S and other devices running its new operating system.",
"The company said a software update coming \"in a few weeks\" will address the problem.",
"Consumer Reports said it plans to retest the phone after the software update to see if the fix affects battery performance."
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"Consumer Reports: iPhone 4S scored \"very well\" in tests of its battery life .",
"Product watchdog said Tuesday it's recommending the newest iPhone .",
"Consumer Reports didn't recommend iPhone 4 because of antenna problem ."
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"(CNN) -- There is no reason to believe that Norway mass murder suspect Anders Behring Breivik is insane, District Court Judge Torkjel Nesheim said Monday.",
"There is also no evidence he had accomplices in the bomb and gun rampage in which he is accused of killing 77 people this summer, the judge said.",
"The judge ordered him held in custody for a further 12 weeks, with visits and correspondence controlled by the authorities for the first eight, and a ban on media for the first four.",
"More than 500 people packed into a court in Oslo, Norway, to see the suspect's first public appearance, said Irene Ramm, head of press for the Oslo court.",
"A woman whose daughter was killed in the massacre said she could not understand \"how a human being could do something like that.\"",
"\"That's why I had to be here today. I don't understand, so I had to see, had to be here,\" said the woman, who was identified only as \"Carina\" on Norway's TV2.",
"\"He looked cold, completely cold,\" she said.",
"He was not allowed to deliver a speech he had prepared, the station reported.",
"Breivik said he did not recognize the authority of the court on the grounds that he opposes the multi-cultural society it is part of, TV2 said.",
"He was stopped on several occasions when he started referring to himself as Commander of the Knights Templar, a title he used in his 1,500-page manifesto, the station reported.",
"\"I interrupted Breivik during today's hearing because I only wanted to hear him about matters relating to today's hearing,\" Judge Nesheim said.",
"\"This was not the main trial where he gets to explain himself.",
"I did not want to give him the opportunity to use this hearing as a platform for him to express his views.\"",
"Until now, the proceedings for Breivik have been held behind closed doors.",
"The hearing was to determine whether to keep Breivik in jail until his trial in the spring.",
"Prosecutors expect it to begin in March or April, the judge said.",
"Survivors return to scene of island rampage .",
"He is accused of killing dozens of people in a bomb attack in Oslo followed by a shooting rampage on nearby Utoya island.",
"Eight people were killed in a bombing in Oslo; 69 young people were killed on Utoya island, in the deadliest attack in Norway since World War II.",
"The young people were attending a Labour Party youth camp.",
"Most of the 700 campers ranged in age from 16-22, with some as young as 13.",
"Breivik has pleaded not guilty but admits carrying out the attacks, the judge said.",
"\"The accused is still suspected on probable cause of criminal acts, as described in the charges.",
"He has admitted the bombing in central Oslo and also the shooting on Utoya.",
"The investigation has also confirmed this,\" Nesheim said.",
"He is described by authorities as a right-wing Christian extremist.",
"The 1,500-page manifesto attributed to Breivik was posted on the Internet and is critical of Muslim immigration and European liberalism."
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"NEW: The judge cut him off because this was not the time to justify his actions, he says .",
"Anders Behring Breivik is ordered held in custody for another 12 weeks .",
"There is no reason to doubt his sanity, the judge says .",
"He is charged in the July 22 attacks that killed 77 people ."
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"(CNN) -- Muggles will have another opportunity to slip into Harry Potter's magical world at a new Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park at Universal Studios Hollywood.",
"Universal Parks CEO Tom Williams promises the planned Southern California attraction will be \"every bit as spectacular\" as the first Harry Potter park, which opened in 2010 at Universal Orlando in Florida.",
"That successful Harry Potter theme park will be significantly expanded, Williams also announced Tuesday.",
"Hogwarts Castle, which houses the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry featured in the \"Harry Potter\" series, will be the Hollywood park's centerpiece, as it is in Orlando.",
"Details on the timing of the new park and expansion have not been released.",
"The new California park is likely to bring millions of tourist dollars.",
"\"It's a huge win for the Los Angeles tourism industry,\" said Mark Liberman, CEO of the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau, in a statement.",
"The Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. estimates the Harry Potter park will produce $147 million in spending in the county for every one million additional visitors to Universal Studios Hollywood.",
"The Orlando Harry Potter attraction's opening brought an immediate boost to Universal Orlando.",
"Wizarding World's opening halfway through 2010 boosted overall paid admissions to Universal's Orlando parks by 20% in 2010 over 2009, according to financial documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission."
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"The existing park in Orlando will be expanded .",
"The Orlando Harry Potter attraction has brought a big attendance boost for Universal ."
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"(CNN) -- A Grammy-nominated classical pianist who wears personalized trainers, Lang Lang is one-of-a-kind in the world of classical music.",
"His expressive and flamboyant style has so far brought him more fans than critics.",
"The 26-year-old has become a sensation in the music world, with a prodigious talent that catapulted him from a childhood in northeastern China to playing to a packed Carnegie Hall by the age of 21.",
"His flamboyant playing style and bold image has divided critics, but also attracted millions -- who might normally be more into MTV than Mozart -- to classical music.",
"Lang Lang's parents were instrumental in pushing him to be a world-famous artist.",
"At the age of 9, Lang Lang gained a place at the Central Music Conservatory, moving with his father to Beijing, where he faced some of the toughest moments in his young life.",
"\"The biggest challenge for me is that I was not living with my mom.",
"This is really awful because...",
"I've been always very close with my mom when I was a kid.",
"Even till today, you know, we're still very close,\" he told CNN.",
"Tough times were compounded when his teacher took a dislike to him.",
"Far from encouraging the young pianist, she consistently told him he had no talent, and after six months kicked him out of the school.",
"Being so far from his mother, he found little support at the time from his father, with whom Lang Lang admits to having a difficult relationship as a child.",
"\"When I was a kid I didn't talk to my father so much.",
"I didn't know who to talk to when I'm facing very challenging situations.",
"And that was really driving me crazy,\" he said.",
"He experienced a harrowing moment when, in a violent outburst, his father accused him of ruining his dream of Lang Lang becoming a great pianist, saying he was no good and should throw himself out of their tenement building.",
"\"I don't want to become a pianist at that moment, I hate piano, I hate my father, I hate everything that brings me to being a pianist,\" he said.",
"\"I never forgive [my father] for a long time, but it is like now I understand, you know he quit his job and he went to Beijing with me.\"",
"He also managed to forgive his former piano teacher, and had the satisfaction of performing a master class at his former school and collecting an honorary professorship in 2006.",
"It took Lang Lang a long time to play the piano again in front of his father, but his love for playing returned.",
"His talent and competitive spirit won him the International Tchaikovsky Competition for young musicians at just 13.",
"\"I only knew that competition is the only way to become famous as a Chinese person growing up in China.",
"That's the education you get, competitions,\" he said.",
"It brought him wider attention and, at the age of 14, a move to Philadelphia to study at the Curtis Institute of Music.",
"His big break came when he was 17, appearing with the Chicago Symphony as a last-minute replacement.",
"Just four years later, his solo recital at Carnegie Hall was sold out.",
"Since then, the 26-year-old has played with some of the world's most esteemed orchestras and conductors -- Daniel Barenboim described his playing style as \"like a cat with 11 fingers\" -- and his youth, rich talent and flamboyant style has attracted a new audience to classical music.",
"Appearing at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games was a highlight among notable achievements.",
"\"It was really incredible when you're playing in the middle of the stage; it feels like you're playing in the middle of the universe.",
"You do the Olympic Games in the city which has most of the feeling for you, everything: disappointment, victory, tragic moments, really sad moment, but happy moment, and satisfied.",
"It's a city that for me has everything and that what made me extremely emotional,\" he said.",
"Wearing his heart on his sleeve, Lang Lang's performances also reflect his expressive nature.",
"However, not all the reviewers and critics have warmed to his style or image.",
"Some have nicknamed him \"Bang Bang,\" while American pianist Earl Wild dismissed Lang Lang as the \"J.Lo of the piano\" in an article in the New Yorker.",
"While admitting he has created something of a brand of himself, Lang Lang is happy that he gains more plaudits from his contemporaries than negative reviews, and that he's able to help inspire others to take up music.",
"An estimated 40 million children in China are learning the piano because of the \"Lang Lang effect.\"",
"While performing around 130 concerts a year, he also manages to find time in his packed schedule to be a UNICEF ambassador and work with the Montblanc Cultural Foundation.",
"\"You need to be putting all the efforts into something you think is a priority.",
"What I believe, this charity work is my priority...",
"I would like to give back to the world something that I get from other people,\" he said."
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"(CNN) -- Need more evidence that Facebook's real-name-only policy has its flaws?",
"Well, here you go: . A few days ago, Facebook allegedly kicked famous author Salman Rushdie off of its social network, and then asked him to change his posted name to Ahmed if he wanted to return.",
"Rushdie -- known for his outspokenness -- went on a rant about the incident on Twitter, where he has more than 100,000 followers.",
"Facebook eventually \"buckled,\" he wrote Monday.",
"Here's a play-by-play of what happened, according to Rushdie's Twitter feed, which I condensed: .",
"\"Amazing. 2 days ago FB deactivated my page saying they didn't believe I was me.",
"I had to send a photo of my passport page,\" he wrote.",
"\"Then they said yes, I was me, but insisted I use the name Ahmed which appears before Salman on my passport and which I have never used.",
"\"Now they have reactivated my FB page as 'Ahmed Rushdie,' in spite of the world knowing me as Salman.",
"Morons. @MarkZuckerbergF? Are you listening?\" Facebook did not respond to CNN's request for comment on the incident.",
"On Tuesday, his Facebook page, with \"Salman\" as his first name, appeared to have been reactivated by the social network.",
"Rushdie rose to international notoriety in the 1980s after his novel, \"The Satanic Verses,\" stirred protests throughout the Muslim world.",
"The Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran issued a fatwa against Rushdie because of the book.",
"His recent tussle raises issues with Facebook's policy of requiring people to use their real names when registering with the social network.",
"People who don't use their real names are found to be out of compliance with Facebook's rules and can have their accounts deactivated.",
"\"Facebook users provide their real names and information, and we need your help to keep it that way,\" Facebook's terms of service document says.",
"Rushdie's situation shows how difficult it can be for people to prove who they are.",
"He submitted his passport to Facebook, he wrote, and still had problems.",
"Supporters of democratic protests in the Middle East and elsewhere have criticized Facebook and other social networks like Google+ for their real-name policies, saying they prevent people from organizing against authoritarian governments that could use a network like Facebook to crack down.",
"If they could use pseudonyms, they would be safer, some say.",
"\"There are myriad reasons why individuals may wish to use a name other than the one they were born with,\" Jillian York wrote on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's blog in July.",
"\"They may be concerned about threats to their lives or livelihoods, or they may risk political or economic retribution.",
"They may wish to prevent discrimination or they may use a name that's easier to pronounce or spell in a given culture.\"",
"Facebook always has maintained its position as an \"identity network.\"",
"A core philosophy of the site is that people should be themselves -- and should be accountable for their posts with their real names.",
"Rushdie's case shows how tricky enforcement can be, though.",
"\"This is the sort of thing that makes you wonder what real names policy is all about,\" Alexis Madrigal wrote on The Atlantic's website.",
"He added: \"Seriously, what is the point of forcing Salman Rushdie to go by Ahmed Rushdie?",
"How does this benefit the social Web?\"",
"Rushdie taunted Facebook on Twitter before the site relented and reposted his page.",
"\"Dear #Facebook, forcing me to change my FB name from Salman to Ahmed Rushdie is like forcing J. Edgar to become John Hoover,\" he wrote.",
"\"Or, if F. Scott Fitzgerald was on #Facebook, would they force him to be Francis Fitzgerald?",
"What about F. Murray Abraham?\"",
"He later declared his win over the social network: .",
"\"Victory! #Facebook has buckled!",
"I'm Salman Rushdie again.",
"I feel SO much better.",
"An identity crisis at my age is no fun.",
"Thank you Twitter!\""
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"Author Salman Rushdie takes to Twitter to protest Facebook .",
"The social network wanted him to change his posted name to Ahmed, he says .",
"Facebook requires users to go by their real names .",
"Rushdie is famous for \"The Satanic Verses\" and several other works ."
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"London (CNN) -- There are few historical figures that can compete with Leonardo da Vinci's celebrity.",
"This, despite what little we actually know about him.",
"Other than the complex and often mysterious works of art and writings that are his legacy, what's left today amounts to a few basic facts, and anecdotes told by 16th-century art historian Giorgio Vasari.",
"And yet, nearly 500 years after his death, da Vinci continues to fascinate, standing in popular culture as a totem of the supernaturally gifted individual.",
"An exhibition, which opened in London this week, includes nine of da Vinci's 15 surviving paintings -- the first time so many of his paintings have been shown off together -- with an estimated insurance value of $2 billion.",
"\"The big cultural figures like Dante and Shakespeare and Goethe and Einstein, they all have their cults and their 'loonies' as I call them -- but Leonardo is in a league of his own,\" he said.",
"The quintessential Renaissance man who was brilliant in the fields of both science and art, da Vinci is widely regarded as a genius.",
"\"He really was a polymath,\" said art historian Richard Stemp.",
"\"He worked on everything -- he studied anatomy, he studied the natural world, he saw himself as a painter-philosopher really,\" he continued.",
"Da Vinci was born in 1452, the illegitimate son of a Florentine landlord and notary, on his father's estate in Vinci.",
"He was apprenticed at the workshop of Florentine artist Andrea del Verrocchio when he was just a teenager.",
"In 1482, he entered into service of the Duke of Milan as an official painter and engineer and remained there for 17 years, during which time he created such masterpieces as the first version of \"The Virgin of the Rocks\" and the \"Last Supper.\"",
"It was also in this period that he turned to scientific studies.",
"\"In his mid-30s, he starts to diversify and towards the end of his life he would have seen himself essentially as a scientist who also did a bit of painting on the side,\" said Martin Clayton, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Royal Collection in the UK, which contains an extensive collection of drawings by da Vinci.",
"Da Vinci's mechanical drawings included prototype designs for such modern contraptions as helicopters and tanks.",
"But it was during his second stint in Florence, from 1500 to 1506, that he painted his masterwork, the \"Mona Lisa.\"",
"Though we are now so used to this image of the smiling noblewoman, the painting's \"startling originality,\" according to Clayton, is still visible today.",
"\"There's simply nothing out there like it before, this sense of looking at an individual and yet taking the individual out of the context of her own life and presenting her as this mystical, idealized figure who stands outside of time,\" he said.",
"Da Vinci spent his last years in France, serving as a painter, architect and engineer to the King of France, and died there in 1519.",
"The \"Mona Lisa,\" which he brought with him to France, stayed.",
"Today, the portrait -- with its notoriously enigmatic smile -- remains the star attraction at the Louvre Museum in Paris.",
"The aura of mystery around the \"Mona Lisa\" and, indeed, the artist himself could be what draws people into the cult of Leonardo, according to Italian art historian Mina Gregori.",
"\"Even he could not explain himself completely,\" she said, referring to the unfinished nature of many of his works.",
"\"He continued to create question marks, he always created problems, he created the curiosity to know more,\" she continued.",
"Perhaps our best clues to who da Vinci really was are to be found in his paintings, writings and drawings.",
"But as with all art, his works are open to interpretation.",
"\"On a religious level, I think he was a probing person -- he questions (things) a lot,\" said Monsignor Renato Bellini, a priest in Vinci, where Leonardo was born and baptized.",
"However, according to art historian Pietro Marani, the idea that Leonardo was either a divine talent or a supernatural being detracts from what we are able to read in the works themselves.",
"\"(We) no longer (have) an image of Leonardo that is all one piece -- a semi-God, a magician -- but a multi-faceted Leonardo, a contradictory Leonardo, who changes (his) ideas,\" he said.",
"Many of the drawings featured in the \"Leonardo -- The Lost Painting\" are held in the Royal Collection: royalcollection.org.uk ."
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"Intitally a painter, towards end of life he became a scientist .",
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"New York (CNN) -- A mother abducted her eight biological children from a New York foster care agency during an authorized visit, authorities announced Tuesday.",
"Shanel Nadal, 28, fled with her seven sons and one daughter from the Queens facility on Monday afternoon, police said.",
"The abducted boys are all apparently named after their biological father, Nephra Payne, 34.",
"They are Nephra Payne, 11; Nephra Ceo Payne, 10; Nephra John Payne, 9; Nephra Shalee Payne, 6; Nephra Rahsul Payne, 6; Nephra Umeek Payne, 5; and Nephra Yahmen Payne, 4.",
"The lone girl was identified as Nefertiti Payne, 11 months.",
"The New York Police Department said Nadal may be traveling with the children's biological father in a black 1996 Chevrolet Suburban with license plate number EXZ5896.",
"Despite the one-day lag between the abduction and the announcement, New York City's Administration for Children's Services assured the public it had been investigating the incident since it occurred.",
"\"ACS and our foster care agency began working with the NYPD immediately after the mother absconded with the children from a visit at the foster care agency yesterday,\" the ACS said in a statement.",
"The statement made no mention of how Nadal escaped or why the children had been placed in foster care.",
"CNN's Dominique Dodley contributed to this report."
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"The abducted boys are all apparently named after their biological father ."
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"(CNN) -- A small plane headed from New Jersey to suburban Atlanta crashed onto an interstate shortly after takeoff Tuesday, killing five people, authorities said.",
"Two men, one woman, two children and a dog aboard the plane died in the crash in Morristown, New Jersey, just after 10 a.m.",
"ET, said Robert Gretz, a senior air safety investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board.",
"The plane, a six-seater Socata TBM700, was headed from Teterboro, New Jersey, to DeKalb-Peachtree Airport in suburban Atlanta when it crashed onto Interstate 287 about 14 minutes into the flight, Gretz said.",
"The plane was at about 17,500 feet when \"there was some discussion between the pilot and the controller of locations of icing conditions,\" he said.",
"He told reporters Monday night the conversation seemed \"routine\" and was \"not a distress call.\"",
"Gretz said he did not know whether the conversation concerned a cloud that might contain ice; actual icing on the airplane; or whether the pilot was inquiring where ice might be or reporting it.",
"\"I've heard this thirdhand.",
"... That's something I need to listen to the tapes to know,\" he said.",
"Gretz said he was not aware of any icing conditions on the ground at Teterboro that would have required the plane to be deiced.",
"However, he stressed that the investigation is in its infancy and it is too soon to speculate what might have caused the crash.",
"\"It's too early to tell whether it was something mechanical or something the pilot did -- we just don't know,\" he said.",
"Preliminary information is that the five were headed to Atlanta for a combination business-leisure trip, Gretz said.",
"Authorities did not release the names of those who died, pending positive identification by the medical examiner and notification of relatives.",
"But New York investment banking firm Greenhill & Co. reported that those on board were two of the firm's managing directors, Jeffrey Buckalew, 45, and Rakesh Chawla, 36; Buckalew's wife, Corinne, and their two children, Jackson and Meriwether.",
"Ages for the children were not given.",
"\"The plane belonged to Mr. Buckalew, an experienced pilot whose passion was flying,\" the company said in a statement.",
"\"The firm is in deep mourning over the tragic and untimely death of two of its esteemed colleagues and members of Jeff's family.\"",
"No one on the ground was injured, although a pickup truck narrowly missed the plane, Gretz said.",
"The debris field from the crash was spread over about a half-mile, with part of a wing and the plane's tail found in a tree in a residential area, he said.",
"Witnesses reported the plane was in an \"uncontrolled spin\" before it crashed.",
"A Federal Aviation Administration radar facility in New York lost radio contact with the plane, and also lost it on radar, FAA spokesman Jim Peters said.",
"The crash site was about 30 miles southwest of the Teterboro airport, Peters said.",
"Gretz said Monday evening he was not sure how long after the conversation regarding icing that the plane dropped off radar, saying investigators will be determining that.",
"The plane struck the southbound lanes of I-287, continued through a wooded median and came to rest on the northbound lanes, New Jersey State Police Lt. Stephen Jones said.",
"Most of the interstate was shut down after the crash, Jones said.",
"One northbound lane and two southbound lanes were open as of Tuesday afternoon, but officials were \"still trying to recover both the pieces of the plane and the remains of the victims.\"",
"Gretz said Monday night the wreckage recovery was halted about 6 p.m. because of darkness and would resume after Tuesday's morning rush hour, at 9:30 a.m.",
"The New Jersey Department of Transportation said motorists had two of three travel lanes in each direction available for Monday evening's rush hour.",
"CNN's Mike Ahlers contributed to this report."
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"Before the crash, the pilot mentioned icing, NTSB investigator says .",
"The crash's debris field stretches over a half-mile .",
"Crash shut down most of Interstate 287 in Morristown, New Jersey ."
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"(CNN) -- Stratfor, a global intelligence company, has been hacked but it was unclear Monday whether the breach and apparent release of credit card information was the work of the activist hacking group Anonymous.",
"A posting on the website Pastebin said that Stratfor subscriber data, including information on 4,000 credit cards and the company's \"private client\" list, had been released.",
"The posting cited AntiSec, a Web-based collaboration with the activist hacking groups Anonymous and LulzSec.",
"U.S.-based Stratfor, which provides independent analysis of international affairs and security threats and describes itself as a publisher of geopolitical analysis, sent an e-mail Sunday to subscribers.",
"\"On December 24th an unauthorized party disclosed personally identifiable information and related credit card data of some of our members,\" it said.",
"\"We have reason to believe that your personal and credit card data could have been included in the information that was illegally obtained and disclosed.\"",
"Allen Barr of Austin, Texas, told CNN he was victimized by the misuse of his private information that was hacked from the website before it was posted on websites on the 24th.",
"A week ago, unauthorized charges totaling $700 were billed to his Visa debit card, he said.",
"The total was charged in increments to a number of charities over the course of about 30 minutes, he said.",
"But the company quickly identified the transactions as suspicious and called Barr's house, he said.",
"In short order, he had canceled the card, but not before his credit union checking account had been debited, he said.",
"Rectifying that required half a day spent filing police reports and affidavits, he said.",
"\"Two days later, they said that they would credit back my funds, pending completion of the investigation,\" he added.",
"Stratfor said the claim that the data included the firm's \"private clients\" was wrong.",
"\"Contrary to this assertion the disclosure was merely a list of some of the members that have purchased our publications and does not comprise a list of individuals or entities that have a relationship with Stratfor beyond their purchase of our subscription-based publications,\" CEO George Friedman said in an e-mail to members.",
"The firm provides intelligence reports to subscribers.",
"A recent e-mail discussed political prospects for Iraq.",
"The information-sharing website Pastebin posted a news release it said was from Anonymous that said the group had nothing to do with the cyberattack on Stratfor.",
"\"Stratfor is an open-source intelligence agency, publishing daily reports on data collected from the open Internet,\" the posting said.",
"\"Hackers claiming to be Anonymous have distorted this truth in order to further their hidden agenda, and some Anons have taken the bait.\"",
"\"The leaked client list represents subscribers to a daily publication which is the primary service of Stratfor,\" it continued.",
"\"Stratfor analysts are widely considered to be extremely unbiased.",
"Anonymous does not attack media sources.\"",
"Stratfor's Friedman said the company is working closely with law enforcement.",
"\"Stratfor's relationship with its members and, in particular, the confidentiality of their subscriber information, are very important to Stratfor and me,\" he wrote on the firm's Facebook page.",
"\"We have reason to believe that the names of our corporate subscribers have been posted on other web sites,\" the Austin, Texas, company said.",
"\"We are diligently investigating the extent to which subscriber information may have been obtained.\"",
"Asked about the hacking, Pentagon spokesman George Little said Sunday that \"Initial indications suggest that there has been no impact\" to the Department of Defense grid.",
"Stratfor's website was not functioning Monday.",
"A banner read, \"Site is currently undergoing maintenance.",
"Please check back soon.\"",
"Weekend online postings regarding the Stratfor situation mentioned Army Pfc.",
"Bradley Manning, who served as an intelligence analyst in Iraq.",
"He faces 22 charges related to the leak of nearly 750,000 U.S. military and State Department documents.",
"Most of them ended up on the WikiLeaks website.",
"\"While the rich and powerful are enjoying themselves with all their bourgeois gifts and lavish meals, our comrade Bradley Manning is not having that great of a time in federal custody,\" said a Pastebin posting.",
"\"Instead of being heralded as a fighter for free information and government transparency, he is criminalized, marginalized, and incarcerated, threatened with life imprisonment.\"",
"CNN's Barbara Starr contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- I was in Atlanta when I first learned of a controversy over an inscription marking the new Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in Washington.",
"The quote on one side of the granite \"Stone of Hope\" reads, \"I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness.\"",
"In an interview with The Washington Post, poet Maya Angelou argued that these were not King's exact words and that, out of context, they made a humble preacher look like \"an arrogant twit.\"",
"Angelou expressed no concern with 14 other quotations from King that appear on a 450-foot-long memorial behind his statue.",
"By coincidence, this news found me as I began research for a book on the power of short writing.",
"I've learned that we often use the shortest texts to express the most important messages, especially to honor and enshrine.",
"Twitter did not invent short writing.",
"From tattoos to gravestones to the base of monuments, we choose words with special care because we want them to last forever.",
"In a short text, every word counts.",
"But with concision can come the loss of context.",
"The overwhelming impression of the new memorial derives, not from language, but from sculpture.",
"Even small photos of the new statue make King look monumental.",
"He stands 30 feet tall, strong and determined, arms folded, looking as if he just marched out of the huge block of stone behind him.",
"Memorial to be dedicated Sunday .",
"In the presence of such powerful imagery, why the argument over a single sentence?",
"Angelou's concerns were echoed by other African-American scholars and leaders, who argued the 10 words on the monument base have been ripped from their original context and meaning.",
"In a sermon at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, just months before his death in 1968, King preached, \"Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice.",
"Say that I was a drum major for peace.",
"I was a drum major for righteousness.",
"And all the other shallow things will not matter.\"",
"In context, the word \"if\" makes all the difference.",
"Without that opening conditional clause, it does seem that King is embracing the role of drum major rather than acquiescing to it.",
"I did not understand, until I visited Florida A&M University and other historically black colleges and universities, the importance of the drum major in African-American culture.",
"The drum major is a white American icon, too, of course, flamboyant even by the strait-laced Midwestern standards of Meredith Wilson's \"The Music Man.\"",
"Translated by famous black college marching bands, as pictured in the 2002 film \"Drumline,\" flamboyance transforms itself into soulful spectacle.",
"To get a feel for the presence and status of drum majors, check out YouTube videos of auditions for that honored position.",
"In addition to musical and leadership skills, the drum major must be able to strut, dance, spin, prance and perform backbreaking bends and splits -- without missing a beat.",
"At the Poynter Institute where I work, marble plaques in a central garden offer students inspirational sayings.",
"Famous writing teacher Donald Murray quotes the Roman poet Horace: \"Nulla Dies Sine Linea,\" Latin for \"Never a Day Without a Line\" of writing.",
"The engraver, not schooled in Latin, left out the word \"Sine\" (without), leaving us with dead-language gibberish that could be taken to mean the opposite of the original.",
"\"Oh well,\" I said when I saw the mistake, \"at least it's not carved in stone.\"",
"When we use the phrase \"carved in stone,\" we denote something permanent, irreversible, unchangeable.",
"But it ain't necessarily so. Ignoring my suggestion that we copy-edit the marble text with a magic marker, my boss ordered a corrected version of Murray's quote.",
"Everything I've learned about the language of enshrinement suggests that the inscription on the King monument should be revised.",
"It need not be changed right away or in a way that would embarrass those who chose the original.",
"Any revision should grow from a desire to perfect for posterity a magisterial work that springs from the noblest intentions.",
"I know of no written standards for historical inscriptions, but the unwritten ones could come down to these two: 1) Quotes from the dead should never be taken out of context; 2) Quotations should reveal the honored character in the proper light -- or a better light.",
"The drum major quote fulfills neither of these standards.",
"To restore most of the original context would require the addition of 12 short words: \"If you want to say that I was a drum major, say that.",
"...\" A tighter compromise could be \"If you say I was a drum major, say.",
"...\" At the very least, a single word added to the existing quote would restore a bit of King's intended meaning: \"Say I was a drum major for peace.",
"...\" Every writer I know has had an editor who, to save space, has cut a passage to the bone.",
"Done well, the meaning can ring clearer with fewer words.",
"Done poorly, something critical to the reader's understanding is left behind.",
"The problem is serious enough when it occurs on paper or in pixels, even more serious when it's carved in stone.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roy Peter Clark."
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"Roy Peter Clark: The \"drum major for justice\" quote was taken out of context .",
"Clark says it's crucial to preserve meaning when words are excerpted .",
"King memorial will be dedicated Sunday in Washington ."
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"(CNN) -- The Catholic Church in Ireland is going high-tech in a bid to reverse a dramatic decline in the number of priests.",
"An establishment viewed as a bastion of tradition is turning to a new app to encourage more \"applications.\"",
"The app, says the church, is \"designed to promote vocations to the priesthood.\"",
"It is being hailed as a \"world first\" by the church in Ireland.",
"\"The app is an original approach to assist current and future generations seeking to investigate and find information on vocations to the diocesan priesthood in Ireland,\" a statement issued ahead of the launch said.",
"The number of new recruits to the priesthood has fallen sharply in the recent decades -- and as Ireland has become engulfed in a series of child sex abuse scandals over the past few years.",
"The situation led to a respected former Catholic bishop in Ireland to call for an end to clerical celibacy.",
"Edward Daly, the retired bishop of Derry, said allowing clergymen to marry would ease many of the church's problems.",
"Daly told CNN he was worried about the decreasing number of priests and the number of older priests.",
"The issue \"needs to be addressed and addressed urgently,\" Daly said, adding he found it \"heartbreaking\" priests were forced to resign or prospective priests were unable to join the priesthood because of the celibacy rule.",
"The new 'Vocations' app was designed by Father Paddy Rushe and developed by the company Magic Time Apps, based in Dublin.",
"It is available to download for free from the Apple iPhone App Store, said the church.",
"Some of the features of the app, according to the church, are: Connection to Twitter and Facebook; Social networking at the service of vocations; Contact details and statistics on the 26 dioceses of Ireland; Frequently asked questions to assist a person to discern his vocation; News feed running from the national vocations website; Novel and cursory 'tests' to enable the user to reflect on vocation potential.",
"\"Future updates will include a \"prayer counter\" to allow people pledge a period of prayer for vocations and a picture gallery which will include some images from the life of a seminarian,\" the church statement said.",
"The launch of the new app marks the official handover from Rushe as the National Coordinator for Diocesan Vocations to Father Willie Purcell and his team, said the church.",
"The app is part of a campaign promoted on the church website -- http://www.vocations.ie -- and follows 'Priesthood Sunday,' which was on September 25.",
"The website called it \"an opportunity to highlight and promote particularly the vocation to the priesthood.\"",
"A statement on the website stressed more priests are needed: \"The number of priests per Catholic has declined over the past 40 years.",
"This makes it more difficult for individual parishioners to establish a close relationship with any one particular priest.\"",
"\"Also, priests are no longer the only ones who offer pastoral care to our people,\" the statement continued.",
"\"Yet without a priest, no parish is able to be a Eucharistic community.",
"It is important to reaffirm the importance of the priesthood of Jesus Christ and its central place in the life of our church.\""
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"(CNN) -- Pop star David Cassidy filed suit on Wednesday against Sony, claiming he was not paid for his image on merchandise from the hit television show, \"The Partridge Family,\" in which he starred.",
"\"For nearly 40 years, defendants have swindled Mr. Cassidy out of his rightful share of the profits from The Partridge Family, and when Mr. Cassidy has inquired as to the matter, have lied to him so as to continue to conceal their deception,\" said the lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.",
"\"Mr. Cassidy has reason to believe, and does reasonably believe, that defendants have been perpetrating a scam\" and \"will continue to go to any and all lengths necessary, no matter how despicable, to avoid upholding\" his contract, the suit said.",
"Named as defendants are Sony Pictures Entertainment, and subsidiaries Screen Gems Inc. and CPT Holdings Inc.",
"The suit, which alleges fraud and breach of contract, demands \"in excess of millions of dollars, in amount to be determined at trial.\"",
"A Sony spokeswoman said the company does not comment on matters involving litigation.",
"In an interview with CNN, Cassidy, 61, said he simply wants what's owed to him.",
"\"It's just a matter of being fair, and doing the right thing,\" Cassidy said.",
"\"I have no other alternative if Sony is not going to be reasonable.\"",
"He told CNN that his former manager told him he has only been paid about $5,000 for merchandise.",
"\"I'm going to let a jury decide if David Cassidy is entitled to his fair share,\" he told CNN.",
"Under his 1971 contract with Screen Gems, Cassidy was supposed to get 15 percent of net merchandising revenues for the use of his image, voice or likeness, and no more than half of that for items in which that if other cast members appeared.",
"\"Mr. Cassidy quickly became a teen idol,\" the suit, filed by attorneys Kenneth Linzer, Rachael Shinoskie and Elisha Weiner, states.",
"\"At the height of the show's success, he received an average of 30,000 letters from fans a week; having the largest fan club in the world in its day, surpassing even Elvis Presley and The Beatles.\"",
"The suit said the show, which aired from 1970 to 1974, was one of the first -- if not the first -- to be merchandized on a worldwide scale with board games, magazines, coloring books, paperbacks, posters, pillow cases, toy guitars, dollars, lunch boxes, beach towels, pencil cases, comic books, children's' clothing, and music sales.",
"\"All of which, it has been reported by knowledgeable news sources, generated nearly $500 million for defendants,\" the suit said.",
"Despite promises in his 1971 contract to provide financial statements for merchandising, Sony has \"either never provided such accountings and reports, or provided such accountings and reports only begrudgingly, inconsistently, inaccurately and fraudulently.\"",
"In a letter sent to Sony in May, Cassidy's attorney Craig Marshall, requested a full accounting of the merchandise.",
"\"We are formally requesting an accounting and payment for any and all sale, exploitation, or other use of Cassidy's name, likeness, voice or other exercise of such merchandising rights,\" states the letter to Gregory Boone, executive vice president of legal affairs for Sony Pictures Television.",
"\"In that regard, we also request a prompt and full accounting and payment of proceeds for any merchandise that was sold, exploited or otherwise used subsequent to the rights period set forth in the agreement.\"",
"Boone responded in a letter that Sony \"could not (and so far as we know did not) enter into any new merchandising licenses\" using Cassidy's \"name, voice and likeness rights\" after the show went off the air.",
"\"We have searched for copies of the merchandising net proceeds rendered to Mr. Cassidy in the 1970s, but have been unable to locate them,\" the letter said.",
"\"However, we did find some correspondence...showing that Mr. Cassidy's representatives audited such statements.",
"Therefore, they must have been rendered to him.\"",
"Any potential claims, the letter said, are invalid because the \"statutes of limitation\" had expired decades ago.",
"Asked why he waited so long to raise the merchandising issue, Cassidy said he didn't have a copy of his contract until, after a string of moves and business managers, he found it in a box that he hadn't opened since the 1970s.",
"Besides his claims that he was cheated out of merchandising revenues, he said new merchandise from the show has continued to be produced in the last 10 years.",
"He said, since the merchandising rights reverted to him one year after the show went off the air and he was entitled to profits from the show, he was supposed to also get paid for any new merchandise.",
"For example, Cassidy showed CNN a \"The Partridge Family\" toy bus and model kit with a 2001 copyright.",
"The company that manufactured the toy, Playing Mantis Inc., has since been sold.",
"But a spokeswoman for the new company confirmed that the toy was produced in 1998 and again in 2001 with Sony's permission.",
"A toy hamster that sings \"I Think I Love You\" also has a 2001 copyright from Gemmy Industries Corp. Lio Chang, a company vice president, told CNN that Gemmy got permission to use music from a Sony subsidiary.",
"Still another \"Partridge Family\" toy bus has a 2003 copyright from CPT Holdings, which is Columbia Pictures Television, a Sony subsidiary.",
"A Sony spokeswoman had no comment when CNN asked about these recent copyrights.",
"The only other cast member reached by CNN from \"The Partridge Family\" who said he received money from merchandising is Brian Forster, who replaced Jeremy Gelbwaks as Chris Partridge is the second season.",
"Forster said he received about $1,100, after his mother demanded payment from the studio.",
"The other cast members contacted by CNN said they either didn't have a merchandising clause in their contracts or do not remember getting paid.",
"Cassidy's comments to CNN follow interviews earlier this year with cast members of \"Happy Days,\" who are suing CBS over the same issue.",
"Actors Don Most, Anson Williams, Marion Ross and Erin Moran, as well as the widow of actor Tom Bosley, filed a $10 million suit in April, claiming CBS, which owns the show, failed to pay them for \"Happy Days\" merchandise, which is still being sold around the world.",
"After the lawsuit was filed, CBS Corp. sent checks to the actors totaling $43,403.",
"But Jon Pfeiffer, the actors' attorney, said he would not cash the checks while the case is pending because that would imply his clients agree with CBS that is all they are owed.\"",
"In a statement, CBS said it agreed the actors are owed money for the merchandise, but dispute the amount.",
"In a court filing, the company said the actors are \"attempting to generate a lucrative litigation windfall by riddling their complaint with unsupported and overreaching causes of action\" for fraud and breach of good faith.",
"CBS said this was \"all done in a transparent attempt to introduce the specter of punitive damages\" in the case.",
"But the actors fired back in court papers, saying \"although defendants routinely rebrand their corporate images, they should not be permitted to rebrand the truth.\"",
"For Cassidy, he said the issue with \"The Partridge Family\" is the same -- where did all the merchandising money go?",
"\"I'm asking for fairness, I'm asking to be treated with respect as opposed to, 'we don't owe you anything,'\" Cassidy said."
