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"(CNN) -- Paris St Germain have completed the signing of Barcelona's Brazilian left-back Maxwell on a three-and-a-half year contract for an undisclosed fee.",
"The 30-year-old finalized his move on Thursday after passing a medical and agreeing personal terms with the big-spending French league leaders.",
"Maxwell, who has never made a full international appearance for his country, joined Barcelona from Inter Milan in July 2009, and played 57 La Liga matches for the club without scoring a goal.",
"Who are football's top January transfer targets?",
"In his two full seasons with the Catalan giants, Maxwell collected a remarkable 10 trophies; three Spanish Super Cups, two European Super Cups, two League titles, two Club World Cups and one Champions League.",
"However, he struggled to command a regular place in the Barcelona side, with compatriot Adriano and Frenchman Eric Abidal often selected ahead of him.",
"PSG sporting director Leonardo told reporters: \"We're thrilled, he is a player I have always liked and who plays in the same position that I used to play in -- we have something in common.\"",
"Maxwell himself added: \"The main motivation for me to come here was the interest that PSG showed in me.",
"The ambition the club has for the future also persuaded me to join.\"",
"Paris St Germain, who appointed Italian Carlo Ancelotti as their new coach late last year and are boosted by funds from their cash-rich Qatari owners, are currently three points clear at the top of the French table."
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"Brazilian defender Maxwell has completed his transfer to Paris St Germain .",
"The 30-year-old left-back joins on a three-and-a-half-year deal from Barcelona .",
"Maxwell made 57 league appearances for Barcelona, winning 10 trophies in two years ."
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"(CNN) -- They have dismissed him, attempted to silence him and threatened him with arrest.",
"Mehdi Karrubi, pictured, ran against hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the June 12 election.",
"But Iran's Islamic hardliners so far have failed to stifle opposition leader Mehdi Karrubi's claims that post-election detainees have been abused -- some even raped -- behind bars.",
"Actually, the 72-year-old cleric has grown increasingly defiant in recent weeks.",
"His latest move: going public with a first-hand account from a detainee who says he was raped in a Tehran prison.",
"\"I was in prison, blindfolded and tied down.",
"They beat me almost to death and did the most despicable thing to me, which is rejected even by all infidels and idol worshipers and I only had the courage to make Mr. Karrubi aware of this,\" the unidentified male says in a statement posted Monday on Karrubi's party Web site.",
"The male says he spoke to Karrubi after his release and \"I was convinced that if someone is raped -- while his hands and feet are tied and he has not powers to defend himself -- not only has he not committed a sin, but he has been victimized.\"",
"The statement alleges incidents of sexual abuse in Kahrizak prison, which has since been ordered closed by the supreme leader of Iran.",
"The male says he was subjected to humiliating questions by judiciary officials as recently as Thursday.",
"Karrubi said the man's account is the tip of the iceberg, and that he will continue posting accounts on the Web site if \"the current trend continues.\"",
"Iranian government officials could not be reached late Monday.",
"However, the government this month firmly denied Karrubi's rape allegations, dismissing them as lies.",
"Karrubi, along with opposition candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi, ran against hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the June 12 election.",
"Despite reformists crying foul, Iran's election authority declared Ahmadinejad the overwhelming winner, driving hundreds of thousands of Iranians to the streets in protest.",
"Karrubi, a former parliamentary speaker, has since been scorned by government hardliners, whose credibility and legitimacy have been publicly questioned in the aftermath of the election.",
"Allegations of the torture, abuse and rape of post-election detainees have forced the Islamic regime to respond to behavior inside prisons that has been compared to the abuse of political prisoners under the regime of the Shah of Iran, who was overthrown by the Islamic Revolution in 1979.",
"Karrubi's claims have sparked outrage from human rights groups, including Amnesty International, which have called on Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to authorize an independent inquiry and allow international experts to participate in the investigation.",
"Khamenei hasn't taken up their offer.",
"However, Iran's powerful conservative parliamentary speaker, Ali Larijani, said a special committee of Iran's parliament, or Majlis, conducted a \"precise and comprehensive inquiry\" into the treatment at Tehran's Evin and Kahrizak prisons, and found \"no cases of rape or sexual abuse,\" government-funded Press TV has reported.",
"He accused Karrubi of spreading \"sheer lies.\"",
"Still, on Monday the special parliamentary committee agreed to review Karrubi's evidence and meet with four individuals who say they were tortured and raped while in prison, according to the Web site of Karrubi's Etemad-e Melli (National Trust) party.",
"\"But if we determine that these were purely fabricated allegations in order to serve against the benefit of the system, we will also subject the perpetrators of such lies to prosecution,\" said Kazem Jalili, the head of the committee, according to the Web site.",
"Such threats aren't new for Karrubi.",
"Last week, the governor of Tehran province demanded legal action against Karrubi for making the rape allegations.",
"\"If such a person has made such accusations that have infuriated the people and it is shown that he cannot prove them, then legal steps must be taken with regards to this person,\" said Gov.",
"Morteza Tamaddon, according to the Iran Labor News Agency.",
"Ayatollah Hossein Taeeb, commander of the Basij militia, which attacked protesters during the unrest that followed the election, has allegedly called for Karrubi to be flogged 80 times.",
"CNN could not independently confirm Taeeb's remark, which was posted on the Web site of the reformist Etemad-e Melli newspaper.",
"That newspaper, which is aligned with Karrubi, was shut down by Iranian authorities on August 16 for publishing \"unlawful and criminal material,\" state-run media reported, though details about the materials in question were not revealed."
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"Opposition leader Mehdi Karrubi claims post-election detainees have been abused .",
"Karrubi went public with account from a detainee who says he was raped in prison .",
"Government denies Karrubi's rape allegations, dismissing them as lies .",
"Many Iranians protested President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's June election win ."
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"(CNN) -- A Northern California woman was arrested on suspicion of taking a bite out of two kids in the children's section of a bookstore, police said.",
"Polly Beltramo, 46, of Palo Alto, is accused of biting a 2-year-old girl and a baby boy on the cheek at BookBuyers in Mountain View on Thursday, police said.",
"The incident began when Beltramo allegedly bit the girl, whose mother was in the children's section of the store, witnesses said.",
"Bookstore owner Rammurti Reed said he heard the girl screaming and saw a red welt on her cheek.",
"\"Suddenly a little boy, who was just a couple of months old, started screaming,\" Reed told CNN affiliate KGO-TV.",
"\"I went to him and his cheek was bleeding.\"",
"Beltramo allegedly fled the store and was later found at a nearby coffee shop, police said.",
"Beltramo has been arrested on felony child abuse, police said."
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"She is accused of biting a 2-year-old girl and a baby boy, police say ."
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"Istanbul (CNN) -- A high-ranking Turkish government minister is calling for the speedy punishment of several police officers who were caught on a police station camera, repeatedly slapping a detained woman in the face and pulling her hair even after she had been hand-cuffed.",
"The video showed an incident that took place nearly five months ago.",
"But the case did not attract national outrage in Turkey until the silent police station camera footage was broadcast last weekend by Turkish television stations.",
"The video showed a heated argument in an office between two plain-clothed police officers and Fevziye Cengiz, a woman who had been arrested and brought to a police station in the western Turkish port city of Izmir last July.",
"Cengiz, who was dressed in shorts and a tank-top, yelled and backed away from the men.",
"Suddenly, the officers started slapping Cengiz and yanking her hair.",
"Later, the camera showed them wrestling Cengiz to the ground as a third man in police uniform occasionally stepped in to help restrain the woman and pick fallen items off the floor.",
"After handcuffing Cengiz, the plain-clothed officers held her against a wall and took turns delivering open-handed blows to her face.",
"\"The incident in Izmir is unacceptable and we definitely consider this incident as one for which the perpetrators should be punished,\" said Fatma Sahin, Turkey's family and social policies minister, in a statement released on her ministry's web-site on Sunday.",
"\"There is political will and state authority to take the required action in a speedy way.",
"Therefore, both legal and administrative investigations have been launched and those policemen are suspended.\"",
"Cengiz' lawyer told CNN police arrested her client during a raid at an Izmir night club on the night of July 16.",
"\"The violence against my client, which started when she was taken with the excuse that she did not have her ID, continued at the police station,\" the lawyer, Hanife Yildirim, told CNN.",
"\"When I met my client almost a week later, she still had a black eye and there were other marks on her.\"",
"Soon after her release on July 17, Cengiz filed a formal complaint against the police with the assistance of the Izmir Bar Association's human rights department.",
"In the meantime, authorities pressed criminal charges against Cengiz for resisting arrest and \"reckless behavior.\"",
"\"She is facing up to six years imprisonment,\" said Yildirim.",
"\"The charge against the policemen is 'cause of injury through excessive force' with up to 1.5 years' punishment.\"",
"Police in Izmir have not responded to requests from CNN to comment on the case.",
"Cengiz' case sparked outrage throughout the media and among human rights groups in Turkey.",
"Legal experts with the Turkish Human Rights Foundation (TIHV), which has been providing medical and legal support to Cengiz, told CNN that the number of complaints of torture and ill-treatment has grown in 2011 compared to the previous year.",
"\"Although laws ban such behavior, there is a lack of punishment for the security forces that commit these abuses, which means that security forces are not deterred,\" said Coskun Usterci, an executive board member in the TIHV's Izmir branch.",
"Usterci argued that Cengiz' case was a rarity, because the in-house police station video camera was not tampered with after the victim's complaint was formally lodged.",
"\"During judicial or investigative processes of such situations, the camera recordings in the police stations (often) turn out to be either deleted or recorded over or the camera turns out to be broken,\" Usterci said in a phone interview with CNN.",
"\"To give a rough percentage, in 80% of the situations, this happens.",
"Therefore it is very important that in this case the prosecutor got hold of those videos and included them in the case file.\"",
"In its annual report on Turkey in 2011, Amnesty International concluded \"investigations of alleged human rights abuses by state officials remained flawed ... the losing of evidence by state officials and counter-charges being issued against those who alleged human rights abuses contributed to the perpetuation of impunity.\"",
"Human rights activists argued Cengiz' case also high-lighted the persistent problem of violence against women in Turkey.",
"\"Turkey continues to be a country where discrimination and violence against women is high.",
"In 2011, an average of three women a day were killed,\" announced the Turkish Human Rights Foundation and the Human Rights Association, in a joint press release this month.",
"The two police officers shown beating Cengiz are expected to appear in court in February 2012.",
"In her statement, Family and Social Policies Minister Sahin called Cengiz's case \"an individual mistake,\" and suggested it could not be attributed to all Turkish police officers.",
"\"We will also be following up on this,\" she concluded.",
"\"Violence in a police station, especially against a woman, is unacceptable.\""
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"Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- North Korea's new supreme leader, Kim Jong Un, appears to have carried out his first public inspection with the country's military since the death last month of his father, Kim Jong Il.",
"The supreme commander of the nuclear-armed state's military spent New Year's Day with the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su 105 Guards Tank Division, signaling he will carry on his father's \"military first\" policy, state media KCNA said on Sunday.",
"\"He (Kim Jong Un) underlined the need to be ready for fight and (to) keep arms and combat and technical equipment always ready for actions in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance,\" KCNA said.",
"He was accompanied by his uncle Jang Song Taek, the senior official believed to be his patron, and the military chief of staff, Ri Yong Ho, KCNA reported.",
"The visit came on the same day that North Korea urged its people to show allegiance to the death for Kim Jong Un.",
"KCNA published North Korea's annual New Year's Day message, saying, \"The entire army should place absolute trust in and follow Kim Jong Un and become human rifles and bombs to defend him unto death.\"",
"The editorial is jointly published in the North's leading newspapers and is often scrutinized by South Korean and foreign officials for any signs of the North's intentions and policies for the year.",
"The editorial called \"U.S. aggressor forces\" the main obstacle to peace in the Korean peninsula and called for their withdrawal.",
"It criticized \"every move of reckless military provocation, arms buildup and war exercises against the North.\"",
"The United States currently has around 28,500 military personnel stationed in South Korea, which North Korea claims is the main impediment to reunification of the Korean people.",
"The United States fought on the side of the South during the 1950-53 war and keeps troops in country as a deterrent against the North.",
"The editorial also renewed the attack against the Lee Myung-bak government in the South, calling government officials \"traitors\" for not allowing more delegations to Pyongyang to pay respects to the late Kim Jong Il.",
"Friday, KCNA quoted a National Defense Commission statement saying Pyongyang \"will have no dealings with the Lee Myung-bak group of traitors forever.\"",
"South Korea's Unification Ministry said it found the statement \"regretful.",
"However the ministry's basic principle towards easing tensions in inter-Korean relations and resolving problems through dialogues remains still.\"",
"The editorial also claimed North Korea is \"at the epochal point of opening the gates of a thriving country.\"",
"For North Korea, 2012 is an important year was it marks 100 years since the birth of founder Kim Il Sung and the year the \"juche,\" or self-reliance policy, will bear fruit, according to the government.",
"The article published the slogan, \"Glorify this year 2012 as a year of proud victory, a year when an era of prosperity is unfolding, true to the instructions of the great General Kim Jong Il.\"",
"However, North Korea is still asking the international community for food aid, as it does not have enough food for its people and its economy has been crippled by years of neglect and bad decisions by the leadership.",
"North Korea did not mention its nuclear weapons program, a program that the United States and leaders in the region are pressing North Korea to cease in return for food aid."
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"The new North Korean leader carries out his first public inspection of the military .",
"State-run media publish the annual New Year's message .",
"Kim Jong Un, who succeeded his father, deserves \"absolute trust,\" editorial says .",
"It says 2012 will usher prosperity ."
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"eMalahleni, South Africa (CNN) -- A South African coal-mining company is cleaning up its act by building cheap, eco-friendly housing using its industrial waste.",
"For some years AngloAmerican -- one of the world's largest mining firms -- has been purifying the water contaminated during its coal mining activities in the South African city of eMalahleni.",
"Now, AngloAmerican is mixing the waste by-product -- a mineral known as gypsum -- with cement to make energy-efficient bricks it uses to build houses there.",
"\"We've built 62 houses so far,\" said Peter Gunther, AngloAmerican's head of sustainable development, and the driving force behind the initiative.",
"\"Each home requires about eight tons of gypsum, but at present we're removing over 200 tons of it from the water every day.\"",
"Gypsum is a basic mineral compound of calcium and sulphur.",
"The non-toxic mineral is soluble in water, but becomes harder and more adhesive the hotter and dryer it gets.",
"Because gypsum is malleable when wet, its most common commercial application to date is as the main ingredient for household plaster.",
"\"Actually, there are 50 different uses for it -- from dental surgery to fireproofing doors,\" said Gunther.",
"\"But there is a serious housing shortfall here, and we have so much gypsum, that once we decided we needed to do something with it, making a strong building material was the obvious choice.\"",
"And Gunther believes that his new bricks have significant advantages over the heavy cement ones typically used in the area: \"The bricks are generally harder than traditional cement bricks, they're also better heat and sound insulators,\" he said.",
"But, most crucially for one of the fastest growing urban areas in South Africa, the gypsum bricks have a lower environmental impact.",
"\"Because it (gypsum) is such a strong binding agent, we need much less cement to make (the bricks),\" said Gunther.",
"According to figures from the Cement Sustainability Initiative, about 5% of all the world's man-made CO2 emissions stem from the chemical and combustion processes involved in cement production.",
"Most types of cement are made by heating limestone, a chemical process known as calcination which releases large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.",
"The industrial manufacture of cement also requires large quantities of fuel.",
"Gunther claims that his low-cement bricks save, on average, three tonnes of carbon dioxide for every home built.",
"Read related: 'Living' buildings could inhale city carbon emissions .",
"In the city of eMalahleni -- a name that in Zulu literally means \"place of coal\" -- AngloAmerican aims to provide new homes for its entire local workforce, with 400 scheduled to be built in the next year.",
"\"This is my first house ... this is my dream house, and I'm happy.",
"It's not small. I feel free with my family,\" enthused Maria Mhlongo, whose husband works at one of AngloAmerican's coal mines in eMalahleni.",
"The Mhlongo family was among the first to move into a gypsum-brick house after the company started building accommodation for its workers in 2010.",
"But can gypsum -- a product that AngloAmerican had been discarding as waste before last year -- really be such a wonder material?",
"Andrew Bloodworth is head of minerals at the British Geological Survey.",
"He says that gypsum, \"a relatively common mineral geologically,\" is indeed a great heat insulator and can be very strong -- but only as long as it stays dry.",
"\"I've never heard of it being used to make bricks because it's water soluble -- that's why it's so good as a plaster agent,\" said Bloodworth.",
"\"I'd be interested to know how they've managed to get around that.\"",
"Gunther says that because the bricks are still partially composed of cement, they are fully water resistant.",
"\"The brick mixture has been subjected to the most rigorous trials by the South African Bureau of Standards, and passed without any problems,\" he added.",
"Global carbon emissions from coal are second only to oil, according to the UN Environment Program, while other environmental factors such as air-pollution from coal dust and damage caused by mining also remain a serious problem.",
"Gunther acknowledges these issues, but says that coexistence between energy sources is necessary \"for as long as the world is so much set up around running on coal.",
"\"While we're still using it, the question is: What can we do to make it cleaner and even more useful?",
"I think our approach goes some way to achieving that goal.\""
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"Mining firm claims to produce sustainable building materials from waste .",
"Mineral gypsum extracted from polluted water; mixed with cement to make bricks .",
"Over 60 houses built so far, each one saving estimated three tons of CO2, says firm ."
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"(CNN) -- A goal from Japan defender Yuto Nagatomo handed Inter Milan a 1-0 win at Genoa that lifted them to seventh in the Italian Serie A table.",
"Claudio Ranieri's side made it two wins in three days after Saturday's triumph over Fiorentina but despite going above Genoa Inter still lie ten points behind leaders Juventus.",
"The away side dominated the match, having 17 attempts on goal compared to Genoa's four, but wasted chances to take the lead before the hour mark through Marco Faraoni, Andrea Poli and Diego Milito.",
"Is Mancini the right man for Manchester City?",
"But Nagatomo struck the decisive blow for the 2010 European Champions League winners on 67 minutes as he headed home a cross from Riccardo Alvarez.",
"Alvarez came close to wrapping up the match soon after as he rattled the post with a shot from the edge of the penalty area.",
"Genoa had a late chance to claim a point but Miguel Veloso spurned the opportunity to ensure Inter made it four wins out of five in the league.",
"Meanwhile, Real Madrid cruised past third division opponents Ponferradina 2-0 in the first leg of their Spanish Cup last 32 tie.",
"Jose Mourinho's side got back to winning ways after their crushing 3-1 defeat to Barcelona on Saturday that saw their arch rivals leapfrog Real to go top of La Liga.",
"Barcelona stars meet tsunami survivors .",
"But Ponferradina never looked like causing an upset after Jose Callejon put the defending champions ahead in the 29th minute from Sami Khedira's cross.",
"Cristiano Ronaldo, who was criticized in the aftermath of the defeat to Barcelona for missing two clear chances, latched onto Gonzalo Higuain's pass to seal the win on 74 minutes.",
"The only disappointment for Real was the dismissal of defender Raul Albiol for two bookable offenses in the second half.",
"The second leg is at Real's Bernabeu stadium next week.",
"Elsewhere, Valencia were held to a 0-0 draw by Cadiz, while Villarreal drew 1-1 away at Mirandes."
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"Yuto Nagatomo's goal hands Inter Milan victory at Genoa in Serie A .",
"Japan defender scores the only goal of the game in the 67th minute .",
"Inter's win takes them seventh in Serie A table, 10 points off top side Juventus .",
"Real Madrid beat third division Ponferradina in the Spanish Cup ."
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"Redwood City, California (CNN) -- Video gamers who want to train for the next \"Legend of Zelda\" may want to enroll in fencing classes.",
"The realistic swordplay in \"The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword\" for the Wii console will become central to the series, according to Nintendo executives who produce the games.",
"\"In some games, the people or developers are looking into more photorealistic games,\" Shigeru Miyamoto, the famed game designer who created the \"Zelda\" series, told CNN in a recent interview.",
"\"We make it so that you can feel as if you have actually shot the arrow with your bow.\"",
"\"Skyward Sword\" is not the first \"Zelda\" game for the Wii.",
"In its predecessor, \"The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess,\" players could swing their sword by shaking the Wii controller, but the sword would not respond directly to the way it was being held.",
"Adding realistic sword movement to \"Skyward Sword\" appears to be a winning formula.",
"The game, which came out on November 20, sold the most of any previous \"Zelda\" game on its first day and reached 600,000 U.S. sales in its first week, according to the NPD Group.",
"Earlier \"Zelda\" games used some unusual hardware functions for controlling the characters, including rubbing a stylus on touchscreens, blowing into a microphone and using five screens in one room to navigate.",
"Some of those ideas haven't stuck around, but the precise movement translated from swinging the Wii Motion+ remote to the character's sword onscreen will return, the Nintendo execs said.",
"Many gamers see the \"Zelda\" series as one based around quirky adventures and puzzles.",
"However, since the beginning, the games were supposed to have an emphasis on battling.",
"Nintendo wasn't able to begin realizing this vision until 1998 when the available technology allowed for more realistic environments in \"The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time\" for the Nintendo 64 system.",
"\"When we started this project many, many years ago with the original NES, it was from the beginning about the sword fighting,\" Miyamoto said in an interview from Nintendo's office in Silicon Valley.",
"\"Starting actually from the 'Ocarina of Time,' the developers were more eager to make more sophisticated movements of the sword competition.\"",
"Eiji Aonuma, who directed his first \"Zelda\" a decade ago and produced the most recent game, has said he expects future games in the series to use the type of precise sword controls from \"Skyward Sword.\"",
"\"I honestly think we cannot go back to button controls now,\" Aonuma told Game Informer magazine.",
"In CNN's interview, Miyamoto discussed the difficulty of balancing realism with keeping the experience fun.",
"\"When we look at today's fighting games and many other games, sometimes we have to feel it's rather difficult for us to realize the perfect balance between what you are actually doing with your hand against what you can see and realize or reproduce on your TV set,\" Miyamoto said.",
"\"In other words, I really want people to feel, 'OK, I'm doing better and better by practicing, for example, my sword fighting.' ..."
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"\"Skyward Sword\" was the first to have such controls .",
"Series creator Shigeru Miyamoto wants gamers to practice swordplay ."
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"(Oprah.com) -- Her Passion: The world looks different in the company of Kim Soerensen -- specifically, it's mounted on a pedestal, in an array of colors, sizes, and materials.",
"Over nine years, Soerensen has acquired thousands of unique globes.",
"Some have textured mountains; some illustrate ocean currents in fine detail.",
"Some are faded with age--and many depict national borders long since dissolved.",
"Oprah.com: 20 Books for the armchair traveler .",
"\"Each one is a tiny piece of history,\" says Soerensen, whose collection includes delicate glass orbs, toy tin balls, retro black spheres, Soviet-made moon globes, and even an upside-down globe with Australia on top.",
"Her Start: The first globe to catch Soerensen's eye, in 2002, cost $5 at Goodwill.",
"It looked old, but Soerensen couldn't be sure how old.",
"So she did some digging -- and traced its origins to turn-of-the-century Germany.",
"An obsession was born.",
"Oprah.com: 10 marvels of our world .",
"In 2005, when Soerensen unearthed proof prints for the first complete moon globe, she offered them to the Austrian National Library, which houses the world's most respected globe museum.",
"Impressed by her knowledge, they asked Soerensen to become their globe scout in the United States.",
"She's been finding antique models for European museums ever since.",
"Oprah.com: Genius idea: Traveling with a suitcase full of good .",
"Her Empire: The day she counted 150 globes in her home, Soerensen knew it was time to upgrade her space.",
"She opened Omniterrum, a store where people can marvel at -- and purchase -- her spectacular spheres.",
"(Prices start at around $25, but she once sold a 17th-century Italian globe for $150,000.)",
"Oprah.com: Be your own boss: 4 must-haves before starting a business .",
"Soerensen also maintains an online business omniterrum.com and delights in giving tours of her worldly wares--because even if you're not planning to do any globetrotting, she believes there is plenty of pleasure to be found in, as she calls it, \"traveling with your fingertips.\"",
"Oprah.com: Great gifts for world travelers .",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now! TM & © 2011 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved."
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"She is a 'globe scout' in the US for European museums .",
"Her store Omniterrum has sold globes ranging from $25 to $150,000 ."
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"Singapore (CNN) -- How do you sell a missile?",
"Giving it a name that conjures up images of destruction or protection is a good start; weapons called \"Iron Dome defense system\" or \"Predator\" are unequivocal.",
"However, a fearsome title alone won't clinch a multi-million dollar sale, so military trade events like air shows give weapons manufacturers a chance to show off their products -- even if the hard sell has been done over months and years of networking and negotiations.",
"\"There's no new business here, but new sales prospects,\" says Mikael Olsson of Saab Technologies.",
"The Swedish arms maker's stall at the Singapore Airshow has a full size simulator of their anti-aircraft defense system, the prosaically named RBS70 NG.",
"Like similar demo models in the voluminous hall, it attracted the attention of passing visitors, and some potential new customers, commonly referred to as \"pop-ups.\"",
"Doing military's dangerous, dull and dirty work .",
"Demonstrated by Olsson's colleague Hakan Bystrom, it seems more like playing a video game with a cool piece of kit than a weapon capable of blasting an enemy jet out of the sky.",
"\"Systems are getting more technical, so making them easy to operate is a strong selling point,\" says Bystrom.",
"Over the years the RBS70 has been sold in 18 countries, though Bystrom says he doesn't think it's ever been used in a combat situation.",
"While plenty of technical detail and test footage can be used in support of any demo, being able to say a weapon has been used in combat situations gives it far more kudos.",
"\"Most of our products are combat proven,\" says Amit Zimmer of Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, standing next to full-size models of missiles.",
"\"We live in a test range, unfortunately it's one of our advantages.",
"There is a big difference between a PowerPoint presentation and combat-proven systems.\"",
"Some manufacturers are less keen to talk to people outside the industry about what their weapons do, but Zimmer is happy to describe the capability of some of Rafael's munitions, including a new short-range \"Spike\" -- \"the baby of the group\" -- that he claims can be directed from kilometers away through any window of your choice.",
"\"You have to know how to fit yourself to the customers needs... sometimes you have to make tailor-made things,\" he says.",
"\"People come to us and say, 'Look we have a problem with our border, what solutions can you give us?'\"",
"Most of the military products on display are marketed as defensive rather than offensive, with \"protecting assets\" and \"commanding combat zones\" being common terms.",
"Missiles are increasingly promoted for their accuracy and ability to minimize collateral damage -- confirming a trend that so much modern warfare takes place in urban or civilian areas.",
"Some are surrounded in obfuscating terms and industry jargon, like blast patterns, CP -- that refers to a weapon's accuracy -- or J-effect, when a bomb bounces and doesn't explode.",
"Others are more upfront about what their munitions actually do.",
"MBDA Missile Systems, Europe's largest missile manufacturer and owned by the continents big aerospace companies, has a promotional video playing on its stand showing weapons destroying moving cars and other real targets in combat in Afghanistan and Libya.",
"\"I would say that our customers have been over satisfied with how our systems have worked,\" says MBDA's Daniel Petit, in reference to their use by the British and French air force in the recent conflict in Libya.",
"But regardless of how a weapon is marketed it's getting harder to sell, as more countries are trying to become manufacturers and not just purchasers.",
"\"The whole industry is currently changing.",
"It's harder to sell (in the Asia region), mainly because of stricter rules and anti-corruption measures,\" says Olsson.",
"\"Now it's a lot more about transfer of technology (between countries) and partnerships.",
"\"In the end to sell your products you simply need to be the best at the cheapest price.\""
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"Trade events like air shows give weapons manufacturers a chance to show off their products .",
"Swedish arms maker' Saab has full size simulator of their anti-aircraft defense system .",
"Saab: \"Systems are getting more technical, so making them easy to operate is a strong selling point\"\nMost military products on display are marketed as defensive rather than offensive ."
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"(CNN) -- Spanish international striker David Villa suffered a broken leg as European Champions Barcelona brushed aside Qatari side Al Sadd 4-0 Thursday to reach the final of the FIFA Club World Cup.",
"Villa fractured his left tibia while trying to latch on to an Andres Iniesta through ball after 34 minutes of the semifinal clash in Japan's Toyota City and was carried off on a stretcher.",
"Spanish champions Barca will come up against Santos in Sunday's final after the Brazilian team beat Japan's Kashiwa Reysol 3-1 Wednesday.",
"Barca sealed their comprehensive victory with a brace from full-back Adriano and strikes from Mali's Seydou Keita and Brazilian Maxwell.",
"Santos cruise into Club World Cup final .",
"Villa was restored to the starting line-up by coach Pep Guardiola having recently lost his place in the team to Alexis Sanchez, with the Chilean preferred for last weekend's \"El Clasico\" victory over archrivals Real Madrid.",
"Sanchez arrived from Udinese in July, but saw the start of his Barca career hampered by a hamstring injury.",
"The 22-year-old's recovery and return to the first team has prompted speculation over Villa's future with the Catalan giants.",
"The 30-year-old has found the net just five times in 15 Spanish La Liga appearances this season and now faces a lengthy period on the sidelines.",
"A later statement on the Barcelona official website confirmed the bad news: .",
"\"Villa will return to Barcelona, via Frankfurt, to be operated on.",
"He will be accompanied by doctor Ricard Pruna and Manel Estiarte.",
"The approximate time he will be sidelined is between four and five months.\"",
"Barca coach Guardiola added: : \"He will be greatly missed as a colleague and as a player.",
"I hope everything goes well.",
"\"He will be out for a long time. It's a big blow to the team.",
"We just hope that he can play again as soon as possible.\"",
"In that time frame, Villa could also face a race against time to be fit to take his place for Spain as they defend their title at Euro 2012 in Ukraine and Poland in June.",
"Barca never looked like losing to Asian Champions League winners Al Sadd and took the lead when Adriano pounced on an error by goalkeeper Mohamed Saqr to bundle the ball home after 25 minutes.",
"CNN Blog: Is Roberto Mancini the right man for Man City?",
"Adriano doubled his and Barca's tally two minutes before half time, latching onto Thiago's pass to hammer his shot beyond a helpless Saqr.",
"The second half continued in the same vein as the first, with Barca dominant.",
"The third goal arrived with 26 minutes to go, Argentina star Lionel Messi slipping a perfect pass through for Keita to finish.",
"Spain midfielder Thiago was once again involved in the fourth and final goal, the 20-year-old playing in Maxwell who fired a shot into the bottom corner.",
"Barca will be looking to claim the title for the second time in three years, having beaten Argentina's Estudiantes to the crown in 2009."
