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"(CNN) -- Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has ruled out the possibility of Carlos Tevez departing on loan, hours after AC Milan announced plans to discuss a possible move for the Argentina striker.",
"Milan want an initial loan deal with a view to a post-season transfer, but Mancini warned the Italian champions ahead of Thursday's planned meeting that the 27-year-old will only leave the English Premier League leaders if a permanent deal can be agreed.",
"\"I hope we can find a good solution for us and Carlos,'' Mancini, who guided Milan's archrivals Inter to three successive Serie A titles, told reporters on Tuesday.",
"\"We want Carlos to come back and play football, and the best solution for us is to sell him.",
"\"Milan know we can't put him on loan but if they want to buy Carlos, for us it is OK.\" Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani said a deal is unlikely to be wrapped up before the seven-time European champions leave for a mid-season training camp in Dubai on December 29.",
"\"Thursday we have a meeting with Manchester City about Tevez, but will probably not be the decisive one to conclude the negotiations,\" Galliani told Milan's official website.",
"\"It will be almost impossible to take him to Dubai with the rest of the team.",
"With Manchester City we have a long way to go, at the moment.\"",
"Mancini said City could not continue allowing to let highly-paid players go out on loan, which has happened with strikers such as Emmanuel Adebayor, Roque Santa Cruz and -- until he joined Liverpool on a free transfer in August -- Craig Bellamy.",
"\"When Manchester City buy a player, they have to pay a lot of money.",
"But when we want to sell them, they have to go on loan.",
"It is not good for the club and it is not correct for the other players,\" he said.",
"\"Manchester City paid Carlos a lot of money three years ago.",
"It is correct that if one club -- it could be Milan, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain -- they pay Carlos for his value.",
"This is correct.\" Silva strike leaves Manchester City clear at the top .",
"Tevez was fined by City for refusing to warm up when he was an unused substitute in a European Champions League defeat to Bayern Munich in September.",
"The former Manchester United forward has been consistently linked with a move away from the Etihad Stadium after handing in a transfer request in December 2010.",
"Tevez looked to be heading back to former club Corinthians -- where he spent two years between 2004 and 2006 -- but the Brazilian club pulled out of the deal in July.",
"The Buenos Aires native has not played for City since September's domestic cup victory over second division Birmingham City and has made just three league appearances for the team he captained last season.",
"Meanwhile, former France striker David Trezeguet is on the verge of sealing a switch to Argentine team River Plate.",
"River's official website confirmed the 34-year-old has passed a medical and will officially join the Buenos Aires club on January 4.",
"The former Juventus and Monaco forward has been playing for Baniyas in the United Arab Emirates since leaving Spanish club Hercules in August.",
"Trezeguet has enjoyed a glittering career, winning the World Cup with France in 1998 before scoring the winning goal for his country in the final of Euro 2000 against Italy.",
"The 33-time national champions have endured a torrid time in recent seasons, culminating in their relegation from Argentina's top flight in June."
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"Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini rules out Carlos Tevez leaving on loan .",
"City will discuss the transfer of Argentina striker with Italy's AC Milan on Thursday .",
"Tevez has not played for English Premier League leaders since September .",
"French World Cup winner David Trezeguet has passed a medical at River Plate ."
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"(CNN) -- Inter Milan moved closer to a Champions League place after crushing Parma 5-0 on Saturday following fourth-placed Lazio's shock 4-0 defeat by Siena.",
"Claudio Ranieri's team closed to within a point of the Rome side after 17 games as Italy's Serie A program resumed following a winter break.",
"The win left Inter five points behind defending champions AC Milan and second-placed Juventus, who travel to mid-table Atalanta and bottom side Lecce respectively on Sunday.",
"Inter have been linked with a move for Carlos Tevez, who is widely expected to join local rivals Milan, but it was the Manchester City striker's fellow Argentine Diego Milito who hit the headlines with a first-half double at the San Siro.",
"Who will be January's top transfer targets?",
"Milito has failed to maintain the heights that saw him score both goals in the final of Europe's premier club competition in 2010, but the 32-year-old highlighted his value with a 13th-minute opener from compatriot Ricardo Alvarez's cross.",
"Midfielder Thiago Motta made it 2-0 with a low shot from distance five minutes later, and Milito headed his seventh goal in all competitions this season from Maicon's cross just before halftime.",
"Milito set up strike partner Giampaolo Pazzini in the 56th minute, and the South American's 76th-minute replacement Marcoo Faraoni sealed Inter's biggest win this season with his first touch of the ball, as the 20-year-old fired in a volley off the crossbar for his first goal in Serie A.",
"It is the first time Inter have won five league matches in a row since Jose Mourinho departed in May 2010, and continues the club's resurgent form after a poor start to this season.",
"The defeat left Parma in 13th, and followed 4-1 defeats by Juve and Milan earlier this season.",
"Title hopefuls Lazio could have moved up to third place above Udinese, but went 3-0 down by halftime against Siena after goalkeeper Albano Bizzarri was sent off.",
"Young striker Mattia Destro gave the Tuscany side the lead after only 11 minutes, and Emanuele Calaio doubled the lead on 35 with his first penalty after Franco Brienza went down in the box.",
"Destro put the ball in the net just before the break, but the referee had already awarded a penalty after Bizzarri made contact with the 20-year-old -- and substitute keeper Juan Pablo Carrizo's first job was to retrieve Calaio's spot-kick from the back of the net.",
"Destro, on loan from Genoa, sealed victory with nine minutes to play, heading in Cristiano Del Grosso's cross for his fifth Serie A goal this season as Siena moved up to 14th -- six points above the bottom three."
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"Diego Milito scores twice as Inter Milan beat Parma 5-0 at the San Siro on Saturday .",
"Win puts Inter within a point of fourth-placed Lazio, who crashed 4-0 at Siena .",
"Inter won for the fifth successive match in Serie A to keep European hopes alive .",
"Title hopefuls Lazio face the prospect of dropping eight points off the lead ."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson signaled his intention to stay at the English Premier League champions for at least three more years but struggling Blackburn wrecked his 70th birthday celebrations with a stunning 3-2 win at Old Trafford Saturday.",
"Ferguson marked 25 years in charge of the English Premier League champions earlier this year, but his ambition clearly still burns bright.",
"\"I think I've got three years at the club,\" Ferguson told the official club website.",
"\"As long as my health stays up, and as long as I'm still enjoying it and still getting the satisfaction of the team doing its best,\" he added.",
"Ferguson's top moments in 25 years in charge .",
"The legendary Scot has set his sights on further success in the European Champions League after their shock exit at the group stages this season and to add to the club's tally of 19 English championships.",
"\"We have to continue the dominance of winning leagues and, without question, winning a European Cup is important at this club.",
"We should have been in at least another three finals.",
"But you can't be greedy, I suppose, and having won two in my time is an achievement.",
"\"They were special, it was terrific to win them.",
"I think I'd be very keen to do that (again).\"",
"Blackburn, in the relegation zone of the EPL and with manager Steve Kean under continued pressure, scored probably the most unlikely win of the season after the United faithful had paid homage to their manager before the start.",
"Blog: Out with the old and in with the new in 2012 .",
"With Ferguson resting Wayne Rooney and other first team regulars, their Lancastrian neighbors led 1-0 at half time through an Ayegbeni Yakubu penalty.",
"It was awarded after Dimitar Berbatov pulled down Christopher Samba and put away with some aplomb.",
"Yakubu rifled home a super second, his 12th of the season just after the break, holding off Phil Jones and Michael Carrick before putting his side 2-0 ahead.",
"Almost immediately, Berbatov atoned for his earlier mistake by pulling one back and when the Bulgarian equalized with his sixth goal in three games, United looked set to claim victory.",
"But Kean's men were resolute throughout and in the 80th minute grabbed the winner.",
"It came after United goalkeeper David de Gea flapped at a Morten Gamst Pedersen corner and Grant Hanley was on hand to head home.",
"The result lifted Blackburn off the bottom, while United stayed level on points with neighbors Manchester City, who play Sunday against Sunderland.",
"Ferguson did not temper his reaction to the disappointing defeat which prevented his side leading the EPL at the end of the year.",
"\"It is a disaster,\" he told Press Association.",
"\"I never expected it.",
"We lost two terrible goals and you can't do that.\""
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"Alex Ferguson gives himself three more years at Manchester United .",
"Legendary manager recently celebrated 25 years in charge .",
"Ferguson turned 70 as his team beaten 3-2 by Blackburn .",
"Shock defeat leaves United level with Man City on points ."
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"(CNN) -- Neil Warnock became the second English Premier League manager to be sacked this season when Queens Park Rangers announced his departure Sunday.",
"The promoted side have managed just four league wins this season and are hovering a point above the relegation zone.",
"Only a last-minute goal prevented them from crashing out of the English FA Cup Saturday at third-flight MK Dons, Warnock's final match in charge.",
"Steve Bruce left Sunderland in November to be replaced by Martin O'Neill.",
"\"Queens Park Rangers Football Club has today parted company with manager Neil Warnock,\" said a statement on the club's official website.",
"Malaysian businessman owner Tony Fernandes, who took over the West London club early in the season, gave the reasons for Warnock's exit.",
"\"Sadly, our recent run of results has seen us slip alarmingly down the table and the board thought it was time for a change.",
"\"Neil has acted with honesty, professionalism and integrity throughout his time at the club, and I would personally like to thank him for his significant contribution to QPR over the last 22 months.\"",
"Warnock, who led QPR back to the top-flight last season, left proud of his record.",
"\"Obviously I'm very disappointed, but having achieved so much, I leave the club with a great sense of pride.",
"\"My biggest regret is that the takeover didn't happen earlier, because that would have given me the opportunity to bring in the targets I'd pinpointed all last summer and probably given us a better chance to succeed in the Premier League.\"",
"Former Manchester City manager Mark Hughes is the early favorite to succeed the 63-year-old Warnock at Loftus Road.",
"Rangers said an announcement on Warnock's successor would be made in \"due course.\""
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"QPR sack manager Neil Warnock Sunday .",
"Warnock led QPR back to the English Premier League last season .",
"QPR owner Tony Fernandes blames poor recent results .",
"Mark Hughes early favorite to succeed Warnock ."
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"(CNN) -- Chelsea captain John Terry is an iconic figure with the English football club's fans as a result of his on-field achievements in more than 15 years at Stamford Bridge.",
"The center-back is the most successful skipper in Chelsea's history, having led the London side to three Premier League titles, three FA Cups and two League Cups since 2004.",
"Terry, who turned 31 this month, has made more than 500 appearances for the club since his senior debut in 1998, one of only five players to do so, and has represented his country 72 times since 2003.",
"After a brief spell on loan at second division Nottingham Forest, Terry established himself in Chelsea's starting line-up as a 20-year-old during the 2000-01 Premier League season.",
"England soccer captain Terry charged with racism .",
"His rise to prominence continued in June 2003 when he made his first appearance for the England national team, as manager Sven Goran Eriksson introduced him as a second-half substitute in a 2-1 win over Serbia and Montenegro.",
"When former France defender Marcel Desailly left Chelsea in 2004, Terry was handed the captain's armband by then manager Jose Mourinho.",
"His first year as skipper ended in glory, with the Blues lifting their first English championship in 50 years -- a feat that was repeated the following season.",
"In 2006 Terry traveled to the FIFA World Cup with England, his second major tournament with the team having also played at Euro 2004.",
"Both events ended at the quarterfinal stage for Eriksson's side.",
"Footballers are TV stars, and should act like it .",
"The defender was named England captain by Eriksson's successor Steve McClaren, and scored in his first match wearing the armband -- a 4-0 defeat of Greece at Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium.",
"It was against United that Terry experienced one of the most dramatic lows of his career, in the 2008 European Champions League final .",
"Terry missed the chance to clinch Chelsea's first European crown when he slipped while taking a penalty in the shootout, and his effort hit the post.",
"United went on to triumph at a rain-soaked Luzhniki Stadium.",
"In 2009-10, Terry became the first man to lead the Blues to a Premier League and FA Cup double.",
"Off the pitch, 2010 was a turbulent year for Terry.",
"Revelations about his personal life were widely reported in the British press and he was also stripped of the England captaincy before the World Cup in South Africa.",
"Terry's second World Cup with England ended in humiliation as Fabio Capello's team crashed 4-0 to Germany in the round of 16.",
"Capello reinstated Terry as England captain in March 2011 as a result of an injury to United center-back Rio Ferdinand.",
"Terry has made 502 appearances for Chelsea, scoring 46 goals.",
"He has also found the net on six occasions for England."
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"John Terry made his Chelsea debut against Aston Villa in 1998 .",
"Terry led the club to a first English championship in 50 years in 2005 .",
"He became the first Chelsea captain to win a league and FA Cup double in 2006 .",
"Terry is the current England captain, having been stripped of the role in 2010 ."
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"(CNN) -- Thierry Henry has assured New York Red Bulls fans that his return to English soccer club Arsenal will not interfere with his American commitments.",
"The former France international signed his long-awaited two-month loan deal with the London side on Friday, but plans to be back for the start of the Major League Soccer season in March.",
"\"I always said I would not play in Europe again, but it is hard for me when it comes to Arsenal,\" the 34-year-old the Gunners' website.",
"\"I am not coming here for the whole season, I will be back and I want to win the MLS Cup with the Red Bulls.",
"I hope it is win-win situation where I can help Arsenal and come back fit for the MLS season.\"",
"Who are January's top transfer targets?",
"Henry returns to a club where he scored a record 226 goals before joining Spain's Barcelona in mid-2007, then moving to the Big Apple in 2010.",
"A statue of the player has been erected at the Emirates Stadium to mark Arsenal's 125th anniversary.",
"\"It is unreal, to be honest.",
"But when it comes to Arsenal my heart will always do the talking.",
"Once I knew the plan behind it I was OK with it,\" he said.",
"Henry was brought in by manager Arsene Wenger with strikers Gervinho and Marouane Chamakh going to the African Cup of Nations this month, but recognizes that he will be providing backup for a player who has this season taken his mantle as the team's most influential player and captain -- top scorer Robin van Persie.",
"\"I am not coming here to be a hero or prove anything.",
"I am just coming here to help.",
"People have to understand that,\" said Henry, who has been training with the Arsenal squad since November and could make his first appearance in Monday's FA Cup tie against Leeds.",
"\"It is a loan deal and I'll be on the bench most of the time.",
"If I can make the bench that is!",
"The boss has a team here already who are doing something good.",
"I am just going to be part of the squad.\"",
"Henry joined Arsenal from Italy's Juventus in 1999 as an unproven raw talent, despite having already made his international debut and being part of France's World Cup-winning squad.",
"Wenger transformed him from a wide player into one of the most effective forwards of his generation.",
"\"I am very happy. It was my desire and Thierry's desire,\" Wenger said of his former Monaco protege.",
"\"I am sure during these two months he will be a massive asset to the team in the dressing room and on the pitch.",
"He can be relaxed, not under too much pressure and be a tremendous help to the team.\""
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"Veteran striker Thierry Henry signs two-month loan deal with his former club Arsenal .",
"Henry aims to return to New York Red Bulls for start of MLS season in March .",
"He is Arsenal's record goal scorer during an eight-year spell in London until 2007 .",
"Henry says he does not expect to be given a regular starting role by Arsene Wenger ."
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"(CNN) -- Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has confirmed that Thierry Henry is on the verge of a return to the club on a two-month loan deal from MLS side New York Red Bulls.",
"French striker Henry is Arsenal's all-time top scorer with 226 goals for the club from 1999 to 2007, before his move to Barcelona.",
"And compatriot Wenger revealed on Friday that Henry, who was recently honored by the club with a statue outside their Emirates Stadium home, is poised to make a temporary return to fill in for strikers Gervinho and Marouane Chamakh, who will be leaving Arsenal in January to appear in the Africa Cup of Nations.",
"Out with the old and in with the new in 2012 .",
"Wenger told the official Arsenal website: \"For two months it certainly will happen but we cannot announce anything yet because all the paperwork is not done.",
"\"To cover for two months is ideal, he has the experience and the quality.",
"He knows the club and can help the players both on and off the pitch.\"",
"Wenger continued: \"Thierry has exceptional talent and is a very intelligent man, it can only be positive.\"",
"Henry has been training with Arsenal since the MLS season finished in November and Wenger added: \"He is very happy and very modest about it.",
"\"It was my idea and he was happy with the idea.\"",
"The 34-year-old Henry, who is seen by supporters as a club legend after winning two titles and three FA Cup winners medals with Arsenal, could feature in seven English Premier League matches as well as the Champions League last 16 clash with AC Milan."
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"Thierry Henry is on the verge of a return to Arsenal in a two-month loan deal .",
"Arsene Wenger confirms terms for the temporary switch are nearly complete .",
"The 34-year-old New York Red Bulls striker is Arsenal's record all-time scorer ."
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"(CNN) -- Samuel Eto'o can return to international action in September after the Cameroon Football Federation decided to reduce the four-time African player of the year's 15-match suspension to eight months.",
"The 30-year-old national captain, who has represented his country more than 100 times, was punished last month for his role in the team's players refusing to play in a friendly against Algeria in November due to unpaid bonuses.",
"But Friday's meeting of the federation's executive meeting ended with his ban being cut, while his vice-captain Enoh Eyong had a two-match suspension halved and defender Benoit Assou-Ekotto's $2,000 fine for refusing national call-ups was waived.",
"Cameroon had to pay Algeria's FA $500,000 in compensation, but the subsequent punishment of the players attracted strong criticism and reports claimed that President Paul Biya intervened to have the rulings reconsidered.",
"Eto'o is widely considered one of the greatest players Africa has produced, having had a distinguished career with European heavyweights Barcelona and Inter Milan before moving to Russia's Anzhi Makhachkala in a big-money deal last year.",
"The federation -- known as Fecafoot -- released a statement on Saturday describing him as \"a world famous athlete who has rendered outstanding services to the national team of Cameroon.\"",
"Eto'o will miss the two-legged 2013 African Cup of Nations qualifier against Guinea Bissau on February 29 and June 15, plus 2014 World Cup qualifiers against Democratic Republic of Congo on June 1 and Libya a week later.",
"Cameroon's Indomitable Lions failed to qualify for this year's African Cup of Nations, which will start this month in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea."
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"Cameroon's football federation reduces Samuel Eto'o's suspension to eight months .",
"The national captain had been banned for 15 matches for his role in a player strike .",
"But now the 30-year-old will sit out four international games and can return in September .",
"Vice-captain Enoh Eyong had a two-match suspension halved by the federation ."
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"(CNN) -- Paul Scholes came out of retirement for a shock return as Manchester United beat FA Cup holders Manchester City 3-2 in Sunday's dramatic third-round tie between England's top two teams.",
"The 37-year-old former England international quit at the end of last season, but was named as a substitute by manager Alex Ferguson after agreeing to return for the rest of this season.",
"He came off the bench just before the hour mark to be cheered by the visiting United fans at the Etihad Stadium, with the Premier League champions already 3-0 ahead.",
"Scholes' return was not entirely successful as his mistake led to City's second goal, scored by Sergio Aguero, but United held on for a hard-fought victory.",
"Who are January's top transfer targets?",
"Premier League leaders City had captain Vincent Kompany sent off after 12 minutes and were 3-0 down at halftime before forging a comeback.",
"The defender's red card could cost him a four-match ban, which would be a blow to City's hopes of a first league title since 1968 given that Yaya and Kolo Toure are away for a month at the African Cup of Nations.",
"City manager Roberto Mancini said the club would appeal Kompany's second straight red this season, which came for a two-footed lunge on United winger Nani in the 12th minute at 1-0 down.",
"\"We will appeal. I am sure we will win,\" Mancini said.",
"Wayne Rooney scored twice for United, either side of Kompany's controversial red card, as he returned to form following reports that the club wanted to sell him.",
"He said Scholes' recall had been a big surprise.",
"Blog: Who are the top 10 transfer targets ?",
"\"It was a bit of a shock to be honest, we didn't know until we were in the dressing room, but he's a great player,\" Rooney told ITV Sport.",
"Ferguson opted for Scholes, who has been working with the reserves at United, with his squad hit by an injury crisis.",
"\"It's fantastic that Paul has made this decision,\" Ferguson said before the match started.",
"\"He has kept himself in great shape and I always felt that he had another season in him.",
"It's terrific to have him back.\"",
"Rooney's 10th-minute header put United ahead, then Kompany was dismissed by referee Chris Foy soon after.",
"Fellow striker Danny Welbeck made it 2-0 with a superb volley before earning the spot-kick to give Rooney the chance to score his second.",
"Rooney saw his effort saved by City's stand-in keeper Costel Pantilmon -- who replaced rested England No.1 Joe Hart -- but then headed home the rebound.",
"Aleksandar Kolarov gave Roberto Mancini's men an early second-half lifeline with a free-kick from the edge of the area before the entry of Scholes.",
"His mistake let James Milner cross for Aguero's goal, but otherwise he gave an assured display in his return to the big time.",
"United's reward for beating their local rivals is a mouthwatering fourth-round tie at Liverpool, who beat Oldham 5-1 Friday.",
"Liverpool decide against appeal in Suarez race ban case .",
"It will be the first clash between the two sides since the October league clash which led to an eight-game ban for Luis Suarez for racially abusing United's Patrice Evra.",
"Everton-Fulham is another confirmed all-Premier League tie, while Arsenal, if they beat Leeds on Monday, will be at home to Aston Villa.",
"In Sunday's other third-round action Sunday, Ramires scored twice as Chelsea enjoyed a 4-0 victory over Portsmouth at Stamford Bridge.",
"His late double and an added time fourth for Frank Lampard were hard on Pompey, who had restricted Chelsea to a goal by Juan Mata in the 48th minute.",
"Chelsea will face the winners of the MK Dons-QPR replay, while Sunderland who won 2-0 at Peterborough Sunday to continue their remarkable revival under Martin O'Neill, will play Middlesbrough in a north-east derby."
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"Manchester United beat FA Cup holders Manchester City 3-2 in the third round .",
"United veteran Paul Scholes comes out of retirement to play in the second half .",
"City captain Vincent Kompany sent off after only 12 minutes, which the club will appeal .",
"Wayne Rooney scores twice in first half as United set up fourth-round clash with Liverpool ."
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"(CNN) -- Brazil have moved to the top of South American qualifying for the 2010 World Cup finals after thrashing Uruguay 4-0 in Montevideo, their first victory in the country for 33 years.",
"Brazil players celebrate Juan's second goal in their 4-0 thrashing of Uruguay.",
"Barcelona full-back Daniel Alves gave them an 11th-minute lead with a speculative long-range effort that goalkeeper Sebastian Viera allowed to bounce over him and into the net.",
"Roma defender Juan headed home the second goal 10 minutes before the interval and Sevilla's Luis Fabiano added a third early in the second half, although he was later sent off.",
"In-demand AC Milan playmaker Kaka completed the victory from the penalty spot after he had been fouled in the area.",
"The win sees Brazil move onto 24 points, level with former leaders Paraguay who relinquished top spot after a shock 2-0 home defeat at the hands of Chile.",
"Goals from Matias Fernandez in the 12th minute and Humberto Suazo in the 50th gave Chile a crucial win, lifting them up to third place -- just a single point off the top two.",
"Argentina complete the top four, another point behind on 22 points, after a 56th-minute Daniel Diaz goal gave them a 1-0 home victory over Colombia in Buenos Aires.",
"With only the leading four teams guaranteed a place in South Africa next year, fifth-placed Uruguay now appear to have a mountain to climb, as they trail Argentina by five points with just five matches remaining.",
"The fifth-placed team will have North America's fourth-placed side in a play-off for the remaining World Cup qualification place."
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"Brazil beat Uruguay 4-0 in Montevideo to top South American qualifying group .",
"Previous leaders Paraguay lost 2-0 at home to Chile and are down to second .",
"Argentina complete the top four in the table after a 1-0 success over Colombia ."
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"(CNN) -- Brazil playmaker Kaka confirmed his transfer from Italian side AC Milan to Spanish club Real Madrid, in a move worth a reported $100 million.",
"Kaka announces to the world that he will play for Real Madrid next season.",
"\"Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, Kaka, now plays for Real Madrid following the deal reached with AC Milan,\" Real Madrid announced on its Web site.",
"\"The Brazilian footballer satisfactorily passed a full medical checkup.",
"Kaka has signed a contract linking him to Real Madrid for the next six seasons.\"",
"Spanish media reported the deal was worth in the region of $100 million (65 million euro).",
"Due to fluctuations in exchange rates this figure eclipses the previous transfer record paid in dollars by Real for French star Zinedine Zidane in 2001, but not in euros.All the latest transfer gossip .",
"\"It will be very difficult to fill the void that Kaka will leave, as he is a shining example of commitment and professionalism,\" the Italian side said in a prepared statement.",
"\"AC Milan, on behalf of the Rossoneri managers, players and supporters, send him the most cordial and affectionate wishes for the continuation of his sporting career.\"",
"See the 20 most wanted footballers .",
"The 2007 World Player of the Year completed the deal following a medical examination on Monday, at the request of the Spanish Primera Liga giants, his national federation said.",
"The 27-year-old midfielder is currently on international duty ahead of Brazil's World Cup qualifier against Paraguay on Wednesday but was released for the medical tests in the north-eastern city of Recife.",
"International duty means the official unveiling of the player in the Spanish capital will more then likely not occur until the end of the month, after Kaka returns from helping Brazil defend the Confederations Cup in South Africa.",
"Kaka is set to become the first of the new wave of \"galacticos\" brought together under the leadership of returning club president Florentino Perez.",
"Milan president Silvio Berlusconi had told Kaka that he had to decide on his future on Monday.",
"The Serie A club's owner revealed on Italian television station Rai, he would meet with the Brazil playmaker at the start of next week to thrash out Kaka's future.",
"Milan chief executive Adriano Galliani said last week that the club had agreed to sell the 27-year-old Kaka for \"solely economic\" reasons.",
"\"Milan can not go on losing $100 million a year,\" he told Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport on Thursday .",
"\"Kaka has behaved very professionally with us, he has never asked for his deal to be revised or his contract extended.",
"He has been here six years and won everything there is to win.",
"But we can't afford to miss out on $100 million.\"",
"Galliani had said there was no chance of English club Chelsea -- who appointed former Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti as manager on Monday -- swooping in to beat Real for Kaka's signature.",
"An agreement with Chelsea could not exist,\" he told Gazzetta dello Sport.",
"\"Kaka goes to Real or he remains at Milan.",
"That is his will and we are doing everything in complete agreement.\"",
"Kaka scored the final goal from the penalty spot as Brazil moved to the top of South American qualifying for the 2010 World Cup finals after thrashing Uruguay 4-0 in Montevideo, their first victory in the country for 33 years.",
"With Milan, Kaka won an array of awards including the Champions League, the UEFA Super Cup, the FIFA Club World Cup and the Seria A title.",
"He was a crucial part of Brazil's 2002 World Cup-winning squad he was also voted the FIFA World Player of the Year in 2007.",
"Last January, Kaka rejected a move to Premier League Manchester City who were prepared to pay him a reported $750,000 per week."
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"NEW: Kaka signs deal with Real Madrid, Spanish club announces .",
"Transfer from A.C. Milan worth a reported $100 million, according to media reports .",
"Chief executive Galliani says that Milan must sell Kaka for economic reasons .",
"Kaka currently in Brazil with the national team for World Cup qualifying double ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Very few people who attended the performance of the World Orchestra for Peace in Jerusalem this October would have noticed she was there.",
"But there she was, a petite woman with long brown hair, sitting in the middle of the audience on \"nervous autopilot.\"",
"Roxanna Panufnik's \"Three Paths to Peace\" was performed by the World Orchestra for Peace in Jerusalem.",
"British composer Roxanna Panufnik wrote the piece that opened the concert, \"Three Paths to Peace,\" an orchestral prelude specially commissioned for the occasion.",
"\"This is probably the biggest gig a composer could get,\" Panufnik told CNN.",
"\"I sit there in the audience and I just can't believe that this is happening, that all these people have gone to this trouble for my music.\"",
"The World Orchestra for Peace only comes together once every few years at the behest of its conductor, Valery Gergiev and the orchestra's director, Charles Kaye.",
"On October 19, some of the world's most talented musicians were invited to perform a concert in Jerusalem to promote peace.",
"Read more about the World Orchestra for Peace .",
"Months earlier, Panufnik had been asked to compose an original piece for the program.",
"She said her busy schedule didn't allow time to construct a piece from scratch, so she sent the organizers a recording of a violin concerto she had composed in 2004 called \"Abraham.\"",
"The concerto merged elements of Christian, Jewish and Islamic music into a \"homogenous, harmonious and joyful conclusion,\" she said.",
"It seemed perfect for the occasion.",
"\"They loved it,\" she told CNN.",
"\"They asked me to make an orchestral prelude out of it which included making it two-thirds of the length and also assimilating the solo violin part into the rest of the orchestra.\"",
"The resulting piece is a musical representation of the biblical story of Genesis 22, which tells of Abraham being given a last-minute reprieve after being asked by God to sacrifice his only son.",
"See a clip of \"Three Paths to Peace,\" as performed by the World Orchestra for Peace » .",
"\"Abraham is considered the father of all these three faiths,\" Panufnik explains.",
"\"The whole concept behind it is that despite all the conflict in the world between the three monotheistic faiths: Christianity, Judaism and Islam -- we do all believe in the same one God.\"",
"Catholic plainsong is interwoven with Anglican Church bell patterns; Judaism is represented by an Ashkenazi Jewish chant and Shofar horn; while Islam is conveyed through Sufi drum patterns and the musical elements from a traditional call to prayer.",
"The original piece required detailed research so as not to risk offense.",
"Muslim clerics in the United Kingdom advised her to listen to many calls to prayer as inspiration for her own, she said.",
"\"I listened to some from Pakistan and Turkey and then took some of the musical elements like the ornamentation and the rhythms.\"",
"The audience seated in the Jerusalem Theater for the piece's world premiere seemed to appreciate her efforts.",
"\"I sort of go on nervous autopilot at these things,\" Panufnik said.",
"\"But they did that rhythmic clapping thing, you know, when everyone starts clapping at the same time, which I'm told is a big sign of appreciation.\"",
"She hopes the \"Three Paths to Peace\" is performed again, but right now she's still buzzing from its debut.",
"\"I came home on Monday night and I woke up on Tuesday morning and thought, 'did I dream this?'",
"It was amazing.\" \"A lot of people came up to me afterwards to tell me they loved it, and how moved they were by it.",
"That's great for me as a composer.",
"It's all composers really want isn't it?\""
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"\"Three Paths to Peace\" was first performed by the World Orchestra for Peace .",
"The piece was commissioned for a special concert in Jerusalem, October 19 .",
"Panufnik took inspiration from the music of Christianity, Judaism and Islam ."
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"(Mashable) -- Facebook plans to roll out a major redesign of user profiles at its f8 developer conference this week, Mashable has learned.",
"Details about the redesign are sparse, but two sources familiar with Facebook's plans (who have asked to remain anonymous) have told us that the redesign is \"major\" and will make Facebook profiles nexuses for consuming content.",
"The profile changes will be part of a wider launch, one that will include launch of a music and media platform.",
"Here's what we know so far about the profile redesign: .",
"-- The redesigned profiles will be more \"sticky,\" says one source.",
"One of the goals of the new profiles is to get users to stay on them for longer.",
"-- We already knew Facebook is launching a media platform at f8.",
"However, we've also learned that the platform -- which will include music and video from partner sites -- will display the media content a user is watching or listening to on their profiles.",
"Essentially, when you're listening to Lady Gaga on Spotify, your friends can see and access that on your Facebook profile.",
"This confirms a recent New York Times report.",
"-- The redesigned profiles are part of a larger push into social ecommerce.",
"We don't exactly know what that means, but we've heard whispers that Facebook intends to give Facebook Credits more prominence.",
"We've also heard that a Facebook app store may emerge at f8.",
"-- Facebook's push into ecommerce may be related Project Spartan, an HTML5-based mobile platform rumored to be launching soon.",
"Facebook is being tight-lipped about the changes; the company declined to comment on this story.",
"However, more and more pieces of Facebook's big launch continue to leak out as the excitement builds for f8 (feel free to send us screenshots if you have any) The company is currently under lockdown, trying to fix the final bugs before Thursday's big launch.",
"What do you think Facebook will launch on Thursday?",
"Let us know in the comments.",
"See the original article on Mashable.com .",
"© 2011 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Profile changes will be part of a wider launch that will include a music and media platform .",
"Platform will display the media content a user is watching or listening to on their profile .",
"We've heard whispers that Facebook intends to give Facebook Credits more prominence ."
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"(CNN) -- For the last 20 years, what name is always in the top 100 most popular baby names given to boys in the United States?",
"Jesus (pronounced hey-seus).",
"And among 4,500 boys names in England in 2009, what was the No.",
"1 most popular baby name?",
"Mohammed. In Brussels? Mohammed. Oslo? Mohammed. Amsterdam? Mohammed. And what do babies and their names have to do with the global economy?",
"Everything. The currency of the future is babies, because babies grow up to be taxpaying workers.",
"Let's do Demography 101, which is basically the study of baby-making.",
"Demographers have a fancy term called \"total fertility rate,\" which measures the average number of babies a woman has over her childbearing years.",
"The magic number you need to remember is 2.1.",
"This is the average number of babies a country needs to remain at equilibrium.",
"It makes sense, too.",
"When a mother and father die, they need to be replaced by two babies, or else the population declines.",
"A rich powerful country needs lots of babies to project geopolitical power and increase its productivity.",
"If you won't multiply, who will fight your wars?",
"Who will pay Social Security to support grandpa?",
"Who do you think will start the next Facebook, Amazon or Google?",
"The U.S. total fertility rate is at 2.09, and at that level we just replace our population.",
"That's not good. But wait a minute, why do we keep growing?",
"Simple: immigration.",
"Our favorable immigration policy and liberal treatment of the millions of people working without legal documents means our population will grow from 312 million today to 439 million in 2050.",
"Hispanic babies, 83 million of them, will account for 65% of that growth. This is where the total fertility rate comes into play again, 2.84 for Hispanics, but only 1.84 and trending much lower for non-Hispanic whites who will only add 4 million babies to the melting pot.",
"Keep in mind that those Hispanic babies born here to Mitt Romney's \"self-deportation\" candidates are all red-blooded American citizens -- our future Navy SEALs, entrepreneurs, middle-class working Americans and maybe even a president.",
"Demography will shape the geopolitics of the two largest economies of the 21st century: the United States and the European Union.",
"They will maintain their status as world powers principally through immigration.",
"U.S. politicians voted Thursday to possibly saddle our grandkids with $16.4 trillion in debt, but European politicians trying to fix their debt quagmire don't have grandkids to stick it to.",
"Europe is dying as its nations run out of babies.",
"Three-quarters of Europeans live in societies with fertility rates below 1.5.",
"In the 14th century, the bubonic plague wiped out 75 million people; and in the 21st century, a larger number will be lost in Europe through demographic suicide.",
"Europe's demographic meltdown means it has to turn to immigrants for its workforce, and the vacuum is being filled by Muslims.",
"From 1990 to 2010, the Muslim population of Europe grew from 30 million to 44 million.",
"It will reach 58 million by 2030 and 10 European countries will be more than 10% Muslim.",
"While a spirit of integration and tolerance is central to the beliefs of the vast majority of Muslims, a radical, well-funded Islamist minority rejects tolerance, democracy and women's rights.",
"This militant Islamist tumor has metastasized to intimidate, marginalize and silence moderate Muslims who share the values of a democratic culture.",
"Without baby Mohammeds, Europe will die.",
"To survive, its leaders need to work with moderate Muslims to neutralize fundamentalist views and challenge anti-immigration voices.",
"If Europe is unable to reform its immigration policies, then the geopolitical ramification is obvious: a neutered NATO alliance unable to project military and economic power.",
"The United States faces its own evolving relationship with immigrants, one that is defined by widely contrasting views as to how they should be integrated into society -- or not.",
"Fears that immigrants will not assimilate are not new.",
"We certainly have not lost our capacity to welcome and absorb newcomers, as America has since its birth.",
"A recent survey by Public Agenda asked immigrants in America how long it took them to feel comfortable and part of the community.",
"Seventy-seven percent said it took less than five years.",
"Hispanics are every bit as American as anyone else -- they are white, brown and black.",
"They are self-reliant with strong family values and highly religious.",
"For 92% of Hispanics, God is an active force in their daily lives: 66% are Catholic, 25% are Evangelical Christians and 1% are Jewish or other denominations.",
"Hispanics are also very patriotic.",
"More than 25% of the 58,195 names on the Vietnam War Memorial are Hispanic, and one of the first people to die in the Iraq War was Lance Cpl.",
"Jose Gutierrez, who entered the United States illegally and was granted citizenship posthumously.",
"While Hispanic immigrants are accused of driving down wages, economic studies have found the opposite to be true.",
"Conducting research on the effects of immigration on wages over the span of a decade for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Gianmarco Ottaviano, of the University of Bologna, and Giovanni Peri, of the University of California, Davis, found that nearly 90% of native born American workers actually enjoy higher wages because of immigration.",
"They found that immigrants have a positive impact on the U.S. economy because they differ in their educational and skill levels from U.S. natives, and because more workers in the labor force increases productivity and stimulates the creation of businesses.",
"The sustainable competitive advantage of America over any other country is that we do immigration best.",
"No one can touch our capacity to integrate and assimilate people from all cultures.",
"It keeps us young, strong and dynamic.",
"The benefits of immigration are often taken for granted. Immigrants work hard.",
"They form strong families.",
"They live longer.",
"They set up businesses.",
"They spend money and pay taxes.",
"They take care of children so parents can work.",
"And the number of immigrants on welfare is far lower than anti-immigration advocates would have us believe.",
"As the arrows fly about immigration reform, legislators and voters alike can either accept immigrants, of all faiths, as the incontrovertible engines for economic growth they are -- or we can fight the future and the facts and shoot ourselves in the foot instead.",
"Some choose to believe that we are being overrun by lazy immigrants that strain our welfare system.",
"Yet every American should know by now that immigrants are the lifeblood of our future strength and economic power.",
"And for that, we should thank a baby named Jesus.",
"Follow CNN Opinion on Twitter.",
"Join the conversation on Facebook.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Charles Garcia."