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"1970s pop icon David Cassidy filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Sony .",
"The lawsuit claims Cassidy has been 'swindled' out of merchandising profits .",
"Cassidy, 61, says he has only received $5,000 from Partridge Family merchandise .",
"A Sony spokeswoman had no comment ."
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"(CNN) -- The NBA has canceled its preseason, and the first two weeks of the regular season are in jeopardy as team owners and players remain at odds over a new labor deal.",
"\"By Monday, we will have no choice but to cancel the first two weeks of the season,\" NBA Commissioner David Stern said Tuesday.",
"The cancellation of all 114 preseason games will mean a loss of about $200 million in revenue, he said.",
"The NBA already had announced the cancellation of some preseason games.",
"\"And we're looking down the barrel of losing regular-season games.",
"There's an extraordinary hit coming to the owners and to the players,\" Stern said.",
"The sometimes bitter labor struggle and lockout has stretched to three months.",
"\"We can only say we are running out of time so many times,\" NBA Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver has said.",
"NBA Players Association President Derek Fisher has acknowledged the stakes.",
"\"We are aware of the calendar,\" he said this week.",
"\"We know our backs are against the wall in terms of regular season games and what those consequences will be.\"",
"Last week, the NBA announced that it had postponed player training camps for the upcoming season and canceled some preseason games.",
"Training camps were scheduled to open on October 3.",
"Representatives from both sides have been meeting in hopes of hammering out a collective bargaining deal, but no significant progress has been announced.",
"The NBA began a lockout of its players in early July.",
"Stern has said that last season was not profitable for most of the league's 30 owners, who want cost-cutting help from players.",
"The league lost as much as $300 million in the 2010-11 season, Stern has said.",
"One of the battles has focused on the owners' rejection of the players union's call for an average $7 million player salary in the sixth year of a new labor deal.",
"The current average salary is about $5 million.",
"Other big issues include a fight over whether the NBA will strengthen its salary cap and a move by owners to get a bigger share of revenues.",
"The last work stoppage occurred in 1998."
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"NEW: The first 2 weeks of the regular season are in jeopardy .",
"NEW: Canceling the preseason brings a revenue loss of about $200 million, the NBA commissioner says .",
"The lockout has lasted three months ."
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"(CNN) -- A Major League Baseball player was stabbed to death Monday in the Netherlands, police said.",
"Greg Halman, 24, was found dead just after 5 a.m. Monday in Rotterdam, a police spokeswoman said.",
"Investigators arrested his 22-year-old brother, she said.",
"Halman played center field for the Seattle Mariners.",
"Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig issued a statement expressing his condolences to the team.",
"\"The loss of a talented 24-year-old young man like Greg, amid such tragic circumstances, is painful for all of us throughout the game,\" Selig said.",
"Betra Dorrestijn, a spokeswoman for the Royal Baseball and Softball Union of the Netherlands, said Halman's family confirmed his death to the federation.",
"\"We are shocked to hear that Gregory Halman has passed away,\" she said.",
"\"It is tragic that he should die at such a young age.\"",
"Halman was a federation member when he played baseball as a teenager for an amateur team in his hometown of Haarlem, just outside Amsterdam, before going to the United States to play, Dorrestijn said.",
"Halman made his Major League debut on September 23, 2010, and went on to play 44 games with the Seattle Mariners, Major League Baseball said.",
"He finished the 2011 season with 20 hits, including two home runs, in 87 plate appearances, according to figures from Major League Baseball.",
"\"I only knew Greg for a brief time, but I feel lucky that I had the chance to get to know him,\" Mariners Manager Eric Wedge said in a statement.",
"\"He was a fine young man with a bright future.",
"Greg had a tremendous energy about him, both on and off the field, that I loved.",
"This is just tragic. That's all I can think, that this is so tragic and sad.\""
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"NEW: \"This is so tragic and sad,\" Seattle Mariners manager says .",
"Selig calls Halman's death \"painful\" for the baseball community .",
"Halman, 24, was stabbed to death Monday in Rotterdam, police say .",
"He played center field for the Seattle Mariners ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Giuliana Rancic said Monday that she has breast cancer, having discovered a tumor during a mammogram while undergoing another round of in-vitro fertilization in an effort to get pregnant.",
"The E! News and Style Network host, 36, made the emotional announcement on NBC's \"Today\" show.",
"She will undergo surgery this week and then have six weeks of radiation therapy.",
"The cancer has been detected early, and the prognosis is good, she said.",
"Rancic was going to wait until 40 to have a mammogram, but her IVF doctor suggested she have one now.",
"She says she will still push to have a baby, following one IVF attempt that ended in a miscarriage and a second that didn't work.",
"\"I still want this baby ... because this baby has saved my life,\" she said.",
"\"I truly feel God was looking out after me ...",
"If I had gotten pregnant later down the line, I could have been a lot sicker.\"",
"She also says her husband, Bill Rancic, has been \"unbelievable.",
"The best thing about Bill is, he lets me cry when I want to cry.\"",
"Coincidentally, Rancic recently filmed some on-the-street interviews to bust breast-cancer myths for the non-profit Bright Pink as part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which marks its 25th anniversary this year.",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"The cancer has been detected early and the prognosis is good, Rancic said .",
"\"I still want this baby ... because this baby has saved my life,\" she said .",
"Rancic recently filmed interviews to bust breast-cancer myths ."
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"(CNN) -- The Higher Security Council, in charge of \"organizing and securing Tripoli,\" announced Thursday that courts in the city will start operating next week.",
"\"People must realize that the country's system has been destroyed and is being rebuilt now,\" said Lt.",
"Colonel Mustapha Nooh, head of the council.",
"He said detained prisoners will be directed toward the general prosecutor for \"clearer\" due process.",
"The change was announced the same day a report from Amnesty International detailed claims of abuse against prisoners by anti-Gadhafi forces.",
"For example, last August, fighters in a house in Abu Salim tied the hands of two brothers from the southern city of Sabha and beat them while taking them into custody, according to the report.",
"\"They beat us several times using their rifles,\" the elder brother told the human rights group.",
"\"They also whipped us.",
"When they transferred us to Mitiga (the airport detention facility), they forced us to walk on our knees to the vehicles while they insulted and beat us.",
"They accused us of being mercenaries.\"",
"The report says that militia members detained as many as 2,500 suspected Gadhafi loyalists in the Tripoli area and that, in nearly every case, people were arrested without warrants and far from the oversight of the Ministry of Justice.",
"Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty's North Africa researcher, told CNN on Thursday that the arrests were more like abductions -- people taken from their homes by unidentified captors carrying out raids on suspected Gadhafi loyalists.",
"\"We spoke to several guards,\" said Eltahawy, who added she heard screams from detainees being whipped as she waited in one of the facilities.",
"\"They didn't see a problem to beat detainees to extract information.",
"To them it was normal.\" It was the way things had been done for the four decades of Gadhafi's iron-fisted rule.",
"After visiting 11 facilities and interviewing 300 detainees, some of them women and children, the Amnesty team found that culture very much in place as Tripoli was falling.",
"A 17-year-old boy from Chad, accused of rape and of being a mercenary, told Amnesty that he was taken from his home in August by armed men who held him in a school where they punched him and beat him with sticks, belts, rifles and rubber cables.",
"\"The beatings were so severe that I ended up telling them what they wanted to hear,\" he said.",
"\"I told them I raped women and killed Libyans.\"",
"In issuing the report, Amnesty International called on Libya's National Transitional Council to put end such human rights violations.",
"Many of the militias are working outside the law, Eltahawy said.",
"\"What the national council needs to do from the very beginning is to send a strong signal that this behavior will not be tolerated,\" she said.",
"Nooh acknowledged incidents of abuse but said they were isolated.",
"He said members of his security staff were present during the Amnesty International interviews and that they have nothing to hide.",
"He denied the scope and gravity of the abuses depicted in the Amnesty International report.",
"\"Yes, there have been infringements related to beating detainees under arrest, but I would not call it torture,\" Nooh said.",
"\"These are isolated incidents caused by rebels who were emotional due to the fighting and losing friends or relatives in the war, but it's no organized beatings or designed to extract confessions.\"",
"Human Rights Watch has also documented accounts of detainee abuse that amounts to torture.",
"The global monitor issued a report earlier this month that urged Libya to ensure that the rule of law prevails as it forges ahead in building a new nation.",
"Those interviewed told Human Rights Watch that they were beaten and given electric shocks.",
"Some showed their scars as proof of their claims.",
"One man wept openly in telling his story of abuse.",
"A detainee identified as Ahmed said this: .",
"\"They took an electric cable and started hitting me with it.",
"They didn't use electricity, but they said that if I didn't talk, they would. ...",
"They hit me with a butt of the Kalashnikov.",
"They kicked me in the face and in the chest.",
"One scratched me with the knife (bayonet) of the Kalashnikov.\"",
"Human Rights Watch said none of the detainees has ever faced a judge.",
"\"After all that Libyans suffered in Moammar Gadhafi's jails, it's disheartening that some of the new authorities are subjecting detainees to arbitrary arrest and beatings today,\" said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch.",
"As a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the U.N. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Libya has an obligation to prevent torture and abuse, Amnesty International said.",
"Libyan authorities, the group said, cannot allow such abuses to go on simply because the nation is in a transitional phase.",
"If they do, said the human rights activists, Libya's new leadership will be no better than the old.",
"Nooh also spoke Thursday against foreign security companies coming into Libya.",
"Noting that \"there is no clear visa system for entry and the borders are not fully organized,\" he said that nine foreign security companies, some of them American, have established bases in Libya without permission.",
"\"We have compiled data on them and informed the United Nations,\" Nooh said.",
"\"The Libyan people (do) not want foreign security companies.\"",
"CNN's Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Moni Basu contributed to this report."
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"NEW: The announcement comes the same day Amnesty International issues damning report .",
"Suspected Moammar Gadhafi loyalists were beaten and abused, the group says .",
"Human rights activists say rule of law, absent in Libya under Gadhafi, must be ensured ."
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"London (CNN) -- Violence has returned to the streets of Cairo -- this time in fresh confrontations between army forces and pro-Coptic Christian protesters.",
"Accounts of the casualties vary but an Egyptian health ministry spokesman told CNN that 25 people had been killed and more than 272 injured during the weekend protests that were sparked by the burning of a Coptic Christian church in southern Egypt.",
"There has been long-standing tension between Egypt's Coptic Christians and Muslims but CNN's Ben Wedeman in Cairo says that since this year's revolution that removed the former President Hosni Mubarak there have been more of these clashes.",
"In the aftermath of the latest violence, Egypt's Prime Minister Essam Sharaf has vowed to ban all discrimination based on religion, language, gender or ethnicity.",
"But why has the violence erupted after a revolution which promises to deliver fresh democratic elections, who are the Coptic Christians and what will the new measures achieve?",
"CNN examines the background.",
"After a revolution that brought change, do people have renewed confidence in being able to protest?",
"Are they seeing an opportunity to make their voices heard ahead of elections?",
"Ben Wedeman reports that at least among activists, there is a growing concern that any form of political activity, particularly demonstrations, that target the regime will be met by the kind of force used Sunday evening .",
"One Coptic man told our correspondent that the military is more than happy to allow \"millions of Muslim fundamentalists to occupy Tahrir Square every Friday, and cooperate with them in doing so, but when it comes to people who criticize -- Copts, Muslims, secular people -- the military, they use their guns.\"",
"He says it's also important to keep in mind that one thing that occupies the minds of many Egyptians is that since the revolution the economy has gone from bad to worse.",
"Tourists are scarce, foreign investment is drying up.",
"One Egyptian told him: \"If people don't get back to work within the next five months, there could be famine and chaos.\"",
"Why did the military react with such a heavy hand, given its experiences in the revolution?",
"Wedeman says it is a good question to which no one really has an answer, but offers this analysis: .",
"During the revolution the army stood on the sidelines, and were cheered by the masses .",
"The military, however, adds Wedeman, is not an organization which by its nature is well adapted to dealing with civil disturbances, and that has been clear for some time.",
"They often stand by when the situation goes out of control -- something they did during the revolution when regime thugs tried to attack the protesters in Tahrir Square.",
"There are concerns among some that with the spread of Islamic fundamentalism within Egyptian society as a whole that religious hardliners have gained a foothold in the officer corps, and that is reflected in the way they dealt with the Coptic protesters.",
"One sometimes hears Muslims describe Christians as \"kufar\" -- infidel -- even though the traditional interpretation of Islam was that Christians and Jews are not \"kufar\" but rather \"Ahl al-Kitab\" -- the people of the book -- meaning that they are followers of books holy in the Abrahamic tradition.",
"Who are the Coptic Christians?",
"The Coptic Christians make up somewhere between 8 and 11 % of the 80 million Egyptians, most of whom are Sunni Muslims.",
"They are not ethnically distinct.",
"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.",
"Copts split from other Christians in the 5th century over the definition of the divinity of Jesus Christ.",
"The Copts have been a target of violence in the past but there have been dozens of casualties this year.",
"The New Year's Day bombing of a Coptic church in Alexandria left 23 people dead, and during sectarian clashes in Cairo on May 7 at least 12 people were killed.",
"The most recent protests follow the September 30 burning of the Mar Girgis church in Edfu, a city in Aswan governorate in southern Egypt.",
"Sectarian violence in Egypt is nothing new.",
"Maha Azzam, Associate Fellow of the Middle East and North African Program at the Chatham House think tank in London, says the sources of tension have focused on religious conversions, attacks on places of worship and Coptic resentment that they are not being given licenses to build new churches .",
"The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent bipartisan federal agency, earlier this year added Egypt to a list of countries named as the worst violators of religious freedom.",
"The Coptic church .",
"Egypt's Coptic Christians and the crisis .",
"Why have we seen an upsurge in sectarian violence this year?",
"The reasons are not clear but Azzam points to two possibilities .",
"1) Attempts by those opposed to democratic changes put in place by the revolution earlier this year to stir up trouble.",
"2) Efforts by extreme Islamist groups to resist attempts by the Copts to establish more churches in the new democratic era.",
"However, CNN's Ben Wedeman reports that the Muslim community has sent condolences to the Copts in response to the weekend deaths - and there are similar sentiments being expressed on Twitter with many calling for greater religious tolerance.",
"So what are the concerns now? Copts are increasingly worried about their future in Egypt.",
"Wedeman says many are worried that the de-facto rulers of Egypt, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), have concluded an under-the-table alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood and the hard-line conservative Salafi movement as a means to cement their hold on power.",
"\"And this perceived alliance shuts out not just Christians, but also secular activists, liberals and others who are worried about the excessive power of those who use religion as a cover for their political ambitions,\" he said.",
"Will the new measures to ban intolerance make a difference?",
"Again, our correspondent says there is a lot of skepticism about the willingness of the military or the government to make good on these promises.",
"He said similar promises were made in May when there was an outbreak of sectarian violence in Cairo that left more than 10 people dead.",
"The government formed a National Justice Committee, composed of Muslim, Coptic representatives and military and government officials.",
"Several members of the National Justice Committee have resigned or suspended their membership in protest after Sunday's violence and the army's actions.",
"Wedeman says there have been growing calls from prominent politicians for the resignation of the prime minister who is seen as weak and ineffectual at addressing sectarian issues.",
"What does this mean for the Egyptian government?",
"Azzam says the weekend violence presents a serious challenge for Egypt in this transitional period.",
"But she says the reaction of the armed forces and overwhelming use of force reflects a military that is unable to deal with dissent.",
"\"Questions have to be asked about who gave the orders and the clumsy way they dealt with protesters,\" she said.",
"Both Azzam and Wedeman say the government reaction looked similar to that of the old regime, while the military response has also attracted criticism from Muslims.",
"In May this year, Michael Wahid Hanna, a fellow and program officer at The Century Foundation, wrote on the CNN website that much should be expected of Egypt's newly-empowered Muslim Brotherhood.",
"\"Repressed and officially banned under Mubarak, the Brotherhood is now the most coherent opposition force in the country and is calling for the emphasis of Islam in Egypt's politics,\" he said.",
"So will the process of change be affected?",
"Moves towards a democratically-elected Egyptian government have been difficult.",
"The U.S. has been trying to encourage the government to lift the state of emergency, and a coalition of 60 political groups previously threatened to boycott parliamentary elections set to start in November unless their demands were met.",
"An agreement reached Saturday included a promise to consider abolishing military tribunals and plans to draft a document to guide the creation of a new constitution.",
"But some activists said the agreement fails to meet all the demands of the popular uprising.",
"\"There are very serious challenges - both sectarian and economic - but I think we are heading for greater democratization,\" said Azzam.",
"\"It's very hard to reverse that.",
"I think it's going to be very hard to delay elections.\""
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"Coptic Christians make up between 8 -11% of the population, most of whom are Sunni Muslims .",
"Tensions focus on religious conversions, attacks on places of worship and resentment over building licenses .",
"CNN's Ben Wedeman says Muslim community has sent condolences to the Copts .",
"Maha Azzam says the use of force reflects a military that is unable to deal with dissent ."
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"(EW.com) -- Although it didn't set a franchise record, \"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1\" had one of the best openings in box-office history by debuting to $139.5 million, according to studio estimates.",
"That's the fifth-best opening weekend ever, behind \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2,\" \"The Dark Knight,\" \"Spider-Man 3,\" and \"The Twilight Saga: New Moon,\" which held on to the franchise record.",
"\"New Moon\" debuted to a slightly better $142.8 million on the same November weekend two years ago.",
"What's interesting is how closely \"Breaking Dawn\" followed \"New Moon's\" trajectory.",
"\"New Moon\" grossed $72.7 million its first day, and then dropped 42 percent on Saturday and 34 percent on Sunday.",
"By comparison, \"Breaking Dawn\" earned $72 million on Friday (the third-best opening day ever), and then fell 44 percent on Saturday and a projected 34 percent today.",
"\"New Moon\" ultimately finished its domestic run with $296.6 million, and it's too early to tell whether \"Breaking Dawn\" will wind up a bit short of that final figure.",
"Even if it does, Summit Entertainment won't be complaining about grossing nearly $300 million from the fourth movie of its franchise.",
"And, of course, the domestic box office is only a part of the equation here.",
"\"Breaking Dawn\" took in $144 million from 54 foreign territories this week, pushing its worldwide debut to a staggering $283.5 million.",
"Summit reports that \"Breaking Dawn\" attracted a crowd that was, unsurprisingly, 80 percent female.",
"What is surprising is that the PG-13 movie's audience wasn't as young as you'd think, with 60 percent over the age of 21.",
"According to CinemaScore, 30 percent of the film's audience was under 18, but an even larger 42 percent was between the ages of 18 and 34.",
"The popular conception is that The \"Twilight Saga\" is merely a teenage phenomenon, but these figures seem to prove otherwise.",
"The $110 million movie received a good-but-not-great B+ rating from CinemaScore graders.",
"In second place was Warner Bros.' 3-D animated sequel \"Happy Feet Two,\" which fell far short of expectations by dancing to only $22 million.",
"The 2006 original, an Oscar winner for best animated feature, opened to $41.5 million -- and that was without the benefit of 3-D surcharges.",
"\"Happy Feet Two\" was saddled with mediocre reviews, which might have discouraged some parents.",
"Furthermore, five years could have been too long of a wait, especially for a sequel that appeared very similar to its predecessor.",
"The original \"Happy Feet\" was released a year after March of the Penguins, when the Antarctic birds were having a moment in the cultural zeitgeist.",
"That moment has clearly passed.",
"The $135 million sequel earned a B+ rating from CinemaScore moviegoers, and 3-D theaters accounted for 50 percent of its weekend tally.",
"The rest of the top five consisted of holdovers.",
"The 3-D action flick \"Immortals\" dropped a harsh 62 percent for $12.3 million -- a second-weekend decline that was larger than both \"300\" (54 percent) and \"Clash of the Titans\" (57 percent).",
"\"Jack and Jill\" witnessed a typical Adam Sandler fall of 52 percent for $12 million.",
"And even though \"Happy Feet Two\" underperformed, \"Puss in Boots\" lost much of its family audience.",
"The animated adventure dropped 57 percent for $10.7 million in its fourth weekend.",
"In limited release, Alexander Payne's \"The Descendants,\" starring George Clooney, debuted to $1.2 million from 29 theaters -- enough for a tenth-place finish.",
"The Oscar hopeful raked in an impressive $42,150 per location.",
"Only \"Midnight in Paris,\" \"The Tree of Life,\" and \"Jane Eyre\" opened to stronger per-theater averages this year, and those movies started out on far fewer screens than \"The Descendants.\"",
"1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1 -- $139.5 mil .",
"2. Happy Feet Two -- $22.0 mil .",
"3. Immortals -- $12.3 mil .",
"4. Jack and Jill -- $12.0 mil .",
"5. Puss in Boots -- $10.7 mil .",
"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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"\"Breaking Dawn\" earned $72 million on Friday (the third-best opening day ever)\n\"Happy Feet Two,\" fell far short of expectations by dancing to only $22 million .",
"The 3-D action flick \"Immortals\" dropped a harsh 62 percent for $12.3 million ."
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"Philadelphia (CNN) -- Robert Sanabria thought he would never see his big brother again.",
"Robert was 15 when his brother, Edwin, left home at age 18.",
"Born prematurely with only one functioning lung, Edwin spent his school years in special education classes, Robert said.",
"He remembered his brother as soft-spoken, humble and kindhearted.",
"\"When he left, he just took off,\" Robert told CNN by phone last Saturday.",
"\"He was in love and ran away.\"",
"He last saw his brother in 1999.",
"Neighbors and friends would tell Robert they thought they spotted Edwin around the city.",
"\"It was like a bigfoot sighting,\" he said.",
"\"Every time they said they saw him it went nowhere.",
"The information led to a dead end.\"",
"Robert, 29, is a sergeant in the U.S. Army who lives with his wife outside Fort Bragg, North Carolina.",
"All his years of military training and combat experience couldn't prepare him for what happened a few weeks ago.",
"In mid-October, Robert received a call from his father, who told him police might have found Edwin locked in a dank Philadelphia basement with three other people.",
"The pitch-black, 15-by-6-foot space discovered by the owner of the apartment building houses what police described as an abandoned boiler room, where the overwhelming stench of urine and feces still hung in the chamber two days after the discovery.",
"Hours after his father's phone call, Robert made the nine-hour drive north to see if his long-lost brother was among the four victims.",
"\"It made me nauseous.",
"I was anxious. It was eating me up. I was crying on the way up there.",
"If that gut feeling wasn't there, I wouldn't have gone,\" he said.",
"\"We still didn't know if it was him, but there was only one way to find out.\"",
"Media reports identified Edwin Sanabria and Tamara Breeden as two of the victims.",
"\"When I saw their names together, I knew it was my brother and his girlfriend.",
"I couldn't believe it,\" Robert said.",
"When Edwin left his Philadelphia home at 18, he told Robert he was staying with his girlfriend, Tamara, and her family, Robert said.",
"\"They were in love. We were hoping that they were being taken care of,\" Robert said.",
"After Edwin lost contact with his family, the Sanabrias asked for help in tracking him down from Philadelphia police and the local Social Security Administration office, which distributed disability benefits checks to Edwin.",
"Their efforts were in vain.",
"Edwin was an adult who left home on his own, so the police couldn't intervene.",
"Access to Edwin's personal information from the Social Security Administration wasn't possible because it was considered a violation of his privacy, Robert said.",
"It would take more than a decade for the Sanabrias to discover Edwin's fate.",
"Robert said it was Breeden who introduced Edwin to one of his alleged captors, and he believes his brother's abuse could have started soon after Edwin left home.",
"Police have not said how long Edwin may have been captive.",
"Last month in Philadelphia, Robert and his father met with police and were sent to a health care facility where the captives were being evaluated.",
"Expecting a hug and ceremonious reunion, Robert was greeted with a nonchalant head nod.",
"Exhausted and feeling defeated, he began to cry, fearing his brother no longer even recognized him, he said.",
"But as if on cue, Edwin stood up and walked over to the stunned men and said, \"Pop,\" to his father.",
"Robert, a self-described tough guy who completed two tours in Iraq, wept uncontrollably.",
"\"I am bawling. I realized how much I missed him, how much I loved him,\" he said.",
"\"He looked really, really skinny and really malnourished.\"",
"Then Edwin started looking closer at his crying brother and said, \"Robert?\"",
"He quickly flashed Edwin his military ID.",
"Edwin held it inches from his face, almost straining to read it, Robert said.",
"Edwin started talking, and then wrapped his lanky arms around his baby brother.",
"\"He gave me a long hug,\" Robert said.",
"\"Then he said, 'You know what I want?",
"I want a cheesesteak.'",
"So I went and got him one as fast as I could.\"",
"Police arrested Linda Ann Weston, 51, Gregory Thomas, 47, Eddie Wright, 49, and Weston's daughter, Jean McIntosh, 32, for allegedly imprisoning four mentally disabled adults in the basement boiler room.",
"They face a host of charges including criminal conspiracy, aggravated assault, kidnapping, criminal trespass, unlawful restraint and false imprisonment.",
"Weston, Wright and McIntosh face additional charges -- including aggravated assault, simple assault, kidnapping and reckless endangerment -- in connection with the alleged abuse of Weston's niece, Beatrice Weston, authorities said.",
"A hearing for the new charges is set for November 15.",
"All four suspects in the case are scheduled to appear in court on December 19.",
"Weston had identification documents for about 50 people with her when she was arrested, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said.",
"Those documents included Social Security cards and court documents giving power of attorney.",
"Police said they were investigating whether the victims' Social Security checks had been stolen, as well as several other leads.",
"In addition to the four captives found in the basement, authorities have located 10 other potential victims, including six children, Ramsey said.",
"Police believe two of the six children placed in protective custody -- ages 2 and 5 -- are the children of Tamara Breeden.",
"DNA testing is being conducted to confirm paternity, but the Sanabrias believe Edwin is the father.",
"Edwin is slowly opening up about his ordeal, Robert said.",
"Edwin never fled because he loved Breeden and he was never left alone, he said.",
"He also said he was mistreated by Weston's teenage sons.",
"Edwin said he would often fight back and share his food with the others while he was with Weston, Robert said.",
"Edwin said he would also intercept blows intended for Breeden.",
"Edwin also recalled separate incidents in which he was sliced with a knife and shot with a BB gun, Robert said.",
"Edwin told his brother that one of the captives, Herbert Knowles, had seizures in the basement, so he gave him water and placed a cold rag on his head, Robert said.",
"He said the water came from the same bucket they used as a toilet and to bathe.",
"Worried about the physical and emotional abuse his brother endured, Robert said he plans to have Edwin come live with him, and vows to protect him to the end.",
"\"The first thing I wanted to tell him was that this was not his fault, that everybody gets tricked,\" he said.",
"\"It's disturbing. It still messes with me.",
"They (the defendants) all deserve life in prison.\""
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"(CNN) -- A fire at a house in Connecticut early Christmas morning killed two adults and three children, fire officials said.",
"Two other people made it out alive.",
"\"It is a terrible, terrible day for the city of Stamford,\" said Mayor Michael Pavia, briefing reporters about the \"horrible tragedy.\"",
"\"There probably has not been a worse Christmas Day in the city of Stamford,\" he said.",
"Multiple calls came in shortly before 5 a.m., fire officials said.",
"The first firefighters on the scene attempted rescues within the home, but \"were pushed back by intense flame and heat,\" said Acting Fire Chief Antonio Conte.",
"The cause remains under investigation.",
"Due to the condition of the building, it will be days before investigators can determine what happened, Conte said.",
"Seven people lived in the house, Conte said.",
"He had no immediate information on their identities or the conditions of the two who came out alive and were taken to the hospital.",
"The home is in Stamford's Shippan Point neighborhood, just in from the Long Island Sound, fire officials said.",
"CNN's Josh Levs contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Stamford Mayor Michael Pavia says Stamford has probably never had a worse Christmas Day .",
"NEW: It will be days before investigators can determine what happened, a fire official says ."
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"(CNN) -- Hey, big spender.",
"New Year's Eve is coming up fast, but there's still time to think about an unforgettable getaway to usher in 2012.",
"Maybe this is the year for the trip of a lifetime or perhaps you're looking to be somewhere out of the ordinary when the clock strikes midnight.",
"If so, here are six luxurious itineraries that require deep pockets, but will set the tone for an amazing New Year.",
"Can't make it this time around?",
"Use the list as inspiration for New Year's Eves to come.",
"Secluded Hawaii .",
"Celebrate in your own (almost) private paradise, far away from any crowd.",
"It takes a 45-minute ferry ride from Maui to get to tiny Lana'i, a former pineapple plantation that has earned the nickname \"Hawaii's Most Enticing Island.\"",
"You might not be able to rent the whole place for yourself, like Microsoft founder Bill Gates did for his wedding, but you can sip champagne at midnight at the Four Seasons Lana'i at Manele Bay resort.",
"\"It would be a very exclusive, quiet New Year's celebration,\" said Janice Hough, an agent with All Horizons Travel in Los Altos, California.",
"\"The service is incredible.",
"It's very much a get-away-from-it-all trip, although you're still in the U.S.\" Rooms start at about $775 a night.",
"The resort is offering a New Year's Eve prix fixe dinner for $125 per person and will treat guests to a special fireworks show over Hulopo`e Bay.",
"Luminous Santa Fe .",
"This adobe wonderland at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in New Mexico draws art lovers, foodies and outdoor enthusiasts all year round.",
"But Hough noted the destination is especially beautiful during the holidays with \"farolitos\" -- or lanterns -- placed along the Santa Fe Plaza and the city's art gallery district.",
"\"It's very pretty and very easy to get to.",
"... You're also not that far from skiing,\" she said.",
"There are plenty of posh accommodations to ring in the New Year in style.",
"Hough recommended staying at the Encantado for a \"resorty, out-of-town experience\" or the Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi in the heart of the city near the Plaza.",
"Rates for both start at several hundred dollars a night around New Year's Eve.",
"Mega-yacht in St. Barts .",
"Join celebrities and billionaires who spend New Year's Eve partying aboard yachts moored in St. Barts' famed Gustavia Harbor.",
"Stars like Demi Moore, Beyonce and Salma Hayek have been spotted celebrating on the Caribbean island in recent years, taking in the fireworks at midnight and staying to get a suntan on New Year's Day.",
"Don't have your own ship? No worries. SeaDream, which offers cruises on luxury \"mega-yachts\" that carry up to 112 passengers, is sending both of its ships to the picturesque harbor on the big night as part of itineraries that also take you to other parts of the Caribbean.",
"\"You feel like you're on a yacht yourself rather than a big cruise ship,\" said Sue Bryant, a contributing editor for CruiseCritic.com, who has sailed on the SeaDream II.",
"She praised the ship's \"foodie\" cuisine and attentive service.",
"\"The first day we were sunbathing on deck, somebody tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'Ms.",
"Bryant, may I polish your sun glasses?'",
"I've never had anyone say that before.\"",
"The voyages start at about $5,000 per person.",
"Romantic Vienna .",
"There is something magical about Vienna during the holidays, but the city on the Danube really goes all out for New Year's, with elegant galas and an imperial ball to mark the occasion.",
"For a classic experience, stay at the famous Hotel Sacher, located next to the Vienna State Opera.",
"You can start your night there with a 6-course New Year's Eve gala dinner, which features dishes such as beef consommé with truffle-celery ravioli and turbot with lobster jelly.",
"For 364 euros per person (about $486), the hotel also offers a package that will take you from the festive meal right to the Kaiserball -- a grand ball in the Hofburg Palace, the former residence of Austria's monarchs.",
"On New Year's Day, music lovers who have been lucky enough to score a ticket can attend the elegant \"Neujahrskonzert\" -- the New Year's Concert at the Vienna Philharmonic, where Strauss waltzes rule the program.",
"African desert adventure .",
"New Year's Eve celebrations usually involve crowds, but this getaway to Morocco will have you and a select group of adventurers marking the occasion in the Sahara, away from most signs of civilization.",
"The journey begins in Fez and continues to the oasis city of Erfoud, said Mary Ann Ramsey, president of Betty Maclean Travel in Naples, Florida, who arranges the trips through Abercrombie & Kent.",
"Traveling by four-wheel drive and by camel, you go out into the desert and the huge Erg Chebbi sand dunes.",
"Guests spend the night in a luxury tented desert camp -- an experience Ramsey described as \"incredible\" and \"spectacular.\"",
"\"To me, that would be the coolest place to be for New Year's Eve,\" Ramsey said.",
"\"I've had people go out there to propose. ...",
"It is the most romantic and fabulous [experience] -- the stars are their own fireworks.",
"There are so many stars because there's nothing nearby.\"",
"The full itinerary costs about $13,460 per person, an Abercrombie & Kent spokeswoman said.",
"Caribbean fantasy .",
"Ready to be whisked off for an over-the-top experience?",
"This \"Fully Loaded\" New Year's Eve package at the Gansevoort Turks and Caicos resort starts at $100,000.",
"That price includes private jet service to and from the island of Providenciales, accommodations in the oceanfront penthouse suite and your own on-call spa therapist for massages, yoga and other treatments.",
"On the big night, you take a luxury catamaran excursion to a secluded cove, where a personal chef prepares your meal, a personal conch diving instructor takes you out for an underwater adventure, and a personal videographer films your journey.",
"You'll usher in 2012 while \"glamping\" (that's camping with a glamorous twist) in a luxury tent.",
"The Gansevoort Turks and Caicos resort was among the winners of TripAdvisor's 2011 Travelers' Choice awards -- chosen by the site's members as one of the top 10 trendiest and most relaxing hotels and in the world."
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"These itineraries require deep pockets, but will set the tone for an amazing New Year .",
"Escape the world on \"Hawaii's Most Enticing Island;\" party with the stars in St. Barts .",
"Vienna offers a romantic New Year's Eve, complete with an imperial ball .",
"Caribbean resort offers a New Year's Eve package that starts at $100,000 ."
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"(CNN) -- The New Hampshire primary will tell us a good deal more than the Iowa caucuses did about where the Republican candidates stand and how they might do in the general election against President Barack Obama.",
"While the unpredictable nature of the Iowa caucuses offered Rick Santorum an opportunity to shine, Tuesday's vote will tell us where the party is really headed, in what has been a Wild West of a presidential selection process, one with more ups and downs than the Colorado Rockies.",
"The New Hampshire primary, established in 1916, has a long and treasured history in American politics.",
"It has often been the site where new voices have been able to upset the status quo and take on establishment figures.",
"In 1952, the military hero Dwight Eisenhower successfully challenged \"Mr. Republican\" Robert Taft, the senator from Ohio, who was thought to be one of the strongest figures in the party.",
"That same year, Tennessee Sen. Estes Kefauver shook up the Democratic Party by winning a stunning victory against President Harry Truman, fueling his decision not to run for re-election.",
"In 1968, Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy's strong second-place showing similarly upset President Lyndon Johnson, forcing him to think twice about how strong his support was within the Democratic Party.",
"The results, Sen. Ted Kennedy recalled, demonstrated that \"overnight, Johnson had become beatable.\"",
"A few weeks later Johnson told the nation that he would not run for re-election.",
"In 1976, the little-known Jimmy Carter built on his surprise victory in the Iowa caucuses by winning in New Hampshire and cementing his status as a front-runner.",
"Republican Patrick Buchanan revealed the soft support among conservatives in 1992 for President George H.W.",
"Bush, whom Buchanan derided as \"King George,\" when he did better than expected against the president (though Bush won).",
"To be sure, the outcome of the primary is not always a measure of who will win the party's nomination.",
"There is a substantial list of New Hampshire losers -- including Barack Obama in 2008, George W. Bush in 2000, Bill Clinton in 1992, and Walter Mondale in 1984 -- who went on to receive party nominations.",
"Most important, New Hampshire is a state where independents matter very much and turn out in large numbers.",
"The primary allows unaffiliated voters to participate, thus boosting the number of participants from the middle of the political spectrum.",
"With the base of each party relatively deflated about the choices in 2012 (liberal Democrats are disappointed in Obama's record, while conservatives are not overly enthused about any of the front-runners), the 2012 election will likely come down to the person who can capture the center.",
"With Obama's approval ratings at a low ebb, Republicans have a major opportunity if they can win the hearts and minds of independents and centrist Democrats.",
"One of Mitt Romney's biggest selling points is that he offers the GOP the only candidate who can run as a moderate who is not beholden to the party's base.",
"During one of the weekend debates he brushed back talk about making contraception illegal and tried to focus on his economic policy rather than social and cultural issues.",
"He left the others to fight it out as to who was a \"big-government conservative\" and who was not.",
"In New Hampshire, Romney will have the first chance to show that his appeal to centrists is a strength.",
"Republicans in New Hampshire tend to fit the profile of the kind of conservative candidate who will have the greatest national appeal.",
"While Republican party activists are often attracted to the candidate who can speak the language of the religious right, the Republican with the best chance of taking Obama in this election will be the fiscal conservative who pushes for lowering the deficit, lowering spending, and containing taxes, while avoiding the cultural issues that turn off moderates.",
"In 2008, according to ABC News, only 23% of the New Hampshire electorate said they were evangelicals, compared with 58% in Iowa this year.",
"Finally, New Hampshire looks more like a national election than does Iowa.",
"While Americans like to think our political process works by retail politics, with candidates shaking hands and enjoying a meal at the local diner, the reality is that elections are won or lost on major media -- television, radio and the Internet.",
"The candidate who has the best ability to mount a national campaign is the person who can master the media, handling reporters and the 24-hour news cycle, and can amass the kind of money that is needed to buy TV ads In New Hampshire.",
"It is simply not possible to win the state only by shaking hands.",
"A candidate has to be able to do well on the screen.",
"This is a year when New Hampshire's verdict will be key in evaluating the Republican field.",
"The test is not completely fair in that Romney comes from this region and even has a home in this state.",
"That said, being local is not a guarantee of victory.",
"While a close victory in Iowa was certainly something that Romney can live with, he needs to have a very strong showing in New Hampshire to demonstrate that he is as electable a candidate as he has promised to be.",
"He has to answer the kind of challenge posed in Sunday's debate, when Newt Gingrich said Romney would \"have a very hard time getting elected\" in a race against Obama.",
"At the same time, this is a major opportunity for Romney's opponents (especially Jon Huntsman) to show that they fit the bill as well, and that the prospect of Romney winning the nomination is not inevitable.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian Zelizer."