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"Barcelona and Spain striker David Villa breaks his leg .",
"Villa sustains the injury in Barca's 4-0 Club World Cup defeat of Al Sadd .",
"European champions Barca will face Brazilian side Santos in Sunday's final .",
"Adrian scores twice in the easy win for the Catalan giants ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama unveiled his administration's plan Thursday for a leaner, cheaper military, a reflection of Washington's fiscal belt-tightening and slower national economic growth.",
"The president insisted the new strategy -- which eliminates the military's ability to actively fight two major wars at once -- will allow U.S. armed forces to effectively combat terrorism while confronting any new threats from countries like China and Iran.",
"\"Over the next 10 years, the growth in the defense budget will slow, but the fact of the matter is this: It will still grow, because we have global responsibilities that demand our leadership,\" Obama announced during a rare presidential visit to the Pentagon.",
"\"I firmly believe, and I think the American people understand, that we can keep our military strong -- and our nation secure -- with a defense budget that continues to be larger than roughly the next 10 countries combined.\"",
"Security Clearance: Does a smaller military make sense?",
"Alluding to the end of the U.S. military role in Iraq and plans to eventually withdraw from Afghanistan, Obama declared that \"the tide of war is receding.\"",
"\"The question that this strategy answers is what kind of military will we need after the long wars of the last decade are over,\" the president told reporters.",
"\"Yes, our military will be leaner, but the world must know: The United States is going to maintain our military superiority with armed forces that are agile, flexible and ready for the full range of contingencies and threats.\"",
"The president was flanked by an array of top Pentagon brass during his remarks, including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey.",
"Republicans immediately blasted the plan, characterizing it as a retreat from the reality of America's global responsibilities.",
"The blueprint is \"a lead-from-behind strategy for a left-behind America,\" said Rep. Buck McKeon of California, GOP chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.",
"\"The president has packaged our retreat from the world in the guise of a new strategy to mask his divestment of our military and national defense.",
"This strategy ensures American decline in exchange for more failed domestic programs.\"",
"McKeon said that \"in order to justify massive cuts to our military, (Obama) has revoked the guarantee that America will support our allies, defend our interests and defy our opponents.",
"The president must understand that the world has always had, and will always have, a leader.",
"As America steps back, someone else will step forward.\"",
"Among other things, Obama's strategy singles out China and Iran, pledging to keep strategically critical sea lanes open and successfully combat missile, electronic, cyber and other threats.",
"\"States such as China and Iran will continue to pursue asymmetric means to counter our power projections capabilities, while the proliferation of sophisticated weapons and technology will extend to non-state actors as well,\" an administration document outlining the changes said.",
"Thursday's announcement follows multiple missile tests by Iran in recent days and comments by Iranian leaders that they could choke off the Strait of Homuz, a major transit point for world oil supplies.",
"The new strategy is the result of months of study at the Pentagon.",
"It reflects a high-stakes, high-wire balancing act by the president as he faces a more austere budget climate combined with continued high U.S. responsibilities at home and overseas.",
"\"The balance between available resources and our security needs has never been more delicate,\" the administration document said.",
"In a signed introduction to the document, Obama called this a time of transition, noting the successful raid on Osama bin Laden's compound and the death of the al Qaeda leader, as well as the end to the war in Iraq and progress in Afghanistan.",
"\"The fiscal choices we face are difficult ones, but there should be no doubt, here in the United States or around the world -- we will keep our Armed Forces the best-trained, best-led, best equipped fighting force in history,\" Obama wrote.",
"Titled \"Sustaining U.S.",
"Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense,\" the document provides the bare bones of a defense strategy that will become more detailed as the White House and Congress prepare the 2013 budget.",
"In a signal of how carefully the administration had orchestrated this announcement, amid fiscal austerity and during a presidential campaign year, the nation's highest-ranking military man also threw his weight behind the reforms.",
"\"It is a sound strategy,\" Dempsey said in prepared remarks.",
"\"It ensures we remain the pre-eminent military in the world.",
"It preserves the talent of the all-volunteer force.",
"It takes into account the lessons of the last 10 years of war.\"",
"Dempsey referred to the political uproar over the change from a two-war policy.",
"CNN.com users debate the strategy shift .",
"\"Our strategy has always been about our ability to respond to global contingencies wherever and whenever they happen.",
"This does not change,\" Dempsey said.",
"\"We can and will always be able to do more than one thing at a time.",
"More importantly, wherever we are confronted and in whatever sequence, we will win.\"",
"Dempsey also said that \"the two-war paradigm has been a bit of an anchor, frankly, in trying to help us figure out the future.\"",
"\"It's not about whether we will fight adversaries as they confront us.",
"It's how,\" he said. He stressed that he was pleased with the outcome of the strategy review.",
"\"It's not perfect,\" Dempsey said, but added, \"It gives us what we need, in this world and within this budget.\"",
"Panetta also weighed in, noting in prepared remarks \"the continuing threat of violent extremism, proliferation of lethal weapons and materials, the destabilizing behavior of Iran and North Korea, the rise of new powers across Asia and the dramatic changes in the Middle East.\"",
"\"The U.S. joint force will be smaller and leaner, but its great strength will be that it is more agile, flexible, ready to deploy, innovative and technologically advanced,\" Panetta said.",
"The secretary said that while the United States will maintain its obligations in Europe, the U.S. military force posture there will continue \"to adapt and evolve.\"",
"Security Clearance: Parts of defense budget would actually rise .",
"Panetta joined Dempsey in taking on conservative critics who have blasted the administration's apparent step back from an active two-war strategy.",
"\"Make no mistake -- we will have the capability to confront and defeat more than one adversary at a time,\" he said.",
"Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter later told reporters that one way the new strategy could accommodate looming manpower cuts would be through an avoidance of long and large stability operations, an apparent reference to what happened after the initial invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.",
"Carter refused to offer specifics about the defense cuts, promising new details after Obama's State of the Union address this month and the release of additional budget documents.",
"Asked about the future of one of the country's most expensive weapons systems -- the F-35 Joint Fighter -- Carter said, \"It is our fifth generation fighter.",
"We need it and we want it to succeed.\"",
"The document released Thursday noted the high cost of a decade of wars, with more than 46,000 men and women wounded and more than 6,200 members of the armed forces killed.",
"In another recognition of hard economic times, the strategy includes a promise to help veterans find work in the civilian economy.",
"As the Defense Department \"reduces the size of the force, we will do so in a way that respects these sacrifices,\" the administration document noted.",
"\"This means, among other things, taking concrete steps to facilitate the transition to those who will leave the service.",
"These include supporting programs to help veterans translate their military skills for the civilian workforce and aid their search for jobs.\"",
"Defense contractors and civilian workers also will feel the impact of Thursday's announcement and how it ripples through the system of defense contracts in coming years.",
"Boeing has announced it will close a plant that produces B-52s and 767 tankers and employs more than 2,160 workers in Wichita, Kansas.",
"\"The decision to close our Wichita facility was difficult but ultimately was based on a thorough study of the current and future market environment and our ability to remain competitive while meeting our customers' needs with the best and most affordable solutions,\" Mark Bass, Boeing vice president, said in a news release.",
"Panetta, meanwhile, met with British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond in the latter's first official visit to Washington.",
"\"They spent a good part of their meeting discussing innovative approaches to defense in an era of fiscal austerity, and agreed that NATO must continue to invest in military capabilities despite the imperative to achieve fiscal discipline,\" Pentagon press secretary George Little said.",
"The two also discussed Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.",
"Finally, they signed a statement that will provide the basis for the United States assisting the Royal Navy in the development of its next generation of aircraft carriers, Little said.",
"CNN's Chris Lawrence and Alan Silverleib contributed to this report."
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"The new Pentagon plan calls for measured spending cuts .",
"Republican critics say the plan undermines U.S. military power ."
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"(CNN) -- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Wednesday named its latest inductees, adding talent such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers and 1960s singer-songwriter Donovan.",
"The Beastie Boys, who have been blending hip-hop, punk and other genres since the 1980s, also made it onto the Hall of Fame's final list for 2012.",
"So did Guns N' Roses, the hard rock standard bearers of the late '80s and early '90s, and Laura Nyro, the innovative pop songstress.",
"Other artists inducted by the Hall under the performer category included the '60s British group The Small Faces -- best known for their psychedelic hit \"Itchycoo Park\" -- and their subsequent incarnation, The Faces, which featured Rod Stewart.",
"\"It's quite a thrill and honor to make it in the Hall of Fame a second time,\" Stewart said in a statement.",
"\"We (The Faces) were always synonymous with a good party, and with this list of fellow artists being inducted I'm looking forward to a true piss up ... and it's a hell of a good reason to reunite and celebrate with my old mates.\"",
"The Faces' Ronnie Wood added in a statement: \"Needless to say we are all very excited about this great honor.",
"At the same time our thoughts go out to the late Steve Marriot -- who Rod and I greatly loved -- and of course to the much missed Ronnie Lane.\"",
"The Beastie Boys also expressed excitement.",
"\"We're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?",
"That's ... crazy and awesome!\"",
"the group said in an expletive-laced statement.",
"\"While we are very proud of the music we make, we have to acknowledge the inspiration from our families, friends and musicians like the Slits, Bad Brains, X-ray Spex, the Treacherous Three and too many others to possibly name.",
"And most of all, we give thanks to New York City and the world of musical influence it provided for us.\"",
"On his Twitter account, Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers commented: \"Those Crazy bastards at the hall of fame are putting us in this year?!!",
"Howabout them apples!",
"Seriously..I'm very humbled and grateful.",
"Wow.\" Slash, another inductee, also tweeted, \"Thanks for all the R&RHF mentions, Its quite an honor to be inducted.",
"Cheers!\" The acts that made the final cut beat out competition from the likes of The Cure and Rufus with Chaka Khan, who had been among the nominees.",
"The Hall of Fame singled out the music producer and promoter Don Kirshner for the nonperformer award.",
"Kirshner, whose live TV rock show helped wean 1970s audiences off lip-synched programming, died in January.",
"And it cited the guitarist Freddie King for his early influence on rock and roll.",
"The induction ceremony will take place on April 14 in Cleveland, Ohio.",
"CNN's Denise Quan and Michael Martinez contributed to this report."
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"Others on the final list are Donovan, Guns N' Roses, The Small Faces and Laura Nyro .",
"The Hall of Fame gave its nonperformer award to the producer and promoter Don Kirshner .",
"The guitarist Freddie King was cited for his early influence on rock and roll ."
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"(CNN) -- Job hopping has become routine for professionals even in this poor economy.",
"In fact, the average American will have about nine jobs between the ages of 18 and 32 reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics.",
"Employees are so focused on finding their dream job right now that they fail to realize that having multiple jobs in just a few years can actually hurt their careers.",
"Many high-potential and ambitious employees don't stay long enough at a position to give it a chance and to gain the necessary skills and maturity required to succeed in business.",
"It's imperative that professionals start to view companies as career incubators instead of time wasters.",
"Spending twenty years at a single company isn't likely these days -- nor is having a secure nine-to-five job -- but leaving a company after six months can do more harm than good.",
"How to customize your career .",
"I learned that building a career within a company can be an asset.",
"I had three different positions at EMC Corporation within three years.",
"I gathered new skills, expanded my network and got a better sense of the company based on my experiences.",
"More importantly, I learned a lot about myself in the process.",
"If I had jumped to three different companies during that time frame, I would have had to rebuild my network, visibility and go through months of additional training for each job.",
"It can take up to six months just to adapt to a new work environment!",
"Employers want to see your progression at a company, whether it's up or across an organization.",
"There's nothing wrong with making a lateral move into a different business function.",
"If you believe in your company's mission and enjoy being around your co-workers, you will naturally stay longer.",
"\"I've always believed in longevity in a company when you work for good people and have a job that you truly believe in,\" says Maranda Gibson, an Account Manager with AccuConference.",
"If you don't fit in your corporate culture, you may have a negative attitude, which could be hazardous to your career.",
"It's imperative that you do your homework during the interview process before you're hired so you don't force yourself into a bad situation.",
"Are CEOs: Burning bright or just burning out?",
"Professionals have numerous reasons for departing a company, including corporate downsizing, insufficient career opportunities, and a desire to either get an advanced degree or switch to another field completely.",
"Companies can retain employees longer by supporting their value systems, giving them meaningful work, becoming a social company and understanding generational differences.",
"They want to know that they have a long-term career path at a company.",
"Elcio Barcelos, a Vice President of Global Staffing at HP confirms this by saying that \"companies need to be able to provide diverse career paths for individuals today.\"",
"Although companies may need to soften their stricter policies, such as blocking social networks at work, employees need to get their attitude in check!",
"They also need to be proactive when managing their careers by asking for challenging projects and expanding their portfolio of skills and contacts.",
"\"My advice when talking to employees is to approach your job with a good attitude and don't be afraid to take on new roles or projects,\" said Carlos Dominguez, a vice president in Cisco's Office of the Chairman & CEO.",
"You can no longer sit back and wait for work to come to you -- you need to chase the work.",
"Take advantage of the resources at your company so that you can have a more fulfilling experience and can leverage your skills and contacts for new roles within your company.",
"Job hopping can look terrible on a resume because you appear disloyal.",
"Employers will think that you didn't give your last job a chance and that you weren't able to acquire the necessary experience.",
"If you move from job to job early in your career, it can leave a lasting impression.",
"On the other hand, if you stick it out at a company for at least two years, management will be more willing to invest in you and you will increase your \"reputation capital,\" as Barcelos says.",
"You always need to evolve by learning new areas of the business and by showing your management that you have leadership potential.",
"By staying longer at your job, it can differentiate you too.",
"\"There is always something refreshing about interviewing somebody who has been with a company five, eight or more years,\" Barcelos explains.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Dan Schawbel."
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"Many employees don't stay long enough at a job to gain valuable skills, says Dan Schawbel .",
"Professionals should view companies as career incubators instead of time wasters .",
"Believing in your company's mission and corporate culture can add longevity to a job .",
"Sticking at a company for at least two years means it will be more willing to invest in you ."
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"(CNN) -- The political party of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been granted permission to register for future elections in Myanmar, according to Suu Kyi's lawyer.",
"Nyan Win, who is also spokesman for the National League for Democracy party, told CNN that Myanmar's electoral commission granted the permission, and the NLD party will formally submit its registration \"as early as next week.\"",
"The NLD won more than 80% of the legislative seats in 1990 -- the first free elections in the country in nearly 30 years -- but the ruling military junta refused to recognize the results.",
"The party announced last month that it had decided to re-enter politics in Myanmar, also known as Burma, and that Suu Kyi will run in the next parliamentary elections, as yet unscheduled.",
"Ruled by that junta since 1962, Myanmar is now under a new president, a former general elected in March of this year.",
"The new government freed dozens of political prisoners in October following the earlier release of Nobel Peace Laureate Suu Kyi.",
"CNN's Elizabeth Joseph contributed to this report."
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"The party won 80% of the legislative seats in 1990 .",
"The ruling military junta refused to recognize the results of that election ."
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"(CNN) -- Syria faced additional sanctions from its Arab League neighbors Monday unless it agreed to allow international observers into the country to monitor an agreement to end a months-old crackdown on anti-government protesters.",
"As a midnight Sunday (5 p.m.",
"ET) deadline passed, there was no immediate indication that Syrian officials had responded to the ultimatum.",
"Syria's state-run news agency said the country could withstand sanctions already imposed by the Arab League and by neighboring Turkey, and human rights and opposition groups said at least 22 more people were killed as the clampdown continued.",
"Over the weekend, Arab League officials meeting in the Qatari capital Doha responded to requests by Damascus for some clarifications to the plan, but did not make any key changes, according to Qatar's foreign minister, Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani.",
"Ministers agreed over the weekend to freeze the assets of more top Syrian officials, reduce flights in and out of the country by half and impose a complete ban on weapons shipments to Syria, a statement from the Arab League said.",
"\"You saw yesterday human rights abuses, and this keeps building up,\" al-Thani said over the weekend.",
"\"Our mission is that none of these abuses continue anywhere in the Arab states, including Syria.\"",
"He warned that the Syrian crisis could be \"internationalized\" unless the government of Bashar al-Assad complies with a deal to end its clampdown on opposition.",
"Syria agreed in November to halt all violence, release all detainees, withdraw all security forces from populated areas and allow unfettered access to the nation by journalists and Arab League monitors -- but opposition groups say assaults by government troops and police have continued, and no monitors have been put in place.",
"The Arab League responded by announcing economic sanctions in late November.",
"But Ahmed Hamoudi, general coordinator of the Egypt-based Syrian Revolution Coordination, expressed skepticism about whether the sanctions would help end al-Assad's 11-year rule.",
"\"The economic sanctions by the Arab League serve a good purpose of pressuring the Syrian regime and weakening it, but I don't think the Arab League will be able to fulfill the political ambitions of the Syrians -- and that is to topple the Assad regime,\" Hamoudi said.",
"\"We want to see the Syrian file taken to the U.N. Security Council and more immediate measures on the ground, like a no-fly zone and a buffer zone at the Turkish border.\"",
"The United Nations estimates that more than 4,000 people have died since mid-March, and the death toll continues to rise.",
"The Local Coordinating Committees of Syria, an opposition umbrella group, said 22 people had been killed Sunday.",
"All but one of the deaths occurred in the city of Homs, the scene of much of the recent unrest, the group said.",
"The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the toll at 40, including five soldiers who had defected and taken up arms against the government.",
"The deaths included 26 in Homs, three in the suburbs of Damascus and six in Idlib, near the Turkish border.",
"An opposition website based in Idlib reported clashes between military defectors and Syrian troops on a highway.",
"Two defectors and an army colonel were killed, the website said.",
"CNN could not independently confirm the accounts, since the Syrian government has limited access to the country by international reporters.",
"Arab League sanctions already imposed in November include cutting ties with Syria's central bank, banning high-profile Syrian officials from visiting Arab nations and freezing the assets of the Syrian government, according to a senior league official who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media.",
"In a statement issued late Sunday, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency said the nation would survive the sanctions being imposed on it by its neighbors.",
"\"Although they will affect the livelihood of Syrian citizens, Syria will overcome those sanctions by virtue of its strategic location and the diversity of its production sectors,\" the news agency said.",
"And it said Damascus was ending a free-trade agreement with Turkey and slapping a tariff on Turkish goods imported into Syria in retaliation for sanctions Turkey has imposed.",
"The number of deaths across Syria has reached at least 4,000 since the crackdown began in mid-March and could be much higher, Navi Pillay, U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said Thursday.",
"The uprising against al-Assad began in February.",
"Demonstrations have continued across the country, with protesters demanding his ouster and democratic elections.",
"CNN's Saad Abedine, Yasmin Amer and Rima Maktabi contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Estimates of Sunday's death toll range from 22 to 40 .",
"Syria faces new sanctions if it refuses to allow Arab League monitors .",
"Opposition says sanction's won't topple al-Assad ."
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"(CNN) -- It wasn't until his senior year of high school in North Carolina that Monji Dolon found out about his murky immigration status.",
"His family had emigrated from Bangladesh in 1991 when Dolon was 5 years old and since then Dolon, his mother and his brother have lived without legal residency in the United States.",
"Uncertain of what to check under \"residency\" on his college applications, Dolon learned at the age of 18 that he was in an ongoing battle to stay in the country he had grown up in.",
"\"I remember having a huge sense of panic at the time,\" say Dolon, now 25.",
"The Department of Homeland Security announced reforms this year that would halt the deportations of young immigrants who pose no threat to security.",
"It said it also would review almost 300,000 cases on an individual basis -- something it had not been done before.",
"Individuals without a criminal record are considered low priority for forced or immediate deportation.",
"But without permanent relief, many like Monji Dolon are still in immigration limbo.",
"Both Dolon and his older brother, Sahid Limon, recently received a \"stay of removal.\"",
"This allows them to temporarily stay in the country but without an exact timeline or a plan of action.",
"\"Once we heard about our stay of removal, I was happy but not really excited because I'm tired and it's not a permanent solution,\" Dolon says.",
"He is facing a situation that many young immigrants confront if their parents come to the U.S. illegally.",
"Many say they don't have a clear map to becoming legal residents in the country they've grown up in.",
"The Migration Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank, estimates that more than 2.1 million adolescents and young adults are in this category.",
"Dolon and his brother came to the United States after their mother, Tahera Islam, felt it would be unsafe for them to stay in Bangladesh.",
"She was an active member of an opposition party in Bangladesh and received several threats from the majority party supporters.",
"That's when she decided to seek political asylum elsewhere.",
"\"I wanted to go to a free country -- I was scared,\" she says.",
"Dolon says he didn't realize the seriousness of the situation until he received a rejection letter after applying at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.",
"The letter said the university would be unable to admit him due to his immigration status.",
"Determined to move forward, he met with university administrators, who finally agreed to admit him as an international student without any financial aid or scholarships.",
"Under ordinary circumstances, a student with Dolon's grades would qualify for financial aid and perhaps even scholarships.",
"But any possibility he had for such was lost due to his residency status.",
"Since graduating from UNC in 2008, Dolon has been working as a freelance web designer and computer programmer.",
"He says he's been unable to take on a fulltime job even though he's had several offers -- including one from a start-up in California's Silicon Valley -- because his immigration status wouldn't allow it.",
"Frustrated, Dolon wrote a letter to the office of Sen. Dick Durbin's, D-Illinois, describing his situation.",
"Durbin shared Dolon's story on the Senate floor earlier this year as a way to drum up support for the Dream Act -- an initiative that would legalize young immigrants who have been in the country for more than five years if they attend college or serve in the military.",
"Durbin alluded to Dolon's achievements and talent in the technology field saying \"we could use people with Monji's talent in America.\"",
"By 2009, Dolon's family had already gone through four different lawyers to help them apply for legal status with no avail.",
"Having spent tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees, and feeling like they had exhausted all of their resources, they made plans to leave for Bangladesh because they were constantly facing deportation notices.",
"As a final desperate attempt, Dolon's father, who had obtained residency years ago with a different visa than the rest of his family, decided to hire a lawyer in New York.",
"The lawyer advised the family not to leave because it would complicate their chances of ever returning to the United States.",
"With that, the family canceled their plane tickets -- losing half of the money -- and hired that lawyer.",
"Nine months later, the family received a letter from U.S.",
"Citizenship and Immigration Services telling them that while immigration officials sympathized with their situation, they would be unable to take any legal action.",
"In July 2011, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers took Sahid Limon into detention.",
"He had no past criminal record and was eventually released a few weeks later and given the \"stay of removal.\"",
"\"The current immigration laws in the U.S. are one of many rules but little justice,\" says Marty Rosenbluth, a pro bono immigration lawyer in North Carolina who started working on Monji Dolon's case last summer.",
"\"It's very difficult if not impossible for many people to get legal status.\"",
"Despite recent immigration reforms, Dolon and his family members live with the fear that they could be asked to leave at any time.",
"Dolon is currently freelancing with a start-up company in California as a web designer and programmer.",
"He's been unable to accept an offered full-time position with the company because he hasn't been able to obtain a work visa.",
"As of now, Dolon's and Limon's \"stay of removal\" is set to expire next summer.",
"It's uncertain whether or not they'll be able to renew it.",
"Though exhausted from the battle, Dolon says it would be very difficult to leave everyone he's ever known behind -- but adds that very little is in his hands.",
"\"It's not something I can or could've fixed right now.",
"It's something I've been trying to fight,\" he says."
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"Monji Dolon came to the United States from Bangladesh when he was 5 years old .",
"As a senior in high school, he found that he was in legal limbo because of his immigration status .",
"Now 25, he still is in an immigration quagmire .",
"A think tank estimates that 2.1 million young immigrants are facing uncertain futures ."
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"Berlin (CNN) -- Police arrested three Chinese nationals after authorities uncovered about 100 snakes, 70 tortoises and 20 neon-colored frogs in their hotel room in western Germany, according to a police spokesman.",
"The discovery was made Friday after a hotel employee found a snake on a stairway and alerted authorities, said Cologne police spokesman Stefan Kirchner.",
"The guests were arrested on suspicion of illegally importing the animals, he said.",
"\"After paying several thousand euro for deposit, they were released on Friday evening,\" added Kirchner.",
"The creatures have since been relocated to Cologne city zoo."
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"Three Chinese nationals arrested after 100 snakes were found in their hotel room .",
"Authorities also found 70 tortoises and 20 neon-colored frogs .",
"The guests were arrested on suspicion of illegally importing animals ."
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"(CNN) -- Scores of emergency personnel on Thursday helped battle a fire that burned a docked Russian nuclear submarine, state media reported.",
"Wooden scaffolding caught fire Thursday afternoon at a repair dock in Roslyakovo, which is in the Murmansk region in northwest Russia along the Barents Sea, the official Itar-Tass and RIA-Novosti news agencies reported.",
"The flames spread to hull of the nuclear submarine Yekaterinburg, where work had been underway.",
"About 100 emergency personnel responded, using 40 pieces of firefighting and other equipment to spray foam and water to douse the blaze, the regional emergency ministry said according to Itar-Tass.",
"Gov. Dmitry Dmitrienko said that the submarine's nuclear reactors were then shut down and there was no threat of radiation spreading, the news agency reported.",
"Capt. Vadim Sega, a spokesman for Russia's northern fleet, added that the fire never penetrated the hull and got inside the ship.",
"\"There is no possibility of fire burning through the hull, and no threat to on-board equipment,\" Sega said Thursday, according to RIA-Novosti.",
"The emergency ministry said Thursday that there had been no injuries, reported this news agency.",
"The nuclear sub, itself, was partially submerged to minimize damage.",
"The fire continued into Friday despite initial reports it had been extinguished, Itar-Tass reported.",
"By 1:40 a.m., (4:40 p.m.",
"ET Thursday), the blaze had been \"localized,\" Russian Emergency Minister Sergei Shoigu said.",
"One of seven Delta-IV class submarines in operation, the Yekaterinburg carries 16 ballistic missiles.",
"According to the military research website RusNavy.com, the vessel was launched in September 1984, has two nuclear reactors and can carry a 140-person crew."
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"Scaffolding caught fire on a dock in northwest Russia, state media reports .",
"The flames spread to the hull of a docked nuclear submarine .",
"The fire was \"localized\" early Friday, an official tells a state news agency .",
"A local governor says the sub's reactors were shut down and radiation didn't spread ."
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"(CNN) -- Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has conceded the London club's bid to win a first English Premier League title since 2004 is over following Sunday's 1-0 defeat at table-topping Manchester City.",
"A second-half goal from Spain midfielder David Silva was enough to send City back above arch-rivals Manchester United at the summit, 12 points ahead of Arsenal in fifth position.",
"\"Unfortunately for us it was a match that we couldn't afford to lose because it puts us too much behind City,\" the Frenchman told the Premier League's official website.",
"\"If we had won the game we would have come back to six points, but at the moment we're too far behind.",
"It will be very difficult to close the gap now but we will try.\"",
"Arsenal had won seven of the last eight league games prior to defeat at the Etihad Stadium, climbing back into contention for a top-four finish and a place in the European Champions League.",
"It followed a disastrous start to the season which saw the 13-time English champions hammered 8-2 by United in addition to suffering defeats to Blackburn, Liverpool and north London rivals Tottenham Hotspur in their first seven games.",
"\"This was a match we couldn't afford to lose and that's why it's difficult to take,\" Wenger said.",
"\"On the other hand we will continue to fight and there are a lot of positives.",
"\"We have made a lot of progress since August and the team can be proud of that.",
"The way we played is encouraging, but at the moment we need encouragement and points, and we only got encouragement.\"",
"Arsenal faced a defensive injury crisis ahead of Sunday's match as injuries to the Andre Santos, Kieran Gibbs, Bacary Sagna and Carl Jenkinson left Wenger without a fit fullback.",
"\"I must say we have four fullbacks out and the first injury we get in the game is a fullback.",
"It's not only down to resources, you cannot buy 17 fullbacks anyway.",
"\"That's why I think we've been a bit unlucky.",
"But I think it was a match that could've gone both ways.",
"It was very intense with both teams going for it and I feel we were a bit unfortunate.\"",
"Arsenal will look to bounce back from Sunday's loss in Wednesday's trip to Aston Villa, while Manchester City host Stoke."
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"Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says his team are out of the EPL title race .",
"London club beaten 1-0 by leaders Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium .",
"Sunday's defeat leaves Arsenal fifth, 12 points behind Roberto Mancini's City ."