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"Garcia says more and more Muslims are in Europe and will fuel growth .",
"Garcia: In U.S., Hispanic and other immigrants are an economic growth engine .",
"Immigrants work hard, form strong families, pay taxes and are patriotic, he writes ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Somewhere in South America right now a head-banger is getting very excited.",
"The crowd went wild when Iron Maiden took to the stage in Colombia earlier this year.",
"They're going back in March, 2009.",
"Veteran hell-raisers Iron Maiden have announced five new tour dates in Brazil, within months of playing to capacity crowds in some of country's biggest music venues.",
"Last March, they packed the 40,000 capacity Palmeiras Stadium in Sao Paulo.",
"Next March, they'll be following in the formidable footsteps of Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton, rock band Kiss and the Pope, no less, to wow the crowds at the Autodromo de Interlagos.",
"The race track is one venue they don't expect to sell out.",
"\"Capacity is about 400,000.",
"I don't think we'll get 400,000,\" Iron Maiden's manager Rod Smallwood told CNN, \"We're set for about 60,000 and we hope to go past that.\"",
"The band has every reason to be confident of strong ticket sales in South America where fan loyalty verges on fanaticism.",
"Watch part one of Iron Maiden Revealed » .",
"When the band last toured Curitiba in Brazil in March 2008, thousands of ecstatic \"Maiden\" supporters kept them awake overnight by booming Iron Maiden music outside their hotel.",
"Across Latin America, they sold 250,000 tickets in less than one week to nine concerts in seven countries.",
"In Colombia, they set a new record for the fastest ticket sales of any event.",
"Rapid ticket sales are expected this Saturday when seats go on sale for three new concerts in Latin America: Venezuela, Colombia and Chile.",
"Tickets for concerts in Brazil are due to go on sale next week -- along with seats for four concerts which are still to be announced, in four more countries, two of which will host Iron Maiden for the first time.",
"\"We've always had tremendous success with the fans down there (in Latin America),\" said Smallwood.",
"But why, many may be moved to ask?",
"What is it about Iron Maiden and South America?",
"Are they in love with Iron Maiden or is it heavy metal as a music genre that's really captured their hearts?",
"What do you think? Sound off below. Malcolm Dome, presenter of British heavy metal radio station TotalRock has a theory.",
"\"The Latin way of life seems to connect with heavy metal enormously,\" he told CNN.",
"\"It's not just in South America, it's the Latin communities in Spain and Portugal.\"",
"\"I think it's got a lot to do with what heavy metal represents -- passion, energy, emotion, rebellion, a slight anarchy.",
"I think it's the part of the Latin mentality,\" he added.",
"Iron Maiden may have been formed in a London pub the 1970s, but it wasn't until 1985 when they took to the stage at the original \"Rock in Rio\" concert that their South American fan base began to swell.",
"The band played one gig as guests of British compatriots, Queen, that was broadcast live across the continent winning them new fans, many of whom have stayed loyal over the years.",
"Heavy metal has not always been viewed with the same sense of awe by fans in South America, according to Cristiane Richardson, a Brazilian who presents the weekly heavy metal radio show Sonic Attack from London.",
"\"It started perhaps as a novelty,\" Richardson told CNN, \"Maybe it was kids rebelling against the samba or the church, but for many years it was looked on as a joke almost.\"",
"\"[But] it slowly gained credibility and now if you go to a Havana show you'll see several generations -- fathers bringing their sons and nephews.",
"Older people appreciate it as well.",
"It's not just young kids.\"",
"She said Iron Maiden's sheer hard work has also won them fans.",
"\"They make an effort everywhere they go to meet their fans and to learn the local language.\"",
"Claudio Vicentin, the editor of South America's best-selling heavy metal magazine Revista Roadie Crew, said, for some fans, heavy metal songs are their first introduction to the English language.",
"\"In Brazil and South America many heavy metal fans begin to learn English translating the lyrics and singing together the lyrics on concerts.\"",
"\"The fans here are very passionate about music.",
"And then, once you like heavy metal, you are going to die listening to heavy metal.",
"You are not going to love Iron Maiden just for one summer.\"",
"What is it about the music? \"It's the energy of the sound,\" Vicentin said.",
"\"The guitar riffs, the melodies, the heavy drummer sound and the voice of the singer.\"",
"Right now, the band is taking a rest from a grueling schedule that started with the first concert in the \"Somewhere Back in Time\" tour in India last February.",
"From there they went to Australia, Japan, the U.S., Latin America and Europe.",
"The tour resumes on February 9, when they'll pack up their version of a tour bus, Ed Force One, a 757 airliner decked out in Iron Maiden logos and take again to the skies for the first scheduled concert in Dubai.",
"As in previous legs, lead singer Bruce Dickinson will be in the pilot's seat, flying the entire band and their roadies from city to city.",
"One thing that will change is the line up.",
"\"It will be different from last time,\" Smallwood told CNN.",
"\"We'll have pyros with us which we didn't take last time (and) there'll be a few songs we didn't do last time.\""
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"(CNN) -- A Tennessee woman secretly gave birth to twin boys in a toilet in the home she shares with her parents and then smothered the infants and hid their bodies in a bedroom laundry basket, police said Friday.",
"Lindsey Lowe's father discovered one of the bodies Wednesday morning and called police, Hendersonville Police Lt. Scott Ryan said.",
"\"Someone can give me 100 explanations as to why, but I will never be able to understand this fully,\" he said.",
"Lowe, 25, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder.",
"She remained jailed Friday pending a Monday appearance before a Sumner County judge.",
"She gave birth to the first baby between 8:30 and 9 p.m. Monday, according to an affidavit filed by police.",
"Lowe, who according to the affidavit confessed to killing her newborns, said she didn't look at either of the babies as she \"placed her hand\" over each child's mouths to stop them from crying.",
"Lowe told authorities that she knew she was pregnant \"almost the whole time\" but that no one else -- including her family -- was aware, according to the affidavit.",
"It took a \"couple of minutes\" for the first child to die, according to the affidavit, while Lowe said the second baby died more quickly.",
"Both children were males and full-term, weighing about 5 to 6 pounds, the affidavit said.",
"The woman told police she placed the bodies in a laundry basket and covered them with towels to hide them.",
"Her attorney, John Pellegrin, said that his client was \"extremely distraught\" in the two times he's met with her in jail.",
"Pellegrin said Lowe was \"on suicide watch,\" receiving sedatives from medical personnel at the corrections facility.",
"\"This is an inexplicable situation and extremely sad for everyone involved,\" Pellegrin told HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell.",
"She was at work at a dental clinic for children when her father found the bodies, police said.",
"One of her co-workers, Michelle Stainback, told CNN affiliate WTVF that \"we're all just shocked and saddened.\"",
"\"I've tried to put myself in that position over and over since last night,\" she said.",
"\"You don't know what they're thinking or what they're going through.\"",
"Ryan admitted that authorities still didn't have all the answers.",
"And Ron Blanton, an assistant district attorney in Sumner County, told HLN's Velez-Mitchell that the case \"wears on\" those seeking justice in the case.",
"\"It's a horrible tragedy, a horrible tragedy,\" Blanton said.",
"\"It's a sad state, a horrific circumstance.\""
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"Lindsey Lowe, 25, hid her pregnancy from family members, police say .",
"She confessed to killing the twin brothers and hiding their bodies in a laundry basket ."
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"(CNN) -- Officials in Muskingham County closed schools as sheriff's deputies equipped with night vision attempted to hunt down dozens of exotic animals, including bears, lions, tigers, cheetahs, wolves, giraffes and camels, who are on the prowl in eastern Ohio following the death of the man at the farm where they lived.",
"\"Deputies are currently patrolling the area in pickup trucks, armed with shotguns,\" Sheriff Matt Lutz said in a statement.",
"\"There are still thought to be several dangerous animals on the loose, creating a public safety threat.\"",
"Bears and wolves were spotted along I-70.",
"Area residents are being advised to stay inside until the dangerous animals are rounded up or killed.",
"Terry Thompson, the owner of the land and animals, was found dead on the scene outside the home, according to Lutz, who didn't elaborate, Thompson was recently released from prison for an unknown crime.",
"In 2005, Thompson was sentenced to six months of house arrest and fined him $2,870 for a conviction on abuse of animals.",
"Some 48 animals had been freed, authorities said, with about two dozen shot dead by deputies.",
"The Columbus Zoo, The Wilds, a safari-themed park, and Ohio State Police have responded to the incident, according to state police."
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"(CNN) -- A man accused of an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States was too disorganized to have been a part of the scheme, a friend said.",
"Manssor Arbabsiar is accused of conspiracy to murder a foreign official, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism.",
"Known as \"Jack\" because of his affinity for the whiskey Jack Daniels, the 56-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen wasn't much of a businessman, according to David Tomscha, who owned a car lot with him for about a year in 2000.",
"\"If they wanted 007, I think they got Mr. Bean,\" Tomscha said.",
"\"He was very disorganized, he would lose most anything and he would get the dates of the cars wrong,\" Tomscha said.",
"\"He'd tell you it was an '89 and maybe it was an '85.",
"One thing you could be sure, whatever date he told you, it wasn't that year.\"",
"The disorganization extended to his personal life.",
"\"He wouldn't pay his bills, not because he didn't have the money necessarily, but because he would forget to pay them,\" Tomscha said.",
"\"If it wasn't for his wife, he'd be homeless on the street.\"",
"Earlier this week, another friend Mitchel Hamauei, who has known Arbabsiar for 20 years, said he didn't seem to have strong views on politics or religion.",
"\"It was shocking because it didn't seem like he would be the type of person to do something like that,\" Hamauei said, adding that he met Arbabsiar through mutual Iranian friends.",
"Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri, an Iran-based member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, are accused of a conspiracy to murder a foreign official, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism, the FBI said Tuesday.",
"Arbabsiar was arrested in September.",
"Shakuri remains at large, the bureau said.",
"The two were in a group that began planning this spring to kill Saudi Ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir, the FBI said.",
"\"I don't think he's the Manchurian candidate,\" said Tomscha.",
"\"He came over. He liked this country.",
"He made money here.\"",
"Arbabsiar has had prior brushes with the law, but they were for minor infractions.",
"Public records show three arrests for Arbabsiar over the past 25 years.",
"He was sentenced to 90 days in jail for evading arrest in 1987, and he pleaded \"no contest\" to a lesser charge in 2004 after he was arrested for driving on a suspended license.",
"Arbabsiar also received a speeding ticket in 2007 for going more than 10 mph over the limit.",
"A 2001 theft charge against Arbabsiar was dismissed, CNN affiliate KIII-TV reported.",
"According to the allegations he now faces, Arbabsiar and an undercover informant discussed using explosives to kill the Saudi ambassador and possibly attacking a crowded restaurant, according to an FBI affidavit released Tuesday.",
"The informant named $1.5 million as his price, it said.",
"Arbabsiar allegedly sent $100,000 intended as a down payment, telling the informant his \"cousin\" had deep pockets, court documents said.",
"\"He didn't strike me as the kind of guy who would want to go out there and murder hundreds of innocent people,\" Tomscha said.",
"\"That takes a real callous person and he never stuck me like that.\"",
"CNN's Jim Spellman and Erin Burnett contributed to this report ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- On this day 100 years ago, troops in the city of Wuchang, in China's Hubei province, launched a coup against local authorities.",
"The coup ignited a civil war that ended in the collapse of China's 2,200-year-old imperial system.",
"When a republican government established itself in 1912, it designated October 10 as the national holiday.",
"Even now, \"Ten-Ten Day\" remains the equivalent of the Fourth of July of the island of Taiwan and for many overseas Chinese communities.",
"On the mainland, however, the Ten-Ten holiday has always been a more ambiguous affair, and so it remains on this centenary.",
"The Los Angeles Times reported: \"The government held low-key celebrations Sunday marking the centennial anniversary of the revolution that ended thousands of years of imperial rule and set the stage for the birth of today's China.",
"Chinese President Hu Jintao and other dignitaries gathered in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, under a giant portrait of Sun Yat-sen, the first president of the Republic of China -- the name still carried by modern-day Taiwan.",
"Hu called for the peaceful reunification of China and Taiwan and reiterated his opposition to Taiwanese independence.\"",
"Beyond this political lecture, however, the anniversary was observed in remarkably muted style.",
"A new museum opened in Wuhan.",
"A historical movie was aired on state TV.",
"Some events will be held in the hometown of Sun Yat-Sen, the revolution's moral leader and the first president of the Chinese republic.",
"But there's nothing remotely on the scale of the 2010 Shanghai Expo, let alone the 2008 Olympics.",
"And after all, that diffident approach should come as no surprise.",
"Although the present government of China touts its nationalist credentials, it was born in rebellion -- not against imperial overlords, not against colonialist oppressors, not against Japanese invaders, but precisely against the inheritors of the republic established by the events of 1911: the Kuomintang party created by Sun Yat-Sen.",
"The memory of 1911 is embarrassing in many other ways to the present government.",
"1911 was a revolution inspired by ideals of democracy and personal liberty.",
"Those ideals are cynically disregarded -- or brutally suppressed -- by China's present government.",
"1911 was a revolution in defense of traditional Chinese culture against a foreign dynasty, Manchurians who had ruled in China since 1644.",
"But who has done more damage to traditional Chinese culture than the regime in place since 1949?",
"And not only to the bulldozed monuments of China, but to the country's inheritance of art and scholarship, reviled and massacred in the Cultural Revolution.",
"A country ruled by people who took power by violence -- and now hold power by repression -- is not a country that dares look honestly at its past.",
"A year ago, I had the opportunity to visit a museum of the Cultural Revolution in Guangdong province, one of only two such in the entire vastness of the country.",
"It was an against-the-odds achievement that the museum could be built at all, but the price of building it was to tell the story in a way that focused almost exclusively on the victimization of some members of the Communist Party by other members.",
"The authors of the museum bought the freedom to tell a portion of the story by suppressing all the rest.",
"As for the other traumas of China's recent history -- including the terrible self-inflicted famine culminating in mass cannibalism that goes by the mocking name \"the Great Leap Forward\" -- they can only be whispered, if they are discussed at all.",
"The man guilty of those terrible atrocities, Mao Tse-tung, still overlooks Beijing from a giant portrait over Tiananmen Square.",
"So long as the leaders of China trace their power to Mao's legacy, that long will China be obliged to lie to itself about its history.",
"\"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.\"",
"So wrote Milan Kundera about the communist regimes of central Europe.",
"His words apply as aptly to the regime that governs our planet's most populous nation and most ancient continuing civilization.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Frum."
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"He says China's regime spurns ideals of democracy and liberty ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Making great wine is like making a great film, according to director Francis Ford Coppola -- it's defying the impossible.",
"During his 70 years, he has done both.",
"Francis Ford Coppola is the movie-making talent behind some of the greatest films ever made -- he is also a successful winemaker.",
"Coppola is the filmmaking talent behind some of the most highly-regarded films ever made -- \"The Godfather,\" \"The Conversation,\" \"Apocalypse Now\" -- a fact his stash of five Academy Awards attests to.",
"\"He's able to infuse a certain reality into the films that he's doing,\" director and long-time collaborator, George Lucas told CNN.",
"\"Human touches that take [them] beyond just a cardboard cut-out movie.\"",
"He is also a cut above the rest as a winemaker.",
"At his vineyard in California's verdant winegrowing region Napa Valley, the Italian-American has established a reputation as an outstanding vintner -- albeit accidentally.",
"\"As a six-year-old, my father drank wine at the table and the uncles and grandparents, they all drank wine and even the kids were given a little wine.",
"It was just one of the good things of life like food,\" said Coppola.",
"\"I never thought it could be a business.\"",
"But, 25 years after stumbling upon his vineyard (now known as the Rubicon Valley Winery) during the search for a family summer home, the wine business has become a lucrative day job for Coppola.",
"With a bottle of Rubicon '79, his sought-after first vintage, selling for $200, Coppola realized he could use the profits to self-fund feature films.",
"\"I said, 'Maybe I'm wealthy enough that I could finance my own little films,'\" Coppola told CNN in the garden of his refurbished Victorian estate mansion.",
"Watch CNN Revealed: Francis Ford Coppola » .",
"His latest \"little film,\" \"Tetro,\" starring Vincent Gallo, is a family drama that tells the story of a man who goes to Buenos Aires to find his long-disappeared poet brother.",
"When he finds him, they try to come to terms with the rivalry that has driven their successful, creative family apart.",
"It is clearly very autobiographical: Francis' father, Carmine, was a composer and many members of his family throughout the generations are well-known actors, directors and musicians.",
"Francis Ford Coppola's Hollywood Family Tree » .",
"\"You know, some of the stuff in the movie is not untrue.",
"The family always had these siblings in the same field... there was a lot of rivalry.\"",
"According to Coppola, it's a film that would never have been made if he had needed a big budget or funding from a studio.",
"\"If you're making a film that will open all over the world then it has to appeal to the common denominator of all those people.",
"\"Unless you put the money up yourself, you can't do what you want, and that's why I always end up doing it.",
"It just seems so much easier than to have to beg someone to make your film.\"",
"Coppola has ample experience of studio-controlled filmmaking.",
"He spent much of the 1990s working as a hired gun on films like \"Bram Stoker's Dracula\" and \"The Rainmaker.\"",
"Coppola started his career making low budget films as the protege of \"King of the Bs\" Roger Corman.",
"His career moved up a gear after the success of \"The Godfather\" in 1972, which became one of the highest-grossing films in history.",
"\"When I was young I wanted to write and direct little personal films,\" he told CNN.",
"\"I was offered a project that was from a book that turned out to be 'The Godfather' and that project changed my career to something very different from what I would have imagined.",
"\"I never would have imagined myself as a Hollywood or industry director.",
"I mean, not at that level of success.\"",
"One of the 1970s group of Hollywood film directors including George Lucas and Martin Scorsese known as the \"movie brats,\" Coppola broke new ground in the \"The Godfather,\" showing the ruthless Corleone gangster's family values, casting them in a sympathetic light.",
"Who is the greatest American film director of the era?",
"Coppola, Scorsese, Lucas, Spielberg?",
"Tell us below in the Sound Off box .",
"Coppola's wife, Eleanor, thinks his Italian-American background was fundamental.",
"\"'The Godfather' was a raw example of his experience at weddings, with family and he just took his experiences and viewed those characters with the familiar aspects that he had known from his uncles and his family,\" she told CNN.",
"In 1979, perhaps his most infamous film, \"Apocalypse Now,\" followed.",
"It is considered by many to be the quintessential film about the nightmare of the Vietnam war.",
"But the film that defined a generation almost ruined Coppola's career.",
"Filming, which started in 1976 took almost three years to complete and ran into financial trouble almost immediately.",
"\"'Apocalypse Now' almost broke me because it was so expensive,\" Coppola remembers.",
"\"I had every nickel that I owned riding on a movie that was going rampantly over-budget and I was going to end up with the bill.",
"In other words, I was going to end up owing somebody $30 million.\"",
"Famously, what could go wrong did.",
"A typhoon destroyed the film set, lead actor Martin Sheen had a heart attack aged 39, and Marlon Brando turned up on set grossly overweight and under prepared.",
"\"There's stuff I can't tell you, but it was pretty crazy,\" says actor Robert Duvall who played napalm-loving Lt.",
"Colonel Kilgore.",
"Robert Duvall: Francis Ford Coppola made my career .",
"\"Sometimes we'd get one shot in a day, if that.",
"Everything was in disarray.\"",
"Coppola was also battling the screenplay, which which proved to be an epic journey not unlike the one in the film.",
"\"I found myself making a film that was more and more surrealistic and psychedelic, and as I took that trip going up the river making the movie it got weirder and weirder.",
"I couldn't figure out how I was going to end it.\"",
"He successfully solved the puzzle and the film and went on to win the coveted Palme D'Or at Cannes film festival and a place in movie history.",
"Today, Coppola seems like a man at peace with himself and his career -- \"I'm in an extremely interesting place.\"",
"He has not tired in his pursuit of making great movies and all his experiences have taught him some important lessons.",
"\"There are great films and great wines so it is possible.",
"What is it when the impossible becomes possible?",
"What does it take to do that? It takes incredible, fanatical devotion.",
"Willingness to go through anything.\"",
"Although, right now, sitting in the greenery of his Napa Valley estate, Coppola isn't enduring too many hardships.",
"\"I'm sitting here in paradise ready to write something new.\""
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"Master movie-maker Francis Ford Coppola on his other love: Winemaking .",
"How his \"day job\" has helped to revitalize his film career, plus latest film \"Tetro\"\nCoppola is still writing and directing at 70: \"I'm in an extremely interesting place\"\nCNN's Revealed talks exclusively to the director at his Napa Valley winery ."
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"(CNN) -- South Africa sent condolences to Nelson Mandela on Monday following the death of his youngest sister and last surviving sibling out of 31 others.",
"Nokuthamba Mandela, 81, died Saturday, South African President Jacob Zuma said.",
"The cause of death was unclear.",
"\"On behalf of myself, the people and government of South Africa, I would like to convey our heartfelt condolences to Madiba and the entire Mandela family at this difficult time,\" Zuma said in a statement.",
"\"Our thoughts and prayers go out to you in this time of sorrow.\"",
"The former president -- affectionately known by his clan name Madiba -- last appeared in public in the closing ceremonies of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.",
"His sister's death came the same weekend he returned to Johannesburg while his home in Qunu undergoes repairs.",
"Mandela, 93, has been living at the house in the Eastern Cape province since last year.",
"Despite his rare appearances following a respiratory infection, Mandela retains his popularity and is considered the founding father and hero of South Africa's democracy.",
"Under South Africa's apartheid regime, Mandela spent 27 years in prison after being convicted of sabotage and attempts to overthrow the government.",
"He was released in 1990 and became president in 1994."
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"Mandela's sister, 81, dies over the weekend .",
"Her death comes the same weekend Mandela returns to Johannesburg .",
"Despite his rare appearances, Mandela retains his popularity ."
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"(CNN) -- A convicted murderer who was pardoned this month in a controversial move by outgoing Mississippi Gov.",
"Haley Barbour, has been found in Wyoming, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announced Monday.",
"Joseph Ozment was served with papers at a hotel in Laramie, Wyoming, where he had been staying under another name, his office said.",
"As he was fleeing in his girlfriend's car, Ozment bumped an officer and sped from the parking lot.",
"He later returned to the hotel on foot, denying he had been behind the wheel, Hood said.",
"The officer was not seriously hurt.",
"Ozment's whereabouts had been unknown since he was picked up by his mother on January 8 after his release.",
"\"We said we would find him, and we did,\" said Hood.",
"\"Now, we will let the court decide what happens from here.\"",
"Ozment is one of four convicted murderers Barbour pardoned this month.",
"He did not appear at a court hearing in a case challenging the pardons.",
"Hood has said officials wanted to serve Ozment with a document telling him to appear in court.",
"If he does not comply, a judge has the authority to hold him in contempt, the attorney general's office said.",
"A Jackson, Mississippi, judge is expected to hear the case this week.",
"As he closed out his second term as governor, Barbour granted \"full pardons\" -- meaning the convict's record is effectively wiped clean -- to more than 200 people found guilty of a variety of crimes.",
"All four of the convicted murderers he pardoned were serving life sentences and worked as trusties at the governor's mansion.",
"The move stirred outrage among relatives of the pardoned murderers' victims.",
"\"It's just an every minute, constant, in the back of your mind, where is he?",
"What is he doing?\" said Mary McAbee, sister of Rick Montgomery, a store clerk shot to death by Ozment in 1992.",
"Ozment pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.",
"\"I'm fearful. He's a cold-blooded murderer to do what he's done, and if he thinks that he may go back to prison, what's he got to lose?\"",
"she said. Hood has been particularly outspoken, earlier this month calling the pardons \"a slap in the face to everyone in law enforcement and (saying) Gov.",
"Barbour should be ashamed.\"",
"The attorney general is questioning the pardons for \"failure to sufficiently meet the publication requirements of the Mississippi Constitution,\" his office said.",
"Late Monday, Hood spoke to CNN's \"AC360,\" slamming the former governor and questioning the motives behind his pardons.",
"\"He ran the office of the governor as if it was Mississippi in the 1950s,\" said Hood.",
"He said many of the inmates Barbour pardoned came from influential families or had connections to the Republican party.",
"\"There's not any logical explanation other than it was just a whim, and by doing it on a whim at the last moment that's how he violated our Constitution,\" Hood said.",
"Barbour has defended his pardons.",
"On Friday, he appeared on CNN's \"John King USA,\" saying Ozment and the others have been rehabilitated.",
"\"He has no obligation to do anything.",
"He's been pardoned. He's a free man,\" Barbour said.",
"CNN's Rich Phillips contributed to this report."
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"Ozment was served with papers at a Laramie, Wyoming, hotel ."
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"(CNN) -- U.S. immigration officials, testing controversial new protocols that give them discretion to \"administratively close\" immigration cases instead of taking them to court, have recommended that about 14% of the nearly 12,000 cases reviewed thus far be closed, allowing those people to remain in the United States.",
"Of the 11,682 immigration cases reviewed in two test cities -- Baltimore and Denver -- officials have recommended closing 1,667 cases, provided they pass a final background check.",
"The Department of Homeland Security cautioned the numbers are preliminary, and do not reflect the ultimate number that will be closed.",
"\"For a variety of reasons, including the results of background checks, the final results of the pilot programs will likely differ from these preliminary numbers,\" Department of Homeland Security official Kim Baronof wrote in a memo obtained by CNN.",
"If the 14% were to hold consistent for the 300,000 cases pending before the immigration courts, approximately 42,000 immigrants would bypass the courts and be permitted to stay in the United States.",
"The Obama administration has touted the use of \"prosecutorial discretion\" as \"smart and effective immigration enforcement,\" saying it will allow undocumented aliens to stay in the United States in special cases.",
"Immigration officials who make the decisions must consider a long list of factors, such as whether the undocumented immigrant served in the U.S. military, has roots in the community or serves as care provider for a person in need.",
"Prior administrations used similar discretion in vetting cases, Obama administration officials have said.",
"But critics call the program a \"backdoor amnesty program,\" saying the administration is trying to accomplish through executive fiat what it could not accomplish legislatively.",
"\"If these results play out nationwide, tens of thousands of illegal immigrants will benefit and tens of thousands of Americans will find it harder to get jobs.",
"How can the Obama administration justify granting work authorization to illegal immigrants when so many American citizens don't have jobs?\"",
"said Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.",
"The administration said the new policy gives immigration officials guidelines on which immigration cases to pursue, with the highest priority being on people who pose a danger to public safety or national security, or who are egregious immigration law violators.",
"But the program is still in its infancy, and will face questions from both supporters and opponents, including why there is a discrepancy in approvals in Baltimore, where about 9.7% of the cases were administratively closed, and Denver, where 16% were closed.",
"DHS told Congress it will brief congress members once the pilot program is completed."
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"Pilot program looks at effect of new protocols on immigrants in two cities .",
"Of 11,682 immigration cases reviewed, officials recommend closing 1,667 cases .",
"Department of Homeland Security says pilot program's results are preliminary ."
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"(RealSimple.com) -- If your spirits are high but cash is low, don't despair: These shimmery, party-ready styles each cost $100 or less.",
"Chico's Necklace .",
"Layering jewelry can be mystifying, which is why this single piece composed of rhinestones, faux pearls, beads, and chains is so genius.",
"To buy: $79, chicos.com.",
"RealSimple.com: Party skirts for every figure .",
"Aryn K Blouse .",
"An understated blouse in pleated silk lets a bold skirt shine.",
"To buy: $98, houseoflolo.com.",
"White House Black Market Skirt .",
"This sleek acetate-blend pick manages to be both current (red is big right now) and timeless (pencil skirts will always be in style).",
"To buy: $98, whbm.com.",
"RealSimple.com: 7 money saving, stress less holiday tips .",
"Lisa Stewart Earrings .",
"Hammered and crystal-flecked, these modern gold-plated danglers have an old-fashioned elegance.",
"To buy: $70, lisastewartonline.com.",
"Lulu's Dress .",
"Gold is merry and bright—but it will also look fitting come spring.",
"Just add gray or black opaque tights to this mid-thigh--length polyester-blend stunner.",
"To buy: $61, lulus.com.",
"BCBG Max Azria Belt .",
"Why should jewels be limited to jewelry?",
"Check out this elastic belt with a gorgeous, gemlike centerpiece.",
"To buy: $58, bcbg.com.",
"RealSimple.com: Pretty smart .",
"Colour Me Bracelets .",
"This rich mix of gold-tone bangles—some plain, some textured with beads—ties the outfit together.",
"To buy: $15 for eight, colourme.com.",
"BCBG Max Azria Earrings .",
"Opulent drops of rhinestones and black orbs look like an estate-sale find.",
"To buy: $78, 866-497-1041.",
"Ann Taylor Top .",
"Shiny black thread on this two-tone polyester top offers a low-key way to dazzle.",
"To buy: $88, anntaylor.com.",
"RealSimple.com: Hostess gifts .",
"Just Cavalli Skirt .",
"This slim satin skirt has the right amount of stretch to be comfortable and flattering.",
"To buy: $32, peppermintpark.com.",
"(Real Simple readers get a free three-month shopping membership with the promo code REALSIMPLE.)",
"Banana Republic Bracelet .",
"Spare yet sparkly: a rhinestone-covered bead suspended on a gray leather cord.",
"To buy: $25, 888-277-8953.",
"Spanx Tights .",
"Take control with a pair of opaque tights that slenderize and smooth.",
"To buy: $26, spanx.com.",
"RSVP Heels .",
"You'll stand head and shoulders above the rest in black suede peep toes with hidden inch-high platforms.",
"To buy: $63, zappos.com.",
"Roberta Chiarella Earrings .",
"Faux-diamond studs are a silent partner for a statement necklace.",
"To buy: $28, robertachiarella.com.",
"Banana Republic Necklace .",
"This beaded tulle bib makes a powerful impact, but it's practically weightless.",
"To buy: $49.50, bananarepublic.com.",
"RealSimple.com: Stocking stuffers .",
"Cult Candy Top .",
"The bell-shaped hem hits just past the hips.",
"To buy: $21, peppermintpark.com.",
"KiraKira Earrings .",
"Silver Moroccan-shaped hoops are finished off with a hanging pearl.",
"To buy: $98, kirakirajewelry.com.",
"Simply Vera Vera Wang Top .",
"Forgiving in all the right places: This polyester-blend style has a camouflaging drape and a tie-it-yourself waist.",
"To buy: $54, 866-887-8884.",
"Sushma Patel Carina Bracelet .",
"Even just one crystal-encrusted bangle provides a sliver of brightness against a dark-colored outfit.",
"To buy: $100 for a stack of bangles, sushmapatel.us.",
"Loft Skirt .",
"The lace embellishments down the sides give this knee-length polyester-blend pencil skirt a life outside the office.",
"To buy: $69.50, loft.com.",
"RealSimple.com: Unique gift ideas for anyone .",
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"BCBG Max Azaria is great for stylish and budget friendly belts and earrings .",
"Ann Taylor and Loft have versitile options for under $100 ."
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"MINQIN, China (CNN) -- Switching on the electric pump next to an old well, Ma Junhe waited in the glowing morning sun as water flew into the tank mounted on a donkey cart.",
"Environmentalist Ma Junhe waters saplings at his ecological forest site in Minqin, China.",
"\"Thirty years ago, you could pump water here from 3 meters below,\" he lamented.",
"\"Now we are pumping it from 80 meters below.\"",
"The sinking underground water table is testimony to the desertification that has been threatening the survival of Minqin, an oasis town precariously sandwiched between two large, expanding natural deserts in western China.",
"Other alarming signs abound in this poor rural county of 310,000 farmers in Gansu Province, where the average annual income hovers around $500.",
"Over-extraction has turned underground water in many places too salty and alkaline for drinking or irrigation, prompting some experts to call for moving half of Minqin's population elsewhere.",
"A lake the size of 40,000 soccer fields has completely dried up, leaving countless clamshells scattered on the sandy lakebed the only evidence of the once-flourishing aquatic life.",
"For Ma, 27, these jarring images serve as a daily reminder of an urgent mission: rescuing his hometown from the encroaching sands.",
"\"Many trees were cut down in the 1980's to make way for large-scale land exploitation, while we were losing water from upstream because of drought,\" he said.",
"\"The environment started to deteriorate rapidly.\"",
"After high school Ma had traveled across southwestern China as a pharmaceutical salesman.",
"The lush green and moist air in that region presented a stark contrast to the increasingly dusty and barren scenery in Minqin, turning him to an unlikely environmentalist.",
"In 2005 Ma returned home and created a web site titled \"Saving Minqin.\"",
"Two years later he signed an ambitious agreement with his native village, taking over 27 hectares of arid land for reforestation.",
"\"This place used to be a forest when my grandfather was young,\" he reminisced.",
"\"You would disappear in the tall trees if you walked in here.\"",
"On this bright morning, Ma followed a pair of donkeys as they pulled two full tanks of water slowly across a harsh landscape dominated by an immense expanse of sand.",
"The wheelbarrows stopped at Ma's ecological forest site a short trek away, where patches of green are already breaking the monotony of yellow.",
"\"We have planted these suosuo (saxauls) on five hectares of land,\" Ma pointed at what looked like were mere scrub on the ground.",
"\"They are such hardy trees that they can survive on the meager rainfall we get here.\"",
"Even this tough plant requires some help under the unusually dry weather this year, however.",
"Armed with buckets and shovels, Ma and other volunteers have been painstakingly watering their young trees once a month.",
"\"So far 90 percent of the saplings have survived,\" Ma said.",
"\"Every time I see them grow, I feel a sense of great accomplishment.\"",
"\"When the trees grow to 4 to 5 meters tall, they will be able to shield nearby farmland from the sand blown over by wind -- or even improve the climate on site.\"",
"For now, Ma is focusing on receiving official blessing for his planned environmental NGO by the end of the year, which he hopes will make fund raising an easier task.",
"Planting and caring for trees in the desert has proven too costly to rely solely on small donations.",
"The annual price tag of $3,500 is more than half of what Ma makes a year from his day job.",
"\"I have been trying to find a way to support myself financially while allowing me to work on the forest at the same time,\" he said.",
"Despite the personal challenges, Ma is heartened by the receptive audience he has found both on the Internet and in his hometown.",
"More than 200 volunteers have signed up to participate in the eco-forest project.",
"Some showed up amid a major dust storm more than a year ago to plant the first batch of saplings.",
"Many locals have also expressed support to Ma, perceiving the long-term effect of his endeavor in preventing them from becoming so-called ecological refugees.",
"\"When people retreat, the desert advances,\" Ma noted.",
"\"So it's better to let people stay where they are.\"",
"\"Most people have lived here for generations.",
"Moving away would be painful for them, especially for the elderly.\"",
"Ma sees a unique opportunity this year in drawing more attention to his cause as the government emphasizes environmental protection in keeping its promise to hold a \"Green Olympics\" in Beijing.",
"But Ma doubts the authorities' ad hoc approach -- such as shutting down factories and construction sites to reduce air pollution -- would work in combating desertification.",
"\"You can't solve an environmental problem through a temporary mass campaign,\" he said, adding that environmentalists need to address people's attitude first and foremost.",
"\"Desertification is scary, but it's even scarier if you don't care about the environment -- that's the desertification of the mind.\"",
"Steven Jiang is a Beijing-based freelance writer and former CNN producer."
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"(CNN) -- Rauf Denktas, the first president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, died Friday in Nicosia after a long illness, the self-declared republic's current leader announced.",
"Denktas, 87, was instrumental in the independence of Turkish Cyprus, which, outside of Turkey, is not recognized internationally.",
"He became its first president in 1983 and was re-elected in 1985, 1990, 1995 and 2000.",
"\"Our sorrow is huge ... and it will be very hard for us,\" said his son, Serdar Denktas.",
"\"We will try to overcome this sorrow with respect to his memory and with patience. ...",
"He left us, Turkish Cypriots, and people of Anatolia as orphans, but he met with heroes who made this land a nation.\"",
"Turkish troops invaded Cyprus in 1974 in response to a coup, engineered by Greece.",
"The island remains divided despite years of efforts to resolve the deadlock.",
"The southern part of the island joined the European Union on its own after unity efforts failed.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his condolences to the family and his supporters.",
"\"Mr. Denktas was a long-serving and historic Turkish Cypriot leader with whom the United Nations had a long relationship in the framework of U.N.-facilitated talks for the reunification of Cyprus and related to its peacekeeping responsibilities on the island,\" a statement from Ban's spokesperson said.",
"Denktas was born in Baf, Cyprus, in 1924 and was educated in London.",
"The lawyer eventually became active in political affairs.",
"Outside of politics, Denktas was known for his photography, mostly of nature, and for his writings."