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"Julian Zelizer: Iowa gave Santorum prominence but N.H. vote is likely to be more revealing .",
"He says the primary will test whether Romney is strong with centrist voters .",
"The primary has been a place to challenge establishment figures, Zelizer says .",
"Zelizer: Unlike Iowa, New Hampshire isn't decided by retail politics ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Katy Perry's parents, who are evangelical ministers, mentioned their famous daughter a number of times at religious services in Ohio on Wednesday, but sidestepped the issue of her divorce from Russell Brand.",
"Keith and Mary Hudson, who arrived at Church on the Rise in Westlake, outside Cleveland, to host two nights of \"prophetic services,\" said they attend Perry's concerts even though they don't love the idea of people worshiping pop idols.",
"\"I only go for one reason and one reason only ... because I love my daughter and I will always love her,\" Keith Hudson said.",
"\"It was almost like church,\" he added of the concert experience, adding that Perry's fans \"want to worship and they want to love, they are just worshiping and loving the wrong person.\"",
"The Hudsons billed themselves as \"Katy Perry's parents\" on marketing materials for the event, but then told the crowd of about 300 that they don't need help from anyone famous -- or their relatives -- to find God.",
"\"I'm sure that Katy's trending on the Internet was to get you here to church tonight,\" Mary Hudson said in her opening remarks.",
"\"You don't need a verse or a scripture.",
"You don't need Katy Perry's father,\" Keith said later.",
"\"In the news they call us, 'Katy Perry's parents are religious.'",
"Do I look religious?\"",
"Keith, who did most of the speaking, said he converted from a drug user to a Christian when he was 24 years old.",
"He touched on the evolution of church, developing a relationship with Jesus, and keeping a relationship with one's children.",
"\"What has taken place in my daughter's life has opened many opportunities to go in and be with guarded and gated people,\" he said.",
"\"They like us because we're cool.",
"We are not threatening.\" He added: \"The most important people on this Earth are your family.",
"What would heaven be like without your children?\"",
"At the end, the Hudsons signed books, sold jewelry to fund a women's mission, and gave away samples of Katy's perfume, Purr.",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Keith and Mary Hudson sidestepped the issue of Katy Perry's divorce .",
"\"I love my daughter and I will always love her,\" Keith Hudson said .",
"\"I'm sure that Katy's trending on the Internet was to get you here to church,\" Mary Hudson said ."
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"(CNN) -- North Korea, whose leader Kim Jong Il died over the weekend, is the least democratic nation on Earth, according to a newly released report by a British analysis and intelligence firm.",
"The Democracy Index 2011, compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit, listed Norway as the most democratic nation in the world.",
"The top 10 spots in this year's index were occupied mostly by European countries.",
"Following Norway were: Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Canada, Finland and the Netherlands.",
"Read the full report .",
"The United States ranked 19th, down two spots from the 2010 listing.",
"The United States' 2011 ranking is below Canada (8th) and the United Kingdom (18th).",
"The United States also ranked below the Czech Republic (16th), a former Soviet communist satellite that did not become a democracy until 1989, and the South American nation of Uruguay (17th), a former right-wing dictatorship that did not return to democracy until 1984.",
"The Economist Intelligence Unit analysis, released this month, concluded that democracy deteriorated in 48 countries, improved in 41 and stayed the same in 78.",
"In most regions, the report said, the level of democracy was lower in 2011 than the previous year.",
"\"2011 was an exceptionally turbulent year, characterized by sovereign debt crises and weak political leadership in the developed world, dramatic political change and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa and rising social unrest,\" said Laza Kekic, the report's lead author.",
"The Democracy Index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, how government functions, political participation by the public, and political culture.",
"The analysts measured the level of democracy in 165 nations and two territories, \"which account for almost the entire population of the world,\" the Economist Intelligence Unit said in a release.",
"Using a scale of 0 to 10, countries were placed in one of four categories: full democracies (8-10), flawed democracies (6 to 7.9), hybrid regimes (4 to 5.9) and authoritarian regimes (0 to 3.9).",
"Norway, the top-ranked nation, had a score of 9.8.",
"The Scandinavian nation also ranked No.",
"1 in 2010 with an identical score.",
"North Korea, ranked No.",
"167, had a score of 1.08.",
"The Asian nation also ranked last in 2010, with the same score.",
"The United States had a score of 8.11, slightly lower than last year's 8.18.",
"\"U.S. democracy has been adversely affected by a deepening of the polarization of the political scene and political brinkmanship and paralysis,\" the Economist Intelligence Unit concluded.",
"The analysts noted that the United States and the United Kingdom lag behind many other full democracies for some of the same reasons.",
"\"There has been a rise in protest movements,\" the report states.",
"\"Problems in the functioning of government have become more prominent.\"",
"Among other findings in the report: .",
"-- Slightly more than half the world's population lives in some type of democracy, although only 11% enjoy a \"full democracy.\"",
"-- More than one-third of the globe's population lives under authoritarian rule.",
"-- Nearly half the nations on the planet are considered democracies: 25 \"full\" and 53 \"flawed.\"",
"-- There were 37 \"hybrid regimes\" and 52 \"authoritarian regimes.\"",
"-- Violence, drug trafficking and other crime in Latin America continue to hinder democracy.",
"-- Eastern Europe continued to suffer a decline in democracy, with 12 nations worse than the previous year.",
"-- Western Europe also had a decline in democracy, with seven nations deteriorating and none improving.",
"Some of that deterioration was due to financial problems plaguing the eurozone.",
"Five of the countries that lost points in the rankings belong to the eurozone: Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Ireland.",
"-- Eight countries had a listing change from one type of government to another in 2011.",
"Four were upgraded and four were downgraded.",
"-- Countries that deteriorated were: Portugal (fell from full to flawed democracy), Ukraine and Guatemala (flawed democracy to hybrid regime) and Russia (hybrid to authoritarian regime).",
"-- Zambia improved from a hybrid to a flawed democracy.",
"Tunisia, Mauritania and Niger moved up from authoritarian to hybrid.",
"In the Western Hemisphere, Costa Rica is ranked 20th, up five spots from last year.",
"That nation's score was 8.10, nearly the same as the United States.",
"Costa Rica is listed as a full democracy.",
"Western Hemisphere flawed democracies are: Chile (35th, 7.54); Trinidad and Tobago (43rd, 7.16); Brazil (45th; 7.12); Panama (47th, 7.08); Mexico (50th, 6.93); Argentina (51st, 6.84); Colombia (55th, 6.63); Peru (56th, 6.59); El Salvador (61st, 6.47); Paraguay (62nd, 6.40); Dominican Republic (70th, 6.20) and Guyana (77th, 6.05).",
"Western Hemisphere nations listed as hybrid regimes are: Guatemala (82nd, 5.88); Bolivia (84th, 5.84); Honduras (84th, 5.84); Ecuador (89th, 5.72); Nicaragua (91st, 5.56); Venezuela (97th, 5.08) and Haiti (114th, 4.00).",
"Cuba (126th, 3.52) is the only Western Hemisphere nation categorized as authoritarian.",
"Full democracies worldwide include: Luxembourg, Ireland, Austria, Germany, Malta, Japan, South Korea, Belgium, Mauritius and Spain.",
"Some nations categorized as flawed democracies include: South Africa, France, Italy, India, Indonesia and Philippines.",
"Hybrid regimes include: Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangladesh, Turkey, Palestine, Cambodia, Pakistan and Iraq.",
"Authoritarian nations include: Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, China, Vietnam, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan and Laos.",
"In addition to North Korea, the other nine least-democratic nations are: Chad, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Myanmar, Equatorial Guinea, Saudi Arabia, Central African Republic, Iran and Syria.",
"The Economist Intelligence Unit, which performed the analysis, is based in London and reports having offices in more than 40 cities worldwide.",
"The company says it has about 650 country experts and analysts worldwide.",
"The Democracy Index 2011 was released December 15.",
"The latest Democracy Index closely mirrors a Corruption Perceptions Index released by the German watchdog organization Transparency International in late November.",
"In that analysis, New Zealand was perceived as the least corrupt nation on earth, and Somalia and North Korea were seen as the most corrupt.",
"The United States ranked 24th least corrupt on a \"corruption perceptions index,\" the fourth-best in the Western Hemisphere.",
"Canada ranked 10th, the Bahamas was 21st and Chile was 22nd.",
"Overall, the top spots were occupied mostly by European countries, with the exception of New Zealand, Singapore at No.",
"5 and Australia, which was tied for eighth with Switzerland.",
"Other nations with top rankings were Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands.",
"In addition to Somalia and North Korea, which were tied for last at No.",
"182, the bottom of the list included Myanmar, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Sudan, Iraq, Haiti and Venezuela.",
"The report was prepared by the independent, nonpartisan Transparency International organization, which said it drew its conclusions based \"on different assessments and business opinion surveys carried out by independent and reputable institutions.\"",
"The information used to compile the index included \"questions relating to the bribery of public officials, kickbacks in public procurement, embezzlement of public funds and questions that probe the strength and effectiveness of public-sector and anti-corruption efforts,\" Transparency International said.",
"Perceptions are used, the organization said, because corruption is a hidden activity that is difficult to measure.",
"\"Over time,\" the organization said in its report, \"perceptions have proved to be a reliable estimate of corruption.\"",
"The rankings for other Western Hemisphere countries were: Uruguay (25), Puerto Rico (39), Costa Rica (50), Cuba (61), Brazil (73), Colombia, El Salvador and Peru (tied for 80), Panama (86), Argentina and Mexico (tied for 100), Bolivia (118), Ecuador and Guatemala (tied for 120), the Dominican Republic and Honduras (tied for 129), Nicaragua (134), Paraguay (154), Venezuela (172) and Haiti (175).",
"The index used a scale of 0-10 to measure perceived corruption, with zero representing highly corrupt and 10 being very clean.",
"New Zealand, the highest-ranked nation, has a 9.5 score.",
"Somalia and North Korea, the lowest-ranked, had 1.0.",
"The United States scored 7.1, while Canada was 8.7 and Chile was 7.2.",
"Haiti, the lowest-ranked nation in the Western Hemisphere, scored 1.8.",
"Next-worst was Venezuela with 1.9.",
"Transparency International, headquartered in Berlin, reports having 90 chapters worldwide.",
"The organization says it works with partners in government, business and civil society to develop and implement effective measures to combat corruption."
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"Canada is eighth and the United Kingdom is 18th ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Three and a half weeks since having a double mastectomy, Giuliana Rancic says she's \"doing better than I anticipated in recovery.\"",
"While that's great news for the E!",
"host, she also says her breast cancer ordeal has changed her life for the better \"in so many ways.\"",
"\"I never thought my marriage could be stronger, or I could be closer to [my husband] Bill,\" she told PEOPLE at an E!",
"Luncheon on Saturday for the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif. She's also become more religious.",
"\"We go to church every Sunday.",
"And we did before, but it never meant as much as it does now,\" Rancic, 37, says.",
"\"We prayed on our own, but now we prayed together and you'll never know how much that means until you do it.",
"Bill and I have changed our lives in that one way.\"",
"As for the decision to have the surgery, which removed both her breasts, she has no regrets.",
"\"The surgery brought my risks down to 95 to 100 percent,\" she said.",
"\"If I had a lumpectomy, I would have early estrogen menopause for at least two years, and I want to have children.\"",
"Besides, she told PEOPLE, her breasts don't define who she is as a person or as a professional in the entertainment industry.",
"\"I didn't give two sh**s about my breasts.",
"I didn't care that at the Golden Globes, I wouldn't be able to show cleavage,\" she said.",
"\"A lot of people were shocked.",
"They said, 'Are you sure you want to do this?",
"Think about the life you lead and the fabulous dresses and that's part of your job.",
"It could put your job in jeopardy.'",
"And I thought, if I ever have a job that is defined by my breasts and some gorgeous gown then I'm in the wrong business.\"",
"It also helps that her husband has been by her side throughout her health scare.",
"\"It breaks my heart that a lot of women don't have a supportive husband,\" she said.",
"\"Bill's a saint, and the hottest male nurse ever.",
"He's very protective and it's almost as hard for him as it was for me.\"",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"I never thought my marriage could be stronger,\" Giuliana Rancic says .",
"\"We prayed on our own, but now we prayed together,\" she says .",
"\"The surgery brought my risks down to 95 to 100 percent,\" Rancic says ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- K.D.",
"Lang and her girlfriend are calling it quits.",
"Lang, 50, filed legal documents to end her domestic partnership with Jamie Price, who's been her partner for nearly nine years.",
"Lang filed for dissolution of domestic partnership, citing irreconcilable differences, according to the papers filed on December 28 and obtained by PEOPLE.",
"A rep for Lang did not respond to request for comment.",
"The couple met through their mutual Buddhist teacher, according to New York Magazine.",
"News of the longtime musician's filing was first reported by TMZ.",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"K.D.",
"Lang filed legal documents to end her domestic partnership .",
"Jamie Price has been her partner for nearly nine years .",
"The couple met through their mutual Buddhist teacher ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Despite not appearing at Wednesday's 38th annual People's Choice Awards, Katy Perry was the big winner of the night.",
"Perry, whose 14-month marriage to Russell Brand ended last month, was honored in five categories, as favorite female artist, tour headliner and for song of the year for \"ET\" with Kanye West, music video for \"Last Friday Night\" and TV guest star for \"How I Met Your Mother.\"",
"In a Twitter message earlier in the week, Perry said she wouldn't attend but told fans, \"I want to thank u all for voting for me, fingers crossed!\"",
"The biggest ovation at the event, which was broadcast on CBS, went to Betty White, who is celebrating her 90th birthday.",
"On stage with her costars from the best cable comedy show winner \"Hot in Cleveland,\" she modestly told the crowd, \"I haven't done anything.\"",
"Among the other winners in the 43 categories, \"Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2\" took four awards -- favorite movie, action movie, book adaptation and ensemble movie cast, although no stars from the film attended.",
"Other honorees included Ellen DeGeneres, Lea Michele and Demi Lovato, as well as favorite movie actress and actor Emma Stone and Johnny Depp.",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Katy Perry was honored in five categories .",
"\"Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2\" took four awards .",
"Other honorees included Ellen DeGeneres, Lea Michele and Demi Lovato ."
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"(CNN) -- Petra Kvitova will face Victoria Azarenka in the final of the WTA Championships in Istanbul on Sunday.",
"The reigning Wimbledon champion recovered from a set down against Australia's Samantha Stosur to eventually win 5-7 6-3 6-3.",
"Belarussian, Azarenka enjoyed a more comfortable 6-2 6-3 win over Russia's Vera Zvonareva.",
"Kvitova started brightly enough against Stosur taking a 4-2 lead in the opening set, but then a series of unforced errors let the increasingly confident Australian back into the contest.",
"It wasn't long though before the left-handed Czech soon found her rhythm grinding down the spirited Stosur with a series of forehand winners to take the second set and level the match.",
"Kvitova then raced into a 4-0 lead in the deciding set before Stosur pulled one break back but it was too late to save the match.",
"The 22-year-old Azarenka, meanwhile, enjoyed much the better of a series of baseline rallies with her Russian opponent, and despite her serve not being in the best order ran out an easy winner.",
"The victor on Sunday will rise to number two in the world rankings.",
"Kvitova will start as favourite as she has won the two previous meetings between the pair this year."
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"Reigning Wimbledon champion will face Belarussian in WTA Championship final .",
"Kvitova beats Samantha Stosur in three sets in semifinal .",
"Azarenka enjoys comfortable win over Russia's Vera Zvonareva ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Since she decided to come out about her sexuality to help kids who have been bullied, Kristy McNichol says the response has been tremendous.",
"\"I'm overwhelmed with the love and support of my family, friends and fans,\" McNichol, 49, tells PEOPLE exclusively.",
"Last week, McNichol, best known for her Emmy-award winning roles as Buddy Lawrence in \"Family\" and later as Barbara Weston in \"Empty Nest,\" shared a photo of herself with her longtime girlfriend Martie Allen and revealed to PEOPLE: \"As I approach 50, I want to be open about who I am.\"",
"The openness, she hopes, will help others.",
"\"Kristy feels strongly about fighting bullying and intolerance,\" says her publicist Jeff Ballard.",
"\"She realizes that kids don't always have the coping skills to manage their fear and pain when they feel 'different.'",
"And in her own way, she wants to help others by telling people who she is.",
"She hopes that all these small steps together can make a difference.\"",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Kristy McNichol says the response to her coming out has been tremendous .",
"She shared a photo of herself with her longtime girlfriend Martie Allen .",
"\"Kristy feels strongly about fighting bullying and intolerance,\" her publicist says ."
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"(CNN) -- Veteran striker Raul Gonzalez scored his 71st Champions League goal to help Schalke beat holders Inter Milan 2-1 on the night and 7-3 on aggregate to reach the semifinals of the competition on Wednesday.",
"Already in the driving seat after their stunning 5-2 first leg win at the San Siro, the German Bundesliga side never looked likely to relinquish their advantage and eased through to the last four, where they will now face Manchester United.",
"Raul opened the scoring on the stroke of half-time, controlling an inch-perfect pass from compatriot Jose Manuel Jurado, before rounding goalkeeper Julio Cesar to slip the ball home.",
"However, the Italian side levelled the scores just four minutes later when Thiago Motta was left unmarked from a corner to head home.",
"Benedikt Hoewedes then had a header ruled out for offside, but the Schalke defender was not to be denied and he hit the winner with nine minutes remaining, firing home after latching onto Raul's pass.",
"Schalke coach Ralf Rangnick told reporters: \"We have produced two great performances against Inter.",
"\"If you only allow the Champions League winners a couple of chances, you know you have played well.",
"\"Each player worked hard for each other and that was the key to our success,\" he added.",
"Schalke will host United in Gelsenkirchen on April 26 in the first leg, with the return at Old Trafford on May 4."
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"Schalke defeat Inter Milan 2-1 to reach the semifinals of the Champions League .",
"The victory puts the Bundesliga side into the last four 7-3 on aggregate .",
"Spanish striker Raul Gonzalez scores his 71st Champions League goal on Wednesday .",
"Schalke will now face Manchester United for a place in the final next month ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Don't mess with Gina!",
"That's the lesson Gina Carano's costars learned while they were filming Steven Soderbergh's \"Haywire.\"",
"After all, Carano isn't just another new face in a Hollywood action thriller.",
"She's a former mixed martial arts star, who is making her movie debut in Soderbergh's latest flick, which opens Friday.",
"\"I got to be physical with some of the hottest guys in Hollywood,\" Carano, who tussles with Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor and Michael Fassbender in the film, told PEOPLE at the BlackBerry-sponsored Cinema Society screening this week.",
"Fassbender, in particular, was the recipient of a vase to the face when the two were filming a fight scene and he accidentally KO'd Carano.",
"\"When Fassbender slammed my head into the wall, that's the only time I went black,\" Carano, 29, said about the shoot, during which she also reportedly knocked out a stuntman.",
"\"And then I slammed a vase right into his face when he wasn't expecting it.\"",
"\"He didn't get cut,\" Carano clarified, before adding, \"maybe a little bit.\"",
"McGregor, for his part, said he also emerged \"sore\" from his scenes with Carano but called the fight scenes \"good fun.\"",
"But Tatum, whom she describes as \"like a bro,\" is one actor Carano says she wouldn't want to fight in real life.",
"\"I'd probably want to choke him out real quick,\" she said.",
"\"Because he's actually very athletic.\"",
"Return to MMA?",
"Carano has officially retired from MMA but says she hasn't ruled out a return.",
"To prepare for the role as a Black Ops agent in \"Haywire,\" she worked with a Hollywood stunt crew and attended a two-month training camp with a former Israeli intelligence operative.",
"According to Soderbergh, it was his intention to have Carano -- who is a 5-feet 8-inches tall and 143 pounds.",
"-- rather than one of her male costars, be the toughest character in the film.",
"\"There was something transgressive about having the woman being the one who is attacked first,\" Soderbergh recently told Sports Illustrated.",
"\"There's sort of, in movie terms, a popular conception that women are weaker than men and that the only way that they can triumph in a hand-to-hand situation is if they somehow have an advantage from the beginning.",
"... [Carano's character] is attacked in an unprovoked manner and has to work her way back into winning the fight.",
"With someone like Gina, you can pull that off and have it be believable.",
"She can really break you in half.\"",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"I got to be physical with some of the hottest guys in Hollywood,\" Gina Carano said .",
"Ewan McGregor, for his part, said he also emerged \"sore\" from his scenes with Carano .",
"Carano has officially retired from MMA but says she hasn't ruled out a return ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- The wait is over ... it's a boy for Sarah Drew!",
"The \"Grey's Anatomy\" star, 31, delivered son Micah Emmanuel Lanfer at 6:21 p.m. Wednesday, January 18 in Los Angeles, her rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.",
"\"She and her husband, Peter Lanfer, are in love with him!\"",
"the rep says of the couple's new baby boy, who weighed in at 7 pounds, 4 oz and is 19 inches long.",
"\"I thought it would be a good idea to wait to find out because I am a control freak by nature,\" Drew explained of their decision to be surprised at the birth.",
"\"I'm about to walk into a chapter of my life where I have no control over anything anymore, and I figured I'd ease myself into it by not allowing myself to plan for the sex of the baby.",
"It's good training for me!\"",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Sarah Drew delivered son Micah Emmanuel Lanfer on Wednesday .",
"\"I'm about to walk into a chapter of my life where I have no control,\" Drew said .",
"Micah Emmanuel Lanfer weighed in at 7 pounds, 4 oz and is 19 inches long ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Older siblings often want to help with baby names, but their choices sometimes aren't the most desirable.",
"Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are learning this as they prepare for their third child -- and are getting an avalanche of suggestions for names from daughters Violet, 6, and Seraphina, 3.",
"\"Our girls are working on names.",
"At first they were definitely Disney.",
"It was like, Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse Affleck,\" the \"Butter\" star, 39, said Wednesday on \"The Tonight Show.\"",
"\"And then they've moved on. Then it was Peter Pan, Captain Hook, Smee.\"",
"With those character names not really cutting it, the girls moved on to other strategies.",
"\"They're coming up with lists, and coming in and saying, 'Let's have a baby-naming contest!",
"Let's have a baby-naming poll!'\"",
"Garner, who's due in the spring, says.",
"\"They ask everyone, cause they just want to know.",
"But we're not telling.\" Garner knows the sex of the baby, but declined to reveal it on the show.",
"Asked if her husband wants a boy, Garner -- who has said she wants a third girl -- said she actually didn't know.",
"\"I would have thought so.",
"At first I think I really thought so,\" she said.",
"\"And then he kind of said, 'Well, we have girls.",
"We know how to do girls.",
"My girls love me.",
"I'm the big guy in the house.'",
"So, now I'm not sure.\" See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"It was like, Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse Affleck,\" Jennifer Garner said .",
"\"Then it was Peter Pan, Captain Hook, Smee,\" she said .",
"Garner knows the sex of the baby, but declined to reveal it on the show ."
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"(CNN) -- Netflix changed the name of its DVD mailing service to \"Qwikster\" over the weekend.",
"But the company apparently forgot to consider the Twitter ramifications of the switch.",
"The Twitter handle @Qwikster apparently isn't controlled by Netflix.",
"A guy whose name is listed as Jason Castillo and whose icon on that social network is a cartoon Elmo smoking a joint has been tweeting from that account for months.",
"The comments he makes have absolutely nothing to do with Netflix or Qwikster -- and everything to do with sex and drugs: .",
"\"Bored as s--- wanna blaze but at the same time I don't ugh f--- it where's the bowl at spark me up lls.\"",
"And: \"Don't bother telling me who my ex is now dating !",
"Cuzz now I feel bad for the b---- that has my sloppy seconds :)\" The account, which appears to have been active since April, had more than 600 followers on Monday morning.",
"It's worth noting that some other big-name Twitter handles aren't owned by the corresponding big-name companies.",
"@Apple, for instance, has only posted two tweets, and appears not to be owned by the gadget maker.",
"The blog TechCrunch rounded up some of the best tweets making fun of the @Qwikster situation: .",
"\"Pretty sure @netflix can score that @qwikster twitter handle for a dime bag and some porno mags,\" a Twitter user name @mat wrote.",
"Other social media types are offering to help him find a lawyer.",
"Netflix did not respond immediately to a CNN request for comment on the rogue Twitter handle.",
"The company essentially has split its business in two: Its video streaming service will still be called Netflix; but the DVD-by-mail piece is now dubbed Qwikster."
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"Netflix changes name of DVD mailing service to Qwikster .",
"The @Qwikster Twitter handle isn't owned by Netflix .",
"That Twitter user's icon is a cartoon Elmo smoking a joint .",
"It's unclear if Netflix will try to obtain the account ."
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"(CNN) -- The name of New Jersey Gov.",
"Chris Christie surfaced once again in the national news this week, floated by some as a possible new entrant in the ever-widening, fickle field of Republican presidential contenders.",
"But Christie got even more attention on his own by heading straight to the \"Jersey Shore\" -- the TV show.",
"On Monday, Christie vetoed a $420,000 tax break previously granted to MTV's most popular program -- the highly viewed and just as highly derided reality series featuring Snooki, The Situation and other often inebriated free-range narcissists.",
"In denying the show's producers the New Jersey Economic Development Authority's 20% tax credit on TV shows filmed or produced in the state, Christie said it was unjustifiable \"for a project which does nothing more than perpetuate misconceptions about the state and its citizens.\"",
"Like a rain-slicked Atlantic City boardwalk as it snakes its way to the shore, that's some slippery ground on which Christie is treading.",
"It's difficult, maybe even impossible, to disagree with him on the position of being anti-\"Jersey Shore\": Anything that slows the spread of that video virus is, almost by definition, a good thing.",
"But what if the same logic and political tactics had been used on, say, HBO's \"The Sopranos\"?",
"Even if that sort of concern amounts to fiscal responsibility, it also amounts to artistic irresponsibility.",
"Politicians have attacked TV before, but the attention they draw rarely has them getting the last word, or being awarded the final victory.",
"Dan Quayle vs. \"Murphy Brown\"?",
"The CBS sitcom won that one, handily; the single mother about whom Quayle was so upset was, after all, a fictional TV character.",
"George H.W.",
"Bush, in 1992, campaigned by promising to make American families \"a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons.\"",
"Bart, one of the animated characters on \"The Simpsons,\" retaliated almost instantly in a quickly dubbed opening credits sequence, replying, \"We're just like the Waltons.",
"We're praying for an end to the Depression, too.\"",
"Christie, by pulling the state purse strings tighter and refusing to hand over rebate tax credit money to TV productions that make New Jersey look bad, is wielding a heavy club.",
"Where else, after all, could \"Jersey Shore\" film its reality-show escapades?",
"Italy? (Actually, yes.",
"They've done just that. But MTV and \"Jersey Shore\" haven't yet gone to the original Jersey shore, nestled in the English Channel and part of the United Kingdom.",
"Maybe next year.)",
"Or maybe, if CW's \"H8R\" lasts another season (which is doubtful), Christie could come on as a Snooki \"hater,\" as a nonfan did to confront the \"Jersey Shore\" standout star in this month's season premiere, and take away her show's tax credits on camera.",
"But really, the biggest media storm he could generate here, and the one that would score him even stronger political points, would be to make the tax credits, or the denial of them, qualitative as well as quantitative, and thus support the arts in the most measurable way possible.",
"Bear with me here: Christie could make it a policy to give tax rebates for the quality shows, and levy fines -- tackiness taxes, if you will -- for those that besmirch New Jersey in particular and the lively arts in general.",
"Make good TV and movies, you get money back.",
"Make bad TV and movies, you pay a surcharge.",
"Under such a system, the better the TV show or movie, the higher the tax incentives.",
"(This works for the other arts as well: Bruce Springsteen could do whatever he wants in Jersey, which is kind of the way things are now anyway.)",
"Conversely, the lower a visiting TV or film production sets the crassness bar, the higher the state should set the additional taxes for filming in Jersey.",
"That way, when something as outstanding and artistic as \"The Sopranos\" shoots on location in the Garden State, it gets a break.",
"The \"Real Housewives of New Jersey,\" on the other hand, gets broken.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Bianculli."
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"David Bianculli notes Gov.",
"Chris Christie is in news for \"Jersey Shore\" decision .",
"Christie denied show tax credit because it fed \"misperceptions\"about state .",
"Bianculli says pols have weighed in before, but why \"Shore\" and not \"Sopranos\"?",
"Bianculli: Maybe new policy should be tax credits for quality shows, fines for tacky ones ."
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"New York (CNN) -- A mix of protesters gathered again Friday in cities across the country, decrying a loosely defined list of financial problems and mixing in places with others marking the 10-year anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.",
"Demonstrators in New York and Washington appeared to congregate over both the Afghan conflict, arguably America's longest war, and in protest against the widening disparities between rich and poor and corporate greed, among other grievances.",
"New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said an investigation is under way after protesters claimed officers used excessive force when corralling demonstrators earlier this week.",
"He also noted that demonstrations had cost tax payers $1.9 million in overtime costs for the city's law enforcement.",
"CNN affiliate stations also broadcast images of crowds that gathered in Austin, Texas, as well as Minneapolis, Minnesota; Seattle, Washington and Atlanta, Georgia.",
"The activity came a day after President Barack Obama discussed the growing movement, saying demonstrators \"are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works.\"",
"Speaking at a White House news conference, Obama also defended the country's financial sector, which has taken the brunt of protesters' criticism, focusing on Wall Street and its regulators' purported role in expanding economic disparities.",
"\"We have to have a strong, effective financial sector in order for us to grow,\" the president said.",
"Still, Obama discussed a need to pursue action aimed at improving government oversight and blamed Republican lawmakers for obstructing financial reforms.",
"Friday marked the 21st day of the grass-roots Wall Street protests.",
"Demonstrations have erupted in more than a dozen cities throughout the week, ranging from thousands who marched in lower Manhattan Wednesday after receiving support from local unions, to the dozens of college students who staged walkouts at various college campuses.",
"Open Story: See iReports from the protests.",
"The movement started in New York and some of the protests there have been marred by scuffles with police.",
"New York authorities set up at least one vehicle checkpoint as police appeared in larger numbers throughout the financial district Thursday and established a perimeter around Zuccotti Park, which is considered a rallying point for the largely leaderless movement in that city.",
"\"We hope that our message continues to resonate with everyone who has felt disenfranchised by the current state of our country,\" said Tyler Combelic, a spokesman for the Occupy Wall Street group.",
"He said they plan to \"continue the protest until the message reaches every house in the United States.\"",
"The specifics of that message remains largely unclear.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti, Carey Bodenheimer, Ross Levitt and Jason Kessler contributed to this report."
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"NEW: NY police commissioner: Police overtime has cost $1.9 million so far .",
"Wall Street protests blend with war demonstrations in New York and D.C.",
"Crowds gather Austin, Minneapolis, Seattle and Atlanta .",
"Friday marked the 21st day of the grass-roots protests ."
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"(CNN) -- Facebook is ramping up the fight against those annoying and potentially harmful scam attacks.",
"The site is teaming up with Websense, a San Diego, California-based Internet security firm, to warn users when they're about to leave Facebook for a site that might be trying to steal their personal data.",
"Starting today, any link users click on Facebook will be checked against Websense's database of sites that might contain malware or be used for \"phishing\" of the user's credit card or other personal information.",
"If a site shows up on the list, a page will pop up warning users and asking them whether they'd like to go back, get more information or proceed at their own risk.",
"\"A platform as popular as Facebook is naturally a target for attackers,\" Websense wrote on its blog.",
"\"We have been working with Facebook and their security teams for a number of years in order to keep their users safe, but now we have integrated directly into the platform for an unprecedented security combination.\"",
"In a recent survey by Websense of 4,640 technology and security professionals, 52 percent said their businesses have experienced an increase in viruses and malware attacks because of employees' use of social-media sites like Facebook and Twitter.",
"Twenty-three percent said they hadn't seen an increase, and 25 percent said they weren't sure.",
"With a user base of some 800 million users, Facebook is fertile hunting ground for scammers and hackers.",
"Often, users who click bad links will be infected with malware that causes them to, in turn, share the bad link with their friends.",
"A common scammer technique is to post what appears to be an outrageous or racy link.",
"When someone clicks the link, they are asked to enter their Facebook log-in information again to see the video or other post -- thus giving that info to the hackers.",
"\"By providing real-time protection from malware, spyware, inappropriate content, data leaks, and spam, we make it safe for people and businesses to use the web,\" said Websense chief technology officer Dan Hubbard.",
"The announcement comes at the beginning of what's being called National Cyber Security Awareness Month.",
"Facebook will be participating in a cybersecurity event Friday in conjunction with government and business officials in Michigan."
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"Facebook adds security feature to warn users about clicking on harmful links .",
"Users will get a pop-up message when they try to access a site that may be hazardous .",
"WebSense says viruses have increased due to workplace social-media use .",
"Scammers post links on Facebook in an effort to steal users' personal information ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- There's another baby on the way for Lisa Loeb!",
"The singer/author, 43, and husband Roey Hershkovitz will welcome their second child in June, her rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.",
"\"I grew up with a big family, so I'm excited for Lyla to have a sibling!\"",
"Loeb tells PEOPLE.",
"The couple, who wed in 2009, are already parents to daughter Lyla Rose, 2.",
"Loeb can now be seen on tour for her children's song book, \"Lisa Loeb's Silly Sing-Along: The Disappointing Pancake and Other Zany Songs.\"",
"\"It's a little bit of a challenge to try to balance my work with my family, but my family comes first,\" says Loeb, who also designs frames for her eyewear collection.",
"\"My daughter is so beautiful and sweet and funny.\"",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Lisa Loeb will welcome their second child in June .",
"\"I'm excited for Lyla to have a sibling\" Loeb tells PEOPLE .",
"Loeb also designs frames for her eyewear collection ."
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"Perugia, Italy (CNN) -- A lawyer for Amanda Knox said Thursday the only option for the jury considering her murder appeal in Italy is to clear her of guilt.",
"Knox's lawyers gave their final arguments in Perugia Thursday in an effort to counter prosecutors' portrayal of her as a cunning \"femme fatale.\"",
"Lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova told the jury 'that the only possible decision to take is that of absolving Amanda Knox,\" as he wrapped up his closing argument.",
"He said the court had already seen \"there is not trace of Amanda Knox in the room where murder took place.\"",
"Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito are fighting to overturn their 2009 convictions for the murder of Meredith Kercher, Knox's British housemate who was found with her throat slashed two years earlier.",
"The judge said there will be no ruling in the case until after defendant statements on Monday.",
"The second of Knox's lawyers to speak, Luciano Ghirga, said Knox was \"very afraid but her heart is full of hope and she hopes to return to freedom.\"",
"Her \"image was massacred\" by the media and the attacks on her character started before the trial, he said, adding that he considered her as a daughter.",
"Concluding an emotional appearance, he appealed to the jury to put themselves in the shoes of Knox's family -- a counterpoise to the words of appeals court prosecutor Giancarlo Costagliola, who asked the jury to put themselves in the shoes of Kercher's family at the start of the closing arguments a week ago.",
"The \"clan Knox\" -- as Knox's family have been referred to -- are not part of some rumored U.S. conspiracy to put pressure on the Italian courts to release her, Ghirga said.",
"Rather, \"they are parents and they deserve respect.\"",
"The lawyer also praised the court's work, saying he felt Knox's rights had finally been respected.",
"Urging the jury not to let innocent people stay in jail, Vedova earlier detailed what he called many \"mistakes\" made in the investigation into Kercher's death.",
"When Knox was arrested and interrogated, she was not allowed a translator and was discouraged from getting a lawyer, Vedova said.",
"\"'That night Amanda Knox's right to defend herself was denied,\" he said.",
"\"She was just a young girl, first time out of the country.",
"She didn't speak Italian.\"",
"Vedova argued that some of the DNA evidence presented by the prosecution should be thrown out.",
"He said some material was contaminated as a result of poor practice by police, including supposed traces of mixed blood in the bathroom sink shared by the two girls.",
"The prosecution's use of alleged bloody footprints in their case was also wrong, he said.",
"As for the knife used to kill Kercher, a key piece of evidence, Vedova told the court there was a \"concentration of nothingness, a fantasy\" in the prosecution's arguments.",
"He ridiculed a theory that Sollecito had not disposed of the knife because he was concerned his landlady would notice it was missing, asking: \"What kind of a killer would think about this after committing a murder?\"",
"Vedova claimed forensics experts who examined computers belonging to Knox and Sollecito had destroyed the machines and with them evidence that was certain to be favorable to the defendants.",
"This included photographs of Knox and Kercher together that demonstrated they were friends, he said.",
"Showing the court panoramic pictures of the villa Knox shared with Kercher, Vedova rejected the prosecution claim that a fake robbery had been staged by someone inside the house to try to cover up what had happened.",
"He also suggested the original court had taken sides over some of the evidence, choosing to accept as credible some witnesses whose testimony went against Knox and rejecting others who were in her favor.",
"Knox's attorneys' statements follow arguments presented this week by the lawyer of her co-defendant.",
"Lawyer Giulia Bongiorno said Tuesday that Knox is not the character the media has painted her to be, and urged a jury to acquit Knox and Sollecito of murdering Kercher.",
"Bongiorno compared Knox to the voluptuous cartoon character Jessica Rabbit, who protests, \"I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way,\" in the movie \"Who Framed Roger Rabbit?\"",
"Bongiorno said the whole trial was based on DNA evidence \"on which mistakes were made,\" and urged the jury to \"abandon imagined fantasies\" and acquit the pair.",
"Knox and Sollecito were convicted in 2009.",
"Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison, while Sollecito got 25.",
"In her closing arguments, Bongiorno said there was no physical trace of Knox or Sollecito in the room where Kercher was found murdered.",
"\"The room speaks only of Rudy\" Guede, the other man convicted separately of killing Kercher, Bongiorno told the jury.",
"Knox and Sollecito's defense teams have suggested Guede, who is already serving a 16-year sentence for the murder, could have been the sole killer.",
"Evidence that Guede was in the room shows that \"no one could enter that room and not leave any trace,\" Bongiorno said.",
"And she hammered home attacks on DNA evidence that has been a key part of the appeal.",
"She, too, said police could have contaminated the crime scene or the evidence, playing video from the police investigation to make her point.",
"Knox and Sollecito are appealing the convictions together, having been convicted in a joint trial.",
"CNN's Hada Messia contributed to this report."