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"(CNN) -- John Terry shrugged off his off-field problems to save Chelsea from a damaging defeat by English Premier League rivals Tottenham on Thursday.",
"The England captain was named to lead his club a day after being charged by police for alleged racial abuse, and made a crucial goal-line clearance in time added on to secure a 1-1 draw.",
"Defeat would have left Chelsea five points behind their third-placed London rivals, but the result kept the battle for European Champions League places finely poised as the season nears the halfway stage.",
"The build-up to the match was dominated by confirmation of Terry's February 1 court case for remarks he allegedly made to Queens Park Rangers player Anton Ferdinand.",
"\"Since the situation he has improved,\" said Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas, who called the result a \"moral win.\"",
"\"He has grown in terms of performance.",
"He's a reference point for this team.",
"It shows his character and strength and personality.",
"His effort for the collective is extraordinary.\"",
"Racism rows damage brand of the 'beautiful game' Aware of a potential powder-keg atmosphere, home team Tottenham warned fans that ground stewards would be wearing head cams to record any inappropriate behavior.",
"Spurs made the perfect start when Emmanuel Adebayor scored his ninth league goal this season in the eighth minute, forcing home Gareth Bale's low cross after teammate Sandro stole the ball from Daniel Sturridge near halfway.",
"Sturridge wasted a golden chance to level soon after, but the 22-year-old striker made amends in the 23rd minute when he buried Ashley Cole's cross -- a goal that left Spurs furious as the England leftback appeared to control the ball with his hand.",
"Sturridge's veteran forward partner Didier Drogba nearly made it 2-1 on the half hour but hit the post after chesting down a cross and firing in a fierce left-foot shot.",
"Footballers are TV stars, and should act like it .",
"On-loan Manchester City striker Adebayor had the ball in the net again just before the hour, but it was ruled out for offside.",
"Villas-Boas brought on $80 million striker Fernando Torres with 13 minutes to play, but it was former Chelsea defender William Gallas -- who scored a winner against Tottenham in 2006 -- who next went closest to scoring as he volleyed a good chance wide.",
"Midfielder Ramires wasted a free header at the other end, and it looked like Chelsea would pay for the Brazilian's miss when Bale put Adebayor clear on goal -- but Terry came to the rescue to clear the Togo international's low shot after goalkeeper Petr Cech was beaten.",
"The draw lifted Chelsea onto 33 points, 11 behind leaders Manchester City and one above fifth-placed Arsenal.",
"Spurs go into the December 26 Boxing Day fixtures in the club's best position this century, but still nine points behind City.",
"In Spain, Barcelona and Valencia cruised into the last 16 of the Copa del Rey, joining holders Real Madrid in the next round.",
"Club World Cup champions Barca thrashed fourth division L'Hospitalet 9-0, as a trio of 20-year-olds -- midfielder Thiago Alcantara and strikers Isaac Cuenca and Cristian Tello -- all scored twice.",
"First-team regulars Pedro Rodriguez, Andre Iniesta and Xavi also netted in a win that gave the Catalan side a 10-0 aggregate scoreline.",
"Valencia surprisingly drew the first leg at lower league Cadiz 0-0, but scored four unanswered goals on Thursday to go through as defender Victor Ruiz, strikers Jonas and Roberto Soldado were on target before midfielder Ever Banega wrapped it up."
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"John Terry's late goal-line clearance earns Chelsea a 1-1 draw at Tottenham .",
"Terry captained London side a day after being charged by police for racist abuse .",
"Defeat would have left Chelsea five points behind their third-placed EPL rivals .",
"Barcelona and Valencia cruise into the last 16 of Spain's Copa del Rey ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The symbolic \"Doomsday Clock\" scientists use to portray what they feel is the risk from nuclear holocaust has moved a minute closer to midnight.",
"The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists made the adjustment in reaction to an increased risk of weapons proliferation, the failure of a nuclear power plant in Japan, and terrorist threats to use \"dirty bombs\" with stolen atomic material.",
"The clock was moved to five minutes before midnight after a symposium where experts presented their reasoning and risk assessment.",
"It had been at six minutes before midnight since January 2010, when scientists moved the hand back, reflecting a decreased risk of nuclear proliferation.",
"\"Two years ago, it appeared that world leaders might address the truly global threats we face,\" said Allison Macfarlane, who chairs the group's science and security board.",
"\"In many cases, this trend has not continued or has been reversed.",
"For that reason, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is moving the clock one minute closer to midnight, back to it's time in 2007.\"",
"The group, in announcing the decision Tuesday at a news conference, said in a news release that one factor was the question of nuclear weapons management \"in a world of increasing economic, political and environmental volatility.\"",
"Nuclear weapons are one of several issues that determine the setting of the Doomsday Clock.",
"Atomic energy also contributed to the higher risk represented by moving the clock ahead one minute.",
"But the group declined to take a position on the future viability of nuclear energy, just its existing threat to human survival, including the diversion of atomic material for weapons production.",
"Kennette Benedict, the group's executive director, told reporters that even after more than 60 years of the scientists assessing nuclear risk, \"it remains to be seen whether the safety and the proliferation risks can be addressed in a way that really is acceptable to people.\"",
"\"Management issues, rather than technical issues, seemed to have been the problem in Fukushima,\" said Lawrence Krauss, who co-chairs an executive board with the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.",
"He said the disaster in Japan represented a broader political lack of will to ensure safe global energy.",
"\"The need to act is urgent,\" he said, saying action also is needed against the factors scientists believe cause global warming.",
"\"Climate change is happening,\" Krauss said, listing it among the risk factors in the Doomsday Clock announcement.",
"\"It's happening now, it's measurable, and it's clearly related to human activity, and the need to react becomes more urgent.\"",
"The Doomsday Clock was established in 1947 by scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project.",
"The countdown to catastrophe has grown to reflect the risk to humanity and the planet not just from nuclear weapons, but also from a broad range of possible sources."
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"NEW: \"The need to act is urgent\" in a range of problem areas, one scientist says .",
"The Doomsday Clock moves ahead one minute .",
"A panel of scientists cites a fresh risk from atomic power and a lack of arms talks ."
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"Beijing (CNN) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner met Chinese leaders on Wednesday with discussions expected to focus on cooperation between the world's top two economies to bolster global growth as well as possible sanctions on Iranian oil exports.",
"Geithner held talks Wednesday with Vice President Xi Jinping — tipped to become China's next president later this year— and Vice Premier Li Keqiang.",
"He was scheduled to meet Prime Minister Wen Jiabao later Wednesday.",
"Geithner met with his counterpart, Vice Premier Wang Qishan, on Tuesday night and pledged cooperation on global economic issues.",
"China and the United States \"have a lot of issues to talk about in the areas of economy, finance, trade and investment,\" Wang said at a news briefing on Tuesday.",
"While China has called on the United States to loosen export regulations, Washington has said that Chinese currency controls keep the yuan undervalued and give Chinese exporters an unfair advantage at a time when the global economy is suffering.",
"In Geithner's meeting with Vice Presiden Xi on Wednesday morning, he emphasized the expansion of trade and investment with China.",
"\"We are looking forward to exploring opportunities to expand our exports to China and to strengthen and deepen our cooperation with China on a broad range of economic and strategic issues we face around the world,\" said Geithner.",
"\"On economic growth, financial stability around the world, on nonproliferation, we have what we view as a very strong cooperative relationship with your government and we are looking forward to building on that.\"",
"Tensions between Tehran and Western powers over possible sanctions on Iranian oil were also expected to be on the agenda in Beijing.",
"Iran threatened in late December to block the Strait of Hormuz if sanctions were imposed on its oil exports.",
"France, Britain and Germany have all proposed such sanctions to punish Iran for lack of cooperation on its nuclear program.",
"The strait is a critical shipping lane, through which 17 million barrels of oil passed per day in 2011, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency.",
"China relies on imports for half of the oil it consumes, buying nearly one-third of Iran's oil exports.",
"Beijing has said that its imports have nothing to do with Tehran's nuclear program and rejects new U.S sanctions on foreign financial institutions that conduct business with the Central Bank of Iran.",
"China, the world's biggest energy consumer, has supported U.N. sanctions on Iran's nuclear program, but says the decisions should be multilateral.",
"Wen is scheduled to visit the oil-rich regions of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar this coming weekend, China's foreign ministry said Tuesday.",
"Despite the high-level meetings, experts say China is unlikely to budge on the most sensitive issues anytime soon, especially with Washington's recent military strategy report that focuses on Beijing's economic power as a potential threat to U.S. security.",
"\"China wants to cooperate with the U.S., but one visit by Geithner is not going to make a huge difference,\" said Zhao Kejin, a professor at Tsinghua University's Institute of International Studies.",
"\"Currency, trade and Iran are huge issues that require more in-depth dialogue before we see results.\"",
"After his meetings in China, Geithner will travel to Japan and hold talks with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and Finance Minister Jun Azumi on Thursday."
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"NEW: Geithner emphasizes expanding trade and investment .",
"Discussions are expected to cover tensions over possible sanctions on Iranian oil exports .",
"China says its large imports of Iranian oil have nothing to do with Tehran's nuclear program .",
"Officials also talk about improving economic ties between China and the United States ."
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"(CNN) -- The company that owns Victoria's Secret vowed a full investigation Thursday after a report said cotton used in some of its products is grown using child labor.",
"\"We are very concerned,\" parent company Limited Brands said in a statement, noting that the cotton in question, which comes from the West African nation of Burkina Faso, is \"used in a small portion of our Victoria's Secret panty styles.\"",
"\"If this allegation is true, it describes behavior that is contrary to our company's values and the code of labor and sourcing standards that we require all of our suppliers to meet,\" the statement said.",
"\"These standards expressly prohibit child labor.\"",
"The company said it immediately \"began working with key stakeholders internally and externally to fully investigate this matter.",
"Depending on the findings, we are prepared to take swift action to prevent the illegal use of child labor in the fields where we source Fairtrade-certified organic cotton in Burkina Faso.\"",
"Victoria's Secret, known for its underwear and lingerie, describes itself as \"one of the most powerful, sexy and glamorous stores in the world.\"",
"Its fashion show recently aired in more than 90 countries.",
"The statement from Ohio-based Limited Brands on Thursday followed an extensive report from Bloomberg that describes the life of a 13-year-old-girl who is beaten by the farmer she works for on a cotton field in Burkina Faso.",
"The cotton picked by the girl went to factories in other countries, \"where it was fashioned into Victoria's Secret underwear,\" the report said.",
"While forced labor and child labor are not new to African farms, Bloomberg noted, the girl works on a farm certified as organic and fair trade.",
"Such farms \"should be free of such practices,\" the report said.",
"\"Perversely,\" the article said, the lucrative premiums paid for organic and fair-trade cotton have \"created fresh incentives for exploitation.",
"The program has attracted subsistence farmers who say they don't have the resources to grow fair-trade cotton without violating a central principle of the movement: forcing other people's children into their fields. \"",
"The report cited the leader of Burkina Faso's organic and fair-trade program and the head of fair-trade organization Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation as saying that Victoria's Secret purchased all of Burkina Faso's organic crop from last season.",
"A report earlier this year from the U.S. Labor Department found that child labor is used in cotton production in more than a dozen countries, including Burkina Faso.",
"A press attache for the Burkina Faso Embassy in the United States had no immediate comment Thursday.",
"In its statement Thursday, Limited Brands said that in 2007, it \"established a pilot program to purchase Fairtrade-certified organic cotton from primarily women farmers in Burkina Faso, a landlocked country in West Africa that struggles with endemic poverty.",
"We were committed to this initiative because of its potential to generate life-changing opportunities for some of the world's poorest women.\"",
"The \"Charter of Fair Trade Principles,\" published in 2009 by the World Fair Trade Organization and Fairtrade International, states that the rights of children are to be respected.",
"\"The importance of children's involvement in the work of family-based production units, and the learning of skills required for their working life is recognized, but any involvement must be disclosed and monitored and must not adversely affect the child's well-being, security, educational opportunities and need for play,\" it says."
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"A Bloomberg report says fair-trade cotton has brought \"fresh incentives for exploitation\"\nThe company that owns Victoria's Secret vows to investigate the child labor allegation .",
"The U.S. Labor Department says more than a dozen countries use child labor in cotton production .",
"The company says its program is aimed at helping some of the world's poorest women ."
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"London (CNN) -- You watched the royal wedding.",
"You admired Catherine's dress.",
"Now, you have a chance to get close to it.",
"The Duchess of Cambridge's widely acclaimed ivory and white satin-gazar dress, designed by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, goes on display at Buckingham Palace next month, according to the Royal Collection press office.",
"Tourists will be able to view the dress, as well as the royal wedding cake, during the annual Summer Opening, which runs from July 23 through October 3.",
"The 1977 Rolls-Royce Phantom VI in which the Duchess of Cambridge traveled to Westminster Abbey, and the 1902 State Landau carriage used by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to travel along the processional route to Buckingham Palace, are already on public display at the palace, the Royal Collection says.",
"Prince William and Duchess Catherine will set up their own temporary London home this summer as well, just a few miles away, at Kensington Palace, according to Clarence House, the office of Prince Charles and his family.",
"William and Catherine will move to Kensington at some point in June or July, royal sources tell CNN.",
"The sources won't say which home on the palace grounds the couple is moving into, but it is not William's childhood home there.",
"The couple is considering alternatives for a more permanent home for when they visit London, Clarence House said.",
"The couple will retain their main home on the Welsh island of Anglesey, and their offices at St. James Palace, Clarence House said.",
"CNN's Max Foster and Richard Greene contributed to this report ."
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"Catherine's wedding dress does on display at Buckingham Palace next month .",
"Car, carriage used by the royal couple also will be on display at the palace .",
"William and Catherine will set up temporary home at Kensington Palace ."
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"(CNN) -- Four-time NBA All-Star Chris Paul has been traded from the New Orleans Hornets to join the Los Angeles Clippers in a deal that sends Eric Gordon, Al-Farouq Aminu and Chris Kaman in the opposite direction.",
"As part of the deal for the point guard, the Clippers have also given the Hornets a first-round pick in the 2012 draft.",
"The Hornets were eager to trade Paul, with the 26-year-old's contract due to expire at the end of the forthcoming season.",
"NBA commissioner David Stern was required to approve the deal due to the fact that the Hornets are owned by the league.",
"New Orleans general manager Dell Demps was on the verge of sealing a trade last week which would have seen Paul head to the Los Angeles Lakers, but the NBA vetoed a three-team deal claiming the Hornets could do better.",
"\"We wanted to make sure that we got the best possible deal for a player of Chris' caliber, and we feel great about the outcome,\" Jac Sperling, appointed by Stern as governor of the Hornets after the league acquired the team in December 2010, told the NBA's official website.",
"The Clippers' franchise has been largely a losing one over the years and has been in the shadow of the long-successful Lakers, who have been champions 17 times to their local rivals' none.",
"Paul's presence is expected to invigorate the team.",
"He has been in the NBA for six years, leading the league in steals on four occasions, and will be paired with Blake Griffin, last year's NBA Rookie of the Year.",
"The North Carolina-born star averaged 18.1 points and 2.7 rebounds in three years with the Hornets.",
"Last season, Paul played in 80 games averaging 15.9 points, 9.8 assists, 4.1 rebounds and 2.4 steals.",
"Shooting guard Gordon heads to New Orleans after three years in Los Angeles, while 21-year-old Aminu played his rookie year with the Clippers last season.",
"Center Kaman was an All-Star in 2010 and spent eight years at the Staples Center."
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"Point guard Chris Paul has left the New Orleans Hornets to join the LA Clippers .",
"Eric Gordon, Al-Farouq Aminu and Chris Kaman head to New Orleans as part of the deal .",
"NBA commissioner had to sanction the deal as Hornets are owned by the league ."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester City moved three points clear at the top of the English Premier League with a convincing 3-0 home win over sixth-placed Liverpool on Tuesday.",
"Goals from Sergio Aguero, Yaya Toure and a James Milner penalty put City ahead of second-placed local rivals Manchester United, who visit Newcastle on Wednesday.",
"Roberto Mancini's men survived the second-half dismissal of Gareth Barry in the 73rd minute, and even added to their tally as Martin Skrtel pulled down Toure and Milner converted from the spot.",
"It completed a miserable evening for Liverpool, who were missing striker Luis Suarez after club officials confirmed before the match they would not appeal his eight-match ban for racially abusing Patrice Evra.",
"Liverpool decide against Suarez appeal .",
"City suffered a shock 1-0 defeat at Sunderland on Sunday, but went ahead after just 10 minutes as Argentina star Aguero beat Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina with a dipping shot he might have saved.",
"Liverpool pressed hard for an equalizer, but fell further behind on 33 minutes as the excellent Toure headed home David Silva's corner at the near post.",
"Reds manager Kenny Dalglish introduced Steven Gerrard and Craig Bellamy from the bench in the second half, but it was to no avail as City continued to control the match even when a man light.",
"City captain Vincent Kompany said his team had shown great character after the Sunderland defeat.",
"\"It was massive for us, we didn't deserve to lose against Sunderland but we were incredibly efficient today,\" Kompany told Sky Sports.",
"In Tuesday's other games, third-placed Tottenham Hotspur beat West Bromwich Albion 1-0 while Sunderland continued to impress under new manager Martin O'Neill with a 4-1 win at struggling Wigan.",
"Tottenham moved to within three points of United after striker Jermain Defoe scored the only goal on 63 minutes at White Hart Lane.",
"Sunderland won for the fourth time in six games since O'Neill took charge, moving up to 10th in the table."
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"English leaders Manchester City beat Liverpool 3-0 at Etihad Stadium despite red card .",
"Tuesday's win puts Roberto Mancini's side three points clear of Manchester United .",
"Third-placed Tottenham keep pace with leaders after a 1-0 home win over WBA .",
"Sunderland revival under Martin O'Neill continues with 4-1 victory at lowly Wigan ."
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"(CNN) -- The World Health Organization on Friday reported 2,500 confirmed cases of swine flu in 25 countries, with 44 deaths from the disease.",
"A researcher investigates swine flu at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia.",
"In the United States, the total number of confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus, as swine flu is officially called, nearly doubled to 1,639 from the day before, with reports coming from 43 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.",
"The U.S. Navy said Friday that 12 crew members aboard the USS Dubuque have been diagnosed with swine flu.",
"The amphibious transport dock ship had been due to deploy on June 1 to the South Pacific on a humanitarian mission, Cmdr.",
"Joseph Surette, a Navy spokesman, said Tuesday.",
"The ship was being scrubbed and disinfected, and its remaining 370 crew members were given Tamiflu as a precaution, Surette said.",
"Navy officials said the ship could still be deployed in an emergency, but would remain in port in San Diego, California, until commanders determine the crew is suitable to deploy.",
"Dr. Sylvie Briand, acting director of the Global Influenza Program for the World Health Organization, said the agency will remain at pandemic alert level 5 -- one step away from its highest level -- because while there are an increasing number of cases, there is no evidence of the community transmission outside North America that would push the alert to level 6.",
"Of the 44 deaths reported, two were in the United States and 42 in Mexico, which has the highest concentration of swine flu cases, with more than 1,100.",
"President Obama, speaking on the H1N1 virus during a town hall meeting for Latinos, said Americans should continue to take basic precautions such as frequently washing their hands.",
"He also said the country should prepare for a particularly tough flu season this fall.",
"\"The virus may not have been as virulent as we once feared, but we're not out of the woods yet,\" Obama said.",
"Briand of WHO said many of the new cases being reported are imported -- returning travelers bringing them into their countries -- and cases resulting from close contact with those already infected, such as family members.",
"Meanwhile, Britain's health secretary announced Friday that his country's Health Protection Agency has sequenced the full genetic code of the H1N1 virus, the first step in producing a European prototype of a swine flu vaccine.",
"\"This is critical in understanding how the virus operates and identifying the crucial parts of the virus that can be used in vaccine manufacture,\" said a statement from the agency.",
"\"Researchers hope that European manufacturers will be able to take delivery of candidate vaccine prototypes in the coming months so preliminary steps to mass vaccine production can begin,\" the statement said."
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"World Health Organization reports 44 deaths in Mexico and the United States .",
"U.S. Navy says 12 crew members aboard USS Dubuque diagnosed with virus .",
"European agency says it has made critical first step to creating vaccine ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Vice President Joe Biden has \"condemned.\"",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton scolded -- and then leaked the scolding.",
"On background, U.S. aides fret that the Israeli announcement of new settlement construction may thwart resumption of the peace process.",
"Let me advance an unorthodox opinion: The most dangerous cause of instability in the Middle East is the so-called peace process itself.",
"I know this is an unusual point of view.",
"Please hear me out.",
"By my count, there have been at least 10 major outbursts of violence between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East since 1936.",
"Every one of these conflicts ended in a similar way.",
"Either outside powers imposed a ceasefire -- or else Israel halted military operations just before a ceasefire could be imposed.",
"Every one of these conflicts began in a similar way, too: with a renewed attack by the Arab side, or else (as in 1956 or 1967) by Arab violations of the terms of the previous armistice or ceasefire.",
"Think for a minute how unusual this is.",
"Wars usually end when one side or the other decides it cannot continue fighting.",
"The losing side accepts terms it had formerly deemed unacceptable because the alternative -- continued fighting -- seems even worse.",
"I doubt many Hungarians are delighted to have lost more than half their territory to neighbors in Romania and the former Yugoslavia.",
"Bolivians still remember the loss of their Pacific coast to Chile in 1884.",
"Some in Indonesia continue to regard East Timor as rightfully theirs.",
"Yet for the most part, these nations have reconciled themselves to these unwelcome outcomes.",
"Exactly the opposite has occurred in the Arab-Israeli dispute.",
"Egypt lost the Sinai Peninsula in 1956, but got it back.",
"It lost the Sinai again in 1967, and again recovered it (although this time the right way, after signing a formal peace).",
"Syria lost the Golan in 1967, attacked Israel in 1973, lost again -- and still demands the return of the territory.",
"Palestinians rejected the 1947 partition, resorted to war, lost, and to this day demand compensation for their losses.",
"It's like a game of roulette where the management stops the game whenever you begin losing too badly, with promises to refund your money as soon as it conveniently can.",
"What gambler could resist returning to the tables?",
"I understand why Western governments have acted as they have.",
"They have feared that unless they somehow smooth the situation, the world oil market will be upset and radical ideologies will spread through the Islamic world.",
"What they don't see is that their efforts to contain the problem have in fact aggravated it.",
"Imagine this alternative history: .",
"Suppose that the Western world had not intervened in 1949.",
"Suppose the Israeli war of independence had been fought to the bitter end: Arab armies breaking apart and fleeing, commanders laying down their arms, columns of refugees crossing the Jordan River.",
"The 1949 war would have ended not with an armistice, but with a surrender.",
"Palestinian refugees would have had to settle in new homes, just as the hundreds of thousands of Jews expelled from their former homes in the Arab lands resettled in Israel.",
"The outcome would have squelched any hope that more fighting would have yielded a different result -- and the more decisive result might have dissuaded Arab governments from any further attempts to resort to force.",
"Now imagine another scenario.",
"In the 1990s, the former Yugoslavia erupted into war.",
"New states with new borders were carved out of the old country.",
"Thousands of people were displaced.",
"Horrific atrocities were committed.",
"Happily, the conflict did end.",
"The displaced adjusted to life in their new homes.",
"Former enemies may still mistrust each other, but violence has faded and seems unlikely to return.",
"Suppose instead the world had agreed that one of the combatant ethnic groups -- the Serbs, say, but it really does not matter -- retained a permanent inextinguishable right to reclaim its former homes.",
"Suppose the world agreed to pay displaced persons from that group billions in foreign aid on condition that they never permanently resettled in the territory to which the ethnic group had moved.",
"Suppose the world tolerated Serbian terrorist attacks on Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo as understandable reactions to injustice.",
"Would there be peace in the former Yugoslavia today?",
"The Middle East peacemakers for the most part act with the highest of intentions and the most exquisite patience.",
"But instead of extinguishing the conflict, they have prolonged it.",
"A peace process intended to insulate the Arab world from the pain of defeat has condemned the Arab world -- and the Palestinian people above all -- to unending war.",
"Every war must end -- and end badly for at least one of the belligerents.",
"It's time for this war to end too, and at last.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Frum."
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"David Frum says the Middle East peace process unintentionally prolongs conflict .",
"He says other wars have ended with the parties adjusting to new reality .",
"In Palestinians' case, he says, much of the world feeds the dispute rather than resolving it ."
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"(CNN) -- Iran's vice president has warned that the country could block the Strait of Hormuz if sanctions are imposed on its exports of crude oil.",
"What does the threat mean and what is likely to happen next?",
"What is the Strait of Hormuz used for?",
"It is one of the most important strategic chokepoints in the world, a narrow (34 miles wide) strip of water through which more than 15 million barrels of oil a day passed (through the Strait) in 2009, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency.",
"That's about a third of all oil shipped by sea worldwide.",
"Shutting off the Strait would be disastrous for the world economy, causing oil prices to skyrocket.",
"Have there been previous incidents of heightened tension?",
"Iran has threatened several times previously to close the Strait but it has never carried through with it.",
"Doing that would be shooting itself in the foot as almost 80% of its revenues come from the oil industry.",
"Iran is the world's fourth-largest oil producer.",
"Much of the oil that is shipped through the Strait of Hormuz goes to China, a crucial customer for Iran.",
"Why Strait of Hormuz matters .",
"Iran attacked ships in the Gulf during the 1980s in an attempt to cut off Iraq's oil exports when those two countries were at war.",
"The impact on prices was minimal however after foreign navies began escorting oil tankers through the Strait.",
"Is the latest escalation serious?",
"Or is it saber-rattling?",
"Is it related to the dispute between the West and Iran over the nuclear issue?",
"The latest threat to close the Strait, according to experts and U.S. administration officials, appears to be an attempt by Iran to intimidate the U.S., and specifically President Barack Obama, not to proceed with tough new sanctions that could target Iran's oil industry and its oil exports as well as companies that do business with Iran's Central Bank.",
"Those sanctions are aimed at forcing Iran to curtail its nuclear program, over which Iran and the West have been sparring for many years.",
"Iran says its uranium enriching activities are for peaceful purposes, but many Western governments suspect they are intended to produce a weapon.",
"How could Iran disrupt shipping if it wanted to?",
"Does it have the naval capability or would it use other means?",
"Matthew Kroenig at the Council on Foreign Relations, formerly an Iran expert at the Pentagon, tells CNN \"(Iran) could try to close the Strait of Hormuz.",
"What that would mean, though, is physically closing the strait militarily.",
"That would be their only option.",
"So it means laying mines and physically attacking ships coming through the Strait.",
"I think any U.S. president would be forced to respond to that and to open the Strait; that would also mean military action against Iran so an Iranian attempt to close the straits could mean war.\"",
"How would the international community react if they did carry out the threat?",
"The international community will not allow the Strait to be closed.",
"It is too important. Many experts say Iran would only have limited success in blocking the Strait for an extended period of time as many governments maintain a naval presence in the region, notably the United States.",
"Dangerous mix: Iranian oil and U.S. sanctions .",
"A senior U.S. administration official, speaking on background because of the sensitivity of the issue, told CNN: \"We've been committed to Gulf security for decades and it should come as no surprise to anyone that we'll do what we must to ensure the Strait remains open.\"",
"What effect is the tension having on oil supply and price?",
"Prices initially spiked, then dropped back.",
"But the prospect of conflict continues to make markets nervous.",
"\"We are in a situation where there is essentially no communication between the Iranian government and the U.S. government,\" Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, told CNN Monday after reports said Iranian military forces confronted a Western helicopter near the Strait.",
"\"It is very worrisome.\" Investment bank Merrill Lynch predicts a $40 rise in oil prices if the country's 2.2 million barrels day of crude are shut off completely.",
"What is likely to happen next?",
"The most likely outcome is more saber-rattling.",
"But experts say there is a danger of miscalculation by Iran, which has been increasingly provocative and unpredictable.",
"Witness the alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in the U.S., a claim that Iran denies."
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"Iran warns it could block Strait of Hormuz if sanctions are imposed on crude oil exports .",
"Strait is important strategic chokepoints; third of all oil shipped worldwide passes through .",
"Iran has threatened several times to close the Strait but it has never carried through with it .",
"U.S. says \"we'll do what we must\" to keep Strait open; prospect of conflict unnerves markets ."
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"(CNN) -- Hungry air travelers know that all those onboard snacks and spirits reserved for premium-class passengers or available only for a fee look mighty tempting, but airport workers apparently give them a second look as well.",
"Milwaukee County Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to General Mitchell International Airport last week after an AirTran Airways manager complained that he saw a maintenance worker take wine bottles from a plane and put them in his jacket pocket.",
"The worker was identified as Jesse Repetti, 28, an employee with PrimeFlight Aviation Services who was responsible for cleaning the plane, according to a complaint filed in the Milwaukee County Circuit Court.",
"When they arrived, the deputies found Repetti in a jetway, eating a bag of chips, \"which belonged to AirTran,\" the court papers say.",
"They asked the suspect whether he had wine bottles in his pocket, and he replied \"yes,\" according to the complaint.",
"When the deputies searched Repetti, they found a small bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon, a small bottle of Chardonnay, three small bottles of whiskey, three small bottles of rum, a can of beer, two bags of chips and two bags of pretzels.",
"Officials estimate that the items were worth about $70.",
"Repetti has been charged with theft, a misdemeanor punishable with a fine of up to $10,000 and/or nine months in prison.",
"A pretrial conference in the case has been scheduled for next week.",
"Court documents do not say whether Repetti has retained an attorney."
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"The incident happened at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee .",
"AirTran manager says he saw a plane cleaner take wine bottles from an aircraft .",
"Complaint: Sherriff's deputies searched the man and found bottles of alcohol, snacks .",
"Jesse Repetti has been charged with theft ."