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"(CNN) -- Occupy activists tossed pipes, bottles, burning flares and other objects Saturday at Oakland police, who responded by using tear gas and smoke grenades and arresting more than 100 demonstrators, city and police officials said.",
"Oakland has been a flash point of the Occupy movement since October when police used tear gas to break up demonstrators who refused to leave downtown.",
"One demonstrator, a Marine veteran of the war in Iraq, suffered a skull fracture after being hit with a police projectile, according to a veteran's group.",
"Police said they acted after the crowd threw paint and other objects at officers.",
"On Saturday, police made mass arrests following an afternoon clash with protesters near the Kaiser Convention Center and then later outside a downtown YMCA, according to a police statement.",
"The tension began Saturday around noon when about 250 activists gathered in Frank Ogawa Plaza.",
"They were joined later by another 200 people as they marched around the city.",
"Police said the protesters \"began tearing down perimeter fences around\" the Kaiser center around 2:30 p.m., with officers ordering the protesters to leave the area about 20 minutes later.",
"\"The City of Oakland welcomes peaceful forms of assembly and freedom of speech, but acts of violence, property destruction and overnight lodging will not be tolerated,\" the statement said.",
"On its Twitter feed, Oakland police wrote that people near the YMCA were being arrested for unlawful assembly.",
"Police claimed, too, that parts of the Oakland Museum and Kaiser Center were \"severely impacted,\" with people cutting and tearing fences.",
"Occupy protesters also blocked traffic at major intersections and attacked a KTVU television truck, damaging the truck and breaking windows, the station said.",
"No injuries were reported.",
"By nightfall, Occupy protesters moved toward Oakland City Hall, according to the group's Twitter feed.",
"\"Amazing day.",
"We didnt get in the building, but fought like our future depended on it,\" the group tweeted.",
"Posts on Occupy Oakland's Twitter feed claim that police met the protesters \"with munitions and violence.\"",
"One read: \"#OccupyOakland being teargassed smoked bombed & shot at w rubber bullets.\"",
"Oakland police said they used only smoke and tear gas.",
"They did so after warning activists who had begun \"destroying construction equipment and fencing\" around the Kaiser center, authorities said.",
"Officers were \"pelted\" with bottles, metal pipes, rocks and burning flares, according to another police statement released earlier in the day.",
"While there was no immediate word on injuries to protesters, Oakland police said that three of their officers were hurt in the earlier clash.",
"After that incident, roughly 500 activists returned to Ogawa Plaza, according to a police statement.",
"Aerial video footage showed them later on the move and a post on Occupy Oakland's Twitter feed indicated they were planning to march to a \"second building\" -- an apparent reference to the YMCA.",
"While touting the action as \"Move-In Day\" on their website, occupyoaklandmoveinday.org, organizers did not state what \"large, vacant\" building they planned to occupy.",
"They also acknowledged that \"like the encampment at Oscar Grant Plaza, the building move-in is not legal.\"",
"But the group said the move was necessary, in part because \"since November, the city of Oakland and its police force have made it impossible for us to meet, to serve food, and to provide a place for people to stay.\"",
"\"Occupy Oakland is about people providing for themselves and for others, since it is clear that the system can no longer provide for them,\" the group said on its website.",
"\"It is a place where people who are fed up can come together and develop new forms of struggle.\"",
"In a letter to Mayor Jean Quan, the city council and the Oakland police department, protesters threatened several actions if authorities try to \"evict us again.\"",
"They included \"blockading the airport indefinitely, occupying City Hall indefinitely, shutting down the Oakland ports\" and getting help from the activist hacking group known as Anonymous.",
"In mid-December, Occupy protesters shut down the Oakland port terminal.",
"Following October's clashes with protesters, Police Chief Howard Jordan said \"all allegations of misconduct and excessive uses of forces are being thoroughly investigated by internal and external investigative sources,\" according to a letter posted on the department's website.",
"The website also solicits \"input ... about police interactions with protesters during the Occupy Oakland protests.\"",
"People are asked to contact the independent investigator who is looking into authorities' actions in October and November 2011.",
"CNN's Greg Morrison contributed to this report."
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"BEIJING, China (CNN) -- If there's one thing that makes Beijing an enticing city to both local and expatriate Beijingers alike, it's the food.",
"Wangfujing Snack Street offers all sorts of exotic food, including sea horse.",
"China's capital offers something for everyone -- from cheap street stalls to five-star gourmet eateries.",
"Variety is the key -- from the more obvious delicacies such as fried fish, to things that are, well, a little more exotic.",
"One great place in Beijing that offers both is Wangfujing Snack Street, in Dongcheng district.",
"An ornate blue and gold archway marks the start of the street, which even at midday is already a bustling hive of hungry locals and curious tourists.",
"Enticing smells swirl around continuously, as colorful characters shout out invitations to try their food.",
"One guy, dressed in a red silk robe and black skullcap, sings out an invitation while holding a fan in one hand and his pigtail in the other.",
"The type of food is extensive.",
"Due to years of intermigration, almost every province is represented.",
"There are lamb kebabs from Xinjiang, noodles from Gansu and spicy beef from Sichuan.",
"And it's cheap: A stick of kebabs can be had for just 3 RMB (40 cents).",
"There's also a lot for the sweet tooth, such as candy-covered apples in an array of vibrant colors, and whole coconuts filled with sweet water.",
"But while the street's food is mostly conventional, there are also plenty of snacks on offer for the more adventurous.",
"\"Welcome, where are you from?\" asks a friendly teenager, as he dangles a skewer of live scorpions in front of my eyes.",
"\"Would you like to try?",
"Only 8 RMB.\" I'm too mesmerized by the scorpions' jiggling legs and snapping claws to offer a reply.",
"He quickly shows me some of his other products for sale.",
"They include sea horse (25 RMB), cicadas (5 RMB) and starfish (20 RMB).",
"All are cooked by frying in oil, and can be accompanied by a variety of different sauces.",
"Wangfujing Snack Street is a treasure, but for those who want to try something even a little more exotic, it might be worth jumping in a taxi for a 10-minute ride to Dongsishitiao Street, also in Dongcheng.",
"The restaurant, Guo Li Zhuang (\"strength inside a pot\"), is unique in that it claims to be China's only specialty penis restaurant.",
"It was started back in 2000 by a father-and-son team who also happen to be Chinese traditional doctors.",
"\"They both used to buy a lot of different food products to eat, such as animal penis for good health,\" explains restaurant manager Nancy Lee.",
"Watch Nancy Lee discuss the food offerings available » .",
"\"Then they thought, if we are spending so much money buying this food, why not open up a restaurant that would benefit ourselves and friends?",
"So it's not so much a business-oriented as a health-oriented idea.\"",
"The restaurant is formal and divided up into private dining booths.",
"Any preconceptions of drunken customers making lewd jokes about the food choices quickly diminish.",
"The menu is quite exhaustive -- and there are other choices to consider, including seafood, flowers, bean products and wild mushrooms.",
"But there's one main focus.",
"\"We serve the penis from nine different animals,\" says Lee.",
"\"They are cow, sheep, dog, donkey, horse, deer, yak, snake and seal.\"",
"They are usually prepared in a hot pot or stir-fried, and one penis, according to traditional Chinese medicine, should be shared by three people.",
"The meat dishes can be accompanied by assorted sauces such as lemon soy and chili soy, and any number of vegetable platters.",
"The food, especially in a country with such inexpensive dining prices as China, isn't cheap.",
"\"The average cost per person to dine here is about 500 RMB ($73),\" explains Lee.",
"\"Our clientele is usually made up of government officials and wealthy businessmen.\"",
"Perhaps a one-of-a-kind experience they probably won't forget."
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"(CNN) -- An update rolling out Tuesday for the Xbox Live network aims to do what Microsoft has been teasing for a while -- turn a platform designed primarily for video games into one that will be the major hub for all television viewing.",
"Microsoft promises the update, which it calls \"the future of TV,\" can \"transform every Xbox 360 into an all-in-one device to enjoy your entertainment.\"",
"\"The update is another huge step toward realizing our vision of bringing you all your entertainment, shared with the people you care about, in an easy way,\" Marc Whitten, Microsoft's corporate vice president for Xbox Live, wrote on the official Microsoft blog.",
"The Xbox was the first gaming console to include Netflix and has since added entertainment partners such as ESPN, Hulu Plus, AT&T U-verse and last.fm.",
"But Microsoft, hoping a bevy of new apps will up the ante, is adding content from 40 new partners while making existing content easier to view.",
"One of the free update's key new features will be a voice-control interface that will let users retrieve videos, television channels, games or other content simply by asking for it.",
"The feature combines the Xbox 360's hands-free Kinect system with technology from Microsoft's Bing search engine to hunt down the content.",
"Primarily billed as a gaming tool, Kinect uses a 3-D video camera and voice recognition to let the user interact with the TV screen without a controller.",
"The new partners, or updated apps, to be unveiled Tuesday include content from ESPN, Hulu, Netflix and MSNBC in the United States.",
"In the coming weeks and months, Xbox will add YouTube, Best Buy's CinemaNow, HBO Go, Major League Baseball and Comcast's Xfinity On Demand.",
"Time Warner, HBO's parent company, also owns CNN.",
"Microsoft said the update will also add social features, from voting on who you think will win the big game to tools letting you notify friends when you're tackling a multiplayer game they can join.",
"At a time when technology heavyweights such as Apple and Google are trying to gain footholds in the interactive TV market, some analysts are saying Microsoft has become the player to beat.",
"\"Microsoft has just built and delivered it: A single box that ties together all the content you want, made easily accessible through a universal, natural, voice-directed search,\" wrote James McQuivey of Forrester Research.",
"\"This is now the benchmark against which all other living room initiatives should be compared.\"",
"With 57 million Xbox 360s already in folks' living rooms, and 35 million of them connected to Xbox Live, McQuivey predicts that adoption of the new features \"will spread quickly and with devastating effect.\""
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"Xbox Live update promises an all-in-one device for TV viewing .",
"Apps, including content from 40 new partners, will improve TV and video, Microsoft says .",
"Xbox 360's Kinect system will let users surf channels through voice control and gestures .",
"There are 57 million Xbox 360s sold and 35 million users connected to Xbox Live ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Despite a five-year hiring surge, the Federal Aviation Administration is at risk of not having enough senior air traffic controllers for its busiest and most critical facilities, where they are needed to run operations and train less-experienced controllers, according to the agency's independent inspector general.",
"Nearly one-third of the senior controllers at the nation's most critical facilities are eligible for retirement, according to a report by the FAA's office of inspector general.",
"At a Dallas-Ft. Worth FAA facility, 65% of the controllers are eligible for retirement, it says.",
"Meanwhile, trainees are quitting jobs at high rates at those same demanding, high-volume facilities, according to the report.",
"Between fiscal year 2008 and fiscal year 2010, critical facilities lost 40% of their trainees to attrition, well above the national average of 24%, the report says.",
"The problems now are a legacy of the 1981 air traffic controller strike.",
"That year, President Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 controllers after they refused to return to work, and the FAA hired thousands of predominantly young controllers to replace them.",
"In recent years, those controllers have become eligible for retirement, forcing the FAA to ramp up its hiring and training programs.",
"The inspector general's report looks at 21 facilities deemed \"critical\" to the nation because of the high volume of air traffic they control.",
"The list includes several control towers at the nation's busiest airports -- Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson, Chicago O'Hare and the New York area's Kennedy, Newark and LaGuardia fields -- as well as several regional and high-altitude facilities.",
"The FAA said Monday it has \"progressively improved\" hiring, training and certification of new controllers and has increased its ranks of senior controllers, known as \"certified professional controllers.",
"\"More than 5,000 Certified Professional Controllers have been produced over the past five years as part of a hiring and training plan designed to ensure safe and efficient operations,\" the agency said in a statement.",
"\"The FAA continues to meet overall goals for hiring, training time to certification and number of certified controllers.\"",
"The FAA told the inspector general's office it recognizes the \"failure rate\" of new controllers is unacceptably high at some facilities and is addressing the issue.",
"The office said that while the FAA is getting better at allocating staffing, \"ot still has not provided the training support these complex facilities need to slow attrition and ensure the success of new hires.\"",
"It gave five recommendations, but said the FAA has satisfied three of them and is taking steps to address the other two."
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"(Good.is) -- By far, my greatest interests in life are words and humor.",
"I'm obsessed with both, which is why my favorite comedian is the late George Carlin -- the funny man most obsessed with how we talk.",
"Nothing has ever floated the boats of my two obsessions more than a good Carlin DVD or book.",
"Until now. The publication of \"Green's Dictionary of Slang\" -- a product of 17 years of work that make it the largest slang dictionary ever published in English -- is a glorious event for anyone who loves words and likes to laugh.",
"Covering slang from the United States to England, New Zealand, and beyond, Jonathon \"Mr. Slang\" Green records and documents more than 100,000 words and idioms in an OED-like, quotation-packed historical dictionary.",
"Those terms range from the crude (\"sweat bird turds,\" meaning \"work hard\") to the subtle (\"give someone the mitten\" -- end a relationship) and everywhere in between.",
"As Green says, slang is \"...vibrant, creative, witty, and open to seemingly infinite re-invention.",
"It is voyeuristic, amoral, libertarian, and libertine.",
"It is vicious. It is cruel. It is self-indulgent.",
"It is funny. It is fun.\" So is this dictionary. Folks have struggled to define slang for centuries.",
"One of the most accepted definitions is \"Historical Dictionary of American Slang\" editor Jonathan Lighter's claim -- \"The aim and chief function of slang is to lower and disavow the dignity of discourse.\"",
"Good: 'Mass Transit:' A dance performance inspired by riding L.A.'s buses .",
"Michael Adams -- author of \"Slang: The People's Poetry\" -- offers a complementary view: \"... it's not just that slang lowers dignity, but that dignity is under criticism in slang ... To the extent that everyday speech is boring, slang is meant to elevate discourse, not lower it.\"",
"As for Jonathon Green, in the intro to his massive new dictionary, he writes, \"I would call slang a 'counter-language,' the desire of human beings, when faced by a standard version, of whatever that might be, to come up with something different, perhaps parallel, perhaps oppositional.\"",
"That drive to coin words seems as biologically driven as many of the topics slang usually names.",
"As Green notes, \"...the basic concerns remain consistent in slang as they do in much that is human: sex, money, intoxication, fear (of others), aggrandizement (of oneself).\"",
"Within any of those topics, the range of vocabulary is astounding.",
"Take sex. One my favorite euphemisms -- \"Ugandan discussion\" -- is included, as well as many variations on themes, such as \"playing.\"",
"You can \"play at\" itch-buttocks, all fours, belly-to-belly, blindman's bluff, bo-peep, fathers and mothers, and handie-dandie.",
"Good: More college grads are taking nonprofit jobs.",
"But is it just a fad? You can also play \"night baseball,\" \"the first game ever played,\" or \"Mr. Wobbly hides his helmet.\"",
"The most romantic term might be \"bouncing refrigerators.\"",
"I'm going to add that to the hobbies list on my dating profile immediately.",
"Beyond sex, the range of terms and types of terms is enough to make your top-hamper (head) spin.",
"There are comic book-y sound effects, like \"kerplunk,\" \"kaplunk,\" and \"ka-plonk.\"",
"There's British rhyming slang, including \"Dick Van Dyke\" (bike), \"two eyes of blue\" (too true), and \"Meryl Streep\" (sleep).",
"There are indefinite words, such as \"thingahoochie\" and \"thingsmadoodle,\" plus exclamations like \"Holy creeping Jesus!\"",
"Pop culture is well-represented, as \"go to the mattresses\" is traced to Maria Puzo's The Godfather in 1969, and \"neo maxi zoom dweebie\" was coined in The Breakfast Club in 1985.",
"College slang appears often, nowhere as blatantly as in \"undue perversity\" -- a nickname for Purdue University.",
"Speaking of education -- and as a teacher myself -- I love the term \"gerund-grinder\": an 18th century insult for a schoolteacher.",
"That's not even the tip of the tip of the slangberg: Green's lexical buffet seems to go on forever.",
"Of course, even the biggest and best slang dictionary ever can't be complete or perfect.",
"I think Lighter's Historical Dictionary of American Slang (HDAS) is a slightly better word book -- in theory, if not fact.",
"Sadly, that incredible project has never been finished, and what is published is a tad out of date.",
"I was also stunned by some omissions in Green's.",
"How can \"assmunch\" and \"meh\" miss the cut when so many obscurities are listed?",
"Then again, I'm sure every English speaker knows some slang terms that didn't get scooped up.",
"Good: Low-tech project inspires community engagement in New Orleans .",
"When looking at such a massive, well-documented collection of words, griping about what's missing is a tad ungrateful: like dissing Christina Hendricks for not being voluptuous enough.",
"It's a shame George Carlin didn't live to see this amazing work, which is awesome in the \"causing awe\" and \"whoa, dude\" senses.",
"In addition to his prolific comedy, Carlin was a bit of a lexicographer himself -- Green cites some of Carlin's 2,443 Dirty Words several times.",
"I bet Carlin would appreciate Green's spin on slang: .",
"\"To me its greatest charm is that at its heart, even its most obscene and gutter-dwelling heart, it is subversive.",
"This is not political subversion -- slang is above politics -- but a subversion of the English language itself.",
"And by subverting English, it subverts the givens of the world that English informs.\"",
"Carlin, a lifelong subversive and committed atheist, once speculated that his soul might go to a garage in Buffalo.",
"I hope someone finds that garage and sends a copy of Green's massive record of our naughty mother tongue there -- stat.",
"He would love it.",
"© 2010 Good. All rights reserved."
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"Jonathon Green records and documents more than 100,000 words and idioms .",
"Green: slang is \"...vibrant, creative, witty, and open to seemingly infinite re-invention\""
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"(CNN) -- With many focused on the Penn State child sex abuse scandal, a South Carolina military college said Saturday it regrets not pursuing an allegation against a camp counselor further than it did.",
"The Citadel released details on one of its alumni, Louis Neal \"Skip\" ReVille, who faces charges including criminal sexual conduct with a child.",
"In 2007, the college received an allegation that five years earlier, ReVille invited two campers at The Citadel Summer Camp into his room to watch pornography.",
"They did not touch each other, but engaged in sexual activity, the college said.",
"\"Though the general counsel was unable to corroborate the accusation, the college continued its investigation with the camper's family, who made it clear they were very concerned about maintaining their privacy and not having their names publicized.",
"\"Despite the concerns of the family, whose right to privacy was foremost on our minds, we regret that we did not pursue this matter further,\" Citadel President Lt. Gen John.",
"W. Rosa and Doug Snyder, chairman of The Citadel Board of Visitors, wrote in a statement.",
"The Citadel, in Charleston, South Carolina, said a review of ReVille's records at the time revealed no other complaints, and his file included a clean background check.",
"He was a highly respected cadet and denied the accusation, the college said.",
"Four years later, Reville faces various charges, including criminal sexual conduct and committing or attempting lewd acts on a minor.",
"He was arrested late last month.",
"His attorney, Craig Jones Jr., has said his client is sorry for what he did, according to CNN affiliate WCBD-TV.",
"Jones declined to comment to CNN Saturday on the Citadel statement.",
"WCBD also reported that ReVille, 32, was the upper school principal at Coastal Christian Prep in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and had held a number of positions over the years working with area children.",
"\"Hopefully the way he's cooperated, that's one way he can hopefully show ... do what he can to help the victims to whatever extent he can,\" Jones said, according to WCBD.",
"\"There's no way that, obviously, he can repair the damage that's been done.\"",
"Graphic child sexual abuse allegations have rocked Penn State for the last week, leading to the ouster of the university's president and iconic head football coach Joe Paterno."
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"He is charged with criminal sexual conduct with a child .",
"Report: His attorney says ReVille is sorry ."
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"(CNN) -- The United States is vacating an air base in Pakistan at Islamabad's request following a NATO attack that killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers.",
"U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter told Pakistan's Waqt TV on Monday that the United States is leaving Shamsi Air Base in Balochistan Province southwest of Quetta.",
"U.S. drones have taken off from the base and refueled there for operations against Islamic militants, according to sources familiar with U.S. drone operations in Pakistan.",
"The order to clear out of the base comes in the aftermath of a November 26 incident in which a NATO airstrike killed 24 Pakistani troops.",
"According to two U.S. officials familiar with an initial assessment of the incident, U.S. commandos were working alongside Afghan troops when they came under fire.",
"The troops did not tell Pakistani authorities about the mission ahead of time because they had thought it would take place entirely within Afghanistan, the officials said.",
"U.S. and Pakistani officials said Friday there were conversations between the sides before the strike, but they differed on the content of those conversations.",
"A Pakistani military spokesman said the attack hit the wrong target.",
"A probe, headed by U.S. Air Force Brig.",
"Gen. Stephen Clark, is under way.",
"The loss of the base is unlikely to have any major impact on operations in Pakistan, experts said.",
"A U.S. official said Sunday that the \"loss of access to this base would not lessen capabilities, as it has served primarily as a back-up capability for quite a while now.\"",
"The United States flies drones out of Kandahar in nearby Afghanistan, so the impact should not be enormous, said CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen.",
"Still, there would be an impact, said Anthony Cordesman, who holds the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.",
"\"You're talking potentially 40 to 60 minutes' added reaction time,\" he said.",
"But the issue is broader than simply closing an airbase, Cordesman said.",
"\"It's what Pakistan intends to do about its airspace,\" he said.",
"\"If it's saying, in addition to the base closing, that it will no longer cooperate to allow the United States to use Pakistani airspace and there will be no cooperation on targeting and no quid pro quo where we would use systems to hit at insurgents or extremists which were threats to Pakistan as well as Afghanistan, then it goes much further,\" he said.",
"\"It also basically means that, if you're going to do this, you're clearly violating Pakistani airspace and, if you're going to do it, you may have to rely much more on stealth.\"",
"International law is clear, he noted.",
"\"You can't, in theory, send an intelligence aircraft over somebody's airspace.",
"Period. The fact that people do it all the time doesn't make it legal.",
"If you go beyond that, and the vehicle or airplane shoots something, that's an act of war.\"",
"Former CIA covert operations officer Mike Baker said that, from a logistical point of view, closing the airbase is \"irritating, inconvenient, concerning.\"",
"But, he added, \"It won't impact our ability to strike at a target.\"",
"Baker, who is president of Diligence LLC, a global intelligence and security firm, described the base closure as \"one more step down this dysfunctional road with the Pakistanis,\" but predicted that \"cooperation between CIA and other intelligence portions of our military and the Pakistanis\" will continue.",
"\"Regardless of what happens in the headlines, there is an operational level of activity that continues to move forward because, ultimately, it is in the Pakistanis' best interest to continue to try to counter some of the extremists' activity.\"",
"High-level Pakistani officials have supported, quietly, the U.S. drone campaign for years, he said.",
"\"They've been playing the same game that any other nation will play -- they want a little bit of plausible deniability.\"",
"In other words, when public opinion turns against the drone attacks, the officials will turn against them, too, Baker said.",
"\"Once they feel threatened from their own population because of their support and cooperation from the United States, that's when they'll turn on us,\" he said.",
"\"Will they decide a drone strike in Pakistani airspace without permission is an act of war?",
"Doubtful.\" U.S. officials have long prepared for Plan B in Pakistan, he said.",
"\"If you have facilities in any country where you have a somewhat occasional volatile relationship, you're always looking for alternatives,\" he said.",
"The issue of U.S. and other NATO forces entering Pakistan has been a sensitive topic in that country since May, when U.S. commandos killed al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad without Pakistani leaders' consent.",
"NATO has called last month's casualties \"tragic.\"",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called the incident a \"tragedy\" and offered condolences.",
"President Barack Obama called Pakistan's president Sunday to express condolences over the airstrike.",
"He said the incident was not a deliberate attack on Pakistan, the White House said.",
"The incident exacerbated already strained relations with Pakistan.",
"\"Such attacks ... demonstrate complete disregard for international law and human life,\" Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said the day after the attack.",
"Khar asked the United States to vacate the Shamsi Air Base within 15 days.",
"The U.S. Embassy in Pakistan confirmed Monday that Munter said the United States is complying with the request.",
"On Monday, Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani said Pakistan wants to have good relations with the United States based on mutual respect and clearly defined parameters.",
"\"I think that is doable,\" he told state-run Associated Press of Pakistan.",
"\"I think that it won't take long.\"",
"He said that new ties being negotiated with the United States would ensure that the two countries \"respected each other's red lines\" regarding sovereignty and rules of engagement along the border.",
"\"I think we have evolved some mechanisms, and we are ready to cooperate\" on peace efforts in Afghanistan, he said.",
"In Washington, deputy State Department spokesman Mike Toner, referring to the cross-border incident in which two dozen Pakistani soldiers were killed, said he welcomed Gilani's remarks.",
"\"From the very moments after this tragedy, we've been clear that this relationship is vital to U.S. national security interests, it is vital to Pakistan's national security interests, it is vital to the region's interests that we work together productively.",
"And we are committed to addressing the issues between us and moving forward,\" he told reporters.",
"CNN's Pam Benson, Nasir Habib, Nick Paton Walsh and Barbara Starr and journalist Shaan Khan contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Joe Paterno was admitted to a hospital Sunday morning after fracturing his pelvis when he slipped and fell at his home the previous night, a source close to the Paterno family said.",
"The injury will not require surgery, the source said.",
"But since the former Penn State football coach is being treated with chemotherapy as he battles lung cancer, doctors have decided to keep him in the hospital.",
"The source did not say which hospital Paterno, who turns 85 later this month, is in or how long he is expected to stay there.",
"Paterno lost his job as the Nittany Lions coach last month amid criticism that he hadn't done more when a sexual assault allegation surfaced regarding his longtime defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky.",
"According to a biography on a Penn State website, Paterno was born December 21, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Brown University.",
"He joined the Penn State football program after graduating college in 1960, taking over as the team's head coach in 1966.",
"In late October, a Penn State win over Illinois -- the 409th in his head coaching career -- propelled Paterno past Grambling University's legendary former coach Eddie Robinson for the most in NCAA Division I history.",
"A week later, Sandusky -- who coached at Penn State for 23 years and remained a presence on campus after his retirement in 1999 -- was arrested and charged with 40 counts tied to allegations over a 14-year period.",
"Ten additional charges were levied this month.",
"An investigative grand jury's summary of testimony claimed that Sandusky engaged in fondling, oral sex and anal sex with young boys.",
"One of the allegations came from 2002, when a graduate assistant told Paterno he'd witnessed an incident in a shower inside a school athletic facility -- a story that Paterno referred to Athletic Director Tim Curley, but didn't become known to investigators until years later.",
"Curley and Gary Schultz, a university vice president, were both charged with one count of felony perjury and one count of failure to report abuse allegations.",
"Paterno wasn't charged, saying he did his duty by referring the allegations to his superior, according to the grand jury report.",
"But criticism quickly mounted, and Penn State trustees dismissed Paterno and school President Graham Spanier -- who initially backed Curley and Schultz -- days after Sandusky's arrest.",
"Just over a week after the firing, Paterno's son Scott announced that his father has a treatable form of lung cancer.",
"The family learned of the diagnosis after Paterno's follow-up visit for a bronchial illness.",
"CNN's Dana Garrett contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- First lady Michelle Obama got into the Christmas spirit Saturday by helping field phone calls from excited children eagerly tracking Santa and his sleigh full of toys across the world.",
"\"I've spotted a little dot, flashing dot that is over -- right now, Santa's sleigh is over the country of Latvia.",
"And he's delivering toys there,\" Obama told three siblings.",
"\"It looks like he's got all nine reindeer with him.",
"And it looks like that sleigh is pretty full -- yep, that's what the experts here are saying.\"",
"Obama took the phone calls from Hawaii where the first family is vacationing for Christmas.",
"She helped track Santa's toy delivery route via a Google map specially created each year by the North American Aerospace Command, also known as NORAD.",
"A tiny Santa icon is used to show his current location while a countdown clock below the map lets users know where he'll take his sleigh next.",
"Most of the children she spoke to were more concerned with finding out Santa's whereabouts than talking to the first lady, but one parent appeared to catch Obama by surprise when he asked, \"What do you want for Christmas this year from Santa?\"",
"\"Oh, my goodness,\" Obama replied.",
"\"I have what I wanted for Christmas: the president is here with us, and we're all together as a family.",
"I think we were all praying and praying, and asking Santa, and the Tooth Fairy, and every fairy that they could think of -- that's what Malia and Sasha were doing -- that he would be able to be with us on Christmas.\"",
"The president had delayed joining his family in Hawaii until Congress passed a deal to extend the payroll tax cut.",
"He departed Washington on Friday shortly after signing the two-month extension.",
"The NORAD Santa tracker started by accident in 1955 when a Sears ad misprinted Santa's supposed telephone number.",
"A child who dialed the number instead reached what was then called the Continental Air Defense Command and the commander on duty played along, beginning the tradition.",
"For the second year in a row, Obama was one of the 1,200 volunteers who answer phone calls and e-mails from children around the world."
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"(CNN) -- Are you highly motivated?",
"A creative, innovative thinker with a successful track record in effective problem solving?",
"What about your organizational and communication skills?",
"Do you have extensive experience maneuvering a dynamic workplace?",
"If any of this sounds familiar, then you've probably used one of the top 10 overused professional buzzwords in the United States in 2011, according to career-networking site LinkedIn.",
"The site culled its top 10 list from 135 million member profiles worldwide, finding that \"creative\" was the most overused word globally and in the United States.",
"After that, the list goes: . 2. Organizational . 3. Effective . 4. Extensive experience .",
"5. Track record .",
"6. Motivated . 7. Innovative . 8. Problem solving .",
"9. Communication skills .",
"10. Dynamic . There are several repeat offenders from 2010's rankings, including \"extensive experience,\" \"innovative\" and \"motivated.\"",
"Meanwhile, \"team player,\" \"results-oriented,\" \"entrepreneurial\" and \"fast-paced\" fell off the list to make room this year for \"creative,\" \"communications skills,\" \"organizational\" and \"effective.\"",
"The list also delivers small tweaks from last year.",
"\"Proven track record\" is now \"track record\" and \"problem solver\" has become \"problem solving.\"",
"What does it all mean? That the words are basically meaningless and don't help distinguish you from other job seekers, said Nicole Williams, LinkedIn's connection director and author of the book \"Girl on Top.\"",
"\"Banish buzzwords from your profile,\" she said.",
"\"Use language that illustrates your unique professional accomplishments and experiences.",
"Give concrete examples of results you've achieved whenever possible and reference attributes that are specific to you.\"",
"In other words, with a new year around the corner and unemployment hovering around 9%, it might be a good time to dust off your resume and rethink the words you use to conjure your professional image.",
"The 2011 analysis also includes top buzzwords for countries in which LinkedIn conducted the study: .",
"Creative: Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States .",
"Multinational: Brazil .",
"Dynamic: France .",
"Effective: India .",
"Problem solving: Italy .",
"Motivated: Ireland .",
"Managerial: Spain .",
"Track record: Singapore ."
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"Repeat offenders from last year's top 10 list include \"innovative\" and \"motivated\"\nBanish buzzwords from lexicon and give concrete examples where possible, author says .",
"\"Use language that illustrates your unique professional accomplishments,\" she says ."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- Prosecutors detailed acts of police brutality in their presentations Wednesday at the trial of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on charges he ordered protesters killed during the country's uprising last year.",
"One video played for the court \"shows a policeman loading a machine gun and firing directly at protesters, proving the use of live ammo,\" said Khaled Abu Bakr, a civil rights lawyer involved in the trial.",
"Mubarak's lawyers have denied the assertion, he said.",
"Another video presented as evidence \"shows a policeman firing a gas canister that hits a protester's face directly, causing him serious pain.",
"Images of protesters included one of a man on the floor \"with his brain spilled on the ground,\" Abu Bakr said.",
"The evidence presented by the prosecution includes audio recordings, videos, medical reports of victims, and excerpts from testimony given by Interior Ministry staff and officers obtained during the trial's earlier sessions, Abu Bakr said.",
"The prosecution contends that police brutality led to many casualties among the protesters.",
"Mubarak, who also faces corruption charges, has denied wrongdoing.",
"The former president was wheeled into court on a stretcher after noon.",
"He was wearing sunglasses and was covered with a green blanket, as during his previous appearances.",
"Prosecutors are expected to focus Thursday on allegations that the former president and his sons squandered public money.",
"Thursday is to be the final day of their three-day presentation.",
"Abu Bakr said that opening arguments Tuesday lasted an hour, during which prosecutor Mustapha Suleiman described Mubarak as \"a tyrant who aimed to hand the rule to his younger son, Gamal, who promoted corruption in Egypt, allowing his friends and relatives to destroy the country without accountability.\"",
"Abu Bakr said he expects a verdict before January 25, the date last year that the uprising began.",
"It ended Mubarak's 30-year rule in February.",
"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 were acquitted last week.",
"Mubarak's health has been in question since his detention began in April, as reports of cancer and heart problems surfaced in the news media.",
"Former Egyptian Interior Minister Habib El Adly, six of his aides and two of Mubarak's sons are also on trial on a variety of charges.",
"The sons, Gamal and Alaa, also have pleaded not guilty.",
"\"The defendants before you in the cage are the actual instigators and are the ones who gave police officers the order to shoot,\" prosecutor Mustapha Suleiman said, according to his spokesman, Adel Saeed.",
"Suleiman also said that the prosecution has evidence that the regime used \"thugs\" against the protesters.",
"The defendants are accused of killing 225 protesters and injuring more than 1,300, Saeed said.",
"Amnesty International had estimated more than 840 protesters were killed and 6,000 injured.",
"Saeed said his estimate was 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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"Mubarak is charged with ordering the killing of protesters .",
"The ex-president, who entered court on a stretcher, also faces corruption charges ."
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"(CNN) -- Britain's Crown Prosecution Service is considering whether to charge England international footballer John Terry with racist abuse after receiving a full police file on the Chelsea captain.",
"London's Metropolitan Police confirmed this week that Terry was questioned under caution last Friday over claims that he abused Anton Ferdinand of Queens Park Rangers during a match in October.",
"The 30-year-old has strongly denied the accusation, but faces investigations by both the police and the English Football Association.",
"He has continued to play for both club and country, including this month's friendly win against Sweden when he retained the captain's armband.",
"\"We now have a full file on John Terry and that is now under consideration,\" a spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed to CNN on Thursday.",
"Terry's case is one of two that have rocked English football in recent months, and came shortly before FIFA president Sepp Blatter told CNN that there is no problem with on-pitch racism.",
"Liverpool's Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez has been charged by the FA over allegedly racist remarks he made to Manchester United's Senegal-born France international Patrice Evra during a Premier League match on October 15.",
"Liverpool announced that Suarez would plead his innocence."
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"UK prosecutors receive police file in case regarding England captain John Terry .",
"Chelsea player is accused of making racist remarks to QPR's Anton Ferdinand .",
"The 30-year-old was interviewed by London police at the end of last week ."
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"(CNN) -- It has become a great American tradition, an act of small-town civics, an example of direct democracy in action where citizens get to meet presidential candidates multiple times.",
"But it is also an overhyped media circus, which helps give Iowa disproportionate influence on who gets the Republican nomination, despite the fact that no binding delegates are actually selected.",
"The Iowa caucuses are low-turnout, high-intensity elections.",
"There are 2.1 million registered voters in Iowa.",
"But the total turnout for the GOP caucus in 2008 was just 118,696 people, despite the months of media hype.",
"Mike Huckabee won the caucuses that year with nearly 41,000 votes, beating Mitt Romney by more than 10,000 votes while being outspent considerably.",
"That 10,000-vote margin represented less than half of 1% of the entire state's electorate.",
"Overall, the state of Iowa is representative of heartland America -- 37% registered independent, 32% Democrat and 30% Republican.",
"But caucus-goers do not represent that political spread.",
"Instead, 88% of GOP caucus voters in 2008 identified themselves as \"conservative,\" and only 11% described their views as moderate.",
"Nearly two-thirds were evangelical.",
"As a result, center-right Republican candidates who might have the best chance of winning Iowa in a general election have a hard time making inroads in the conservative caucuses.",
"Conventional wisdom states that the top three finishers in the Iowa caucuses are all winners, with a chance to win the nomination, especially if they exceed expectations.",
"But jowly former Sen. Fred Thompson came in third in Iowa and dropped out of the campaign.",
"John McCain gained the endorsement of the Des Moines Register in 2008 as well as the nomination, but he didn't finish in the top three in '08 or '00.",
"In fact, since 1980, the only Republican nonincumbent who has won the caucuses and gone on to win the presidency is George W. Bush.",
"This year, we have a real horse race with no clear leader -- polls say establishment candidate Mitt Romney is in pole position, followed closely by libertarian Ron Paul and the surging social conservative Rick Santorum.",
"Newt Gingrich's once commanding lead has been shrunk by more than $2 million in negative ads, most from a Romney-affiliated PAC.",
"Rick Perry's invested his considerable campaign cash in a combination of in-state ad-buys and ground-game organization.",
"Michele Bachmann's campaign, which once was strong enough to win a straw poll in the state, has collapsed under the weight of the candidate's considerable overreach, marked by high-level defections and rock-bottom polls.",
"Bachmann has taken to desperately trying to compare herself to Margaret Thatcher at every stop while her campaign cites the judgment of a conservative Christian group that she is \"biblically qualified to be president\" -- whatever that's supposed to mean.",
"One of the real questions in this caucus is whether retail politics matters as much as it used to.",
"Mitt Romney basically dissed the state for the first 10 months of 2011, still stinging from his expensive rejection in 2008.",
"But his well-funded campaign was able to buy aspects of a statewide organization and negative ads to tear down rivals.",
"One of the fascinating aspects of the Romney campaign is that he seems to have a glass ceiling of 25% -- the same percent of the caucus vote he received in 2008.",
"The other candidates have famously traded the other 75% of the vote over the past several months.",
"If the deck is shuffled just right, with a number of other candidates in the mid-teens, Romney can win Iowa in this crowded conservative field.",
"And if he wins Iowa on Tuesday night, his months-long double-digit lead in New Hampshire will solidify and he will be almost assured of winning the first two states, well on the way to winning the nomination.",
"Additionally, he has the weight of precedent on his side: The front-runners who have conventional wisdom behind them tend to win the Republican nomination eventually, after the party flirts with a dark horse.",
"But Ron Paul is a wild card.",
"His supporters are by far the most dedicated, if not the most numerous.",
"They will turn out come sleet or snow (though the temperature is supposed to be above average).",
"The January 3 caucuses are smack in the middle of winter break for universities, but Paul's younger supporters might just come back early to vote for their hero.",
"If Rick Santorum's recent momentum continues, he can claim the evangelical mantle as the consistent social conservative alternative to Romney, the man he endorsed in 2008.",
"He provides at least one other clear point of contrast -- Santorum has been hammering away at middle class and blue collar issues, while Romney embodies the one percent of the wealthiest Americans.",
"The most dire scenario for Romney would be a Newt or Perry surprise surge, which the polls say seems unlikely.",
"But either of their campaigns could come out of Iowa with new momentum and at least a real chance of winning South Carolina and possibly Florida.",
"Three out of four states by the end of January makes a candidate extremely likely to win the party's nomination.",
"The countdown to the Iowa caucus can now be measured in hours, instead of weeks or months.",
"Whatever you think about the disproportionate influence this heartland state has on our politics, it cannot be ignored.",
"The presidential election year of 2012 is here.",
"And on Tuesday night, the race for the White House will really kick off.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of John Avlon."