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"NEW: A lawyer for Knox says she \"is very afraid but her heart is full of hope\"\nAnother lawyer urges the jury to absolve Knox as he wraps up his closing argument .",
"A verdict in the appeal will not come before Monday, the judge says .",
"Knox and Sollecito were convicted in 2009 of killing Briton Meredith Kercher ."
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"(CNN) -- The 2012 presidential race has been dominated by one issue: the economy.",
"Americans are desperately looking for a leader who can steer the country into full recovery; anything else is peripheral at this point.",
"This past weekend, however, the presidential race was harmfully thrown off course.",
"I'm referring to the words of Pastor Robert Jeffress of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas.",
"Jeffress introduced Texas Gov.",
"Rick Perry at the Values Voters Summit in Washington D.C. on Friday and strongly endorsed him, primarily because of his evangelical Christian beliefs.",
"Shortly after the introduction, Jeffress said to reporters: \"Every true, born-again follower of Christ ought to embrace a Christian over a non-Christian.\"",
"Jeffress called Mormonism a \"cult,\" and asked by a reporter if he believed Gov.",
"Mitt Romney is a Christian, answered, \"No.\"",
"Romney, of course, is Mormon.",
"Jeffress' words echoed what he said in 2008 about Romney, when he told the Religion Newswriters Association at its annual meeting: \"The value of electing a Christian goes beyond public policies ...",
"It is worse to legitimize a faith that would lead people to a separation from God.\"",
"In essence, Jeffress implied that voting for Mitt Romney would give credibility to a cult.",
"After hearing Jeffress' remarks, I decided to respond when I spoke at the same summit on Saturday.",
"The Romney campaign contacted me before my speech about another speaker, Bryan Fischer, who has a history of controversial remarks concerning Mormonism.",
"But Romney's campaign had no say in my words to Jeffress.",
"I said to Jeffress, along with everyone else, \"Do not give voice to bigotry.",
"Remember George Washington, his manly advice to us, to despise all forms of racial and religious bigotry.",
"He who was first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, counseled, 'We should give to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.'",
"\"Let's follow him.",
"And I would say to Pastor Jeffress, you stepped on and obscured the words of Perry and Santorum and Cain and Bachmann and everyone else who has spoken here.",
"You did Rick Perry no good, sir, in what you had to say.\"",
"I agree that there are serious theological differences between evangelical Christianity and Mormonism.",
"But those should be settled in churches, in homes, and in religious gatherings, not in front of a national political event.",
"Pastor Jeffress says his words were merely theological.",
"He, pastor of a successful mega-church, should know full well the fine line between religion and politics.",
"His words were clearly political, as evidenced by the damaging effect it had on the Republican presidential candidates and the national debate.",
"Gov. Perry immediately had to distance himself from Jeffress' words.",
"Gov. Romney quickly went on the defensive.",
"And the other candidates, instantly grilled by the national media about their view of Mormonism, were thrown into a controversy they wanted no part of.",
"Jeffress' words were an inappropriate and deleterious distraction.",
"Article Six of the Constitution states that \"no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.\"",
"The purpose of a political gathering like the Values Voters Summit is to build consensus around a candidate by examining positions and records.",
"Yes, religion plays an essential role in those decisions, but one person's faith should never be a disqualifying factor, whether that person is Jewish, Christian, Catholic, Muslim, Mormon, or of any other faith.",
"To the right and left alike, we are in the middle of a grueling presidential campaign season.",
"It behooves us to despise and reject all forms of religious, and racial, bigotry.",
"Politics are about policy and deciding whether a candidate shares your views of the founding principles of this country -- life, liberty, and the rule of law -- which men and women of all different faiths can agree upon.",
"When Abraham Lincoln spoke in 1838 to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, concerning the \"perpetuation of our political institutions,\" he admonished participants: \"Let reverence for the laws ... become the political religion of the nation.\"",
"We do not need, nor should we have, a religious test for public office.",
"Should we choose to hold someone's faith against him or her, we hurt only ourselves.",
"Our chances of winning the 2012 presidential election depend on building the broadest coalition we can, not breaking it down.",
"I do not question the theological knowledge of Pastor Jeffress, and, to his credit, he has said that he would vote for Romney should he win the nomination.",
"Nevertheless, his comments were ill-timed and of poor taste.",
"Again, the timeless wisdom of George Washington comes to mind.",
"In a letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, Washington wrote, \"May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants, while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.\"",
"The opinions in this commentary are solely those of William Bennett."
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"William Bennett: Jeffress' comments about Romney's faith hurt presidential race .",
"Jeffress, a Perry supporter, said Romney is not a Christian and Mormonism is a cult .",
"Bennett says we must reject religious, and racial, bigotry; politics are about policy .",
"There is no religious test for public office and it's a matter of political principles, he says ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- NATO and U.S. forces are seeing a marked increase in infiltration into Afghanistan from Pakistan by the militant Haqqani network, a senior NATO official said Tuesday.",
"There has been a significant increase in the Haqqani network's activity in Khost, Paktia, Logar and Wardak provinces which are used in that order as an infiltration route from Pakistan, to launch attacks on the capital, the official said.",
"The senior NATO official spoke to reporters in Kabul on the condition no name was used.",
"Whether or not NATO and the United States will have to provide more assistance to the Afghan security forces, particularly along the border with Pakistan, will depend on \"the level of threat coming out of Miramshah\" in North Waziristan, the official said.",
"Miramshah is believed to be where the Haqqani network leaders are based.",
"Haqqani fighters are blamed for killing more than 1,000 coalition and Afghan forces.",
"The official said Haqqani militants were behind a series of \"spectacular attacks,\" this summer, including a 20-hour attack on the American Embassy, last month, and an assault on Kabul's InterContinental Hotel, in June, which left at least a dozen people dead.",
"NATO officials said there had also been a marked increase in the number of cross border attacks from Pakistan, but the insisted reports of artillery bombardments and heavy casualties were often exaggerated.",
"International Security Assistance Force troops respond to all reports by deploying surveillance assets, usually helicopters and drones, but they often cannot find evidence of structural damage or the craters consistent with the villagers' accounts of sustained artillery and rocket bombardments, the official explained.",
"The official said ISAF's primary objective is sharing this information with Afghan and Pakistani officials as quickly as possible to diffuse cross-border tensions.",
"Both sides have agreed, within the last ten days, to set up a working group for investigating future allegations.",
"Part of the problem is that insurgents have reoccupied safe havens inside Afghanistan, which became much more attractive following the U.S. withdrawal from remote bases in Kunar and Nuristan provinces, coupled with increased pressure on the Pakistani side of the border, said the official.",
"While most of the cross-border attacks are launched by insurgents, he said there is legitimate confusion as to where the border lies.",
"\"We'll get the maps out and there will be differences of multiples of kilometers of where they think the border is,\" the official said.",
"Gen. John Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, has completed a compressed 90-day assessment and revision of the campaign plan and, contrary to earlier suggestions that there would be an abrupt shift of focus to the east of the country, he concluded that he wants to continue building on progress in the south, while keeping Kabul and its environs secure, eventually linking the two areas via Afghanistan's ring road, the official told reporters.",
"\"As things improve in the south we will focus more on the east,\" the official said.",
"\"Our progress is incremental, but it is progress,\" the official said.",
"\"We have physically taken away their safe havens [in the south], and they won't get them back.\"",
"In the east, the focus will be on Kabul and the surrounding provinces, particularly Wardak and Logar, which are being used to launch attacks on the capital, the official said.",
"\"The other issue is the harder one, that's the sense of security in the minds of the Afghan people.... Do the Afghan people feel any more secure?",
"No, not yet.\" The military is proving the space for the Afghan government, but the government remains deeply unpopular and corrupt, the official said.",
"Areas likely to be slated for transition in the upcoming second tranche include the Ghazni municipality (capital of Ghazni province Maidan Shah (the capital of Wardak), and Nawa, in Helmand.",
"Kunar is likely to be at least a year away."
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"Allied commander wants to keep emphasis on the south ."
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"Hong Kong (CNN) -- She's traveled more than 35,000 kilometers hugging the equator, powered entirely by the sun.",
"PlanetSolar, the world's largest solar powered boat, recently stopped off in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor as part of its 18-month journey around the world.",
"Measuring 31 meters (102 feet) long and 15 meters (49 feet) wide, the catamaran is powered by 537-square meters of photovoltaic solar panels.",
"On a sunny day they produce on average 94 kilowatts of power -- the equivalent to 127 horsepower.",
"Seventy-five percent of the energy propels the boat that travels between 5 and 10 knots an hour.",
"The remainder is used for everything else from flushing toilets to operating the boat's navigational systems.",
"PlanetSolar is the brainchild of 39-year-old Swiss Raphael Domjan.",
"While hiking in Iceland, the former ambulance driver was alarmed to see how quickly the glaciers were melting and decided to find a novel way to raise awareness of global warming.",
"\"If we can go out on the road with this boat, it's a huge boat, only on solar energy, and we live on this boat, everything is working the computer, the telephone, everything is on solar energy.",
"It means everyone can use solar and renewable energy at home everyday,\" Domjan said.",
"Built in Germany at the cost of $26 million dollars, this vessel tracks the sun thanks to state-of-the-art solar technology.",
"\"We can travel around three days with no light,\" explains Christian Ochsenbein, chief engineer aboard the boat.",
"\"But usually there is light everyday even if it's raining.",
"So when we come in a bad weather situation we can expand this time, we reduce this speed and we sail for about 5 days before we run out of battery,\" he added.",
"Planet Solar set sail from Monaco in September 2010 crossing the Atlantic, the Panama Canal and is currently in the Pacific.",
"Next stop is Singapore.",
"It will then travel across the Indian Ocean and the Suez Canal before finally returning to the Mediterranean where it plans to dock back in Monaco in May next year.",
"French captain, Erwann Le Rouzic (one of six crew members on board), says that while the technology has been faultless, Mother Nature has proven to be a challenge.",
"\"When you cross to the south of the planet you always find rain, strong winds and big waves, so we passed all this with lots of patience and humility, because you are always humble against bad weather,\" Le Rouzic explains.",
"In every port, the catamaran and its message has been warmly received.",
"It's hoped the shipping industry -- responsible for 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations -- embraces this technology the same way the public has.",
"\"One day we won't have any more oil anywhere.",
"Maybe it's in 50,100, 200 years but one day we will have no more oil and we'll have to find another way to live,\" Domjan said.",
"And if Planet Solar completes its mission, the crew says that will be proof that the sun, and solar power, is the answer."
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"PlanetSolar, the world's largest solar-powered boat stops off in Hong Kong to promote green energy .",
"Solar yacht has 537-square meters of photovoltaic cells which can produce 94 kilowatts of power .",
"Captain of Planet Solar hopes shipping industry will embrace solar energy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions ."
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"Jackson, Georgia (CNN) -- Troy Davis, whose case drew international attention, was put to death by lethal injection for the 1989 killing of an off-duty police officer in Savannah, Georgia, prison officials announced Wednesday night.",
"Until the very end, Davis maintained his innocence.",
"After he was strapped to the death gurney, he lifted his head to address the family of the slain officer.",
"He told the family of Mark MacPhail that he was not responsible for the officer's death and did not have a gun at the time, according to execution witnesses.",
"Davis said the case merited further investigation, talking fast as officials prepared to give him the lethal cocktail.",
"The execution followed the U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of a stay, allowing the state to proceed.",
"Davis was declared dead at 11:08 p.m.",
"ET. Throughout the day, Davis' lawyers and high-profile supporters had asked the state and various courts to intervene, arguing he did not murder MacPhail in 1989.",
"Davis initially had been scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m.",
"ET. But the proceeding was delayed more than three hours as the justices pondered a plea filed by his attorney.",
"Several hundred people, most of them opposing the proceeding, gathered outside the state prison in Jackson where Davis, 42, awaited his fate.",
"Others held a vigil in a nearby church.",
"The inmate's sister, Martina Davis-Correia, was among those who held a vigil outside the prison.",
"Before the U.S. Supreme Court's decision, she said officials needed to take more time to examine the case.",
"\"When you are looking at someone's life, you can't press rewind,\" she said.",
"More than 100 officers, many in riot gear, stood guard over the largely-quiet gathering, which featured candles, occasional prayers and songs.",
"\"Tonight the state of Georgia legally lynched an innocent man,\" Davis' lawyer Thomas Ruffin Jr. said.",
"\"Tonight I witnessed something tragic.\"",
"Amnesty International condemned the execution in a statement.",
"\"The U.S. justice system was shaken to its core as Georgia executed a person who may well be innocent.",
"Killing a man under this enormous cloud of doubt is horrific and amounts to a catastrophic failure of the justice system,\" Amnesty said.",
"Anneliese MacPhail, the slain officer's mother, said she was relieved and that justice was served.",
"Davis' supporters, who also rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court building, argued that his conviction was based on the testimony of numerous witnesses who had recanted, including a jailhouse informer who claimed Davis had confessed.",
"\"There's a genuine feeling among people here and across the nation that we're about to do the unthinkable,\" said Isaac Newton Farris Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.",
"But prosecutors have stood by the conviction and every appeal -- including the last-minute petitions filed Wednesday -- has failed.",
"Davis' supporters cheered and hugged each other when news of the earlier delay reached them.",
"Davis' attorneys started the day by asking a judge in Jackson, where Georgia's death row is located, to halt the proceeding, citing a new analysis they say shows ballistics testimony at his trial was \"inaccurate and misleading.\"",
"They also note that a federal judge found in 2010 that a jailhouse informer's testimony that Davis confessed to killing MacPhail was \"patently false\" and that prosecutors knew a key eyewitness account was wrong.",
"\"Clearly, the fact that Mr. Davis' death sentence rests in part on 'patently false' and egregiously inaccurate and misleading testimony, evidence and argument renders the death sentence fundamentally unfair, unreliable and therefore violative of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments,\" his attorneys argued in a motion filed Wednesday morning.",
"That appeal was denied Wednesday afternoon.",
"The state Supreme Court followed suit a short time later, leading his attorneys to turn to the U.S. Supreme Court in the final hour before the execution.",
"Davis has been scheduled to die three times before, most recently in October 2008.",
"That time, the U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution two hours before it was scheduled to take place.",
"This time, Davis declined to request the special last meal offered inmates prior to execution and was offered a standard meal tray: Grilled cheeseburgers, oven-browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape drink.",
"\"He has continued to insist this is not his last meal,\" said the Rev.",
"Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church.",
"Pope Benedict, South African anti-apartheid leader Desmond Tutu and former President Jimmy Carter said the execution should have been called off.",
"Amnesty International and the NAACP led efforts to exonerate Davis, and U.N. human rights officials joined those calls Wednesday.",
"\"Not only do we urgently appeal to the government of the United States and the state of Georgia to find a way to stop the scheduled execution, but we believe that serious consideration should be given to commuting the sentence,\" read a joint statement from the U.N. special rapporteurs on arbitrary executions, judicial independence and torture.",
"But the man who originally prosecuted the case, Spencer Lawton, said those who do not believe there is physical evidence in the case are wrong.",
"\"There are two Troy Davis cases,\" Lawton said Tuesday.",
"\"There is the legal case and the public relations case.",
"We have consistently won in court, and consistently lost in the public relations battle.\"",
"Since Davis' 1991 trial, seven of the nine witnesses against him have recanted or contradicted their testimony.",
"The U.S. Supreme Court ordered a district court in Savannah to review his claims of innocence in 2009, but District Judge William Moore ruled the following year that the evidence did \"not require the reversal of the jury's judgment.\"",
"The parole board rejected a plea for clemency on Tuesday.",
"In Georgia, only the board -- not the governor -- has the right to grant clemency.",
"And a request that Davis be allowed to sit for a polygraph by his attorneys was also rejected by the state Department of Corrections.",
"Davis' supporters argue he was the victim of a rush to judgment by police seeking justice for the death of one of their own, as well as widespread racial prejudice in the criminal justice system.",
"Warnock said several other inmates have been proven innocent in recent years.",
"Supporters argued that the original witnesses who testified against Davis were fearful of police and spoke under duress.",
"Other witnesses also have since come forward with accounts that call Davis' conviction into question, according to his supporters.",
"According to prosecutors, Davis was at a pool party in Savannah when he shot a man, Michael Cooper, wounding him in the face.",
"He then went to a nearby convenience store, where he pistol-whipped a homeless man, Larry Young, who'd just bought a beer, according to accounts of the case.",
"Prosecutors said MacPhail rushed to the scene to help, but Davis shot him three times.",
"They said Davis shot the officer once in the face as he stood over him.",
"A jury convicted Davis on two counts of aggravated assault and one count each of possessing a firearm during a crime, obstructing a law enforcement officer and murder.",
"The murder charge led to the death sentence.",
"Anneliese MacPhail said earlier this week that she didn't begrudge protesters their opinions.",
"But she said they don't understand the facts of the case.",
"\"To them the point is the death penalty.",
"Ninety-nine percent have absolutely no idea who Troy Davis is or who Mark MacPhail was,\" she said.",
"\"They're just following their belief.\"",
"CNN's David Mattingly, Vivian Kuo, Bill Mears, Gustavo Valdes and John Murgatroyd contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Apple fans -- including co-founder Steve Wozniak -- lined up on Friday morning for a chance to buy the iPhone 4S, the latest in the company's line of \"Jesus Phones,\" which includes many under-the-hood improvements.",
"The lines, which drew thousands, were part exercises in tech commercialism and part homages to Steve Jobs, Apple's other co-founder, who died last week following a battle with pancreatic cancer.",
"In New York, Apple fans created a makeshift memorial to Jobs that included flowers, photos, iPad boxes and apples (as in the fruit).",
"And in Atlanta, some people said they were lining up for the phone in part because of Jobs.",
"\"I wanted it anyway, but (Jobs' death) made me sort of want it more because this is the last one I know he worked on,\" Dwight Hill, from an Atlanta suburb, said of his decision to buy the phone.",
"\"I just hope the company keeps going in the same direction.\"",
"About 200 people had lined up in the wee hours of the morning in New York to buy the new phone, which has a faster processor and a \"digital assistant\" that responds to voice commands and talks back to phone owners, answering their questions.",
"Long lines also formed in Asia and Europe as people waited for the phone.",
"In Silicon Valley, California, Wozniak, the Apple co-founder who, along with Jobs, helped create the world's first truly personal computer, sat in an armchair at the front of a line that began forming Thursday afternoon.",
"He tapped on his iPad, sipped Diet Dr. Pepper and took photos with fans while he awaited the phone's release.",
"\"I want to get mine along with the millions of other fans,\" Wozniak said.",
"\"I just want to be able to talk to my phone.\"",
"The iPhone 4S initially was panned by critics, who said it was more of a facelift to the iPhone 4 than a new product.",
"The phone's exterior looks the same as its predecessor, but the guts are new.",
"Inside there's a faster A5 dual-core processor, an improved 8 megapixel camera and a voice assistant named Siri, who will respond to voice commands and answer questions.",
"When Brian X. Chen, a tech writer at Wired, tested the phone, he found Siri to be quite the helpful -- and hilarious -- assistant.",
"He published a series of his conversations with Siri.",
"\"Me: 'I'm drunk,' \" he wrote.",
"\"Siri: 'I found a number of cabs fairly close to you.'",
"(Perfect; it didn't dial my ex-girlfriend.)\"",
"Aside from Jobs, Siri seemed to be one of the main draws for people waiting in line for the iPhone 4S.",
"\"I just want the personal assistant,\" said Teresa Sparks, 41, an Atlanta nurse who had been waiting in line for the phone since 4:45 a.m. Scott England, who also waited in an Atlanta line for the phone, teased a friend of his who said he was buying the iPhone 4S because of the camera.",
"Clearly, he said, \"Siri is a big deal,\" not the camera.",
"\"He's got a secretary -- I don't,\" he joked.",
"Becky Waddell, a 33-year-old real-estate agent, also praised Apple's new digital assistant, which is only available on the iPhone 4S, and which has been compared to HAL 9000, Skynet and other fictional computer overlords.",
"\"I love Siri,\" she said.",
"\"We played with it in the store.",
"I know for sure it will make me a safer driver.",
"I don't have to scramble through my phone while I'm driving.",
"If I can talk to it and get answers, it's going to cut out so much time for me.\"",
"Plenty of excitement seemed to surround the phone's release.",
"In true Apple-head fashion, two Apple fans in New York said they arrived at the flagship Apple Store 18 days before Friday, and blogged about the experience on a site called iPhoneWhatever, CNNMoney reports.",
"Another person arrived at that store on crutches.",
"\"I got hit by a car and had surgery a few weeks ago.",
"There's tons of metal plates in my foot -- it shattered,\" David Betz, a 26-year-old bartender, told CNNMoney.",
"\"Is it worth it? We'll find out.\" Apple CEO Tim Cook helped unveil the 4S last week a day before Jobs' death.",
"Pre-orders of the phone started on October 7 and beat expectations.",
"Apple sold 1 million of the phones in the first 24 hours via its website and carriers AT&T, Verizon and -- for the first time -- Sprint.",
"By comparison, Apple reported 600,000 iPhone 4 pre-orders last year in 24 hours, but that included orders placed with overseas carriers.",
"The iPhone 4S went on sale Friday at all 245 Apple stores in the U.S., in addition to the following countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom.",
"The new iPhone will be available in 22 additional countries by the end of October, Apple says.",
"Apple stores and other retailers opened at 8 a.m. Friday.",
"Online orders can be made at Apple's online store as well as on AT&T, Verizon and Sprint's websites.",
"If you were hoping to pre-order now and pick up the phone Friday, you're out of luck.",
"Pre-orders at AT&T, Sprint and Verizon are sold out, and phones ordered through Apple's website may not be delivered for several weeks.",
"All of those brick-and-mortar retail stores also will carry the phone, along with select Apple-approved retailers: Radio Shack, Best Buy, Target and Sam's Club.",
"(Word of warning: Check availability before lining up at one of those third-party sellers.",
"Inventory is limited, and some will be filling pre-orders before selling whatever stock may remain.)",
"Customers who buy the phone at an Apple retail store will be offered free in-store setup service, personalized instruction on how to set up e-mail and download apps.",
"The phone sells for $199 for 16GB of storage, $299 for 32GB and $399 for 64GB, marking the first time an iPhone has had that much memory.",
"It also seems impossible to separate interest in the iPhone 4S with news of Jobs' death last week.",
"Among the legions of Apple's diehard fans, some have taken saying the \"4S\" in the phone's name represents the words \"For Steve.\"",
"Although it's virtually impossible that the company would have done that on purpose (the phone's development happened largely when Jobs was still CEO) it speaks both to the long reach of Jobs' legacy and the cult-like devotion that some Apple loyalists feel toward the company and its products.",
"CNN's Mark Milian and Umika Pidaparthy and CNNMoney contributed to this report."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Talk about a strange New Year's resolution.",
"Kirstie Alley said she's going to start dating \"butt-ugly men\" on an episode of \"The Ellen DeGeneres Show\" airing Friday.",
"When asked about her dating life by Ellen, Alley, 60, admitted she usually goes for \"psychos\" and \"players,\" so the host suggested she try going with the opposite of what she's attracted to.",
"\"I'm thinking ugly men might be the solution,\" the \"Dancing with the Stars\" alum responded.",
"\"I'm talking about butt ugly.",
"Because I go for really handsome men and I think butt ugly would be appreciative.\"",
"Alley, who's twice divorced, recently told PEOPLE she's looking for love.",
"What else would she like for her upcoming 61st birthday?",
"\"I want an Aston Martin and a tattoo,\" she said.",
"While DeGeneres didn't get the actress a new car, she did help her out with some new ink.",
"The host, who had a tattoo artist waiting backstage, joked that they would play a game to determine Alley's tat.",
"If she lost, the star would have to get a tattoo of DeGeneres.",
"Luckily, Alley won and was inked with the initials of her two children.",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"(CNN) -- A 22-year-old Kentucky soldier was charged Monday with attempted espionage and communicating military information, allegations that have shocked friends who have described him as a patriotic country boy.",
"The formal charges were issued 10 days after Spc.",
"William Colton Millay of Owensboro, Kentucky, was arrested at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, according to Col. Bill Coppernoll, the public affairs officer at the base.",
"According to news release from the base, issued Monday, Millay \"communicated and transmitted unclassified national defense information to an individual whom he believed was a foreign intelligence agent.\"",
"The Army specialist \"believed (this information) could be used to the advantage of a foreign nation.\"",
"A charge of failure to obey general regulations stems from an assertion Millay did not \"report multiple contacts with someone he believed to be a foreign intelligence agent.\"",
"He is also accused of \"wrongfully concealing and storing two firearms and ammunition in his assigned barracks room.\"",
"The military further alleges that Millay \"wrongfully solicited a fellow-service member to obtain classified information and tangible items\" so that they could be given to a foreign intelligence agent, leading to a charge of solicitation.",
"He is also charged with making false statements, having allegedly not been forthright in telling Army counterintelligence officials \"the full scope\" of his attempted contacts with other governments and \"the full nature\" of what he'd disclosed to the believed-to-be foreign agent.",
"Military authorities did not disclose what information specifically Millay allegedly obtained and disclosed, but they described it as not classified.",
"Nor did they state which country he believed that information was going to, via a \"foreign intelligence agent.\"",
"Yet last week, FBI spokesman Eric Gonzalez said that it did not involve any actual transfer of information, via the Internet or otherwise.",
"\"Millay was being observed well before any damage could have occurred,\" Gonzalez said.",
"He denied that Millay's case had any connection to that of Bradley Manning, the Army private suspected of leaking classified information to the website WikiLeaks.",
"Having enlisted in the Army in November 2007, Millay was based in South Korea and Fort Stewart, Georgia, and spent one tour of combat duty in Iraq before being assigned to the Alaska base in May, according to the military release.",
"He was assigned to the 164th Military Police Company, 793rd Military Police Battalion, 2nd Engineer Brigade, known as the \"Arctic Enforcers.\"",
"Millay is currently being held at the Anchorage Correctional Complex, according to Monday's military statement.",
"Earlier attempts by CNN to reach the Kentucky native's family have been unsuccessful.",
"Longtime friend Drew Bramschreiber of Owensboro has said that Millay hardly fit the spy persona.",
"\"He's just a simple country boy,\" he said.",
"\"He was never the kind of guy who would get into trouble.\"",
"Another friend, Janssen Payne, said last week that Millay idolized his brother, who is also in the Army, and that he had been in the ROTC program in high school.",
"He was a supporter of President George W. Bush and the U.S. war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan, his friend said.",
"\"You've got the wrong guy,\" said Janssen Payne.",
"\"That's just not who he is.\" CNN's Moni Basu contributed to this report."
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"William Colton Millay faces several charges, including communicating military info .",
"He believed he was giving info to \"a foreign intelligence agent,\" the military says .",
"His friends have expressed shock at the claims, with one saying he's \"the wrong guy\"\nThe 22-year-old Kentucky native enlisted in the U.S. Army in 2007 ."
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"(CNN) -- As an 11-year-old boy, Hedi Slimane sought refuge in the school darkroom.",
"Shortly after starting photography classes, the former Dior Homme designer had a key to the lab and would go there to develop photos whenever he could.",
"He may be one of the most influential designers of this century, but it is the camera that continues to fascinate Slimane.",
"Born to a an Italian mother who worked as a seamstress and a Tunisian father, Slimane is credited with transforming the male silhouette when he introduced skinny jeans with a rock 'n' roll edge at the turn of the century.",
"In 2002, he was declared International Designer of the Year by the Council of Fashion Designers of America, previously won by Karl Lagerfeld and Jean-Paul Gaultier.",
"In 2007, Slimane turned his back on fashion, leaving Dior, and returning to photography to take melancholic androgynous images heavily influenced by the British music scene.",
"Today, he shoots for fashion magazines and his subjects have included Lady Gaga, Lindsay Lohan and Robert Pattinson.",
"Now based in Los Angeles, he is photographing California youth culture and has an exhibition opening in November.",
"In an exclusive interview with CNN, Slimane talks about falling in love with photography; his book, \"Anthology of a Decade,\" which follows his journey through fashion, music and the art world; and how the attacks of 9/11 are forever imprinted on to his mind.",
"CNN: What is your first memory of photography?",
"Hedi Slimane: My parents offered me my first camera, a vintage Nikon F and a 50mm lens for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years.",
"Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language -- something like a secret garden.",
"I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.",
"This is, of course, what I still had in mind when, in 2007, I started to develop online this idea of a photographic \"diary,\" which later became a format, or definition for some emerging photography blogs.",
"CNN: How would you describe your style?",
"HS: It has not evolved much over the decades.",
"I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after.",
"In some ways, the genre is almost gone.",
"I am thinking of true, stubborn, lifetime black-and-white photographers, as opposed to black-and-white as a photographic commodity.",
"I presume my work has also always been about reduction -- the subject alone -- without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject ...",
"The grace of it all and the fragility of it all are the main subject.",
"CNN: Who or what inspires you?",
"HS: Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street -- someone that has no idea.",
"\"Heroism\" in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.",
"Choosing it, or finding it, is the most difficult thing, really.",
"It is mostly a mere coincidence, or some sort of luck.",
"Besides, I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.",
"CNN: What are some of your favorite images from 'Anthology of a Decade?'",
"HS: I'm so personally attached to all the characters I met and photographed over the years ... the anthology is like a photographic reliquary that could potentially preserve their grace, fierce joy, and restlessness.",
"Some of them, like Amy Winehouse, are so sadly already gone.",
"CNN: Your photography documents the European music scene, the New York art scene and global street fashion.",
"How are music, art and fashion interconnected in your eyes?",
"HS: Music, since the 1950s and the birth of the concept of the \"youth\" as a social group, has always been a laboratory for new ideas and sub-cultures.",
"Music defines decades, and quite clearly shapes the rhythm, vitality of fashion, attitude and social behaviors.",
"The anthology, just like most of my work, from photography to fashion design, is about and around music.",
"CNN: Your book is a reflection of the past decade.",
"What have the last 10 years been like for you?",
"HS: This decade is certainly the most significant and singular decade ... a decade which has transformed us completely.",
"Tragically, this decade started in 2001, rather than 2000.",
"Together with the rise of the internet, September 11 and its aftermath has changed most of our lives.",
"The anthology and most of its subjects are somehow representative of this decade.",
"The new indie generation in music was born in 2001 and the internet and newborn social networks ended up as an experimental channel for most of the musicians involved in the anthology project.",
"CNN: What is the most enduring image of the last decade for you?",
"HS: September 11, unfortunately.",
"It is interesting to foresee the awakening of the Arab world, and hopefully growing democracy, as the beginning of the new one.",
"California Song, a collection of photographs by Hedi Slimane, will be on view at MOCA Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles from 12 November 2011.",
"More information: moca.org .",
"Anthology of a Decade, published by JRP-Ringier, 2011 ."
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"Hedi Slimane has photographed Amy Winehouse, Pete Doherty, John Lydon and more .",
"Former Dior Homme designer-turned-photographer talks about turning his back on fashion .",
"Recently published collection of his work, \"Anthology of a Decade\"\nCurrently working on a solo exhibition, \"California Song\""
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"(CNN) -- The son of a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander was found dead in a Dubai hotel room -- with his father's website calling the death \"suspicious,\" though police insisted it was not.",
"Numerous Iranian media on Sunday reported the death of Ahmad Rezaie inside Hotel Gloria, a four-star hotel in the coastal United Arab Emirates city.",
"Khalil Ebrahim Al Mansouri, head of the Dubai police's criminal investigations department, said there is no criminal suspicion surrounding the man's death.",
"Al Mansouri, quoting the dead man's brother, added that Ahmad suffered from epilepsy.",
"Yet Tabnak, a website owned by the dead man's father, Mohsen Rezaie, claimed that Ahmad \"was killed under suspicious circumstances.\"",
"The same site noted that the death was \"concurrent with the martyrdom of Mohsen Rezaie's comrades in arms\" on Saturday, referring to an explosion at a military base near Tehran.",
"At least 17 people were killed in that incident, after a munitions depot accidentally caught fire, lawmaker Hossein Garousi told state media.",
"Lt. Gen. Ramezan Sharif reiterated Sunday that the blaze was accidental and dismissed the possibility of sabotage.",
"The Tabnak report did not elaborate on what connection, if any, existed between Ahmad Rezaie's death and the deadly explosion.",
"Shahram Gilabadi -- a spokesman for Iran's Expediency Council, of which Mohsen Rezaie is secretary -- told Tabnak, \"The death is currently being investigated.\"",
"The semi-official Mehrs News Agency reported that Ahmad Rezaie died from an electric shock.",
"Mohsen Rezaie served for years as head of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard.",
"In 2009, he ran -- unsuccessfully -- as a conservative candidate along with others against incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.",
"He continues to play a leading role with the Expediency Council, which mediates between the parliament and the non-elected Guardian Council led by Ayatollah Khamenei."
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"Ahmad Rezaie was found dead inside his Hotel Gloria hotel room .",
"His father's website calls the death \"suspicious,\" tying it to a deadly blast near Tehran .",
"A Dubai police official says that there is no criminal suspicion .",
"Ahmad's father, Mohsen, is head of Iran's Expediency Council and an ex-presidential hopeful ."
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"(CNN) -- Name: Kevin Evans .",
"Weight in January 1994: 315 pounds .",
"Current weight: 215 pounds .",
"Size change: Size 40 to size 32 pants.",
"History: Evans never took his weight into consideration growing up.",
"He said it wasn't really a problem until he reached college.",
"\"I've always had my baby fat, but as I got to college I started gaining more,\" he said.",
"\"After college, it continued.",
"After graduate school, it continued.\"",
"Evans said he was unaware of the toll the additional weight was taking on his body.",
"His mom, Helen, said she noticed he would become breathless while completing simple tasks, but she said she was too nervous to speak up.",
"\"I was going to say something to him about it, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings,\" she said.",
"\"Aha!\" moment: One foot stepped on a scale.",
"Then the other. Evans, a program specialist at Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, waited in anticipation as the number beneath him rose higher.",
"And higher. And higher. It was 315 pounds -- a weight Evans had never dreamed of reaching, but he was forced to accept the indisputable reality that flashed before him.",
"He never wanted to reach 400 pounds.",
"It was time for a change, he said.",
"Have you lost weight?",
"Tell us about your ''Aha!''",
"moment on iReport .",
"How he did it: Evans purchased a treadmill to ensure he had access to workout equipment at all times without limiting himself to going to the gym or facing days of bad weather.",
"He started doing cardio for 45 minutes, five days a week.",
"The treadmill came with an eight-week plan for low-calorie meals that he could prepare.",
"He stayed focused on the program by keeping the price of the treadmill in mind: $1,200.",
"\"I would focus on how much I paid for the treadmill and for that not to be wasted,\" he said.",
"\"I was giving myself one chance to prove myself to myself.\"",
"Biggest obstacle: Evans said his biggest obstacle was managing his time.",
"When he changed his diet, he included several items that he didn't usually eat, and working them into his daily routine initially was a challenge.",
"He decided to sit down on Sundays and plan his workouts and meals for the week, including when he would prepare food.",
"Maintaining diet: While dieting, Evan aimed to eat 1,800 calories a day.",
"Now Evans eats five meals a day, with calorie counts totaling 2,500.",
"Some of the items on his regimen include protein shakes, eggs, turkey, almonds, baked chicken breast and steamed veggies.",
"Maintaining workouts: Evans does 20 minutes of cardio five days a week.",
"He runs intervals for 10 minutes and then does 10 minutes of another aerobic activity such as the StairMaster or a rowing machine.",
"Notes of success: His mother said she has seen a distinct change in him, and she said she is proud of her youngest son's accomplishments.",
"\"I think he takes more pride in himself,\" she said.",
"\"I'm proud that Kevin is taking charge of his health.\"",
"Final thoughts: \"You can't just go on a diet for a few months and lose weight and then go back to exactly how you were living before and expect everything to be the same,\" Evans said.",
"\"Ironically, it seems like the older I get, the better I get.",
"I am also more self-confident and proud that I have been able to accomplish this.\"",
"Doctor's take: Talking to loved ones about their weight can be hard.",
"Dr. Jan McBarron, who is certified by the American Board of Bariatric Medicine, suggests approaching a friend or family member from a nonaccusatory standpoint by asking questions such as, \"How do you feel about your weight?\"",
"Then, if he or she seems ready to change, offer to help find credible sources for weight loss information."