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"(CNN) -- The end of August saw the kickoff of the Venice International Film Festival, which overlaps both Telluride and Toronto.",
"The three kick off the annual film industry frenzy known as awards season.",
"See? Los Angeles does have seasons.",
"Like many of my colleagues, I have seen only some of this year's \"Oscar-worthy\" films, so the opinions expressed here are based on a mixture of those I have seen with some early buzz and educated guesses.",
"It's early in the process, and things will inevitably shake out over the next few months as more films are screened, so there's no doubt that some of the predictions will change.",
"Not only that, but some actors are submitted to the Academy for supporting roles when the role appears to be a lead and vice versa, so some might switch categories.",
"You'll also notice that the headings for various sections within the categories aren't uniform, and that's because each category has its own sets of rules with accompanying probabilities and politics.",
"Complicating things this year are the reworked Academy rules on voting for best picture, which, while far too convoluted to repeat here, mean there will be anywhere from five to 10 best picture nominees.",
"Not to mention the expense of running campaigns.",
"The cost of holding screenings, making screeners and placing ads in the trades makes it harder for the smaller companies to compete with the big boys.",
"In other words, this is not an exact science.",
"Films I have seen are in listed in bold.",
"All names and titles are in alphabetical order within categories.",
"Best Picture .",
"\"The Artist\" Harvey Weinstein is about as genius of an Academy Awards marketer as there is.",
"Whatever you might say about him (and some have said plenty), the man knows how to get Oscars.",
"If anyone can take a black and white, mostly silent film and turn it into a multiple nominee, it's Harvey.",
"\"The Artist\" is absolutely stunning, a beautiful and magnificent creation on every level.",
"If voters see it, they'll love it.",
"\"The Descendants\" Alexander Payne (\"Election,\" \"Sideways\") has created (along with co-screenwriters Nat Faxon and Jim Rash) an almost flawless film that showcases both Hawaii and George Clooney (see below) as you've never seen them before.",
"From what I have seen (and it's very early days yet) this is the one to beat.",
"Serious contenders include: .",
"\"The Help,\" which sort of came out of nowhere and now looks to be a serious candidate, even though it has its detractors, and \"The Ides of March,\" a very well-acted political thriller that is getting good reviews.",
"It could provide Clooney's second, third and fourth nominations (director, supporting actor and screenwriter with Grant Heslov).",
"Also on that list are \"Midnight in Paris,\" \"Moneyball\" and \"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy\" (advance word is that this is a fantastic adaptation of a classic spy novel).",
"There are also a few high-profile films that haven't been screened for anyone, including \"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,\" which has Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock and 9/11, so don't bet against it; Scorsese's 3-D \"Hugo\"; \"J. Edgar\" starring Leo DiCaprio; \"War Horse\" from Steven Spielberg; \"We Bought a Zoo\" starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson; and \"Young Adult,\" in which Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody team up again (\"Juno\") with some buzz on Charlize Theron for best actress.",
"Best Actor .",
"Some mortal locks for this category probably include: .",
"George Clooney, \"The Descendants\": the best he's ever been.",
"Brad Pitt, \"Moneyball\": ditto, although he was magnificent in \"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,\" as well.",
"Jean Dujardin, \"The Artist\": a forgotten craft showcased by an excellent performance.",
"Leonard DiCaprio in \"J. Edgar\": likely, but I haven't seen it.",
"Thomas Horn, \"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close\": could be the \"out of the blue\" nominee.",
"In the \"they could be contenders\" category, we have Matt Damon with \"We Bought a Zoo\"; Michael Fassbender with \"Shame\" and \"A Dangerous Method\"; Joseph Gordon-Levitt in \"50/50\"; Ryan Gosling in \"The Ides of March\"; Gary Oldman in \"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy\"; and Anton Yelchin in \"Like Crazy.\"",
"Best Actress .",
"In the \"strong possibility\" category, we have: .",
"Kirsten Dunst, \"Melancholia\": one of the most amazing performances I have ever seen.",
"Read my writeup from Toronto here.",
"A lot will depend on how much Magnolia is willing to spend on its campaign for her and how much director Lars von Trier's comments in Cannes hurt the film.",
"Viola Davis, \"The Help\" Elizabeth Olsen, \"Martha Marcy May Marlene\": Wow.",
"Just wow. Michelle WIlliams, \"My Week with Marilyn\" Glenn Close, \"Albert Nobbs\" A list of \"Mmmmm, could be\" potential nominees includes Keira Knightley in \"A Dangerous Method,\" Charlize Theron in \"Young Adult\" and Felicity Jones in \"Like Crazy.\"",
"In the \"no one's seen it, but ...duh\" category, we must place Meryl Streep for her performance as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in \"The Iron Lady.\"",
"Best Director .",
"Those leading the pack include: .",
"Woody Allen, \"Midnight in Paris\" Michel Hazanavicius, \"The Artist\" Bennett Miller, \"Moneyball\" Alexander Payne, \"The Descendants\" Stephen Daldry, \"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close\" \"Coming up strong on the outside\" is a group that includes Tomas Alfredson for \"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy\"; George Clooney for \"The Ides of March\"; Terrence Malick for \"The Tree of Life\"; and Jason Reitman for \"Young Adult.\"",
"The ones I would term \"masters with unseen films\" include Clint Eastwood's \"J. Edgar\"; David Fincher and \"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo\"; Martin Scorsese with \"Hugo\"; and Spielberg with \"War Horse.\"",
"Best Supporting Actor .",
"These next two are really tough to predict right now, with almost everyone holding front-runner status.",
"Also, I haven't seen many of the films in the supporting categories, so my guesses are likely to be less educated than usual!",
"Likeliest based on current buzz/past nods: .",
"Albert Brooks, \"Drive\" Kenneth Branagh, \"My Week with Marilyn\" Jim Broadbent, \"The Iron Lady\" Christopher Plummer, \"Beginners\" Max Von Sydow, \"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close\" The rest of this excellent pack: .",
"George Clooney, \"The Ides of March\" Tom Hanks, \"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close\" Tom Hardy, \"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy\" Philip Seymour Hoffman, \"The Ides of March\" Viggo Mortensen, \"A Dangerous Method\" Patton Oswalt, \"Young Adult\" Best Supporting Actress .",
"Advance buzz favors this quartet: .",
"Jessica Chastain, \"The Help\" (also in \"The Tree of Life\" and \"Take Shelter\") Vanessa Redgrave, \"Coriolanus\" Octavia Spencer, \"The Help\" Shailene Woodley, \"The Descendants\" Other contenders include Sandra Bullock in \"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,\" Carey Mulligan in \"Shame\" and Kate Winslet in \"Carnage.\"",
"Best Original Screenplay .",
"There's only one that I would place in my \"pretty much a guarantee\" slot, and that would be Woody Allen for \"Midnight in Paris.\"",
"Terrence Malick, \"The Tree of Life\" Dustin Lance Black, \"J. Edgar\" James Ellroy and Oren Moverman, \"Rampart\" Best Adapted Screenplay .",
"I'd bet my lunch on nominations for: .",
"Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, \"The Descendants\" Aaron Sorkin and Steve Zaillian, \"Moneyball\" Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan, \"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy\" Other front-runners include George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon for \"The Ides of March,\" Christopher Hampton for \"A Dangerous Method\" and Eric Roth for \"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.\"",
"I know, I didn't touch on the categories of animation, documentaries, cinematography and many other categories.",
"There's plenty of time between now and the awards on February 26, not to mention the Golden Globes, Independent Spirit Awards, SAG Awards, DGA Awards, etc., etc."
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"Various film festivals have helped stir Oscar buzz .",
"Promotion, changing Academy rules and other elements make picking risky .",
"George Clooney, Brad Pitt and their films appear on critics' lists a few times ."
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"(CNN) -- Zachary Tomaselli, the third man to publicly allege that former Syracuse University coach Bernie Fine molested him, pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges that he sexually abused a teenage boy.",
"Under the terms of the deal, Tomaselli faces a maximum of three years and three months in prison, said defense attorney Justin Leary.",
"Tomaselli originally faced 11 charges, including gross sexual assault, in Maine involving alleged assaults against a then 13- and 14-year-old in 2009 and 2010.",
"The two had grown close when Tomaselli was the teen's summer camp counselor.",
"Seven of those charges were dropped, Leary said, and Tomaselli pleaded guilty to gross sexual assault, unlawful sexual contact and two counts of visual sexual aggression towards a minor.",
"Tomaselli, 23, had told CNN earlier this month that he planned to plead guilty.",
"\"I take complete responsibility for what I did,\" he said by phone from Lewiston, Maine.",
"Tomaselli, who is currently out on bail, is the third man to say publicly that Fine molested him.",
"Mike Lang and his stepbrother, Bobby Davis, have also stepped forward to accuse the former men's assistant basketball coach of molesting them over several years.",
"Tomaselli said he and Fine watched pornography together before Fine fondled him in a hotel room in Pittsburgh, where he'd gone to watch a Syracuse game in 2002.",
"He was 13 years old when the alleged abuse occurred.",
"Police in Syracuse and Pittsburgh are investigating the allegations and looking for other potential victims, authorities have said.",
"When the allegations first surfaced, Fine -- married with a son and two daughters -- called them \"patently false.\"",
"He has not commented since.",
"CNN's Kristen Hamill and Ronni Berke contributed to this report."
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"Zachary Tomaselli faces a maximum of three years, three months in prison .",
"\"I take complete responsibility for what I did,\" he tells CNN .",
"Tomaselli, 23, is currently out on bail ."
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"(CNN) -- According to the \"Guinness Book of World Records,\" Sherlock Holmes is the most popular role in the movies.",
"So if Robert Downey Jr. hardly seems like the iconic Sherlock (he's too short and muscular, and strains to suggest the intellectual arrogance that comes so easily to the English), he can take his place alongside such oddball castings as Buster Keaton, Charlton Heston and George C. Scott.",
"And he's ideally suited to director Guy Ritchie's purpose, which is not to dust off your grandfather's Conan Doyle, but to juice today's kids with a quirky 19th century super sleuth.",
"What's fun about these movies is that the equation works both ways.",
"Yes, this Holmes is more likely to get physical than his predecessors, he's even a bit of a boor, but he's still a more cerebral action hero than we find in most blockbusters, and the period trappings (a seamless blend of CGI and location work) help this franchise stand out from the crowd of comic book adaptations.",
"Ritchie and husband-and-wife screenwriters Kieran and Michele Mulroney (\"Paper Man\") map out a fast-moving -- if ridiculously digressive -- Victorian adventure that crisscrosses Europe by horseless carriage, train, boat, and, in Sherlock's case, pony.",
"Just down the road from 221 Baker Street they're digging a tunnel for what will become the London Underground.",
"The Industrial Age is beginning to stretch its muscles, while a series of terrorist atrocities are gnawing at the fragile understanding between the great European powers.",
"Holmes detects something other than social unrest behind the bombings: an evil master plan leading inexorably to his nemesis, Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris).",
"There are big themes there, but the movie doesn't take itself remotely seriously.",
"This is a rambunctious romp, even brazenly camp when it's poking fun at the always-intriguing Holmes-Watson relationship.",
"Sometimes it seems like the real motivation behind Moriarty's scheme is not to plunge Europe into war so much as to prevent the doctor from consummating his marriage and reunite him with his former roommate, which is where he rightfully belongs.",
"Nothing if not versatile, Downey dons myriad disguises through the course of the movie (he even impersonates a bookcase), and he does a long, very funny turn in drag.",
"Jude Law is Hardy to his Laurel, always piqued, but somehow affectionate in his aggravation.",
"And Ritchie has the good instincts to let their byplay run the show.",
"They make such a splendid comic double-act, there's not much more than a look-in for the fairer sex.",
"Sherlock's main squeeze, Rachel McAdams' Irene Adler, scarcely makes it to the opening titles.",
"Watson's intended, Kelly Reilly, fares a little better, but her most memorable scene comes when the great detective rudely shoves her out of a moving train.",
"As for Noomi Rapace, the original \"Girl with a Dragon Tattoo,\" at least she comes along for the ride as a gypsy soothsayer with anarchist tendencies, but the screenwriters' appear to forget about her existence whenever things start to get exciting.",
"No matter. The movie has more than its share of good gags, and if Ritchie's tic-y histrionics with the camera are starting to flag (I think we've seen the pre-rehearsed fisticuffs more than enough now, thanks), he's a dab hand in the editing suite.",
"Playful and polished, \"Game of Shadows\" is at least as much fun as its predecessor.",
"\"Who taught you to dance?\"",
"asks Sherlock, as he waltzes the good doctor through another deadly scrape.",
"\"You did,\" comes the inevitable reply.",
"They make a lovely couple."
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"Robert Downey Jr. dons myriad disguises through the course of the movie .",
"Jude Law is Hardy to Downey's Laurel ."
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"(CNN) -- Songwriter and record producer Jerry Leiber, who penned hits for Elvis Presley, Ben E. King and the Coasters, died in a Los Angeles hospital Monday.",
"He was 78. Leiber paired with Mike Stoller in 1950, when both were 17 years old, to form one of the most prolific songwriting teams of the day.",
"Their hits were jukebox staples through the 1950s and 1960s.",
"\"He was my friend, my buddy, my writing partner for 61 years,\" Stoller said.",
"\"He had a way with words. There was nobody better.",
"I'm going to miss him.\"",
"Elvis took their song \"Hound Dog\" to the top of the charts in 1956.",
"The tune was No. 19 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of \"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time,\" which came out in 2004.",
"The team also wrote \"Stand by Me\" for Ben E. King, \"Kansas City,\" which was made famous by Wilbert Harrison, \"On Broadway,\" top singles for the Drifters and George Benson, and a string of hits for the Coasters, including \"Young Blood,\" \"Searchin',\" and \"Yakety Yak.\"",
"Dozens of other artists from country to blues to R&B and rock recorded their songs.",
"Leiber, along with Stoller, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1985 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. iReport: Leiber and Stoller interviewed in 2010 .",
"\"Leiber and Stoller advanced rock and roll to new heights of wit and musical sophistication,\" says their Rock Hall biography.",
"\"They were particularly influential during rock and roll's first decade.\"",
"Leiber, the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, was born in 1933 and grew up in Baltimore.",
"He is survived by his three sons -- Jed, Oliver, and Jake -- and two granddaughters, Chloe and Daphne."
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"Jerry Leiber wrote some of the top hit songs in the '50s and '60s .",
"He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1985 .",
"He joined the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame two years later .",
"Leiber met his songwriting partner, Mike Stoller, in 1950 ."
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"(CNN) -- Many tall fliers know: Those precious exit row or bulkhead seats now often come with a price as airlines charge for the extra bit of legroom.",
"That's not sitting well with Malcolm Johnson, a 6-foot-7-inch architect from Edmonton, Alberta, who says they should be available to tall travelers without the added cost.",
"Johnson is on a mission to get Air Canada -- the airline he flies most -- to stop charging the fee.",
"He filed a complaint with the Canadian Transportation Agency last year, but it was rejected in December on the grounds that he didn't fully qualify as a disabled person with a special condition, he said.",
"Johnson is vowing to appeal the decision.",
"\"It's a penalty for tall people ... to pay for those seats -- they're the only seats on the craft that we can fit into,\" he said.",
"Air Canada has not responded to a request for comment.",
"Johnson flies on the airline from Edmonton to France twice a year, but since there are no direct flights available, the journey usually requires four legs for a round-trip.",
"He was always able to get a fairly comfortable seat at no charge, but that changed when the carrier implemented the fee about two years ago.",
"Air Canada charges up to $50 for a coach seat with extra legroom on each flight, so Johnson ends up paying $200 extra, he said.",
"If his wife comes along and wants to sit next to him, the couple ends up paying $400 extra.",
"Johnson says it's not fair that some obese passengers who can't fit into one seat are entitled to a free extra seat according to Canadian law, but tall fliers aren't taken into consideration.",
"\"People have said to me, why don't you fly first class?",
"Well, it's 10 times the price to fly first class,\" Johnson said.",
"\"Other people have said, well, why don't you just suck it up and sit down and shut up?",
"And I say, that's fine for you because you're 5 foot 2 and it's all right.",
"For tall people, it's a little different.\"",
"Flying can be 'hell' for tall passengers .",
"Johnson worries about deep vein thrombosis, a potentially deadly condition that can develop when people sit still for a long time.",
"When forced to sit in a regular coach seat, his knee is jammed against the person in front, he said, so he always ends up paying the fee for preferred seats.",
"Johnson says passengers who have a doctor's letter that verifies their height and their need for more room should not have to pay extra.",
"Since Johnson started his campaign, many other tall fliers have contacted him with messages of support.",
"E-mail is \"coming in every hour,\" he said."
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"Malcolm Johnson, who's 6-foot-7, says it's not fair that tall fliers have to pay for extra legroom .",
"He's on a mission to get Air Canada -- the airline he flies most -- to stop charging the fee .",
"Johnson filed a complaint with the Canadian Transportation Agency, but it was rejected .",
"Johnson is vowing to appeal; the fee is \"a penalty for tall people,\" he says ."
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"(EW.com) -- You've seen it a hundred times, in any thriller that finds the hero perched on a ledge or on the edge of a building's rooftop.",
"The camera moves up and tilts downward, in a smooth unbroken shot, so that we can all know that the actor is really standing there.",
"By now we're more than ready for that shot (it's become fairly ho-hum).",
"But there's no way that I was ready for the extraordinary, dread-inducing Look Ma, no safety net!",
"sequence in \"Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol\" where Tom Cruise makes his way across the surface of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai -- the world's tallest skyscraper -- while clinging to the building's glass panels with a pair of electrified adhesive gloves.",
"Cruise, as IMF agent Ethan Hunt, is trying to break into the suite that houses the skyscraper's -computer servers, and this is the only way he can do it without being detected from within.",
"Brad Bird, the director of Ghost Protocol, knows all too well that the audience will be on the lookout for any tell-tale cut, any obvious digital image, anything at all that reveals that Tom Cruise isn't really on the side of that skyscraper.",
"And damned if we can find one!",
"This is a sequence so ingeniously conceived and shot that even the audience doesn't want to look down -- a sequence so death-defying that it gets you laughing at your own susceptibility (especially if, like me, you happen to have a fear of heights).",
"Shimmying up and down and around the building's surface, with the ground looking as if it must be a mile below, Cruise becomes a fearless human bug (think Spider-Man without the superpowers).",
"Then, just as we're sure that our hearts couldn't dig any deeper into our throats, one of his gloves begins to short out and lose adhesive power.",
"Don't you hate when that happens?",
"'American Horror Story': Ryan Murphy talks the game-changing season finale .",
"\"Ghost Protocol\" brims with scenes that are exciting and amazing at the same time; they're brought off with such casual aplomb that they're funny, too.",
"Early on, Hunt and a fellow agent, the nattering tech nerd Benji (Simon Pegg), have to penetrate the archive room of the Kremlin, and they do it in captivating silence by hiding behind a scrim that projects, to the security guard, an exact image of the hallway they're in (minus the two of them).",
"It's the spy equivalent of a magic trick, and that's the spirit of the whole movie.",
"\"Ghost Protocol\" is fast and explosive, but it's also a supremely clever sleight-of-hand thriller.",
"Brad Bird, the animation wizard (\"The Incredibles,\" \"The Iron Giant\"), makes the leap to live action with the kind of skill Paul Greengrass brought to the \"Bourne\" films, only Bird, showing an animator's miraculously precise use of visual space, has a playful, screw-tightening ingenuity all his own.",
"'The X Factor' recap: You Oughta Show .",
"After an epic explosion rocks the Kremlin, the entire IMF gets ''disavowed,'' and Hunt and his team find themselves cut off, without backup.",
"Suddenly they're rogue agents, like an espionage version of the Ocean's gang, only with far more important priorities.",
"Their mission is to stop Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist, dour costar of the Swedish Girl With the \"Dragon Tattoo\" films), a lone terrorist who has stolen the Russian nuclear codes, from launching a missile and kicking off a nuclear war.",
"All because he's a nihilist nut who really wants to.",
"Hunt's team, aside from Benji (played by Pegg with impish timing), includes the terrific Paula Patton as the dangerously beautiful and ruthless Jane, and Jeremy Renner, all moody reticence, as a desk jockey named Brandt with a backstory that makes it look, for a time, like he's Ethan's ambiguous adversary.",
"Together, these four execute fake seductions and underworld meetings, take parking-garage fight scenes to new heights of layer-cake suspense, and race against the clock of a nuclear countdown that's just jittery enough to make the unthinkable credible.",
"Kathy Griffin kalls out Kim Kardashian in latest stand-up special .",
"It's become easy to take Tom Cruise's skill for granted (even his fans do), but in \"Ghost Protocol\" he has a pulsating presence, a dynamic mind-body fusion.",
"From the moment he gets broken out of a Russian prison cell, only to argue with Benji via video feed as chaotic violence swirls all around him, Cruise energizes the film with his no-sweat bravura.",
"He kicks a** like an Ultimate-Fighting bruiser, he races vehicles like a demon -- but more than any of that, he invests every line, every situation, with the cleanly intense, fired-up concentration of an actor who means it.",
"Powered by Cruise's moxie, \"Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol\" proves that in a Hollywood action-ride, culture drenched in fake adrenaline, it's cathartic to encounter the real thing.",
"A . See full article at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"Ghost Protocol\" brims with scenes that are exciting and amazing at the same time .",
"Tom Cruise plays IMF agent Ethan Hunt in the flick .",
"\"Ghost Protocol\" is fast and explosive, but it's also a supremely clever sleight-of-hand thriller ."
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"(CNN) -- David Cronenberg's follow-up to 2007's \"Eastern Promises\" is an engrossing and brilliantly acted adaptation of Christopher Hampton's play \"The Talking Cure\" (itself based on John Kerr's book \"A Most Dangerous Method\").",
"It's centered around the real-life trio of psychiatrists Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), a woman who is at first a patient and later a pioneer in psychoanalysis, herself.",
"Lacking any of the dark or macabre trappings of many of Cronenberg's previous films (\"Crash,\" \"Dead Ringers\"), \"Method\" is instead a romantic, bittersweet and ultimately tragic character-driven film, focusing on the deep friendship between Freud and Jung, as well as both men's relationship with Spielrein.",
"Our first sight of Spielrein is her being dragged, literally kicking and screaming, out of a carriage and into the Burgholzli mental hospital in Zurich in 1904.",
"She was what used to be called a hysteric.",
"A non-specific condition attributed almost exclusively to women and based at least in part on the Greek word for womb (hystera), it is a diagnosis no longer made, due in part to the work that Freud and Jung did with Spielrein.",
"Around this time, Jung was experimenting with a radical new method of treatment for mental illness that Freud had developed, the \"talking cure,\" which we now refer to as psychoanalysis.",
"A young, educated and extremely intelligent woman, Spielrein was the ideal patient for Jung to work with and he was soon getting results.",
"With a goal towards becoming a doctor, Spielrein is amazed at and relieved by the effect Jung's treatment has on her behavior and is intrigued by his methods, even going so far as to basically assist with her own treatment.",
"Spielrein is clearly a hyper-intelligent young woman, and watching Knightley cycle through shame, anger, revelation, arousal and, ultimately, relief is a pleasure.",
"Spielrein's collection of tics, shrieks, shudders and fears slowly gives way to a modicum of calm as her treatment progresses and we see the brilliant and curious woman beneath.",
"Most of those who have used phrases like \"over the top\" to describe Knightley's performance have clearly misunderstood the meaning of the word \"hysterical.\"",
"It is actually one of the most controlled performances I've seen this year.",
"Spielrein had endured a childhood rife with corporal punishment and humiliation at the hands of her father, and when Jung discovers a sexual element to her condition (she actually liked the spankings she received but was overcome by shame), it was clear to him that he had a case that confirmed Freud's theory of an underlying sexual connection to emotional disorders.",
"Thus begins a correspondence and eventually a strong friendship between the two psychiatrists.",
"Fassbender, an actor who is undoubtedly on the cusp of superstardom, delivers a performance as equally brilliant as Knightley, but his is almost entirely internal.",
"Jung hides his thoughts behind a psychiatrist's generally impassive veneer, and thus Fassbender's eventually heartbreaking work on screen is largely one of subtlety.",
"When his relationship with Spielrein veers from the professional to the personal, however, his calm exterior begins to crack.",
"Jung's psychiatric discoveries are framed by the growing relationship between himself and Freud as the two men correspond about Sabina's treatments and other theories.",
"Mortensen's Freud is the elder statesman, arrogant at times but clearly happy to have an acolyte of such high intellectual ability, and Jung is grateful for the attention of the eminent doctor Freud.",
"Complicating things is Jung's wealthy wife, and the disparity of economic means between the two men is occasionally a bone of contention including the instance of a trip to the United States where Jung's wife books him a first class stateroom while Freud and his assistant are in lowlier accommodations.",
"A bit of an ego blow to the man who invented the concept and their relationship continues to suffer.",
"The methods and theories that Freud had been advancing were strange and uncomfortable to the psychiatric community, not to mention the general public and having Jung as a comrade in arms gave Freud intellectual protection when the two functioned as a united front.",
"However, once Jung began to feel more assured in his own theories and ideas (including some that could be considered verging on the paranormal) Freud started to resent the younger man's advances in the field, not to mention having no respect for Jung's more esoteric research.",
"The other key to the collapse of their professional and personal relationship is Jung's sexual relationship with Spielrein.",
"It is a serious breach of ethics, a betrayal of his wife and, when Jung denies it in a letter to Freud, a stain on his integrity.",
"\"A Dangerous Method\" is another example of how many true-life stories are out there that can be made into compelling and moving cinema.",
"It is a historical drama, a bittersweet romance and the story of a professional friendship-cum-rivalry that gave birth to arguably the greatest advance in the history of mental health.",
"Cronenberg is a master director at the top of his game, and \"A Dangerous Method\" is a film where the beauty is in the performances, language and ideas.",
"Reviewed at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, \"A Dangerous Method\" is rated R and contains some less-than-vanilla sexual imagery and situations."
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"Watching Keira Knightley cycle through shame, anger, arousal and relief is a pleasure .",
"Michael Fassbender's eventually heartbreaking work is largely one of subtlety .",
"It's an historical drama, a romance and the story of a professional friendship ."
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"(CNN) -- I'm a fan of Antonio Banderas' Puss in Boots, a Latin-lover Zorro so romantic and vain that he's preposterously unaware he's...well, a kitty cat.",
"That said, building an entire animated feature around him turns out to be a bit like making a Marx Brothers movie with just Chico.",
"In the \"Shrek\" films, the joke of Puss in Boots, with his trilled consonants and penchant for chest-puffing sword duels, is that no one this cuddly should try to be this dashing.",
"But in \"Puss in Boots,\" that joke wears out its welcome in 15 minutes.",
"We're left with the feeling that Puss in Boots, as a character, has exactly one dimension: self-deluded Spanish-macho vainglory.",
"He's like a lost mascot from a taco commercial.",
"The movie gives Puss a sidekick, the cracked-fairy-tale figure of Humpty Dumpty (voiced by Zach Galifianakis), who was once his comrade and then betrayed him.",
"When the movie plunges into the convoluted backstory of these two, only to emerge from the flashback about 20 minutes later, we begin to realize: The more stuff that happens in \"Puss in Boots,\" the less stake we have in it.",
"The movie throws in Jack and Jill (who are corpulent grown-up grouches), magic beans and a beanstalk, a girl kitty (Salma Hayek) dressed, for some reason, as Catwoman, and a whole lot more.",
"\"Puss in Boots\" is beautifully animated (with 3-D that adds nothing), but the film is so mindlessly busy that it seems to be trying to distract you from the likable, one-note feline swashbuckler at its center.",
"EW.com rating: C .",
"See the full article at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"In \"Puss in Boots,\" that joke wears out its welcome in 15 minutes .",
"The more stuff that happens in \"Puss in Boots,\" the less stake we have in it .",
"It seems to be trying to distract you from the likable, one-note feline swashbuckler ."
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"(CNN) -- Sometimes an actor takes on the role of an iconic figure and they do a good job.",
"Sometimes they do a lousy job.",
"But sometimes, very rarely, they disappear into their role so perfectly that all you have left is the person they're playing.",
"Such is the case with Michelle Williams in Simon Curtis' moving and thoroughly enjoyable \"My Week With Marilyn.\"",
"About 15 minutes into the film, the first she's been called on to completely carry, Williams vanishes.",
"All that remains is Marilyn.",
"It's a magnificent performance and one of the most heartbreaking celebrity stories there is.",
"In the summer of 1956, Marilyn Monroe, newly married to writer Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott), traveled to England to shoot \"The Prince and the Showgirl\" with co-star/director Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh).",
"The third assistant director, aka gofer, on that production was Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), a 24- year-old aspiring filmmaker on whose memoir the film is based.",
"He rapidly became Monroe's confidant and ally, the only person on the crew on whom she could rely.",
"Needless to say, he fell hopelessly in love with her, but really, what choice did he have?",
"Marilyn Monroe was like a lottery ticket.",
"You know you're not going to win, but when those numbers come up, damned if you're not sure you're going to pocket millions.",
"Of course Colin wouldn't actually have won had he ended up with Monroe, but she was someone who men desperately wanted to take care of.",
"After all, she was Marilyn Monroe.",
"That's a roll of the dice very few would be able to pass up.",
"As Monroe, Williams is nothing short of dazzling.",
"She's managed to inhabit perhaps the most iconic woman in American history and not only her public persona, at that.",
"To do a decent job of mimicking a well-known figure, all one has to do is capture their mannerisms and voice and let the makeup department handle the rest.",
"However to truly capture the essence of someone, the actor has to convince us that we're watching them, not an actor playing them.",
"We have to believe that if, for example, no record of that person in casual situations exists, the actor has captured what they would actually be like.",
"We have all seen images of Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, perhaps the three most-famous pre-Michael Jackson entertainers in history, in public, on stage or in films.",
"But there's very little recorded of them in private times.",
"What Williams does is create a fully realized portrait of Monroe.",
"It doesn't matter if her portrayal is 100% accurate.",
"It feels 100% accurate.",
"As for the production within the film, Monroe's reputation of difficulty on the set follows her to England, and what's more, she brings acting coach Paula Strasberg (wife of famed acting teacher Lee, played by Zoë Wanamaker) with her.",
"Whenever things get rough for her, which was often, Marilyn retreats to her dressing room or cottage with Paula, leaving Olivier to stew and the production be damned.",
"As the director and star, Olivier is used to getting his way and is not a method actor.",
"He doesn't understand Monroe's need to believe in her character and finds her questions about motivation frustrating.",
"One can't help but be reminded of the (likely at least partially apocryphal) story about Olivier on the set of \"Marathon Man\" when, after Dustin Hoffman has stayed up all night supposedly to accurately portray his character's state of mind, Olivier retorted with something along the lines of: \"Why don't you try acting, dear boy.",
"It's so much easier.\"",
"It's a case of when styles collide and at one point Branagh explodes on set that \"teaching Marilyn how to act is like trying to teach Urdu to a badger!\"",
"It's a great line, and Branagh is excellent as Olivier.",
"It serves to underscore the differences in their styles and how frustrating Monroe's behavior was for Olivier.",
"For her part, Olivier's bluster turned Monroe's already present insecurities into full-blown panic attacks.",
"When you're watching Williams go through Monroe's struggle with self-doubt and an increasingly serious pill problem, there's no doubt in your mind that it's Marilyn Monroe.",
"You feel her pain, her fears and, on a rare occasion, her joy.",
"Williams perfectly captures Monroe's legendary vulnerabilities and in the culmination of a series of scenes, the duality of Norma Jeane Baker, the person she was, and Marilyn Monroe, the woman she became.",
"After an afternoon spent secretly touring Windsor Castle, courtesy of Sir Owen Morshead (Colin's godfather and the castle librarian, played by Derek Jacobi), Colin and Monroe are spotted by castle staff.",
"Leaning into Colin, Monroe whispers \"Shall I be her?\"",
"and instantly, Norma Jeane disappears and Marilyn is there, shimmying, posing and doing exactly what's expected of her.",
"It seems like she gets a kick out of it but at the same time, there's a sadness in her leaving Norma Jeane behind, once again.",
"At once lightweight and melancholy, \"My Week With Marilyn\" doesn't purport to reveal any deep, dark secrets or illuminate any truths that we already don't know.",
"In fact, we don't know for certain that any of this actually happened at all.",
"I'd like to think that it did, though.",
"\"My Week With Marilyn\" is rated R and contains some foul language, pill-popping and some discrete female nudity."