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"The 2012 presidential race begins Tuesday with Iowa caucuses .",
"John Avlon says the caucuses are low-turnout, high-intensity elections .",
"He says worst case for Mitt Romney would be a surprise surge by Newt Gingrich or Rick Perry .",
"Avlon: Romney could win with only a quarter of the vote ."
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"(CNN) -- Juventus returned to the top of Italy's Serie A on goal difference on Monday after coming from behind to draw 1-1 at Roma, whose captain Francesco Totti missed a penalty.",
"The Turin club joined Udinese on 30 points after 14 rounds and remained unbeaten in the league this season thanks to a second-half equalizer from defender Giorgio Chiellini.",
"Daniele de Rossi, playing as a makeshift central defender, gave mid-table Roma the lead at the Stadio Olympico in the fifth minute.",
"The Italy international midfielder mistimed his volley from Totti's short-corner, but Arturo Vidal miskicked as he tried to prevent the ball crossing the line.",
"Udinese top in Italy after Milan only draw .",
"However, the Chilean was involved in the build-up as Juve drew level on the hour, with Chiellini beating De Rossi and Gabriel Heinze to a loose effort by Paraguayan winger Marcelo Estigarribia and heading home.",
"Totti, returning to the starting line-up with Bojan Krkic suspended, had the chance to win the match for Roma soon after when Vidal fouled Erik Lamela.",
"However, Juve goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon comfortably saved his former international teammate's 63rd-minute penalty.",
"The draw left Roma in ninth place, one of four clubs on 18 points.",
"Juve, having the team's best run of results since being stripped of the scudetto and relegated to Serie B in 2006's match-fixing scandal, are still on course for a first Serie A title in nine seasons and 28th overall."
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"Roma captain Francesco Totti misses a second-half penalty in draw with Juventus .",
"Unbeaten Juve came from a goal down to equalize in the Italian capital .",
"Turin side return to top spot in Serie A on goal difference above Udinese .",
"Roma remain in mid-table, 12 points adrift of the leading clubs ."
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"(CNN) -- Chinese football club Shanghai Shenhua hope to pull off a major transfer coup by signing former France international Nicolas Anelka.",
"Spokesman Ma Yue confirmed that talks are ongoing with the 32-year-old, who is out of favor at English Premier League side Chelsea.",
"\"We're still negotiating over some details of the contract.",
"If everything goes well, we'll announce it next Monday or Tuesday,\" Yue told CNN on Friday, adding that Anelka had been offered a three-year contract.",
"Anelka has played at some of Europe's top clubs, including Spain's Real Madrid and England's Arsenal and Liverpool.",
"His transfers so far have totaled almost £85 million ($133 million), making him one of the world's most expensive players in those terms.",
"However, his questionable attitude during his early career led to him being nicknamed \"Le Sulk\" at Arsenal and being banned for 45 days at Real after refusing to train.",
"In 2008, Anelka moved to Chelsea in a £15 million deal from Bolton, where he resurrected his career after a short spell in Turkey with Fenerbahce.",
"He showed the form that led Manchester City to pay £13 million for his services in 2002, rebounding from his decisive penalty miss in the 2008 European Champions League final to help Chelsea win the domestic championship in 2009-10.",
"However, he has rarely featured this season under new manager Andre Villas-Boas and is widely expected to leave Stamford Bridge during European football's January transfer window.",
"Anelka's international career came to a controversial halt during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, when he was sent home in disgrace after clashing with coach Raymond Domenech.",
"He was given an 18-match ban after refusing to apologize, but said he had already decided to retire from the national team.",
"Shenhua owner Zhu Jun said former France international Jean Tigana will become the club's new coach, according to the Shanghai Daily website.",
"\"Tigana should be in the city by the middle of this month.",
"He had already made a one-year coaching plan for the team,\" Zhu said.",
"The 56-year-old, who quit French club Bordeaux in May, has previously Turkey's Besiktas, Englanhd's Fulham and Lyon and Monaco in his homeland.",
"Shenhua finished 11th in the 16-team Chinese Super League this year, having been runners-up in 2005, 2006 and 2008."
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"Nicolas Anelka in talks with Shanghai Shenhua, according to the Chinese club .",
"Former France international expected to leave England's Chelsea next month .",
"He has rarely featured this season under new manager Andre Villas-Boas .",
"The 32-year-old moved to Stamford Bridge from Bolton in January 2008 ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- All U.S. forces have vacated a military base in Pakistan, meeting a deadline set by Islamabad after a NATO airstrike killed dozens of soldiers, local military officials said Sunday.",
"Pakistan requested U.S. forces to vacate the Shamsi Airbase by December 11 in response to the November 26th attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in the northwest of the country.",
"Fifty-one American personnel have left the air base, taking drone planes and other equipment with them, according to the Pakistani military officials.",
"They did not want to be named because they are not authorized to talk to the media.",
"Pakistan military has taken over the base, the officials said.",
"Shamsi Airbase was one of two bases Pakistan provided the U.S. for their operations in the region.",
"It was built in 1992 by Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the then ruler of the United Arab Emirates."
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"Fifty-one American personnel have left the air base, military officials say ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai put pressure on Pakistan on Wednesday to help investigate an unprecedented attack on Shiite Muslim worshippers in Kabul a day earlier, saying his country would pursue the probe \"with all the power we have.\"",
"A militant group based in Pakistan claimed responsibility for the bombing, which killed at least 56 people on Tuesday, the Shiite holy day of Ashura.",
"\"To kill children on Ashura is to be an enemy to humanity.",
"To kill Muslims on Ashura is to be an enemy to Islam,\" Karzai said, calling the massacre \"unique in Afghan history.\"",
"\"Lashkar-e-Jangvi has announced they are our enemies and of Afghans and Islam and humanity,\" Karzai said, while visiting a hospital to meet survivors of the attack.",
"\"We will follow it very seriously and will definitely pursue it with the government of Pakistan, because it relates to our lives and the lives of these children lying in the hospital,\" the youngest of whom was a boy one and a half years old, he said.",
"Karzai has not confirmed the group carried out the attack, spokesman Aimal Faizi emphasized, but based his remarks on its claim that it did.",
"The mass-scale sectarian attack on Shiite worshipers was unlike anything the country has seen in its decade-long war -- in contrast to Iraq, where violence between Shiites and Sunnis has been a major feature of the conflict.",
"At least 193 people were wounded in addition to those killed when a suicide bomber detonated a device at a Shiite shrine in Kabul on Tuesday, Afghan Health Ministry spokesman Kargar Norughli said.",
"Four people also were killed in a Tuesday explosion at a roundabout on a busy street in Mazar-e Sharif, the provincial capital of Afghanistan's northern Balkh province, police official Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai said.",
"Another 21 were wounded in that attack.",
"\"The enemies tried to spread fear in this important holiday in the city,\" Ahmadzai said.",
"It was not immediately clear whether the attack in Mazar-e Sharif was linked to the attack in Kabul.",
"The U.N Security Council condemned both attacks \"in the strongest terms\" in a statement Wednesday and urged Afghanistan to hold those responsible to justice, as well as expressing its condolences to the victims.",
"Karzai also strongly condemned an attack in Helmand province on Wednesday, he said in a statement.",
"At least 19 people, including women and children, were killed when their bus hit a roadside mine Wednesday, said Daud Ahmadi, a spokesman for the governor of Helmand province.",
"Their bus was traveling from provincial capital Lashkar Gah to Sangin district in the south of the restive province, he said.",
"He said he did not know whether the civilians were the target of the roadside mine planted by the Taliban.",
"Karzai canceled a visit to the United Kingdom after the Tuesday blasts.",
"A spokesman for the Afghan Embassy in London said Karzai had been due in London late Tuesday from Germany but was instead flying back to Afghanistan.",
"Megan Ellis, a U.S. Embassy spokeswoman in Kabul, said Wednesday that an American was among the dead.",
"She added that consular officials were in touch with the family, who would need to consent to the release of further details.",
"The Taliban denied involvement in Tuesday's attacks.",
"A man identifying himself as a spokesman for Lashkar-e-Jangvi al Almi, a group with links to al Qaeda and the Pakistan Taliban, made the claim of responsibility in a call to Radio Mashaal, a Pashto-language station in Pakistan sponsored by the U.S. government.",
"The group is an offshoot of the powerful Lashkar-e-Jangvi, which has a record of high-profile suicide bombings in Pakistan, including the attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad in 2008.",
"Afghanistan has seen previous attacks on mosques.",
"In 2006, rioting broke out between Shiites and Sunnis at an Ashura festival in Herat, leading to several deaths.",
"But the country has not seen sectarian attacks of the scale that occurred Tuesday.",
"Ashura commemorates the martyrdom of Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed.",
"Hussein's death in battle in Karbala, Iraq, in 680 is one of the events that helped create the schism between Sunnis and Shiites, the two main Muslim religious movements.",
"Shiites are a minority presence in Afghanistan, which is predominantly Sunni.",
"CNN's Tim Lister, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Mick Krever and Josh Levs contributed to this report."
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"NEW: The U.N Security Council condemns the two attacks \"in the strongest terms\"\nThe attack on a Shiite shrine is \"unique in Afghan history,\" President Karzai says .",
"A group based in Pakistan reportedly claims responsibility for the bombing .",
"A bus carrying women and children hits a roadside mine in Helmand province ."
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"(CNN) -- Japanese authorities are expected to announce Friday that a \"cold shutdown\" has been achieved at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.",
"That would mean the plant's crippled reactors have stayed at temperatures below the boiling point for some time.",
"The announcement is a symbolic milestone.",
"But experts say it will take years -- perhaps decades -- to fully clean up the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.",
"The plume of radioactive particles that spewed from Fukushima Daiichi -- where reactor cooling systems failed in the aftermath of Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami in March -- displaced about 80,000 people who lived within a 20-kilometer (12.5-mile) radius of the plant, as well as residents of one village as far as 40 kilometers to the northwest.",
"The government has yet to determine when those evacuated can return to their homes.",
"Significant work -- with significant risks -- remains to be done at the plant.",
"\"This is far from over, and the work will go on for a long time,\" Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Toshio Nishizawa told CNN this week.",
"Citing government sources, Japan's Kyodo News agency reported Thursday that scrapping crippled reactors at the plant could take up to 40 years.",
"In October, a spokesman for Tokyo Electric -- which owns the plant -- said temperatures in the three reactors where meltdowns occurred had already been brought down below 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit), but the company would have to maintain those conditions for some time before declaring the reactors in cold shutdown.",
"\"They're making this out to be some big milestone, some big thing.",
"But the reality of this is that it's not,\" said Michael Friedlander, a former senior operator at U.S. nuclear power plants.",
"\"The problem is, with these reactors and the condition that they're in, to suggest that they're in cold shutdown really doesn't do justice to the situation.",
"They're no safer today than they were basically in June.\"",
"Officials could start removing spent fuel rods from the facility next year, but it could be up to a decade before they are able to access the reactor vessels, he said.",
"\"They'll probably spend two or three years studying it,\" he said.",
"Jack DeVine, who helped lead the cleanup of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant after the 1979 partial meltdown there, said the cold shutdown likely means officials may have one less thing to worry about.",
"If they don't have to use as much water to cool the reactors, they also don't have to worry about what to do with contaminated cooling water -- one of many problems that have plagued workers at the crippled plant.",
"\"It's not like there's a dramatic difference.",
"It's just a gradual incremental difference that does make life easier,\" he said.",
"The earthquake and tsunami on March 11 killed more than 15,000 people in northeastern Japan.",
"The country was on edge for weeks as cooling systems failed and utility and government employees scrambled to prevent a nuclear catastrophe at the six-reactor Daiichi plant, located about 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Tokyo.",
"Hydrogen explosions blew apart the No.",
"1 and No. 3 reactor housings, while another hydrogen blast is suspected to have damaged the No.",
"2 reactor. Fires believed caused by heat from the No.",
"4 spent fuel pool damaged that unit's reactor building.",
"Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency eventually categorized the accident as a level-7 event -- the highest level on an international scale for nuclear disasters -- putting it on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.",
"\"We are going to check each reactor properly and determine what is going to happen to those left,\" Nishizawa, the Tokyo Electric president, said Wednesday.",
"Removing spent fuel rods is the next step, but officials need to further survey the area before that happens, he said.",
"\"We are considering sending a robot into the fuel tanks to really have a good idea (about) the situation.",
"This will be necessary when we take out the fuel,\" Nishizawa said.",
"\"But I don't believe what we see will be 180 degrees different from our simulations.",
"But as we say, seeing once is better than hearing 100 times, so we will have a good look at what's happening inside.\"",
"At Three Mile Island, where damage was less severe and only one reactor was affected, it took two and half years before officials were able to get inside the reactor to assess it, DeVine said.",
"At Fukushima Daiichi, that process will likely take much longer, he said.",
"\"I think in terms of what's ahead, it's still the daunting task that it's always been, which is first of all, figuring out where everything is. ...",
"They're going to be searching for and finding pieces of fuel, chunks of molten material that have now cooled, through all of that rubble,\" he said.",
"CNN's Catherine E. Shoichet and Matt Smith in Atlanta, and Licia Yee in Tokyo contributed to this report."
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"The announcement means temperatures have stayed below the boiling point .",
"Experts say significant work -- with significant risks -- remains to be done .",
"Kyodo News: Scrapping crippled reactors could take 40 years .",
"80,000 people who lived near the nuclear plant remain displaced ."
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"(CNN) -- If \"Can I kick it?\" provokes an almost involuntary \"Yes, you can!\"",
"and \"You're on point, Phife\" brings \"All the time, Tip,\" then you're in the right place.",
"If your idea of hip-hop is confined to Snoop Dawg, NWA or Public Enemy, then you'll also benefit from spending a little time with Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Jarobi White, aka A Tribe Called Quest.",
"In \"Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest,\" actor Michael Rapaport tries out his directorial chops by attempting to document the rise, fall, rise (again) and fall (again) of the seminal New York hip-hop group, achieving mixed results.",
"Although the film is chock-a-block with great music and interesting characters, it lacks a coherent focus and seems to want to be all films to all people.",
"A mixture of footage shot for this film and that from other sources, the documentary jumps back and forth between the band's early days, their first split in 1998 and their reunion (and subsequent second break-up) in 2008 on the Rock the Bells tour.",
"It gives a reasonably detailed and personal look into what made the band tick as well as what made them stop.",
"Unfortunately, it doesn't work as a whole.",
"Great documentaries most often latch on to the universality of their subject and connect on an emotional or intellectual level with their audience.",
"They can be about an obscure, unattractive animal (naked mole rats, anyone?",
"), a troubled child in a small town (\"Billy the Kid\") or a wacky modern-day philosopher king/tour guide (\"The Cruise\"), but they have a purpose, a point of view and a connection with the audience.",
"\"Beats, Rhymes & Life,\" while loaded with great material, lacks that connection.",
"Clearly charismatic and talented men, the four members of Tribe (White left the group for a significant stretch during its heyday but rejoined them for occasional reunion tours) have a lot to say about how they met, how they worked together and how they broke up, but the film never really pieces this together in any sort of narrative that can be closely followed.",
"Phife Dawg's health problems (he is a type-1 diabetic who undergoes a kidney transplant during the film) are mentioned, but only White, ironically the least-involved member of the group, shows any real emotions about his friend's dire health condition.",
"In the film's only other real showing of emotion, we learn that Phife Dawg's wife is a match, and she donates one of her kidneys.",
"For New Yorkers or hip-hop fans (of which this critic is both), the film offers frequent bits of interest, humor and musical delight and is certainly a pleasant way to spend 98 minutes.",
"Phife Dawg is especially loquacious, waxing rhapsodic on subjects as diverse as his eating habits (he lists Lorna Doones as one of the snack foods he's had to give up) and basketball.",
"In the latter, he's seen wearing an LA Lakers uniform, and Q-Tip questions him about his allegiance to his hometown New York Knicks and their new star, Amar'e Stoudemire.",
"Phife replies, rapid-fire, without missing a beat, that he loves the Knicks, but their front office is a mess and \"I like Amar'e Stoudemire, but I'm gonna need him to play some defense.\"",
"However, while the members of Tribe are all talented and charismatic artists with interesting and compelling stories to tell, \"Beats, Rhymes & Life\" doesn't tell them fully.",
"It's a complex story involving music, family, history and the greater world of New York hip-hop (which is in and of itself worth of a film), and what it comes down to is that Rapaport had so many directions to choose, so much footage to watch, that the film suffers from the overload.",
"Perhaps choosing a subject that is a little less close to his heart will afford Rapaport the distance that is sometimes needed to make a compelling documentary."
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"For hip-hop fans, the film offers frequent bits of interest, humor and musical delight .",
"Phife Dawg is a type-1 diabetic who undergoes a kidney transplant during the film .",
"Michael Rapaport has moderate success documenting the group's rises and falls ."
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"(CNN) -- Yaya Toure believes that Manchester City can become like his all-conquering former club Barcelona, the midfielder told CNN.",
"After being criticized for defensive play last season, City boss Roberto Mancini has taken the English Premier League by storm with an all-out attacking style.",
"Ivory Coast international Toure, who moved to Eastlands from the Camp Nou in a $38 million deal in July 2010, said that with the current wealth of expensive talent City can rival the European and Spanish champions' free-flowing passing style.",
"The arrival of Sergio Aguero and Samir Nasri has meant City have not missed wantaway former captain Carlos Tevez, while David Silva has blossomed along with Edin Dzeko and Mario Balotelli for the 2011 FA Cup winners.",
"\"Last year was difficult, because some of the media criticized City for defending more than attack,\" Toure said.",
"\"(Now) the boss plays with a different system ... Sami Nasri, Edin Dzeko is playing fantastic now, Aguero, Silva is unbelievable.\"",
"Toure scored the goal that ended City's 35-year wait for a trophy at Wembley in May, and he said that if Mancini's men can maintain the form that has taken them top of the English table then they can be a serious threat to Barca's dominance.",
"\"For me it's important that you have to first win something, and last year we did it.",
"But this year, I think if we continue like that, if we win a couple more cups, maybe we can be like them, because Barcelona is this fantastic machine of football,\" the 28-year-old said.",
"\"I'm full of confidence this year, I think this year is going to be amazing for us.\"",
"City qualified for the Europe's top club competition for the first time since 1969, and have a great chance of progressing into the knockout stage of the Champions League despite being drawn in a so-called \"Group of Death\" along with Bayern Munich, Napoli and Villarreal.",
"\"I think you have to go step by step because for me, for the moment, the Premier League is the most important league,\" Toure said.",
"\"But we focus on the Champions League.",
"\"The Champions League is one of the best competitions in the world, so many great teams there.",
"I think if we get some luck, we can go far.\"",
"Toure will miss a vital chunk of City's season when he heads to Gabon and Equatorial Guinea in January for the month-long African Cup of Nations.",
"The Ivory Coast's \"Elephants,\" drawn in Group B with Burkina Faso, Sudan and Angola, are among the favorites to win the tournament for the first time since 1992, with several of the usual big-name countries not qualifying.",
"Toure's home country is recovering from the civil war that broke out in March after former president Laurent Gbagbo refused to stand down despite losing the November 2010 elections, plus floods that hit Abidjan in June.",
"\"Everybody in my country they are waiting for this cup.",
"And, I think we can only give them the happiness if we win this cup, because the guys from there they need it a lot.\"",
"While Manchester United's status as one of the world's most popular clubs remains intact, Toure's presence at City along with his older brother Kolo has helped change the balance among supporters back home.",
"\"Now I see the fans are very proud to put on the blue shirt of the club,\" he said.",
"\"And now I think the image of City is starting to change.",
"I hope God helps us to continue to win something, which will make a lot of people happy.\""
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"Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure says the club can potentially rival Barcelona .",
"City on top in England this season after the arrival of several big-name signings .",
"Toure hails manager Roberto Mancini's switch to a more attacking style of play .",
"He will miss part of the season when he goes to Africa Cup of Nations in January ."
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"(CNN) -- University of Missouri head football coach Gary Pinkel has been suspended for a week and docked another week's pay after his arrest on a drunken-driving charge, the university's athletics director announced Thursday.",
"Pinkel, 59, was released on $500 bail after his arrest in Columbia, about 120 miles west of St. Louis, according to Boone County sheriff's department records.",
"His unpaid suspension took effect Thursday afternoon, Athletics Director Mike Alden told reporters.",
"And when Pinkel comes back, he will have to donate his next weekly salary to the school's Wellness Resource Center, which presents alcohol-awareness programs to students.",
"He will also have to issue a public letter of apology; perform 50 hours of community service; forfeit any bonus if the Tigers make it into a bowl game; and see his salary frozen for a year.",
"\"He's a tremendous guy, and he's got great character and he was unbelievably remorseful, as I would expect him to be,\" Alden said.",
"But Pinkel's actions were \"certainly not consistent\" with values of the institution.",
"\"This absolutely goes against everything that we stand for and everything he teaches his players in regards to our social responsibilities,\" he said.",
"In a statement issued Thursday morning, Pinkel said he was stopped by a deputy after having dinner with friends and was \"very disappointed in myself for my lack of judgment.\"",
"\"Nobody should drink and drive, including me,\" he said.",
"\"My staff and I constantly reinforce with each of our players the importance of not putting yourself into a position such as this.",
"I did not follow that here, and for that, I sincerely apologize to the University of Missouri, to our administration, to the Board of Curators and to our fans.\"",
"Pinkel is in his 11th season at the helm of Mizzou, which has a 5-5 record overall and is 3-4 in the Big 12 conference.",
"Assistant coach Dave Steckel will lead the team into Saturday's game against Texas Tech.",
"Pinkel said he has apologized to players and staff for his conduct.",
"\"I accept full responsibility for my actions and will abide by whatever course of action our leadership deems appropriate,\" he said."
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"NEW: Mizzou head coach Gary Pinkel suspended after a DUI arrest .",
"NEW: His conduct \"goes against everything that we stand for,\" athletics director says .",
"Pinkel is free on $500 bail and says he's responsible for his actions ."
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"(CNN) -- A federal judge in New Orleans has ruled that Halliburton is not liable for the some of the compensatory damages sought by third parties in the worst oil spill in U.S. history, leaving BP responsible for the majority of those claims.",
"\"BP is required to indemnify Halliburton for third-party compensatory claims that arise from pollution or contamination that did not originate from the property or equipment of Halliburton located above the surface of the land or water, even if Halliburton's gross negligence caused the pollution,\" the order states.",
"The judgment is similar to the decision that came down last week regarding Deepwater Horizon rig owner Transocean's responsibility in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster.",
"In the ruling Tuesday, Judge Carl Barbier notes the similar contractual indemnity issues between Transocean and Halliburton, and accordingly left it open as to whether Halliburton would also be held liable for punitive damages or civil penalties under the Clean Water Act.",
"Halliburton was contracted by BP to cement the Macondo well that was the source of the oil spill, and had argued its contract protected the energy company from legal action resulting from its work.",
"\"Halliburton agrees with the ruling to the extent that it requires BP to honor its contractual indemnity obligations,\" said Beverly Stafford, Halliburton's director of corporate affairs.",
"Earlier this month, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists said they had confirmed through chemical testing just how much oil was released in the disaster, which begain with the April 20, 2010, rig explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon that claimed 11 lives, and continued for nearly three months afterward.",
"NOAA said approximately 59,200 barrels of liquid oil per day flowed out into the Gulf, and that the \"leaking gas and oil quickly separated\" into three different areas: as an underwater plume of droplets, an airborne plume of evaporating chemicals, and the slick of oil visible on the Gulf's surface.",
"BP said Tuesday that Halliburton still needs to be held accountable.",
"\"Today's ruling, together with last week's decision on Transocean's financial obligations stemming from its conduct at the Macondo well, is a strong signal that contractors involved in critical well operations will be held accountable for their actions under the law,\" a BP statement said.",
"\"All official investigations have concluded that Halliburton played a causal role in the accident, and following this ruling, Halliburton is, at a minimum, responsible for any punitive damages as well as civil penalties to the extent that they may apply under the Clean Water Act.",
"Moreover, the court determined that if Halliburton is found to have committed fraud, then the indemnity could be void,\" BP said.",
"Last September, the government issued a formal report on the oil spill, finding that BP, Transocean and Halliburton all shared responsibility for the explosion, but that BP was \"ultimately responsible\" for operations at the site \"in a way that ensured the safety and protection of personnel, equipment, natural resources, and the environment.\"",
"The British oil giant said it has already paid billions in damages and that the other culpable parties are still on the hook.",
"\"BP has acknowledged its role in the accident and has paid more than $7.8 billion in claims, advances and other payments to individuals, businesses and governments, regardless of whether third parties ultimately would be responsible for any of that sum or additional liabilities.",
"Our charges and provisions never assumed any recovery from Transocean or Halliburton for pollution-related damages.",
"These two decisions should put an end to the attempts by Transocean and Halliburton to avoid their obligations.\"",
"A trial to determine how the division of blame will be allocated is set to begin on February 27 in New Orleans."
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"Court sides with Halliburton's indemnity in its contract with BP to cement the Macondo well .",
"Ruling is similar to a decision last week regarding rig owner Transocean's responsibility .",
"BP says Halliburton still needs to be held accountable ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- We all know about the power of born-again and evangelical voters in the Iowa Republican presidential caucuses.",
"Four years ago, three out of every five Iowans who attended a GOP precinct caucus described themselves that way, and they handed Baptist minister and former Arkansas Gov.",
"Mike Huckabee an upset victory over former Massachusetts Gov.",
"Mitt Romney.",
"Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, Texas Gov.",
"Rick Perry and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum would like to repeat that trick again on Tuesday.",
"Whether 60% of the 2012 Iowa GOP caucus vote will be made up of self-described born-again or evangelical voters again, and whether any one of those candidates will be able to scoop up almost half of them as as Huckabee did, remains to be seen.",
"But even if Bachmann, Perry or Santorum can repeat Huckabee's feat, then what?",
"New Hampshire's Yankee Republicans have been notoriously skeptical of what they perceive as holy rollers roaring out of Iowa.",
"Huckabee could only manage a distant third-place finish with 11% of the vote in the 2008 Granite State primary.",
"And when the 1988 Iowa caucuses elevated televangelist Pat Robertson with a second-place finish that year, he could only manage a fifth-place showing and 9% of the vote in the New Hampshire GOP primary.",
"Both Huckabee and Robertson quickly headed to South Carolina to try to resuscitate their campaigns in its primary, but there were no revivals: Huckabee finished second there, and Robertson third.",
"CNN surveyed 64 Iowa GOP insiders, including state legislators, local elected and party officials, veterans of previous caucus campaigns, and other party operatives, and asked them if a relatively strong showing by any of this year's more conservative trio could lead to a legitimate run for the GOP nomination by rallying the faith vote.",
"And in the state that knows that vote well, there were doubters.",
"If Bachmann, Perry or Santorum is able to finish in the top three in the caucuses, do you think that candidate will be able to consolidate the born-again/evangelical vote and become a significant factor in the GOP nominating contest?",
"• Yes: 46% . • No: 54% . The Iowa GOP insiders' skepticism was informed in part at least by what happened four years ago.",
"\"Huckabee couldn't do it and he was a much better candidate,\" observed one Iowa GOP insider.",
"Maybe Santorum or Bachmann or Perry could consolidate the religious vote for a while, allowed another GOP insider: \"Be a significant factor in the GOP nominating contest?",
"No, the Huckabee campaign confirmed this in 2008.\"",
"RELATED: Two out of three think Romney will win .",
"RELATED: Some Iowa Republicans want more options .",
"And even several of those yeses were qualified.",
"\"Bachmann and Perry are finished, they just don't know it yet,\" said one Iowa GOP insider dismissively.",
"\"Santorum could ride the wave for a while, but I doubt to the nomination.\"",
"Another echoed, \"Santorum could become the anti-Mitt, but (the) lack of a national organization and fundraising will be an impediment.",
"He'd need to suddenly catch fire in South Carolina and he'll have a tough time with resources in Florida.\"",
"The CNN Iowa GOP insiders were surveyed from the evening of December 27 through the morning of December 30.",
"Most of the survey was conducted over the Internet; some interviews were conducted by phone.",
"The Iowa insiders were given anonymity for their individual answers in order to encourage candid responses.",
"And while some insiders were aligned with one or another of the presidential campaigns, more than two-thirds said they had not endorsed and were not working for any candidate in the race.",
"Here are the names of the participants in the survey: Chad Airhart, Tim Albrecht, Bill Anderson, Lon Anderson, Becky Beach, Carmine Boal, Jeff Boeyink, Michael Bousselot, Danny Carroll, James Centers, Tim Coonan, Peter Cownie, Mikel Derby, Paula Dierenfeld, Brian Dumas, Ed Failor Jr., Susan Fenton, Brenna Findley, Christian Fong, Dave Funk, Tracie Gilbert, John Gilliland, Gary Grant, Pat Grassley, Adam Gregg, Sandy Greiner, Steve Grubbs, Chris Hagenow, Robert Haus, Erik Helland, Matt Hinch, Mark Hudson, Caleb Hunter, Stew Iverson, David Jamison, Eric Johansen, Jake Ketzner, Gary Kirke, Jeff Lamberti, Jill Latham, Don McDowell, Christopher McGowan, Bill Northey, Chad Olsen, Noreen Otto, Christopher Rants, Steve Roberts, Craig Robinson, Dave Roederer, Brett Rogers, Richard Rogers, Stacey Rogers, Nick Ryan, Renne Schulte, Rich Schwarm, Mike St. Clair, Suzan Stewart, Ted Stopulos, Cameron Sutton, Ed Wallace, Andy Warren, Nicole Woodroffe, Eric Woolson, Grant Young."
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"Iowa evangelicals wield power in the GOP presidential selection process .",
"Bachmann, Perry and Santorum are favorites among social conservatives .",
"But their ability to consolidate power is questioned ."
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"(CNN) -- President Benigno Aquino of the Philippines declared a state of national calamity on Tuesday after visiting areas in the south of the country that were devastated by a tropical storm over the weekend.",
"The death toll continued to rise from Tropical Storm Washi, which has left tens of thousands of people homeless as aid agencies struggle to deal with a growing humanitarian crisis.",
"Aquino made the declaration in a speech broadcast on national radio after surveying the destruction in the port cities Iligan and Cagayan de Oro on the island of Mindanao, where the vast majority of the dead were found.",
"Figures released by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council put the death toll at 957 early Tuesday.",
"The Philippine Red Cross reported a lower death toll, at 713.",
"Survivors in the area recounted brushes with death as flooding from the storm struck in the middle of the night.",
"Now, they're trying to piece their lives back together.",
"\"We escaped just in time,\" said Rona Magto, a high school teacher and mother of two from Iligan City.",
"\"Those behind us were already flooded and cars were afloat.",
"There was water everywhere and the current was so strong.\"",
"Rona and her family survived, but others, including her best friend, Remy Rubio, are missing.",
"Rona has since returned home and started to clean up in an effort to make her home habitable again.",
"But outside her window, she says, she sees emptiness.",
"The area in front of her still looks like a river and behind her, posts are left where there used to be houses.",
"Tropical Storm Washi has affected more than 338,415 people, the disaster council said.",
"About 88,000 people are being served at evacuation centers, according to the Department of Social Welfare and Development.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama issued a statement Monday expressing \"deep condolences for the tremendous loss of life and devastation.\"",
"He said the United States \"stands ready to assist the Philippine people and government should humanitarian assistance and recovery efforts be needed.\"",
"The Red Cross said hundreds of people remained unaccounted for after entire villages were swept away.",
"The government has actually lost count of the number of people missing, said Benito Ramos, head of the disaster council.",
"At least 400 people are missing in Iligan City alone, according to the Department of Interior and Local Government.",
"Military and disaster officials said many people were swept away as they were sleeping.",
"Water-logged bodies from washed-away villages floated at the shoreline on the northwestern coast of Mindanao island.",
"Five people were killed in a landslide, but virtually all the others died in flash flooding after Tropical Storm Washi, which is called Sendong locally.",
"Survivors in the hardest-hit areas are contending with no electricity or clean drinking water.",
"Flash flooding overnight Friday, following 10 hours of rain, fueled the devastation.",
"As much as 20 centimeters (8 inches) of rain fell within 24 hours in some areas.",
"December generally brings about 60 millimeters of rain (a little over 2 inches) to the region, CNN Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri reported.",
"Journalist Sunshine de Leon contributed to this report."
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"NEW: The death toll from Tropical Storm Washi rises to 957, government says .",
"NEW: President Aquino visits the stricken area and declares a national calamity .",
"NEW: Survivor try to piece lives back together after neighborhoods swept away .",
"NEW: Storm has affected more than 338,415 people, government says ."
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"Brussels, Belgium (CNN) -- Strikes by trade unions in Belgium disrupted travel Monday on the Eurostar and Thalys international train lines, the companies announced, as European leaders gathered in the capital Brussels for an informal summit.",
"Eurostar passengers trying to get to Brussels from London had to change from trains to buses in Lille, France, on Sunday night and Monday, the company announced.",
"Eurostar \"strongly advised\" passengers to rebook travel for another day.",
"Thalys cancelled dozens of train services to and from major European destinations including Paris and Amsterdam because of the Belgian strike.",
"But CNN journalists in Brussels Monday did not see protests Monday morning or notice major traffic disruptions as a result of the strike.",
"One of Belgium's main unions, known as FGTB in French and ABVV in Flemish, said the strike was necessary because negotiations with the government were going slowly and not producing specific results.",
"The general strike was necessary, the union said January 17, \"to convince the government and employers to keep in mind the social reality of employees and social welfare recipients.\"",
"Belgium's government is trying to bring down its budget deficit.",
"CNN's Jim Boulden, Antonia Mortensen and Theo Nikolaou contributed to this report."
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"Eurostar and Thalys international train lines are affected .",
"Unions say the strike is necessary because government talks are going slowly .",
"CNN journalists do not see strikes or major traffic disruptions ."
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"(CNN) -- The 2015 British Open will take place at St Andrews it was confirmed Tuesday, with golf's oldest major returning to the Scottish course for the 29th time.",
"The venue, known as 'The Home of Golf', last held the tournament in 2010, with South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen claiming a seven-shot victory for his first major triumph.",
"The 2015 tournament will be the 144th edition of the championship and will take place from July 16-19.",
"\"We are delighted to announce that The Open will be returning to St Andrews and the historic Old Course in 2015,\" Royal and Ancient chief executive Peter Dawson told the European Tour's official website.",
"\"St Andrews has proved time and again that it is perfectly equipped to host The Open and I am certain we will yet again see a worthy winner lift the Claret Jug.",
"\"Players, spectators and officials alike will welcome a return to the game's spiritual home and I fully expect that we will witness another thrilling championship.\"",
"Some of the sport's biggest names have lifted the famous Claret Jug trophy at St Andrews, with 14-time major winner Tiger Woods having won at the Fife course in both 2000 and 2005.",
"Bobby Jones, the American winner of 13 majors including three British Opens, won at the Old Course in 1927, while more recently the late Seve Ballesteros clinched victory at the venue in 1984.",
"Bobby Jones: The gentleman who shaped modern golf .",
"American Jack Nicklaus, the most successful golfer of all time with 18 major triumphs, won the championship twice at St Andrews, in 1970 and 1978, and also played the final tournament of his professional career there in 2005.",
"The 2015 British Open will also boost the country's economy, with the 2010 tournament bringing $62 million into the local economy and providing a $156 injection across Scotland.",
"Next year's tournament will be held at the Royal Lytham and St Annes Golf Club in Lancashire, England between July 19-22."
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"The British Open will return to St Andrews in 2015 .",
"The 144th tournament will be the 29th to take place at 'The Home of Golf'\nLouis Oosthuizen won the Claret Jug when the Open was last played there in 2010 ."
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"(Rolling Stone) -- As expected, the four original members of Black Sabbath -- Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward -- announced recently they will reunite and tour in 2012, including a headlining set at the Download Festival in June.",
"The surprise news was that the reunion will include a new album, produced by Rick Rubin, due next fall.",
"Host Henry Rollins, who introduced himself at the famed Whisky A Go Go on the Sunset Strip as the \"press liaison,\" talked about the impact of the band, both generally and in his own life.",
"\"I was a very alienated young person,\" Rollins said, \"and when I heard Black Sabbath I realized my life had a soundtrack.",
"I realized there were people out there using music to make great statements.",
"When I heard 'Iron Man,' high school became powerless over me.",
"This is true outsider music.\"",
"Then Rollins brought Rubin and the four Sabbath bandmates to the Whisky stage, where they'd played 41 years earlier to the day.",
"Rollins hosted a Q&A before the band answered questions from the assembled press corps.",
"\"Why now?\" Rollins began.",
"Osbourne summed it up: \"It's just time,\" he said.",
"Those sentiments were echoed by Iommi, who said, \"It's now or never.",
"We get along great.",
"Everything's really good.\"",
"The band also credited Rubin's persistence for helping get them back in the studio.",
"\"He phoned us every five minutes,\" Iommi joked.",
"\"I've known Rick for many years,\" Osbourne added.",
"\"He wanted to do it a long time ago.\"",
"With the album and tour not due until next fall, it's clearly early in the process.",
"But the quartet has begun rehearsing.",
"Rubin said it sounds like the four guys in Black Sabbath getting together and playing, and Butler agreed.",
"\"It's really back to the old Sabbath style and sound,\" he said.",
"See the full article at RollingStone.com.",
"Copyright © 2011 Rolling Stone."