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"(CNN) -- Over the course of two days, 10.5 million people spent four hours watching Kim Kardashian and NBA player Kris Humphries tie the knot.",
"Since the couple's E!",
"special, \"Kim's Fairytale Wedding,\" which aired on October 9 and 10, the pair has honeymooned in Europe, celebrated Kardashian's 31st birthday in Las Vegas, filmed a new season of \"Kourtney & Kim Take New York\" and filed for divorce.",
"Citing irreconcilable differences, according to court documents from Los Angeles Superior Court, Kardashian filed for divorce from her husband of 72 days on Monday.",
"Please take this time to pick your jaws up off the floor.",
"Wait, you're not surprised?",
"Most people probably saw this coming, said Jared Shapiro, executive editor at Life & Style Weekly.",
"\"Anyone that saw the wedding and the time leading up to it ... there was an 'Oh boy, what's she getting herself into?'",
"\" Shapiro said.",
"\"I don't think people are surprised that there was trouble and that it ended.",
"But I don't think people expected it to end this fast.\"",
"\"Kim's Fairytale Wedding\" -- an appropriate title, as \"Kim's Fairytale Marriage\" would miss something in syndication -- certainly didn't skimp on the drama.",
"If the couple was trying to display how in love they were to the world, they fell a little short.",
"CNN.com readers react to the divorce news .",
"The special showed the couple arguing over everything from seating charts and desserts to who would perform at their wedding (singer Robin Thicke beat out Christina Aguilera.)",
"Not to mention the blowout that ensued when Kardashian told Humphries she wasn't taking his name.",
"They probably didn't go through every detail that should be discussed before a wedding, Shapiro said, noting that some media outlets are reporting the couple couldn't agree on a place to live.",
"\"I have to be in L.A. for work and (Humphries) loves to go to Minnesota and he also has a place in Miami,\" Kardashian told People in September.",
"\"I think we'll kind of figure it out as we go along.\"",
"\"That's why you have a relationship, then an engagement, then a marriage,\" Shapiro added.",
"\"Celebrities often call their engagements off, too.",
"That didn't happen. The fact that it was being filmed for TV might have accelerated all their problems.\"",
"Face it: If a couple can't compromise on what desserts to have at their wedding, how are they supposed to settle on a place to live?",
"And let's not forget about the mustache Humphries grew before the big day to prove he still had control over his life.",
"(He ended up shaving it before walking down the aisle.)",
"Of course, it's impossible to discount the role editing plays in reality shows like this one.",
"However, why would E!",
"be hell-bent on making sure Kardashian and her future hubby looked completely discontented with one another?",
"So what does it come down to? \"Kim wanted to get married and be a wife and a bride,\" said Mike Walters, a news manager at TMZ.",
"\"But did that trump, 'I want to marry Kris and be his wife?'",
"\" \"After all the wedding hoopla ended,\" Walters added, \"they realized they're not good for each other.\"",
"Read Narcissists want weddings, not marriage .",
"But, Walters and Life & Style's Shapiro agree, sham isn't the right word to describe the pair's short-lived union.",
"\"Guess what, she really got married and she really got divorced,\" Shapiro said.",
"\"This part wasn't scripted.",
"... She didn't want to get divorced in front of the whole world.",
"What about the people who gave them wedding gifts? ...",
"This isn't a game she played.",
"She tried to make it work.",
"It didn't. She pulled the trigger.\"",
"On the flip side, when Khloe Kardashian wed Lamar Odom after one month, some people assumed their marriage was just a publicity stunt.",
"Now, two years later, the couple is still together.",
"Ironically, or not, their relationship was even questioned by Humphries during \"Kim's Fairytale Wedding\" special.",
"Seventy-two days of marriage might yield a one-hour divorce special, Walters said, but, \"How much great TV would they have gotten if Kim and Kris had moved to Minnesota, not liked it, moved back to L.A.? ...",
"This could have been something they played out for months.\"",
"Walters, who said Kardashian and Humphries were \"100% genuine,\" joked, \"If this was made up for the show, they could have done it a lot better.\""
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"Source: Most people probably weren't surprised the marriage failed ."
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"(CNN) -- Former captain Ricky Ponting insists he can still be a key player for Australia after becoming the third cricketer to score 13,000 Test runs on the opening day of the fourth and final match against India.",
"Doubts were raised about Ponting's international future when he stood down as skipper early last year, but the 37-year-old has now scored two centuries in this series after a barren run with the bat.",
"With Australia holding a 3-0 lead going into the Adelaide match, the tourists are facing a whitewash after Ponting and his successor Michael Clarke put on a record-breaking 252 runs on Tuesday.",
"Ponting was on 137 and Clarke 140 at stumps as Australia reached 335-3 in hot conditions, breaking their own record for the fourth wicket against India at the venue.",
"Ponting joined Indian opponents Sachin Tendulkar (15,432) and Rahul Dravid (13,262) as the only players to have passed the 13,000 milestone, ending the day 56 runs past that mark.",
"It was his 41st Test century, putting him level with South Africa's second-placed Jacques Kallis and 10 behind Tendulkar.",
"\"Am I still the player I was?",
"I'm not sure,\" Ponting told reporters.",
"\"You guys can answer that, you've seen me over a long period of time, but at the end of the day I think if I can keep making Test match hundreds or having an impact on winning games for Australia, then that's what I'm all about at the moment.",
"\"It is interesting to ask the same question about Sachin or Dravid or Kallis, the guys the same sort of age as me that are still out there playing Test cricket.",
"\"We've probably all realized that we can't play the same way forever, right through our careers, and I don't think there's been anybody that has been able to do that through 160 Test matches.",
"\"But I'm giving it my best shot to be the best player I can be, and to win games for Australia, and if I can keep playing like I did today then hopefully there's more runs around the corner.\"",
"Ponting scored 134 in Australia's innings victory in the second Test in Sydney, where Clarke posted an unbeaten 329 as they added 288 together.",
"\"I felt I played better today than I did in Sydney as well, probably a better wicket to bat on than Sydney was -- there wasn't much in it for the Indian bowlers, no sideways movement for the quicks, not a lot of spin, a little bit of reverse swing during the middle of the day,\" Ponting said.",
"He revealed he has adapted to his new role at No.",
"4, having dropped down a spot in the order.",
"\"I know my place in the team, Michael's the leader now and I've stepped back from all that responsibility I once had,\" Ponting said.",
"\"The last couple of years being the captain and batting at three was getting more and more difficult for me.",
"Not being the captain now and having that little bit of extra time between change of innings to sit back and relax and take it all in has probably been good for me.\""
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"Australia batsman Ricky Ponting scores his 41st Test century and passes 13,000 runs .",
"The 37-year-old adds 252 for the second wicket with captain Michael Clarke .",
"Former skipper Ponting is the third highest run scorer in the five-day game .",
"Clarke also scores an unbeaten century as home side reach 335-3 at stumps ."
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"(CNN) -- A manhunt is under way in New Jersey as multiple law enforcement agencies search for Arthur E. Morgan III, who is wanted for questioning in the death of a two-year-old girl, authorities said.",
"The girl is believed to be Morgan's biological daughter.",
"A group of boys discovered the child's body partially submerged in a stream in Shark River Park in Monmouth County on Tuesday afternoon, officials said.",
"She was still strapped in her car seat, CNN afffiliate WABC reported.",
"The stream runs directly beneath an overpass, suggesting the child and car seat were thrown from the overpass, said county prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni.",
"Morgan was supposed to return the child to her mother Monday night following a custody visit, Gramiccioni.",
"When he failed to return the child, prosecutors in Ocean County charged him with endangering the welfare of a child and interfering with child custody Tuesday morning.",
"The child was found dead some 20 hours later, WABC reported.",
"A number of federal and state agencies, including the FBI, are involved in the search, suggesting Morgan may try to leave New Jersey where he and the child's mother live separately, Gramiccioni said."
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"Arthur E. Morgan III is wanted for questioning in the death of a two-year-old girl .",
"The child's body was discovered partially submerged in a creek inside a county park .",
"Official: The child was last seen with her father but was never returned to her home ."
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"(CNN) -- The Philippine government said Tuesday that fresh rain in Visayas and Mindanao could set off flash floods and landslides, bringing the potential for more misery in places already struggling to recover from a deadly tropical storm.",
"Eastern Luzon will experience cloudy skies with scattered rain, while the rest of the island will have mostly cloudy skies with light rain, the Philippine National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) predicted.",
"On Tuesday, the national government offered a new death toll -- 1,453 -- then revised it again based on a count by Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.",
"The lower count means the death toll from the storm that lashed the southern Philippines more than a week remained unchanged from Monday: 1,249.",
"The bodies of people swept out to sea by flash floods from the storm have washed up on nearby beaches and islands, Maj. Reynaldo Balido, the military assistant for operations at the Office of Civil Defense, said Monday.",
"The authorities have enlisted the help of local fishermen to help the continuing search and rescue efforts for the scores of people who remain missing, Balido said by telephone from the island of Mindanao, the scene of the worst devastation.",
"He added that the fishermen volunteered, since many of them had lost friends and relatives in the disaster.",
"The unusually heavy rains of Tropical Storm Washi, which churned across the southern Philippines between December 16 and 18, resulted in landslides and flash floods that swept away whole villages.",
"The authorities have had to carry out mass burials in order to deal with the large numbers of dead.",
"\"I've gone through many disasters but this one is the worst as some of the survivors have lost so many family members,\" said Richard Gordon, chairman of the Philippine Red Cross.",
"\"Some have lost as many as 30 relatives,\" he said in comments posted recently on the organization's website.",
"The number of people injured as a result of the storm has more than doubled to 4,594 from 1,979 at the weekend, according to the NDRRMC putting more pressure on already stretched relief agencies .",
"The United Nations said last week that the storm has created \"huge\" humanitarian needs in the region.",
"It has made an appeal to raise $28 million to deal with the immediate problems, with tens of thousands of people displaced in and around the port cities of Iligan and Cagayan de Oro.",
"Many people are lacking food, shelter and clean drinking water, the United Nations said.",
"\"We have also established make-shift camps and relief centers for victims in local schools in the area, but because schools are opening on January 3, we are looking to find them more permanent shelter,\" Benito Ramos, head of the NDRRMC, said.",
"The storm, known locally as Sendong, has affected more than 700,000 people in the region, the NDRRMC estimated Tuesday.",
"President Benigno Aquino of the Philippines has declared a state of national calamity following the storm.",
"CNN's Jethro Mullen and Aliza Kassim contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- An armed airman who allegedly barricaded himself inside a building on a Colorado air base is awaiting sentencing on unrelated charges and will likely face additional charges, the base said Tuesday.",
"Airman 1st Class Nico Cruz Santos, 21, surrendered to authorities late Monday night after an hours-long standoff with authorities at Schriever Air Force Base.",
"No one was injured.",
"\"While there are lessons to be learned from every situation, by and large yesterday's incident was resolved with the best possible outcome,\" said Col. James Ross, 50th Space Wing commander, in a Tuesday statement.",
"\"Our law enforcement and community partners worked together to ensure the security of our mission and people while helping this airman through a troubling situation.\"",
"The airman -- who belongs to the base's 50th Security Forces Squadron -- locked himself around 10 a.m. inside a building where personnel get paperwork and equipment before being deployed, said Lt. Marie Denson, a spokeswoman at the Colorado Springs base.",
"Soon thereafter, that building and the surrounding area was evacuated.",
"Law enforcement units and other first responders from the Schriever base, nearby Peterson Air Force Base and the El Paso County, Colorado, Sheriff's Office SWAT team rushed to the scene, Lt. Col. Harold Hoang said.",
"The man was armed with a personal handgun, authorities said.",
"He also had his cell phone, which he had been using -- along with a land-line phone -- to communicate with military officials outside.",
"Mental health professionals were also on site, Denson said.",
"The airman \"is currently facing legal action in a civilian court as well as disciplinary action and possible discharge from the Air Force,\" Hoang said.",
"The base said in a statement Tuesday that Santos is awaiting sentencing in Gilpin County on unrelated charges earlier this year.",
"\"It is expected that once the investigation of yesterday's incident is complete that additional charges may be filed in either the military or civilian court systems,\" the statement said.",
"The incident remained under investigation Tuesday.",
"Santos was being held in a Teller County detention facility, the base said.",
"Schriever Air Force Base is also home to the Space Innovation and Development Center, the Missile Defense Agency, 310th Space Wing and other units and groups, according to its website.",
"CNN's Larry Shaughnessy, Greg Botelho and Ashley Hayes contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Charges are expected against Airman 1st Class Nico Cruz Santos .",
"NEW: Santos is awaiting sentencing on unrelated charges, officials say .",
"The Air Force member had a gun and cell phone, and had been talking with authorities .",
"The Colorado Springs air base is home to the 50th Space Wing ."
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"(CNN) -- Occupy activists and law enforcement authorities found themselves at odds in several U.S. cities over the weekend, including yet another tense showdown late Sunday afternoon in Portland, Oregon.",
"Police in riot gear and holding batons lined up for hours along a city street, face-to-face with activists who refused to clear the road and go onto the sidewalk.",
"This confrontation came hours after Portland police Sgt.",
"Pete Simpson said more than a dozen people were arrested as authorities cleared Chapman Square, the last city park where protesters had gathered.",
"Simpson said the officers were in riot gear as a precaution, and were joined by other assisting agencies.",
"\"We needed the manpower because we used up a lot of resources yesterday (Saturday),\" he said.",
"Mayor Sam Adams said late Sunday afternoon that \"a series of increased drug overdoses... an arsonist that used the camp as camouflage and almost a 20% increase in crime surrounding the encampment\" prompted the move.",
"\"All of us are working really hard at keeping the peace and protecting freedom of expression,\" Adams told CNN.",
"\"I support a lot of what the encampment stands for ... (But) it shouldn't be focused on port-a-potties and tents and encampments attracting criminal elements.",
"I think this movement needs to evolve.\"",
"Kari Koch, one of the activists, told CNN that she was \"extremely disappointed that the mayor chose to crack down on these parks when the outpouring of support (among area residents) has been so strong.\"",
"\"Homeless people exist, drug addicts exist, mentally ill people exist.",
"We were a safe place they could go, and that created some problems,\" she said.",
"\"And we were working to deal with those problems, and the mayor cut us off.\"",
"Video from earlier showed authorities dismantling tents at the camp.",
"Once the parks -- which Simpson said are \"pretty beat up\" -- are cleared, temporary fencing will be erected so repairs can be made.",
"One officer was struck in the leg earlier Sunday by a projectile thrown from a crowd, and was taken to a hospital, but the injuries were not life-threatening, authorities said.",
"One protester was arrested in a separate incident overnight, Simpson said.",
"Video from that scene showed masses of protesters -- about 7,000, according to Koch -- on downtown streets.",
"In the early-morning hours Sunday, police told demonstrators to leave the streets or face arrest.",
"All but two of the demonstrators followed that order, many retreating to several parks, CNN affiliate KGW reported.",
"Yet hundreds returned by early Sunday morning -- some of whom have not been affiliated with the Occupy movement until now -- apparently hoping to witness a police confrontation, police Lt. Robert King said.",
"On Sunday, Mayor Sam Adams praised police for showing professionalism and restraint, noting the lack of serious injuries incurred over several police actions and stressing a calm, well-communicated approach.",
"\"I'm prioritizing patience,\" he said earlier in the day.",
"\"In order for us to do this peacefully, we need the time and folks on the ground need the time to do their work right.\"",
"In Denver, meanwhile, two police officers were injured and two Occupy activists were arrested late Sunday afternoon, according to a statement from that Colorado city's police department.",
"Protesters became upset when police began removing a food table from a park, some of them surrounding a police car.",
"One woman then pushed a Denver police officer, according to the police statement.",
"She and a male who came to her aid were arrested.",
"One officer twisted his knee, while another was treated and released from an area hospital after being hit in the head, police said.",
"This scuffle took place after, on Saturday night, police in riot gear arrested 17 people as they cleared furniture and tents from an Occupy encampment near the city's civic center, police spokesman Sonny Jackson told CNN.",
"The main issue, he said, was that the items were blocking a right of way.",
"\"People are welcome to come back and protest, but we don't want them to do it in a way that's not safe,\" Jackson said.",
"What started as the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York in September has spread across major cities worldwide as a call to action against unequal distribution of wealth.",
"In Philadelphia, Mayor Michael Nutter said Sunday he was increasing police presence near the Occupy Philly camp and asking the city's police commissioner to \"establish structures and strategic positioning and deployment of officers on a regular basis in that location.\"",
"What began as a peaceful protest 39 days ago has given way to increasing public safety and public health concerns, Nutter told reporters.",
"\"Occupy Philly has changed,\" he said at a noon press conference.",
"\"We're seeing serious health and safety issues playing out on an almost daily basis...",
"The people of Occupy Philly have also changed and their intentions have changed.",
"And all of this is not good for Philadelphia.\"",
"A woman reported she was sexually assaulted Saturday night in a tent at the encampment, Nutter said.",
"CNN affiliate WPVI reported a suspect was arrested in the alleged assault.",
"In addition, there is the threat of fire near historic City Hall and concerns about litter, public urination, defecation and graffiti, according to the mayor.",
"Numerous reports of thefts and assaults in the encampment have been made, and 15 emergency medical runs were made between October 6 and November 11, he said.",
"Also, a maintenance project is set to begin soon on City Hall, one of several, he said.",
"A $50 million renovation is planned for Dilworth Plaza, where protesters have camped.",
"Occupy Philly's general assembly voted Friday night not to move from the plaza, and members have not responded in recent weeks to expressions of concern from the city, which has repeatedly tried to work with the protesters, he said.",
"\"Many of the people that we talked to in the beginning of this event and activity are now gone,\" he said.",
"\"We have things we need to do,\" Nutter said.",
"\"I understand that they have things on their mind as Americans and wish to express their free speech.",
"I understand that, I get that, I've defended that.",
"The things we're talking about, the activities that are going on, are not about free speech.",
"They're public health and public safety concerns that have nothing to do with Wall Street and corporations.\"",
"The protesters are \"purposely standing in the way of nearly 1,000 jobs for Philadelphians at a time of high unemployment,\" Nutter said.",
"\"They are blocking Philadelphians from taking care of their families.\"",
"\"Misconduct is not about free speech,\" the mayor said, \"and the behavior we're now seeing is running squarely into the needs of our city government that also represents the 99%.",
"As mayor of the city of Philadelphia, I represent the 99% also.\"",
"Meanwhile, in Salt Lake City, police said on Twitter 19 people were arrested Saturday night as authorities moved in to clear an Occupy Salt Lake encampment at a downtown park.",
"Police had ordered protesters to leave the park after a man was found dead late Thursday night.",
"The cause of death was thought to be carbon monoxide poisoning and a drug overdose, CNN affiliate KSTU reported.",
"\"We can no longer tolerate individuals camping on our streets,\" Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank told reporters.",
"However, \"only camping is over,\" Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker's office said on Twitter -- protests can continue at the park.",
"KSTU reported authorities said protesters would be allowed to have a 24-hour presence and one building, but the tents had to go.",
"Since camping began at the park, Becker's office said in the statement, \"local law enforcement has responded to a dramatically increased amount of criminal activity in the park, and has made over 90 arrests in the area since early October.\"",
"A melee involving 30 people on Wednesday night led to four arrests, Becker's office said, and public safety \"has become increasingly questionable.",
"Additionally, the amount of human and animal waste, as well as drug paraphernalia, is an escalating public concern.\"",
"As police moved in Saturday evening, according to video from the scene, protesters chanted, \"This is what a police state looks like.\"",
"\"Our rights to assembly, which are embodied in the First Amendment, are still being violated,\" protester Jesse Fruhwirth told KSTU.",
"\"Our forefathers are speaking to us, telling us that this is what assembly looks like.",
"Not being able to camp here severely limits the ability of us to keep our coalition together.\"",
"\"Many thanks to all for a peaceful resolution,\" Salt Lake City police tweeted late Saturday.",
"In Oakland, California, police issued a third notice for demonstrators to vacate city parks on Saturday, police spokeswoman Officer Johnna Watson told CNN.",
"The protesters had not complied with that order, Watson said.",
"A second notice was issued Saturday morning after a fatal shooting near the camp, according to CNN affiliate KCBS.",
"A man in his early 20s was shot Friday.",
"Authorities said one of the suspects has been \"a frequent resident at the encampment over the past several days,\" KCBS said.",
"Also Saturday, 27 protesters were arrested in St. Louis after defying an existing park curfew, authorities said."
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"Portland riot police trying to clear street face off with Occupy protesters .",
"Sexual assault reported at Occupy Philly camp, mayor says .",
"Salt Lake City police clear camp, arrest 19 protesters ."
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"(CNN) -- Nearly a year ago, a big-budget film crew found itself in a most unlikely setting for a movie shoot.",
"Filming on location in Tunisia at the outbreak of the Arab Spring, the international cast of actors and crew wound up at the center of an uprising that would eventually sweep through the region, toppling governments in its wake.",
"Almost 12 months on from those tumultuous events, Tunisia has had its elections, and the movie -- billed as an Arab epic -- is hitting cinema screens.",
"\"Black Gold\" is an ambitious production that unites Hollywood and Bollywood stars with Arab talent.",
"The story of two tribes fighting over a stretch of desert during the oil boom of the 1930s, it's being billed as the biggest Arab movie since \"Lawrence of Arabia.\"",
"Its producers no doubt hope that what's captured on film will live up to the off-screen drama surrounding its creation -- and appeal to Western audiences as well as those in the Middle East.",
"Indian actress Freida Pinto, best known for her role in smash hit \"Slumdog Millionaire,\" plays Princess Lallah.",
"She say she decided to stay in Tunisia when the revolution broke out shortly after filming began, partly as a gesture of solidarity with Tunisians.",
"\"I just felt that if I can just give my support to my Tunisian friends, the ones who I had spent a lot of time with for almost a month, in any possible way, this would be it,\" said the 27-year-old.",
"\"Just stay back and support them and tell them that, you know, things are going to be fine eventually and they just have to fight it out.",
"\"So, I stayed back and it felt great.\"",
"French-Algerian actor Tahar Rahim plays a prince at the center of a family battle, forced to choose between traditional values and the new world of opportunity offered by oil.",
"Rahim says he could see a parallel between the film's theme -- the youth fighting against a repressive older order -- and the recent political upheaval.",
"\"This is destiny,\" he said.",
"\"We began the movie weeks before the revolution ... that's strange, the parallel between the movie and the news.\"",
"Perhaps best known for his role in 2009's \"A Prophet,\" Rahim rejects his billing as the first Arab actor to lead a Hollywood film, saying that honor belongs to \"Lawrence of Arabia\" star Omar Sharif, who appeared at the film's premiere.",
"Sharif had been offered the role of the Emir Nassib, played in the film by Spanish actor Antonio Banderas, when the idea for \"Black Gold\" was initially floated by Tunisian film-maker Tarek Ben Amar 35 years ago.",
"Ben Amar, the man who persuaded Hollywood directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas to shoot \"Star Wars\" and \"Indiana Jones\" in his country, said key plot points in the film mirrored political events during the uprising.",
"Former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled office on the same day the crew shot a scene in which Banderas' character, Nassib, \"loses his empire to his son-in-law, who should be the future of that country,\" said the producer.",
"\"There was some interesting parallels.\"",
"French director Jean-Jacques Annaud said he felt in a \"cocoon\" from the drama of the revolution during filming.",
"\"I remember being on the set in Hammamet and being interviewed by CNN and they said 'So, what about the revolution?'",
"I said 'It's strange, I feel here I'm in the '30s, and outside I'm not really sure what's happening.'\"",
"Despite this, he said, the film-makers \"knew that the story in the contemporary world was reflecting the problems we were talking about in the movie.",
"\"So it was very fascinating, and having all my crew, who were Tunisian, being so involved in what was happening in the cities around us, made our movie even more thoughtful and timeless.\"",
"Annaud said he had wanted to make the film since he first visited the region 20 years ago and discovered a very different society from what he had been led to expect.",
"\"People didn't really understand this part of the world.",
"They didn't understand the generosity, the hospitality,\" he said.",
"\"I felt very happy and I wanted to make a movie about this part of the world.",
"And I was impatient to do it because I felt something was needed urgently.\"",
"English actor Mark Strong said the role of Amar was the second or third Arab character he had played, and he hoped Arab actors would get the same opportunity to play characters from a different background.",
"\"Why shouldn't Arabs get the chance to play whoever they want, whether they are from Algeria, Qatar, whoever (wherever)?\"",
"he said. \"Black Gold\" premiered on the opening night of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival.",
"The film was also shot in Qatar, which provided funding for the production through the Doha Film Institute."
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"Drama \"Black Gold\" unites stars of Hollywood, Bollywood and Middle Eastern film cinema .",
"The story follows two tribes fighting over a stretch of desert during the 1930s oil boom .",
"On location, the cast found themselves filming in Tunisa at the start of the revolution ."
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"(CNN) -- A 13-year-old Pennsylvania boy is suing a private residential school for discrimination after it refused to admit him because he has HIV, his attorneys said.",
"The eighth grader, whose name wasn't disclosed in a federal lawsuit filed in Philadelphia, alleges that the Milton Hershey School in Hershey, Pennsylvania, \"violated multiple anti-discrimination laws that protect the rights of people with HIV to remain free from unwarranted discrimination.\"",
"Chocolate maker Milton S. Hershey and his wife, Catherine, founded the school in 1909.",
"The school provides a cost-free education and coeducational home for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade students who come from a low-income family, the lawsuit said.",
"The youngster sought enrollment last February for this school year, the lawsuit said.",
"The boy is an honor roll student and a student athlete, and his medication of five pills per day and one vitamin wouldn't impact his school schedule, the suit says.",
"Executive director Ronda B. Goldfein of the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, which is representing the boy and his mother, likened the case to Ryan White, who died at age 18 in 1990 and had been expelled from middle school when his HIV diagnosis became widely known.",
"\"Like Ryan White, this young man is a motivated, intelligent kid who poses no health risk to other students, but is being denied an educational opportunity because of ignorance and fear about HIV and AIDS,\" said Goldfein, an attorney for the boy and mother.",
"The suit, filed Wednesday, was timed to coincide with Thursday's World AIDS Day, the law project said.",
"Goldfein told CNN that she was \"stunned that in the third decade of AIDS (Milton Hershey School) still thinks it is too dangerous to admit a student who is HIV positive.",
"It really shows how far we haven't come.\"",
"In response, the school said it had been intending to seek a federal court review of its decision denying enrollment to the boy, but the law project \"took the adversarial action of filing a lawsuit against the school,\" said spokeswoman Connie McNamara.",
"\"We believe we made the right, legal decision under the law,\" McNamara told CNN.",
"\"The decision to deny enrollment was a challenging one for us to make.",
"Like all our enrollment decisions, we need to balance our desire to serve the needs of an individual child seeking admission with our obligation to protect the health and safety of all 1,850 children already in our care,\" McNamara added in a statement.",
"McNamara said the case is nothing like Ryan White's.",
"\"Milton Hershey School is not a day school, where students go home to their family at the end of the day.",
"Instead, this is a unique home-like environment, a pre-K -12 residential school where children live in homes with 10-12 other students on our campus 24 hours a day, seven days a week,\" McNamara said.",
"\"In order to protect our children in this unique environment, we cannot accommodate the needs of students with chronic communicable diseases that pose a direct threat to the health and safety of others.",
"The reason is simple.",
"We are serving children, and no child can be assumed to always make responsible decisions which protect the well being of others,\" McNamara said.",
"CNN's Khara Lewin contributed to this report."
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"Eighth grader with HIV was denied enrollment at Milton Hershey School .",
"The Pennsylvania private residential school is named after chocolate maker .",
"The boy alleges discrimination in a lawsuit timed with World AIDS Day .",
"School says it's made \"the right, legal decision under the law\""
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Three of Michael Jackson's brothers settled a lawsuit Monday that they filed last week against a company they alleged \"duped\" them in a deal to sell replicas of jackets worn by the pop icon.",
"The endorsement of the \"Thriller\" and \"Beat It\" jackets was the first involving Michael Jackson's oldest son, Prince, who posed for pictures with his uncles as they autographed the limited-edition jackets last month.",
"\"Marlon, Tito and I created this project as a tribute to our brother Michael and his fans worldwide, and we are very happy that there has been a resolution,\" Jackie Jackson said Monday.",
"The brothers' announcement didn't specify the terms of the settlement.",
"The brothers filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging the jacket's marketer bounced a check to them for travel expenses and had failed to pay each of the three brothers the $100,000 each for signing the 1,000 leather jackets.",
"\"We spent the last week making sure that everyone is in agreement with this settlement,\" Eric Farber, the attorney for the Jackson brothers, said in announcing the settlement.",
"The Jacksons are looking forward to \"a successful partnership\" in the future with the company, he said.",
"Steeve Bohbot, owner of Connected Internationals Sales, said he was \"relieved to clear up this misunderstanding.\"",
"\"We have such an immense respect for the Jackson brothers and Michael's legacy and are pleased to have resolved this situation,\" he said.",
"The Jackson brothers, who recently reunited onstage for a series of concerts, gathered at West Hollywood's Bar Marmont on October 29 to sign the jackets.",
"Prince Jackson, who has previously stayed away from commercial endorsements, joined them at the event, but he did not autograph the jackets.",
"Prince Jackson was not involved in the lawsuit since he was not part of the marketing agreement.",
"It was not disclosed how much he was to be paid to attend and pose with the jackets.",
"Michael Jackson debuted the red \"Beat It\" and red and black \"Thriller\" jackets, designed by Marc Laurent, in 1983.",
"The Jackson brothers signed 500 of each jacket, which are still on sale for $2,350."
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"Marlon, Tito, Jackie Jackson resolve their dispute with jacket marketer, attorney says .",
"Terms of settlement not disclosed in lawsuit Michael Jackson's brothers filed .",
"Suit: Each brother was to get $100,000 for signing 1,000 \"Thriller,\" \"Beat It\" replica jackets .",
"Deal is a \"tribute to our brother,\" Jackie Jackson says ."
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"(CNN) -- Hip-hop and rap artist Petey Pablo is facing nearly three years in prison after sentencing on a guilty plea of possessing a stolen firearm, according to federal prosecutors.",
"Pablo, whose real name is Moses Barrett, was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in New Bern, North Carolina, to 35 months in prison.",
"The sentencing came following a March guilty plea from the 38-year-old performer, who lives in Wake Forest, North Carolina.",
"According to a statement from Thomas G. Walker, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Pablo was going through security at Raleigh-Durham International Airport on September 11, 2010, when a loaded semi-automatic 9 mm pistol was found in his bag.",
"Pablo was attempting to board a flight to Los Angeles, the statement said.",
"Federal authorities determined that the pistol had been stolen during a residential burglary in California in 2005.",
"Pablo, who is best known for his songs \"Raise Up\" and \"Freek-a-Leek\" is scheduled to begin serving his sentence in December."
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"Petey Pablo was stopped at a North Carolina airport last September .",
"A semi-automatic pistol was found in his bag, and authorities determined that it was stolen .",
"Pablo pleaded guilty in March to possessing a stolen firearm ."
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"(CNN) -- Severe turbulence contributed to injuries aboard two flights that landed in Boston, authorities said Sunday.",
"In the first incident, seven people were hurt aboard a JetBlue Airways flight from Puerto Rico to Boston, authorities said.",
"Six of those hurt suffered back or neck injuries, said Boston's Logan Airport spokesman Phil Orlandella.",
"The other suffered from a severe coffee burn.",
"Three of those injured refused medical attention, he added.",
"The aircraft was an Airbus 320 model, flying from San Juan with 130 passengers and five crew members on board.",
"Flight 852 landed in its intended destination of Boston around 10 p.m., about 20 minutes ahead of schedule, according to the airline's website.",
"In the second incident, Lufthansa flight 429 headed from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Munich, Germany, was diverted to Boston with 11 reported injuries due to turbulence.",
"Orlandella did not know the extent of the injuries.",
"There were 245 passengers and 18 crew members on board.",
"The plane later landed in Munich without incident, said Martin Riecken, a spokesman for Lufthansa.",
"CNN's Melanie Whitley contributed to this report ."
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"One incident involves a JetBlue flight; the other a Lufthansa flight .",
"Seven people are injured in the JetBlue incident .",
"Eleven were reported hurt in the Lufthansa flight ."
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"New York (CNN) -- The American Automobile Association is suing the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey over toll increases that recently went into effect at New York City bridges.",
"AAA of New York and North Jersey filed a complaint in federal court in Manhattan Tuesday, alleging that toll hikes that began on September 18 breach a federal law that requires interstate tolls be set at \"just and reasonable\" rates, according to a statement released by the agency.",
"\"Clearly, drivers are already paying more than their fair share -- and they are doing so at a time when federal, state and local authorities are hard pressed to meet routine road and bridge maintenance needs,\" said Marta Genovese, AAA New York's vice president and counsel in a statement.",
"The lawsuit seeks to stop the toll increases, which affect commuters using the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington, Bayonne and Goethals bridges, as well as the Outerbridge Crossing.",
"Port Authority officials responded to the lawsuit in a statement, saying the complaint \"is without merit.\"",
"The lawsuit alleges that commuters are footing the bill for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site, according to AAA's statement.",
"\"The Authority is attempting to burden commuters and travelers with public expenditures that are in no way related to transportation,\" Genovese said in the statement.",
"A Port Authority press release from August attributes the toll increases to \"multiple unprecedented challenges,\" including declining revenues, increased security costs in the wake of September 11 as well as the cost of the World Trade Center rebuilding project.",
"Drivers crossing into Manhattan must now pay $12.",
"E-ZPass holders pay $7.50 during off-peak hours and $9.50 during peak hours.",
"E-ZPass tolls increased $1.50, and all other cars were subject to a $3 uptick.",
"The tolls will continue to increase every December for four years.",
"The AAA suit comes in the wake of another lawsuit aimed at the Port Authority's newly implemented tolls -- this one by New Jersey resident Yoel Weisshaus.",
"Weisshaus, whose income falls below poverty level, filed a civil complaint with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York last week alleging that the toll hikes constitute an abuse of power that violate his rights by unfairly targeting poor commuters."