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"As Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Williams is nothing short of dazzling .",
"What Williams does is create a fully realized portrait of Monroe .",
"\"My Week With Marilyn\" doesn't purport to reveal any deep, dark secrets ."
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"(EW.com) -- \"New Year's Eve,\" a schlock ensemble love-o-rama timed for the season of easy good feeling, is a movie I often found myself laughing at in ridicule, and one that also gave me a lump in the throat.",
"So I guess you could say I had a good time.",
"The movie, like last year's \"Valentine's Day,\" was written by Katherine Fugate and directed by Garry Marshall, and I can just imagine Marshall showing up on the set to basically shout seven words: ''Action!''",
"''All right, everybody, overact!''",
"''Okay, cut!'' If you had to pick the cheesiest subplot, your head might explode.",
"Is it Jon Bon Jovi as a rock star trying to win back the fiancée he dumped -- a superchef played by Katherine Heigl, who looks as if she can barely slice a pineapple?",
"Is it Ashton Kutcher as a smirk-aleck stuck on a grimy elevator with an agonizingly sincere backup singer (Lea Michele)?",
"Is it Hilary Swank as a Times Square exec who saves the dropping New Year's Eve ball from mechanical failure?",
"(She calls...Kominsky!",
"A repairman with funny Russian accent!)",
"Or is it Robert De Niro as a dying man with a bucket-list wish so wispy that the entire anecdote seems designed to let De Niro shoot his scenes in less than an hour?",
"\"New Year's Eve\" is dunderheaded kitsch, but it's the kind of marzipan movie that can sweetly soak up a holiday evening.",
"EW.com rating: B- .",
"See the full article at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"The movie, like last year's \"Valentine's Day,\" was written by Katherine Fugate .",
"I often found myself laughing at in ridicule, and one that also gave me a lump in the throat .",
"It's the kind of marzipan movie that can sweetly soak up a holiday evening ."
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"New York (CNN) -- A 47-year-old man was arrested Sunday in the death of a 73-year-old woman who was set on fire in the elevator of her Brooklyn apartment building, telling police the woman owed him $2,000, New York police said.",
"Jerome Isaac faces charges of first-degree and second-degree murder, along with arson, police said in a statement.",
"The victim was identified as Deloris Gillespie.",
"Isaac also lives in Brooklyn, but does not live at the address where the incident took place, police said in a statement.",
"Isaac told police Gillespie owed him $2,000 for work he claims he did for her, said NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne.",
"He turned himself in to police overnight or early Sunday morning, he said.",
"Neighbors said the woman was returning home to her fifth-floor apartment in Prospect Heights after a grocery store trip Saturday.",
"A preliminary investigation showed the man was standing outside the elevator on the fifth floor and attacked the woman as she was attempting to exit, authorities said.",
"The incident was caught on surveillance cameras inside and outside the elevator, and police have the videotapes, Browne said.",
"Authorities believe Isaac initially sprayed the woman with a flammable liquid, presumably gasoline, and continued to spray her as he followed her back into the elevator, Browne said.",
"The woman was first sprayed in the face, he said.",
"Then, using \"one of those long lighters that you would use for a grill, he lit a Molotov cocktail and used the burning leg on top of that to ignite her body,\" Browne said.",
"The suspect stepped out of the elevator, threw the Molotov cocktail inside, then returned again to spray more liquid on the woman as she burned, he said.",
"\"This is as bad as it gets,\" Browne told CNN's Don Lemon.",
"Authorities responding to a 911 call of a fire found the woman's body inside the elevator.",
"She was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the police statement.",
"Residents told CNN affiliate WCBS they heard screams and saw smoke -- and realized a woman was on fire inside the elevator.",
"\"Myself and someone from the sixth floor went down knocking to get people out.",
"Knocking on doors telling people 'There's a fire, get out, get out,\" a resident named John told the station.",
"He did not want to give his last name.",
"Neighbor Carmen Martinez told the station the victim had lived in the building since the 1980s.",
"\"She used to give toys and gifts to kids all the time,\" Martinez told the station.",
"\"From everything we hear ... she was just this sweet 73-year-old woman,\" Browne said.",
"Photos that police released of the attacker show a man dressed in dark blue clothes, white gloves, with a dust mask on his head and carrying a container on his back.",
"The photos were released during the search for a suspect, Browne said.",
"Isaac lived about 10 minutes away from Gillespie's apartment building, Brown said.",
"After the incident, he apparently returned home and ignited the door to his own apartment, he said.",
"He was concerned he had burned himself in the second incident, although no one else was injured, Browne said.",
"He then hid out on a rooftop for a while and fell asleep, later going into a police station \"reeking of gasoline\" and telling officers he was responsible for a fire.",
"During questioning, Browne said, he implicated himself in Gillespie's death.",
"It was not clear whether Isaac had retained an attorney.",
"CNN's Maria P. White and Susan Candiotti contributed to this report."
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"NEW: \"This is as bad as it gets,\" police official says .",
"NEW: Jerome Isaac came to police station \"reeking of gasoline,\" police say .",
"The suspect says the victim owed him $2,000 .",
"The victim is identified as Deloris Gillespie, 73 ."
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"(CNN) -- Mexican army special forces have arrested a top lieutenant for alleged drug kingpin Joaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzman, the Defense Ministry said Monday.",
"Troops arrested Felipe Cabrera Sarabia on Friday in \"a surgical operation in Cuiliacan\" in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, said Ricardo Trevilla Trejo, a Defense Ministry spokesman.",
"Cabrera, who was responsible for the activities of the Pacific Cartel in Durango and the southern part of the state of Chihuahua, was detained after fleeing from Durango, Trevilla told reporters.",
"\"The analysis of his behavior permitted (us) to find the building where he was hiding\" and Cabrera was taken into custody without violence, Trevilla said.",
"Firearms, computer equipment and other documentation were seized, too, he said.",
"Cabrera, who appeared Monday in the office of a prosecutor who specializes in organized crime, was responsible for Guzman's security in Durango, the state-run Notimex news agency said.",
"He is charged with possessing firearms reserved for use by the army and falsification of a public document, a spokeswoman for the attorney general said.",
"Trevilla said Cabrera was involved in kidnappings, extortion and arson.",
"\"The violence caused him to rise within the organization,\" said Trevilla, who predicted that the arrest will affect the cartel's leadership and abilities.",
"Guzman, who is under indictment by U.S. authorities in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, is described by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as one of \"the most powerful drug traffickers in Mexico.\"",
"In 2004, the U.S. government announced a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction.",
"He is accused of running a major network that distributes cocaine and heroin.",
"He is worth about $1 billion, according to Forbes Magazine, which began listing him on its billionaires list in 2009.",
"The magazine lists him as No.",
"55 on its Most Powerful People list and as the only crime lord on its list of Mexico's billionaires."
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"Alleged drug kingpin's lieutenant handled his security in Durango, Defense Ministry says .",
"The arrest will affect Joaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzman's Sinaloa cartel, official says .",
"Guzman is a billionaire who is wanted in Mexico and the United States ."
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"(Mashable) -- Jules Verne, one of the pioneers of the science fiction literary genre, was born on this day, February 8, 1828.",
"In honor of the writer who gave us the \"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea\" and \"A Journey to the Center of the Earth,\" Google has a special interactive logo today, letting you submerge a submarine deep below the water's surface and explore its depths, using the lever on the right.",
"There's a couple of surprises there, including an obligatory treasure chest, scary sea monsters and some corals shaped in a way that resembles a certain logo.",
"Happy exploring!",
"See the original article on Mashable .",
"© 2011 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Jules Verne was one of the pioneers of the science fiction literary genre .",
"Writer gave us \"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea\"\nGoogle doodle lets you submerge a submarine deep below the water's surface ."
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"(CNN) -- The Arab League is a step closer to asking the U.N. Security Council to consider a plan designed to forge peace in restive Syria, a senior Arab League official told CNN Saturday.",
"Five Arab League ministers meeting in Doha, Qatar, drafted a resolution calling for the end of violence and approving an observatory mission in Syria, engulfed by a brutal anti-government crackdown for nine months that has left 5,000 people dead.",
"The plan will be considered Wednesday by league foreign ministers.",
"If they approve it, it could be sent to the U.N. Security Council.",
"The official, who wanted to remain anonymous because he is not authorized to speak on the issue, said the resolution does not include any mention of military intervention.",
"This comes as 41 people were slain on Saturday by government security forces cracking down on anti-regime elements, an activist group said.",
"Eight of the dead were members of the Free Syrian Army, the rebel force comprised of military defectors.",
"World powers have deplored the government's activity, and they are looking for ways to rein in violence and urgently contain the threat of civil war, reflected from the emergence of the armed defector force.",
"The Arab League has devised and promoted a plan to send an observatory team to Syria weeks ago.",
"It tried to get Syria's approval to go along with it.",
"But the regime has raised objections and called for caveats to the resolution, and the league says the Bashar al-Assad regime has procrastinated in dealing with the proposal.",
"The Syrian government's repression of unrest has triggered criticism as well as from the Arab League, which expelled Syria last month and has been pushing to send monitors into Syria.",
"Sanctions against Syria have been initiated by the United States, the European Union, Turkey and the league.",
"The passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution would require an approval by two permanent council members -- Russia, a longtime ally of Syria, and China, both of whom have rejected tough action at the U.N. toward Syria.",
"Russia has taken a stab at resolving the issue at the United Nations this week.",
"Moscow introduced a draft resolution this week that, it says, \"considerably strengthens\" previous drafts \"with regard to the interest in violence, with regard to the need to uphold human rights, with regard to expediting reforms.\"",
"The resolution \"strongly condemns\" violence \"coming from all parties, including disproportionate use of force by Syrian authorities.\"",
"It also would \"give a strong message to the Arab League that we encourage them to continue their efforts, and working together with the government of Syria, and to carry out its plans to deploy the monitoring mission in Syria,\" Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said Thursday at the United Nations.",
"Itar -Tass, the Russian state news agency, reported that Syria's Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa was to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday to discuss ways to forge peace.",
"But Interfax, a Russian news agency, later said Lavrov denied reports about the talks and quoted a Syrian official in Moscow as saying he knows nothing about the possible time of the visit.",
"Iraq has sent a delegation to Damascus with a peace proposal, Iraqi state media reported Saturday.",
"Activists say fighting has raged virtually every day and unrest also rippled across the country on Saturday.",
"Among the 41 deaths Saturday were three children and a woman.",
"The group said military and security forces also stormed towns in Hama and Aleppo provinces.",
"The military defectors died in the Damascus province town of Zabadani, where civilians protesting the al-Assad regime have conducted a general strike, the LCC said.",
"Security forces, including snipers, have been opening fire on houses and private vehicles in the town, said the LCC.",
"The two defectors were members of the Free Syrian Army, the rebel force of army defectors who are taking up arms against the government.",
"The LCC identified one of the soldiers as Lt. Col. Alaa Yahya.",
"The Free Syrian Army struck government forces this week and killed 27 of them Thursday in a southern province, anti-government sources said.",
"Journalist Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report."
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"NEW: At least 41 people died Saturday .",
"Arab League to consider peace plan on Wednesday .",
"More than 5,000 people have been killed in Syria, the U.N. says .",
"Diplomats are looking for ways to end the conflict ."
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"(RollingStone.com) -- Fans wandering through the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival this weekend will encounter an ambitious array of audiovisual installations created by bands including Arcade Fire, Animal Collective and Interpol.",
"It's all part of Coachella's new partnership with the Creators Project, a program set up by Intel and Vice to connect artists with cutting-edge technology.",
"RollingStone.com: Choose the cover of Rolling Stone, round two: Vote by April 14!",
"The resulting collaborations will be visible all around the Coachella grounds -- right up to the main stage itself, which London's United Visual Artists are building into a three-dimensional lighting sculpture that will move and unfold over the course of the festival.",
"During Animal Collective's Saturday night set, this will be supplemented by a \"psychedelic jumbletron,\" otherwise known as a live collage of footage from the performance (created with help from Animal Collective's avant-garde pals Black Dice).",
"Elsewhere on the site, attendees can drop by \"Untitled (A physical manifestation of 'Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating In Space')\" -- a cathedral-inspired structure filled with deconstructed portions of Spiritualized's 1997 signature song produced in collaboration with director Jonathan Glazer -- or visit the dance-oriented Sahara Tent for a dazzling light show designed by Brazilian artist Muti Randolph.",
"RollingStone.com: Random notes .",
"Details on two further surprises Creators Project has planned for the Coachella main stage remain strictly under wraps for now: Arcade Fire reunited with director Chris Milk, who helmed their interactive video \"The Wilderness Downtown\" last year, for a mysterious collaboration called \"Summer into Dust,\" and Interpol is planning a top-secret work titled \"Under Surveillance.\"",
"Adds Deborah Conrad, Intel's vice president and chief marketing officer, \"There's an X factor when you have art and technology coming together.",
"This is new territory for all of us -- that's what makes it incredibly fun.\"",
"See the original article at RollingStone.com.",
"Copyright © 2011 Rolling Stone."
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"Arcade Fire, Animal Collective and Interpol will have an array of audiovisual installations .",
"It's all part of Coachella's new partnership with the Creators Project .",
"London's United Visual Artists are building into a three-dimensional lighting sculpture ."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester United's hopes of retaining the Premier League title suffered a setback on Wednesday as the English champions slumped to a 3-0 defeat at Newcastle.",
"Superb strikes from Demba Ba and Yohan Cabaye plus a late Phil Jones own goal earned the home side a deserved victory and condemned United to a second successive loss following Saturday's shock 3-2 home defeat by bottom club Blackburn.",
"The result, United's first away reverse this season, left Alex Ferguson's second-placed team three points behind rivals Manchester City, with Tottenham in third another three points behind with a game in hand.",
"Early season pace-setters Newcastle came into the match on the back of a poor recent run of just one win in eight matches, a sequence which had seen Alan Pardew's side slump to seventh in the table.",
"Who are the top January transfer targets?",
"But they were always the dominant side against a disjointed United, and it was no surprise when the hosts took a 33rd-minute lead when top scorer Ba superbly swiveled on the edge of the area before smashing home his 15th goal of the season.",
"Newcastle doubled the lead early in the second half with another spectacular goal, as Cabaye curled home a delightful long-range free-kick that hit the underside of the crossbar before bouncing over the goal-line of keeper Anders Lindegaard -- who was recalled in place of David De Gea.",
"United's miserable night was complete in the final minute when a long ball from Newcastle goalkeeper Tim Krul was turned into his own net by England defender Jones.",
"Newcastle remained in seventh place, though now just a point behind Liverpool.",
"In Wednesday's other English Premier League match, Bolton moved off the bottom after recovering from a goal behind to win 2-1 at Everton.",
"The home side took a 63rd-minute lead in freak circumstances when Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard's long clearance flew over his opposite number Adam Bogdan and into the net.",
"However, former Liverpool striker David Ngog leveled for the visitors just four minutes later before captain Gary Cahill -- who has been linked with a move to Chelsea during the transfer window -- smashed home the winner with 12 minutes remaining.",
"In Spain, Barcelona put one foot into the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey with a 4-0 victory at home to Osasuna in the first leg of their last-16 tie.",
"Cesc Fabregas netted twice in the first half and Lionel Messi came off the substitutes' bench to add another couple after the break to give Pep Guardiola's side a healthy advantage ahead of next week's return match."
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"Premier League champions Manchester United are thrashed 3-0 at Newcastle .",
"Demba Ba, Yohan Cabaye and a Phil Jones own goal gives Newcastle win .",
"The defeat is United's second in a row after their 3-2 defeat at Blackburn .",
"Bolton off the bottom of the Premier League after a 2-1 victory at Everton ."
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"(CNN) -- The social media universe has been aghast this week after the revelation that Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia has invested $300 million in Twitter.",
"The shock and awe seems to center around the notion that Twitter has been at least partly responsible for the Arab Spring uprisings that directly threaten the Saudi royal family's grip on power.",
"On the surface, anyway, this seems like a contradiction.",
"Why would the king's nephew be investing in the medium of his family's enemy?",
"Will he attempt to influence the development of the network or try to make it more susceptible to censorship in a regime-threatening emergency?",
"And what of Twitter? Will the participation of a major investor widely considered to be the beneficiary of one of the world's most exploitative dynasties tarnish the company's otherwise net-friendly brand image?",
"Why would Twitter accept such an investor, and why would he court them in the first place?",
"The answer, most simply, is for the money.",
"Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is no doubt aware of Twitter and Facebook's tremendous influence in his own and neighboring countries, and may even be personally concerned about what a revolution might do to his own and his family's sovereign rule.",
"But why should that stop him from positioning himself to become the wealthiest deposed royal he can be?",
"It's a win-win. For its part, Twitter, which isn't even a public company, is not actually selling shares to a Saudi Arabian prince.",
"It's Twitter's early investors who are selling $300 million of their own shares to the Prince's investing group, \"Kingdom Holding Company.\"",
"Of course, Twitter benefited by selling those shares initially, and now benefits indirectly as the resale of these shares puts the company's total valuation up to $8.4 billion.",
"The dismay and disillusionment associated with this transaction seems overblown to me, or at least misplaced.",
"In short, we are looking at the wrong medium.",
"We are not witnessing Twitter operate against its central, democratizing premise.",
"We are witnessing money operate in perfect accordance with its own, highly abstracting premise.",
"Money, by its very nature, launders.",
"This is exactly what money and the corporation were invented 700 years ago to do: provide kings and other members of the aristocracy with a way to invest at arm's length in projects they may or may not want to be associated with.",
"The corporation gives people a way to invest passively in companies whose operations they might not want to know about, much less be known for.",
"Likewise, generic, central currencies give people who have done Lord-knows-what the very same access to markets as those who have earned their money through sweat or innovation.",
"Once it's money, it is as clean as anyone else's money.",
"Similarly, once you sell your business to shareholders, they can do what they like with the shares.",
"That's what is meant by shareholding.",
"In the simplest language possible, when you sell your business, you have sold your business.",
"(Maybe that's why so many top people have been leaving Twitter lately.",
"Their shares have vested and they are less restricted about what they can do with them once they quit.)",
"This is the beauty and horror of investment capital.",
"Just as a Saudi prince can invest in our revolution-inspiring Internet darlings, each of us is free to invest our own retirement savings in the likes of cigarette and liquor companies, weapons manufacturers, polluters, outsourcers and sweatshop exploiters.",
"We can put our kids through college by investing in the very oil companies through which the Saudi royals made their money in the first place.",
"Then, hopefully, our kids can go on to become peace workers, revolutionaries or even Twitter employees.",
"Or not. If we're truly concerned about the long arm of international investing, we might best reconsider how we invest ourselves.",
"Instead of relying on the anonymity of outsourced investing to the stock market, why not look around for who or what needs money in our towns and communities?",
"The Obama administration is already in the process of curtailing the regulations that prevent nonmillionaire investors from putting money into one anothers' businesses.",
"This means we can begin to depend on local money to start-up our own ventures, and on local ventures to build our own savings.",
"And at that point, if we don't feel like having a Saudi Arabian prince participate, we can just say no.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Douglas Rushkoff."
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"Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal invests $300 million in Twitter shares .",
"Douglas Rushkoff: Investment will not inhibit Twitter's democratizing influence .",
"He says the prince is doing what investors do everywhere: buying shares to make money .",
"Rushkoff: Corporations allow investors to put money in without exercising control ."
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"Beijing (CNN) -- Chinese police have busted two child-trafficking rings after a six-month nationwide investigation, rescuing 178 children and arresting 608 suspects, the country's Ministry of Public Security announced this week.",
"Calling it \"the biggest achievement since the launch of a national campaign against human trafficking,\" the ministry described in detail the joint effort of police forces in ten provinces in statement posted on its official website.",
"A traffic accident in May in southwestern Sichuan Province unexpectedly led the authorities to a network of child-traffickers headed by man named Cai Lianchao, the ministry said.",
"In August, police in southeastern Fujian Province uncovered another human trafficking ring led by a woman named Chen Xiumei, according to the statement.",
"After gathering initial evidence on the two rings that kidnapped and sold children across China, the ministry said 5,000 police officers conducted a highly coordinated nationwide investigation for several more months before finally arresting the suspects last week.",
"Officials placed rescued children in local orphanages while they tried to reunite them with their families, the ministry said.",
"It added that female police officers were dispatched to take care of the children, some of whom were being treated for illnesses.",
"\"We will strictly adhere to our policy of 'zero tolerance' on child-trafficking,\" the ministry emphasized in its statement.",
"\"This policy is aimed at cracking down on the buyers' market,\" said Chen Shiqu, Director of the anti-human trafficking department at the Ministry of Public Security.",
"\"We will ensure the buyers lose both their money and the purchased children, so that we can address the problem from the source by reducing the demand for kidnapped and trafficked children.\"",
"Since the government launched a national campaign against human trafficking in April 2009, police have arrested almost 50,000 suspects, rescuing more than 18,000 children as well as some 35,000 women, the ministry said.",
"Human trafficking is a major problem in China, with children and women being the primary victims.",
"Premier Wen Jiabao pledged last week that the government would continue to crack down on the crime to protect women and children."
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"China: Police have arrested almost 50,000 suspects, rescued more than 18,000 children since 2009 ."
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"(RealSimple.com) -- A novel should be as rich and satisfying as, say, Christmas dinner.",
"White Truffles in Winter, by N. M. Kelby (W. W. Norton & Company, $25).",
"You'll eat up every word of this spicy historical novel.",
"Kelby conjures 1930s Monte Carlo as the poet Delphine Daffis and the French chef Auguste Escoffier cook up the last year of their marriage -- and of their lives.",
"RealSimple.com: Best books to give as gifts .",
"Tell me more about one of my favorite authors.",
"And So It Goes, Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, by Charles J. Shields (Henry Holt, $30).",
"Based on hundreds of interviews with Vonnegut, his friends, and his family members, this sweeping biography tracks the author from his birth in Indiana in 1922 to his final years in Manhattan, revealing the events—including, notably, a stint as a prisoner of war in Germany—that shaped his writing.",
"RealSimple.com: 8 soon-to-be-classic children's books .",
"Inspiring tearjerkers are my weakness.",
"An Invisible Thread, by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski (Howard Books, $25).",
"A type-A sales executive strikes up a lasting friendship with a poverty-stricken 11-year-old panhandler in this absorbing memoir.",
"(You might want to keep a box of tissues handy.)",
"RealSimple.com: 22 creative gifts for women .",
"A good laugh will help me beat the cold-weather blahs.",
"Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?",
"(And Other Concerns), by Mindy Kaling (Crown Archetype, $25).",
"Reading this collection of essays feels a bit like gabbing with your best girlfriend.",
"Here, The Office writer and cast member riffs on romantic comedies, karaoke, party etiquette, and more.",
"RealSimple.com: 11 unique gifts for techies .",
"Sophisticated literature for a short attention span?",
"Yes! RealSimple.com: Inexpensive ideas for holiday party food .",
"The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories, by Don DeLillo (Scribner, $24).",
"In his first collection of short stories (written between 1979 and 2011), the National Book Award winner takes the reader from a tiny airport in the Caribbean to the South Bronx to outer space.",
"DeLillo's inimitable and always riveting voice makes characters—and their inscrutable situations—feel palpable.",
"RealSimple.com: Easy ways to reduce holiday stress .",
"I want a book that really makes me think.",
"Blue Nights, by Joan Didion (Alfred A. Knopf, $25).",
"In this moving follow-up to her acclaimed memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, Didion meditates on aging and the loss of her daughter, achingly recalling moments throughout their life together in vivid detail.",
"RealSimple.com: 9 healthy holiday-eating strategies .",
"Get a FREE TRIAL issue of Real Simple - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2011 Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Read \"White Truffles in Winter\" for a rich tale about 1930s Monte Carlo .",
"If you're looking for a good laugh try \"Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?",
"(And Other Concerns?)\"",
"In her book \"Blue Nights\" Joan Didion reflects on aging and the loss of her daughter ."
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"(CNN) -- Movies are an especially fluid form of art.",
"A person's feelings about a particular film are based on many factors, including his or her mood when watching.",
"On a more cynical day, I might not have enjoyed Cameron Crowe's \"We Bought a Zoo\" as much as I did.",
"Letting a film sink in over time can change things, too.",
"For example, in a relatively short period, \"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo\" moved from No.",
"10 to No. 6 on my own personal list of the year's best films.",
"However, I'm not going to rank this list in a strict one through 10 fashion.",
"It's not fair to the films.",
"This has been a truly excellent year in the cinema.",
"I could easily include 25 \"top\" films on my list, not to mention the films I haven't had a chance to see that are appearing on \"Best of\" lists around the Web.",
"Still, my favorite film of the year has remained the same since the moment I saw it at the Toronto International Film Festival.",
"I won't say that Alexander Payne's \"The Descendants\" is a better film than any other released this year, but I will say it's my favorite.",
"It's as honest a film as I have seen in many years.",
"And, without getting into specifics, I can relate to some of the issues and emotions that make up the core of this film.",
"Sometimes when a loved one is dying, you have to laugh because there's no more crying to be done.",
"Sometimes you do get angry at them.",
"Angry for doing something foolish that made them sick in the first place (drinking, smoking, etc.)",
"or even angry at them for doing something as \"selfish\" as leaving you.",
"George Clooney's performance is also my favorite by a male actor this year.",
"Over the years, Clooney has worked to overcome his heartthrob image and expand his range.",
"As the cuckolded husband dealing with his dying wife, he suddenly becomes the only parent to two girls.",
"He's also dealing with a major business deal that affects the entire state of Hawaii.",
"Clooney works with all these emotions and more.",
"I'm not sure he could have played this role as convincingly 10 years ago, but he has matured and grown as an actor to the point where he's got about as much range as anyone out there.",
"Which brings me to my favorite supporting role of the year: Shailene Woodley in \"The Descendants.\"",
"She plays the rebellious elder daughter forced by life to grow up exactly when she needs to.",
"She's dealing with many of the same emotions as her father, but, at 17, hasn't learned to control them as well.",
"She wears them on her sleeve and has to try and put them in check while serving as a co-parent for 10-year-old little sis Scottie (Amara Miller).",
"It's hard enough being a teenager, but dealing with such a dramatic upheaval at the same time is a double whammy.",
"Her progress from drunk, night-golfing truant to responsible older sister is not without bumps, but Woodley is natural and a joy to watch.",
"Another reason I'm touting the strength of the cinema this year is the acting, especially by women.",
"Michelle Williams (\"My Week With Marilyn\"), Kirsten Dunst (\"Melancholia\"), Carey Mulligan (\"Shame\"), Rooney Mara (\"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo\"), Leila Hatami (\"A Separation\"), Charlize Theron (\"Young Adult\"), Elizabeth Olsen (\"Martha Marcy May Marlene\"), Felicity Jones (\"Like Crazy\") and Keira Knightley (\"A Dangerous Method\") are collectively an astonishingly good group of performances.",
"That doesn't even include Glenn Close in \"Albert Nobbs\" or anyone in \"The Help,\" as I haven't seen them yet.",
"Jessica Chastain deserves special praise, however.",
"She was in seven (yes, SEVEN!)",
"films in 2011: \"The Debt,\" \"Tree of Life,\" \"Coriolanus,\" \"The Help,\" \"Wilde Salome,\" \"Texas Killing Fields\" and \"Take Shelter.\"",
"I'm still making my way through all seven, but this gives me an opportunity to mention a film that just missed my top 10: Jeff Nichols' \"Take Shelter.\"",
"Wow. This one pretty much blew me away and nothing would make me happier than if Chastain and co-star Michael Shannon (\"Boardwalk Empire\") were to receive Oscar nominations.",
"Shannon gives a magnificent performance as husband and father Curtis, who may just be going out of his mind and who is deeply aware of that possibility.",
"(His mother was institutionalized for paranoid schizophrenia when he was a child).",
"We've all seen actors portray someone going mad, but watching Shannon walk the tightrope between having delusions and recognizing them as such -- while being powerless against believing them as the truth -- is truly harrowing.",
"Top 10: . \"The Artist\" \"The Descendants\" \"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo\" \"Martha Marcy May Marlene\" \"Melancholia\" \"Midnight in Paris\" \"Moneyball\" \"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy\" \"A Separation\" \"Shame\" Honorable mentions: .",
"\"A Dangerous Method\" \"Hell and Back Again\" \"The Ides of March\" \"Like Crazy\" \"Margin Call\" \"Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol\" \"Life in a Day\" \"My Week With Marilyn\" \"Page One: Inside the New York Times\" \"Senna\" \"Take Shelter\" \"The Skin I Live In\" \"The Trip\" \"We Bought a Zoo\" \"Winnie the Pooh\" \"Young Adult\" Best Lead Male Performance: .",
"George Clooney, \"The Descendants\" Jean Dujardin, \"The Artist\" Michael Fassbender, \"Shame\" and \"A Dangerous Method\" Peyman Maadi, \"A Separation\" Gary Oldman, \"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy\" Brad Pitt, \"Moneyball\" Michael Shannon, \"Take Shelter\" Best Lead Female Performance: .",
"Kirsten Dunst, \"Melancholia\" Leila Hatami, \"A Separation\" Felicity Jones, \"Like Crazy\" Keira Knightley, \"A Dangerous Method\" Rooney Mara, \"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo\" Elizabeth Olsen, \"Martha Marcy May Marlene\" Charlize Theron, \"Young Adult\" Michelle Williams, \"My Week With Marilyn\" Best Supporting Male Performance: .",
"Kenneth Branagh, \"My Week With Marilyn\" Albert Brooks, \"Drive\" John Hawkes, \"Martha Marcy May Marlene\" Patton Oswalt, \"Young Adult\" Brad Pitt, \"Tree of Life\" Corey Stoll, \"Midnight in Paris\" Uggie, \"The Artist\" Best Supporting Female Performance: .",
"Bérénice Bejo, \"The Artist\" Jessica Chastain, \"Take Shelter\" and \"Tree of Life\" Charlotte Gainsbourg, \"Melancholia\" Carey Mulligan, \"Shame\" Shailene Woodley, \"The Descendants\""
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"Shailene Woodley plays Clooney's rebellious daughter in \"The Descendants\""
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"London (CNN) -- An artwork by Barbara Hepworth, one of the most highly regarded sculptors of the 20th century, has been stolen from a park in London, amid what art experts fear is a metal theft \"epidemic.\"",
"The bronze sculpture called \"Two Forms (Divided Circle)\" stood in Dulwich Park for more than 40 years until it was removed on Monday night.",
"The artwork was insured for £500,000 ($785,000) but one art expert said it was likely to be sold for scrap for just a few hundred pounds.",
"Two years ago police said they believed that a Henry Moore bronze sculpture \"Reclining Figure,\" valued at £3 million, stolen from the late artist's estate north of London was probably sold for just £1,500.",
"The crime comes as surging demand for copper, lead and bronze has led to thefts from railway lines, phone lines and even war memorials in Britain.",
"This has led to delays on the rail network, while the theft of cables at a Welsh hospital last week led to the cancellation of 100 operations, including some for cancer treatment.",
"Julian Radcliffe, chairman of the Art Loss Register, which tracks stolen works, said the chance of the Hepworth sculpture being recovered was low.",
"\"The police are putting much effort into this theft, but due to the metal theft epidemic it was probably stolen for its scrap value.\"",
"The artwork was unlikely to have been stolen by a collector, Radcliffe said.",
"\"Of 2,000 stolen items recovered in recent years, all but two were taken for financial gain.",
"Any collector would want to publicize that they had an artwork so the idea of someone sitting in a cave surrounded by art is just a figment of novelists' imagination.\"",
"Art lovers were distraught over the theft of the work by Hepworth, who died in a fire at her studio in St. Ives, Cornwall, in 1975.",
"Simon Wallis, director of the Hepworth Wakefield gallery in northern England, said: \"Barbara Hepworth is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century and appreciation of her work has never been greater.",
"\"Her work is a major part of this country's cultural heritage and we very much hope the work will be recovered, so that the public can once again enjoy Two Forms (Divided Circle) in its original setting.\"",
"UK politicians are facing calls to increase controls on scrap metal dealers to counter thefts during the economic downturn.",
"The price of copper has risen exponentially due to increased demand for raw materials from countries such as China, and now trades at more $8,500 per ton.",
"Gold, brass and lead values have also increased by almost 20% in 2011."