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"Rick Rubin will produce the new album released by the reunited Black Sababth, due next fall .",
"Henry Rollins hosted a Q&A for Black Sabbath before they answered outside questions .",
"When asked why they were reuniting now, member Ozzy Osbourne said, \"It's just time\""
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"(CNN) -- Thirty-nine years ago, Roe v. Wade was decided.",
"With the passage of nearly four decades, the landscape of abortion has changed in a way that should trouble even those who consider themselves pro-choice.",
"Right now, 10 states and the District of Columbia have no statutory time limit on when abortions can be performed, while five more states allow abortion up to the end of the second trimester (about 27 or 28 weeks).",
"Yet, we know that by 28 weeks, the great majority of fetuses would survive birth.",
"In other words, we allow the killing of viable infants in our country.",
"This is a fact that progressives (including me) would rather not address.",
"As two Maryland abortion doctors face murder charges for allegedly performing late-term abortions, the issue now has a pair of human faces.",
"Drs. Steven Brigham and Nicola Riley were arrested after the discovery of what are alleged to be several viable fetuses in a freezer chest.",
"The story only got stranger on New Year's Day, when a clinic apparently owned by Brigham burned to the ground in Florida.",
"Important facts are still unknown, and the doctors have asserted their innocence regarding any late-term abortions.",
"There has been relatively little discussion of this case in progressive circles.",
"It's no wonder that we would rather look away.",
"The abortion debate has largely devolved into professional activists screaming at each other on television and at street protests.",
"We don't want to be like those people.",
"We are also haunted by the ragged remains of the Supreme Court opinion in Roe v. Wade.",
"Despite being disavowed by subsequent opinions and some of the individual justices, one part of that precedent lives on in the statutes of some states and the practices of several doctors: The assertion in Roe's majority opinion that \"viability is usually placed at about seven months (28 weeks).\"",
"The scientific claim that viability (the ability of a fetus to live outside the womb) \"usually\" occurs at 28 weeks has been undermined by medical advances over the past 38 years.",
"Children who would have died if born late in the second trimester in 1973 would more than likely live if they were born now.",
"A Swedish study in 2009 found that preterm babies born late in the second trimester who are given intensive care survive at surprising rates: 53% of those born at 23 weeks live, 67% at 24 weeks, and by 25 weeks, 82% of the babies survive.",
"(Sweden's health care system makes it possible to reliably track survival rates, but the type of care provided there is similar to that available in the United States).",
"In the same way that the law had to change to accommodate advances in DNA evidence that can exonerate those on death row, state laws must change to accommodate that with modern medical care, a child born at 27 weeks is very likely not only going to live, but live a fairly normal life.",
"We progressives tend to revere science, and there are few scientific proofs more convincing than those former preterm infants who live and thrive all around us.",
"Though late-term abortions are only a small fraction of the total number of terminated pregnancies, it remains a defining issue for our society.",
"As someone who works against the death penalty, trying to save the lives of people who have committed murder, I have a moral obligation to set my feet, breathe in deeply and honestly admit that prosecutors are morally in the right to pursue cases where they believe viable fetuses are being aborted in violation of the law.",
"A life is ended, and that is murder, if the facts so prove.",
"Some will see any accommodation on abortion as \"appeasement\" of conservatives, but this attitude is nothing less than the adoption of hard-line evidence-ignoring tactics that progressives so often (and properly) decry in groups such as the National Rifle Association.",
"We may disagree about whether life begins at conception, but it is now irrefutable that life is viable at 27 weeks.",
"To deny this plainly observable fact is akin to denying the existence of evolution or global warming.",
"Much as Troy Davis (who was executed in Georgia last year despite troubling exculpatory evidence) and Hank Skinner (who received a stay of his execution in Texas to allow DNA testing to be pursued) personified the problems with the death penalty, there are those who do so just as starkly when we ponder late-term abortion.",
"For me, that person is named Rees.",
"On a hot summer day in Waco, Texas, his proud grandfather carried him across the street for me to meet, months after his birth at about 24 weeks.",
"His eyes were clear in the Texas sun, he was wrapped in a blue-and-white blanket, and he was surrounded by love.",
"He was, and is, a person, and that matters as much as Troy Davis and Hank Skinner.",
"Follow CNN Opinion on Twitter .",
"Join the conversation on Facebook .",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Mark Osler."
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"Mark Osler: 39 years after Roe v. Wade, time limits on abortion should be rethought .",
"Some states have no statutory time limit; others allow abortion up to the end of second trimester .",
"Osler says medical technology makes some fetuses viable in second trimester ."
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"(CNN) -- What would Christmas be without Zuzu's petals?",
"Although the Frank Capra film wasn't a huge hit when it arrived in theaters back in 1946, time and broadcast TV have turned \"It's a Wonderful Life\" into a holiday classic that warms our hearts and soothes our souls every year.",
"Look for Jimmy Stewart's unforgettable turn as hero, husband and family man, George Bailey, when NBC airs \"It's a Wonderful Life\" at 8 p.m. Saturday Dec. 3 and on Christmas Eve.",
"If you're looking for more modern fare or prefer the enchanting world of stop-motion animation, have no fear.",
"There's something for everyone this holiday season from Rudolph to Justin Bieber.",
"\"Jingle All the Way\" (encore presentation 7:30 Friday Dec. 2, Hallmark Channel): Get into the spirit of the holiday with this adorable new stop-motion special which follows the magical tale of a Husky pup and the little boy who really wants to make him his own.",
"\"A Michael Buble Christmas\" (8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, NBC): The chart-topping crooner sings everyone's favorite holiday tunes from \"Let It Snow\" to \"White Christmas.\"",
"\"Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas\" (7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, Cartoon Network; 8 p.m. Christmas Eve, ABC): This 1966 animated classic takes viewers inside the magical land of the Whos, a town full of folks who love Christmas with the exception of the Grinch (voiced wonderfully by the late Boris Karloff, who also narrates), an angry creature who loathes the holiday and does everything he can to sabotage it.",
"\"National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation\" (9 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, ABC Family): Fill your holiday with giggles with the help of this silly holiday hit from 1989 starring Chevy Chase as bumbling patriarch Clark Griswold.",
"\"The Year Without a Santa Claus\" (9 p.m. Thursday Dec. 8 and 8 p.m. Christmas Eve, ABC Family): Travel back in time with the Heat Miser and Snow Miser song from this beloved 1974 stop-motion classic.",
"\"Frosty the Snowman\" (encore 8 p.m. Dec. 9, CBS): Everyone's snowy buddy conjures up the magic of Christmas for a whole new generation in this 42-year-old seasonal hit.",
"\"Santa Claus is Comin' to Town\" (7 p.m. Dec. 9 and Christmas Eve, ABC Family): This 1970 stop-motion treasure helps fans reminisce over the legend that is Santa Claus.",
"\"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer\" (encore presentation 8 p.m. Dec. 10, CBS): Root for Santa's ninth and most memorable reindeer in this beloved 1964 Christmas hit narrated by the late, great Burl Ives.",
"\"The Flight Before Christmas\" (encore presentation 9 p.m. Dec, 10, CBS): This new animated special focuses on a young and ambitious reindeer and features the voice of actress Emma Roberts (\"Valentine's Day\").",
"\"Christmas in Connecticut\" (10 a.m. Dec. 11 and 10 p.m. Dec. 16, TCM): The incomparable Barbara Stanwyck stars in this 1945 treasure about a domestically challenged woman who must provide a holiday feast for a war hero.",
"\"12 Dates of Christmas\" (8 p.m. Dec. 11, ABC Family): Amy Smart (\"Just Friends\") stars in this made-for-TV movie about a young woman who has to relive the same first date on Christmas Eve until she learns to open her heart and mind.",
"Mark-Paul Gosselaar (\"Saved by the Bell\" and \"Franklin & Bash\") also stars.",
"\"The Simpsons\" (8 p.m. Dec. 11, Fox): Check out this new Christmas-themed installment that finds the Simpsons family 30 years in the future.",
"Fox will also air new holiday-inspired episodes of \"The Cleveland Show,\" \"Family Guy\" and \"American Dad\" that night.",
"\"I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown!\"",
"(8 p.m. Dec. 12 and 22, ABC): This 2003 holiday special centers on ReRun, the lovable younger brother of Linus and Lucy.",
"\"Christmas in Washington\" (8 p.m. Dec. 16, TNT): Late-night talk show host Conan O'Brien is the master of ceremonies for this star-studded concert featuring Justin Bieber, Cee Lo Green and Jennifer Hudson.",
"The annual holiday special benefits the Children's National Medical Center.",
"\"Annie Claus is Coming to Town\" (encore presentations 2 p.m. Dec. 17 and 8 p.m. Dec. 20, Hallmark Channel): Santa's daughter Annie (Maria Thayer) leaves the North Pole in search of adventure in Los Angeles and winds up falling in love.",
"Vivica A. Fox and Sam Page (\"Mad Men\") also star.",
"\"A Christmas Story\" (24-hour marathon, 8 p.m. Christmas Eve to 8 p.m. Christmas Day, TBS): All Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) wants for Christmas is a Red Ryder BB gun and all fans of this delightful 1983 flick want is to laugh at the holiday misadventures of Ralphie and his family and friends."
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"The holiday season brings out TV shows galore, including some classics .",
"Shows will be airing on various channels throughout December .",
"There's something for everyone this holiday season from Rudolph to Justin Bieber ."
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"United Nations (CNN) -- The U.N. Security Council this week will take up a draft resolution proposed by Morocco that calls on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and transfer power.",
"\"It is primarily a straightforward condemnation of what has transpired, a call upon the government of Syria to adhere to the commitments it made,\" U.S.",
"Ambassador Susan Rice told reporters about the draft.",
"She noted that it contains no sanctions nor does it threaten the use of force.",
"State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the draft demands the government end the violence, pull back its heavy weaponry from residential areas, allow monitors to operate freely, release political prisoners and allow the news media to operate.",
"\"This is a regime composed of a small minority that is now attacking the majority of Syrians,\" she said.",
"\"It is the regime that bears responsibility for the violence.\"",
"Nuland said U.S. officials have also seen reports \"of Iran playing a nefarious role inside Syria.\"",
"But, she added, \"we are not in a position to confirm the accuracy\" of those reports.",
"The proposal comes after the Arab League suspended a mission to monitor whether al-Assad was abiding by an agreement to end the crackdown, which has left thousands of civilians dead.",
"Arab League Secretary-General Nabil el-Araby is scheduled Tuesday to deliver the monitoring mission's findings to the Security Council.",
"He and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani will also address reporters.",
"\"A swift reaction by the U.N. Security Council is urgently needed,\" said Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council.",
"\"I urge all members of the U.N. Security Council to assume their responsibilities in relation to the situation in Syria, and adopt steps long overdue in order to bring an end to the repression in Syria.\"",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday called for the council to \"send a clear message of support to the Syrian people: We stand with you.\"",
"\"The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms the escalation of the Syrian regime's violent and brutal attacks on its own people,\" Clinton said in a statement.",
"\"The longer the Assad regime continues its attacks on the Syrian people and stands in the way of a peaceful transition, the greater the concern that instability will escalate and spill over throughout the region.\"",
"French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe will travel to U.N. headquarters in New York on Tuesday \"in order to persuade the Security Council to fully assume its responsibilities in the face of the increased level of crimes against humanity being perpetrated by the Syrian regime,\" according to a statement on France's U.N. delegation's website.",
"\"Everything must be done to bring an end to the spiral of violence now resulting from the bloody crackdown that Bashar al-Assad's regime has been imposing for more than 10 months,\" the statement continues, urging other nations to support the Moroccan resolution.",
"\"It's time for the Security Council to be able to take action in order to help resolve this crisis.\"",
"The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), citing an official source at the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry, reported Tuesday that \"the U.S.-Western hostile statements\" are being espoused to \"target Syria and create a different image about the ... Syrian crisis.\"",
"\"We won't be astonished at the absence of wisdom and reasonability of those statements,\" said the source, who was not identified.",
"\"We regret that those statements are still coming from countries accustomed to making the Middle East a field for their foolishness and failing experiments.\"",
"Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia had proposed its own draft resolution calling for the end to violence by all sides, the rejection of foreign interference in Syria and the start of an international dialogue without conditions, SANA said Monday, citing Japanese NHK Television.",
"\"We are convinced that the Moscow contacts are indispensable in order to immediately cease any violence in Syria, prevent bloodshed and confrontation in the society, and ensure the success of deep democratic transformations in the country in compliance with the aspirations of all Syrians,\" the ministry said, according to the state-run Itar-Tass News Agency.",
"Russia said Syrian authorities have agreed to informal talks with opposition representatives in Moscow.",
"\"We are expecting that the opposition will also give their assent in the next days and put the interests of the Syrian people before any other ideas,\" the Russian Foreign Ministry said.",
"SANA carried two reports quoting Russian officials rejecting foreign interference.",
"One cited a Russian official as complaining that \"the opposition and those supporting it in the west and Arab world\" are refusing to engage in dialogue.",
"One of the Syrian reports also cited Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov as calling on the Security Council \"to study in detail the report of the Arab League Observer Mission on Syria\" before discussing the draft resolution the Arab League has presented to the Security Council.",
"Morocco's draft resolution calls for al-Assad to step down and supports \"full implementation\" of the Arab League recommendations on Syria.",
"That would include calling on Syria to form a unity government within two months.",
"Monday's developments came amid continued heavy fighting between Syrian forces and the rebel Free Syrian Army in suburbs of the capital city of Damascus, where Syrian forces have been battling to take back neighborhoods in Saqba and Maleiha, according to opposition groups.",
"One hundred people were killed Monday, according to the Local Coordination Committees, an opposition group that organizes and documents demonstrations.",
"The deaths include eight children and a woman, the group said.",
"Seventy-six of the deaths were in Homs, 15 in Daraa, six were in the Damascus countryside, two were in Idlib and one in Hasakah, the group said.",
"A resident of Homs said six members of a family -- parents, two boys and two girls -- were found killed Monday in the city's Karm Al-Zayton neighborhood.",
"A YouTube video showed what appeared to be marks of torture on the bodies.",
"A resident, citing witnesses, told CNN that victims were killed by forces loyal to al-Assad.",
"CNN could not confirm this independently.",
"\"Look at this boy, he was found holding on to his mother,\" said a voice on the video.",
"\"Some of his mother's hair is still in his hand!",
"... look at the hair. His mother's hair is still in his hand.\"",
"The woman's eye had been gouged from its socket.",
"\"This is the work of Assad's gangs and his so-called reforms,\" the voice said.",
"Government forces stormed the town of Rankous, and an explosion shook the town, according to the opposition activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.",
"Two defectors from the military were killed, dozens of civilians wounded, and some houses were destroyed in the bombardment, the London-based group said.",
"In Idlib, clashes were under way Monday afternoon between military forces and a group of defectors, the observatory said.",
"The group also reported violence in Rastan, Daraa, and other towns and cities across Syria.",
"In Aleppo, lawyers conducted a sit-in at a courthouse, objecting to the killings of Syrians by security members and calling for the release of detainees, the Local Coordination Committees said.",
"In part of Homs, Syrian forces battled to take back a neighborhood from the rebel army and anti-government protesters, according to an opposition activist who asked that his identity be withheld for fear of government reprisal.",
"Casualties littered the streets of the neighborhood, which was under siege, the activist said.",
"On state media, Syria routinely blames violence in the country on \"armed terrorist groups.\"",
"Citing Syria's Interior Ministry, a SANA report claimed that \"competent authorities killed big numbers of terrorists and caught many others\" over the past three days.",
"\"The authorities are chasing the terrorists who remain at large,\" the report adds.",
"A similar statement, also attributed to the Interior Ministry, read Monday by a host on state television said security forces had \"conducted operations\" over the prior three days in several cities, pursuing members of the \"armed terrorist groups that committed the most horrific crimes of killing and kidnapping, and planted landmines and detonated them on streets.\"",
"The groups had \"the most advanced weapons, including Israeli and American made weapons,\" and Syrian troops were able to kill many of the terrorists and arrest others, the statement said, adding that the pursuit for others was under way.",
"SANA reported that \"six army members, including a colonel, were martyred on Monday by the gunfire of an armed terrorist group while they were in the line of duty\" in Daraa.",
"When the group attacked a car carrying military personnel, \"a clash occurred, resulting in the killing and the injury of a number of the terrorists,\" the agency said.",
"Another 22 members of the army and law enforcement were taken from hospitals in Tishrin and Homs and buried Monday, SANA reported.",
"\"The martyrs were killed at the hands of the armed terrorist groups while performing their national duty in Damascus countryside, Homs and Idlib.\"",
"SANA also reported that an \"armed terrorist group\" blew up a gas pipeline.",
"No casualties were reported.",
"In addition, SANA said, another group killed a doctor at Bissan Hospital in Homs.",
"CNN cannot independently confirm opposition or government reports of those killed or wounded because access to the country is limited.",
"Syria has seen a sharp increase in violence in recent weeks, with hundreds killed in clashes between government forces, rebels and anti-government protesters.",
"That escalation led the Arab League to suspend its mission Saturday.",
"Ali Erfan, senior adviser to the Arab League's secretary-general, said observers outside Damascus would be redeployed to the capital.",
"Some will leave the country, while others will remain without conducting missions, he said, adding that he did not know how many would remain.",
"The violence in Syria erupted in Daraa last March, after a number of teenagers and children were arrested for writing political graffiti that opposed the government.",
"The unrest spread into an uprising, part of the \"Arab Spring\" taking place in several countries across the the Middle East and North Africa.",
"The United Nations estimated last month that more than 5,000 people have died since March.",
"Opposition groups estimate a higher death toll, with counts near or exceeding 7,000 people.",
"CNN's Hamdi Alkhshali, Arwa Damon, Josh Levs, Yousuf Basil, Joe Sterling, and Jill Dougherty contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Of the fall television season, it's probably safe to say, NBC's \"Grimm\" was not expected to be the breakout hit, or any hit for that matter.",
"The time slot was terrible (Friday nights), it had no major stars attached to it and the premise -- Grimm fairy tales set in modern times around the banner of a police procedural -- sounds like it could be the cheesiest thing ever.",
"But it's not. The show is dark and imaginative, both in rich, lush set designs and writing that puts a spin on the original Grimm tales where they come alive and make sense in the context viewers are given (short answer: the Brothers Grimm weren't writing early kid-lit; they were writing about real occurrences).",
"\"Grimm\" centers around Detective Nick Burkhardt (played by David Giuntoli), who in the first episode finds out he's a long lost descendent of the Grimms and is starting to see people for who they really are -- in short, evil.",
"Giuntoli has been a working actor for the past several years, picking up mostly one-off roles on shows like \"Grey's Anatomy,\" \"Cold Case\" and \"Hot in Cleveland\" before landing the plum role on \"Grimm.\"",
"CNN recently spoke with the actor from the \"Grimm\" set in Portland, Oregon, about what makes the show such an unlikely hit and the process of bringing fairy tales to the small screen.",
"CNN: Prior to \"Grimm,\" what were you doing for the most part?",
"Giuntoli: I was a working actor for three or four years before I got \"Grimm.\"",
"I was doing what many actors do in Hollywood: I was working gig to gig.",
"I would book a lot of pilots for TV shows that weren't picked up.",
"I'd been positioning myself for the last years to get the show, but it takes so many ... just the right mix of circumstances to take place for a show to go.",
"But the first two years I lived in L.A., I managed an apartment complex in Little Armenia.",
"So I didn't have to pay rent. There were more Armenians in Little Armenia than I think in actual Armenia.",
"CNN: What's a \"Grimm\" audition like?",
"Do you have to pretend like wolf people are chasing you?",
"Giuntoli: It's funny how the audition process is.",
"So often you'll get a script that's completely retooled by the time you get to the series.",
"And that's what happened. I was auditioning with scenes that never made it to the final script.",
"For example, in one of my first scenes I auditioned was me telling (my girlfriend) Juliette everything I'd been seeing and admitting everything to her, right away.",
"Now, we probably won't let that happen for a long time.",
"But I didn't have to chase anybody.",
"CNN: The show's part police procedural, part fantasy.",
"Why does this mix work? Giuntoli: It caters to several demographics out there.",
"Something that surprised me: Young people really are enjoying this.",
"The \"Twilight\" crowd are going crazy for it.",
"And it makes sense.",
"They're home on Friday nights.",
"Families are watching this together.",
"That really helped it become this little ratings hit for NBC.",
"People love it.",
"Hopefully the procedural people like it, too.",
"Let the Venn diagram overlap everybody.",
"CNN: You could be the next Robert Patterson.",
"Giuntoli: If I stop eating, grow and lose that pesky pigment in my skin.",
"CNN: But what do you think it is? That viewers had gotten bored of the run-of-the-mill cop dramas, or that fantasy is just so appealing right now.",
"Giuntoli: [Attracting the \"Twilight\" fans] is something we didn't consider would happen; it's only dawning on us now that it's happening.",
"The people that are visiting our sets, the people that are really going crazy are 25 and younger.",
"Maybe that's who goes crazy for anything, but that's what we're seeing.",
"Another thing that's been postulated is the economic downturn and that people flock to fantasy for escapism.",
"I don't know how true that is, I don't know if that's any more true now than it ever was, or people are watching TV now because it's network and it's free.",
"CNN: What's the \"Grimm\" set like?",
"Giuntoli: We're not serious at all.",
"We are somewhere between good times and grab-a**.",
"I don't know what that really means ... no, the cast, we all hit it off.",
"We're all actors and we think we're funny.",
"We do about half our work outside.",
"I was just in a rainforest, I swear, two hours ago.",
"You make one turn down a windy road and it's sunny, and the next turn you're in a cloud and there's ferns all over the place like Jurassic Park.",
"We try to use the aesthetic of the woods and the moss and the light precipitation.",
"That's where \"Grimm\" lives aesthetically.",
"That mossy, dense forest, which is a great substitute for the Black Forest, which is where the originals were largely set.",
"CNN: At the table readings, or when you get on set -- have you noticed any difficulties in adapting these old narratives into modern times?",
"Giuntoli: No, I haven't. Our writing staff is really clever and fairly seamlessly adapt the old fairy tales.",
"Also, they take liberties.",
"They pluck what they want from the original Grimm fairy tales and discard what they don't want, in a sense.",
"It's TV, it's creative, they can do whatever they want.",
"I think the joy in it is finding the little nuggets of what is from the fairy tales and what isn't.",
"CNN: People are weary of remakes.",
"Did you initially think that re-purposing this material was risky?",
"Giuntoli: People do get worked up over remakes, don't they?",
"They feel ownership of the first thing.",
"People get worked up about anything.",
"I didn't worry about taking this or sullying the Grimm name or anything like that.",
"It's a creative little spin we're putting on it.",
"CNN: The series just got a full 22-episode order.",
"What's in store for Nick?",
"He seems like a nice guy at this stage.",
"A guy you'd trust your daughter to go out on a date with.",
"Giuntoli: Oh yeah.",
"He's that guy. You could trust your daughter to drive cross country with him upon one meeting.",
"I hope that I go from nice guy to bad guy, but who knows?",
"There's so many places for it to go.",
"I think I learn more about the past coming up here soon.",
"I think what happens to a Grimm, over time, they get hardened and mean.",
"\"Grimm\" airs at 9 p.m.",
"ET, 8 p.m. CT Fridays on NBC.",
"A special new episode will air at 10 p.m. Thursday following \"Whitney.\""
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"\"Young people really are enjoying this,\" David Giuntoli says .",
"\"That's where \"Grimm\" lives, aesthetically.",
"That mossy, dense forest,\" he says ."
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"(CNN) -- The Philippine military said it killed a man who is on the FBI most-wanted terror list and two other senior militants Thursday in a predawn airstrike on a remote southern island.",
"About 15 militants died in the early morning airstrike on the island province of Sulu, part of the autonomous region in Muslim Mindanao, according to a spokesman for the Philippines armed forces.",
"The dead included two senior figures in Jemaah Islamiyah and members of the militant group Abu Sayyaf, said Col. Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos, the spokesman.",
"U.S. officials had a $5 million reward for the capture of Jemaah Islamiyah leader Zulkifli bin Abdul Hir, according to the FBI website.",
"The Malaysian, also known as Marwan, was on the FBI most-wanted list for \"providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists\" and contributing \"goods and services\" to a global terror network.",
"Another Jemaah Islamiyah member Mohammad Ali, also known as Muawiyah, and Abu Sayyaf leader Gumbahali Jumdail were also among those killed, according to the spokesman.",
"The airstrike was a joint effort between the army, air force, the navy and the police, and was \"very brief but precise,\" Burgos said.",
"The Philippine police are at the scene helping identify the bodies, Burgos said, but added that DNA tests had been conducted.",
"In the past, Philippine officials made premature announcements about the capture and deaths of Indonesian fugitives Dulmatin, who turned up in Indonesia in 2010, and Umar Patek, who was captured in Pakistan last year.",
"Both had fled to the southern Philippines and were reported captured or killed in Mindanao.",
"The Mindanao group of islands includes a Muslim autonomous region set up in the 1990s to quell armed uprisings by people seeking an independent Muslim homeland in the Philippines, a predominantly Christian country.",
"The Jemaah Islamiyah terror group first came to international attention when the Bali bombings of October 2002 provided a stark warning of the group's abilities and its deadly ambitions.",
"Active across much of Southeast Asia, it has close ties with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network."
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"U.S. officials had a $5 million bounty for a Jemaah Islamiyah leader killed in the airstrike .",
"The Malaysian was on the FBI most-wanted list for \"providing material support to terrorists\"\nIn the past, Philippine officials have made premature announcements about the deaths of fugitives ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- Estelle: Back To Love .",
"Estelle is one prime example of how UK talent is taking the world by storm.",
"When I met her at the 2004 MOBO Awards, where she won the Best Newcomer award, I felt she was going to become an international sensation.",
"Now a three-time MOBO award winner, she seems to get better and better each time she releases new material.",
"She recently created a free mixtape called \"AOM: The Prequel,\" which could have easily been another record, but the song that I just love is \"Back To Love.\"",
"The track's message can come across a bit upsetting since it's about her ex-boyfriend moving on.",
"But Estelle makes you think of the bigger picture and doesn't dwell on the past but looks to the future.",
"It is the perfect message to convey.",
"KOF: Be Like You . KOF is an artist who shows it's not just the artists from London who have a big future ahead of them.",
"We rate the young man from Liverpool so highly that we made sure MOBO TV shot an acoustic session with him and one of the songs we were lucky enough to hear live was \"Be Like You.\"",
"The singer/songwriter's second single is getting huge support from the UK radio stations like 1Xtra and Choice FM, and rightly so.",
"He is re-injecting true soul music back in the public eye and I can only support this as soul music is the first genre of music I fell in love with.",
"It was one of the reasons why I started up the MOBO Awards in 1996.",
"Apart from, of course, Adele, there are not enough musicians out there who can really touch your innerself like the greats, such as Aretha Franklin, could many years ago.",
"Obviously, these artists are plying their trade in the UK, but KOF, however, is getting the recognition he deserves quicker than most.",
"Mary J Blige: 25/8 .",
"One of my favorite all-time artists Mary J Blige returned this year.",
"I was so happy to see the release of her new album \"My Life II ...",
"The Journey Continues Act 1\" as she seems to be back to her best.",
"One of R&B's most important and critically-acclaimed artists, she has had many problems in her personal life, but with pain comes acceptance, then joy, and Mary is able to put them all behind her to create some of the best R&B songs to come out of America in the past 20 years.",
"\"25/8\" is a track that meets all of the criteria of what Mary J Blige is all about.",
"It's soul meets hip hop with her rough vocals complementing the track.",
"It's safe to say nobody in the world could cover a Mary J Blige song and get the same raw and powerful emotion.",
"A true great among us and like a fine wine, only gets better with age.",
"Labrinth ft Tinie Tempah: Earthquake .",
"Probably the nicest man in the music business, Labrinth has become a big name in the music business without even releasing records, but producing some of the UK scene's most successful tracks in the past couple of years.",
"He was the mastermind behind Tinie Tempah's hits \"Pass Out,\" \"Frisky\" and \"Wonderman,\" as well as putting his mark on Ms Dynamite's comeback single \"Neva Soft\" and Yasmin's hit \"Finish Line.\"",
"After giving us a little taste of what Labrinth the artist is about last year with \"Let The Sunshine,\" the man from Hackney brought the year to a standstill with his new track \"Earthquake.\"",
"Featuring the amazing Tinie Tempah, the whole song from start to finish displays a new level of excitement and constantly surprises you since it works on so many levels.",
"When the song goes to a standstill and you hear a dark version of the chorus before the beat kicks in is a stroke of genius that only Labrinth could come up with.",
"Not to mention, the video is surreal!",
"2012 will be a big year for Labrinth.",
"Kimbra: Settle Down .",
"Kimbra is a surprise choice of mine as about a month ago, I didn't know she existed.",
"But our new website editor brought her to my attention as he listens to a wide range of genres and played a song by Gotye in the office called \"Somebody I Used To Know,\" which features Kimbra.",
"Apparently she experiments with jazz and soul music so I gave her a listen and now I can't get enough of her track \"Settle Down.\"",
"The young New Zealander reminds me of a young Nina Simone with a voice that doesn't suit her at all since it seems like her vocal chords have aged beyond her current time.",
"I believe in finding new artists as you can't just live in the past when it comes to music.",
"Music styles will change and it's important for us to keep up to date with the new sounds.",
"I predict Kimbra is going to be around for a long time.",
"The opinions in this piece are solely those of Kanya King."
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"King chooses her five favorite current artists and one of their recent tracks .",
"Choices include Mary J. Blige and Estelle ."
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"(CNN) -- In March 2009, when I was detained in Evin Prison in Iran, two evangelical Christians were arrested.",
"I never met them but spotted them a few times through the barred window of my cell as they walked back and forth to the bathroom down the hall.",
"I would later learn that Maryam Rostampour and Marzieh Amirizadeh had converted from Islam to Christianity and faced charges of spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic, insulting religious sanctities, and committing apostasy.",
"They resisted severe pressure to renounce their faith, and in November 2009, after an international outcry, the two women went free.",
"News headlines are now highlighting the plight of another Iranian Christian accused of apostasy, or abandoning one's religion.",
"When Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani was 19, he converted from Islam to Christianity.",
"In 2010, a provincial court sentenced him to death.",
"This year, Iran's Supreme Court ruled that the case should be reviewed and the sentence overturned if he recants his faith -- a step Nadarkhani, 34, has so far refused to take.",
"Now, according to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Iran's judiciary has ordered the verdict to be delayed, possibly for one year.",
"But Nadarkhani's supporters hope sustained worldwide pressure will lead to his just and immediate release.",
"As international criticism has mounted, an Iranian official has alleged that Nadarkhani is being prosecuted not for his faith but for crimes including rape and extortion.",
"Nadarkhani's attorney, however, says the only charge the pastor has faced is apostasy, and court documents support this assertion.",
"Although Iran's penal code does not include a specific provision for apostasy, judges are given a fairly wide degree of latitude to issue rulings based on their own interpretation of Islamic law.",
"In the past this has led to punishments ranging from imprisonment to death.",
"The last person officially executed in Iran for apostasy was Hossein Soodmand, a Pentecostal minister who converted from Islam before Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution and was hanged in 1990.",
"Iranian officials often say their country's recognized religious minorities (Christians, Jews, and adherents of the ancient Persian religion of Zoroastrianism) enjoy freedoms equal to their Muslim counterparts.",
"Iran's constitution gives these three religious minorities certain rights, such as five seats in the 290-member parliament and the freedom to perform their religious rituals.",
"The constitution's articles, however, are all set within the boundaries of Islam, and Islamic codes grant superior legal status to male Muslims.",
"Many non-Shiites in Iran have also complained of limits on education, work, and exercising their faith.",
"Critics accuse the Islamic regime of having monitored, harassed, abducted, detained, tortured, and killed citizens based upon their religion.",
"Since 1999, the U.S. State Department has designated Iran a \"country of particular concern\" because of religious repression.",
"The State Department has focused on the treatment of Sufi and Sunni Muslims, Protestant evangelical Christians, Jews, Shiites who don't share the government's official views, and Baha'is, whose faith is not recognized by Iran's regime.",
"Christian leaders in Iran have usually blunted their criticism of the regime, in part to avoid tensions.",
"When I attended Christmas Eve Mass in Iran four years ago, I saw a few dozen worshipers, but I also heard that they had to get government permission to hold the service and were not allowed to proselytize.",
"They had a Christian school, but it had to have a Muslim principal.",
"They could print Christian texts but only with the authorities' approval.",
"A number of Iranian Christians who recently left Iran have told me that since the country's 2009 disputed presidential election, pressure on their communities has intensified, prompting many more Christians to emigrate.",
"In April, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom reported a rise in Iranian authorities raiding church services and harassing worshipers.",
"Evangelicals and other Protestants have been particularly targeted.",
"Unlike Iran's traditionally recognized Christian minorities, such as Armenians, Assyrians, and Chaldeans, evangelical churches hold their services in the Farsi language.",
"Iranian authorities accuse them of spreading Christian writings in Farsi to convert Muslims.",
"\"They are tough on us because we educate others,\" a former pastor of an underground evangelical church in Iran told me on condition of anonymity.",
"\"They call it proselytizing, but we don't proselytize.",
"We discuss the realities that Jesus Christ talks about in the Bible, and we never speak about the Islamic Republic.\"",
"Shortly after their release from prison, Maryam and Marzieh, the two Christian converts detained down the corridor from me, left Iran.",
"If they stayed, they may have shared the tragic fate of the Rev.",
"Mehdi Dibaj.",
"Dibaj, a Christian convert from Islam, was jailed for a decade and released in 1994 after international appeals.",
"Soon afterward, he went missing.",
"The authorities reported the discovery of his corpse in a wooded area west of Tehran.",
"Iran's government blamed an anti-regime group for the murder.",
"If the Iranian regime wants to tout religious freedom, it should respect its citizens' right to decide one of life's most personal choices: their spiritual path.",
"A regime that claims to observe human rights and base its actions on the peaceful nature of Islam should also explain how peace would be attained by executing a man whose only crime is his faith.",
"By releasing Youcef Nadarkhani before Christmas, Tehran would take an important step toward respect for human rights and would give his wife and children an unforgettable gift.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roxana Saberi."
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"The 34-year-old pastor converted to Christianity at 19, Saberi says .",
"Saberi: Iran's last official execution for apostasy occurred in 1990 .",
"By freeing Nadarkhani, Iran would show respect for human rights, she says ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- The Oscar given Orson Welles for \"Citizen Kane\" some 70 years ago goes on sale in an online auction this month, a Los Angeles auction house announced Monday.",
"The best screenplay award for 1941 was the only Oscar for the legendary writer, director, actor, although he was given an honorary award \"for superlative artistry and versatility in the creation of motion pictures\" nearly 30 years later.",
"Welles was 25 when he wrote, directed and starred in \"Citizen Kane,\" which the American Film Institute picked in 2007 as the top film of the previous century.",
"The golden statuette's controversial history includes a court fight with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which tried to stop another auction in 2003.",
"An academy official testified then that the award's value was at least $1 million.",
"A judge cleared the way for auction with a ruling in 2004 that Welles never signed the academy's agreement not to sell the trophy, according to Nate D. Sanders Auctions spokesman Sam Heller.",
"The academy, which aggressively challenges efforts to sell Oscar trophies, was successful three years ago in stopping the sale of two Oscars awarded to silent film star Mary Pickford.",
"A Los Angeles jury ruled the descendants of a woman who was married to Pickford's third husband could only sell the statuettes back to the academy for a price of $10.",
"Heller would not identify the seller, although it was known to be in the hands of Beatrice Welles, the actor's youngest daughter, after she recovered it from a planned auction in 1993.",
"It had been \"assumed to be lost\" for decades but was apparently in the hands of a cinematographer who got it from Welles, Heller said.",
"An attempt to sell it at auction in 2007 failed to draw a buyer, Heller said.",
"It was included in a lot of historical manuscripts, not movie memorabilia, he said.",
"\"Citizen Kane,\" Welles' first feature film, was nominated for nine Oscars but won just for best screenplay, which Welles shared with co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz.",
"Welles, who portrayed a fictional media tycoon, lost to Gary Cooper in \"Sergeant York\" for the best actor award.",
"John Ford's direction of \"How Green Was My Valley\" beat Welles for best director.",
"The bidding in the online auction will end on the evening of December 20, Heller said."