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"Port Authority says suit is \"without merit\""
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"(CNNGo.com) -- Globe-trotters know what it's like trying to sleep coiled up on a hard plastic airport seat for hours while they await their next flight.",
"But it doesn't have to be that way. Transit hotels are making long, multi-flight trips tolerable.",
"These short-stay hotels are located within security checks in airports and close to terminals.",
"Passengers can walk off the plane and check into a room to refresh between long flights.",
"No visa is required to stay over in a given country.",
"Read more on CNNGo: World's biggest airport planned .",
"Rates at transit hotels vary but are often cheaper than at regular hotels.",
"Minimum required stays average about six hours.",
"Standard amenities include a bed, desk, toilet, shower and Internet access, but many premium transit hotels include gyms and spas, as well.",
"Transit hotel hot spots .",
"Because business depends on a heavy flow of onward-bound passengers, transit hotels are nearly exclusive to busy transfer hubs, especially in Asia.",
"One of the most popular transit hotels is at Singapore's Changi, one of the world's busiest airports and a frequent layover spot for flights to and from Asia.",
"Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is one of the busiest airports in Europe -- its compact and clean \"Yotel\" hotel pods do good business.",
"Read more on CNNGo: Singapore's Changi Airport the world's favorite .",
"You won't find in-airport transit hotels in Melbourne Tullamarine Airport or Sydney Airport's international terminal -- Australia is not a common midway point for journeys.",
"Good for business, but good business?",
"Nigel Summers, director of the world's largest hospitality consulting firm, Horwath HTL, says that transit hotels can be a tricky investment for hoteliers.",
"\"You don't have to give people much [because it's a very short stay], but it can be difficult to predict the flow of people,\" Summers says.",
"Read more on CNNGo: 15 spectacular swimming pools .",
"\"For example, if there is a major closure at an airport, it can be hard to plan how much food to prepare and how much staff to keep on.\"",
"The success of transit hotels also depends on the efficiency of the airport, with more efficient airports being less suitable for hotel business.",
"\"If it is easy to clear customs, say at Hong Kong, people are probably less likely to stay inside the airport for their layover,\" explains Summers.",
"Read more on CNNGo: World's 15 most expensive hotel suites .",
"\"But if it's harder, somewhere like New Delhi, people are more likely to find accommodation inside the airport.\"",
"Here are a selection of transit hotels around the world that could make your next journey a little more comfortable: .",
"Transit hotels around the world .",
"Ambassador Transit Hotel, Singapore Changi Airport, Singapore .",
"Single rooms from S$58 (US$48) before tax, for six hours.",
"TV, en suite bathroom, complimentary tea and coffee, wake-up call.",
"Located at Terminals 1, 2 and 3, Changi Airport, Singapore; 75 Airport Blvd., Singapore; +65 6542 5538; www.harilelahospitality.com.",
"Kuala Lumpur Airside Transit Hotel, Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia .",
"Standard rooms from MYR140 (US$45).",
"Includes: fitness center, shower, sauna.",
"Located next to the Satellite building, next to Gate C5, KLIA Sepang, Selangor; +60 3 8787 4848; www.klairporthotel.com .",
"See Boeing's luxury offices in the sky .",
"Incheon Airport Transit Hotel, Seoul Incheon International Airport, South Korea .",
"Standard rooms from US$45 for six hours.",
"Includes: Internet, air con, TV, phone.",
"Located opposite boarding gate 10.",
"Incheon International Airport, 43 272 Gonghangno, Jung-gu, Incheon; +82 32 743 3000; www.airgardenhotel.com .",
"Louis Tavern, Day Rooms and CIP lounges, Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok, Thailand .",
"Standard single room 2,200 baht (US$65) for four hours.",
"Internet access, television, telephone, flight-information monitor, mini-bar.",
"Located on Level 4 Concourse G of Suvarnabhumi Airport; +66 2 134 6565 6; www.dayrooms-ciplounges.com .",
"Airport Hotel, Abu Dhabi International Airport, United Arab Emirates .",
"Standard rooms start at US$185 for day use between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m.",
"High-speed Internet, king-sized bed, separate living room, massage chair, gym, shower.",
"Located in Sheikh Rashid Terminal of Terminal 1 and Concourse 2 of Terminal 3; +971 2 5757 377 ; www.dih-dca.com .",
"Yotel, Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, The Netherlands .",
"Standard cabin €45 (US$61) for four hours.",
"Large single bed, monsoon-power shower with body wash and towels, TV, work station, free Wi-Fi.",
"Located in the main terminal in Lounge 2 near Pier D. Vetrekpassage 118, Schiphol Airport.",
"Amsterdam, The Netherlands; +31 20 7085 372; www.yotel.com .",
"Hotel Tranzit 2, Prague Airport, Czech Republic .",
"Standard cabin one night (24 hours) from €119 (US$162) for double room.",
"Also available for day use.",
"Packages for three, six or 10 hours -- single use three hours, €35 (US$48).",
"Shower package -- €24 (US$38).",
"Includes: Free high-speed Internet, satellite TV.",
"Located between Terminal 1 and Terminal 2.",
"Prague Airport, Letiste s.p., Praha, Czech Republic; +420 236 161 222; www.pragueairport.co.uk .",
"Dayrooms Flughafen Zürich AG, Zurich Airport, Switzerland .",
"Standard room CHF$49 (US$55) for three hours or less.",
"Includes: Wake-up service, TV, shoe-cleaning machine, Internet access, air conditioning.",
"Located in Transfer zone D. Postfach, Zürich-Flughafen, Switzerland; +41 43 816 21 08; www.zurich-airport.com .",
"Evergreen Transit Hotel, C. K. S. International Airport, Taoyuan, Taiwan .",
"Standard room rates NT$2,800 (US$92) for one night.",
"Includes: Parking, baby-sitting, pool, gym, sauna, hair dryer.",
"Located in Terminal II.",
"; Taoyuan County, Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport Terminal II 4th Floor; +886 (0)3 383 4510; www.evergreen-hotels.com .",
"Eaton Smart, Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, India .",
"Standard room rates five hours at Rs 3,000 (US$65).",
"Includes high-speed Internet access, LCD TV with cable satellite channels and in-room dining options.",
"Located in Terminal 3, Level 5, Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi; + 91 11 452 52000; newdelhiairport.eatonhotels.com .",
"© 2011 Cable News Network Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved ."
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"Transit hotels are short-stay locales in security checks in airports and close to terminals .",
"Rates at transit hotels vary but are often cheaper than regular hotels .",
"One of the most popular transit hotels is at Singapore's Changi, one of the world's busiest airports ."
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"London (CNN) -- British Foreign Secretary William Hague met a range of Syrian opposition figures Monday, saying London was \"seeking to step up the international pressure on the Assad regime, a regime that has long since lost its legitimacy in the eyes of the wider world.\"",
"Syrian President Bashar al-Assad needed to know that \"the rest of the world is talking to the Syrian opposition and we are looking for a different future for Syria,\" Britain's top diplomat said.",
"\"I think the Assad regime will find that more and more governments around the world are willing to work with the opposition,\" Hague said.",
"Hague told the opposition leaders that they needed a \"unified platform and a unified body,\" indicating Britain may hope the various Syrian opposition groups could replicate the Libyan National Transitional Council that brought down Moammar Gadhafi.",
"The Syrians came from two different groups, the Syrian National Council and the National Coordination Body, Hague said.",
"He met with Syrians including SNC chairman Burhan Ghalioum, Ausama Monajed, Nibras al-Fadel, Haytham Manna, Khalaf Dahowd and Rami Abdel Rahman, a source familiar with the meeting said.",
"The source asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the situation.",
"Syria has faced months of unrest from opponents of al-Assad, and security forces have responded forcefully.",
"The United Nations says more than 3,500 people have died since the uprising began in March.",
"The Arab League has demanded that Syria stop the violence.",
"Syria's government has said it is fighting armed terrorists, maintaining the death toll is much lower than international observers and opposition groups say."
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"NEW: More and more countries will meet the opposition, William Hague says .",
"Britain is \"seeking to step up pressure\" on Syria, the foreign secretary says .",
"Hague urges opposition groups to unify .",
"The United Nations says more than 3,500 people have died in the Syrian crackdown ."
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"(CNN) -- A big landslide has ripped through a village in a remote area of Papua New Guinea, killing at least 40 people and leaving 20 others missing, authorities said Wednesday.",
"The country's National Disaster Office said that 40 bodies had been recovered from the debris and search and rescue officers were at the site on Wednesday to assist with the recovery of others.",
"The landslide happened Tuesday in the Komo area in in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, near one of the country's major liquified natural gas fields.",
"Bill Yomba, an official at the National Disaster Office said that the agency thought that excavations carried out by Esso Highlands, a division of the oil company ExxonMobil, for a natural gas project could have set off the landslide.",
"\"This is a very huge landslide that covered a 1 kilometer area,\" said Yomba.",
"\"We are still trying to find out the cause but at this stage we believe the gas project run by Esso Highlands Limited was a contributor because they had been digging for limestone in the area.\"",
"The office of Esso Highlands in Papua New Guinea did not immediately respond to calls seeking comment Wednesday."
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"The landslide takes places near one of the country's largest natural gas fields .",
"The National Disaster Office says the authorities have recovered 40 bodies with 20 people still missing .",
"The disaster office says earthworks for a liquified gas project may have contributed to the landslide ."
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"(CNN) -- I've spent the bulk of my career climbing the so-called corporate ladder.",
"As chairman and CEO of Ogilvy and Mather, chairman of J. Walter Thompson, and later as Undersecretary of State to Colin Powell, I've been witness to how power is exercised and how people are chosen for leadership roles in the halls of both corporations and governments.",
"There are now many more talented women to choose from, and yet we women still hold relatively few positions of influence.",
"Even though I was a pioneering woman among a world of men, I think it's harder for women today than it was for me to enter these circles of authority and influence.",
"The men at the top don't know how to appraise women's potential.",
"They do know leadership positions call for a competitive spirit, a fierce resolve and an endless ability to motivate others.",
"These qualities, you'll notice, are not about the work itself; they reflect a person's intrinsic way of approaching the work.",
"The decision makers know how to size up other men on such characteristics but they don't know the inner strengths of women well enough to judge, so they choose the known, the familiar - in other words, another man - to fill the top spots.",
"This is due partly to the politically correct practices, which have done a lot of good, but have also inadvertently created a sense of distance.",
"It has created a scenario where male leaders don't know or recognize these more intangible skills in the women who are moving up, since these relationships can be quite formal - well, more politically correct.",
"It is also because women today, so very articulate, poised, and educated, are not trained to enter the fray.",
"Work can turn personal, raw, aggressive, and unfair, with little promise of applause or proof of performance for the tasks ahead.",
"But handling all of this is synonymous with leadership.",
"These are the terms of engagement, of relationships that go beyond great work skills and flawless logic.",
"Great work skills, by the way, are something at which women excel, but they are too often tempted to hide behind their great work, rather than step out and be counted when situations turn messy and difficult and leadership is needed.",
"Women, of course, do have such potent leadership qualities but they're not sure how to communicate their unique way of being tough and resilient.",
"There is a resistance, almost an air of punishment when women overtly move to persuade or seek to influence or press firmly for unpopular decisions.",
"It is harder for us to show our leadership qualities over our far more approved of \"womanly ways,\" such as being modest and communal.",
"There is a solution. Women have to learn to be leaders on their own terms.",
"Don't misunderstand - I am not talking about expecting companies to become kinder and gentler, or preparing special cushions for women to reign from.",
"We don't need exceptions made for us.",
"Our way is no less fierce or brave or urgent but we do have to learn to unleash all these passions from the true center of who we are.",
"Women must figure out their own unique qualities and let them loose.",
"This is, in my opinion, the most crucial skill missing in working women today.",
"Only when a woman begins to understand who she is from the inside out can she see where her mastery lies.",
"It is a matter of letting everyone know what you believe in and all that you can offer.",
"Though we are acknowledged to be the more verbal sex, we still need to acquire communications skills that include the ability to confront hostile actions, to motivate the disenfranchised, to reveal intensity of purpose and even to express anger.",
"I teach women such things in workshops I call \"The X Factor\" -- the \"X\" being women's potential.",
"We always finish with presentations because life at work is really just one presentation after another.",
"These can come in the form of emails, phone calls, meetings and even speaking from the podium, but they are all opportunities to present yourself.",
"We have found it is very easy for the presenter to disappear behind the charts or within the team.",
"After our sessions, the mantra of the women becomes \"Step out in front of the work.\"",
"After watching groups of these talented women refine their presentations in every forum, it is incredibly rewarding to see women who had once deferred to their power points, step out in front, exposed and vulnerable but willing to say \"I believe.\"",
"This is how a leader presents.",
"When a woman dares to communicate all her unique qualities of leadership to those in charge, she will be tapped to take the lead.",
"I am using the next chapter in my life to help women access this untapped power and to achieve their highest potential.",
"I feel compelled to do it because this kind of handbook isn't one that I've found on the bookshelves or in training courses.",
"And it's a book that I wish I'd had when I first donned my business suit and walked into the big, bad world of marketing.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Charlotte Beers."
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"Advertising high flyer Charlotte Beers says it has become harder for women to enter circles of influence .",
"She says men at the top don't know how to appraise women's potential .",
"Therefore, women have to learn to be leaders on their own terms ."
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"London (CNN) -- As English has cemented its position as the default language of global business, Anglophone interest in foreign languages has steadily waned.",
"\"We have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English,\" British education secretary Michael Gove lamented to a newspaper last week.",
"His government hopes to reverse a decline in the number of British students sitting a language GCSE - a drop from 444,700 to 273,000 over 12 years - by teaching foreign languages from the age of five.",
"But how much do measures like this stand to benefit English speakers, given the dominance of their language?",
"To an aspiring executive from an English speaking background, does it make sense to spend time acquiring another language when the world is learning yours?",
"Or would you be wiser investing that time in other areas of your career instead?",
"Stephan Chambers, director of the MBA degree at Oxford University's SaÑ—d Business School, said while speaking English was \"almost a precondition for success\" for non-native speakers, a second language was not essential to English speakers.",
"\"But if the question is: 'Is learning a second language an advantage, and is that advantage going to increase?'",
"The answer's got to be yes,\" he said.",
"\"Almost certainly, as the balance of economic power shifts, and as supply chains, sales and deals start happening outside of traditionally the most influential markets.\"",
"Which languages? Jocelyn Wyburd, director of the University of Cambridge's Language Centre, said the opportunities presented by emerging BRICS economies and Latin America were making their languages particularly attractive to businesses and students - especially as Europe and North America struggle.",
"In particular, Mandarin (the world's most spoken language) and Spanish (by varying accounts the second- or third-most spoken) are \"beginning to be more important for all of business.\"",
"Employees with a portfolio of languages were valued for their ability to build partnerships, and had an advantage in the job market for relationship-focused roles, from deal-making to supply chain development.",
"\"But that's a difficult message to get across, because of the perception that English is the global language, and therefore enough,\" says Wyburd.",
"She frequently sees multilingual Europeans edging out similarly qualified but monolingual Britons for jobs in the United Kingdom.",
"Recent trends in the ever-expanding language tuition market reflect English's strengthening position as the default language of international business.",
"\"The key growing markets for language training are Brazil, China and Mexico, and people in these markets are learning English,\" said Rita Pauls, director of global marketing for language tuition company Berlitz, which has roughly doubled its number of students to 300,000 in 70 countries over the past decade.",
"During that time, English rose from 64% to 72% of their business, while German and French remained stable at 6.5% each, and Spanish at 4%.",
"The only other language to have increased significantly was Mandarin, doubling to 2%.",
"While the Chinese economic success story has propelled interest in Mandarin in schools around the world, the language can appear forbidding - even impenetrable - for those who encounter it in adulthood.",
"Not so, says Dr Eric Thun, lecturer in Chinese business studies at SaÑ—d Business School, who picked up the language from scratch during 18 months of intensive immersion study in his mid-20s.",
"\"Most people thought I was crazy,\" he said, adding that devoting yourself exclusively to language acquisition was the only real way to make inroads.",
"\"It's hard to do as a side pursuit.\"",
"But while you might have to temporarily put your career on hold to pick up a language, the trade-off was likely to be worth it in the long run.",
"A language could be an invaluable asset by allowing you to better understand your market and access broader sources of information, said Thun.",
"Mandarin was now as imperative to business success in China as English was in the United States.",
"And, as China had developed into \"a more normal labor market\", language skill was no longer a key to success in itself - a functional specialty was generally needed also.",
"\"Fifteen years ago a foreigner going to China would have a fairly strong advantage just because there wasn't a particularly deep talent pool,\" he said.",
"\"That's completely different now.",
"The bar is much higher.\"",
"Finally, though, it's important to remember that attempting to pick up a language for business purposes alone may prove a shortsighted approach.",
"The usefulness of a language in a business sense would rise and fall with unpredictable shifts in the global economy, said Wyburd.",
"\"When I was growing up it never occurred to us to learn Chinese.",
"We were focusing on the languages of Europe, because Europe was our reality.",
"During anybody's lifetime those contexts will change.\"",
"Beyond its business applications, however, language acquisition would always have a deeper benefit in enabling the learner to grasp another worldview, and become a more effective communicator in any tongue.",
"\"The more respectful you are of the subtleties of language, the more effective you are as a negotiator or as a manager,\" said Chambers.",
"\"And the more likely you are to be able to take people with you in your projects.\""
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"Putting your career on hold to learn a language is likely to pay off in the long run ."
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"(CNN) -- French Open champion Francesca Schiavone crashed out of Wimbledon in the first round after losing in three sets to unseeded Russian Vera Dushevina.",
"Schiavone of Italy, seeded fifth at the All England Club, went down 6-7 7-5 6-1 to a player who has never been beyond the second round at Wimbledon.",
"It was Schiavone's second straight first round exit since the capture of her first grand slam title at Roland Garros earlier in June.",
"Dushevina, ranked 56, lost the first set but grew in confidence as the match went on, racing into a 5-0 lead in the decider and clinching the victory in two hours, 54 minutes.",
"\"It was a tough match on a different surface with a different feeling,\" Schiavone told reporters.",
"\"But she played very well and I didn't take my chance in the second set.\"",
"Who can stop Williams sisters?",
"Elsewhere, Kim Clijsters thrashed unseeded Italian Maria Elena Camerin 6-0 6-3 in her first appearance at Wimbledon since 2006.",
"Clijsters of Belgium, who came out of retirement in 2009, wrapped up the first set in just 24 minutes on Court Two.",
"And although the Italian fought hard in the second, the eighth seed did not face a single break point as she won in 65 minutes.",
"Clijsters will next face Croatia's Karolina Sprem, who beat American qualifier Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-3 6-4.",
"Meanwhile, five-time champion Venus Williams cruised into the second round with a 6-3 6-2 win over Paraguay's Rossana De Los Rios.",
"\"It's good to be back. I love playing on the grass,\" Williams said.",
"\"It was pretty straightforward out there but it's just the first round and I'll try to play better with each match.\"",
"In other results, Justine Henin of Belgium beat Latvia's Anastasija Sevastova 6-4 6-3, Marion Bartoli of France, the 2007 finalist, beat Julia Goerges 6-4 6-3 and there were wins for Russians Nadia Petrova, Vera Zvonareva and Maria Kirilenko.",
"It was a disappointing day for the home nation with British women Laura Robson, Elena Baltacha and Melanie South all beaten on day one.",
"Robson went down 6-3 7-6 to fourth seed Jelena Jankovic of Serbia, Baltacha lost to Croatia's Petra Martic in three sets 2-6 7-5 6-3 and wildcard South was beaten 6-1 6-2 by Regina Kulikova of Russia."
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"French Open champion Francesca Schiavone loses to Vera Dushevina .",
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"Five-time champion Venus Williams and Justine Henin reach round two .",
"British women Elena Baltacha, Laura Robson and Melanie South all lose on day one ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- The pivotal sex scene in the new \"Twilight\" film, \"Breaking Dawn -- Part 1\" is so steamy that the MPAA originally gave the film an R rating, according to its star Kristen Stewart, who says even she was shocked by what her character does between the sheets.",
"\"There are two big sex scenes in the two [final] films, and we did them fairly early,\" Stewart, 21, tells the U.K. edition of Glamour.",
"\"It was so weird, it didn't even feel like we were doing a scene within a 'Twilight' film.",
"I was like, 'Bella!",
"What are you doing? Wow! What is happening here?!' It was very surreal.\" Off-screen, Stewart's sex life is also of interest, particularly her relationship with \"Twilight\" costar Robert Pattinson, which Glamour describes as \"likely-but-never confirmed-nor-denied.\"",
"Though the actress -- who's currently shooting \"Snow White and the Huntsman\" -- certainly isn't a fan of such attention, she seems to take it in stride.",
"\"People can say whatever they want,\" she says, calling the interest \"totally understandable.",
"But when it's personal to you, it's like your life becomes a product, and I'm repelled by that.",
"I don't like to give away gems that people are gonna be like, 'Oh my God!'",
"So I'll always just shrug it off.",
"In fact, I always find it kind of funny, and not just with Rob.\"",
"Only 17 when she was first cast as Bella Swan in the \"Twilight\" saga, Stewart says she's finally starting to feel comfortable doing interviews, but that it's \"a fair assessment\" to say she often comes off as shy and nervous in public.",
"\"I was young, not expecting it and trying way too hard to be 'not fake,' \" she says.",
"And as far as the devotion from her fans, Stewart says it's something she can relate to.",
"\"There are definitely people that kind of lose it and get very emotional,\" she says.",
"\"But recently, I met [musician] Jenny Lewis, and I had the most ridiculous experience.",
"I was so embarrassing, I couldn't speak.",
"It was eye-opening, actually.\"",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"(CNN) -- If you gave most folks the choice between their smartphone and their nondominant hand, many of us would wave a one-palmed goodbye to Mr. Lefty/Righty, weld our iPhones to our wrists and grimly welcome an existence of Terminator-like efficiency.",
"Yup, we're addicted to those little bleating beasts, so much so that we fold them wholly into our workaday lives, blindly committing a cornucopia of social indignities with zero cognizance.",
"Conversely, we look down our noses at those who commit the very same phone faux pas, hypocritically musing over their every social slight.",
"Well, my friends, it's time to stand up and take notice.",
"We're not asking you to wholly throw out the litany of bad habits below (that is entirely impossible, and we will have executed at least four of 10 before the week is out).",
"We merely ask you to be more aware of when you're about to do something that, if done to you, would send you into a frothy fit of rage.",
"The iPhone 4S may be sailing toward us on the wings of fall, but the aforementioned bionic scenario is still a ways off (we hope).",
"Let's all try not to do these: . 1). Walking while texting .",
"We know that Harold totally needs to know that you'll be 15 minutes late to his '70s-themed fondue party (because you had a polyester-induced wardrobe crisis), but we're pretty sure that the owner of that baby carriage that you upended in your fervor to alert H. doesn't give a fig about your sartorial issues.",
"And that kid's later-life bed-wetting will be completely your fault.",
"2). Pulling out the phone at the dinner table .",
"Or pulling out the phone (for any extended period of time) during any social situation, really.",
"Yeah, we know that the notion of beating your brother-in-law at Words With Friends has been haunting your very dreams, but your friend/family member/other of varying degrees of significance is probably much more interesting.",
"If that is not, in fact, the case, consider hanging with your brother-in-law instead.",
"3). Returning a call with a text .",
"Unless you're in a movie theater, at work or in the middle of an important life moment, said action makes you appear socially awkward.",
"4). Crop-dusting .",
"It's Friday night and you want to RAGE!",
"Systematically, you scroll through all of your contacts, shooting them nearly identical messages: \"What R U up 2 2nite???\"",
"Whoever answers first -- or whoever answers with the best, most exciting plans (jello shots and football and girls!!!)",
"-- is the winner. And you have won, too! You won the role of \"Flaky Tool\" among your disgruntled friend group.",
"5). Messenger-pigeoning .",
"You're watching that brand new show starring the unmatchably quirky Zooey Deschanel on Hulu when a pal texts you, asking what time you want to have dinner later.",
"You see the text. You think to yourself, \"7:30...\" You commence watching Zooey dance and twirl.",
"Three hours later, you text back, \"7:30.\"",
"And thusly, you have transported humankind from a time of instantaneous communication to an era when we had to wait for rats with wings to deliver fecal-stained parchments across the sea.",
"6). Drunk dialing/texting .",
"You already lost most of your dignity when you entered that dance contest after slamming five tequila shots.",
"Retain the remainder and give your phone to a friend.",
"7). Lifecasting in lieu of living .",
"You may have a problem if: your first thought when gazing up at a sun-splashed sky, rippling and luminescent like a melting watercolor, is \"I have to Instagram that\" instead of, \"Oh, pretty sunset.\"",
"Similarly: When any semi-intelligent musing becomes worthy of a tweet.",
"8). Digital dallying .",
"You stopped physically seeing this dude/chick about three weeks ago, but you still text him/her every once in a while (\"Whoooaaa, it's like unseasonably warm today!",
"\"), you still comment on all of his/her stuff on Facebook and you're currently engaged in a vigorous game of Chess With Friends.",
"You have, in essence, become a DigiPet -- a presence on his/her phone that s/he keeps just barely alive by typing and texting.",
"Very soon, however, your keeper will likely let you die, because you, like a DigiPet, are annoying and useless.",
"9). Conversations in public .",
"\"Yeah, I do think you should dump him.",
"Cheating is just really, really unforgivable.",
"Also, I mean, you don't want to get crabs, right?",
"Oh... I'm sorry, I thought you were looking for my input, seeing as how you've been sitting next to me at this coffee shop for the last 30 minutes, babbling into your earpiece about STDs.",
"On that note, yeah, I think there's a cream for that.\"",
"10). Taking your phone into the bathroom .",
"We're sad that we even need to include this one."
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"Unless you're at work, don't reply to a phone call with a text .",
"Don't be a DigiPet -- a presence on his/her phone that's just barely alive .",
"Your friend/family member is probably much more interesting than that text ."
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"(CNN) -- International leaders in politics and business are paying tribute Thursday to Apple visionary Steve Jobs, whose death at age 56 has saddened many around the world.",
"\"Steve Jobs transformed the way we work and play; a creative genius who will be sorely missed.",
"Our thoughts are with his family,\" British Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted.",
"French President Nicolas Sarkozy wrote on his Facebook page that Jobs was a great entrepreneur, innovator and major player in the world's technological revolution.",
"\"As inspired as he was inspiring, Steve Jobs will remain one of the great figures of our time,\" Sarkozy said, as he paid tribute to the American's courage in both his work and personal life.",
"Ireland's Prime Minister, or Taoiseach, Enda Kenny also gave his condolences in a statement paying tribute to the man who brought the world the iPod portable music player, the iPhone and the iPad tablet.",
"\"Steve Jobs was a creative genius who broke down walls in business and opened doors in people's minds,\" Kenny said.",
"\"His innovative prowess in the area of technology has brought about a level of access to information for millions that few would have ever foreseen.",
"His legacy will be not just his products and business achievements, but also the way in which he altered mindsets in the business world and in everyday life.\"",
"Apple has a large factory in Cork, in the Irish Republic, which opened in 1980 to manufacture the Mac computer.",
"It employs about 1,400 people and has expanded into various aspects of the company's business.",
"In Russia, President Dmitry Medvedev wrote in his Twitter microblog: \"People like Steve Jobs change our world.",
"My sincere condolences to his relatives and all those who appreciated his intelligence and talent.\"",
"Medvedev met Jobs during a visit to California's Silicon Valley in June 2010, during which the Apple co-founder told Medvedev about his company and some of its future plans.",
"At the end of their meeting, Jobs presented Medvedev with an iPhone4.",
"Medvedev's chief economic aide, Arkady Dvorkovich, tweeted: \"Applause to Steve Jobs for everything that he did in his not so long life.\"",
"German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said Jobs had \"changed our life and work with his ideas and sense for business like few others.\"",
"In Egypt, Wael Ghonim -- a former Google executive who used social media to jump-start social change in Egypt -- also honored Jobs via Twitter, saying: \"He was truly inspiring.",
"His company helped change the world.",
"Good bye Steve Jobs.\"",
"Masayoshi Son, a Japanese technology entrepreneur and CEO of Softbank, the main Japanese iPhone carrier, said he was saddened by the news of Jobs' death.",
"\"Steve was truly a genius of our time, a man with a rare ability to fuse art and technology,\" he said in a statement.",
"\"In centuries from now, he will be remembered alongside Leonardo da Vinci.",
"His achievements will continue to shine forever.\"",
"Dr. Jong-seok Park, president and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company in South Korea, offered his thoughts and prayers for Jobs' family.",
"\"Steven Jobs was, and still is, an inspiration to many individuals and companies all over the world,\" he said.",
"\"His passing is a loss to innovators and visionaries everywhere, even here in Korea, and the culture he fostered will be a benchmark for decades to come.\"",
"Taiwanese self-made billionaire Terry Gou, founder and chairman of Foxconn Technology Group, which makes many Apple products, said the world had lost a \"true hero\" and he had lost a friend whose dedication to his craft had been shown by his determination to continue working despite being seriously ill. \"True business leaders grow their companies by committing their innovation, creativity, and passion and, while Steve exemplified all of these qualities, he also committed his heart to building a company and products that enriched people's lives,\" Gou said in a statement.",
"\"Steve's spirit will live on forever with those who, like me, had the honor to know and work with him.",
"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.\"",
"Foxconn said in a statement that it had lost \"an industry visionary, a true partner to our company, and a great friend.\"",
"Jobs \"had an immeasurable and positive impact on the lives of people around the world and the global electronics industry is all the better for the many contributions he made to ensuring that technology is understandable, beautiful, and, most importantly, accessible to people from all walks of life,\" the company said.",
"Working conditions at Foxconn came under scrutiny last year after a rash of suicides at a Foxconn factory in China that makes iPhones.",
"News of Jobs' death prompted immediate tributes from business leaders in China, and Apple fans staged a vigil outside the Apple store in Hong Kong.",
"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.\"",
"South Korean electronics maker Samsung also paid tribute to Jobs as a \"great entrepreneur\" in a statement sending condolences to the Jobs family and his colleagues at Apple.",
"\"His innovative spirit and remarkable accomplishments will forever be remembered by people around the world,\" it said.",
"CNN's Maxim Tkachenko, Per Nyberg, Paula Hancocks, Sarita Harilela, Junko Ogura, Zarifmo Aslamshoyeva, Samira Said, Kevin Voigt, Jaime FlorCruz, Xiaoni Chen, Kristie LuStout, Alexis Lai, and journalist Peter Taggart contributed to this report."
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"NEW: \"A man with a rare ability to fuse art and technology,\" says Masayoshi Son .",
"France's Sarkozy says Jobs was \"one of the great figures of our time\"\nJobs \"transformed the way we work and play,\" British PM David Cameron says .",
"Egypt's Wael Ghonim: \"He was truly inspiring\""
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"(CNN) -- A New Zealand court denied bail Wednesday to the founder of the shuttered file-sharing site Megaupload, whose extradition is being sought by the U.S. Department of Justice.",
"Kim Dotcom, who is also known as Kim Schmitz, will remain in custody until at least February 22, when an extradition hearing is to be held, the court said.",
"U.S. authorities shut down Megaupload last week and announced indictments against Dotcom and six other people connected to the site, accusing them of operating an \"international organized criminal enterprise responsible for massive worldwide online piracy of copyrighted works.\"",
"Four of those charged, including Dotcom, were arrested in New Zealand at the request of the U.S. government.",
"The New Zealand police detained Dotcom, a German citizen, on Friday after a raid on his mansion in the North Shore area of Auckland, the country's largest city.",
"In a packed court on Monday, Dotcom's lawyer, Paul Davison, said that his client is innocent and should be granted bail.",
"\"Mr. Dotcom emphatically denies any criminal misconduct or wrongdoing and denies the existence of any 'mega-conspiracy,'\" Davison told the court.",
"But New Zealand government prosecutors, acting on behalf of U.S. authorities, argued that Dotcom's bail request should be denied because he presented an \"extreme\" flight risk.",
"Dotcom is a resident of New Zealand and Hong Kong.",
"Users of Megaupload -- ranked by the traffic-tracking service Alexa as the world's 72nd-most-visited website before it was taken down -- could share and download files, many of which were copyrighted works made available for download without permission, according to U.S. authorities.",
"They said the operation had generated more than $175 million in illegal profits through advertising revenue and the sale of premium memberships.",
"Authorities have seized the company's servers and domain names and frozen $50 million in assets.",
"Davison said this week that, without access to his assets or travel documents, Dotcom did not present a flight risk.",
"He added that his client wanted to stay in New Zealand with his pregnant wife and children.",
"He criticized the \"aggressive\" approach taken by the police and prosecutors in accusing and detaining Dotcom, saying it had \"amplified the nature and gravity of this alleged offending beyond any reality.\"",
"He suggested it had created \"a real misunderstanding and misconception of the business of Megaupload.\"",
"CNN's Karen Smith contributed to this story ."
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"They accuse the website of pirating copyrighted works .",
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"(CNN) -- Authorities blocked U.S. Sen. Rand Paul at Nashville International Airport on Monday after the Kentucky Republican refused a pat-down at a security checkpoint, his spokeswoman said.",
"Paul told CNN that he went through a scanner at the airport and set off an alarm.",
"He wanted to go through the body scan again instead of getting a pat-down -- claiming that he showed Transportation Security Administration officers his knee and under his socks -- but the agents refused his request, according to the Kentucky senator.",
"\"When an irregularity is found during the TSA screening process, it must be resolved prior to allowing a passenger to proceed to the secure area of the airport,\" TSA spokesman Greg Soule said.",
"\"Passengers who refuse to complete the screening process cannot be granted access to the secure area in order to ensure the safety of others traveling.\"",
"The senator said that he didn't think it was \"appropriate\" for him to have a pat-down, adding he should have been able to go through the scanner again.",
"\"Is it too much to ask to have a little dignity when you travel?",
"And shouldn't an adult be able to get back in line and go through the scanner?\"",
"he told CNN. \"I don't think that's too much to ask.\"",
"A TSA official said Paul was \"not detained at any point\" and left the checkpoint willingly.",
"The official was not authorized to speak for attribution.",
"Paul said he was \"ejected\" from the screening area and told he may be subject to a \"full body search\" after he began talking on his phone.",
"He was eventually rebooked on another Washington-bound flight, saying that time the screener did not go off when he went through it.",
"\"It tells me that either the machines are inadequate, or they are not telling us the whole story,\" said Paul, insisting that two TSA agents told him that the screeners go off randomly -- an assertion the federal agency denies.",
"One of the most conservative members of the Senate, Paul is an outspoken critic of what he characterizes as an overly obtrusive federal government threatening to strip citizens of various rights and civil liberties.",
"During a Senate hearing with TSA Administrator John Pistole in November, Paul argued that the TSA policy of letting children go through the full-body scanners twice -- rather then be subjected to a pat-down -- should apply to adults as well.",
"He predicted that with such a policy, \"you'll get rid of a lot of the anger and animosity towards the TSA.\"",
"On Monday, the senator said he also supported some sort of \"frequent traveler\" program -- so that people who travel often aren't as likely to be subject to pat-downs -- and \"selective risk assessments done on people are international travelers (and) people who have ties to groups that may be terrorists.\"",
"He added that someone in the screening area should have \"discretion\" to decide, on a case-by-case basis, if a pat-down is necessary.",
"\"I think we've gone overboard ...",
"I feel that our dignity is compromised, but I don't feel more safe,\" said Paul, noting he spoke with Pistole after the incident Monday.",
"\"Regular, ordinary citizens don't need to be put through this, particularly the frequent travelers.\"",
"Rand Paul is the son of libertarian Texas Rep. Ron Paul, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.",
"Ron Paul weighed in on the controversy Monday afternoon, calling it an example of a \"police state in this country\" that \"is growing out of control.\"",
"\"One of the ultimate embodiments of this (police state) is the TSA that gropes and grabs our children, our seniors, and our loved ones and neighbors with disabilities,\" the congressman said in a written statement.",
"\"The TSA does all of this while doing nothing to keep us safe.\"",
"CNN's Alan Silverleib, Aaron Cooper and Mike Ahlers contributed to this report."
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"NEW: \"Is it too much to ask to have a little dignity when you travel?\"",
"he says .",
"Paul refuses a pat-down at a security checkpoint in Nashville after setting off an alarm .",
"The TSA says those who set off alarms \"cannot be granted access to the secure area\""
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"Washington (CNN) -- As portions of the Arab world struggle to extinguish decades of oppression and dictorial rule, the rights and opportunities for women in these societies stand at a delicate precipice, U.S. State Department officials told a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee Wednesday.",
"\"This is not a favor to women, it is not simply a nice thing to do,\" Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, said at a hearing called to examine the role of women in the aftermath of the Arab Spring.",
"\"No country can get ahead when it leaves half of its people behind,\" and does not allow women an opportunity to participate in the economic development of their societies, she said.",
"Verveer said Tunisia, with its long history of women's rights enshrined in its constitution, and strong middle class shows great promise.",
"With its first election recently since the revolution in which close to a quarter of the seats in Parliament were won by women, Verveer said it would be interesting to see the role women play in pushing the Tunisia forward.",
"On the other hand, Egypt is \"extremely complicated and worrisome,\" Verveer said, with no women included on the committee that drafted Egypt's transitional constitutional declaration, and only one female member serving in the cabinet.",
"Verveer also pointed out that the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has not appointed any female governors, and said some conservative and political forces are calling for a rollback on women's rights in the more open political environment.",
"Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, expressed concern for the rights of religious minorities in predominantly Muslim societies.",
"\"Certainly, if women cannot freely worship and are being threatened with murder their human rights are not being duly respected,\" he said, and questioned the role of women in Libya in light of recent calls by Libya's National Transitional Council to enact Islamic law in the country.",
"While Verveer noted the NTC has said they have no intention of establishing an Islamic theocracy, \"vigilance is critical, speaking out against violations is critical\" in ensuring the rights of women and minorities are respected in this time of transition she said.",
"\"This moment of change presents a great strategic opportunity for the United States,\" Deputy Assistant Secretary Tamara Wittes told the committee.",
"With the implementation of democracy and universal rights, Wittes said the rising Arab population of young men and women can push back against the narrative of extremists in their societies.",
"Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, R-New Hampshire inquired about but what kind of \"buy in\" the men in Arab Spring countries are giving to equal rights for women?",
"\"It's checkered,\" Verveer said.",
"\"No good cause for women happens without the good men,\" and working with those who understand that unless women are part of the political and economic process, their countries will be set back she said.",
"The United States, which along with states like Iran and Somalia, has yet to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, should do so, said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California.",
"She said repressive governments could use that fact as a pretext to not live up to their own obligations under it.",
"The U.N.-sponsored treaty has languished in the U.S. Senate since its adoption in 1979."