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"Art expert says it was likely sold for scrap for just a few hundred pounds .",
"Demand for metals has led to thefts from railways, phone lines and war memorials .",
"Politicians are facing calls to increase controls on scrap metal dealers to counter thefts ."
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"(CNN) -- The company that inspected a Colorado cantaloupe farm at the center of a deadly listeriosis outbreak ignored federal regulators' \"best and most timely\" advice on processing produce, a congressional committee has found.",
"The FDA cited \"serious design flaws\" and a \"lack of awareness\" of safety standards at Jensen Farms as the likely sources of the bacterial contamination behind the deaths.",
"But in a report issued this week, congressional investigators found the company that conducted a July safety audit at the farm, Bio Food Safety, gave it near-perfect marks despite finding three \"major deficiencies.\"",
"In particular, it noted that the company washed its cantaloupe in water that was not treated with chlorine or any other anti-bacterial additive -- a process the FDA said was inconsistent with its recommendations and \"a probable cause of the contamination.\"",
"The inspector did not take points off for the finding, the report states.",
"\"The guidance which Bio Food Safety did not consider in its audit represents the agency's best and most timely advice on how processing should be handled,\" the House Energy and Commerce Committee concluded in its bipartisan report.",
"The September outbreak killed 30 people, triggered a miscarriage in one woman and sickened more than 115 others -- the deadliest outbreak of foodborne illness in more than a quarter-century, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.",
"What is listeria monocytogenes?",
"Bio Food Safety President Jerry Walzel declined comment on the report Wednesday, citing a pending lawsuit.",
"But he told committee investigators that his company followed FDA regulations, and the agency's guidelines are \"opinions.\"",
"\"We are not supposed to be opinionated on this,\" the report quotes Walzel.",
"\"We are supposed to go by FDA's regulations ... FDA should have mandated that you cannot sell cantaloupes that have not been sanitized.\"",
"The report states that in 2010, Walzel recommended Jensen Farms replace a water cooler used to chill the fruit before packaging, citing it as a potential safety \"hot spot.\"",
"The owners replaced the device in 2011, buying equipment that had been used in a potato plant and refitting it.",
"In October, the FDA found that equipment \"did not lend itself to be easily or routinely cleaned and sanitized,\" allowing dirt to build up.",
"It also criticized Jensen Farms for allowing water to pool on the floor of the packing facility: samples of that water tested positive for the bacteria behind the outbreak.",
"Jensen Farms had not returned a phone call seeking comment Wednesday afternoon.",
"The FDA does not regulate private auditors such as Bio Food Safety, a subcontractor for the company Jensen Farms hired to conduct inspections.",
"Under a law passed in 2011, the agency is required to set up an accreditation system and set standards for those firms."
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"The September listeria outbreak killed 30 people .",
"The FDA traced the outbreak to a Colorado farm .",
"Inspectors hired by the farm ignored FDA guidance, a new report finds .",
"The company told investigators it followed FDA rules ."
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"(CNN) -- You just can't tell with Rupert.",
"According to his friends -- and there are still many in journalism, even if British politicians are for once giving him a very wide berth -- this is Rupert Murdoch at his back-to-the-wall, defiant, unpredictable best: pulling rabbits out of hats, raising rock-bottom morale and announcing the launch of a new Sunday tabloid to replace the defunct News of the World.",
"And not just \"some time soon,\" but this coming Sunday.",
"According to his enemies -- and there are still as many of those as there have ever been -- this is Rupert at his cynical, death-defying, manipulative worst, seeking to convince the world that his Augean Stables have been swept clean and that his commitment to tabloid newsprint remains undimmed, even as rumors abound of more imminent arrests of Sun journalists for bribing police and other public officials.",
"So is the Sun on Sunday a last hurrah or a phoenix from the ashes?",
"Probably a bit of both.",
"There is no question that the announcement of its launch, coupled with reinstatement of those journalists who had been suspended following their arrests (unless and until charged), has raised morale at Murdoch's Wapping base in London.",
"Proof, they say, that he still has newspaper ink running through his veins and -- while still committed to rooting out past criminal activity -- is intent on demonstrating that there is still a market for good, old-fashioned, raucous, tub-thumping Sunday tabloid journalism.",
"For anyone who cares about journalism -- and jobs for journalists -- that must be good news.",
"But even the less cynical must be asking themselves a difficult question about the new creation: Since it won't be paying private investigators for confidential information, or putting celebrities under surveillance, or hacking phones for gossip, or covertly paying police officers for scoops, what sort of newspaper will emerge from Wapping?",
"And in a market of declining circulations, where the Sun brand is in danger of becoming almost as tainted as its now deceased News of the World sister, will it really make its owner any money?",
"Perhaps Rupert really doesn't care that much, and really does want to indulge his favorite child while demonstrating that even at the age of 80 he can still run a successful newspaper.",
"And perhaps he still sees his newspapers as the route to that political clout that he had become accustomed to wielding so effortlessly in Britain and which -- conceivably -- may not be quite as enervated as some commentators assume and most detractors hope.",
"Either way, realistically the ultimate strategic decision will lie in New York rather than London, within the boardrooms of News Corp. and its institutional shareholders.",
"Much as it might pain Rupert himself, the UK newspaper operation that once provided the fuel for his burgeoning empire is now little more than a flea.",
"More worryingly, the flea is increasingly becoming an irritant and has the potential for infecting the whole operation should evidence of serious and endemic corporate corruption come to light.",
"News Corp's. Management and Standards Committee is still, as far as we know, rooting through over 3 million potentially toxic e-mails and is committed to exposing any wrongdoing in all News International titles.",
"There is still plenty of scope for further scandal, further arrests, further ignominy for the British operation.",
"It is quite plausible that sometime soon, New York will issue the death warrant for a very short-lived operation.",
"Assuming, however, that the death sentence is commuted and that Rupert can deliver a Sunday newspaper with all the verve, scoops and investigative flair -- but without the egregious excesses that have come to typify much of the British tabloid culture -- what next?",
"The Sun is currently selling around 2.7 million copies a day, slightly less than the 2.8 million circulation of the News of the World when it closed.",
"Like all British newspapers -- and especially the tabloids -- it is on a steep downward curve: Ten years ago, the Sun was selling 3.5 million and the News of the World over 4 million.",
"Traditionally Britain, along with Japan, has been home to one of the most vibrant and profitable national newspaper markets in the world, but those days are ebbing away.",
"As advertisers and readers desert to online (and free), the business model for tabloid newspapers is becoming increasingly precarious.",
"That's why it is very hard to be bullish about the Sun on Sunday, even if we attribute to Rupert the most benign of motives: If New York doesn't pull the rug from under his new baby, the inexorable logic of the market almost certainly will.",
"Follow CNN Opinion on Twitter .",
"Join the conversation on Facebook .",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Steven Barnett."
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"Beset with woes, Rupert Murdoch is launching a new Sunday newspaper in the UK .",
"Steven Barnett asks whether it's the last gasp of Murdoch's newspapers in London .",
"He says it has boosted the morale of journalists at the troubled Sun newspaper .",
"Murdoch's company, News Corp., continues to investigate the practices of his newspapers ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- A 24-year-old man was charged Monday with arson in connection with a rash of car and building fires across the Los Angeles area, authorities said.",
"Harry Burkhart was charged with one count of arson of an inhabited dwelling and will likely face additional charges as the investigation moves forward, said Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.",
"Arson investigators counted 52 fires, most starting in parked cars, since Friday morning, but none since the man was was detained at 3 a.m. Monday, according to officials.",
"Burkhart is currently being held without bail.",
"\"These were serious and potentially deadly crimes that needlessly endangered thousands of innocent lives,\" Villaraigosa told reporters.",
"\"These crimes will not be tolerated.\"",
"Burkhart is believed to a foreign national from Germany, according to Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck.",
"Authorities hope, and believe one arsonist acted alone, but will behave as though he did not until they know for sure, Beck said.",
"Burkhart's arrest came when a sheriff's deputy stopped a van near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in Hollywood early Monday, said Los Angeles Fire Capt.",
"Jaime Moore.",
"The van matched the description of a vehicle believed related to some of the suspicious fires and the driver resembled a man seen in a surveillance video near the scene of one fire, he said.",
"The video showed a man who appears to be in his late 20s to mid-30s, with a ponytail, dark hair and a receding hairline.",
"No one was killed or seriously injured in the fires, though one firefighter and one civilian sustained minor injuries, said Los Angeles City Fire Chief Brian Cummings.",
"Both he and the mayor estimated the fires caused some $3 million in damages.",
"Among the homes damaged was one that was once occupied by the Doors frontman Jim Morrison.",
"Eleven of the fires took place overnight, in the very early hours of Monday: nine within the city of Los Angeles and two in West Hollywood, fire department spokesman Cecco Secci said.",
"Cars were set on fire in Hollywood and Van Nuys, Moore said.",
"Los Angeles has not seen such a rash of fires since the city's riots in 1992.",
"CNN's Irving Last, Josh Levs, Drew Griffin, Stan Wilson and Casey Wian contributed to this report."
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"Authorities believe the suspect is a foreign national from Germany .",
"Harry Burkhart, 24, was charged with one count of arson of an inhabited dwelling .",
"He will likely face more charges as the investigation continues, the mayor says .",
"The fires caused some $3 million in damages ."
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"(CNN) -- Police on the Caribbean island of Nevis said Monday a local man has been arrested and charged in the recent armed robbery of vacationing Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.",
"The suspect, 28-year-old Vedel Browne, turned himself in Sunday after officials declared him \"a person of interest,\" and released his photo to the media, according to Sgt.",
"Cledwyn Jeffers of the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force.",
"Browne was formally charged with robbery Monday afternoon, said Sgt.",
"Stephen Hector of the police force.",
"Hector said the offense is a felony and carries a maximum sentence of 20 years upon conviction.",
"Breyer, his wife, her sister, and another guest were in the justice's vacation home February 9 when an intruder armed with a machete broke in and robbed the occupants of about $1,000.",
"Officials said no one was hurt in the incident.",
"The male assailant fled the scene, according to court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg.",
"The robbery was reported to local authorities shortly after it happened.",
"Breyer and his family have since returned home.",
"The justice attended a dinner last week in Washington with Vice President Joe Biden and the visiting Chinese vice president.",
"Police officials in a news release said Browne has worked as a gardener, and Jeffers described him as a \"Rastafarian.\"",
"Law enforcement learned of his identity from informants, but it is unclear why Browne was suspected for investigation.",
"A local law enforcement official had said the evidence indicated the incident was \"a crime of opportunity,\" and that police have seen nothing so far to indicate Breyer was targeted for robbery.",
"There was no immediate reaction to the arrest from Breyer's office or U.S. federal law enforcement.",
"The U.S. Marshals Service provides protection for members of the high court when they are traveling domestically, and agency spokesman Jeff Carter said last week the agency was \"aware of the incident involving Justice Breyer on the Caribbean island of Nevis and is assisting the Supreme Court Police and local law enforcement authorities with the investigation as needed.\"",
"He did not elaborate. FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said after the robbery, \"We are assisting the local police with their investigation.\"",
"Commissioner C.G.",
"Walwyn of the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force had said, \"Our American-trained crime scene investigators and the members of our Criminal Investigators (unit) are working closely with the FBI on this case.\"",
"Breyer has had no comment on the matter.",
"The high court resumes public sessions Tuesday, after a month-long recess.",
"Nevis is part of the West Indies chain known as the Leeward Islands, located about 350 miles southeast of Puerto Rico.",
"The court does not talk publicly about specific security arrangements for the justices, either when they are at home or on their frequent travels.",
"During the court's break, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg traveled to Egypt and Tunisia last month as part of an outreach program sponsored by the State Department, which provided her security in the volatile region.",
"Justice Sonia Sotomayor traveled to Guam and Hawaii, and Justice Antonin Scalia gave a speech in Chicago.",
"Attacks on members of the federal judiciary are rare, but not new.",
"Then-Justice David Souter was assaulted by a group of young males in 2004 while jogging alone in the evening near his Washington home.",
"Souter suffered some minor bruises and was briefly treated then released from a local hospital.",
"Justice Byron White was attacked in July 1982 while giving a speech in Utah.",
"That incident led to regular protection by U.S. marshals for members of the court when they travel.",
"The 73-year-old Breyer was nominated to the high court in 1994, and is known as one of the most active and engaging members of the court.",
"His wife is Dr. Joanna Breyer, a renowned pediatric psychologist.",
"CNN's Nick Valencia, Nigel Walwyn and Carol Cratty contributed to this report."
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"Neither Breyer, his wife nor two others with them were injured ."
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"(CNN) -- The National Collegiate Athletic Association on Tuesday imposed a postseason ban on The Ohio State University's football program, effective next year, citing the school for \"failure to monitor, preferential treatment and extra benefit violations.\"",
"Ohio State had previously said it was vacating all 12 of its victories from the 2010 football season and placing itself on two years' probation after a scandal that cost coach Jim Tressel his job.",
"Tressel resigned after being fined $250,000 and suspended for lying to NCAA officials investigating allegations that his players had received special benefits from local businesses.",
"Several players, including star quarterback Terrelle Pryor, allegedly swapped team and personal memorabilia and equipment for tattoos and other benefits.",
"Tressel became aware of the transactions, which violate NCAA rules, but did not report them on a form that all coaches are required to submit.",
"\"Of great concern to the committee was the fact that the former head coach became aware of these violations and decided not to report the violations to institutional officials, the Big Ten Conference or the NCAA,\" the NCAA Division 1 Committee on Infractions said in its report.",
"Tressel received a five-year show-cause order that limits his athletic-related duties and applies to any NCAA school that may want to hire him.",
"In addition to the postseason ban, the NCAA imposed penalties of additional scholarship reductions, three years' probation, and the forfeiture of almost $340,000 and all of Ohio State's victories for the 2010 season.",
"\"We are surprised and disappointed with the NCAA's decision,\" Gene Smith, Ohio State's athletics director and associate vice president, said in a statement.",
"\"However, we have decided not to appeal the decision because we need to move forward as an institution.\"",
"\"My primary concern, as always, is for our students, and this decision punishes future students for the actions of others in the past,\" Smith said.",
"\"Knowing our student-athletes, however, I have no doubt in their capacity to turn this into something positive -- for themselves and for the institution.\""
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"NEW: The NCAA imposes penalties beyond those self-imposed by the university .",
"NEW: It cites school for \"failure to monitor, preferential treatment and extra benefit violations\"\nNEW: Ohio State will not appeal the decision .",
"School's football program was rocked by a scandal involving players swapping memorabilia ."
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"(CNN) -- Charlize Theron won an Oscar for covering up her beauty and finding grains of sympathy, as well as revulsion, for the serial killer Aileen Wuornos in \"Monster.\"",
"She deserves to win a second nomination for playing the sexy, unmoored, utterly reprehensible Mavis Gary in \"Young Adult.\"",
"Mavis is one of those people blessed with good looks, talent and brains, but whose sense of entitlement far outstrips any civilized social boundaries.",
"She's a pure narcissist, oblivious to other people's feelings and contemptuous of any experience that doesn't feed her own ego.",
"In other words, Mavis is another monster, but a monster who can pass for beautiful with only a couple of hours in the salon.",
"As we know (you see it spread all over the supermarket tabloids every week), there's a perverse thrill in watching one of the beautiful people fall apart.",
"And there's some of that same schadenfreude in play while watching the new black comedy from the \"Juno\" combo, writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman.",
"Mavis is a ghostwriter for a successful young adult book series, and even that minor claim to fame is soon to be extinguished: The series is played out and the novel she is working on will be the last of them.",
"Perhaps that's why she feels compelled to head back home when she receives an e-mail from an ex-boyfriend, Buddy Slade (Patrick Wilson), announcing the birth of his first child.",
"Figuring, very, very, wrongly, that this message must be some kind of coded cry for help, Mavis hops into her Mini and heads straight to Mercury, Minnesota, where she grew up, and where she means to reconnect with Buddy and free him from his domesticated servitude.",
"As plans go, this one has \"recipe for disaster\" written all over it.",
"But Mavis sees things differently: It's all for love, a romantic quest, the oldest story in the book.",
"First, though, she bumps into Matt (Patton Oswalt), a broken-down part-time waiter with a bum leg, who claims to have had the locker next to hers all through high school.",
"The cane is a giveaway - \"You're the Hate Crime Guy!\"",
"-- the hetero victim of a gay-bashing in senior year that left him crippled and understandably bitter.",
"Reitman punctuates the movie with shots of Mavis putting on her camouflage: nail treatments, wardrobe choices.",
"She has style and beauty at her fingertips.",
"But the first time we see her we get a keener sense of this woman on a precipice: sprawled face down in bed, half undressed, hungover.",
"It's the difference between Mavis as she wants to be seen and as she really is, if she could only admit it.",
"Matt is the only one she allows into her trust, either because she badly needs a drinking buddy and he has a distillery in his garage, or because she's so far above him in any social criteria that she understands he poses no discernible threat.",
"But she's wrong about this, too (just as she's wrong about everything).",
"Hovering somewhere between Jiminy Cricket and partner-in-crime, Matt is the movie's comic safety valve.",
"Oswalt steers a path for us, transfixed, attracted and appalled by this woman's reckless, tunnel-vision trajectory.",
"Oswald is also the beneficiary of Cody's most sardonic one-liners, and could wind up with an Oscar nomination of his own.",
"Once or twice Mavis is permitted a shred of insight.",
"Reluctantly reunited with her parents, she softly confesses that she thinks she might be an alcoholic.",
"They foolishly laugh off the revelation, which if nothing else suggests where she may have come by her capacity for denial.",
"Then toward the end, when denial just won't wash any longer, she talks about the necessity for change.",
"But again, she chooses the wrong confessor, and promptly reverts to type.",
"It's a brave movie that crushes our hopes of redemption so conclusively, and a promising indication that Reitman and Cody are growing up.",
"It's not hard to spot familiar feminist, or postfeminist themes from Cody's \"Juno\" and \"Jennifer's Body\" here, reworked with greater complexity and depth.",
"Partly that's a tribute to Theron's performance, of course, which never once succumbs to the \"psychotic prom queen b****\" caricature that one character thinks she sees.",
"Even when she's at her worst (almost all the time), there's always an undertow of panic and disturbance in Mavis, the barely suppressed horror that time is running out and she's thrown her eggs in the wrong basket.",
"We may find it impossible to like her, but it's easy to feel sorry for her."
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"(CNN) -- Economists pore over central bank interest rate decisions, key retail numbers and consumer confidence figures for signs of economic health -- but could road toll collections also carry clues for the future?",
"Academics at Germany's Institute for the Study of Labor, based in Bonn, believe they can.",
"They have developed a system, called the Toll Index, to tap road toll data for indications of industrial production in Europe's biggest economy.",
"\"Toll collectors use it to bill people, to finance our roads.",
"We use it usefully to solve early forecasting problems,\" Klaus Zimmermann, one of the institute's directors, told CNN.",
"Most heavy vehicles in Germany carry GPS technology which links to a satellite system for collecting road tolls.",
"The data -- which calculates the number of trips made across borders -- is then used by Zimmerman's team for economic forecasting.",
"DSV head Jens Bjorn Andersen, one of Europe's biggest transport companies, points out the industry is one of the first to feel the brunt of an economic downturn.",
"The industry suffers if consumers cut back on spending, because there is less need to transport goods.",
"Transportation was hit by a rapid drop in volumes after the third quarter of 2008, as the global slump kicked in, Andersen said.",
"\"The downturn in the whole world economy was probably seen first in transport companies,\" he added.",
"Driving a truck through Europe's debt crisis .",
"According to Zimmermann, the transportation industry is able to give analysts a quick status check on the economy, rather than having to wait weeks or months for official data to be released.",
"\"[It's] the first forecast of the economy which is actually better than existing economic indicators,\" he said.",
"Nikolaus Askitas, the institute's chief technology officer, said they considered exploring river and rail transport for economic indicators but the trucking industry provided the best data.",
"\"[How do you] bring the product from the production site to the harbor or to the railway station?",
"By trucks,\" said Askitas.",
"The Toll Index still has some kinks, such as inability to differentiate between trucks which are carrying goods for export and those which are not.",
"But its developers argue the speed of its data analysis delivers an insight into market movements as they are happening.",
"CNN's Emily Smith contributed to this story ."
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"The CEO of DSV says transport companies are one of the first industries to feel the brunt of economic downturns ."
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"(CNN) -- The last time you went to the doctor's office, you probably got some numbers representing your pulse, blood pressure, maybe even cholesterol and weight.",
"But what does that really mean for you?",
"Alexander Tsiaras, founder of theVisualMD, wants you to be able to see the processes that are making you as healthy or as sick as you are and act on that knowledge.",
"TheVisualMD has detailed, colorful libraries that visualize aspects of sickness and health based on real medical data, and it is now presenting a new tool for breaking bad habits in 2012.",
"The new program, which launched this week, is called \"The 9 Visual Rules of Wellness.\"",
"Each rule is accompanied by a slew of videos, visualizations and interactive graphics.",
"More components of wellness rules will be rolled out every Monday over the next several months until April 9.",
"\"If I could see inside myself the healing, and I could see the progress of it, that is inspiring, and that would keep you on the path of following your pathway back to health,\" Tsiaras said.",
"\"That's where I think the power of visualization stands.\"",
"Tsiaras developed the wellness rules program in collaboration with mind-body healing guru Dr. Deepak Chopra.",
"\"When you add a story to data , you give it soul,\" Chopra said in an e-mail to CNN.",
"\"[We] worked together to see how we can inspire people to take charge of their well being and feel emotionally committed to it.",
"This is the future of well being.\"",
"TheVisualMD aims to have companies sponsor all of the rules.",
"The rule's sponsor is Quest Diagnostics.",
"The first rule is called Baseline Your Health.",
"That means knowing where you are in terms of measures like blood pressure, pulse, weight, blood counts and cholesterol levels.",
"When these indicators are out of whack, they can lead to poor health.",
"To understand what these tests at the doctor's office measure, you can look through the Biomarker Library, which shows you visually what these measurements mean to your body.",
"The library explains what value ranges mean and what problems may stem from abnormal values.",
"Besides detailed graphics and videos, the site features chapters on things like how to keep your blood pressure healthy -- manage your stress, lose weight, get enough sleep and don't smoke.",
"Subsequent wellness rules are meant to help define your wellness mission, develop and maintain nutritional balance, get aerobic and anaerobic exercise, avoid smoking, take a moderate approach, make sleep a priority, manage your stress and embrace joy.",
"The website also will launch a personal health record feature, where you can keep track of your own health indicators and create a sort of health narrative of your life, Tsiaras said.",
"There are generally four types of people who will use the 9 Rules of Wellness, Tsiaras said: There's the great athlete who wants to get in even better shape.",
"There's the person who's well and wants to stay that way.",
"There's the person who already has high cholesterol, or needs a stent or has to take control of health in order to not get worse.",
"And then there's the person who has had chemotherapy or a severe surgery and needs to get on a wellness program in a specific way.",
"Breaking bad habits is one fundamental goal of the program.",
"Tsiaras remembers he used to go home and run every evening, but after starting a family and a company, the pressures of being a good husband, father, pet owner and boss turned that run into a glass of wine.",
"Then a second glass of wine, and a third.",
"It turned into 10 pounds within a couple of years.",
"His brain became accustomed to having that wine, to the point where the day was not complete without it.",
"\"One of the problems is that we have now demanded too much of wellness,\" Tsiaras said.",
"\"It's almost impossible to be well and to be accomplished in the Western world.\"",
"The key to kicking a habit like this is taking small steps, Tsiaras said.",
"Replace the behavior -- such as the wine -- with a run or a stretch.",
"And he's not saying you can't indulge every now and then.",
"For instance, if you're exercising and controlling stress and love chocolate, it's fine to have a piece of chocolate.",
"\"It's when you have the bar of chocolate, and you're becoming sluggish, you're feeling tight, and you feel like you're aging, then you sort of have to go back and look at the size of the piece of chocolate,\" he said.",
"Like the biological systems he studies, Tsiaras' personal story is intricate and complex.",
"Despite attending schools such as the prestigious Amherst College, he did not graduate from college.",
"At 19, he went to his parents' village in Greece and spent a year herding goats on the Macedonian-Albanian border.",
"He wrote a book on ancient funeral and exhumation ceremonies called \"Death Rituals of Rural Greece.\"",
"\"When I came back I wanted to find for my artwork that kind of drama,\" he said.",
"\"I found it in the X-ray files of teaching hospitals.\"",
"Tsiaras became inspired by seemingly mundane black-and-white medical scans from the lab of his brother, an ophthalmologist.",
"His photography of medical procedures became featured in LIFE magazine.",
"To take his ideas to the next level, Tsiaras needed to be able to communicate with people in a wide range of disciplines and then bring those ideas together.",
"He taught himself advanced mathematics and physics and, later, computer languages.",
"He designed a lens for a microscope responsible for photographing the first images of human eggs in an in vitro fertilization program.",
"A photograph of a fetus from outside the amniotic sac came about because of a lens he designed.",
"And he started the company Anatomical Travelogue, the umbrella of theVisualMD.",
"Despite not having a formal medical education, Tsiaras has been able to showcase biological systems as never before.",
"What he calls \"visualizations\" are not photos or animations, but rather the result of a collaboration between illustrators, biologists, programmers and researchers working with raw data.",
"Through their expertise, numbers and static black-and-white scans come to life.",
"Tsiaras and Chopra met at the TEDMED conference in 2009, right after Tsiaras showed a film about fetal development.",
"\"As soon as I hit the bottom stairs, there was Deepak Chopra there saying, 'Only you can visualize consciousness,'\" Tsiaras remembers.",
"\"I had no idea what he was talking about.\"",
"But the two got to talking about mind-body connections, and the value of CT and MRI scans in visualizing them.",
"They got to thinking about what happens in the brain not only when you're stressed out, but also when you're feeling joy.",
"What happens if you're a good parent and nurture your child?",
"We hear so much about things going wrong in your body -- what happens when you do something right?",
"These are some questions that they were interested in tackling together.",
"And the last rule of wellness is, of course, \"embrace Joy.\"",
"Tsiaras is often amazed as he sees how data can be transformed into meaningful visualizations that showcase processes in the body.",
"At a certain point, he says, it becomes personal.",
"For instance, while studying the effects of some experimental Alzheimer's drugs on beta-amyloid plaques associated with the disease, he found out his mother has the disease.",
"\"The only thing you can do is get up in the morning and say, I've got this very powerful data that if I can illuminate it to the point and interpret it to the point where I can help a researcher come to an epiphany because of the clarity of the information about what we're actually seeing, then I've done something good for my mother,\" he said."