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"(CNN) -- As it slowly became clear that quarterback Peyton Manning would not be healthy enough to play for the Indianapolis Colts this season, his teammates embraced the following rallying cry: .",
"\"We're not just a one-man team,'' they would say defensively.",
"\"We've still got Pro Bowl players here.",
"We can still win games.''",
"Most of us bought in. Why wouldn't we? There was a culture of winning -- a Super Bowl title, another Super Bowl appearance, 12-win seasons as a matter of habit -- and lots of players remaining who were an integral part of establishing that culture.",
"Look at the remaining roster: Top receiver Reggie Wayne and tight end Dallas Clark.",
"Defensive ends Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis.",
"Top-tier center Jeff Saturday.",
"And then they lost their first 13 games of the 2011 football season, and have a chance to become just the third team in the National Football League's modern history to finish the year without a win or a tie.",
"Not a one-man team?",
"Now we know better.",
"Manning, the Hall of Fame-worthy 35-year-old quarterback, firmly established himself as the most irreplaceable player in the game this season, and did it without taking a single snap.",
"Some have even suggested he deserves Most Valuable Player consideration: With him, the Colts are a perennial Super Bowl contender, without him they're a laughingstock.",
"One player can have this kind of understandable impact in the NBA, where a LeBron James can leave Cleveland Cavaliers and reduce them from a 60-win team to the worst team in the league.",
"In the NBA, you're talking about five players on the court at a time.",
"Nobody could have imagined this would happen in football, where Manning is one of 11 players, and doesn't play defense or special teams.",
"When the New England Patriots lost Tom Brady for the 2008 season, they still went 11-5.",
"The Colts, who two years ago were in the middle of a debate over whether an undefeated season was possible, are now wondering if they will win a single game.",
"We've always known Manning is the face of the franchise (and, to a certain extent, the entire NFL).",
"Now we're finding out he's the heart, the soul, the brains ... everything.",
"The Colts aren't just losing this season; they're barely competitive, enduring a season that included a nationally televised, 62-7 shellacking by the Saints in New Orleans.",
"\"I'm shocked,'' Colts guard Ryan Diem said recently.",
"\"How can you not be?'' The Colts entered the season believing that Manning, coming off his second neck surgery, would become available sometime within the first month of the season.",
"But the pain and weakness persisted in Manning's shoulder and arm.",
"It was then determined Manning should undergo his third neck surgery in 19 months, a single-level anterior fusion.",
"\"That offense has evolved around a special guy,'' Kerry Collins, a veteran quarterback the Colts signed to replace Manning, told the New York Times.",
"\"Peyton has a football IQ that is off the charts and a physical gift as well.",
"There is no way to go in there and run the offense like he does.''",
"The bottom line is this: The Colts were built around Manning.",
"For more than a decade, that was an understandable approach.",
"The Colts were beacons of enduring excellence, one of the best franchises in the NFL and all of sports.",
"But when the foundation is removed, the entire structure crumbles.",
"All the Colts' best players are reliant on Manning.",
"The receivers, Pierre Garcon, Austin Collie and Wayne.",
"The tight end, Clark.",
"The two pass rushers, Freeney and Mathis, do their best work when their team has a lead, and the Colts aren't doing that.",
"Meanwhile, nobody's quite sure when and if Manning will return.",
"He announced two weeks ago that the neck fusion was progressing and he could increase the intensity of his rehabilitation.",
"It remains highly unlikely, though, that he will practice with the team the remaining three weeks of the season.",
"So now it gets weirdly interesting.",
"Turns out the Colts picked the perfect year to stink.",
"If they get the first pick in the draft -- and they have a two-game lead on Minnesota and St. Louis with three games remaining -- they will be in position to pick Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck , by most accounts the best quarterback prospect to come out of college since Hall of Famer John Elway left Stanford and joined the Denver Broncos in 1983.",
"Not a bad deal: The Colts get 13 years of elite quarterbacking from Manning, suffer for one season, then get Luck for another decade or more of elite quarterbacking.",
"But then the question becomes, what do the Colts do with Luck and Manning?",
"SI video on Manning and Luck .",
"Last week, Manning's father, former NFL quarterback Archie Manning, told two different radio shows that Luck and Peyton would not be able to play on the same team.",
"The argument was that both would want to play right away and should play right away.",
"Manning expects to be healthy, and Luck is viewed as the most NFL-ready quarterback to come out of college in years.",
"(Archie backtracked on those comments one day later).",
"Here's the rub: The Colts have to decide whether to give Manning a $28 million option bonus in early March.",
"The simplest option would be to let Manning leave as a free agent -- although it's never simple when emotions are involved and it involves a transcendent civic icon.",
"The other option is to pay the money and then figure things out.",
"But it's not as simple as paying the cash and then trading him.",
"The bonus is due in early March.",
"The league year, which would be the first opportunity for the Colts to make a trade, begins March 15.",
"If the Colts wanted to trade Manning, it would cost them $28 million, plus they would take a $38 million cap hit (NFL teams have a maximum amount to spend each year on player salaries and bonuses).",
"That's an enormous number and would not allow them to field a competitive team.",
"Indianapolis fans would like to keep Manning for a couple of years and then transition to Luck.",
"But that's a tough call, too.",
"Luck has not yet addressed the situation, but there's reason to believe he would have no interest in sitting behind Manning for two or three years.",
"As a first pick, he would have leverage, and could force the Colts to trade his pick, as was the case with Elway and Eli Manning.",
"Let's say the Colts keep Manning for a year and then deal him: It's a $28 million cap hit, still enormous, leaving them short of cap money to surround Luck with talented players.",
"\"We aren't close to making any decisions,'' Colts vice chairman Bill Polian said.",
"More and more, it looks like the Colts will have to make a clean break and move into the Luck Era.",
"The more immediate concern, though, is this: .",
"They just want to win a game."
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"Manning has led the team to unprecedented success and a Super Bowl championship .",
"Colts will be in position to draft Andrew Luck if they finish with the NFL's worst record .",
"Colts might end up with a decision to make between Manning and Luck ."
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"(CNN) -- \"At one point we killed eight people in 15 minutes.",
"The protesters were unarmed.",
"They didn't even have rocks!",
"That's when I decided to defect.",
"I threw away my gun and ran towards the protesters.\"",
"\"About 1,500 protesters came.....They requested the release of an injured protester who was inside the hospital.",
"They held olive branches.",
"They had no arms. There were 35 army soldiers and about 50 mukhabarat personnel at the checkpoint.",
"We also had a jeep with a mounted machine-gun.",
"When the protesters were less than 100 meters away, we opened fire.\"",
"These statements are part of the testimony of two Syrian soldiers who say they deserted after being ordered by officers to fire on unarmed protesters.",
"They are among 63 who have fled to neighboring countries and told Human Rights Watch of their experiences.",
"The organization has documented incidents where soldiers say they were ordered to kill or torture protestors, went on looting rampages or witnessed other soldiers being shot or tortured for disobeying orders or desertion.",
"The report, released Thursday, is titled, \"By All Means Necessary,\" borrows the language allegedly used by officers as they issued orders to soldiers to put down protests.",
"It identifies 74 commanders and officials accused of ordering attacks on unarmed protestors.",
"The testimony is frequently harrowing.",
"A soldier from the 9th Division recounted that on April 28 he was sent to a checkpoint to prevent protesters from marching on the capital, Damascus.",
"\"People were approaching from different sides, and one guy came up to me and screamed, \"'If you are a man, shoot me!'",
"The same moment, a mukhabarat guy next to me shot him in the shoulder, at close range, and tried to arrest him.",
"His mother approached us and said, 'Let him go; take me instead!,' and a mukhabarat guy in civilian clothes in front of me shot the guy point blank and killed him, in front of his mother.\"",
"The mukhabarat are members of the the feared military intelligence service regarded as regime loyalists.",
"At about the same time - in Daraa, where the protests began - a soldier alleged that his commander stood in front of the brigade and ordered: \"Use heavy shooting.",
"Nobody will ask you to explain.\"",
"Another soldier deployed to Bukamal in May said his commander made it clear that the unit's \"job was not to arrest people, but to kill.\"",
"According to the soldier, the commander gave verbal orders to \"kill anyone putting up resistance, regardless of whether they are men, women, or children.\"",
"HRW says it interviewed 63 defectors from the armed forces over a period of six months, talking to them \"and other witnesses separately and at length.",
"\"Violations described in this report are those that several defectors described separately,\" HRW says.",
"Most of the interviewees were conscripts but several were officers.",
"One soldier said in the early days of the protests, commanders would brief their men \"about how good Assad and his family were, and about the threats from the terrorists.",
"And then they also forbade us from taking leave.\"",
"Many of the soldiers said they were convinced that the government's claims were false when they went on leave and realized that \"close relatives and friends were participating in the protests and had been attacked by the security forces.\"",
"The Syrian government continues to maintain that \"armed gangs\" and terrorists, incited from outside Syria, have been attacking the security forces.",
"In an interview with the U.S. network ABC a week ago, President Bashar al Assad said he was not responsible for any misconduct by the security forces.",
"\"I don't own them. I'm president. I don't own the country, so they're not my forces,\" he said.",
"But some of the soldiers interviewed by HRW accuse senior officers close to the president of ordering them to shoot protestors.",
"One man who says he served in the 4th Division said a brigadier general had instructed them to shoot at protestors in Damascus.",
"He says he later found out that \"the orders came from Maher al-Assad, de facto commander of the 4th Division and President al-Assad's younger brother.\"",
"Another soldier with the 4th Division said that his unit was deployed to make arrests in a Damascus neighborhood in May.",
"\"We had batons, and the shabeeha (a government militia) had weapons; they wore black clothes.",
"We were running after people, and those we grabbed wished they had died because of how badly we beat them.\"",
"A captain \"used to shoot with his pistol at those we couldn't catch.\"",
"A former lieutenant colonel in the Presidential Guard described the torture of a man on the \"wanted list\" who had been detained in a suburb of Damascus in August.",
"\"When I came, he was still alive,\" the former officer related.",
"'He was screaming, and the soldiers were swearing and laughing.",
"It lasted for about five minutes longer, and then he died.\"",
"The report also details ruthless treatment of soldiers who tried to avoid killing protesters.",
"One soldier said that during a protest in Damascus in April, a young conscript called Yusuf was shooting in the air and not at protestors.",
"A military intelligence officer \"called a sniper on the roof, pointed at Yusuf, and the sniper then shot Yusuf twice in the head.",
"Intelligence agents took Yusuf's body away.",
"The next day we saw Yusuf's body on TV.",
"They said that he had been killed by terrorists.\"",
"The soldiers also describe \"sweeps\" of neighborhoods where protests were common, with hundreds of arbitrary arrests.",
"Among incidents of looting described, one soldier said that \"in Bayda we broke the doors and took whatever we wanted.",
"The mukhabarat was arresting people; in one area, they arrested ten old men to force their children to turn themselves in.",
"The same continued in Banyas, where we went the next days.",
"In Basateen, we looted everything, both my unit and others.\"",
"HRW says defections from the Syrian armed forces and intelligence agencies appear to have steadily increased since the protests began in March.",
"HRW says the UN Security Council should ensure the accountability of the officers named \"up to the very highest levels of the Syrian government\" by referring Syria to the International Criminal Court.",
"\"Try as he may to distance himself from responsibility for his government's relentless brutality, President Assad's claim that he did not actually order the crackdown does not absolve him of criminal responsibility,\" says Anna Neistat, one of the report's authors.",
"\"The ongoing killings, arrests, repression, and general denials of responsibility by the Syrian government also make clear that officials have failed to take any meaningful action to address these abuses,\" HRW concludes.",
"The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights estimates that some 5,000 people have been killed in Syria's unrest.",
"On Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon said: \"This cannot go on.",
"In the name of humanity, it is time for the international community to act.\"",
"The report comes out a day after there were unconfirmed reports that 33 people were killed in Syria.",
"The deaths were reported by the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, an opposition group that organizes and documents protests.",
"CNN cannot independently confirm reports of violence in Syria because the government restricts access by foreign journalists."
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"The soldiers say they were ordered to kill and torture protesters .",
"U.N. chief: \"It is time for the international community to act\"\nThe unit's \"job was not to arrest people, but to kill,\" a soldier says ."
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"American Fork, Utah (CNN) -- Pharmacies in Utah and Illinois are at the heart of an illicit nationwide network providing prescription drugs over the internet, federal agents state in court papers filed in two cities.",
"In search warrant affidavits obtained by CNN, agents said the business was centered around two pharmacies, one in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines, Illinois, and the other here in this small town south of Salt Lake City.",
"According to the affidavits, both pharmacies are owned by the same man, Kyle Rootsaert -- the subject of a 2008 report by CNN.",
"One of them, the Des Plaines company now called Rand Pharmacy, combined with another unidentified pharmacy to ship 30,000 packages of prescription drugs across the country during the first six months of 2010.",
"\"This is a pretty large ring of at least 200 websites that acted as internet pharmacies that were basically selling drugs -- prescription drugs -- without requiring a valid prescription,\" John Horton, a former official in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, told CNN.",
"\"These affidavits indicate this was a multiyear, multimillion-dollar operation involving thousands and thousands of prescriptions.",
"Going back in time, there were even deaths involved with this organization.\"",
"The affidavits say most of the drugs were highly addictive, especially muscle relaxants called Soma and tramadol.",
"And the majority of the prescriptions, a government source told CNN, were authorized by the same physician, Dr. William E. Morrow of Layton, Utah, who had never seen or even talked with those ordering the drugs online, according to the documents.",
"Utah state records show Morrow's license to dispense controlled drugs was revoked for three years, beginning in 1999, because he prescribed such substances without following proper procedure.",
"He paid a $1,000 fine and was again allowed to dispense controlled drugs in 2002.",
"His license to practice medicine was not suspended.",
"CNN's Special Investigations Unit first examined Rootsaert and Roots Pharmacy, the company he owns in American Fork, in 2008.",
"CNN Correspondent Drew Griffin ordered the antidepressant Prozac over the internet without a doctor's prescription, and the pills were delivered by overnight express the following day.",
"The affidavits show federal agents doing essentially the same thing in a series of test buys between 2008 and April 2010 -- ordering drugs from a variety of websites and receiving the pills within a day or two.",
"In addition, the agents received dozens of follow-up e-mails encouraging them to purchase more drugs.",
"Spokesmen for the U.S. attorney's offices in both Utah and Chicago declined to comment.",
"But former White House official John Horton, who now is president of an online pharmacy watchdog site called LegitScript.com, told CNN that the cash involved is significant.",
"\"With approximately 5,000 prescriptions being processed a month, at roughly $100 a prescription, that's at least, what?",
"A half a million a month being made by this operation alone,\" Horton told CNN.",
"Rootsaert did not return phone calls or answer a knock on his door.",
"His lawyer, Peter Stirba, told CNN in an e-mail that he had not had an opportunity to speak with his client about the affidavits.",
"CNN was able to locate Morrow, approaching him in his driveway as he arrived home.",
"He quickly ordered CNN's team to leave.",
"\"I don't want to talk now,\" he said.",
"\"Now get off the property.",
"Morrow refused to answer a series of follow-up questions.",
"Horton told CNN that with the affidavits, the Department of Justice was attempting a new line of legal reasoning to clamp down on online pharmacies.",
"\"The Department of Justice, for the first time, is saying these are considered unregulated drugs, and that is a violation of the law,\" Horton said."
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"Two pharmacies sold drugs without valid prescriptions, federal agents say .",
"The online pharmacies in Utah and Illinois are owned by the same person, affidavits say .",
"The affidavits say most of the drugs were highly addictive ."
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"(CNN) -- Juventus retained their unbeaten record and went back to the top of Italy's Serie A table with a 2-0 victory over 10-man Cesena on Sunday.",
"Cesena were 17 minutes from claiming a hard-earned point until Claudio Marchisio and Arturo Vidal played a neat one-two before Marchioso fired home from the edge of the area.",
"The visitors' fate was sealed in controversial circumstances seven minutes from time with goalkeeper Francesco Antonioli was sent off for an innocuous-looking coming together with Emanuele Giacherini.",
"Poland and Ukraine primed for Euro 2012 kick-off .",
"With Cesena having made all their substitutions, defender Giullermo Rodriguez had to go in goal and his first job was to pick Vidal's penalty out of the net.",
"The result leaves Juventus two point clear of AC Milan and Udinese, who both won earlier in the weekend, with 13 matches played.",
"Lazio are a further five points behind in fourth place, although they can close the gap against Novara on Monday.",
"In other matches, Roma finished with a remarkable eight men as they crashed to a 3-0 humiliation at Fiorentina.",
"Juan was the first to be dismissed, after giving away a spot-kick from which Stevan Jovetic scored.",
"Alessandro Gamberini's header made it 2-0 before Roma had Fernando Gago sent off for a second booking.",
"To complete Roma's misery, they had Bojan Krkic dismissed late on for handball on the line and Santiago Silva netted Fiorentina's second penalty.",
"Meanwhile, Victor Ibarbo scored a stunning individual goal to give Cagliari a 1-0 victory over Catania for their first win in eight games.",
"In other news, Lecce confirmed on Sunday that they had sacked coach Eusebio Di Francesco and replaced him with Serse Cosmi.",
"Lecce, who are bottom of the table with just eight points from 13 matches, made the decision after Saturday's 4-2 defeat at Napoli.",
"Di Francesco becomes the eighth coaching casualty of the Italian Serie A season.",
"Meanwhile, in Spain's La Liga, on-loan Arsenal striker Carlos Vela hit a spectacular late goal as Real Sociedad scored twice in the last two minutes to snatch a 3-2 home win over Malaga.",
"Vela's overhead kick made it 2-2 before Uruguayan John Ifran grabbed a last-gasp winner to lift Sociedad up to 13th place.",
"In other matches, Falcao hit his eighth goal of the season to help Atletico Madrid beat Rayo Vallecano 3-1, a result that moves them up to eighth in the table.",
"And a goal on half-time from on-loan Nigerian Odion Ighalo gave Granada a 1-0 success over Real Zaragoza, who are now bottom of the table on 10 points after the defeat."
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"Juventus are back on top of the Serie A table after defeating 10-men Cesena 2-0 .",
"Cesena have goalkeeper Francesco Antonioli sent off in controversial fashion .",
"Bottom club sack coach Eusebio Di Francesco and replace him with Serse Cosmi ."
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"(Lonely Planet) -- Stingray City is often considered to be one of the best shallow dives and snorkeling spots in the world and an undoubted highlight of any trip to the Cayman Islands.",
"This stretch of sandy seafloor in Grand Cayman's North Sound is the meeting place for southern stingrays hungry for a meal.",
"As soon as you enter the water, several of the beautiful prehistoric-looking creatures will glide up to you to suck morsels of squid from your tentative fingers.",
"Lonely Planet: The 10 ultimate Bahamas experiences .",
"So, how did they get so tame? Years ago, Grand Cayman's popular North Sound has a cut in the reef which was a popular route for fishermen to enter and then sit in calm water while cleaning the day's catch.",
"As they threw the bones and guts overboard, rays would come and feed on the discarded fish parts.",
"These days, the fishermen have long gone but the stingrays remain, flashing their brilliant white undersides as they soar across the reef.",
"Those unaccustomed to seeing rays might not realize what a rare sight this is.",
"Stingrays prefer to bury themselves under the sand, with only their bulbous eyes remaining above the ocean floor, keeping a watchful eye out for predators such as Caribbean reef sharks or hammerheads.",
"Should they be attacked, rays have one weapon in their arsenal -- a serrated, venomous-sheathed barb, four to eight inches long, that can be used to ward off enemies or someone settling on top of them.",
"These can inflict a painful wound in humans which may quickly become infected, and if the barb breaks off, it must be surgically removed.",
"That's unlikely to happen in this unique sphere, however, where the rays have become accustomed to humans.",
"As tempting as it seems, care should be taken not to touch these wild creatures; rays have a protective mucous on their skins, and touching them can remove this coating, leaving them vulnerable to infection.",
"Lonely Planet: 10 great Caribbean secrets .",
"Diving and snorkeling .",
"A popular wading and snorkeling spot, Sandbar, is about two miles east of Stingray City.",
"Here you can watch the rays zip through the waters to be hand-fed squid.",
"Usually they remain here all day, departing at night in search of crustacean snacks along the reef.",
"Stingray City's famous diving is fun, shallow and located in a beautiful setting.",
"A dive starts with a fascinating insight into the lives of these graceful creatures, and an on-board briefing about how to settle on the bottom and interact with them.",
"While this is mainly a shallow dive site, people snorkel above the feeders to watch as the water is crystal clear.",
"Ray wranglers may even swim up with a ray or two following, to give snorkelers a closer look.",
"Upon descending, hungry rays will probably already be near the boat.",
"If not, it is a thrilling sight to see a group of anywhere from four to 14 stingrays winding their way toward you across the snow white sand.",
"Rays here have been measured at over 4 foot across and weighing over 125 pounds.",
"There have even been reports of 6 foot rays, which far exceeds their normal adult size.",
"There are few places like this in the world to enjoy interaction with such an enigmatic sea creature.",
"Many divers and snorkelers come back for second and third helpings; so don't forget to bring a waterproof camera.",
"Lonely Planet: Top 10 Puerto Rico experiences .",
"© 2011 Lonely Planet.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Stingray City in Grand Cayman's North Sound is the perfect spot to feed stingrays .",
"The stingrays have grown accustomed to fishermen feeding them .",
"Dive and snorkel in Sandbar to get an up-close view of the stingrays ."
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"(CNN) -- Sports loom large in the public's mind today.",
"From the Penn State and Syracuse scandals to the upcoming BCS Bowl Series and the NFL playoffs, much attention is being paid to our athletes and coaches.",
"These men have enormous impact on the lives of our children, which makes the focus on actions at Penn State and Syracuse universities necessary and the mockery of the actions of honorable men, such as Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, so disheartening.",
"Tebow continues to win games.",
"This Sunday he again led the Broncos to victory.",
"He's now 6-1 this year as a starter, the Broncos are in first place in their division, and he has led the team to the most road wins in a row since John Elway.",
"Tebow is a good man and a good football player.",
"He's a man of character, faith and integrity.",
"He's also a Heisman Trophy winner, a two-time BCS national champion and arguably one of the greatest college football players of all time.",
"Tebow is a role model for sports fans everywhere.",
"But instead of lifting him up, too many commentators, critics and even fellow athletes mock and deride him and hope that he fails.",
"The latest example is \"Tebowing,\" where one kneels in prayer with his or her head bent in mockery of Tebow's usual touchdown celebration prayer.",
"Several weeks ago, Detroit Lions' linebacker Stephen Tulloch \"Tebowed\" after sacking Tebow and Detroit tight end Tony Scheffler \"Tebowed\" after catching a touchdown against the Broncos.",
"Critics like to pretend that it's Tebow's football style that bothers them.",
"Tebow hasn't yet proven to be a natural pocket passer, but in his last start he threw for more than 200 yards with two touchdowns, no interceptions and a passer rating near 150, and he continues to lead game-winning drives almost every week.",
"There is always room for healthy criticism in sports, especially at the quarterback position, but Tebow is subject to something uglier.",
"Sportscasters love to take extra shots at Tebow; take Merril Hoge, who at one point tweeted, \"It's embarrassing to think the Broncos could win with Tebow!!\"",
"Critics have a problem with who Tebow is as a man.",
"They are bothered by his faith, character and conviction.",
"Jake Plummer, former Broncos quarterback, said in a recent interview, \"I wish he'd just shut up.\"",
"They tell him to take his \"holier than thou\" faith off the field.",
"Too many in our culture deride good men such as Tebow because they make them feel uncomfortable.",
"These same critics believe the Aha!",
"theory of human behavior.",
"This theory assumes that the real character of a person is always base and hidden from the eye and that all good actions are a front for ulterior and bad or low motives.",
"Aha! Tim Tebow, you say you're Christian, but we know it's a facade for sympathy and attention.",
"You're just like the rest of us.",
"C.S. Lewis warned us of this.",
"He wrote in \"The Abolition of Man,\" \"We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise.",
"We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.\"",
"We scoff at Tebow and all that he represents and are horrified at the scandals at Penn State and Syracuse.",
"We are right to be horrified, but we shouldn't make fun of our good men.",
"Men such as Tebow are not in over supply.",
"Despite what his critics say, he should not stop what he is doing.",
"We need men like him, the type of men many fathers would want their daughters to marry and many mothers would want their sons to grow up to be.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of William J. Bennett."
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"Tim Tebow is proving to be a winning quarterback for the Denver Broncos .",
"William Bennett says Tebow displays his faith on the field, and gets criticism .",
"He says some scoff at Tebow or mock him .",
"Bennett: Tebow is the kind of role model fans should value ."
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"(CNN) -- Madonna will take center stage at halftime of Super Bowl XLVI, flanked by Cirque du Soleil performers in what traditionally is one of the year's most watched shows.",
"The NFL announced Sunday night, in a press release, that the Michigan-born singer would headline the halftime show on February 5, 2012, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.",
"She follows other high-profile acts in recent years, including the Black Eyed Peas and Usher during the most recent edition of pro football's championship game at Cowboys Stadium in Texas.",
"Other past performers including Bruce Springsteen, Prince, The Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney.",
"The halftime show has also been the subject of controversy, specifically in 2004 during Janet Jackson's infamous \"wardrobe malfunction\" while singing alongside Justin Timberlake.",
"The league calls the show \"the most-watched musical event of the year,\" with more than 162 million people tuning in last year in the United States alone.",
"A 2008 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Madonna is ranked by the Guinness Book of World Records as the top-selling female recording artist of all time.",
"She erupted on the scene in the '80s, selling 60 million records that decade and scoring several No.",
"1 hits including \"Like a Virgin,\" \"Papa Don't Preach\" and \"Crazy for You.\"",
"She continued her momentum in the 1990s with her Blonde Ambition Tour and also made headlines as a provocateur for her album \"Erotica\" and X-rated picture book \"Sex.\"",
"Even with a growing family, Madonna has continued working -- including releasing several more albums and books.",
"She has also acted in several films over the course of her career such as \"Evita,\" \"Desperately Seeking Susan\" and \"Dick Tracy.\""
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"The show will be halftime of Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis .",
"Guinness says Madonna is the world's top-selling female recording artist ."
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"(CNN) -- A 21-year-old man in Chicago is charged with battery after allegedly binding his toddler's wrists, ankles and mouth with tape and posting a photo online.",
"Above the photo of the girl, which Andre Curry allegedly put on his Facebook page, were the words, \"This is wut happens wen my baby hits me back.",
";)\" The Facebook page appears to have been taken down.",
"But the image was picked up by other websites.",
"The Cook County State's Attorney's Office also told CNN that the caption was with the photo on Curry's Facebook page.",
"Andy Conklin, a spokesman for the state's attorney's office, said the girl is 22 months old.",
"A public defender for Curry did not immediately return a call from CNN on Wednesday.",
"Curry is charged with aggravated domestic battery, Chicago police said.",
"He appeared in court Wednesday, where bond was set at $100,000, the state's attorney's office said.",
"Conklin said the next court date will be December 27.",
"The photo at issue shows the girl with painter's tape over her mouth and binding her wrists and ankles."
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"NEW: The next court date is December 27, the state's attorney's office says .",
"The photo showed a girl with tape apparently binding her mouth, wrists and ankles .",
"Andre Curry is charged with aggravated domestic battery .",
"Message with the photo said this happens when \"my baby hits me back\""
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"(CNN) -- Four years ago, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul had raised $8.3 million by the end of the third quarter of 2007.",
"One-third of that came in small, unitemized contributions of under $200 each -- the proverbial \"small donor\" giving that is the mark of a grass-roots based campaign.",
"In the 2012 cycle, he has raised $15.4 million through September 30, of which 41% has come in amounts under $200.",
"Four years ago, according to the Campaign Finance Institute (my source for all these numbers), by September 30 Paul had a little more than 7,000 itemized individual donors -- the people who give between $201 and the top individual limit, which was then $2,300 (and is now $2,500).",
"This time around, he had more than 12,000 itemized individual donors at the end of September.",
"(By comparison, Mitt Romney only had 19,700 itemized individual donors this past September 30, compared to 29,700 four years ago.)",
"Clearly -- only six days before voters caucus in Iowa -- Ron Paul is doing something more right in 2012 than he did in 2008.",
"That includes keeping his massive online base engaged after 2008 with various campaigns, including his son Rand's successful bid for the U.S. Senate.",
"It also includes spending lots of money earlier this summer in Iowa and New Hampshire on TV ads that were far more professionally produced than anything he ran four years ago.",
"He has spent oodles more hitting his Republican rivals hard now that the first actual caucuses and primaries are just days away.",
"He also has developed a well-organized campaign organization on the ground, something he lacked four years ago.",
"Says Republican online strategist Martin Avila, who worked on Paul's 2008 e-campaign, \"It's wonderful to see the campaign building early state infrastructure, something 2008 was lacking, focused on winning.\"",
"It also doesn't hurt that on some issues -- like the power of the Federal Reserve, the bailout of the banks and America's expensive wars overseas -- the questions Paul has been asking have gained in salience since 2008.",
"That's true even if you don't agree with his answers on those issues.",
"It probably has also helped that for almost all of the last year, the mainstream media hasn't bothered to take Paul very seriously.",
"No less an authority than Jon Stewart has pointed out, several times, the strange bias in the media against giving Paul his due, or asking hard questions of his many hyper-libertarian positions.",
"Thus he's mostly flown under the radar, until now.",
"Now, in this topsy-turvy presidential primary, where no one candidate seems capable of building and holding a dominating lead, Iowa polls show that Ron Paul suddenly seems on the verge of a breakthrough.",
"Lots of observers think he may well win the caucuses by a plurality (especially if it snows and supporters of other candidates stay home).",
"No less a sage than Nate Silver of the FiveThirtyEight blog at The New York Times says an Iowa win could give Paul a shot at winning New Hampshire.",
"What that may mean for the larger politics of 2012 is beyond the scope of this column.",
"But there's a paradox buried inside Paul's rise in the Republican field, a time bomb ticking away.",
"Call it the curse of the \"Paulbots.\"",
"The more Paul rises, the more he needs to temper his rhetoric and fine-tune his message (especially given the kind of baggage he carries).",
"And the more he needs a fine-tuned message, the more he has to control his fractious fans.",
"But people who organize themselves online today are notoriously hard to control.",
"Recall how in 2007, the \"Paulbots\" were everywhere: running up the numbers on every online poll they could find, generating one-day fundraising records in a desperate bid for national attention (they coined the word \"money-bomb\"), and creating massive amounts of voter-generated media on his behalf.",
"They made everything from viral videos to a Ron Paul blimp.",
"It was, as Justine Lam, his online director from that campaign, put it to me, \"a very organic, grass-roots driven campaign.\"",
"And many of the tactics those grass-roots supporters dreamed up, like that blimp, which cost $600,000, didn't do much to actually help Paul win votes on the ground in the all-important early states.",
"This time, Lam observes, \"There doesn't seem to be the same amount of excitement, but that could be because there's more of a typical campaigning structure around all activities this time around because of the lessons learned, the training that was done between the campaigns and probably various other reasons.\"",
"My guess is that those other reasons include the sense that, given the divided field, Paul could somehow go all the way and win the Republican nomination.",
"And if you thought your favorite long-shot candidate was on the verge of a breakthrough, you'd probably discipline yourself, too.",
"But things are about to get a bit crazy.",
"Paul's late surge and possible win next week in Iowa are going to generate a huge burst of national media attention and plenty of hard-edged questions about his past and views.",
"And the Paulbot base doesn't handle criticism very well.",
"The other day, for example, my techPresident colleague Sarah Lai Stirland reported on a growing battle breaking out on the massive social news filtering site Reddit between Paul supporters and critics tired of their efforts to \"spam\" Redditors with slanted news favoring Paul.",
"Vocal Paul supporters outnumber their critics on the site, but their language and tactics are often arrogant and ugly.",
"Passion can power a campaign, but self-righteousness can also cripple it.",
"If the Internet hyper-empowers small groups of people, enabling them to punch above their weight, it also hyper-exposes them.",
"In the coming days, as Paul's star rises, his online base is going to be tested as much as he is.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Micah Sifry."
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"Ron Paul is trying to engage his massive online base with various campaigns .",
"Clearly the candidate is doing something more right in 2012 than he did in 2008 .",
"The more Paul rises, the more he needs to temper his rhetoric and fine-tune his message ."
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"London (CNN) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to work toward lasting stability in Afghanistan in talks Saturday in the United Kingdom.",
"The pair signed a long-term agreement on the future of Afghanistan, as they met at Cameron's official country residence, Chequers.",
"\"The United Kingdom and Afghanistan have a strong relationship and the two countries have been working together to create a strong and stable Afghanistan,\" Cameron said.",
"Cameron said British combat forces would remain in Afghanistan well into 2014, when NATO's International Security and Assistance Force, or ISAF, is due to hand over security to Afghan forces and withdraw.",
"Britain has about 9,500 troops in Afghanistan, making it the second-biggest contributor to ISAF after the United States, which has about 90,000 troops there.",
"Cameron said the NATO partners in Afghanistan would be working together to withdraw their troops in 2014 as planned.",
"\"I don't want to see some cliff edge on our departure,\" he said.",
"Karzai said the British prime minister had long been a friend of Afghanistan, adding: \"Based on that long-term relationship, we hope to provide a fundamentally strong, democratic state and a better, more secure region.\"",
"Karzai's U.K. visit comes a day after a British soldier was shot dead while on foot patrol in Afghanistan's Helmand province and follows stops in Italy and France.",
"After meeting with Karzai in Paris Friday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that France would be pulling all of its combat troops out of Afghanistan in 2013, a year ahead of schedule.",
"His decision follows the death on January 20 of four French soldiers shot dead at their military base by a member of the Afghan National Army.",
"Sarkozy, who faces a re-election battle this spring, said then he was suspending French training operations and combat help as a result of the attack, which injured 15 others.",
"He paid tribute to the four soldiers at a memorial service Wednesday, speaking of the \"immense loss\" the country had suffered.",
"The attack in eastern Afghanistan followed a similar shooting in December by an Afghan soldier that killed two French soldiers serving in an engineers' regiment.",
"Speaking alongside Sarkozy in Paris, Karzai said: \"It is right that Afghanistan has to provide for its own security and for the protection of its own people, and for the provision of law and order -- towards which France and other allied countries have helped Afghanistan considerably in the past 10 years.",
"\"Afghanistan because of that help is now ready to take more and more responsibility.\"",
"U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Friday that France's decision to withdraw its forces early \"was not precipitous\" and had been worked through with its ISAF partners and the Afghan authorities.",
"\"This was a national decision of France.",
"It was done in a managed way.",
"We will all work with it. As the president has said with regard to our own presence, we are working on 2014.",
"The alliance as a whole is working on 2014, but we are also going to work within this French decision,\" she told reporters.",
"France, which has been involved in Afghanistan since July 2003, has 3,935 troops there now, according to ISAF.",
"CNN's Laura Smith-Spark contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Cameron and Karzai sign an agreement on the long-term future of Afghanistan .",
"NEW: Cameron says Britain will still have combat troops in Afghanistan into 2014 .",
"Britain is the second largest contributor of troops to NATO's forces there after the U.S.\nPresident Nicolas Sarkozy has said France will withdraw its troops a year earlier than planned ."
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"London (CNN) -- A newly-discovered work by Spanish \"Old Master\" Diego Velazquez has sold at auction for $4.7 million, after it was spotted in a group of paintings by a largely-forgotten British artist.",
"\"Portrait of a Gentleman\" was originally thought to be by 19th century British artist Matthew Shepperson -- but the change of attribution meant it sold for 10,000 times its original estimate.",
"The work came to light when a descendant of Shepperson put a number of his paintings up for sale in August 2010.",
"As such, it would have been expected to sell for between $320 and $480.",
"Instead -- following more than a year of tests, X-rays and research -- it was confirmed as a Velazquez, and so became the highlight of Wednesday's old masters sale at Bonhams in London.",
"Previously unknown Velazquez discovered .",
"Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (1599 - 1660) was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain, and is best known for his portraits of the royal family, including his masterpiece, Las Meninas.",
"The identity of the \"Gentleman\" in the portrait is not known, but it is thought he may be Juan Mateos, the king's master of the hunt.",
"Andrew Mckenzie, the company's director of old master paintings said the portrait was of \"outstanding quality\" and had \"extraordinary presence.\"",
"A spokeswoman for the auction house said that following a lot of interest, the Velazquez work was eventually bought by an American dealer.",
"She said the company was \"very pleased\" with the sale, which also saw the world record for a work by Dutch artist Adriaen Coorte smashed when his \"Three peaches on a stone ledge with a Painted Lady butterfly\" went under the hammer for $3.3 million."
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"Previously unknown work by Diego Velazquez sells at auction in London for $4.7m .",
"Painting was previously thought to have been by British artist Matthew Shepperson .",
"Portrait was among a series of paintings put up for sale by Shepperson's descendants .",
"Change of attribution meant it sold for 10,000 times its original estimate ."
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"(CNN) -- Banana-Sam, a much-loved squirrel-monkey stolen from his enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo, has been safely returned, officials said.",
"The monkey was found Saturday night -- a day after he disappeared from the zoo -- at a park by a passer-by who spotted the primate in the bushes, the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement.",
"The passer-by coaxed the monkey from the bushes into his backpack, and then called the authorities, according to the statement.",
"Police officers brought the monkey to the zoo, where officials determined it was the missing primate.",
"\"Although hungry, trembling and thirsty, Banana-Sam is currently safe back,\" the zoo said in a statement.",
"Zoo workers discovered the theft Friday morning, when they found a back perimeter gate had been breached and two holes cut in the mesh fence of the squirrel monkey exhibit.",
"The male monkey, known as Banana-Sam to his keepers, is age 17, over 12 inches tall and weighs about 2 lbs.",
"Corrine MacDonald, the curator of primates and carnivores, told CNN affiliate KGO earlier Saturday that squirrel monkeys can live into their 20s, saying his relatively advanced age could put him at more risk.",
"Banana Sam' keepers warned the public that while he looks very cute, he is not a pet -- and can deliver a nasty nip.",
"The curator said such monkeys carry diseases and can cause serious infections if they bite a human.",
"The monkey needs a specialized diet to stay healthy, the zoo says.",
"What motivated the thieves to swipe the monkey is not clear.",
"Common squirrel monkeys are not endangered, and they can be found at pet trade markets -- with such sales illegal in California, the zoo says -- or medical research institutions.",
"MacDonald said the zoo's other squirrel monkeys were visibly shaken by Banana-Sam's apparent capture.",
"She said the decision was made to pull them off the exhibit due to concerns about the integrity of the exhibit and that a \"copy-cat\" could try to take other monkeys.",
"It was not immediately known when the zoo planned to reopen the exhibit.",
"An unknown person was quick to set up a fake Twitter account in Banana-Sam's name, following in the path of a cobra that escaped at New York's Bronx Zoo in March.",
"The snake's mock Twitter account, with humorous tweets on its supposed whereabouts in New York City, swiftly attracted a large online following.",
"Under the handle @SF_BananaSam, the \"monkey\" is now tweeting his way round San Francisco.",
"\"Went to monkey bars in Golden Gate Park playground, left disappointed.",
"#nobananadaiquiri\" one post reads.",
"Another says: \"I'm a funny-looking vegan who ran away from home and who people follow on Twitter.",
"IN other words, A NORMAL SAN FRANCISCAN.\"",
"CNN's Leslie Tripp and Maria P. White contributed to this report."
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"New: Banana Sam was found in San Francisco park, police say .",
"The monkey was deemed in good condition, though hungry, the zoo says .",
"Banana Sam is 17 years old and has been in the zoo's care for years .",
"Common squirrel monkeys can give a nasty bite that can quickly become infected ."