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"Senate panel holds hearing on role of women in Arab Spring nations .",
"While Tunisia's shows great promise, the picture in Egypt is \"worrisome\"\nSome conservative and political forces are calling for a rollback on women's rights .",
"Rights advocate: \"No country can get ahead when it leaves half of its people behind\""
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"(CNN) -- An outbreak of illness linked to consumption of tainted cantaloupes has been linked to 13 deaths and 72 illnesses in 18 states, a federal disease agency reported Wednesday.",
"The outbreak -- blamed on the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes -- was first reported September 12, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 15 people in four states had been infected.",
"The illnesses were traced to consumption of Rocky Ford cantaloupes grown at Jensen Farms' fields in Granada, Colorado.",
"The deaths reported as of Tuesday morning occurred in Colorado (two), Kansas (one), Maryland (one), Missouri (one), Nebraska (one), New Mexico (four), Oklahoma (one), and Texas (two).",
"The illnesses occurred in those states as well as in California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Montana, North Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.",
"Listeriosis primarily affects older adults, pregnant women, newborns and adults with weakened immune systems, according to the CDC website.",
"Learn more about various types of food poisoning .",
"Jensen Farms, which is based in Holly, Colorado, is voluntarily recalling Rocky Ford whole cantaloupes that were shipped between July 29 and September 10 and distributed to Illinois, Wyoming, Tennessee, Utah, Texas, Colorado, Minnesota, Kansas, New Mexico, North Carolina, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arizona, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.",
"The cantaloupes bear a green-and-white sticker that reads: Product of USA- Frontera Produce-Colorado Fresh-Rocky Ford-Cantaloupe or a gray, yellow, and green sticker that says: Jensen Farms-Sweet Rocky Fords.",
"Unlabeled whole cantaloupe should be taken to the retailer for sourcing information, the FDA said.",
"\"Jensen Farms continues to stay committed to the highest levels of food safety and maintains many third-party safety audits, as we have for many years,\" said Ryan Jensen, a partner at Jensen Farms.",
"\"We continually look for ways to enhance our protocol.\""
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"(CNN) -- The Afghan Taliban has rejected U.S. allegations that the Haqqani terrorist network is supported by Pakistan, in an email CNN obtained Wednesday.",
"\"Our bases are not in Pakistan nor do we reside outside of our country in insecure conditions,\" the email sent to Afghan and Pakistani journalists said.",
"\"All military and civilian activities in (Afghanistan) are our own initiatives and our own actions.\"",
"The response came less than a week after Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen said that the Haqqani network, which has carried out a number of high-profile terror attacks in the Afghan capital Kabul and elsewhere, acted \"as a veritable arm of Pakistan's intelligence.\"",
"Jalaluddin Haqqani, the founder of the militant group, \"only receives orders from their leader, Mullah Omar,\" according to the Taliban email that also said the U.S. allegations are \"baseless.\"",
"Meanwhile, Pakistan continued to deny Mullen's charges.",
"\"Very few countries have been ravaged by the monster of terrorism as brutally as Pakistan,\" Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said in an address this week to the U.N. General Assembly in New York.",
"\"It is Pakistan's firm determination not to allow any space on its territory for militants and terrorists.\"",
"Washington's allegations have strained ties between the two countries, which have been in an uneasy alliance in the war against terror since 2001.",
"The relationship between Pakistani intelligence and the Haqqanis goes back to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan when Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United States supported the mujahedeen resistance.",
"Intelligence officials believe Pakistan still regards the Haqqanis as an important tool in countering Indian influence in Afghanistan and helping shape any future peace process in line with Islamabad's priorities.",
"With an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 fighters, the Haqqanis' close relationship with both the Afghan and Pakistan Taliban makes them an important player in the region.",
"Major General Athar Abbas, a spokesman for the Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence, acknowledged the service has had contacts with the Haqqanis.",
"\"Any intelligence agency would like to maintain contact with whatever opposition group, whatever terrorist organization ... for some positive outcome,\" he told CNN in a telephone interview this month.",
"However, those contacts do not mean that the ISI supports or endorses the organization, he added.",
"Western counterterrorism officials believe that contrary to Pakistan's assertions, the Haqqanis rely on Pakistani territory -- specifically North Waziristan and the Khurram agency -- to organize, resupply and raise funds.",
"The Haqqanis are widely regarded as one of the most effective militant groups in Afghanistan.",
"Western intelligence officials believe the Haqqanis were involved in the assassination this month of the Chairman of Afghanistan's High Peace Council, Burhanuddin Rabbani, and an attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul in June.",
"Rabbani himself alleged that the group that attacked the hotel had been in phone contact with people in the town of Miranshah in the Pakistani territory of North Waziristan, long regarded as a stronghold of the Haqqani network."
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"The United States says Pakistani intelligence supports the Haqqani terror network .",
"Pakistan says it has contacts with the Haqqani terrorist network, but no relationship .",
"The Afghan Taliban says Haqqani takes orders from it .",
"The United States and Pakistan has been in an uneasy alliance in the war against terror since 2001 ."
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"Tucson, Arizona (CNN) -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was in Tucson Monday to finish what she started -- a \"Congress on Your Corner\" meeting that was interrupted by gunfire, a shooting rampage that left six people dead and Giffords with a gunshot wound to her head just over a year ago.",
"The meeting came one day after Giffords, 41, announced that she would resign from Congress this week.",
"\"We were invited to finish what we started a year ago.",
"I know that every person amongst us has been waiting for that moment.",
"I told her what I wanted to tell her a year ago, and then I told her how sorry I was that I couldn't really introduce her to Christina,\" said Suzi Hileman, one of the roughly two dozen people invited to attend the private event.",
"Hileman was referring to Christina Green -- her neighbor and the youngest victim of that fateful day.",
"Hileman herself was shot three times in the rampage.",
"\"When I said that Christina would have grown up to be her, she took my hand,\" Hileman said about Giffords.",
"\"She's my hero ... She'll be back and I'll be voting for her.\"",
"Two pictures of Giffords' arrival were sent out to the public, one showing her being greeted by supporters at the event.",
"Another, more emotional picture was later tweeted out: It showed Giffords hugging Daniel Hernandez, the staffer credited with saving her life.",
"After the \"Congress on Your Corner\" meeting, the congresswoman toured an area food bank, where she was met with enthusiastic applause.",
"\"A lot has happened over the past year.",
"We cannot change that,\" Giffords says in a video on her website, speaking in a halting manner.",
"She said she will resign to continue her recuperation from the brain injury she suffered when she was shot.",
"\"I don't remember much from that horrible day, but I will never forget the trust you placed in me to be your voice,\" Giffords continues.",
"\"Thank you for your prayers and for giving me time to recover.",
"I have more work to do on my recovery.",
"So to do what is best for Arizona, I will step down this week.\"",
"Giffords, a Democrat, will submit a letter of resignation during the week to House Speaker John Boehner and Arizona Gov.",
"Jan Brewer.",
"A senior House GOP leadership aide told CNN that on Wednesday the House will vote on a bill that was one of Giffords' legislative priorities -- a bill to crack down on drug smuggling at the U.S. border that is conducted by smugglers using ultra-light aircraft.",
"The decision to schedule a vote on the measure comes after Giffords' husband, Mark Kelly, spoke to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor over the weekend, the aide said.",
"Kelly called Cantor to say he was \"very appreciative\" of his support over the last year, and mentioned that the border security bill was one of the issues Giffords wanted to address before she resigned.",
"The aide said leaders are now working with Giffords' office on the details, but they are planning to bring the bill up on Wednesday morning before House Democrats head off for their annual legislative retreat.",
"A Senate version of the bill passed last year, but the House has not voted on the issue yet.",
"Gov. Brewer told reporters Sunday that within 72 hours of receiving Giffords' resignation, she expects to call a primary election sometime in April for political parties to pick their candidates for the state's 8th Congressional District seat.",
"That would be followed by a general election -- likely in June, according to the governor.",
"The winner will head to Congress for the rest of Giffords' term, which ends in January 2013.",
"\"Her recovery has been nothing less than a miracle,\" said Brewer.",
"\"Who knows what's going to happen in the next two years?",
"I don't believe we've seen the last of Gabby Giffords.\"",
"Before she steps down, Giffords will attend the State of the Union address Tuesday in Washington, her office said.",
"Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, the Democratic National Committee chair, told CNN that Giffords -- a close friend -- came to the conclusion that she couldn't devote her full energies to both her job and her recovery.",
"The congresswoman's recent return to Tucson for the one-year anniversary of the January 8 shooting showed her \"how challenging it would be.",
"It came into focus then,\" Wasserman Schultz said.",
"\"This decision is really quintessential Gabby Giffords,\" she added.",
"\"She needed to step aside for herself, so that her constituents could get full-time representation.",
"She cares about them so much, that was her No.",
"1 priority -- taking care of them.\"",
"President Barack Obama was effusive in his praise for Giffords, saying she \"embodies the very best of what public service should be.\"",
"He added that her \"cheerful presence will be missed in Washington (and) she will remain an inspiration to all whose lives she touched -- myself included.\"",
"\"Over the last year, Gabby and her husband Mark have taught us the true meaning of hope in the face of despair, determination in the face of terrible odds, and now -- even after she's come so far -- Gabby shows us what it means to be selfless as well,\" Obama said in a written statement.",
"In her website video posted Sunday, Giffords says her public service career has not ended.",
"\"I will return, and we will work together for Arizona and this great country,\" she says.",
"Earlier this month, Giffords joined thousands for a vigil in Tucson, one of several emotional events to mark one year since the shootings.",
"In addition to those killed, 13 people were wounded in the attack.",
"Giffords' right side remains weak.",
"She has made few public appearances since the incident, with some rare exceptions, such as casting a vote in Congress to raise the federal debt ceiling and conducting an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer.",
"She has been undergoing intensive rehabilitation in Houston, but returned to Tucson several times, according to her office.",
"Prosecutors accuse Jared Lee Loughner, 23, of carrying out the attack, which purportedly targeted Giffords.",
"Loughner could face the death penalty if convicted on charges of killing six people -- including the chief federal judge of Arizona, John Roll.",
"Loughner has been diagnosed as schizophrenic and has spent time on suicide watch while in custody.",
"He is undergoing treatment in Springfield, Missouri.",
"A federal appeals court in May cleared the way for him to be forcibly medicated, over the objections of Loughner and his attorney.",
"Giffords worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers and as CEO of El Campo Tire, her family's business, before being elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in 2000.",
"Two years later, she became the youngest woman elected to the Arizona State Senate.",
"She won a November 2006 election to Congress, and has won two terms since.",
"Kelly, her husband, is a retired Navy captain and astronaut.",
"CNN's Paul Vercammen, Deirdre Walsh, Tom Cohen and Dana Bash contributed to this report."
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"NEW: \"She'll be back and I'll be voting for her,\" says an Arizona resident .",
"She completes her \"Congress on Your Corner,\" in Tucson .",
"Giffords, 41, was shot in the head in January 2011 in a rampage that left six dead ."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- Civil rights lawyers demanded the death penalty for former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Monday, joining prosecutor's calls for him to be executed.",
"\"We merged our voice with the prosecutor's closing arguments from last week's hearing and demanded the death sentence to Mubarak, his former interior minister Habib El Adly, and four of his aides for killing hundreds of protesters and injuring thousands more,\" attorney Khalid Abu Bakr told CNN.",
"\"We have proof Mubarak is directly responsible for the killings along with El Adly and his aides.\"",
"Abu Bakr said Mubarak deserved to die for violating Egypt's criminal law 77.",
"\"His negligence and actions led to endangering the national security of the country,\" he said.",
"The attorney also provided the court with a list of alleged suspects he wants indicted, including police officers he said where caught on camera firing their weapons on protesters.",
"Another lawyer, Sameh Ashour, said he provided evidence to the court \"of communication between security forces that prove the presence of snipers on rooftop buildings during the revolution.\"",
"The judge, Ahmed Refaat, has set aside Monday and Tuesday to hear from at least 10 civil rights lawyers.",
"The defense is expected to make its closing arguments later in the week.",
"\"The judge will then decide on a day to announce the final verdict,\" said Adel Saeed, the official spokesman of the General Prosecutor's office.",
"\"If he is fast, we may see a verdict before January 25th\" -- the day the Egyptian uprising began last year.",
"Last week, the Russian foreign ministry issued a statement, expressing its \"deep concern\" over the prosecutor's request for a death sentence to Mubarak and calling on Egypt to consider Mubarak's old age and poor health.",
"Germany and France also issued statements of \"concern.\"",
"Mubarak is accused of corruption and ordering protesters killed during the country's uprising last year.",
"He has denied the charges.",
"Two of Mubarak's sons are also on trial on a variety of charges.",
"The sons, Gamal and Alaa, have pleaded not guilty.",
"Lawyers familiar with the case said it is unlikely Mubarak and his fellow defendants will receive the death penalty.",
"This is in part because of the difficulty in proving the president ordered the killings, the lawyers said.",
"Analysts agreed that while some Egyptians might welcome a death sentence for Mubarak, particularly at a time of heightened tension as the anniversary of the uprising approaches, he is more likely to receive a prison term.",
"Many Egyptians have criticized the court proceedings and some worry that Mubarak may be acquitted of the murder charges.",
"Five police officers accused of killing protesters already have been acquitted.",
"Amnesty International had estimated more than 840 protesters were killed and 6,000 injured.",
"Saeed, the prosecutor's spokesman, said the prosecutor's estimate of 225 deaths and more than 1,300 injured is lower \"because there has been a differentiation between those killed outside police stations while attacking the precinct and those shot while protesting.\""
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"Lawyer says he provided evidence to court about sniper presence on rooftops .",
"Attorney says Mubarak is \"directly responsible\" for killings .",
"The former Egyptian president denies the charges against him ."
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"Giglio, Italy (CNN) -- Two more bodies have been recovered from the wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, Italian officials announced Monday, bringing the number of confirmed victims of the accident to 15.",
"The two women were found on Bridge 4, near the ship's Internet cafe, said Franco Gabrielli, the official in charge of the operation.",
"About 17 people remain missing after the ship collided with rocks January 13 off the coast of Tuscany, according to a CNN count.",
"Salvage workers are to begin pumping fuel out of the liner Monday, Gabrielli said.",
"\"Salvage will start any minute,\" Adm. Ilarione Dell'Anna said Monday afternoon.",
"It will take 28 working days to remove all the fuel from the ship, the admiral said.",
"The search for survivors and victims will continue alongside the salvage, said Gabrielli, the head of Italy's civil protection agency.",
"The man in charge of the rescue operation said the divers faced a grim task.",
"\"Imagine that you left for holidays and that the power went off in your house.",
"What would you find in your fridge?",
"The divers are in there,\" Ennio Aquilino said.",
"Two more bodies were found over the weekend -- one woman on Saturday and one on Sunday, both wearing life jackets.",
"Divers used explosives Monday morning to blow more holes in the side of the ship to allow easier access.",
"The parties involved in the rescue told reporters and residents on the island Sunday that search and rescue efforts will continue -- but that the environmental risk is also becoming urgent.",
"Officials said they cannot predict how long it will take to clear the wreckage, since that depends on maritime conditions and technical difficulties, but all legal, environmental and human factors will be taken into account.",
"\"It's time for Italy to show it can do something right and do it well,\" said Gabrielli.",
"Gabrielli warned that the task ahead was complicated and daunting, not least because it takes about 45 minutes to search each cabin, using special cameras and divers.",
"The giant Costa Concordia had 1,500 cabins on board.",
"A class-action lawsuit will be filed in Miami against Costa and its parent company, Carnival Corp., the Italian consumer group Codacons said on Saturday.",
"The suit, in collaboration with two U.S. law firms, is \"aimed specifically at getting compensation for all damages to the boat passengers,\" Codacons said in a statement.",
"The class-action suit is open to passengers of any nationality, it said.",
"\"We've been contacted by hundreds of victims and the numbers are growing moment by moment,\" said Mitchell Proner, senior partner at Proner & Proner, one of two firms involved.",
"He said crew members have also contacted the firm, \"and their stories that are coming in are horrific -- from lifeboats that were stuck halfway, passengers debating whether to jump or not, this was not an orderly evacuation.\"",
"The suit, he said, will request at least 125,000 euros (about $160,000) per passenger.",
"The suit has not yet been filed, said Marc Bern, senior partner at the other firm, Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik, but \"it will probably be in the billions of euros and dollars.\"",
"\"The sheer terror of being on a ship of that magnitude going down, you can imagine the psychological damage,\" Bern said.",
"Gabrielli said no fuel oil had yet leaked from the ship -- only kitchen and engine oil -- and that he did not see an immediate risk of the 2,400 tons on board escaping.",
"Booms have been put in place around the ship to stop the spread of oil and other pollutants such as detergents and sewage chemicals.",
"With more than 4,000 people aboard, the ship was the size of a small town, Gabrielli said.",
"Fuel will be replaced with water as it is removed from the ship's tanks, keeping the ship balanced, said Dell'Anna, head of coastal authorities for the port city of Livorno.",
"Gabrielli said Costa Cruises, the company that owns the cruise ship, is cooperative and was proving responsible, despite past errors.",
"Both Costa Cruises and authorities have criticized Capt.",
"Francesco Schettino, who is under house arrest and faces possible charges of manslaughter, shipwreck and abandoning ship.",
"Prosecutors said they planned to appeal the judge's decision to grant Schettino house arrest, arguing that Schettino should remain in jail because he is a flight risk and because of the gravity of his alleged crimes.",
"Alessandro Antichi, partner of Schettino defense attorney Bruno Leporatti, said the defense plans to file its appeal Wednesday on the judge's ruling.",
"The defense maintains Schettino should not be in custody.",
"An audio recording obtained by Italy's Repubblica newspaper and published Saturday shows that the captain, at least at the outset of the incident, assured authorities he would do the right thing.",
"Prosecutors have accused the captain of piloting the ship too fast to allow him to react to dangers, causing the shipwreck, according to legal papers.",
"There were roughly 4,200 people on the Costa Concordia when it ran aground -- about 3,200 passengers and 1,000 crew members.",
"The vast majority fled the ship safely.",
"CNN's Dan Rivers, Livia Borghese, Hada Messia, Marilia Brocchetto, Vivian Kuo and journalist Barbie Nadeau contributed to this report."
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"The head of the operation says no fuel has leaked from the ship yet ."
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"(CNN) -- Millions of BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa were reportedly without Web and texting service Monday because of an outage that BlackBerry maker Research in Motion said it was investigating.",
"\"We apologize to any of our customers in Europe, Middle East & Africa still experiencing issues.",
"We'll bring you an update as soon as we can,\" read the message from @blackberryhelp on Twitter.",
"A statement provided by Research in Motion basically said the same thing.",
"The company did not respond to CNN's questions about the cause of the outage, the number of users affected or an estimate of when service would be restored.",
"London's The Telegraph was reporting that all of the affected areas are served by a data server in Slough in southern England.",
"On its support Twitter feed, T-Mobile UK told customers the outage had knocked out service to \"everyone\" in the affected area and that BlackBerry Messenger and Web service were \"having issues on all networks.\"",
"The network told customers it had not been given details about the cause of the outage, but that Research In Motion was looking in to it.",
"Other carriers were telling customers much the same, saying the problem is on BlackBerry's end.",
"\"RIM has advised us that they're working to resolve the issue as a matter of urgency,\" a UK-based Vodafone spokesman told Dow Jones Newswires.",
"The BlackBerry remains hugely popular throughout Europe and the Middle East, where many international business users prize the phones for their vaunted security features.",
"British and European media were counting the number of people affected by Monday's outage in the millions.",
"In July, BlackBerry reported it had added 1 million customers in the Europe, Middle East and Africa market in less than three weeks."
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"Outage affected Web and BlackBerry Messenger services .",
"Maker Research In Motion did not give details on what's behind outage ."
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"(CNN) -- A man matching the description of the suspect in a fatal workplace shooting in Cupertino, California, was killed Thursday morning when he brandished a weapon, authorities said.",
"Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said positive identification of the man killed in Sunnyvale, a Bay Area city that borders Cupertino, must come through the coroner.",
"But he is believed to be Shareff Allman, who is about 45 years old.",
"CNN affiliate KGO reported the man's first name was spelled Shareef.",
"After SWAT teams canvassed neighborhoods, three deputies on routine patrol found a man crouched beside a vehicle at a residence, Smith said.",
"\"The deputies identified him as the suspect.",
"He did display in a threatening manner a firearm,\" Smith said.",
"All three deputies opened fire, killing him.",
"The suspect died within the perimeter of Wednesday's manhunt, but it was not clear if he spent any time in a home before he was spotted, Smith told reporters.",
"The workplace shooting occurred Wednesday about 4:15 a.m. at the Permanente Quarry, which produces cement products, Smith said.",
"Authorities believe Allman, armed with a handgun and an assault rifle, entered a meeting and opened fire.",
"Two people died at the scene, Smith said, and a third was pronounced dead later at a hospital.",
"Six others were wounded.",
"The motive was still not clear Thursday.",
"Smith described Allman as a \"disgruntled employee.\"",
"According to Santa Clara County sheriff's Sgt.",
"Jose Cardoza, witnesses reported the incident lasted \"no more than two minutes.\"",
"Allman also was believed to be involved in an attempted carjacking that occurred around 7 a.m. Wednesday on the Hewlett-Packard campus in Cupertino, about five miles away from the quarry, Smith said.",
"A woman was shot and sustained non-life-threatening injuries.",
"The suspect did not obtain the woman's car, the sheriff said.",
"He is believed to have fled on foot.",
"Cardoza said the weapon used in the attempted carjacking was a handgun similar to that used in the workplace shooting.",
"Authorities found Allman's vehicle at a service station close to the site of the attempted carjacking, Smith said.",
"Police recovered two assault rifles, she said.",
"Allman has a \"minor criminal record,\" the sheriff said, with the latest incident in 1996.",
"KGO reported that Allman is a community television host who regularly preaches about nonviolence."
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"Officers found a man crouched beside a vehicle at a residence, sheriff says .",
"Wednesday's shooting took place at the Permanente Quarry ."
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"Cambridge, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Steve Jobs died Wednesday at the age of 56.",
"Within minutes of the announcement, Twitter and other digital channels were flooded with outpourings of grief for a very private man who leaves a very big mark on the world.",
"It is the footprint, not of a manager or philanthropist, but of an entrepreneur.",
"His legacy is that of an individual who used his drive, vision, curiosity and keen intelligence to follow new possibilities relentlessly without being deterred by the obstacles on his path.",
"From the introduction of the first Apple computer in the late 1970s to his \"wilderness years\" at NeXT and Pixar in the late 1980s and early 1990s to his leadership in developing the iPod, iPhone and iPad during the last 10 years at Apple, Jobs turned his energy to creating new offerings that change people's lives.",
"From the get-go, he understood he was living in a moment of far-reaching transformation that we now call the Digital Revolution and that in such a moment, a lot is at stake.",
"Invested with a sense of his importance on a stage where everything from telephony to publishing to music distribution was up for grabs, he knew there was no time to lose in developing powerful, beautiful, engaging products and services.",
"This understanding fueled the relentless pace of innovation at Apple during the last 13 years.",
"(It may also have fed his often severe, controlling and still-inspiring managerial style.)",
"Undoubtedly, the breadth of Jobs' vision steered Apple toward market leadership and a long series of financial home runs.",
"But throughout Jobs' journey, we never thought it was solely -- or even primarily -- about the money.",
"More than 15 years ago, Jobs realized that (what we then called) the Information Revolution was bigger and bolder than groovy products and the convergence of technologies.",
"It was about democratizing all kinds of activity by breaking down barriers in how information is distributed.",
"As he explained to Rolling Stone, this development meant \"individuals can now do things that only large groups of people with lots of money could do before.",
"... (W)e have much more opportunity for people to get to the marketplace -- not just the marketplace of commerce but the marketplace of ideas.",
"The marketplace of publications, the marketplace of public policy.",
"You name it.\" If we think about the role of smartphones in the Arab Spring or the Occupy Wall Street protests, we see just how right Jobs was.",
"This is impact, measured in a deep, lasting way.",
"And this is how ultimately Jobs will be remembered.",
"As an entrepreneur -- like Henry Ford or perhaps Alexander Graham Bell -- whose vision expanded both our sense of individual freedom and connection with each one another.",
"In an uncharacteristically candid speech at Stanford University in 2005, Jobs advised young people to follow their passion and stay foolish and hungry.",
"He did this all his life, and the world will never be the same.",
"Small wonder we grieve today.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Nancy F. Koehn."
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"She says Jobs' central insight was that we live in transformative times .",
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"(CNN) -- It was inevitable that the fiery politics of the death penalty would punctuate Saturday's remembrance of Troy Anthony Davis.",
"His 20 years of claims of innocence on Georgia's death row earned him millions of supporters who believe the state wrongfully executed him on the night of September 21.",
"Saturday, Davis' family and closest friends gathered inside the Jonesville Baptist Church to celebrate his life.",
"A mass of flowers covered Davis' closed casket.",
"Two photos flanked it -- one a color portrait of a young boy who grew up on the streets of Savannah's Cloverdale neighborhood and the other a black and white photo of a young man in a suit attending his murder trial.",
"Those in attendance repeatedly chanted: \"I am Troy Davis,\" the slogan adopted in the campaign to spare his life and one that went viral on social media networks.",
"\"Look at those last two lines of your program today,\" said Benjamin Jealous, president of the NAACP.",
"\"I am Troy Davis.",
"And I am free.\" Jealous and other friends and advocates for Davis, including his lawyer, Jason Ewart, voiced Davis' last words before he was put to death by lethal injection.",
"That he was sorry for the family of police Officer Mark MacPhail, but that he was innocent.",
"\"We're going to keep on fighting until his name is finally cleared and Georgia admits what it has done,\" Jealous said.",
"\"We're going to keep on fighting until the death penalty is abolished and this can never be done to anyone else.\"",
"MacPhail was shot in the early morning hours of August 19, 1989, in the parking lot of a Burger King just a few miles north of the church where Davis was memorialized.",
"Davis was tried and convicted for MacPhail's murder and sent to death row in 1991.",
"But he and his family had always maintained that the jury convicted the wrong man.",
"The MacPhails said they lived in agony as legal proceedings dragged on year after year.",
"The case became controversial after several of the witnesses who testified against him at trial later said they were coerced to speak against Davis.",
"It was battled in many courtrooms before his execution.",
"But in the end, Davis lost all his appeals.",
"\"We are gathered here in a place of the most unjust execution of mankind,\" Ewart said.",
"\"Jesus was killed on the cross, not because he was guilty, but because we are.",
"\"Many have spoken of Troy as a symbol,\" Ewart said.",
"\"He was the soul of something profound.\"",
"Ewart, a young antitrust lawyer signed onto defending Davis shortly after graduating from Emory University's law school in Atlanta.",
"\"I met him seven years ago.",
"When I met him I was young. I was green,\" he said.",
"\"From the very first conversation I had with Troy I knew he could be my older brother, my friend, and eventually, he became just that.\"",
"Raphael Warnock, pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, invoked the 1994 book that made Savannah famous.",
"\"It's midnight in the garden of good and evil,\" he said.",
"\"But I am so glad God does his best work at midnight.",
"When the adversary has our backs against the wall, that's when God does his best work.",
"\"Strange things happen in Savannah, Georgia,\" he said.",
"\"This city of cobblestone streets and verdant town squares ... you have become the ground zero for the struggle to abolish the death penalty once and for all.",
"Savannah, Georgia, the world is watching you.\"",
"Davis' mother, Virginia, died in April.",
"She was not around to see the execution of her son, an act that would have surely been wretchedly painful to bear.",
"Davis' sisters, Martina Correia and Kimberly Davis, attended the funeral Saturday, as did Correia's son De'Jaun Davis-Correia.",
"Davis-Correia, born prematurely, said his uncle Troy was afraid to hold him when he was first born.",
"He weighed only 3 pounds, 8 ounces.",
"\"He thought he would break me,\" Davis-Correia said.",
"But he grew into a strong young man, he said, through his uncle's guidance.",
"He spoke of how Davis, from death row, used to help his nephew with homework, even put his tests and exams on his calendar.",
"People tell him now that he's a little version of his uncle.",
"And that makes Davis-Correia, the nephew of an executed man, very proud.",
"For all his life, his uncle lived 300 miles away, behind brick walls.",
"But, he said, \"It was always like he was home with us.\"",
"The funeral was open to the public, but Davis was to be buried Saturday with only his family at his graveside.",
"And then, just before people began streaming out of the church well into Saturday afternoon, a message recorded by Davis thanked his supporters all over the world for their efforts on his behalf.",
"\"Everything we do today will clear the way for a better tomorrow,\" Davis said.",
"\"We can correct all the wrongs if we band together.",
"Don't give up the fight.\"",
"The voice of the dead had filled the sanctuary."
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"San Francisco (CNN) -- Sony plans to release the PlayStation Vita, a portable video game player, on February 22, 2012, in the United States, Canada and Europe, the company announced at a technology conference on Tuesday.",
"The Vita will succeed the PlayStation Portable, or PSP, and PlayStation Go, a smaller version of the hand-held device.",
"The Vita has a touchscreen and a touch-sensitive pad on the back of the device, along with the buttons and control sticks gamers expect to see on controllers.",
"Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Jack Tretton and a Sony spokesman demonstrated a sequel to a popular PlayStation 3 game called \"Uncharted: Golden Abyss.\"",
"Players can use the standard controller or manipulate the character using touch controls, as the spokesman showed onstage at the Web 2.0 Summit.",
"The game looks very attractive -- but when shown on the big screen, not as sharp as a console game.",
"Sony previously announced pricing for the Vita, with a version that connects to the Web via Wi-Fi costing $250 and another that has 3G wireless data connectivity for $300.",
"Nintendo made deep price cuts to its portable 3DS system just five months after a strong launch when sales began to slow.",
"Analysts expect Sony will struggle to sell consumers a dedicated hand-held game machine now that smartphones and tablets have become powerful enough to handle powerful games.",
"\"The advent of smartphone gaming is quite additive to what we're trying to accomplish,\" Tretton said.",
"People may look to the Vita when they want to graduate from more simplistic games sold on phones, he said.",
"The Vita will first hit stores on December 17 in Japan, where Sony's portable systems have fared better."
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"(CNN) -- It is no secret that President Obama is in a tough fight for re-election.",
"He is correct in describing himself as the underdog at the present time.",
"In an atmosphere of high unemployment, declining incomes, and worldwide financial angst you would be correct in thinking that the Republicans are on the verge of having another big year.",
"In order for the president to win this go-round it is essential that he faces a weak Republican opponent.",
"This opponent would undoubtedly emerge from an equally weak Republican field.",
"Thus far the Republican field of 2012 is a Democratic dream come true.",
"This crop of candidates is not just weak, it is a joke.",
"Now you are saying, \"There goes that crazy Cajun again calling the opposition a joke.\"",
"I can hear the men in wool sport coats with suede elbow patches scratching their chins.",
"There is a collective harrumph from the \"it's time to tone down the rhetoric\" crowd of people.",
"Before you condemn my rather provocative adjective in describing the Republican field, please consider the following: .",
"1. It is undeniably the duty of the opposition party to field a credible slate of candidates for the nation's highest office.",
"It is particularly important that they do so in times of national distress (and this certainly qualifies as such).",
"2. This situation in modern times is most analogous to the presidential primaries of 1980.",
"To justify my deeming the Republican field an absolute joke I have compiled a list of comparable candidates for your reading pleasure.",
"This battle of résumés proves incredibly entertaining -- feel free to indulge.",
"Lets start at the top by matching up the front-runners: .",
"Mitt Romney vs. Ronald Reagan -- please hold your laughter because it's only getting funnier from here on out.",
"Reagan stepped up as two-time governor of California who came within an inch of the nomination in 1976.",
"He gave the keynote address at the Republican convention of 1964 and was a longtime consistent conservative for years prior to his running for president for the second time in 1980.",
"Romney is an accomodationist technocrat who is an ideological pretzel of a man.",
"In his four years as governor, Massachusetts ranked 49th in job creation and Katrina saved him from coming in at 50.",
"But hey -- Romney has recently released a 59-point economic plan for recovery.",
"Go ahead and name three of those 59 points -- see, told ya so.",
"I have no idea why that right-wing clown in Dallas is attacking his Mormon faith -- it may be the only thing he really believes in.",
"This one is delicious -- Rick Perry vs. George H. W. Bush.",
"I'm sorry, but Perry is Fred Thompson on steroids.",
"To be clear, Thompson was actually a pretty damn good lawyer who has some intellectual heft to him -- although he hid it rather well in his 2008 race.",
"On the contrary, Perry literally can't string two sentences together.",
"His performance before the Values Voters Summit was universally panned.",
"Perry couldn't give a good speech with all the time in the world to prepare.",
"We are now told the problem is that he doesn't get enough sleep.",
"Break out the Lunesta -- Rick Perry is coming storming back!",
"Note to the Perry campaign: You are supposed to give him the Lunesta after the debate, not before.",
"I know Perry speaks some Spanish but I don't believe \"debate\" translates to \"siesta.\"",
"Bush was a war hero, a successful entrepreneur, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, ambassador to the United Nations, U.S. envoy to China, and chairman of the Republican National Committee.",
"George H. W. Bush went on to serve as vice president and president of the United States.",
"Sorry, Rick, I don't see you filling those shoes anytime soon.",
"Let's match up Herman Cain vs Bob Dole.",
"Like George H.W.",
"Bush, Dole was a war hero, a member of the Kansas House of Representatives, elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, became a senator, was selected as a vice-presidential running mate, and chaired the Republican National Committee.",
"He later went on to serve as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senate majority leader, and Senate minority leader.",
"Herman can't even make an edible pizza.",
"Republican or not -- you have to admit, that stuff was pretty bad.",
"Moving on to Michele Bachmann vs. Howard Baker (I'm sorry I couldn't help myself.)",
"Baker served in the U.S. Navy, was elected to the U.S. Senate, was asked to serve on the Supreme Court by Nixon, and served two terms as Senate minority leader.",
"He later received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and inspired the formation of the Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee.",
"Could you see Michele Bachmann being nominated for a Presidential Medal in the near future?!",
"Of course, some people might say, to be fair to Bachmann, Baker has never claimed to cure anyone of homosexuality.",
"I haven't even spoken of former governor of Texas John Connally who, unlike Perry, served as a competent governor, served as both secretary of the Navy and secretary of the Treasury.",
"Even I am getting tired of beating this piñata of a field.",
"The other Republicans of the presidential primaries of 1980 consisted of Sen. Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, who was a liberal Republican and a rather influential member of the Senate Watergate committee (for those of you over 45 you can remember such a species.)",
"John Anderson, selected as a third-party candidate, went on to gain a significant number of votes in the general election.",
"Phil Crane, a well-respected Republican, was thought to be an articulate promoter of conservative ideology.",
"Harold Stassen would fit in nicely with the current crop of underwhelming candidates sure to disappoint.",
"Ben Fernandez, the former ambassador to Paraguay, was said to be the first Hispanic to run for president.",
"He has escaped my memory much like I'm sure Thaddeus McCotter has escaped your memory by now as well (let the Googling ensue).",
"The two most qualified candidates, Newt Gingrich and Jon Huntsman, can't even get their own party to take them seriously.",
"Jon Huntsman's career can be compared to Lowell Weicker's unsuccessful quest for a presidential nomination.",
"Gingrich's public ethical issues have made him a presidential outcast.",
"Regardless, these three are notoriously marked by their inability to get votes (in their favor that is.)",
"I'll conclude by saying that it may not be appropriate to refer to the Republican slate as a joke.",
"I'm sorry I take it back -- they are, more fittingly, pathetic.",
"In times like this there is nothing wrong with the nation having a good laugh, just as long as it's not at the expense of a major political party.",
"The 1980 field in comparison to 2012 reminds me of the recent LSU vs. Florida game.",
"Not to rub it in but the score was LSU 41- Florida 11.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of James Carville."
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"James Carville: To win, President Obama needs a weak GOP opponent .",
"He says the Republicans are obliging Dems by putting up a weak field .",
"Comparison with 1980's slate shows real gap in qualifications, he says .",
"Carville: In difficult times, it's vital for opposition to put up credible candidates ."