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"Nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress and joy are other topics .",
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"Seoul (CNN) -- South Korea's actions toward Pyongyang after the death of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Il were intended to show that Seoul does not have animosity toward the North, President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea said in a meeting with political leaders Thursday.",
"Lee told members of the governing and opposition parties that he believed North Korea had probably not expected South Korea to take such measures toward the North.",
"Seoul expressed its sympathy to the North Korean people through a statement on Tuesday, a day after North Korea's state-run media announced the death of Kim.",
"South Korea also said that while it would not send an official delegation to the North, it would allow a limited number of private groups to send delegations to the North if desired.",
"It also announced that it would let civilian groups send messages of condolence to the North upon approval of the Unification Ministry in Seoul.",
"Pyongyang said Thursday that it would welcome a private delegation from Hyundai Asan, a South Korean company with heavy investments in the North, to pay respects to Kim.",
"North Korea delivered the message -- addressed to the chairwoman of Hyundai Group, Hyun Jeong-eun -- through the company's office in the North's Kaesong Industrial Park some 45 kilometers (27 miles) north of Seoul, said Roh Jee-hwan, a Hyundai spokesman.",
"Hyundai Asan has held a working level meeting with the government to discuss the details of the trip, according to the Unification Ministry.",
"The recent moves have been considered a break from the hardline approach to the North that Lee's administration had taken since coming into office in 2008.",
"It contrasted with Seoul's reaction to the death of North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung, in 1994 when the conservative South Korean government at the time did not offer its condolences.",
"\"The swift stabilization of North Korea's leadership is in the interest of all neighboring countries,\" Lee said Thursday.",
"Many observers see the recent moves as efforts by Lee to improve the soured relationship with Pyongyang after tensions flared last year because of the sinking of a South Korean naval vessel and the shelling of an island near Seoul.",
"Seoul demanded an apology for the sinking of the ship, which killed 46 seamen, but Pyongyang denied involvement.",
"And North Korea said the South had provoked the bombing of the island, which led to four deaths.",
"\"The death of Kim Jong Il can be seen both as a crisis and an opportunity,\" said Kwon Young-se, the chairman of the South Korean Parliament's Intelligence Committee and a member of Mr Lee's governing party.",
"\"The decision that the Lee Myung-bak administration made to express its condolences, I think, reflects a choice to consider what has happened in the past but also think about the future.\"",
"Kwon said he believes that by extending sympathy to the people of North Korea, as opposed to North Korea as a country, the Lee administration has found its own compromise.",
"Lee's efforts with the North are much less advanced than those of the two previous governments, under which the leaders of the two Koreas held summit talks in Pyongyang, Kwon said, but noted that Lee has made the first step toward improving what had become a tense, cold relationship between the two capitals.",
"Public opinion in the South is divided on whether it is appropriate to pay respects to Kim.",
"Critics have called for a more proactive approach by Lee, suggesting that sending condolences to the North Korean people was too indirect.",
"Some South Koreans argue that now is the time for Seoul to seize an opportunity to make a breakthrough in North and South relations, while others say the idea of paying respects to the dictator is out of the question.",
"\"We don't pay respects in the South to someone who has committed atrocities, why are we even discussing this issue?\"",
"an internet user posted on an online message board under the username hwachon11_1.",
"\"I know there's a lot of debate about the issue, but I think we need to see the North as a nation that we want to reunify with\" a person using the name brit4men posted on the same message board.",
"\"I think it's only appropriate we send a delegation.\""
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"(CNN) -- For the residents of Christchurch, New Zealand, time stopped at 12.51pm on February 22, 2011, when a massive earthquake ripped through the city, destroying homes, lives and businesses.",
"One year on, reminders are never too far away, from the broken buildings to frequent aftershocks that rattle the city every day.",
"Some are too minor to feel; others cause a sharp intake of breath.",
"\"February, 22, 2011... is a date permanently etched into all of our minds, a date that will go down in the history of New Zealand as one of our darkest days,\" Prime Minister John Key told crowds gathered for a civic memorial service in the city Wednesday.",
"The magnitude 6.3 quake shook the city for a matter of seconds, but it was long enough to kill 185 people from 14 countries.",
"Many more were injured.",
"The tremor brought down buildings in the city center in the middle of the working day, trapping workers and triggering a national state of emergency as rescuers scrambled to save lives.",
"Most of the victims -- 115 -- were buried in the rubble of the Canterbury Television (CTV) building, which was later found by a government report to have been poorly constructed.",
"One survivor, Anne Vos, spoke to the media by cellphone as she lay trapped under her desk in the rubble of the five-story Pyne Gould Corporation building.",
"After being pulled out, 24 hours later, she told CNN, \"I was finding it hard to breathe, and I really thought that was it for me.",
"I thought 'this is it - I'm not coming out of here.'\"",
"Anne Vos: A survivor's story .",
"One year later, Christchurch remains locked in recovery mode, a city carved into zones labeled by color to indicate the severity of the earthquake damage to homes and land.",
"For residents in the red zone, there is no future there.",
"Around 6,800 homes, many clustered along the Avon River, have been designated for destruction.",
"The government says around 46% of residents in the red zone have accepted its offer to buy their land.",
"Some have cut their ties with the area; others are still wading through insurance claims on homes waiting to be destroyed.",
"Before the quake, 22-year-old desktop publisher Sarah Boyd lived with her partner in Avonside, a small suburb that has now been condemned.",
"\"It was a tiny wee suburb and nearly every house there has gone,\" she said.",
"\"They said that our house was sinking towards the river.",
"They reckon all land would travel towards the river.\"",
"They moved out of the red zone in November, but Boyd said their new home suffered damage during the February quake and subsequent aftershocks, and may also need to be demolished.",
"Boyd works at the office at the Catholic Diocese of Christchurch, which suffered a blow during the quake with the near collapse of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament.",
"It is currently being propped up with shipping containers while work continues to determine exactly how much of the building can be saved.",
"The brightly-colored containers can been seen dotted through the city, at the makeshift \"Re:Start\" mall in the city center and along roads below unstable cliffs considered to be at risk of landslide.",
"\"It's a city of two parts really,\" said Matt O'Connell, the earthquake recovery coordinator for the Catholic Diocese, who works in the same office as Boyd.",
"Last week he took part in an Ecumenical door-knocking team made up of representatives from varying faiths in the city.",
"\"Even just on one street we met a family there who are struggling for food who had eight to ten people living in a two-bedroom house,\" he said.",
"\"A lot of people are tired, stressed and frustrated.",
"The rebuild seems to be going relatively slowly.",
"There are lots of issues.\"",
"Recovery efforts are being hampered by frequent aftershocks.",
"The February 22 quake was one itself, after a larger, magnitude 7.1 quake the previous September.",
"That one ran deeper so caused less damage.",
"The government said there have been 10,000 quakes since last September, including 39 of a magnitude of five or greater.",
"\"We had a really good run from June until December the 23rd, then we got hit with a magnitude six quake, two days before Christmas.",
"It really, really set people back.",
"There was further damage, no one was injured, but it was a psychological blow for many people,\" O'Connell said.",
"While people struggle to recover, work continues to rebuild shattered buildings and infrastructure.",
"Prime Minister Key has said the recovery plan is making \"good progress.\"",
"Construction has started on 26 \"significant\" commercial buildings in the city center.",
"Work on 80% of the 1,406 buildings marked for partial or full demolition has been completed.",
"And 200 infrastructure repair projects are now underway, he said.",
"\"Long term Christchurch will look much different but it will be vibrant, new and a great place to live,\" Key added.",
"Thousands have not stayed around to find out.",
"Population figures released in October, the first numbers made public since the quake, showed more than 10,000 people had left the city in the year to June 2011.",
"On the eve of the anniversary, the city buried the unidentified remains of four people who were killed in the quake in a new cemetery.",
"It will be one of the more somber reminders of that day.",
"The city came to a halt for two minutes at 12.51 local time, as residents paid their respects to those who were killed.",
"Tomorrow they'll get back to the long, drawn-out task of rebuilding their lives and moving forward."
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"(CNN) -- \"The Nutcracker\" ballet, as most North Americans know it, is about magic.",
"A wooden toy transforms into a prince, mice and toy soldiers engage in battle, a little girl journeys to a sugar-coated paradise where she is treated to a series of decadent dances.",
"But does it need more magic, Carolina Ballet director Robert Weiss wondered, prompting a search for ways to make his company's version of the classic George Balanchine staging of the ballet more \"magical.\"",
"\"I've always felt the magic in 'Nutcracker' was rather bland, and that if we could get a real first-class magician to come in and help us figure out how we could enhance the show, it would really take the whole ballet and kick it up a notch,\" said Weiss.",
"\"The whole thing is about magic, it's Clara's dream, so the more magical we make it, the better,\" he said, watching a dancer attached to cables float across the stage of Chapel Hill's Memorial Hall during final rehearsals last month.",
"From Russia to Raleigh with love: Teaching 'Nutcracker' in the South .",
"It was no small feat, but after months of planning and rehearsing with Las Vegas illusionist Rick Thomas, the show opened earlier this month featuring a levitating ballerina, flying Drosselmeyers and a few other surprises.",
"The company also invested in glittering new sets for the first time since its inaugural \"Nutcracker\" production in 2001.",
"In a career spanning nearly five decades as a dancer, teacher and company director, Weiss has played all the male Nutcracker roles except Drosselmeyer.",
"Therefore, he was sensitive to concerns that introducing special effects would turn the show into Las Vegas-style fare.",
"Those concerns were put to rest as soon as rehearsals began, the dancers said.",
"\"They're not flashy tricks or people doing gymnastics.",
"They're illusions that add to the story at just the right moments,\" principal dancer Melissa Podcasy said.",
"\"The story is intact, the choreography is the same, it just adds that element of visual wonder.\"",
"As the cash cow that allows many ballet companies to pursue projects with less mainstream appeal the rest of the year, \"Nutcracker\" productions are constantly being refreshed and marketed in different ways to bring in larger crowds.",
"Carolina Ballet's use of illusions might represent this season's most substantial modification of an existing production, but each company has its own means of reaching bigger audiences.",
"National Ballet Canada continued its tradition of guest walk-ons during its Saturday performance with Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who dressed as a Russian Petrouchka doll and shot a cannon into the audience to begin the battle scene in Act I.",
"The New York City Ballet's Nutcracker was broadcast Tuesday in movie theaters nationwide.",
"Morning talk show personality Kelly Ripa hosted the live broadcast, which included backstage interviews and a visit to the School of American Ballet, the official school of the New York City Ballet and home to the young ballet students who perform in the production.",
"A nationally televised broadcast followed on Wednesday evening on PBS' \"Live from Lincoln Center.\"",
"Other companies organize extra events and activities to enhance their \"Nutcracker\" experience.",
"Attendees of the Pacific Northwest Ballet's production, a collaboration between choreographer Kent Stowell and illustrator Maurice Sendak, can also enjoy a family brunch or a \"date night,\" take their pictures with characters from the show or meet the Seafair Pirates.",
"Not everyone in the arts world regards \"The Nutcracker\" as a tradition worth embracing.",
"In a 2009 Washington Post column, Sarah Kaufman wrote that \"to those of us who despair of its pervading tweeness and wish ballet had something better to do at this time of year than endlessly reminisce like a sweet, whiskery auntie, it bears some bad news, too.",
"'The Nutcracker's' stranglehold is all but squeezing ballet dry.\"",
"Regardless, companies in small cities like Raleigh rely on their adaptations of E.T.A.",
"Hoffmann's book \"The Nutcracker and the Mouse King\" to introduce ballet to audiences that wouldn't attend otherwise.",
"Amid the country's economic slump, \"Nutcracker\" ticket sales have gone down each year, making each investment all the more crucial, Weiss said.",
"\"Ballet's still an esoteric form to many, and for many, they don't go to see Carolina Ballet, they go to see 'Nutcracker,' \" he said.",
"\"Because we don't have money, every decision we make is that much harder.",
"We have to take a hard look at what we gain,\" he said.",
"\"Do we spend an extra $5,000 to $10,000 on lighting to get it at its highest level, or should we get a new snow machine because it's not putting out as much as I'd like?\"",
"Weiss brought the idea of adding special effects to his board and convinced them that a little bit of magic was what they needed to get ticket sales back to pre-recession levels.",
"He enlisted the aid of Thomas, a Las Vegas headliner known for incorporating tigers, birds and dancing into his long-running act.",
"Weiss sent a video of the ballet with thoughts on where illusions could possibly fit in.",
"From the start, he was firm that Thomas' stunts could not alter the choreography or the music.",
"They ended up with a dancing doll who floats a few feet above a table and dancers who suddenly pop out of empty boxes.",
"The key was to create illusions that were convincing but easy for someone who's not a \"true magician\" to pull off, he said.",
"From there, the dancers had to learn to interact with the stunts and engage the audience.",
"\"I'm overwhelmed to see how great the show turned out and how far the dancers have come,\" he said.",
"\"People think you have to go to Las Vegas to see great talent but it's right here in North Carolina.\""
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"Carolina Ballet introduces levitating ballerinas, disappearing dancers into show .",
"The company hired Las Vegas headliner Rick Thomas to coordinate illusions .",
"Ballet companies are constantly looking for ways to draw bigger crowds .",
"Toronto Mayor Rob Ford appeared in National Ballet Canada's Nutcracker ."
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"(CNN) -- Pueblo, Colorado bills itself at the \"Home of Heroes,\" the only city with four living recipients of the Medal of Honor, the highest award for combat bravery and sacrifice.",
"Former local resident Pam Sterner and her husband, Doug, were behind the grassroots effort to get community leaders to formally recognize these military heroes.",
"It was only the start of the 53-year-old woman's journey to protect their heritage of service that has taken Pam Sterner to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the justices will debate a federal law she helped create, draft, and sell to often skeptical congressional lawmakers.",
"The law is the Stolen Valor Act, which makes it a crime to falsely make a verbal, written, or physical claim to a military award or decoration.",
"The court will hear arguments Wednesday in this free speech dispute, involving a California lawmaker who lied in office about earning the Medal of Honor.",
"\"It was much tougher than I had expected, I thought this law was bipartisan, and would be a shoo-in,\" Sterner told CNN of her years-long efforts.",
"\"Despite all that I still would have taken this on, I was just a little naive at the start.\"",
"Sterner is not lawyer, and never served in the military, but her husband did two tours in Vietnam and now advocates for veteran rights on his website www.homeofheroes.com.",
"The couple has also been long involved in helping ferret out military medal frauds, working out of their home, often with their own money.",
"That was the inspiration for the Stolen Valor Act, which began almost by accident.",
"Pam Sterner works at a Washington non-profit, and also performs as a ventriloquist with her partner Otis.",
"She had returned to college at middle age at Colorado State University as a political science major.",
"While pondering a class assignment in 2004, she happened to overhear her husband talking to an FBI agent about a man profiled in a newspaper, falsely claiming to have won the Medal of Honor.",
"\"Doug was exasperated and said there's nothing we do about these fakes, based on existing policy, which is Title 18 of the U.S. Code\" of criminal procedure, recalled Sterner.",
"\"I said it was about time someone did something about this.",
"And I decided right there I would.\"",
"She told her professor she would write her paper about these impostors and then go further: transform it into law.",
"\"These fakes had slipped through the cracks of the law, and (that) was not the intent of the original law.",
"I felt everyone who lied about this should be punished, not those that just committed monetary fraud or similar crimes.",
"My professor said good intentions were not enough.",
"I had to sell it and explain why people should care.\"",
"Step one was a meeting with a local congressman, which did not go well.",
"Pam Sterner then called on newly-elected Rep. John Salazar (D-Colorado).",
"The military veteran was instantly sold on the idea.",
"His staff work for months with Sterner and others to draft the legislation and make sure it met legal scrutiny.",
"That was when frustration set in.",
"Pam Sterner is a lifelong Republican but her congressional sponsor is a Democrat, who after three terms in Congress is now Colorado's Agriculture Commissioner.",
"Sterner says Republicans who controlled Congress were not too eager to let a freshman Democrat in a key political swing district like the Colorado Third get political mileage out of a supposedly bipartisan bill.",
"The Stolen Valor legislation hung up in committee for months.",
"\"It took awhile, but we had great support eventually,\" said Salazar, speaking by phone from his Colorado ranch.",
"\"Pam and Doug went beyond the call of duty to make it happen, they were instrumental.\"",
"Pam Sterner earned a special school fellowship to visit Washington for her project and also helped raise funds to personally march the halls of Congress.",
"Using one-on-one time with representatives, it was a strategy that worked surprisingly well.",
"\"Pam is not some slick lobbyist, she's a straight shooter from Pueblo who just talked common sense,\" said her husband.",
"\"She always believed one person can do almost anything.",
"And once the congressmen heard from her personally, they supported her.",
"On this she succeeded beyond her dreams.\"",
"Pam Sterner's persistence finally paid off in 2006 when she was on hand to watch Congress easily pass S. 1998, the Stolen Valor Act.",
"It was only after the Justice Department began prosecuting fake heroes that the legal challenges began, on free speech grounds.",
"\"This is a narrow bill, it deals with something Congress specifically decided needed to be addressed,\" she said.",
"\"To me it's not a free speech issue, it's a fraud issue.",
"When someone devalues the bravery of other rightful heroes, it devalues everyone.\"",
"She cites as her inspiration a quote from President George Washington, who created the Purple Heart for those military members who have \"given of his blood in the defense of his homeland.\"",
"\"Should any who are not entitled to these honors have the insolence to assume the badges of them, they shall be severely punished,\" said Washington.",
"Pam Sterner worries if the Supreme Court overturns the law, it would only make it easier for military frauds to ride on the backs of others' bravery.",
"\"I'd be heartbroken if we lost.",
"The problem would escalate, I'm sure of that.\"",
"The Sterners next mission: to secure a government-funded national database of all medal citations, making it easy for the public -- employers, voters, family, almost anyone -- to easily check who has received what.",
"Privacy concerns have blocked previous efforts.",
"Doug Sterner's own comprehensive database has been his obsession in recent years.",
"Working on his own time and with his own money, his lists are routinely used by the FBI.",
"The database was recently bought by the Military Times, and he now devotes his efforts to keeping it up to date and comprehensive.",
"Both he and his wife remain modest over their efforts.",
"\"I was glad I could play a small part in preserving the honor of our military heroes,\" she said, \"so that those who would try to lie about it or benefit from it are exposed for what they are.\""
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"\"It was much tougher than I had expected,\" she said .",
"Her husband created a database of medal winners ."
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"(CNN) -- The family of South Carolina lobbyist Tom Sponseller asked for the public's help Tuesday in locating the missing man.",
"Sponseller, 61, is head of the South Carolina Hospitality Association.",
"He was last reported seen in his Columbia office around noon on Saturday.",
"\"Anybody that has any information we'd love for them to come forward,\" daughter-in-law Lauren Sponseller told HLN's Ryan Smith.",
"\"We need some information from someone and we know someone has to have some type of information on this.",
"So anything that can be helpful, please, we ask you for that,\" she said.",
"According to a Facebook page set up by Sponseller's family, investigators found his car in the garage next to his office.",
"There were no signs of a struggle or \"anything else that would cause alarm,\" it said.",
"Police have not yet ruled out the possibility of foul play, said Columbia police spokeswoman Jennifer Timmons.",
"\"We don't know what happened to him ... we can't assume right now,\" she said.",
"Sponseller is slightly more than six feet tall, weighs 160 pounds and is balding, with gray or white hair.",
"He typically wears glasses.",
"According to a police report, Sponseller was involved in a car accident about a year ago, in which he blacked out prior to the crash and possibly had a seizure.",
"His family made various attempts to reach Sponseller on his cell phone Saturday, but was not successful.",
"He has no history of \"this type of behavior,\" the police report read.",
"\"Tom was supposed to meet us to see my son's Pinewood Derby for Scouts that (Saturday) afternoon at 2 and he did not show up to the event.",
"It started to really concern us at that point because it's out of his character to not show up to an event and to not let us know,\" said his daughter-in-law.",
"Sponseller graduated from The Citadel and is a former officer in the U.S. Air Force, according to the Facebook page.",
"He and his wife have three children."
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"NEW: Missing man man blacked out prior to a car accident about a year ago .",
"Tom Sponseller, 61, is head of the South Carolina Hospitality Association .",
"He was last seen on Saturday at his office .",
"Investigators have found his car, no signs of a struggle ."
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"(CNN) -- Roger Federer is on course to win a record sixth end-of-season tennis championship after beating David Ferrer in London on Saturday to reach his 100th career final and return to third in the world rankings.",
"The defending champion triumphed 7-5 6-3 in one hour and 25 minutes to set up a ATP World Tour Finals showdown with sixth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on Sunday.",
"He extended his winning record against the fifth-seeded Spaniard to 12-0 in career meetings, and is now unbeaten in 16 matches after winning titles in his hometown Basel and Paris in the past month.",
"The 30-year-old now has the chance to surpass Ivan Lendl and Pete Sampras, who won the tournament five times in the 1980s and '90s respectively.",
"Djokovic exits as Berdych beats Ferrer at ATP Tour Finals .",
"\"It's obviously a special occasion for me tomorrow playing my 100th final, possibly winning my 70th title and winning my sixth at the World Tour Finals,\" Federer said.",
"\"It was a tough match.",
"I could clearly see why David beat Murray and Djokovic here -- he takes the ball really early, is able to generate great angles off his plays and is super consistent.",
"\"It was a key 5-4 game for me to hold and then break the next game.",
"Then, actually, break again early on in the second set.",
"That was a crucial sort of 15-20 minutes for me.",
"I'm happy I was able to decide the match right there.\"",
"Ferrer will now turn his attentions to the Davis Cup final, as Spain take on Argentina in Seville on his more favored clay surface next weekend.",
"He started the week with a bang, beating Andy Murray in straight sets before the third-seeded Briton pulled out with a groin injury.",
"Ferrer then thrashed world No.",
"1 Novak Djokovic, but suffered a surprise defeat to Berdych on Friday that meant the Czech went through as Group A winner and avoided Ferrer in the semis.",
"Federer, who beat Rafael Nadal in last year's final, has reached the title match for the seventh time after winning all four matches this week at the indoor hard-court event.",
"Tsonga continued his strong end to the season with a 6-3 7-5 win over seventh seed Berdych in Saturday's second semi.",
"The Frenchman will seek to avenge his Paris Masters final defeat by Federer, also losing to the 16-time grand slam champion in their Group B encounter in London.",
"However, the 26-year-old has won two of their seven clashes this year -- most notably at the Wimbledon quarterfinals as Federer suffered his first defeat when leading by two sets in a grand slam."
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"Roger Federer beats David Ferrer 7-5 6-3 in semis at ATP World Tour Finals .",
"The 16-time grand slam champion is seeking a record sixth title in London .",
"He will face French sixth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in Sunday's final .",
"Swiss star will return to No.",
"3 in year-end rankings above Andy Murray ."
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"(CNN) -- Brooke Mueller, the ex-wife of actor Charlie Sheen, was arrested early Saturday in Colorado and charged with assault and cocaine possession, police said.",
"Shortly before midnight Friday, police encountered a woman at the Belly Up -- a bar and performance venue in Aspen -- who said Mueller had been \"the aggressor\" in an assault, the Colorado city's police department said in a news release.",
"Mueller was found and arrested after midnight at another bar, Escobar, according to Aspen police.",
"She was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, which is a felony, and third-degree assault, which is a misdemeanor.",
"She was released after posting an $11,000 bond, said Aspen police.",
"A court date is scheduled for December 19.",
"Mueller has appeared as an actress in several movies, including 2004's \"A Love Song for Bobby Long,\" according to IMDb.",
"But she is more widely known as the ex-wife of Sheen, with whom she has twin sons.",
"The boys and Mueller were part of Sheen's volatile public fall-out with CBS earlier this year as he left his starring role on the network's \"Two and Half Men.\"",
"She claimed in March that he'd threatened to kill her, saying, \"I will cut your head off, put it in a box and send it to your mom,\" according to a declaration made in a restraining order against Sheen.",
"The revelations led to a court order removing the 2-year-old boys from Sheen's home.",
"The actor called the allegation \"colorful\" and described the quote attributed to him as fabricated in an interview with NBC's \"Today Show.\"",
"Mueller has sought out help for substance abuse and \"stress\" related issues in the past.",
"Last December, her attorney Yale Galanter said that she entered a sober living facility.",
"Nine months earlier, in April 2010, Mueller checked into a treatment facility for help with stress management to prevent a \"return to old problems,\" her representative said.",
"She was in substance abuse rehab earlier in 2010 \"to get her health in order,\" Galanter said at the time.",
"The couple was involved in an alleged domestic dispute in Aspen on Christmas Day 2009 that resulted in felony charges against Sheen."
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"Brooke Mueller busted on cocaine, assault charges, police say .",
"A woman identified her as \"the aggressor\" in an alleged assault .",
"She's the ex-wife of actor Charlie Sheen, with whom she has twin sons .",
"She has sought help for substance-abuse issues in the past ."
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"Fort Meade, Maryland (CNN) -- After four days of testimony and 20 prosecution witnesses, Pfc.",
"Bradley Manning's defense attorney spent only 35 minutes Wednesday questioning just two witnesses before resting their case.",
"Manning is accused of committing the biggest intelligence leak in U.S. history.",
"His Article 32 hearing is part of the military's process of determining whether he should face court martial.",
"The first defense witness called was Sgt.",
"Daniel Padgett who served with Manning in Iraq and witnessed one of several angry outbursts witnesses have described.",
"Padgett was the senior enlisted man on the night shift in the intelligence office where Manning worked.",
"He testified that in December 2009, Manning was late for duty and they sat down in a conference room so Padgett could counsel him.",
"Padgett said when they began talking, Manning was calm, but that he began to change.",
"At some point, said Padgett, Manning grabbed the conference room table and turned the table over, knocking a computer and radio to the floor.",
"Because there was a rifle in the room, Padgett testified that he didn't want Manning to get his hands on it, so \"I coaxed him away from that, put my hands on his shoulder and coaxed him away.\"",
"At that point another soldier came in the room, subdued Manning, sat him down and Padgett continued counseling him, Padgett testified.",
"When asked by Manning's attorney David Coombs if Padgett remembered Master Sgt.",
"Paul Adkins, the senior enlisted man in the unit, talking with him about the incident, Padgett said \"vaguely.\"",
"Padgett testified said he did not discuss the outburst with the major who oversaw the intelligence analysis officers, the company's first sergeant nor the company commander.",
"Manning was not moved out of the intelligence office after the outburst and did not lose his security clearance as a result of the outburst.",
"Coombs has argued that the Army should have known about Manning's emotional issues and kept him away from classified materials.",
"Manning is accused of stealing and leaking nearly three-quarters of a million classified documents from the State Department and the Defense Department to the WikiLeaks website, which published many of them.",
"The leaks occurred while Manning was serving as an intelligence analyst in Iraq in 2009 and 2010.",
"Prosecution witnesses testified that Manning downloaded and leaked 400,000 DoD field reports from Iraq and 90,0000 similar documents from Afghanistan.",
"There was also evidence presented that he downloaded and leaked more than 250,000 State Department cables.",
"Coomb's second witness, Capt.",
"Barclay Keay, testified by phone about his time with Manning's unit.",
"For a short time in December 2009, he was an officer in the intelligence analysis office where Manning worked.",
"Keay said he often saw soldiers listening to music in the office where classified materials were analyzed.",
"At first he thought it was not proper, but he was told it was \"an accepted practice\" that was \"tolerated because it helped soldiers be more productive.\"",
"In news reports before the hearing, Manning is said to have bragged in a chat room that he was able to download materials onto a CD while pretending to listen to Lady Gaga.",
"Keay told the hearing, \"I do feel like he wanted to be a good soldier.",
"He did good analytical work.\"",
"Even though he called only two, Coombs had requested 48 witnesses, ten of whom were already on the prosecution witness list.",
"The investigating officer overseeing the case granted those ten and two other defense witnesses who were not on the prosecution list.",
"He rejected other requested defense witnesses, including President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.",
"Mark Zaid, a national security attorney, said the fact the defense called only two witnesses is not surprising.",
"\"For one thing, an Article 32 (hearing) serves as an opportunity for the defense to obtain pre-trial discovery, and particularly information they do not know.",
"Additionally, the likelihood of stopping charges from going forward is non-existent in this case so there is little value in telegraphing to the prosecution information the defense may possess but might not yet have revealed,\" said Zaid.",
"Closing arguments from both sides are scheduled to start Thursday morning.",
"After that the Investigating Officer, Lt. Col. Paul Almanza, who oversaw the hearing, will consider the testimony and evidence and make a recommendation as to whether Manning should face court martial and if so, on which charges.",
"The burden of proof at this level of the military justice system is \"whether reasonable grounds exist to believe that the accused committed the offenses alleged.\"",
"The Special Court Martial Convening Authority, Col. Carl Coffman, has given Almanza until Jan. 16, 2012 to submit his recommendation.",
"But, if needed, Almanza can request more time.",
"Witnesses for the prosecution have characterized Manning as being troubled by Army discipline and testified that he allegedly bragged on the Internet about the leak of classified documents.",
"Army investigators also testified that they found evidence linking Manning to the leaked documents on computers he used.",
"Prosecutors have leveled 22 charges against the Army private, including aiding the enemy.",
"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.",
"On Tuesday, a convicted computer hacker from California who became a confidential informant for the Army testified about six days of online chats that he had with someone he believes was Manning.",
"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.",
"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."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- If you had to describe one Hollywood actress as \"heavyweight\" Meryl Streep would be a pretty strong contender for the title.",
"Pulling no punches: Streep as fiercely caustic nun, Sister Aloysius in John Patrick Shanley's 1960s morality drama \"Doubt.\"",
"Over 30 years in the movie business the actress has pulled no punches, receiving an incredible 15 Oscar nominations, and winning twice, for \"Sophie's Choice\" in 1982 and \"Kramer Vs. Kramer\" in 1979.",
"Even so, \"Doubt\" director John Patrick Shanley says was knocked sideways by Streep's \"tooth and nail\" performance in his Oscar-nominated drama, \"Doubt,\" describing himself as \"quite astonished.\"",
"Streep, who has been nominated for a Best Actress award at this year's Academy Awards for her role, stars as fiercely caustic nun, Sister Aloysius, the iron-gloved principal of a religious school in a working class New York neighborhood in the 1960s.",
"\"Meryl really wanted to do the role because, I think, she thought it was really right for her,\" Shanley told CNN in a recent interview, adding, \"I have to say I was quite astonished at her amazing facility.\"",
"But it was the rapport between Streep and Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman who plays Father Flynn that was central to getting the story across.",
"Shanley says their relationship was electric.",
"All he had to do was put them on set and wait for the sparks to fly.",
"\"The set became like the ring that prizefighters go into,\" recalls Shanley.",
"\"They would just sit in their respective corners when they weren't shooting, with their heads hanging down, in some private universe of some very, very tormented place, and get ready to do that scene.",
"\"And then when they were called to do it, they would get in there and the walls would shake.\"",
"Shanley approached Streep first when he was casting the film, but knew he would need to find a formidable actor to play the Father Flynn, which is why he chose Hoffman -- \"the smartest guy that chose to become an actor that I've ever met.\"",
"\"I knew that when I closed my eyes, I didn't know what he would do with the role,\" Shanley told CNN, \"I knew that if I didn't know then Meryl wouldn't know and that would keep her on her toes.\"",
"Hoffman's portrayal of Flynn, the modern-thinking humanist whose progressive sermons and personal habits -- like an enjoyment of three sugars in his tea --rankle austere Aloysius, has won him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.",
"The story is set in the Bronx, New York in 1964 just after the Kennedy assassination and on the cusp of the civil rights movement -- a time of social flux.",
"It centers on a moral crusade Sister Aloysius launches against Flynn who she suspects of taking an unhealthy interest in Donald Miller, his altar boy and the school's only black student.",
"The film begins with a simple question: did he or didn't he?",
"The ensuing battle between Aloysius and Flynn is old against new with religious, ethical, political, gender and racial elements all thrown into the mix.",
"The power of the drama is all in the dialogue, especially the confrontations between Aloysius and Flynn.",
"The beauty of the story is that it does not answer any of the questions.",
"iReport.com: iReporter thinks Streep will win .",
"Shanley's mantra during filming was to never lead the audience to any one conclusion, allowing people to view the tale through the reflection of their own biases.",
"It was hard to get this delicate balance in emotionally intense scenes but, says Shanley, with actors of Streep and Hoffman's caliber his approach was to use a very light touch.",
"\"It's often just nuance,\" he told CNN, explaining how he and Streep worked together while filming one of the film's confrontations.",
"\"We were in the middle of it and Meryl was going with Phil tooth and nail and she got very sarcastic with him.",
"\"And I said 'Cut' and said 'Ok, we have that.",
"Now let's do it again and this time take the high road.'\"",
"\"And she did every single thing differently and yet within character and she took the high road at every turn.\"",
"He says Hoffman takes direction in a completely different way.",
"\"With Phil, you give him information and it goes through a pipeline about a quarter mile long and then it shows up, and how it shows up, I don't know.",
"\"I don't know what that process is exactly.",
"He's a very internalized actor but he hears everything you say and he makes his adjustments accordingly.\"",
"\"Doubt\" is based on a Tony award-winning and Pulitzer prize-winning play also written by Shanley, which the director adapted for the big screen.",
"Shanley, who won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 1988 for \"Moonstruck,\" has been nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.",
"As well as Streep and Hoffman's, there are Best Supporting Actress nominations for Amy Adams who plays a mouse-like, innocent nun who teaches at the school, Sister James, and stage actress Viola Davis who plays Donald Miller's mother."