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"London (CNN) -- Ancient Egyptian mummies kept in storage for half a century have gone on display in new state-of-the-art galleries at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford.",
"Painted wooden sarcophagi decorated with charms, and carefully wrapped and embalmed bodies are now on view in climate-controlled cases following twelve months of painstaking conservation work, alongside a rich array of artifacts from the Nile Valley.",
"They include the almost 3,000-year-old coffin of a High Priest named Iahtefnakt, which was carefully conserved over nine months before its unveiling.",
"But these fragile artifacts haven't just received cosmetic work.",
"The mummy of a man named Djeddjehutyiuefankh, who is thought to have been buried in during the 25th dynasty (between 712 and 770 BC) underwent a CT scan at a nearby hospital in Oxford.",
"The scan revealed amulets in the mouth cavity and stone coverings over the eyes -- and a nearly 3,000-year-old mystery.",
"\"It's intriguing, because his heart was gone and normally you'd expect the heart to be in situ,\" said Mark Norman, Head of Conservation at the museum.",
"This is because Ancient Egyptians believed they would have to endure a ritual known as \"the weighing of the heart\" before a monster in the underworld known as the Devourer.",
"If their hearts were pure, they could pass into the next life; if not, the heart would be eaten.",
"The cause of Djeddjehutyiuefankh's death is unknown, but, said Norman, there was no sign of broken bones.",
"In addition to the CT scan of the mummy, the conservation team also used infra-red imaging to see under-drawings beneath Roman-era paintings and used forensic techniques to detect the pigments and materials that ancient artisans would have used.",
"These discoveries were a \"buzz\" for Norman and the team of conservators at the museum.",
"\"We get closer to the object than anyone since the object was made -- sometimes even closer, because we use microscopy and image enhancing,\" he said.",
"\"The role of conservation is changing and it's much more about material forensic science,\" said Norman.",
"The Ashmolean Museum is one of the leading centers for the display and study of ancient Egypt and Nubia (modern-day Sudan).",
"Its collection contains a number of artifacts excavated by the so-called \"fathers\" of modern archaeology, including Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie and Francis Llewellyn Griffith, who were working in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.",
"It even includes items excavated in the 1600s.",
"Highlights from the collection are being displayed in the museum's recently redeveloped galleries and include 5,000-year-old limestone statues, the Nubian Shrine of Taharqa -- the only complete freestanding Pharaonic building in Britain -- and Roman-era portraits of mummies.",
"Liam McNamara, Assistant Keeper of the Ancient Egypt & Sudan collection at the Ashmolean, hopes the museum's redeveloped Ancient Egypt and Nubia galleries, which open to the public Saturday, will showcase the reality of ancient Egypt and help dispel some of the myths surrounding the ancient civilization.",
"\"The reality of ancient Egypt is equally as exciting as some of the bizarre myths that have been created around it and hopefully the new exhibits at the Ashmolean will inspire the next generation of Egyptologists,\" he said."
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"Ancient Egyptian mummies kept in storage for years are now on display at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum .",
"The mummies and artifacts received careful conservation work as part of the museum's redevelopment plan .",
"Exhibition highlights include CT scan of almost 3,000-year-old mummy and freestanding Pharaonic monument .",
"The museum's ancient Egyptian and Nubian collection is considered one of the strongest in the world ."
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"(CNN) -- The scandal-hit Olympus Corp. will appoint a board to decide whether the Japanese company should take legal action and file criminal complaints against executives who helped hide $1.7 billion in losses, the company president said Wednesday.",
"The comments from Olympus President Shuichi Takayama come a day after the findings of a scathing independent panel report that suggested the Japanese company \"should remove its malignant cancer.",
"\"The management was rotten to the core, and infected those around it,\" the panel's report said.",
"The panel, led by a former Japanese Supreme Court judge, detailed $1.7 billion of hidden losses from failed investments in the 1990s by the camera and medical equipment maker.",
"The report, issued Tuesday, blasted the culture of the company that allowed the losses to be disguised in dubious fees and overvalued payments for companies, as well as the tight control of former company Chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa.",
"Olympus has lost half its share value in the wake of the October 14 firing of former CEO Michael Woodford, the first foreigner to lead the company, after Woodford questioned the company's accounting.",
"After Woodford went public with his claims, the company's share value dropped by as much as 75%.",
"Three former executives, including Kikukawa, have since resigned from the company's management.",
"\"One had to be prepared to be kicked out of the company in order to make objection even if it was the right thing to do (this is also apparent in how Woodford was treated),\" the panel wrote in its report.",
"The panel reiterated its earlier announcement that their investigation found no link to \"anti-social forces,\" a euphemism to Japanese organized crime.",
"Company officials said in a statement that the report \"includes both new revelations and recommendations on the future management of Olympus (and) will be taken into serious consideration by the company.\"",
"The independent panel recommended the resignation of the entire Olympus board.",
"Takayama said at Wednesday's press conference that he and the board will resign but not until the \"exact responsibilities\" of wrongdoing are revealed by investigators.",
"Resignations and changes to company management would likely come after a shareholder's meeting sometime in February.",
"The company faces a December 14 deadline to resubmit its financial statement to the Tokyo Stock Exchange or face delisting.",
"Company officials have repeatedly said they will turn in the required documents before next week's deadline.",
"The Olympus saga started with a five-page expose in Japanese magazine FACTA -- a small circulation magazine that has only nine people on staff -- on July 20 that raised questions over advisory fees of $687 million paid in 2008 for the purchase of Gyrus, a UK medical instruments firm.",
"The article also questioned the $773 million paid for three small Japanese companies -- a face cream maker, a plastic container maker and a recycling business, each with fewer than 50 employees.",
"Woodford has led a public campaign since his dismissal to get rid of the company board, and has said he would return to run the company if asked.",
"\"The panel's report has made one thing painfully clear: the massive scale of the malfeasance from which the present directors and statutory auditors persistently averted their gaze,\" Woodford said in a statement.",
"\"I sought to call attention to the wrongdoing through a series of six letters in English and Japanese, copied to all the members of the board, and through the submission of a damning report by Price Waterhouse Coopers.",
"Yet not a single director stood up in support of my efforts to expose what had taken place.\"",
"Takayama said the board will decide whether to bring Woodford back at the next shareholders meeting.",
"\"Woodford did what we all couldn't do, so we praise him for that,\" Takayama said.",
"Freelance producer Nicolas Ito contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Olympus board will appoint a panel to decide on legal action against ex-executives .",
"An independent panel report said Olympus Corp. \"should remove its malignant cancer\"\nThe panel detailed $1.7 billion of hidden losses from failed investments in the 1990s .",
"Report: \"The management was rotten to the core, and infected those around it\""
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"(CNN) -- The start of the 2012 MotoGP has been brought forward by one week, with the motorcycling's elite championship now set to begin on April 8.",
"Australian world champion Casey Stoner and his fellow riders will begin next year's campaign in Doha for the Qatar Grand Prix, before heading to the Spanish town of Jerez on April 29.",
"The Saschenring Circuit is also on the calendar, subject to a contract being signed between the venue and the sport's organizers.",
"The Portuguese circuit of Estoril is due to stage a grand prix on May 6, but is also yet to sign a deal.",
"The Spanish port city of Valencia will host the season-ending race on November 11.",
"For the first time since 1986, a MotoGP world championship will begin without the Japanese manufacturer Suzuki on the grid.",
"Suzuki announced last month they were pulling out of the sport due to the current economic climate, but they plan to return to Moto GP in 2014.",
"2012 MotoGP season: .",
"8 April - Qatar, Doha .",
"29 April - Spain, Jerez .",
"6 May - Portugal, Estoril .",
"20 May - France ,Le Mans .",
"3 June - Catalunya, Catalunya .",
"17 June - Great Britain, Silverstone .",
"30 June - Netherlands, Assen .",
"8 July - Germany, Sachsenring .",
"15 July - Italy, Mugello .",
"29 July - United States, Laguna Seca .",
"19 August - Indianapolis, Indianapolis .",
"26 August - Czech Republic, Brno .",
"16 September - San Marino & Riviera di Rimini, Misano .",
"30 September - Aragon, Motorland .",
"14 October - Japan, Motegi .",
"21 October - Malaysia, Sepang .",
"28 October - Australia, Phillip Island .",
"11 November - Valencia, Valencia ."
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"The 2012 MotoGP will start a week earlier than originally planned .",
"Doha, Qatar will stage the year's first race on April 8 .",
"The season will come to a close in the Spanish port city of Valencia ."
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"(CNN) -- The Dutch Cup tie abandoned last week after a fan ran on to the pitch to attack AZ Alkmaar goalkeeper Esteban Alvarado will be replayed on January 19 behind closed doors, the Netherlands football federation (KNVB) said Wednesday.",
"The match at Ajax's Amsterdam Arena on December 22 was being led 1-0 by the home side when the incident occurred just before halftime.",
"Costa Rican 'keeper Alvarado reacted by twice kicking out at the fan, who was then escorted from the pitch by police.",
"Alvarado and his teammates were enraged when he was subsequently red-carded by the referee and there were ugly scenes on the pitch.",
"AZ coach Gertjan Verbeek then led his players off, complaining about the lack of security at Ajax's ground, and the match was abandoned.",
"The KNVB has since overturned the red card for Alvarado and fined Ajax 10,000 euros ($12,934).",
"\"The Federation does not want to take any risk regarding the playing of this match while guaranteeing that the competition continues,\" a KNVB statement on its website said to explain the decision to stage a replay of the match without any fans.",
"Out with the old and in with the new in 2012 .",
"Ajax have until January 2 to appeal.",
"In other football news Wednesday, Liverpool's former Ajax striker Luis Suarez has been banned by the English Football Association (FA) for one match and fined 20,000 pounds ($31,300) for a gesture made towards Fulham fans in the 1-0 defeat at Craven Cottage earlier this month.",
"Uruguay international Suarez had admitted the latest charge of improper conduct, and Liverpool have also been fined the same amount for failing to control their players in the same match -- a charge related to the dismissal of midfielder Jay Spearing.",
"It is a further blow for Suarez, who has starred for Liverpool since his move from Dutch football last season.",
"It comes a little over a week after he was given an eight-game suspension for racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra during a match in October.",
"That ban is currently on hold while Liverpool decide whether to appeal, but Suarez's new suspension means he will miss Friday's home game against Newcastle United in the English Premier League."
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"AZ Alkmaar - Ajax Dutch Cup tie to be replayed on January 19 behind closed doors .",
"Original game on December 22 abandoned when AZ goalkeeper attacked .",
"Esteban Alvarado was red-carded but this was subsequently revoked .",
"Liverpool's Luis Suarez banned for one-game for gesture to Fulham fans ."
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"(CNN) -- Luke Donald demands perfection of himself and his caddy on the golf course, so when CNN presenter Shane O'Donoghue was given the chance to carry the world No.",
"1's bag for a few holes, he knew the learning curve would be steep.",
"Donald reached the top of the rankings earlier this year by winning the PGA Championship at Wentworth -- despite the best efforts of O'Donoghue to derail his effort in a practice round for the European Tour's prestige event.",
"Donald's regular caddy John McClaren was on hand to give some useful tips, but it appeared wasted on the Living Golf host.",
"Donning a fetching pair of shorts and the obligatory caddy's bib, O'Donoghue hardly made the best impression on their first hole, the 15th at Wentworth, when he marched down the fairway without a key item.",
"\"You will need the clubs, that's the first thing!\"",
"said McClaren, Donald's caddy since the Englishman parted company with his brother Christian, who had previously carried his bag throughout his professional career.",
"\"It was affecting our relationship,\" Donald told O'Donoghue.",
"\"I'd rather have him as a brother than a caddy.\"",
"Under McClaren, Donald has flourished, rediscovering the form that had taken him into the top 10 after victory in the 2006 Honda Classic and becoming a regular in the European Ryder Cup team.",
"Victory at the 2011 Accenture WGC World Match Play Championship in February put him on the brink of the No.",
"1 spot going into May's Wentworth event.",
"Despite his easy-going reputation, Donald's patience was clearly tested again by the enthusiastic if not exact O'Donoghue -- who next managed to leave behind another piece of golf apparel, the towel to wipe the clubs.",
"His yardage advice also fell short of expectations when Donald hit an approach into a bunker, but saved his par with a superb up and down from the sand.",
"A relieved O'Donoghue thanked his \"boss\" for saving his bacon as he showed just why he was about to take over from Lee Westwood at the top of the rankings -- his superb recovery play.",
"Donald said he had made the big mistake of thinking \"I needed to hit it further\" to get to number one, and that it affected his swing and his form.",
"\"It has taken me three or three years to get back to my best,\" he added.",
"But a rare error off the tee at the par-five 18th at Wentworth left Donald in the trees until he brilliantly engineered another miraculous recovery.",
"Turning to O'Donoghue for club selection, he looked a little surprised when the Irishman pulled out a three-wood and encouraged him to have a tilt at the water-protected green.",
"Despite a good connection, the ball found a watery grave.",
"\"You should have told me to lay up short,\" was Donald's assessment.",
"\"He's one of the best players in the world at getting up and down from off the green,\" chipped in McClaren.",
"\"He would have salvaged par.\"",
"Suitably chastened, O'Donoghue's first tilt as a \"professional\" caddy had ended in the golfing equivalent of a red card!",
"Fortunately, McClaren had taken back the bag a few days later when Donald beat Westwood in a playoff to win the PGA Championship and become world number one for the first time.",
"By then O'Donoghue was back to doing what he does best, presenting Living Golf."
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"Living Golf presenter Shane O'Donoghue tries his hand as Luke Donald's caddy .",
"The Irishman discovers the pitfalls of the job in a few holes at Wentworth .",
"Later that week Donald takes over as world number one from Lee Westwood .",
"Donald's regular caddy John McClaren succeeded golfer's brother in carrying his bag ."
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"(CNN) -- Investec Loyal took line honors in the Rolex Sydney to Hobart Ocean classic Wednesday but faces an anxious wait to have the victory confirmed after an official protest by the race committee.",
"Anthony Bell's super maxi crossed the finish line in the Tasmanian capital with a three minutes seven second advantage over five-time winner Wild Oats XI, one of the closest finishes in the race's history.",
"But the moment of glory at Constitution Dock was short-lived as a representative of the committee immediately notified him of the protest.",
"A crew member on Investec Loyal is alleged to have asked an Australian Broadcasting Corporation helicopter, who were covering the race for television, for information about the sails being deployed by Wild Oats XI.",
"The incident occurred early on Tuesday morning local time as both the super maxis battled for the lead in testing conditions.",
"\"This is assessed to breach (rule) 41 by soliciting help from an outside source,\" read a statement on the official race website.",
"The protest hearing will be held by the International Jury at the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania at 10.00 local time Thursday.",
"Official Rolex Sydney Hobart race website .",
"Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) commodore Garry Linacre told the crowd what had happened.",
"\"Some minutes ago I received this copy of a protest form.",
"It is a protest form for the Rolex Sydney Hobart 2011, the organizing authority of the CYCA.",
"\"The Race Committee, which is chaired by Tim Cox, has protested that rules may have been infringed on the 27th December at 06:30 hours, 30 nautical miles south of Merimbula.",
"There is an ABC chopper pilot that is a nominated witness.",
"\"I am very sorry about this event, I can assure you.",
"Unfortunately, that has stopped our celebration here, as the result comes provisional until the protest is heard tomorrow,\" he said.",
"Linacre went on to pay tribute to Investec Loyal for their \"magnificent sailing\" in this race and also Wild Oats XI.",
"Skipper Bell claimed the conversation with the TV crew had just been \"a question of are they alright and have they lost any mainsails\" following rough conditions on the first night which saw a number of boats retire.",
"\"We respect the fact that there's laws in racing... and we will of course go in and oblige that, and we're confident that the outcome will confirm our (win),\" Bell told gathered reporters.",
"\"One thing that can't be taken away from us is that we raced one hell of a race out there, and we did everything by the book.\"",
"Wild Oats' skipper Mark Richards told the official website that Investec Loyal was a deserved winner.",
"\"Those guys won on the water, we came second.",
"That's how we think about it. They deserve to win,\" he said.",
"\"Last night was a tough night.",
"We had a fantastic lead and we ran into the new weather system and there was just no air.",
"The other guys saw what was going on and just sailed around us.",
"The two super maxis had fought a thrilling tactical duel along Australia's east coast with the lead changing hand several times throughout the 628 nautical miles.",
"Investec Loyal took the lead for the first time on Tuesday night after the pair had broken away from the rest of the 88-strong fleet from the start in Sydney Harbor on Boxing Day.",
"Light winds and the traditional difficult run to the finish on the Derwent River left the outcome in doubt to the very end, even before the protest.",
"2010 runner-up Investec Loyal crossed the line in two days, six hours, 14 minutes and 18 seconds, way outside the 2005 race record set by Wild Oats XI.",
"The smallest margin of victory was back in 1982 when Condor of Bermuda pipped Apollo by just seven seconds.",
"A separate prize for victory on handicap is also awarded as the entrants in various categories battle it out to the finish in Hobart."
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"Five-time winner Wild Oats XI finishes second in Tasmanian capital .",
"Three minutes eight seconds separated the first two .",
"Line honors victory under protest over incident involving TV helicopter ."
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"(Financial Times) -- The number of Spaniards without jobs rose by more than half a million last year to reach 5.27m, or 22.85 per cent of the workforce, in the final quarter, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE).",
"The figures, not seasonally adjusted, confirm Spain's jobs record as by far the worst among big eurozone economies following the collapse of the Spanish housing construction bubble from 2007.",
"Mariano Rajoy, the Popular party prime minister who took power in December, is struggling to create jobs and stop the economy shrinking even as he reinforces the budgetary austerity plans agreed by the previous government with the European Union.",
"Spanish employers are pushing for a profound reform of the country's rigid labour market as one way of encouraging the hiring of workers and so reducing the unemployment rate, which is more than double the eurozone average.",
"They also say the true situation is not as bad as portrayed in the statistics, because of widespread cheating by people seeking unemployment benefits while continuing to work, especially in southern Spain.",
"Andalusia, the big region in the south, recorded the highest unemployment rate of 31.23 per cent of the workforce, according to INE, while the Basque country in the north had the lowest rate of 12.61 per cent.",
"The quarterly survey showed 1.57m households have not a single family member in work.",
"© The Financial Times Limited 2012 ."
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"New Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy is struggling to create jobs and stop the economy shrinking .",
"Spanish employers are pushing for a profound reform of the country's rigid labour market ."
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"London (CNN) -- Phone hacking was widespread at the Daily Mirror newspaper when Piers Morgan was its editor, a former employee testified Wednesday, stopping just short of saying Morgan definitely knew about it.",
"James Hipwell said that he \"cannot prove\" that Morgan knew about illegal eavesdropping, but that it was \"very unlikely he did not know what was going on.\"",
"Phone hacking \"happened every day\" at the Mirror's show business desk in late 1999, Hipwell told the Leveson Inquiry, a wide-ranging government-backed investigation of British press ethics and practices.",
"Also on Wednesday, Paul McCartney's ex-wife Heather Mills accused Morgan of using her as a \"scapegoat.\"",
"Morgan, who now hosts the CNN talk show \"Piers Morgan Tonight,\" testified the previous day that he did not believe phone hacking had taken place when he was editor of the tabloid.",
"Speaking by video link, Morgan tenaciously defended himself against accusations that he knew more about phone hacking than he has admitted in the past.",
"Some of the toughest questioning focused on a story based on a voice message McCartney left for his then-wife Mills, trying to make up after a quarrel and singing to her.",
"Morgan refused to say who played the message for him or where, but admitted under sustained questioning that he believed it was a voice mail.",
"\"Did you know that was unethical?\"",
"demanded Robert Jay, the lead lawyer for the inquiry.",
"\"Not unethical, no. It doesn't necessarily follow that it was unethical,\" Morgan said.",
"Mills Wednesday appeared to try to shoot down speculation that she herself had played the recording for Morgan, after Judge Brian Leveson said only she could legally have given permission for him to hear it and threatened to call her to give evidence.",
"\"I can categorically state that I have never ever played Piers Morgan a tape of any kind, never mind a voice message from my ex-husband,\" she said on her website.",
"Morgan declined to respond.",
"\"Piers Morgan has no additional comments re: the Leveson Inquiry or Heather Mills.",
"His written statement and the complete transcript from the Inquiry can be found online,\" wrote a representative.",
"In August, Mills told the BBC that a journalist working for a Mirror Group publication admitted hacking her voice mail.",
"She said a senior Mirror Group Newspapers journalist phoned her and \"started quoting verbatim the messages from my machine.\"",
"She said she replied: \"You've obviously hacked my phone and if you do anything with this story ...",
"I'll go to the police.\" The journalist responded: \"OK, OK, yeah, we did hear it on your voice messages, I won't run it,\" according to Mills.",
"On Wednesday, former Morgan employee Hipwell painted a picture of the editor as deeply involved in the daily workings of the paper he edited from 1995 to 2004, comparing the editor to late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.",
"Morgan \"was the 'Dear Leader.'",
"It was all about him,\" Hipwell said.",
"\"Nothing that happened on that desk happened without Piers knowing about it,\" Hipwell said of the show business desk.",
"A lawyer for Trinity Mirror, which publishes the Mirror, said the company disputed Hipwell's testimony and would go into more detail at a future session of the inquiry.",
"In the past, Morgan has vigorously denied ordering phone hacking at any point during his career.",
"He struck pre-emptively at Hipwell on Tuesday, pointing out that the journalist had gone to prison over a stock tip scandal and saying he would not be a reliable witness.",
"Morgan was investigated over the stock tip scandal but not charged or convicted of any crime.",
"Also on Tuesday, Jay, the inquiry lawyer, repeatedly tried to use Morgan's own words against him to show he knew more about hacking than he admitted, citing his books and interviews in print and on the radio.",
"Morgan, at times clipped and at times testy, deflected line after line of inquiry, saying the quotes did not mean what Jay implied they did.",
"The Leveson Inquiry was prompted by public and political outrage at the revelation that another tabloid, Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, hacked into the phone of a missing teenage girl who later turned out to have been murdered.",
"Murdoch's son James ordered the best-selling paper closed over the scandal.",
"Much of the inquiry -- and a related police investigation -- focus on allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World.",
"The publisher of the paper, News International, announced Tuesday that a subsidiary had settled with seven people who accused Murdoch's newspapers of phone hacking.",
"The claimants included James Hewitt, who was a lover of Diana, Princess of Wales, and other British celebrities.",
"The newspaper group \"has agreed to pay appropriate sums by way of compensation and costs and have expressed regret for the distress caused,\" News International said in a statement.",
"The company settled earlier this year with \"G.I.",
"Joe\" actress Sienna Miller and a handful of other claimants, but other lawsuits against the newspaper group are outstanding.",
"Testimony by former staff of News of the World and News International last week focused on how much News International chief executive James Murdoch knew about hacking by his employees.",
"Police say notebooks seized from a private investigator working for News of the World contain the names of about 5,800 potential victims of phone hacking.",
"The process involves calling a cell phone and entering a personal identification number to access voice messages.",
"CNN's James Partington contributed to this report."
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"A former Piers Morgan employee says he must have known about hacking .",
"It \"happened every day\" on the Mirror's show business desk in 1999, James Hipwell says .",
"Paul McCartney's ex-wife accuses Piers Morgan of using her as a scapegoat .",
"Morgan earlier said he did not believe there had been hacking at his paper ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor years ago said she was a \"product of affirmative action\" when she was admitted to prestigious universities, but defended the contributions she offered as a Hispanic woman to classroom and workplace diversity.",
"\"I am the perfect affirmative action baby,\" Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor said in the 1990s.",
"The statements were part of newly released videos of speeches and panel discussions dating from the mid-1980s that the 54-year-old federal judge provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will begin confirmation hearings July 13.",
"The remarks offer often-candid insights into the New York native's views on the law, growing up poor in a Bronx housing project, juggling a career and a social life, and her 1980s divorce.",
"In an early 1990s panel with two other female judges, Sotomayor talked about her educational background and how it helped her in her job as a federal trial judge in Manhattan.",
"\"I am a product of affirmative action,\" she said.",
"\"I am the perfect affirmative action baby.",
"I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx.",
"My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale.",
"Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.\"",
"She said that using \"traditional numbers\" from test scores, \"it would have been highly questionable if I would have been accepted.\"",
"The female panel members politely objected to her characterizations of how she overcame such obstacles, pointing out she graduated from law school with honors and was on the prestigious law review.",
"Sotomayor countered that those were signs test scores alone do not offer the full measure of a person's capability.",
"Test scores, she said, often can be the result of \"cultural biases.\"",
"In a 1986 interview with ABC News profiling young female professionals, Sotomayor said she constantly had to deal with subtle forms of discrimination, particularly when it came to public perceptions.",
"\"I found in my experiences that it's not that men are consciously discriminating against promoting women, but I do believe as people we have self-images about what's good,\" she said.",
"\"What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is.",
"And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession then your image of what a good lawyer is is a male image.\"",
"Years later on the federal bench, Sotomayor said she encountered similar treatment from older white men particularly, who seemed to speak longer to her than other lawyers.",
"She said the impression she got was that was because she was a woman and a minority.",
"Sotomayor has been criticized by some conservatives for her remarks on diversity, and her 2001 comment that she \"would hope that a wise Latina woman, with the richness of her experiences, would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.\"",
"In the legal panel, she rejected suggestions that minorities should accept \"selection by merit alone.\"",
"She noted, \"It is critical that we promote diversity\" by giving women and minorities more opportunities in the law and the judiciary.",
"\"Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means -- and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise -- I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system,\" she said.",
"\"I think it brings to the system more of a sense of fairness when these litigants see people like myself on the bench.\"",
"As a judge she offered a variety of thoughts on how a judge should act on the bench.",
"\"I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional objective persona,\" she told a group of Hispanic lawyers in 2000.",
"She said in 1994 that such an attitude can be hard to maintain, when as a trial judge she had to deal with some defendants and their families.",
"\"I watch those mothers cry and I can't help but feel their pain.",
"Does that translate into a passion or compassion that affects my judgment?",
"No, but it makes it much more important for me to be careful when I exercise my judgment.\"",
"In another panel she noted that she sometimes spoke to some defendants and their families in Spanish in civil cases, to keep them informed of what she was doing.",
"She said she made sure to translate what she was saying into English.",
"In several events she said the life of a lawyer is rarely glamorous.",
"In a 1986 interview she admitted her divorce was caused in part by her commitment to her career, and that her subsequent social life had suffered as a result.",
"And as she grew into her 30s, she lamented her earlier expectations had to that point not been fully realized.",
"\"I'm very happy with where I am at this point in my life but I think my expectations were greater in '76,\" when she graduated from Princeton.",
"\"I mean, I really expected to turn the world on fire.\""
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"Minority judges bring \"to the system more of a sense of fairness,\" said Sotomayor ."
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"(CNN) -- Svetlana Kuznetsova drew on her vast experience to keep Russia in contention for a fifth Fed Cup tennis title in the final against the Czech Republic on Saturday.",
"The 26-year-old, who featured in three of her nation's four winning line-ups between 2004 and 2008, helped Russia end the first day on level terms in Moscow after world No.",
"2 Petra Kvitova continued her remarkable year.",
"Kvitova, who last weekend added the season-ending WTA Championships title to her July Wimbledon crown, gave the visiting Czechs a 1-0 lead when she beat Maria Kirilenko 6-2 6-2 in the opening singles rubber.",
"Kuznetsova lost both of her singles matches in the 2004 final, a 3-2 win over France sealed in the deciding doubles tie, but was undefeated in four finals outings in 2007-08.",
"The former U.S. Open and French Open champion continued that winning run as she beat Lucie Safarova 6-2 6-3.",
"\"I felt colossal pressure.",
"But if I was playing that rubber in the year 2004, I think I would feel really tight and jittery,\" she told the Fed Cup website.",
"\"Now I have more expertise, and that expertise helped me to motivate myself and to motivate myself in the right direction.\"",
"Kuznetsova, ranked 19th, will take on the 21-year-old Kvitova in Sunday's opening reverse singles rubber in their first career meeting.",
"Kirilenko has a 4-1 career record over Safarova, but they have not met since 2009.",
"The Czechs have not won the title since 1988, which came five years before the formation of the republic and Slovakia."
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"World No.",
"2 Petra Kvitova beats Maria Kirilenko in opening match in Moscow .",
"Russia draw level as Svetlana Kuznetsova defeats Lucie Safarova .",
"Czech Republic seeking first title in women's teams event since 1988 ."
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"Fort Meade, Maryland (CNN) -- A convicted computer hacker from California testified Tuesday in Pfc.",
"Bradley Manning's preliminary hearing about six days of chats he conducted with someone who claimed to have leaked classified information and was \"looking to brag about what they had done.\"",
"Adrian Lamo said he traded instant messages in a chat format with someone self-identified as Bradass87.",
"Lamo testified that based on an e-mail he received from Manning, as well as an examination of Manning's Facebook page, that Bradass87 was Manning.",
"The testimony came on the fifth day of the preliminary hearing, which will determine if Manning proceeds to a full military court-martial.",
"Manning is accused of stealing and leaking more than a quarter of a million classified documents from the State Department and the Defense Department to the WikiLeaks website, the biggest intelligence leak in U.S. history.",
"Army Criminal Investigation Command Special Agent David Shaver later testified that the chat logs that Lamo provided to the Army largely matched chat logs found on Manning's computer in Iraq.",
"The prosecution did not ask Lamo any specific questions about the chats themselves, but did establish that he was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome and takes medication for it.",
"At one point he admitted overusing his medication to the point that his parents became concerned and he eventually was put in an involuntary psychiatric hold for three days.",
"The only possible signs of his medical condition evident in court was his often halting speech and his unusual turn of a phrase.",
"For example, when the prosecutor swore him in and then said \"you make take your seat,\" Lamo responded, \"That I shall.\"",
"When the defense cross-examined Lamo, he read portions of the chat logs that seemed to indicate that he was not being completely forthcoming with Manning about why he wanted to know details about the leaks.",
"At one point Lamo wrote, \"I'm a journalist and a minister.",
"You can pick either, and treat this as a confession or an interview (never to be published) & enjoy a modicum of legal protection.\"",
"But Lamo, within a month, had given the chat logs to both Army investigators and Wired magazine.",
"Before Lamo took the stand, another Army Criminal Investigation Command special agent, Antonio Edwards, testified that Lamo was a confidential informant for the command but was not paid for information.",
"He was reimbursed for normal expenses.",
"At one point Manning's lead attorney, David Coombs, implied Lamo was asking Manning questions to get him to reveal how he planned to release classified information.",
"Coombs asked Lamo why he wanted to know, and Lamo replied that he \"asked out of curiosity, I am a curious individual.",
"Which has been amply evidenced by my actions.\"",
"Because of Lamo's habit of answering yes or no questions with long responses, the cross-examination sometimes got contentious, but not to the point of anyone getting angry or raising their voice.",
"Near the end, Coombs had to repeatedly ask a question regarding why someone might want to communicate with a minister.",
"Finally both the investigating officer and the prosecutor made suggestions about how Coombs might better phrase the question.",
"It worked. Lamo answered without further problems.",
"By 3:30 Tuesday afternoon, the prosecution said it was finished presenting witnesses.",
"Coombs plans to call three witnesses starting Wednesday morning.",
"Testimony on Thursday began with Jihrleah Showman, who was Manning's team leader in the secure computer room in Iraq, as well as earlier, when they were at Fort Drum in New York.",
"She told of incidents of erratic behavior on the part of Manning that led her to report that she felt Manning shouldn't be handling classified information.",
"The Army private faces 22 charges, including aiding the enemy.",
"He's accused of stealing and leaking the cables while serving as an intelligence analyst in Iraq in 2009 and 2010.",
"If convicted on all counts, he could face the death penalty.",
"However, Army prosecutors have signaled they will not recommend death in the event of a conviction, and it is unlikely they would be overruled by a senior officer.",
"CNN's Charley Keyes and Jethro Mullen contributed to this report ."
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"Former hacker says he traded e-mails with someone he believes was Manning .",
"Witness says Manning punched her in the face .",
"Documents found on Manning's computers were seen later on WikiLeaks, investigator says .",
"The testimony came in a hearing to determine if Manning will face a court martial ."
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"Paris (CNN) -- President Malam Bacai Sanha of Guinea-Bissau died early Monday, according to an official at the West African nation's embassy in Paris.",
"He was 64. The official said Sanha was in Paris for treatment, and died at Val-de-Grace Hospital.",
"Sanha became president in September 2009, months after the assassination of President Joao Bernardo Vieira.",
"Sanha had served as interim president and defeated another former president, Kumba Yala, in a runoff election.",
"Guinea-Bissau's history has been marked by military coups and attempted coups since the nation of 1.5 million gained independence from Portugal in 1974.",
"Those conflicts ravaged the nation's infrastructure and economy and left it among the poorest in the world.",
"Despite Sanha's coming to power in what international observers deemed a fair and peaceful election, his tenure was marked by turmoil among the country's military and political leadership.",
"Last month, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the use of violence in what was suspected to be a military coup attempt, saying in a statement, \"The primacy of the lawful civilian authorities according to the constitution must be respected.\"",
"And, despite the Parliament's call to fight drug trafficking, Guinea-Bissau is still considered an increasingly important transit point for cocaine en route from South America to Europe, according to the CIA Factbook."
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"President Malam Bacai Sanha died at Val-de-Grace Hospital in Paris on Monday .",
"He became president in September 2009 in a runoff election .",
"Guinea-Bissau has been plagued by political unrest, poverty and drug trafficking ."
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"(CNN) -- Two-time champions Nigeria failed to qualify for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations after being held 2-2 by Guinea on Saturday.",
"Second-half goals from strikers Victor Obinna and Ikechukwu Uche put Nigeria 2-1 ahead in Abuja, but Ibrahima Traore's 90th-minute equalizer ensured that Guinea finished top of Group B by three points.",
"The Super Eagles missed out on one of the runner-up spots as two of their three wins came against bottom nation Madagascar -- and only results against the top and third-placed teams count.",
"Nigeria won the tournament in 1980 and 1994, and finished third in four of the last five stagings.",
"South Africa, champions in 1996, also failed to qualify for next year's event in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon after being held 0-0 at home by Sierra Leone.",
"Niger went through from Group G instead on head-to-head results despite losing 3-0 in Egypt, after both nations finished on nine points.",
"Ghana, runners-up in 2010, qualified in first place from Group I after a 2-0 win away to Sudan thanks to first-half goals from striker Asamoah Gyan and defender John Mensah.",
"Sudan could yet claim the remaining runner-up spot depending on the results of Sunday's Group D and H matches.",
"Libya shook off the north African country's political strife to seal a place as Group C runners-up after a 0-0 draw away to Zambia, who clinched top spot.",
"Mali went through as Group A winners despite conceding an injury-time equalizer in the 2-2 draw away to Liberia.",
"Cedric Kante put the visitors 2-1 ahead in the 87th minute but Patrick Wieh leveled in the second minute of time added on.",
"Cape Verde Islands also ended on 10 points after beating Zimbabwe 2-1, but finished second on head-to-head results and missed out on a 2012 place on goal difference.",
"Burkina Faso topped Group F after drawing 1-1 with Gambia, but face an appeal from Namibia -- who complained about the fielding of Cameroon-born defender Herve Zengue in their two defeats.",
"Angola topped Group J after winning 2-0 away to Guinea Bissau.",
"Uganda's 33-year wait to qualify continues after a 0-0 draw with Kenya left the nation a point adrift in second place.",
"Tunisia joined Botswana in qualifying from the five-team Group K after a 2-0 home win against Togo clinched second place.",
"Malawi missed out following a 2-2 draw away to Chad, with Karl Max Barthelemy earning a point for the home side in the fourth minute of time added on."
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"Nigeria and South Africa fail to qualify for 2012 Africa Cup of Nations .",
"Super Eagles eged out by Guinea in Group B after conceding late equalizer .",
"South Africa also missed out on overall runner-u spot after being held at home .",
"Ghana qualified along with Mali, Libya, Niger, Angola and Tunisia ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- While international sanctions continue to mount against Iran and its nuclear program, the Obama administration acknowledged Tuesday that the steps have done little to change Iran's behavior.",
"National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon said at a conference at the Brookings Institution that Iran is paying a steep price for its intransigence.",
"Growing international sanctions, diplomatic isolation and growing defense alliances in the region continue to ratchet up the pressure on Iran and have helped slow its nuclear efforts.",
"But Donilon also admitted that \"the Iranian regime has not fundamentally altered its behavior.\"",
"This month, the International Atomic Energy Agency questioned whether Iran's nuclear program is for peaceful energy purposes, as Iran maintains.",
"In the most detailed report to date, the IAEA found \"credible\" information that Tehran has carried out work toward nuclear weapons, including tests of possible bomb components.",
"Despite Iran's failure to change its behavior, Donilon thinks the United States, working in concert with its international partners, will eventually have an impact on the Iranian leadership if they remain persistent and unified.",
"\"We think it has an effect when they see that they are thoroughly isolated,\" Donilon said.",
"But unity has been a problem.",
"China and Russia in particular have been reluctant to support harsher sanctions against Iran and have effectively forced the United States and European nations to settle for less punishing measures.",
"However, Donilon maintained that there is good coordination and cooperation with China and Russia.",
"\"They have supported us on each of our sanctions, international sanctions at the U.N.,\" he said.",
"\"They have enforced those efforts faithfully.\"",
"Donilon said it is important all options remain on the table.",
"\"Over time, the goal, of course, would be to raise the price and force the choice,\" he added."
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"But regime has not altered its behavior, Thomas Donilon says .",
"U.S. and partners will eventually have an impact, he says ."