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"Okavango Delta, Northern Botswana (CNN) -- The hot African sun is turning cool and big and a deep soft orange, and the impala are getting mighty jumpy.",
"They ought to be. A half-kilometer across the grassy bush, we're watching a pack of eight African wild dogs, downwind and sniffing a scent, planning their evening hunt.",
"We have a plan, too. We're going to follow them.",
"Not far away, a large herd of zebra also knows this is the most dangerous time.",
"They've pastured all day in a broad, open field, nibbling vegetation.",
"As long as these prey remain in an open area, they are safe, because they can see the predators coming.",
"They can outrun all but the cheetah, and in a large group, the likelihood of any particular individual being caught is lessened.",
"A herd of wildebeest is mingling with the zebra and following them through the tall grass.",
"\"The zebra and the wildebeest, they are friends,\" our guide, 46-year old, bush-born Botswanan Kgotla \"Balepi\" Mokwami of Kwara Camp, tells me.",
"\"The zebra have short necks, but the wildebeest, they have long necks.",
"So the zebras' heads are high and they can see above the grass and they tramp it down low enough so the wildebeest, whose heads are low, can see too.\"",
"If you go: Visiting the Okavango Delta .",
"It's like the baboons and the impala, Mokwami explains.",
"Earlier, we watched impala graze near a family of baboons, with one baboon sitting on a stump, keeping watch for lion, cheetah and leopard.",
"If the baboon detects danger, the impala will know, too.",
"But now the night approaches, and the darkness will neutralize the prey's advantage.",
"They must head for the shrubs and trees to hide.",
"But they know that is where the predators sit in wait.",
"This just might be their time to die.",
"We have come here to Kwara Concession, a 170,000-hectare private reserve deep in the world's largest inland delta, Botswana's famed Okavango.",
"Thousands of tourists visit the delta every year, willing to put up with inconvenience and discomfort and considerable expense, to witness nature work its astonishing wiles.",
"Every darkening evening, for millennia now, a great game has been afoot here.",
"In the Southern Hemisphere's autumn months of March through June, the delta floods with water from Angola's highlands, inundating 1.5 million hectares of flat land and attracting one of the world's greatest concentrations of wildlife.",
"Safari experts on 'trip of a lifetime' Many of the animals, the vegetarians such as impala, elephant, giraffe, zebra and hippopotamus, come for the rich grasses and trees.",
"The carnivores come for them.",
"So tonight we are watching the dogs from a short distance.",
"We whisper to each other in our open-air, Jeep-style vehicle that seems able to drive through anything.",
"Mokwami is at the wheel and his tracker, Gomos Kgaogano, is perched on a mounted seat above a front headlight.",
"This is a rare moment, and even Mokwami, who was born in the Delta, is thrilled to see the dogs.",
"African wild dogs, also called Cape hunting dogs, are officially endangered.",
"Conservationists say shrinking habitat and farmers, hunters and rangers who poison and shoot them to protect livestock are eroding their number.",
"The dogs roam small swaths of forest, desert and savanna in southern Africa.",
"They hunt whatever they can catch: antelope, small wildebeest, warthogs, rodents and even birds.",
"Tonight, they are after impala.",
"Suddenly, they are on the move, first as an unorganized group, then in a line, first walking, now trotting.",
"We haven't seen the impala, but Mokwami knows the dogs have their scent.",
"\"The impala are that way (he points to the right), but the dogs will go that way, then up there (he points to about 11 o'clock), they will turn right.",
"They always follow the line of the bush.",
"Then they will run.\" He turns his outstretched arm to 2 o'clock.",
"\"We need to be there to see the chase.\"",
"\"How do you know that?\" I ask incredulously.",
"\"These are dogs,\" he says. \"I know these dogs. I have seen dogs before.\" The dogs pick up the pace.",
"We start bushwhack-driving toward 2 o'clock, pacing the dogs along the track.",
"We reach a point, and now see the impala through the bush to the right, maybe 600 meters off.",
"The dogs slow, they turn to the right and accelerating, leap into the bushes just behind us.",
"We have a difficult time seeing them, but Mokwami knows where they are heading and we turn right, directly toward the impala along the outside of the bushes that are giving the dogs cover.",
"Suddenly we see a dog through the bushes, then another, then another.",
"They are sprinting. They are making their move.",
"We accelerate, blasting and bouncing through the uneven grass.",
"The impala are on high alert, watching the bush, watching us, perceiving a threat but not yet knowing what it is.",
"Suddenly, the dogs streak out of the bush straight for the impala, and the chase is on.",
"On level, unobstructed ground, Mokwami explains as we dash in pursuit, a dog can catch an impala.",
"An impala's high step can kick up dirt, and if it can gain ground, the flying dirt will confuse the dog's scent.",
"But there they are! From behind a bush, an impala flies in full sprint, and at most two seconds behind, the dogs are ripping after it like a stiff evening wind.",
"The speed and focus of the predator and the prey are razor-sharp.",
"We race along on a parallel track.",
"The dogs are going to get him, I'm sure of it.",
"Mokwami isn't so certain.",
"\"Mayyyybe, mayyybe,\" he says.",
"What I have yet to learn is that the impala isn't just running from something, it's running toward something.",
"This isn't a chase. It's a race. I begin to understand the great game being played.",
"The predators here are the best in the business, but the prey are thinkers, too.",
"It's a balancing game for both.",
"Natural selection has left the prey with innate understandings about how to survive in a predator-driven world.",
"Those that don't know, die. For the predators, those that understand and counter, eat.",
"Those that don't, die. \"It is a great balance,\" Mokwami explains.",
"\"It is great drama every day.",
"The impala, they know things the dogs do not know.",
"It is the same with the zebra. They know the herd protects them, and they watch out for each other.",
"The lions, they know they must sneak up quietly, and get as close as they can and surprise the zebra, or pounce on the zebra when the zebra tries to get through the bush.",
"\"Each one reacts and counter-reacts to the other.",
"It is not easy to win. But once now, one does. Once later, the other one does. It is not so uneven. It is the way they live.\" And this time, the impala will win, because it knows, just ahead, there is a small lake, and it knows dogs cannot run fast through water.",
"The dogs are close on the impala's heels, but it reaches the pond maybe one second ahead, charges in, and the dogs stop at the shore.",
"They know following is pointless, and besides, there are hippopotamus in the lake, and that is a danger.",
"The dogs don't look happy.",
"In fact, they look stunned.",
"Later, from far off, we see the dogs again in ravenous pursuit of several other impala.",
"The race is on again. We scream over the bumpy grass, trying to catch up, but the pack loses us.",
"Mokwami explains that this time, the dogs will eat.",
"There is no water around, and it is the dog's last chance before darkness.",
"The impala will not escape.",
"Every evening it is like this, every year, forever.",
"If one makes the journey here, the great game is easy to see.",
"It plays out under the darkening African sky.",
"Over time, the prey get better at escaping, because the ones that don't, die and don't reproduce.",
"The predators get better too, because the ones that don't adapt to the prey's improving skills also die off.",
"It's natural selection: All the species improve by hunting or fleeing from each other.",
"On the way back to camp, tracker Kgaogano catches a hyena in his spotlight.",
"It is heading toward where the dogs last chased the impala.",
"It will see if the dogs left anything for it to eat, Mokwami explains.",
"Maybe the hyena will try to chase the dogs from their catch.",
"Maybe it will win tonight. Maybe not."
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"Thousands of tourists visit the Okavango Delta each year to see survival in action .",
"\"It is a great balance,\" a guide said.",
"\"It is great drama every day\""
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"(CNN) -- My commitment to the cause of stopping the exploitation of children was born from a humbling experience.",
"In 2002, I witnessed the horrors of human trafficking as we rescued three trembling girls living on the impoverished streets of India.",
"Preventing these girls from falling prey to this horrendous crime was a personal awakening.",
"I thank CNN's Heroes initiative for allowing the Ricky Martin Foundation to share and engage others in our commitment to end the exploitation of children by human trafficking and modern-day slavery.",
"That was more than a decade ago.",
"Since then, I knew my foundation must shed a light on this taboo subject.",
"Education has been our pillar from the outset.",
"In 2004, we launched People for Children, our principal project, to provide education and solutions for international efforts to eliminate child trafficking.",
"This unscrupulous market -- which consists of 27 million victims worldwide, according to the 2011 Trafficking in Persons Report -- generates up to $32 billion annually, an amount rivaling that of the trafficking of arms and drugs.",
"Of the 27 million, UNICEF estimates that 1.2 million are children who are trafficked every year to work as forced labor, in the commercial sex industry, in prostitution and in other forms of slavery.",
"The statistics are staggering.",
"Many contest them because the crimes are hidden.",
"But numbers don't matter: Preventing one or 200 children from traffickers validates our mission.",
"No one should be exploited and deprived of his or her freedom.",
"We believe every child has the right to be a child.",
"As a young public charity, we have discovered we are not alone in this fight.",
"We have been privileged to partner with groups such as UNICEF, Habitat for Humanity, The Protection Project at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Puerto Rico, Save the Children, RTL Foundation, The InterAmerican Development Bank, The Trafficking In Persons Office, SAP, Doral Bank and Microsoft.",
"We joined forces with the InterAmerican Development Bank and the International Organization for Migration to launch Call and Live, the first regional campaign to combat human trafficking in the Americas.",
"Lives were saved.",
"We received thousands of phone calls through our hot line and were able to help launch hundreds of investigations in five countries.",
"Unfortunately, atrocities committed against children have reached epidemic proportions on the Internet.",
"To prevent these crimes, we launched Navega Protegido.org, an online bilingual child safety website, that provides tools to protect children from pornography and sexual exploitation.",
"More recently, we published \"Human Trafficking in Puerto Rico: An Invisible Challenge\" in alliance with the University of Puerto Rico and The Protection Project.",
"The pioneering investigation documents that too many minors in Puerto Rico are at risk of becoming exploited as sex slaves, as slave labor or used in pornography.",
"Such findings led us to focus on the development of creative solutions.",
"We are developing our first Child Development and Prevention Center in Puerto Rico to serve as a safe haven for children and young people.",
"We aim to transform their lives through a holistic approach.",
"Children and young people do not have a sufficiently loud voice in our society.",
"To help change this, we continue to strengthen People for Children by redoubling our investigation and awareness campaigns.",
"Our objective is to galvanize a movement to prevent this scourge.",
"Addressing such an abominable crime on a global scale is a daunting challenge.",
"We need to tackle it one life at a time.",
"I am convinced that small triumphs over a long period of time will eventually result in the type of social justice we must all strive for.",
"Human trafficking has no place in our world today.",
"The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Ricky Martin."
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"(CNN) -- President Barack Obama got help from his wife and his vice president Wednesday in continuing a public pressure campaign on Republicans to join Democrats in passing his $447 billion jobs plan.",
"First lady Michelle Obama announced that 270 private companies have pledged to hire 25,000 veterans and their spouses by the end of 2013.",
"The companies are part of a trade group called the American Logistics Association.",
"Their commitment, she said, would fulfill 25% of the president's call for private-sector companies to hire or train 100,000 veterans and military spouses in the next two years.",
"The first lady's announcement preceded a speech by Obama at a joint military base in Virginia on the third and last day of his bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia aimed at pressuring Congress to pass his jobs package.",
"Obama discussed the importance of hiring American veterans during a stop at the Joint Base Langley-Eustis, calling the initiative a top priority.",
"\"There are far too many veterans who are coming home and having to struggle to find a good job,\" Obama said.",
"\"It doesn't make any sense.\"",
"The president said, \"We ask our men and women in uniform to leave their families.",
"\"The last thing you should have to do is fight for a job when you come home,\" he said.",
"He also called on Congress to pass his jobs bill, saying the need to focus on jobs was \"an American responsibility.\"",
"Later in the day, Obama used a speech to firefighters in North Chesterfield, Virginia, to urge Republicans to stop opposing his jobs plan.",
"Republican counter-proposals to cut regulations and roll back health care and Wall Street reforms failed to address the need to reduce unemployment, Obama argued.",
"\"Dirtier air, dirtier water, fewer people on health care, no accountability on Wall Street -- that is not a jobs plan,\" Obama said.",
"\"I'm happy to have a debate, but in the meantime, let's focus on putting people back to work.\"",
"In particular, Obama called for Congress to pass one component of his plan that would provide funding for state and local governments to hire police officers, firefighters and teachers.",
"The measure would be paid for by increasing the tax rate on millionaires by 0.5%.",
"\"My taxes will go up a little bit, but I can afford it,\" Obama said.",
"Vice President Joe Biden also pushed for the measure, telling a Senate Democratic rally in support of the jobs plan that the specific provision meant someone earning $1.1 million a year would pay an extra $500 in taxes.",
"\"And you know the really sad thing about it is?",
"The millionaires know we should do this.",
"They don't oppose this,\" Biden said.",
"\"They know it is the equitable thing to do.\"",
"Republicans have blocked debate on the Obama jobs plan in the Senate.",
"They argue that any tax increase would harm economic growth and job creation, while Obama and Democrats contend that the president's package ensures immediate job growth.",
"Asked by CNN why Obama kept pushing a tax hike that Republicans continually reject, Biden said the debate exposed GOP reluctance to work with the White House and Democrats on an agreement.",
"\"There's not a single thing they are for,\" Biden said.",
"\"How can they argue against a half-percent surtax on people whose average income is a million bucks?\"",
"Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky accused Obama of using his bus trip for political campaigning instead of working with Republicans on jobs legislation that can pass with support from both parties.",
"\"Everyone knows the last thing you want to do in a jobs crisis is raise taxes,\" McConnell said on the Senate floor.",
"\"But for some reason, he's determined to keep trying anyway, and Republicans aren't about to go along with it.\"",
"Calling Obama \"completely out of touch,\" McConnell said the White House and Congress should \"forget about the tax hikes, let's drop the talking points about millionaires and billionaires, and let's work together on bipartisan jobs legislation that's designed to pass, not designed to fail.\"",
"Obama, however, continued to push for a public campaign to pressure Republicans to pass his plan.",
"\"We'll see if they fight just as hard for your job as they do for their own job,\" he told the Virginia firefighters.",
"Democrats are promising to force votes on individual components of the Obama plan, starting with $35 billion for states and localities to hire more teachers and first responders while preventing current ones from being laid off.",
"That part of the plan could come up for a vote before the end of this week.",
"Republicans have accused the president of engaging in \"class warfare,\" while Democrats say wealthier Americans need to share in the cost of fiscal responsibility.",
"Among other things, Obama's overall blueprint includes an extension and expansion of the current payroll tax cut, an extension of jobless benefits, new tax credits for businesses that hire the long-term unemployed and additional money to help save and create jobs for teachers and first responders such as firefighters.",
"CNN's Ted Barrett and Tom Cohen contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Obama and his vice president push for jobs legislation .",
"First lady announces companies' pledge to hire 25,000 veterans and their spouses .",
"Obama blasts Republicans' opposition to his $447 billion jobs bill .",
"GOP leaders accuse president of dividing the country for short-term political gain ."
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"(CNN) -- The Pakistani actress featured in a racy cover shot in the December edition of a men's magazine in India told CNN she posed topless but not completely naked.",
"Veena Malik appeared on the cover of the Indian edition of FHM wearing only one thing: a tattoo on her arm bearing the initials ISI, the acronym for Pakistan's infamous Inter-Services Intelligence agency -- causing a stir in her conservative homeland.",
"Malik said FHM doctored the photographs to show her without clothes and has now revealed plans to sue the publication.",
"\"I admit that I have done a bold shoot,\" she said, \"but I was not nude.",
"There is a big difference between topless and being nude.",
"\"You will see various shoots here in the Bollywood industry where the actresses actually went topless but they were covered like the way I was.\"",
"In a telephone call with CNN, Malik said she had declined an offer a couple of months ago by an \"international (media) agency\" to pose nude for a fee but agreed to do a shoot for FHM India instead -- and without charges -- because it was a \"personality\" shoot.",
"\"What I have lost is priceless,\" she said.",
"But FHM India says Malik knew the terms all along and approved the photos.",
"The publication is even demanding a public apology and has threatened to counter-sue Malik for defamation.",
"\"She was completely aware of the cover,\" said FHM editor Kabeer Sharma.",
"\"She was completely aware of the concept.",
"She loved the concept.\"",
"Malik denies this.",
"Lawyer Ayaz Bilawala told CNN that Malik is seeking $1.9 million in damages, saying the magazine \"cheated\" his client and doctored the nude pictures.",
"In a legal notice served to the magazine, Malik contends that it was Sharma's idea for her to wear the painted on ISI tattoo; she was told it would be good for her image.",
"In another photo, which was originally slated for the cover, she is shown holding a grenade in her right hand.",
"FHM published the grenade photo inside, with a line plastered across it: \"The cover we didn't use.\"",
"Malik said the shoot was supposed to create positive feelings, not negative ones.",
"She added that the controversy has affected her family, particularly her father.",
"\"He did not speak to me. He spoke to one of the media groups and like he was (crying), I mean he was too upset ...",
"Okay I mean I don't blame him for that.\"",
"But the actress and model is no stranger to controversy.",
"She triggered uproar two years ago when she claimed that her former boyfriend, Pakistani cricketer Mohammed Asif, was involved in spot-fixing international matches.",
"Asif was found guilty last month in an English court.",
"A year later, the actress came under fire from Pakistani clerics who decried her behavior in the Indian reality TV show \"Big Boss,\" as \"un-Islamic.\"",
"\"I am not a perfect Muslim or a perfect person, but I haven't committed a crime, and unfortunately things like this are part and parcel of the industry I work in,\" Malik said.",
"Still, she downplayed her criticism back home.",
"\"I am not bothered about what they think,\" she said.",
"\"My fans and many Pakistanis support me and believe (in) me.\"",
"Harmeet Shah Singh reported from New Delhi and Shaan Khan reported from Islamabad, Pakistan."
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"Veena Malik appeared in FHM wearing only one thing: a tattoo on her arm bearing the initials ISI .",
"Malik said FHM doctored the photographs to show her without clothes on .",
"But FHM India says Malik knew the terms all along and approved the photos ."
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"(CNN) -- Most of us have dreamed of telling our bosses what they can do with this stupid job, perhaps with the help of a marching band, if your fantasies skew grandiose.",
"So what happens to the guy who actually does it and lives to post a video of the stunt on YouTube?",
"The numbers don't lie: Twenty-four-year-old Joey DeFrancesco has become a veritable Internet celebrity, a hero and a viral video sensation.",
"The original YouTube video of \"Joey Quits\" earned more than 2 million views a week, which includes 18,092 likes and 438 dislikes and counting.",
"\"I'm going to quit like that if I'm going to quit,\" one commenter said, echoing the wishful thinking of many.",
"\"Joey is the hero of all downtrodden workers because he is the embodiment of 'take this job and shove it.'",
"He's living out the fantasies of countless workers who also hate their bosses,\" said Allison Hemming, CEO of the Hired Guns, a digital marketing and talent agency.",
"Beyond resonating with millions of people, the video says a few things about how social media are changing the way businesses interact not just with customers but with employees, she said.",
"\"Managers should remember that if you're terrible to your people while they are working for you, your formerly silent former employees will have a platform to out you in a potentially very public way.",
"And that sentiment can effect your business too.\"",
"It also demonstrates how social media are allowing employees to control the circumstances of their departure for a change, said Anne Kreamer, a former Nickelodeon executive and author of \"It's Always Personal: Emotions in the New Workplace.\"",
"She cited ousted Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz's e-mail to Yahoo employees saying \"I've just been fired over the phone\" as another example of someone getting in front of their former bosses to control the message.",
"\"Rather than having the situation defined for them, people are trying to shape the conversation on their own.",
"For all we know, Joey was going to get fired the next day, but he turned it around.\"",
"The video's release couldn't be more timely, although DeFrancesco made the video when he quit his job at the Renaissance Providence Downtown Hotel in August.",
"The unemployment rate has remained at 9.1%, since July and new claims for unemployment benefits have lingered above 400,000 since April.",
"Those factors, taken with the Occupy Wall Street movement, create the ideal cultural climate for the birth of an Internet folk hero who embodies the anger and malaise felt by many, Kreamer said.",
"\"There's a kind of confluence of events that's forcing people's anger and dissatisfaction to the surface.",
"Everyone's been taking it on the chin for years because of the recession but now they're exhausted and want change,\" Kreamer said.",
"\"Joey's approach is unique in saying, 'I'm going to have some fun with this.'",
"\" DeFrancesco is not the first, and he's probably not the last, to publicly stage his flame-out.",
"If anything, his video is the latest example of how the Internet age has created a broader platform for behavior that used to be contained to smaller circles, Oregon-based career coach Dorothy Tannahill Moran said.",
"\"People have been flaming out publicly forever.",
"Now, with social media, we have a bigger stage for our flame-outs, and there's ever so many more places for it to be done,\" Moran said.",
"A YouTube video posted in 2007 shows a Moe's Southwest Grill manager tearing off his work shirt to reveal a white T-shirt with the words \"I QUIT\" while \"Ice, Ice Baby\" plays.",
"The worker launches into a respectable imitation of Vanilla Ice's original dance routine, complete with backup dancers.",
"Another take on the \"I QUIT\" chest proclamation appeared in a 2008 YouTube video of a man who tears off his shirt and has the phrase written on his bare skin.",
"He giddily skips around the office, boom box on shoulder, with \"just gotta get right outta here\" from Queen's \"Bohemian Rhapsody\" on a loop.",
"The last disgruntled employee to strike a chord in the public consciousness was former JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater, who famously deployed an emergency evacuation slide to dramatically exit an airplane after announcing to the flight that he was fed up.",
"Slater was back in the news Thursday when he was sentenced to a year of probation after completing a mental health treatment program.",
"His departure will cost him $10,000 in restitution to JetBlue, the price of repairing or replacing the emergency evacuation chute.",
"Slater told CNN the past year had been \"long\" and \"challenging.\"",
"He spent much of it commuting to a New York treatment facility from Los Angeles, where took care of his ill mother, who died this year.",
"But just imagine if someone had captured the incident on camera, Moran said.",
"Each departure reflects how the person felt about his job.",
"\"The question becomes what's the genesis of what prompted them to not just quit but to engage others in their departure,\" she said.",
"\"It's usually a combination of frustrations, usually oriented toward management, but it can also include other stressors from the job.\"",
"DeFrancesco said problems with management led to his departure.",
"He said he worked at the hotel for more than three years, during which time he participated in a push for employees to join a union.",
"The employees prevailed, but the struggle damaged relations between management and employees, he said.",
"\"They treat us like s***,\" DeFrancesco said at the start of the YouTube video.",
"\"I'm going to go and quit right now with the help of my bandmates.\"",
"On the video, he leads members of the What Cheer?",
"Brigade into the hotel through a side entrance.",
"His boss encounters them and tells them to leave, DeFrancesco responds by handing him a letter and saying \"I quit.\"",
"Cue the band as DeFrancesco walks away, smiling broadly, hands raised in triumph.",
"DeFrancesco said he has a new job that allows him to use his history degree, but he wouldn't say where.",
"But it's hard to say what the stunt will cost him in the long run, Hemming said.",
"\"If Joey wants to work in a creative industry, he may get to keep his hero status and use it to his advantage,\" she said.",
"\"I'd say to him, get an agent, use this moment to your advantage.\"",
"Finding a job in corporate America, where potential employers do extensive background checks, could be more challenging, she said.",
"\"He can expect to definitely be Googled by hiring and recruiting managers who might take a pass on him because they'll think, 'do I want to be the butt of a Joey joke when he quits on me in a few years?",
"This guy seems like a disgruntled employee before I've even met him.",
"I think I'll pass.'",
"\" Or, maybe it won't matter in a few years, as we grow even more accustomed to living our lives online.",
"\"My guess is he's not going to want to work in the hotel industry, but he's super-young, so don't think it'll irreparably ruin his chances.",
"Depending on the job, it might endear him to a potential employer.\""
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"YouTube video of man resigning with a marching band earns more than 2 million hits in a week .",
"\"Joey Quits\" is the \"embodiment of 'take this job and shove it,' \" career consultant says .",
"Video shows how social media let employees define circumstances of their depature .",
"Video could hurt chances of getting a job down the road, depending on the employer ."
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"(CNN) -- Authorities are searching for a 2-year-old boy in Bellevue, Washington, after the boy's mother said he went missing when she left him in her car to get help after she ran out of gas.",
"The mother, who was not identified in a police press release, ran out of gas Sunday morning in the northwestern area of the city with her two children, a 4-year-old and 2-year-old, in the car, authorities said.",
"The woman took the 4-year-old with her when she went to seek assistance, police said, leaving 2-year-old Sky Metalwala behind.",
"\"Approximately an hour later she returned to the vehicle and the baby was gone,\" police said in a statement.",
"The boy was reported missing at 9:50 a.m. About 50 people, including police with tracking dogs, fanned out around the area Sunday to try to find the boy, said Carla Iafrate, a spokeswoman for Bellevue police.",
"The search was suspended as night fell, she said.",
"Iafrate said the parents of the boy are cooperating."
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"NEW: The search has been suspended for the night .",
"Bellevue police say his mom left him in a car after she ran out of gas .",
"When she returned an hour later, he was gone .",
"Authorities are searching the area with the help of tracking dogs ."
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"(CNN) -- The week-old redesign of quick-messaging service Twitter was meant to simplify its tools and make it more accessible to newbies.",
"But it has had some unintended consequences.",
"Independent developers of applications that tie into Twitter's network say they have experienced significant accelerations in downloads and revenue since Twitter 4.0 launched last week.",
"When addicts of the social network got their hands on the new version, many recoiled upon seeing the changes.",
"They were especially vocal about the loss of some features in Twitter's mobile apps and about the private-message tab being hidden within another menu.",
"So thousands flocked to the various app stores to get third-party apps that look more like the previous version of Twitter.",
"Some of the most popular apps cost a few dollars, unlike the free app made by Twitter.",
"Tweetbot, an anime-themed app for the iPhone, more than doubled its usual revenue just after Twitter's major redesign, said Paul Haddad, a co-founder for app maker Tapbot.",
"When the small developer cut the price of Tweetbot in half on Friday, to 99 cents, revenue increased more than tenfold, Haddad said.",
"Independent trackers of app downloads verify that Tweetbot and others experienced big gains.",
"\"Word of mouth really goes a long way on Twitter,\" Haddad wrote in an e-mail.",
"The maker of another popular app, Twitterrific, saw a \"bump\" after the Twitter changes, which carried through to this week, said Craig Hockenberry, the head of app maker Iconfactory.",
"This effect is common, but short-lived, after a major change to Twitter, he said.",
"Twitterrific, which offers a free version with ads or a full version for $4.99, experienced a similar boost in March after Twitter updated its iPhone app with a much-maligned feature called the Quick Bar, Hockenberry said.",
"The Quick Bar, which critics dubbed Dick Bar after Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, added an ever-present ticker showing trending topics and ads.",
"Within a month, Twitter had removed the feature.",
"\"Please stop complaining about the new Twitter app,\" Haddad wrote on his Tapbot Twitter account last week.",
"\"They might revert back, and I'm really enjoying the increase in sales.\"",
"For a relatively new Twitter app, like Twittelator Neue, the backlash provided some much-needed attention.",
"That app, which costs $1.99, has seen about three times as many downloads in the week since Twitter 4.0.",
"\"We've definitely seen a spike since Twitter updated their official client,\" Ollie Wagner, the Twittelator developer, wrote in an e-mail.",
"\"Changes like the ones they've made tend to be quite polarizing, oftentimes magnetizing audiences towards newer third party clients.\"",
"In March, during the Quick Bar fiasco, Twitter began discouraging makers of these types of apps from pursuing development.",
"Ryan Sarver, a leader on Twitter's developer relations team, wrote then in a memo to partners that they should not be building software that reproduces the functions of a standard Twitter app.",
"\"We need to move to a less fragmented world, where every user can experience Twitter in a consistent way,\" Sarver wrote.",
"\"This is already happening organically -- the number and market share of consumer client apps that are not owned or operated by Twitter has been shrinking.\"",
"As that number seems to grow slightly, it's unclear whether Twitter's stance has changed.",
"A Twitter spokeswoman declined to comment, and Sarver didn't immediately respond to a request for comment."
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"Some were willing to pay a premium for apps that look familiar ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- It used to be said that if the American economy sneezed, Latin America and the Caribbean would catch a cold.",
"Not so anymore. Despite the great recession of 2008, the region has kept growing and avoided, largely unscathed, the troubles that still ail the United States.",
"The 20 nations that informally make up Latin America boast a booming economy with a combined GDP of more than $6 trillion, according to 2010 estimates by the International Monetary Fund.",
"Latin America and the Caribbean, with a population of over 591 million people in 2011, are a potent market in a region where the U.S. already has free trade agreements with Mexico, Chile, Peru, Colombia and Panama.",
"But with 2,000 miles of a common border between the U.S. and Mexico (its third-largest trading partner after Canada and China), a complicated communist presence still in Cuba, simmering anti-American sentiments in Venezuela, and Brazil -- the largest economy in Latin America and the U.S.'s eighth-largest trading partner -- already a formidable economic powerhouse, the region is anything but a stable, sedate space in the Western Hemisphere.",
"As the U.S. is actively engaged in a deadly drug war in Mexico, Colombia and most of Central America and the Caribbean, and an arms deal gone bad is threatening to consume a sitting U.S. attorney general, the region could easily be seen as a very real security threat for the next occupant of the White House.",
"So will Latin America be one of the issues that the eight major Republican candidates confront during Tuesday's CNN National Security Debate in Washington?",
"You might not think so.",
"A Google search of news stories on \"national security\" and \"foreign policy\" resulted in articles related to Syria, the Middle East, terrorism and who is advising the Republican candidates.",
"Latin America or the Caribbean don't show up on the first 10 screens.",
"Still, candidates ignore the region at their peril.",
"New president in Guatemala .",
"Hugo Chávez, the ailing president of Venezuela, has in the past reached out to Russia, Iran and Syria for arms support and strategic alliances.",
"In Cuba, Raúl Castro, who took over as president of the country from his older brother Fidel in 2008, is only now starting to loosen restrictions on property ownership and instituting other reforms on the socialist island just 90 miles south of Florida.",
"A fence along the border .",
"And then there's immigration. In recent debates, it has been considered more of a domestic issue, with proposals from the major candidates for a single fence, a double fence, an electrified fence and other fence variants along the border with Mexico.",
"Herman Cain, who had been surging in polls but is starting to slip, said that he supported a fence along the Mexican border.",
"\"When I'm in charge of the fence, we going to have a fence.",
"It's going to be 20 feet high.",
"It's going to have barbed wire on the top.",
"It's going to be electrocuted, electrified,\" Cain told a rally in Tennessee.",
"\"And there's going to be a sign on the other side that says it will kill you.\"",
"He apologized for the comment, saying \"it was just a joke,\" but a day later said he still supported some sort of electrified fence that could kill people trying to cross the border illegally.",
"Rep. Michelle Bachmann, who was popular early in the GOP race but has since fallen back to single digits in some polls, said she supports a two-part fence.",
"\"I was the very first candidate that signed a pledge that said that, by a date certain, I will build a double-walled fence with -- with an area of security neutrality in between.\"",
"Most GOP candidates have opposed most proposals for immigration reform until the border is \"sealed,\" although the Obama administration states that border security is tighter that it has ever been.",
"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported last month that the Obama administration deported nearly 400,000 illegal immigrants in the last year, a record number for the third straight year.",
"Staying out of their business .",
"If Latin America and the Caribbean do come up in the discussions Tuesday, Rep. Ron Paul probably will be applauded by the region for his proposal not to meddle in other countries' affairs.",
"He may not get the same applause in Latin America, however, for an idea -- shared by his some of his rivals -- to eliminate much of U.S. foreign aid to the region, which worldwide accounts for less than 1% of the federal budget.",
"Gov. Mitt Romney presented a formal proposal for Latin America focusing on trade and singling out Venezuela and Cuba.",
"Cain says he will follow guidance from Cubans in South Florida on what to do about Cuba and the embargo.",
"Romney: I won't let Iran get nukes .",
"Meanwhile, Gov.",
"Rick Perry would send U.S. troops to help fight the war on drugs in Mexico, although that country most likely wouldn't accept them.",
"Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who appears to be the most informed of the candidates on the region by far, says he's learning Spanish and follows issues beyond the standard talking points on Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil.",
"The current crop of Republican candidates would be wise to pay attention to the looming security presence posed by Latin America, whether it is drugs in Mexico, cartels in Colombia, Castros in Cuba, or a Chávez in Venezuela."
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"Deadly drug war in Mexico and Colombia, tensions in Venezuela make region a concern .",
"Several GOP presidential candidates have weighed in on the volatile region ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- Police say they arrested a total of 153 people when students protested against planned hikes in university tuition.",
"Police said that after the protest was scheduled to end Tuesday at 2 p.m., a large group of protesters still congregated at Trafalgar Square.",
"\"As a result a group of around 150-200 people who still refused to leave were contained by police in Trafalgar Square.",
"Despite repeated requests to disperse, this group remained,\" London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement late Tuesday.",
"Authorities said 139 of the 153 were arrested for breach of the peace.",
"Others were charged with violent disorder, common assault, obstructing police and criminal damage.",
"iReport: Student protestors demonstrate in London .",
"The protesters say they are angry at government plans to remove the current annual cap of 3,000 pounds (about $4,700) on university tuition and allow schools to charge as much as 9,000 pounds (about $14,200).",
"The change is part of the government's plan to cut its massive budget deficit.",
"Defenders of the plan say universities will not necessarily charge the maximum they're allowed to, and the government has said students will not need to pay back the fees until they earn at least 21,000 pounds (about $32,600) a year.",
"That threshold is currently 15,000 pounds (about $23,300) a year.",
"CNN's Carol Jordan contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- There once was a time -- like, oh, the late 1990s -- when the box set loomed over the music world like a just reward.",
"With dazzling presentations -- 3-D brains!",
"Lucite cubes!",
"portable faux-phonographs!",
"-- and equally unrestrained liner notes, these CD collections were the ultimate capstone to an artist's career or the last word in genre compilations.",
"And then, they faded away.",
"Not entirely, of course.",
"But in an iTunes-dominated MP3 world faced with declining CD sales -- and fewer artists and genres left to mine -- the box set (or boxed set, if you prefer) now takes a back seat to iPods and singles.",
"Who has time to get immersed in a 6-CD collection of greatest hits, choice cuts and outtakes?",
"It's almost as quaint as reading a book, for Pete's sake.",
"But the box set isn't dead yet, and each year brings a number that are as lovingly prepared and painstakingly presented as the classics of yore.",
"Here are seven that are worth your while this season.",
"\"The Smile Sessions,\" The Beach Boys (Capitol, 5 CDs, 2 LPs, 2 45s) It was 1966 and Brian Wilson was going to outdo \"Pet Sounds,\" the Beach Boys classic released in May of that year.",
"He had a vision of an album that would summarize the American journey.",
"With lyrics provided by Van Dyke Parks, Wilson worked over his songs endlessly, trying to harness the sounds running through his head.",
"He almost went mad.",
"In the end, it was too much; around May 1967, he pulled the plug.",
"The end of \"Smile\" was the end of a chapter for Wilson and the Beach Boys: They would never attempt to scale such musical heights again.",
"But the album refused to go away.",
"Bootleggers put out versions, and Capitol released about 30 minutes on the Beach Boys' 1993 box set.",
"Wilson himself revisited it for a 2004 solo album.",
"Now comes the original recordings, showcasing song progressions, studio chatter and those gorgeous Beach Boys harmonies on such songs as \"Heroes and Villains,\" \"Cabinessence\" and \"Surf's Up.\"",
"The deluxe box includes vinyl, archival photographs and other \"Smile\"-related material.",
"The greatest unreleased album of all time?",
"You be the judge. \"Phil Spector Presents the Philles Album Collection,\" Various Artists (Sony/Legacy, 7 CDs) What sound was Brian Wilson pursuing?",
"It was Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, that echo-y, mighty mass of music that spilled through AM radios like the voice of heaven itself.",
"Undergirding it all was the Wrecking Crew, the band of L.A. session kings (including drummer Hal Blaine, guitarist Glen Campbell and saxophonist Steve Douglas) who never let up on the beat.",
"This set presents the original albums from the Crystals, the Ronettes and Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans, with an extra disc of label sides for good measure.",
"\"Nevermind\" Super Deluxe edition, Nirvana (Geffen, 4 CDs, 1 DVD) Sometimes the changing of the guard is as obvious as the progressions of No.",
"1 singles on the Billboard charts.",
"In early 1964, Bobby Vinton's \"There!",
"I Said It Again\" gave way to the Beatles' \"I Want to Hold Your Hand\" on the singles chart and, just like that, the British Invasion dawned.",
"Similarly, on January 11, 1992, Michael Jackson's \"Dangerous\" was knocked out of the top spot on the album chart by three scruffy lads from Washington state, and the indie-grunge gold rush was on.",
"The Super Deluxe edition of Nirvana's 1991 classic includes the original album as well as studio outtakes, live cuts and -- most interesting of all -- Butch Vig's original mix.",
"\"Smiths Complete,\" The Smiths (Rhino, 8 CDs) Stop me if you think you've heard this one before: An amusingly morose lyricist/singer joins forces with a jangly, riff-minded guitarist and a crack rhythm section.",
"The four produce several singles with titles such as \"Girlfriend in a Coma,\" \"William, It Was Really Nothing,\" and \"Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now,\" top the British charts for a few years, and then go their separate ways.",
"That was the story of the Smiths, and their four studio albums -- along with three compilations and a live album -- have been remastered by the guitarist, Johnny Marr, for this box set.",
"For the true diehards, Rhino Records also has a limited-edition version with CDs, LPs, singles, posters and wallpaper, yours for $499.98.",
"\"The Armstrong Box,\" Louis Armstrong (Storyville, 7 CDs, 1 DVD) The man who helped create jazz with his Hot Five and Hot Seven groups has been the subject of several box sets, but considering his career spanned five decades, there's always more to uncover.",
"Storyville Records has compiled live performances from 1947 to 1967, including \" 'S Wonderful,\" \"Basin Street Blues\" and several versions of \"When It's Sleepy Time Down South.\"",
"(For those who want an Armstrong primer, Elvis Costello recommends the import \"Ambassador of Jazz,\" a 10-disc collection packaged in a miniature suitcase.)",
"\"Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters 1951-1960,\" Howlin' Wolf (Hip-O, 4 CDs) If you want to know where rock 'n' roll starts, you could easily find yourself at 2120 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago, the longtime home of Chess Records.",
"(It's now the site of Willie Dixon's Blues Heaven Foundation.)",
"Among Chess' stars was bluesman Chester Burnett, better known as Howlin' Wolf, who set the place afire with the songs \"Back Door Man,\" \"Spoonful\" and, of course, \"Smokestack Lightning,\" many written and/or produced by Dixon -- and cornerstones for any self-respecting blues or rock band.",
"He was 41 when he first started recording for Chess, and he helped make the label the legend it is.",
"\"This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45 RPM 1957-1982,\" Various Artists (Tompkins Square, 3 CDs) So much of the most interesting American music was done for small labels on the fly; after all, it's not as though every artist could afford endless hours of studio time, paid for with big major-label advances.",
"Some of this material has come in for a ribbing in the CD/Internet age -- think about those sites devoted to ugly album covers, never mind the music within -- but several labels have devoted themselves to searching out and mastering these long-lost recordings.",
"\"This May Be My Last Time Singing\" is a follow-up to \"Fire in My Bones,\" a 2009 collection also put together by Mike McGonigal, featuring music straight from the soul."
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"Several notable box sets available this year .",
"One of the biggest: \"The Smile Sessions,\" Beach Boys classic finally released .",
"Other sets devoted to blues legend Howlin' Wolf, long-lost gospel singles ."
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