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"Laguna Niguel, California (CNN) -- Apple's ambition to improve the fidelity of music downloads has diminished since the death of founder Steve Jobs, according to singer-songwriter Neil Young.",
"Apple consulted with the influential musician, along with many others in the music industry, for a project to develop electronics and distribution channels for high-definition music, Young said in an onstage interview at News Corp.'s D: Dive Into Media conference Tuesday.",
"CNN first reported a year ago that Apple, along with other digital music retailers, were talking with executives in the record industry about selling high-fidelity tracks in iTunes and retooling iPods to be compatible with them.",
"Most music downloads are currently sold in either the MP3 or AAC formats, both of which compress sound in order to produce smaller files.",
"Jobs was personally involved in the high-def initiative, speaking directly to Young about it, the 66-year-old musician recalled.",
"Improving the quality of digital music is a personal mission for Young, who has evangelized for it before.",
"\"Steve Jobs was a pioneer of digital music,\" Young said.",
"\"But when he went home, he listened to vinyl.\"",
"However, \"not much\" has happened with Apple's high-def gadgets and downloads project since Jobs died in October, Young said.",
"Jobs was a voracious consumer of music, with a special passion for the Beatles and Bob Dylan.",
"An Apple spokesman declined to comment.",
"\"My goal is to rescue the art form that I've been practicing for about 50 years,\" said Young, whose Rock and Roll Hall of Fame career spans six decades, from Buffalo Springfield to his rich solo career to his work with Pearl Jam and beyond.",
"\"The problem is that there's no alternative.\"",
"Industry-standard MP3 files have only about 5% of all the sounds that were contained in the original recording, which is called a \"master.\"",
"Because high-def music files are significantly larger, Young described a system that would allow the device to download it while the user is asleep.",
"Despite the availability of high-quality music sold by niche e-commerce websites, consumers so far have expressed little interest.",
"Many musicians are embracing the idea of giving fans pristine recordings, often at a premium price.",
"The Rolling Stones issued their first 27 records to one such store.",
"Record companies may like the idea of being able to repackage old albums at a higher price, but they surely weren't on board with all of Young's ideas.",
"In the interview Tuesday, Young embraced illegal music downloads.",
"\"Piracy is the new radio,\" said Young, whose music has long had a rebellious streak.",
"\"I look at the Internet as the new radio.",
"I look at the radio as gone.\""
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"Young: \"My goal is to rescue the art form that I've been practicing for 50 years\"\nMany musicians are embracing the idea of giving fans pristine recordings ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Tuesday the appointment of the first woman parliamentarian in the chamber since that position was created in the 1930s.",
"Elizabeth MacDonough will replace retiring parliamentarian Alan Frumin.",
"MacDonough currently serves as one of Frumin's top deputies.",
"The parliamentarian is the Senate's official -- and non-partisan -- umpire, calling balls and strikes on how the arcane rules of the chamber apply to the often rough and tumble day-to-day debates.",
"Frumin, who was the chief parliamentarian for the last 18 years, was \"impartial to a fault,\" boasted Reid, D-Nevada.",
"That explains why he is the only person appointed to the job by both Democratic and Republican majority leaders, Reid explained.",
"Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky praised Frumin's smarts and his devotion to the Senate.",
"The soft-spoken and bookish Frumin gained Washington celebrity status in 2010 when he had to make a number of high-profile rulings related to the Senate's handling of President Barack Obama's health care bill.",
"He was \"one of the most talked about men in Washington,\" Reid said.",
"\"Despite the pressure and despite the national spotlight, Mr. Frumin remained calm and professional through what must have been one of the most intense moments of his career.\"",
"Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, praised MacDonough for her \"professionalism\" and for setting a precedent by being the first woman to hold the position.",
"\"We all look forward to working with you, even when you give us disappointing ruling,\" he told her with a smile."
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"MacDonough will replace Alan Frumin, who was parliamentarian for 18 years .",
"Frumin came into the spotlight when he had to make rulings on Obama's health care plan .",
"The Senate parliamentarian advises on rules and procedure ."
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"(CNN) -- It should be time to celebrate key milestones in the fight against HIV and AIDS.",
"Recently, the United Nations announced that new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths fell to their lowest levels since the epidemic's peak.",
"Today, 6.6 million people in low- and middle-income countries are on life-saving antiretroviral therapy, and people with HIV are living longer.",
"These gains are significant.",
"But because of the shortsightedness of many wealthy countries, we are once again at risk of losing an opportunity to contain and control this deadly epidemic.",
"The announcement by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) of these gains was quickly followed by much more sobering news.",
"The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria -- the main financier of HIV programs around the world -- reported deep funding shortfalls as Western countries shrink or skip their promised Global Fund payments.",
"The Global Fund is freezing expenditures for existing HIV treatment programs and removing hundreds of millions in funding for new programs.",
"The result? Fewer people on HIV treatment, more HIV, more AIDS, more orphans, more misery, more death.",
"The world has been on the cusp of a promising new era in combating HIV before.",
"At the 2005 G8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, the globe's most powerful economies committed to fund universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care by 2010.",
"The global community fell short by half.",
"Because of that, there were millions of new -- preventable -- HIV infections, with widespread morbidity and mortality and massive economic and social costs.",
"Tragically, the HIV pandemic continued to expand.",
"Earlier this year, at the U.N., the same players renewed their pledge to fund universal access by 2015.",
"Yet we now hear news of shrinking resources in the face of massive need.",
"Let's be clear -- the United States is a leader in funding the fight against HIV.",
"Since then-President George W. Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) launched in 2003, U.S. support has provided millions of HIV-infected people with access to antiretroviral therapy.",
"Today, the U.S. commitment remains strong, through the Obama administration's National HIV/AIDS Strategy in America and Global Health Initiative, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent call for an AIDS-free generation.",
"Clinton's goal hinges on a handful of key initiatives, including the immediate expansion of a program known as \"treatment as prevention\" and a corresponding increase in funding for the Global Fund.",
"Treatment as prevention, which calls for widespread testing for HIV and treatment for those testing positive, was pioneered at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in British Columbia, Canada.",
"Effective treatment of a person living with HIV puts the virus into virtual long-term remission and dramatically reduces its transmission, preventing further infections.",
"Leading global health organizations such as the International AIDS Society, UNAIDS and the Clinton Foundation support the expansion of \"treatment as prevention\" programs worldwide, calling the preventive benefit of treatment a \"game-changer\" in the fight against HIV.",
"Further compelling evidence that treatment as prevention works was provided by a U.S. clinical trial (HPTN052) in May 2011.",
"It found that immediate antiretroviral treatment of an HIV-infected person whose partner does not have HIV reduced AIDS-related morbidity and mortality in the HIV-infected partner by 41% and decreased HIV transmission to the sexual partner by 96%.",
"Together, these results were instrumental in persuading the international community to renew the universal access pledge.",
"UNAIDS says that 12.2 million new HIV infections and 7.4 million HIV-related deaths could be averted between 2011 and 2020 if funding is scaled up to $24 billion annually by 2015.",
"The dollars required are considerable, but -- considering that the G8 pledged $40 billion virtually on the spot for the Arab Spring -- fully affordable.",
"Funding universal access is not just a moral and ethical obligation; it is also highly cost-effective.",
"China gets it.",
"The world's most populous country is implementing a national treatment as prevention strategy to help China meet its goal of bringing HIV and AIDS under control by 2015.",
"Under its program, China conducted nearly 67 million HIV tests in the first 10 months of this year.",
"The global effort to combat HIV cannot afford further delays, as the magnitude and impact of the pandemic grow relentlessly.",
"Today, 34 million people live with HIV and 7.6 million people require treatment.",
"We continue to play catch-up.",
"For every one person who starts HIV treatment, two become infected with HIV.",
"It is time to fully fund the Global Fund, so we can meet the universal access pledge and realize the goal of an AIDS-free generation.",
"Millions of lives depend on it.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julio Montaner."
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"Montaner: But these gains are threatened as West fails to meet funding obligations .",
"Global Fund to fight AIDS has deep shortfalls, he writes, is cutting new programs .",
"Wealthy nations must renew pledges, he says, or many more will die, become infected ."
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"(CNN) -- Yemeni officials on Tuesday downplayed rumors that next month's presidential elections in Yemen would be delayed, the same day U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faulted the Yemeni president for failing to fulfill his commitment to leave the country.",
"Any delay in the elections are unacceptable by all standards, senior officials in Vice President Abdurabu Hadi's office said.",
"The statement comes after Yemen's foreign minister hinted that presidential elections could be delayed due to the rising tension in the country.",
"\"I am among those who hope that (the presidential election) will take place in the planned manner,\" Abubakr al-Qirbi said in an interview on al-Arabiya TV on Tuesday.",
"\"But unfortunately, there are a couple of events relating to security, and if they are not solved ... it will be difficult to run the elections on February 21.\"",
"Hadi's office called Qirbi's comments unnecessary.",
"Yahya al-Arasi, media officer for the vice president, told CNN that elections are essential for Yemen and the vice president has no plans to delay elections under any circumstance.",
"\"It's unrealistic and unacceptable to delay the presidential elections,\" al-Arasi said.",
"He added, \"If elections are delayed, Yemen will again start from step one, and the unexpected would take place.\"",
"CNN contacted Qirbi's office and they assured that his comments come independently and not in favor of any certain political faction in the country.",
"Hadi is expected to win the country's February 21 elections.",
"Qirbi's announcement also raised fears within opposition groups that President Ali Abdullah Saleh is again using tactics to stay in power.",
"Under the terms of a Gulf Cooperation Council-brokered deal, Saleh has agreed to step down as president on February 21 in exchange for immunity from prosecution.",
"\"We regret that the president has thus far failed to comply with his own commitments to leave the country and to permit elections to go forward, that could give the people a chance to be heard and be represented,\" Secretary of State Clinton told reporters.",
"Speaking in the Ivory Coast, she also addressed why what happens in Yemen is significant to regional stability.",
"\"We remain focused on the threat posed by al Qaeda in Yemen, and we'll continue to work with our partners there and elsewhere to ensure that al Qaeda does not gain a foothold in the Arabian Peninsula through actions that would undermine the stability of Yemen and the region,\" she said.",
"Meanwhile, Mohammed Abu Lahoum, president of the opposition Justice and Building party said any call for delaying the elections is unwise.",
"He said that delaying the presidential elections would only deepen the Yemeni crisis.",
"\"Delaying the presidential elections is completely against the GCC power transfer and will delay any sort of stability to Yemen,\" said Abu Lahoum.",
"Analysts are worried that Saleh is seeking to delay the elections to buy him more time in power.",
"\"The GCC power transfer signing was delayed six times in 2011, and Saleh benefited the most from the delays.",
"For Saleh, it's never really over,\" said Ali Abdul Jabbar, director of the Sana'a based Dar Ashraf Reaserch Center.",
"Abdul Jabbar said that Saleh was hoping to control Yemen indirectly after stepping down from power, but the tension between him and Hadi made that impossible.",
"\"Saleh will do all that in his power to derail the elections for as long as he can.",
"He has everything to lose,\" he said.",
"The U.N.-backed power transition plan was signed in November and designed after more than a year of political and economic unrest.",
"The election planned for net month will put an end to Saleh's 33 years in power."
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"Some accuse President Saleh of delaying power transfer ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A spokesman for the Taliban denied on Wednesday a weekend report that Taliban representatives may meet with officials representing the government of President Hamid Karzai in Saudi Arabia in the coming weeks.",
"\"There is no doubt that Saudi Arabia is a respectful country for us as it is the place for the house of God and many more Islamic sacred, but the rumor which has recently been spread by media that the Taliban delegation would meet with Karzai administration¹s representatives in the Saudi Arabia is completely incorrect,\" said spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid in a statement.",
"He added that the Taliban are working to create an understanding with the international community, but negotiations have not begun.",
"That's because a trust-building stage, which must come before any negotiations, has not been completed, he said.",
"He called the reports \"baseless and unconfirmed.\"",
"The statement came several days after a senior Afghan official said that the Afghan government was hoping to hold talks with Taliban representatives in Saudi Arabia in the coming weeks.",
"The senior official, speaking anonymously as he was discussing sensitive diplomatic issues, said the plans for a meeting between insurgents and Afghan officials were at such an early stage that it was not clear who would attend or when any talks would be held.",
"\"The principle is that, although there is now an agreement -- almost -- to set up an office in Doha (Qatar), that doesn't necessarily mean that all conversations will take place in Doha,\" the official said.",
"\"We will talk to the same or different individuals (from the insurgency) in a different location.",
"Obviously, Saudi Arabia has been supportive of the recent agenda and has hosted talks in the past.",
"It is likely that we are heading there in the future for meetings.\"",
"He said the dates and participants were still being worked out and insisted that any Saudi discussions would feed into the Qatar process.",
"This is \"absolutely not in opposition to the Qatar process,\" he added, calling the talks in that Gulf state \"a very substantive step forward.\"",
"While the Afghan official was unable to say whether the Americans would attend any talks held in Saudi Arabia, he insisted, \"The U.S. is supportive of the idea.",
"It is far too early to discuss any specifics about this.\"",
"The creation of a parallel process to the Qatar talks risks frustrating American efforts to bring the Taliban and Afghan officials together.",
"The current \"talks about talks\" in Doha are the product of months of U.S. efforts to reach out to the insurgency, which came to sudden fruition last month when the Taliban announced that they would support opening an office in their name in Qatar.",
"Officials in President Hamid Karzai's government privately voiced frustration at being excluded from the early stages of this process, but agreed to support it last week.",
"The official said the Qatar process could move forward once the Qataris send a delegation to Kabul to discuss the next steps, adding that he hoped that would be soon.",
"He said that, as of last weekend, there were no Afghan government officials in Qatar to support any discussions.",
"\"To fully assume ownership of the Qatar process is important for us,\" the official added.",
"\"We will work in the weeks ahead\" to do that.",
"He said the Americans needed a clear statement from the insurgents, distancing themselves from terrorism, for their role in the Qatar process to move forward and for an office to be established.",
"\"We know and are aware the are Taliban representatives in Doha,\" he said.",
"\"There are channels in fact, and we are aware of the presence.",
"What's not yet established is the office.\"",
"CNN's Nick Paton Walsh contributed to this report."
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"Washington (CNN) -- A 21-month investigation into allegations that the Federal Air Marshal Service has a hostile work environment -- rife with discrimination and retaliation -- has concluded that no \"widespread\" problem exists, according to an internal government e-mail obtained by CNN.",
"But, investigators also concluded, a large number of air marshals think those problems exist.",
"The e-mail is the first glimpse into the long-awaited investigative report, which is scheduled to be released to the public on February 9.",
"Whistle-blowers in the air marshal's Orlando, Florida, field office triggered the investigation in early 2010 when they alleged that supervisors used a \"Jeopardy!",
"\"-style whiteboard to demean and ridicule rank-and-file officers.",
"The board contained derogatory terms to allude to gays, lesbians and African-Americans, they said.",
"But the investigation grew to include other field offices and other accusations, and the Department of Homeland Security's internal e-mail Tuesday said Office of Inspector General investigators have interviewed more than 300 DHS employees.",
"While investigators have remained silent about their work, air marshals contacted by CNN say they provided evidence of a wide range of misconduct, including a supervisor who ran a private security business while at work, supervisors who perjured themselves in sworn testimony against subordinates, and instances of favoritism, racism, sexism and discrimination.",
"A Federal Air Marshal Service spokeswoman declined to comment on the pending report and government e-mail Tuesday.",
"But several air marshals said they are eager to read the report, and say they will dispute any conclusion that discrimination and retaliation are not widespread.",
"\"We're going to tear the report apart,\" one air marshal, who asked not to be identified, said Tuesday.",
"\"We're going to take and review the report and we're going to look at our conclusions, because we know what we gave them.\"",
"The internal DHS e-mail summarizes the report's findings.",
"\"The (OIG) concluded that there was no widespread discrimination or retaliation within (the Federal Air Marshal Service),\" it says.",
"\"However, the report does suggest that a large segment of our workforce feels that retaliation and discrimination exists.\"",
"Supervisors have a responsibility to \"dispel\" the perception that the service is rife with discrimination and retaliation, it continues.",
"In addition to the normal investigative techniques, the OIG took the unusual step of surveying the air marshal workforce.",
"The survey asked air marshals if favoritism ever played a role in promotions, job evaluations and mission assignments; whether air marshals have ever been discriminated against or harassed on the job; and whether they feel they can report misconduct without fear of retaliation.",
"In August 2011, the Department of Homeland Security declined a CNN Freedom of Information Act request for the survey results, saying that the documents involved an ongoing investigation.",
"It also said the results could reveal the total number of air marshals, which is classified.",
"A House committee has scheduled a hearing on the air marshals on Feb. 16."
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"CNN obtained an internal DHS e-mail about a probe of the Federal Air Marshal Service .",
"E-mail: Probe found discrimination isn't \"widespread,\" but many air marshals think it is .",
"Air marshals tell CNN they provided evidence of perjury, discrimination, other misconduct .",
"\"We're going to tear the report apart,\" says air marshal who asked not to be identified ."
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"(CNN) -- As Florida Republican operatives look past Tuesday's primary, they are clear about what it will take to carry their state in November -- winning swing voters.",
"While the 2012 GOP presidential race has sometimes seemed like a competition among the Republican White House hopefuls over who can appeal to the party's hard core, the fall campaign will be about winning the middle, according to a CNN survey of 47 Florida GOP insiders -- state legislators, political consultants, fundraisers, veterans of previous primary campaigns, tea party advocates and a variety of other party activists.",
"Which do you think is relatively more important to winning Florida in the general election?",
"Having a nominee who can win swing voters: 83% .",
"Having a nominee who excites the conservative base: 13% .",
"Both (volunteered): 4% .",
"That overwhelming verdict comes in part because of the belief that conservatives will show up at the polls just to vote against the incumbent, President Barack Obama, even if they're not thrilled with the GOP nominee.",
"\"Swing is key,\" said one Florida GOP insider.",
"\"The base will be motivated anyway.\"",
"Echoed another: \"Conservatives will be there regardless.\"",
"CNN Florida Insiders Survey: 'Romney stepping up his game' Another key voting bloc in Florida in the general election will be Hispanic and Latino voters.",
"The GOP insiders thought that Mitt Romney would be their best bet in the fall.",
"Who do you think would have the strongest appeal to Hispanic and Latino voters in the general election?",
"Mitt Romney: 64% .",
"Newt Gingrich: 33% .",
"Rich Santorum: 1% .",
"When the Florida insiders were asked how easy it would be to get behind a prospective nominee, only one candidate among the remaining contenders seems to face a severe enthusiasm deficit when it comes to the fall campaign -- Texas Rep. Ron Paul.",
"His isolationist views on national security are anathema to many Republicans, and his libertarian bent can also cause some concerns among social conservatives.",
"Would you have a hard time enthusiastically supporting any of these candidates if he was the nominee?",
"Ron Paul: 71% .",
"Newt Gingrich: 28% .",
"Rick Santorum: 24% .",
"Mitt Romney: 9% .",
"\"Ron Paul is Ron Paul, but Newt simply doesn't fit the profile of a winning GOP candidate in Florida,\" said one party insider who is unaffiliated with any of the campaigns.",
"\"You have to be able to excite the conservative base and not turn off swing voters.",
"Swing voters (would) flee from Newt faster than that golf ball his by Alan Shepard took off on the moon.\"",
"Polls that currently show Romney with the best chance to defeat Obama are one of the reasons why the former Massachusetts governor is a favorite among the party establishment.",
"\"I'd have a hard time supporting anyone other than Romney because I know none of the others can beat Obama,\" said one Florida GOP insider.",
"Still, another Florida GOP insider lamented, \"I think this is the weakest field we have ever put forth in my lifetime.",
"The CNN Florida insiders were surveyed from Thursday afternoon through Saturday.",
"The survey was conducted over the Internet.",
"The Florida insiders were given anonymity for their individual answers to encourage candid responses.",
"Just under half of the insiders said they were formally aligned with one of the presidential campaigns, and half said they had neither endorsed any candidate nor were they working for one.",
"Overall, one-third of the insiders backed Romney, while just under one-sixth supported Gingrich.",
"If only the responses from insiders currently unaligned with any of the candidates were tabulated, the results predicted the primary vote would be Romney 39%, Gingrich 32%, Santorum 15%, Paul 10%, and other 2%.",
"Here are the names of the participants in the survey: Brian Ballard, Slater Bayliss, Kim Bertron, Sally Bradshaw, Bertica Cabrera Morris, Christian Camara, Al Cardenas, David Cardenas, Len Collins, Nelson Diaz, Jose Diaz, Brett Doster, Charlie Dudley, Tom Feeney, Jose Fuentes, Rich Heffley, Ann Herberger, Brecht Heuchan, Christina Johnson, David Johnson, Frederick Leonhardt, Carlos M. Lopez-Cantera, Jose Mallea, Alberto E. Martinez, Nancy McGowan, Will McKinley, Kathy Mears, Paul Mitchell, Kris Money, Ana Navarro, Esther Nuhfer, Jeanette Nunez, Andy Palmer, Van B. Poole, Marc Reichelderfer, Todd Reid, Jim Rimes, Monica Rodriguez, Sarah Rumpf, Terry Sullivan, Frank Terraferma, Todd Thomson, Cory Tilley, Tom A. Tillison, Greg Turbeville, Susan Wiles and Brian Yablonski."
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"The fight in the fall will not be focused on exciting the base, it will be about winning the middle .",
"Latino Republicans make up a key block, and Romney seems to have their support .",
"Most insiders say they'd have a hard time supporting Ron Paul if he were nominated ."
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"(CNN) -- A school system in upstate New York, where more than a dozen female high school students are suffering from uncontrolled verbal outbursts and twitching, said it has hired a company to review environmental testing within the school and community.",
"The development comes as famed activist Erin Brockovich and other environmentalists are looking into whether a chemical that spilled in a 1970 train derailment about four miles from the school has anything to do with the girls' mysterious behavior.",
"One of Brockovich's associates walked the grounds of Le Roy Senior High School on Saturday and traveled to the derailment site.",
"The Le Roy Central School District said it wanted \"sound advice\" from professionals on the situation, \"void of self-interest.\"",
"\"Our community has suddenly found itself at the center of national attention due to the students who have been exhibiting neurological symptoms,\" Superintendent Kim M. Cox said in a statement released Friday.",
"\"This has led to much speculation, conjecture and misinformation in the national media and consequently within our community.\"",
"Cox said the school district is working with local, state and federal health and environmental agencies.",
"A statement posted earlier on the school's website said, in part, \"The medical and environmental investigations have not uncovered any evidence that would link the neurological symptoms to anything in the environment or of an infectious nature.\"",
"The school district posted air quality and mold reports on its website.",
"\"Water was also ruled out because the school is serviced by public water,\" it said.",
"The mother of one affected girl said she doesn't think enough testing has been done.",
"Health officials say the girls' symptoms are consistent with \"conversion disorder.\"",
"Brockovich told HLN's \"Dr. Drew\" on Friday night that she will try to corroborate a note she said one of the affected family members received about the derailment.",
"\"The contaminated rock, fill and soil was used to build the new school,\" Brockovich said of the note.",
"According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, one ton of cyanide crystals spilled onto the ground in the December 6, 1970, derailment.",
"About 30,000 gallons of trichloroethene (TCE), a potentially harmful contaminant, also were released from two ruptured tank cars, the agency said.",
"\"I have read and been involved in cases that we have had that TCE can be associated with neurological disorders,\" Brockovich told HLN.",
"The first significant cleanup and remediation did not start for 20 years, she said, adding she was worried about the chemical getting into bedrock and groundwater supplies.",
"The TCE may have reached the school grounds, she said.",
"The EPA's Superfund website provides a progress report of the cleanup done in the area over the past 20 years.",
"\"Drinking wells in the area were found to have TCE contamination,\" the EPA said.",
"\"Sampling of private wells between 1990 and 1994 detected TCE in approximately 50 wells located east or southeast of the site.\"",
"The EPA installed water-treatment systems at 37 locations where TCE levels were high.",
"The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation used soil vapor extraction and bedrock vapor extraction to address the source of the contamination.",
"\"A water-line extension was selected to provide a safe, potable water supply to all affected residents and businesses,\" the EPA said.",
"Robert Bowcock, an environmental water specialist associated with Brockovich, went to the derailment site Saturday and took water samples to test for contaminants.",
"He also took water samples from wells at private residences.",
"An HLN producer saw several dozen drums in a fenced-off area at the derailment site, but it was not clear what they may contain.",
"One was rusted and had dirt-like material inside.",
"Brockovich gained fame after the 2000 movie bearing her name and starring Julia Roberts in the title role.",
"It told the story of how she, as a file clerk at a law firm, established that a toxic chemical from a compressor station leaked into the groundwater of a nearby California town, according to a biography posted on Brockovich's website.",
"Medical experts, meanwhile, continue to investigate the girls' symptoms, which in some cases, include stuttering.",
"Dr. Jennifer McVige, a pediatric neurologist at the DENT Neurologic Institute who is treating many of the students affected, said, \"Conversion disorder is a physical manifestation of physiological symptoms where there is traditionally some kind of stress or multiple stressors that provoke a physical reaction within the body.\"",
"McVige said the symptoms are real.",
"\"This is unconscious. It is not done purposefully.\"",
"Thera Sanchez, a senior on the honor roll at the school, said she has been fighting this affliction since October.",
"She said after waking up from a nap, \"I got upset, I couldn't stop stuttering.\"",
"During an interview with CNN's Jason Carroll, Thera's symptoms were apparent: She was twitching uncontrollably, flailing her left arm and jerking her head to one side.",
"Thera said she also faints and has seizures.",
"The seizures are a result of her pre-existing epilepsy disorder, which had been under control for years.",
"\"I don't think that all physical aspects of this have been exhausted; not enough testing has been done,\" Thera's mother, Melissa Phillips, said.",
"She also disagreed with McVige's assertion that the girls are improving, saying, \"Nothing is getting better, you know, the girls are still getting worse.",
"They have good days and bad days.\"",
"McVige is not sure why so many girls at the same school are suffering all at once.",
"\"I do know that traditionally when they've (doctors) looked back at different events that occurred in a similar nature, a majority of the time it is girls.\"",
"According to the Mayo Clinic, females are much more likely to get conversion disorder and it is more common in adolescents or young adults.",
"McVige said she used the \"diagnosis of exclusion\" to determine what happened to the girls, which means using the process of elimination.",
"She ruled out a laundry list of factors to reach her diagnosis, including infections, drug use, food allergies and vaccine reactions, specifically Gardasil.",
"The New York State Health Department agreed with McVige's diagnosis after speaking with several doctors who evaluated the students.",
"\"There are many causes of tic-like symptoms.",
"Stress can often worsen them,\" said spokesman Jeffrey Hammond.",
"\"The doctors all agree that the symptoms these girls are experiencing are real.\"",
"HLN's Liz Flynn reported from Le Roy, New York.",
"CNN's Danielle Dellorto, Laura Dolan, Maggie Schneider and Jason Carroll also contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- You've been thinking about it for weeks.",
"Mounds of turkey piled high with buttery mashed potatoes, dripping with gravy.",
"Green bean casserole and pumpkin pie.",
"Or sweet potato casserole and pecan pie.",
"Cranberries. Collard greens.",
"Stuffing. Every year, we spend hours making the traditional Thanksgiving favorites just like our mom used to do, like her mom did before that.",
"\"When you do something repeatedly over the years, it builds up a kind of power,\" nutritional psychologist Marc David says.",
"\"It creates its own momentum.",
"To make the same dish year after year, decade after decade, there's something in that that connects us to the past.\"",
"Nostalgia comes from the Greek word for homecoming (nostos) and pain (algos).",
"But experts say feeling nostalgic is actually good for your mental health.",
"Anything can bring on that special moment -- music, smells, photos.",
"We play the same songs, cook the same recipes, take the same family photo in the same spot next to the same fireplace because we're human, David says.",
"Our biological functions are based on repetitive rhythms.",
"Our brains are hardwired to relax when surrounded by the familiar.",
"\"Emotional eating has gotten a bad name,\" David says.",
"\"We're emotional people.",
"We are emotional beings.",
"We're built for pleasure.\"",
"Nostalgic products fill a need to belong and feel socially connected, according to an Arizona State University study published in the Journal of Consumer Research last year.",
"That's why this time of year, TV and radio ads are filled with smiling families sitting around a large table in holiday sweaters, passing the dinner rolls.",
"Even if you're far away from home, companies want you to believe that buying those same dinner rolls will fill your heart with holiday joy.",
"Turns out, it works.",
"Dr. Clay Routledge works with other researchers from the University of Southampton's nostalgia project.",
"He recently published an article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology titled \"The past makes present meaningful.\"",
"Nostalgia, Routledge found, increases a person's self-esteem.",
"Daily activities like going to class or attending meetings are routine, even boring.",
"When we engage in nostalgia, we tend to think of the things that are really important to us.",
"That makes us feel like our life is meaningful.",
"Taste of Home's sweet potato tart recipe .",
"\"What's amazing about autobiographical memory is that bad memories fade faster than positive memories,\" Routledge says.",
"\"One thing that's interesting about nostalgia is that it's not 100% detail accurate -- it's more the highlights.\"",
"Nostalgia is largely social.",
"Routledge' s studies found that people who are alone or disconnected feel better after engaging in nostalgia.",
"Yet you're probably dreaming right now about your grandfather's deep-fried turkey, not about him, right?",
"\"Is it really about the food?\"",
"Routledge asks.",
"\"Or is the food just sort of a trigger or cue for what the holidays are really all about, which is relationships.",
"We don't eat these foods other times of the year because we've segmented them off as special.",
"They go with this occasion.",
"They go with the relationships.\"",
"For Taste of Home editor Catherine Cassidy, Thanksgiving means cooking for the ones she loves.",
"She gets satisfaction in putting good food on the table for her family.",
"So many of our best moments from the past, she says, are rooted in our sense of smell.",
"\"We call them food memories.",
"When it comes to the holidays we are always trying to recreate the magic and the specialness we experienced when we were children.\"",
"So indulge in a little Thanksgiving daydream.",
"Long for the oyster stuffing.",
"Sniff the air in anticipation of mom's pumpkin pie.",
"Then on the big day, enjoy your holiday feast, and all the benefits that come from the power of nostalgia."
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"(CNN) -- Mitt Romney moved another big step closer to the Republican nomination for the U.S. presidency this week: a very competent candidate with a stunning amount of cash and a court ruling that will keep the funds flowing.",
"\"Napoleon said god is on the side of big battalions.",
"Voters are usually on the side of big money,\" said CNN political analyst Paul Begala.",
"Romney got the support of 46 percent of Republican voters in the Florida primary election, the latest of the state-by-state votes leading to the contest against Barack Obama in November.",
"Former lawmaker Newt Gingrich came in second with 32 percent.",
"Two other candidates in the race were far behind.",
"How does campaign finance compare around the world?",
"Romney is a polished public speaker who ran for president four years ago and has spent the time since carefully preparing to do it again.",
"He's also a multi-millionaire who seems to be a magnet for money.",
"One report by Reuters news agency suggests he and his supporters collected nearly $90 million for his campaign by the end of 2011, with the campaign barely under way.",
"By comparison, the Gingrich camp raised just under $15 million.",
"The U.S. is one of many democracies that have tried to keep money from buying elections.",
"But this is the first presidential election to be affected by a relatively new ruling by the country's Supreme Court.",
"The court ruled in 2010 that organizations known as Super Political Action Committees, or Super-PACs, have a right to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections as long as they stay independent of the candidates.",
"Hundreds of Super PACs have quickly sprung up, baking both Republicans and Democrats.",
"In Florida, they reportedly spent even more than the presidential candidates did.",
"\"When you have that much money washing around campaigns, there will be scandals,\" said Senator John McCain, who defeated Romney four years ago for the Republican presidential nomination but is backing him this time.",
"Federal officials predict that this year's elections to the White House, Congress and state offices could involve $11 billion in spending.",
"Even without any big scandals so far, that's an awful lot of uncontrolled cash."
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"Republican Mitt Romney cements frontrunner status with victory in Florida presidential primary .",
"Romney gets 46% of vote, compared to 32% for Newt Gingrich and 13% for Rick Santorum .",
"Romney and his supporters collected nearly $90 million for his campaign by end of 2011, report says ."
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"New Delhi (CNN) -- The story has all the stuff that sells: a sexy starlet, a powerful enemy spy agency and lots of bare flesh.",
"Nude photographs of Pakistani actress Veena Malik, published in the December issue of the Indian edition of the men's magazine FHM prompted Malik to threaten a lawsuit.",
"Malik said FHM doctored photographs to show her without clothes.",
"The magazine, however, denied those allegations.",
"Malik, editor Kabeer Sharma said, posed nude.",
"What made the photos even more scandalous was that Malik's upper left arm bears the letters ISI, the acronym for Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency.",
"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 t would be good for her image.",
"And 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.\"",
"Sharma said the magazine opted not to use the photo on the cover because it \"could have offended sensibilities.\"",
"But the magazine has already incensed Malik.",
"Lawyer Ayaz Bilawala told CNN that Malik is seeking $1.9 million in damages.",
"Bilawala said the publication \"cheated\" his client and doctored the nude pictures.",
"\"Proceedings (in a court of law) will begin soon,\" he said.",
"FHM, Bilawala said, violated its agreement with the Pakistani model that stipulated that Malik would be shown the photos from the shoot before they were published.",
"\"The pictures that are on display are tampered with, morphed and doctored,\" he said.",
"Bilawala didn't dispute the ISI print on Malik's left upper arm but said numerous organizations worldwide used the same acronym.",
"He refused comment on the grenade-like object.",
"FHM India hinted at countersuing the actress.",
"\"These allegations are completely and entirely false.",
"We are exploring various other options, including filing a countersuit,\" Sharma told CNN.",
"Malik said she never agreed to pose nude, the prospect of which sparked outrage in her homeland.",
"\"What I am doing takes a lot of guts,\" she said.",
"\"If I had posed nude for the magazine, I would be the first to admit it.",
"But I didn't agree to this and they are wrong.",
"\"I did not go for this, and I am deeply shocked and depressed about what has happened,\" she said.",
"But Malik 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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"The magazine, FHM India, denies Veena Malik's allegation .",
"An attorney for Malik says nude photos in December issue were \"doctored\"\nOn cover, she holds what appears to be a grenade, has \"ISI\" written on her left arm .",
"Malik's attorney says the actress is seeking $1.9 million in damages ."
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"New Delhi (CNN) -- India's supreme court Thursday ordered the cancellation of 122 cellular permits that have been at the center of a multibillion-dollar scandal involving the country's booming telecommunication sector, attorneys said.",
"A telecom minister awarded the licenses in 2008.",
"The former minister -- A. Raja -- is in jail for his alleged role in what is believed to be a rigged sale of radio waves to companies.",
"Lawyer Prashant Bhushan called the judgment \"historic.\"",
"\"It will change the manner in which corruption will be examined and dealt with in the country,\" said Bhushan, also the petitioner.",
"The top court directed the country's telecom regulator to create in the next four months new ways for issuing licenses that it said had been granted in \"arbitrary and unconstitutional\" manner, attorneys said.",
"The 2008 license sale is seen as India's biggest corruption scandal -- one that rattled Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government and investor confidence in Asia's third-largest economy.",
"A number of corporate executives, bureaucrats and high-profile politicians, including Raja, are facing trial in connection with the suspected scam revealed by the national auditor two years ago.",
"India recorded a fiscal deficit of 4.7% of its GDP in 2010-11.",
"But Singh's top economic adviser, C. Rangarajan, has warned it would be difficult for the country to bring the gap down in the current financial year.",
"In 2010, India raised billions of dollars from an auction of telecom licenses that surged beyond expectations and helped the country trim its losses.",
"An auction of the 2008 controversial sale of the telecom bandwidth, canceled by the supreme court, could generate new revenues for the Indian government that is struggling to cut deficits that economists blame on high subsidy bills.",
"\"Over the medium term, we should draw up an appropriate roadmap to reach the FRBM (fiscal responsibility and budget management) target of 3% of the GDP.",
"We must focus particularly on reducing the overall level of subsidies as a proportion of (the) GDP,\" Rangarajan cautioned in his talk on the Indian economy on Tuesday.",
"Uninor, the Indian joint venture of Norway's Telenor and Unitech, is among companies impacted by Thursday's verdict.",
"\"We have been unfairly treated as we simply followed the government process we were asked to,\" it said in a statement, CNN-IBN reported.",
"\"We are shocked to see that Uninor is being penalized for faults the court has found in the government process.\"",
"Business analysts, however, fear the ruling could hurt investment sentiments in India.",
"\"The judgment, though correct on the aspects of law, leads to a larger question about government policy and the validity of doing business in the country,\" said Rishi Sahai, managing director of financial consultancy Cogence Advisors.",
"\"For foreign investors, there's probably a big concern now that whether the huge amounts of money they put in stand vulnerable in Indian courts.",
"This ruling, no doubt, has set a bad precedent for further investment in our country,\" Sahai remarked.",
"The Indian government, cornered by opposition and civil society activists over a raft of corruption cases, sought to downplay business worries.",
"\"At last, we have put an end to the kind of confusion that prevails in the market,\" telecom minister Kapil Sibal, in welcoming the verdict.",
"Sibal insisted the ruling offered clarity to telecom businesses.",
"Spectrum, he explained, would be available only through auction and not on a first-come, first-served basis that the court found discriminatory.",
"In his comments, J.S.",
"Sarma, head of India's telecom regulator, suggested subscribers of the affected license holders port out to other service providers within the stipulated four months.",
"He said the ruling impacts 5% of the country's cellular market, the world's second-largest, with at least 894 million users."
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"NEW: Telecom minister says verdict puts an end to confusion in the market .",
"The former telecom minister awarded the licenses in 2008 .",
"The 2008 license sale is considered India's biggest corruption scandal under the prime minister .",
"The former minister is in jail for his alleged role in what is believed to be a rigged sale of radio waves to companies ."
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"(CNN) -- Mark Cavendish capped a superb week for Britain at the world cycling championships by winning the men's road race title Sunday with a trademark sprint finish.",
"Cavendish, the pre-race favorite on a course well-suited to his talents, timed his burst to perfection to take gold from Australia's Matthew Goss with Andre Greipel of Germany taking the bronze medal.",
"It was Britain's first men's road race title since the legendary Tom Simpson won in 1965 and took them to the top of the medals table at the championships in Copenhagen.",
"They claimed two gold, two silvers and two bronze medals as their dominance in track cycling extended to the various road disciplines.",
"Cavendish paid tribute to his teammates after they had paced him through the majority of the 260km race over 17 laps but with a tough uphill finish.",
"\"There couldn't be any other result after the way the guys rode today,\" Cavendish told Eurosport.",
"\"I'm so proud.\" An early breakaway gained nearly 10 minutes, but with Britain forcing the pace at the front, it was pulled back and the decisive action took place on the last lap.",
"Tour de France hero Thomas Voeckler made a typical charge, but with time trial silver medalist Bradley Wiggins and the experienced David Millar to the fore, Britain were able to nullify his attempt.",
"In the uphill finish, it was the Australians who moved to the front, but Cavendish came through fast near the barriers and once he hit the front there was only one winner.",
"Milan-San Remo winner Goss closed on the line while Greipel edged out Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara for the final podium spot."
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"Britain's Mark Cavendish wins world road race title in Copenhagen .",
"Cavendish sprints to victory ahead of Australia's Matthew Goss .",
"Cavendish first Briton to win prestigioius race since Tom Simpson in 1965 .",
"Britain top the medals table in Denmark with two golds, two silvers and two bronzes ."
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