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"Director John Patrick Shanley was \"quite astonished\" by Streep's acting in \"Doubt\"\nShe stars opposite another Hollywood heavyweight, Philip Seymour Hoffman .",
"Shanley on shooting: \"The set became like the ring that prizefighters go into\"\nStreep, Hoffman and co-stars, Viola Davies and Amy Adams are all Oscar nominated ."
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"(Financial Times) -- Eurozone governments are looking to the European Central Bank and national central banks to help pare back the cost of a second rescue package for Greece which would otherwise amount to €170bn.",
"Figures seen by the Financial Times reveal Greece needs €136bn in fresh bail-out funding from the European Union and International Monetary Fund -- in addition to the €34bn left over from Greece's first bail-out.",
"This is €6bn more than EU leaders agreed in October.",
"Germany, the Netherlands and Finland have insisted on paying no more than €130bn.",
"Eurozone finance ministers, who meet in Brussels on Monday to hammer out a deal to save Greece from default, hope the ECB can contribute by forgoing some of the future profits it would earn on its Greek bondholdings, which it has said it is willing to do.",
"Senior officials said they would also discuss a possible contribution from eurozone national central banks whose bondholdings could be included in a €200bn debt restructuring to be launched alongside the bail-out.",
"Q&A: Is Greece facing a disorderly default?",
"A central bank contribution would help the eurozone and IMF to keep their contribution to €130bn.",
"It would also reduce Greece's ratio of public debt to gross domestic product in 2020 closer to the 120 per cent the IMF deems sustainable, permitting it to take part in a second rescue.",
"In a conference call on Sunday evening, eurozone finance ministry officials were still debating the terms of debt restructuring -- including whether to force more losses on private bondholders -- and how to bring down the size of the total bail-out.",
"But senior officials said they believed a deal would be reached at a meeting of eurozone finance ministers on Monday in Brussels.",
"\"I don't think there is a majority to go a different way because a different way is enormously arduous and costs lots and lots of money,\" Maria Fekter, the Austrian finance minister, told local television.",
"Pressure from the US and emerging market countries to restrict the IMF's exposure led to the lower contribution, according to officials familiar with the negotiations.",
"Greece has already borrowed far more relative to its own financial contribution to the IMF than any other crisis loan recipient in the IMF's history.",
"The IMF portion of the new package, which will be added to the remaining €10bn in IMF commitments from the first Greek bail-out, will be converted into a lending programme with a repayment period of up to 10 years rather than the five years under the current loan.",
"The €170.5bn rescue package does not include €35bn that will be set aside temporarily to ensure Greek banks can fund themselves when Athens is ruled in \"selective default\" after the restructuring.",
"The new bail-out includes €35.5bn for private bondholders as part of the debt restructuring.",
"Of that, €30bn is expected to come in a direct payment to bondholders in cash or bonds issued by the eurozone's rescue fund in exchange for writing off €100bn in Greek debt.",
"The remaining €5.5bn is interest payments still owed on existing bonds, though officials are considering cutting that amount.",
"Opinion polls in Greece show the two big mainstream parties -- centre-left Pasok and centre-right New Democracy -- continued to suffer ahead of April elections because of their support of tough austerity measures accompanying the bail-out.",
"Support for New Democracy dropped to 24 per cent or lower in three new polls, with Pasok showing only at best 14 per cent -- meaning the two parties, the only to explicitly support the bail-out's terms, would not have a majority in a new parliament.",
"François Baroin, French finance minister, said on Monday morning that all the elements for an agreement were in place.",
"\"All the elements are in place . ... ...",
"both with the bankers, private sector creditors, and public sector creditors, the states and central banks,\" he told Europe 1 radio.",
"Though senior European officials said figures were still being negotiated, the IMF contribution to the new rescue will be far lower than originally anticipated.",
"The figures show the IMF will only contribute €13bn to the second bail-out, far less than the one-third lent in the Irish, Portuguese and first Greek bail-outs.",
"\"The IMF is expected to be stingy,\" said one senior European official.",
"Additional reporting by Kerin Hope in Athens .",
"© The Financial Times Limited 2012 ."
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"The Financial Times reports that Greece needs €136 billion in fresh bail-out funds .",
"Eurozone ministers are meeting in Brussels on Monday to negotiate a deal to prevent a Greek default ."
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"(CNN) -- The grandmother and stepmother of a 9-year-old Alabama girl who died Monday after allegedly being ordered to run around her family's house -- for hours -- as punishment for lying about taking a candy bar have been charged with murder, police said Wednesday.",
"\"Joyce Hardin Garrard, 46, and Jessica Mae Hardin, 27, were both arrested and charged with murder in connection to the death of Savannah Hardin,\" Capt.",
"Jeremy Walker said in a news release issued by the Etowah County Sheriff's Office.",
"Garrard is the child's grandmother and Jessica Hardin is her stepmother.",
"At about 6:45 p.m., the stepmother called 911 and said that Savannah, who had run for about three hours, had suffered a seizure and was unresponsive, the release said.",
"\"A very unnecessary act,\" said Etowah County District Attorney Jimmie Harp in a telephone interview about the incident, which occurred Friday.",
"\"(The) taking of a candy bar turned into (an) all-day marathon ... until the point of time she just collapsed.\"",
"Savannah Hardin died Monday at Children's Hospital in Birmingham; a state pathologist in Huntsville ruled her death a homicide.",
"\"Preliminary reports show Savannah was extremely dehydrated and had a very low sodium level,\" the release says.",
"\"It's sad when a family is grieving over the death of a daughter and granddaughter and so soon to find out that the death could have been prevented,\" said Sheriff Todd Entrekin, whose office became involved after witnesses called investigators to express concerns.",
"\"We have always said that we will protect the rights of those who cannot defend themselves,\" he continued.",
"Savannah was a third-grade student at Carlisle Elementary School.",
"Garrard and Hardin were being held in the Etowah County Detention Center in lieu of a $500,000 cash bond."
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"Stepmother and grandmother of 9-year-old girl are charged with murder .",
"Savannah Hardin allegedly was ordered to run around the house as punishment for lying .",
"Etowah County district attorney says she collapsed after an \"all-day marathon\""
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"(CNN) -- One of the main opposition videographers in Homs was killed on Tuesday as the Syrian city experienced its heaviest day of bombardment, residents and activists told CNN.",
"\"Rami al-Sayed was crucial in getting the truth out through his videos posted on the Internet,\" said Omar Shaker, a friend and a volunteer at Homs Media Center, a media group set up by activists to share information and videos about the city's Baba Amr neighborhood.",
"\"We will really miss him, especially the medical team who relied on him to document all the civilian injuries and deaths on video,\" he added.",
"Doctors struggle to save wounded children .",
"Al-Sayed's own fatal injuries were also apparently recorded on Tuesday as his brother and a physician mourned his death at a mosque's basement.",
"The video was later uploaded to Al-Sayed's YouTube channel.",
"See Al-Sayed's YouTube channel .",
"In the video, Dr. Mohammed al-Mohammed stands by al-Sayed's dead body and says, \"I want to bring you the latest news, the martyrdom of one of the most important cameramen and one of our most important journalists in Baba Amr.\"",
"\"He kept bleeding here in the field hospital for more than three hours; we tried to evacuate him outside the neighborhood but to no avail,\" al-Mohammed added.",
"Health workers set up underground network .",
"The 27-year-old was hit by rocket shrapnel as he tried to help a family flee bombardment, residents told CNN.",
"\"Rami was killed because he was documenting and sending real-life stories from Baba Amr.",
"Rami was killed because he was filming the facts; but we will have 1,000 Ramis.",
"... Our revolution will prevail,\" the doctor said as the camera zoomed in on shrapnel wounds on al-Sayed's chest, abdomen and legs.",
"The video-sharing site Bambuser released a statement Tuesday mourning al-Sayed's death, also referring to him as \"Syrian pioneer,\" his nickname on various social media outlets.",
"\"Rami Ahmad al-Sayed has been one of the bravest and forefront fighters in getting the world's attention on what's going on in Homs, Syria.",
"This afternoon, cameraman and journalist Rami Ahmad al-Sayed did his last broadcast -- he and his three friends were soon after this killed by the Assad armed forces,\" the statement said.",
"U.S. calls for international action on Syria .",
"CNN was unable to independently verify the circumstances of al-Sayed's death.",
"His last message to followers on Twitter was: \"Baba Amr is facing genocide right now.",
"I do not want people to simply say our hearts are with you!",
"We need actions.",
"We need campaigns everywhere inside Syria and outside Syria.",
"We need all people in front of all embassies all over the world.",
"In a few hours there will be no place called Baba Amr and I expect this to be my last message.",
"No one will forgive you for just talking without any action!\"",
"Al-Sayed, who had lost a cousin and a fellow videographer in December, is survived by his wife and an 18-month-old daughter.",
"CNN's Kareem Khadder contributed to this report."
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"Rami al-Sayed, 27, was hit by shrapnel and killed Tuesday, witnesses say .",
"He \"was crucial in getting the truth out though his videos,\" a friend says .",
"A video posted on YouTube shows a doctor and al-Sayed's brother grieving over his body ."
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"San Francisco (CNN) -- While Google waits for regulatory approval on its bid to acquire Motorola Mobility, company executives have repeatedly worked to assuage partners' fears that the Android software developer is preparing to compete with them.",
"Partners in Google's mobile-phone venture were understandably skeptical when the Android maker said this summer that it planned to acquire one of their rivals, creating a potential reason to roll out improvements to its popular smartphone operating system on Motorola phones before offering them to others.",
"Google has offered free and open-source versions of Android to anyone ambitious enough to download it and tinker with the code.",
"Dozens of smartphone and tablet makers have taken Google up on this, and have come to rely on it for their businesses.",
"Google, which assured them it is focused on software, not hardware, seemed like a logical partner.",
"Then, when the company's intentions to buy Motorola surfaced, Google execs said they were mainly doing so in order to protect themselves and their partners against patent litigation.",
"(Motorola has about 24,000 patents either approved or pending).",
"The $12.5 billion acquisition still has not cleared federal oversight, and so Google has not been talking publicly much about its plans.",
"A spokesman declined to comment on the matter last week.",
"Since CNN's inquiries, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has been discussing some plans for Motorola on a three-city tour of Asia this week.",
"He told an audience in South Korea on Tuesday that the acquisition will \"not change in any material way the way we operate,\" and then told a group in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday that Google plans to continue providing legal defenses to Android partners, according to Reuters.",
"Sony Ericsson CTO Jan Uddenfeldt said at a conference last week that Google still maintains it is buying Motorola primarily for the patent portfolio of one of the world's oldest mobile-phone companies.",
"\"The last thing they would like to happen is to create a vertical, because that would destroy the market share for Android,\" he said onstage at the Open Mobile Summit here on Thursday.",
"Google led the market in the most recent quarter, thanks in part to wide adoption by many companies, with 43% of smartphone owners using Android phones, according to research firm Nielsen.",
"Apple and BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion operate vertical businesses in which they maintain and control their own hardware and software.",
"In the nearly three months since announcing a bid for Motorola, the strategy to remain a neutral player \"has been clearly communicated to us by Google, and it makes sense,\" Uddenfeldt said in an interview.",
"\"We are an all-Android company now,\" Uddenfeldt said.",
"\"We do not hesitate to be an Android company.\"",
"Even with Motorola's help, Google could struggle to transition from a software developer to bringing hardware products to market, Uddenfeldt said.",
"\"Google is a great software company, but they are not a consumer brand,\" he said.",
"Google has suggested that it plans to leverage Motorola's hardware expertise in order to understand how to integrate software more closely with hardware, Kevin Packingham, the senior vice president for Samsung Electronics products, said in an interview.",
"Patents are perhaps secondary in terms of how the acquisition will benefit partners, he said.",
"\"I wouldn't say that it's black and white about wanting to be vertical,\" Packingham said.",
"\"Google needs the capability to understand how to deeply integrate with the hardware.\"",
"That could turn Motorola, a storied mobile innovator, into a glorified research-and-development arm.",
"In the meantime, Motorola is laying off 800 of its 19,000 workers, and the company is preparing to launch the Droid Razr, the spiritual successor to one of the most popular phones of the last decade.",
"Not surprisingly, the new version runs on Android.",
"Even more so than Motorola, Samsung has been very close with Google over the last two years.",
"The pair has twice partnered for what's called the \"lead device program,\" in which Google and a hardware maker collaborate on the first product that will run a major new version of Android.",
"Together, they developed the Nexus S and the upcoming Galaxy Nexus.",
"Google has also worked with HTC for the Nexus One and Motorola for the Xoom tablet.",
"Being chosen as the lead-device partner is a competitive advantage, Packingham said, because the company gets direct access to Google engineers and to Android code before rivals.",
"Samsung expects to continue to work with Google on some lead devices in the future, he said.",
"Andy Rubin, Google's head of mobile, said during a Google conference call in August announcing the Motorola acquisition that the new unit will be run as an independent business.",
"As for preferential treatment regarding lead devices, Rubin said Motorola \"will be part of that bidding process.\"",
"According to Packingham, Samsung was chosen for two of the three Nexus phones because of its hardware expertise and access to components, and there is no bidding involved in the lead-device program.",
"The Google spokesman declined to comment on how exactly the process works."
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"They say Google has no plans to become a \"vertical\" phone maker .",
"Google has said it plans to run Motorola as an independent business ."
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"Colonia Juarez, Mexico (CNN) -- In the rolling hills of northern Mexico, about 180 miles south of the U.S. border, lies a community that stands out for its religious roots.",
"The houses in this community surrounded by peach and apple orchards look more like homes you would find in the American Southwest than in Mexico.",
"On top of a hill stands a gleaming white Mormon temple, a rarity in this largely Catholic country.",
"Miles Anthony Romney is a resident in this community called Colonia Juarez and a practicing Mormon.",
"The 50-year-old owner of orchards and a fruit packing plant says his family descends from Mormons who settled in this area more than 125 years ago.",
"\"They established the apple orchards, the peach orchards, farms, ranches, and that's basically what we do today,\" Romney said.",
"\"We come from a hardworking family.",
"We come from honest people.\"",
"Romney tied with Obama in latest poll .",
"Miles A. Romney's great-grandfather led the first group of Mormons to the state of Chihuahua, the same Mormons to whom the family of U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney traces its heritage.",
"In fact, Mitt Romney's father, George -- who also ran for president in the United States -- was born in this area himself in a town called Colonia Dublan.",
"And Miles Anthony Romney is Mitt Romney's second cousin.",
"Miles Romney is so proud of Mitt Romney's political career that he managed to get a Romney bumper sticker sent to Mexico which he proudly displays on his pickup truck.",
"He also has a Romney campaign sign on his window.",
"And he says he can't understand why Mitt Romney's religion is an issue for some people.",
"\"I think it's a misunderstanding on their part.",
"I know people try to use that against Mitt, but they just can't find anything on him to dig up about him,\" Romney says.",
"The first Romneys arrived in this part of Mexico around 1885.",
"They came from Utah, said Kelly Wayne Romney, where as Mormons, they felt they had to deal with religious persecution and the controversy over polygamy.",
"There are still about 40 members of the Romney family here in Colonia Juarez who trace their roots back to those first settlers.",
"Kelly Romney is also a resident of Colonia Juarez.",
"The 69-year-old is Mitt Romney's second cousin as well.",
"He says that, among the first settlers, \"it was actually a very small percentage of the church that practiced polygamy.\"",
"The community hasn't practiced polygamy since the church banned it in the late 1800s.",
"His peach and apple orchards, together with those owned by other members of the Romney family, are a crucial source of employment in this part of Mexico.",
"A fruit packing cooperative owned by several of the Romneys is also an important economic engine in the community.",
"The Romney family and other Mormon settlers built a bilingual school in 1904 that is attended by the children of all the members of the Mormon community.",
"Kelly Romney says Mitt Romney himself has never been here, but the fruit grower says he saw him once in the States.",
"\"I was on a plane one time from Salt Lake City to New York and he was on it.",
"My wife kept trying to get me to go meet him, but I guess I was a little timid and thought, 'Well when we get off in New York I'll meet him,' but we got off and he went on to Boston,\" Kelly Romney said.",
"As much as he admires his second cousin, Kelly Romney says he disagrees with his position on immigration.",
"\"There should be guest worker programs for these [Mexican] people that are practically starving to death to be able to go over there and do work that the American people would not do,\" Romney said.",
"More than anything, this branch of the Romney family defines itself by the teachings of its church, and feels allegiance to both Mexico and the United States.",
"Kelly Romney says he knows the national sports of both countries equally well.",
"But when asked what country he would root for in a soccer match between the United States and Mexico, he replies \"Mexico!\"",
"with a quick smile.",
"\"We have a loyalty to this country.",
"We were born here,\" Romney says."
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"Republican Mitt Romney has cousins in Mexico .",
"They came from Utah to settle in Mexico in the late 1800s .",
"They are loyal both to their cousin and to Mexico ."
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"(CNN) -- A bullet thought to have been from a shootout between carjackers and municipal police in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, struck a woman walking in neighboring El Paso, Texas, Tuesday morning, El Paso's mayor told CNN.",
"The still unidentified woman, 48, was shot in the lower leg; her injuries were not considered life-threatening.",
"El Paso Mayor John Cook said local police investigating the incident had not officially confirmed that the bullet came from Juarez, but they were \"treating it as if it did,\" he said.",
"\"It's still matter of speculation,\" he added.",
"\"Early on, it became evident this may have been a stray bullet rather than a targeted shooting in downtown,\" local police said in a press release.",
"\"The El Paso Police Department continues its investigation and is working closely with its counterparts in Mexico.\"",
"If the bullet did in fact come from Mexico, this is \"the first time a person has been hit\" in the 3½ year since drug-fueled violence escalated in neighboring Juarez, Cook added.",
"In Juarez, a shootout between suspected carjackers and the municipal police happened around 11 a.m. (1 p.m.",
"ET), about the same time the woman was shot, according to municipal police spokesman Adrian Sanchez.",
"He was unaware of any connection between that shooting and the incident in El Paso.",
"\"We have an office that works with the U.S. and so far we have not received a report from them saying the two incidents were connected,\" he added.",
"El Paso police said that while they were responding to the shooting, the El Paso 911 center \"received numerous calls advising of shots fired near the border in Juarez, Mexico.\"",
"Just about a mile separates downtown El Paso from Juarez.",
"\"Under the right circumstances there is a possibility that a round fired from an AK-type weapon could travel that far, conceivably,\" Mike Brooks, HLN Law Enforcement analyst told CNN.",
"\"It depends on what kind of round it is and how heavy the round is.\"",
"\"We're advising the citizens of El Paso that this is an isolated incident.",
"We don't want people to start panicking,\" he said.",
"At least four schools in El Paso went on lockdown shortly after the woman was reported being shot.",
"\"We were alerted by local police about concerns in the area,\" Estela Reyes, the press officer for the La Fe Preparatory School, told CNN.",
"\"We were in lockdown by 11:30 a.m. and lifted it about 30 minutes later.",
"The kids were never in any imminent danger,\" she said.",
"Reyes said her school is about \"seven or eight blocks\" from downtown El Paso and she never heard gunfire from Juarez.",
"In June 2010, the El Paso City Hall was struck by several rounds, which local police believe the shots may have come from a shooting in Juarez.",
"About two months later, a similar incident occurred when a building at the University of Texas at El Paso was struck by a bullet.",
"School officials believe that round also came from a shooting in Juarez."
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"A woman in downtown El Paso was struck in the leg by a bullet Tuesday .",
"El Paso police are treating the incident as if the bullet came from Juarez .",
"It occurred at about the same time as a shootout between Juarez police and carjackers .",
"At least four schools in El Paso went into lockdown after reports of the shooting ."
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"Madrid (CNN) -- Spain's largest unions carried out mass protests across the country Sunday in response to labor-market changes announced by the government.",
"Protesters packed the streets of Madrid, marching against measures they said will make it cheaper and easier to fire workers.",
"Sunday's demonstrations were the first major union protests against Spain's new conservative government, which took office two months ago.",
"Spain's unemployment rate is nearly 23%, and its youth unemployment rate is nearly 50%.",
"About 5.2 million people in the country are jobless.",
"Last week Spain's parliament approved the labor reforms, which the nation's Cabinet approved earlier this month.",
"Government officials have argued that the new labor reforms will reduce unemployment and give workers more rights, such as an annual 20-hour paid leave for training.",
"\"We don't think that. We think unemployment will increase because these reforms directly attack workers,\" said Ismael Cabrera, a protester.",
"Demonstrators said the reforms -- which also reduce the amount of severance employers must pay -- will further cripple the country.",
"Pedro Munoz, a welder, said he was marching Sunday because he was worried about his grandchildren's future.",
"Business administration student Raquel Tapia Solascasas carried a large pair of cardboard scissors, protesting cutbacks in education.",
"\"They offer you internships for a year and they fire you without severance pay.",
"There's no future for young people here,\" she said."
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"NEW: \"There's no future for young people here,\" says a protester .",
"Demonstrators pack the streets of Madrid, marching against labor reform measures .",
"Government officials say the labor reforms will reduce unemployment .",
"About 5.2 million people in Spain are jobless ."
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"New York (CNN) -- The mayor of Newark has called for an investigation into a far-reaching New York Police Department surveillance program that was allegedly conducted in the New Jersey city's Muslim's neighborhoods.",
"\"The Newark Police Department was not involved in joint operations with the New York Police Department as was described in the disclosed NYPD report,\" Mayor Cory Booker said Wednesday, referring to a leaked internal New York police document that allegedly detailed police surveillance of Muslim-owned business and mosques across the city.",
"\"I strongly believe that we must be vigilant in protecting our citizens from crime and terrorism but to put large segments of a religious community under surveillance with no legitimate cause or provocation clearly crosses a line,\" he said.",
"New Jersey Gov.",
"Chris Christie also called the development \"disturbing\" and has asked the state's attorney general to investigate.",
"The 60-page report, first obtained by The Associated Press, showed maps of Newark and photographs of Muslim residences and mosques.",
"There was no statement in the document regarding terrorism or criminal activity.",
"The New Jersey mayor's statement comes a day after New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the extent of police surveillance against critics who have suggested authorities went too far.",
"\"We have to keep this country safe,\" the mayor told reporters, addressing questions about a separate report, also leaked to AP, that indicated the New York police were closely monitoring Muslim student associations in schools across the Northeast.",
"\"If people put things on websites and make them available to everybody, of course the NYPD is going to look at anything that's publicly available in the public domain,\" Bloomberg said.",
"\"And given we've had a dozen people arrested or convicted of terrorist acts who've come from similar organizations, we have an obligation to do so.\"",
"That report said police have tracked websites, and on one occasion sent an undercover officer with students from the City College of New York on a whitewater rafting trip.",
"\"The police department goes where there are allegations,\" Bloomberg said.",
"But Yale University President Richard Levin described New York's surveillance program as \"antithetical to the values\" of the New Haven, Connecticut, university and those of the nation.",
"When a reporter asked if police had gone too far by sending the agent on the rafting trip, Bloomberg responded, \"No.\"",
"Police spokesman Paul Browne told CNN that his agency does not monitor students directly but confirmed it monitors websites they use.",
"\"In any case where you see an NYPD officer present, it's an indication that we were looking at an individual,\" he said.",
"The Columbia University Muslim Students Association condemned the police practice in a statement this week.",
"\"We are concerned that news reports about NYPD's presence on our campus have a chilling effect on the intellectual freedom necessary for a vibrant academic community,\" it read.",
"In December, a prominent group of Muslim leaders boycotted Bloomberg's annual interfaith breakfast in protest of the controversial program.",
"The move stemmed from a series of earlier news reports that raised questions about the nature of a CIA partnership with the New York police that allegedly helped to build city intelligence programs to spy on Muslims.",
"The boycott stood in a stark contrast to the goodwill the mayor earned among Muslim leaders when he defended plans for a controversial Islamic community center near the former site of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.",
"The CIA later announced its internal watchdog found no issue or evidence of wrongdoing in the spy agency's partnership with New York police."
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"New Jersey Gov.",
"Chris Christie also calls the development \"disturbing\"\nChristie asks state's attorney general to investigate reports of spying on Newark Muslim areas ."
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"OTTAWA (CNN) -- Canadian officials say they have arrested a man convicted in 2002 of child molestation in Arizona.",
"Steven Dyer was arrested Tuesday night at a Montreal airport as he returned to Canada from a trip, Canadian authorities said.",
"Dyer was convicted in Arizona in 2002 of 12 counts of sexual conduct with a minor and one count of public sexual indecency with a minor present, according to authorities.",
"He had been released on bail in late 2001 and failed to show up for court proceedings.",
"He was convicted in absentia and faces a minimum prison sentence of 169 years in Arizona.",
"Canada Border Services officials say they had information that Dyer had been living in Vancouver under an assumed name, and they were following up on a tip when he was arrested in Montreal.",
"Dyer was in custody in Montreal Wednesday, and Canadian authorities say he will now face charges in Canada.",
"Dyer was featured on the program \"America's Most Wanted.\"",
"According to the program's website entry on Dyer, the charges against him in Arizona involved incidents with two youths."
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"Canadian officials say they were following up on a tip when they made the arrest .",
"Steven Dyer was convicted in Arizona in absentia in 2002 .",
"He had been free on bail and failed to show up in court .",
"Canadian authorities say they believe Dyer had been living in Vancouver ."
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"Caracas, Venezuela (CNN) -- Speculation and messages of support surged in Venezuela Wednesday, a day after President Hugo Chavez announced he would travel to Cuba for surgery.",
"Doctors there will remove a lesion in the coming days from the same area of his body where doctors removed a cancerous tumor last year, Chavez said.",
"The 57-year-old Venezuelan leader told state media in a phone interview late Tuesday that there was a high likelihood that the lesion was cancerous, due to its location, which he did not disclose.",
"\"If it turns out to be malignant there will surely need to be another phase of radiation therapy, and this would slow me down, of course,\" he said.",
"In June, Chavez said doctors in Cuba had removed a cancerous tumor but did not specify what type of cancer it was.",
"He announced in October that treatment had cured him of cancer.",
"Word of the new operation, which Chavez first announced on state television Tuesday afternoon, comes at a critical time, about seven months ahead of a presidential election.",
"\"To my competitor, a son of God as I am, I wish him a successful operation, a quick recovery and a long life,\" opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski said Wednesday in a Twitter post.",
"The president's allies sent strong messages of support.",
"\"The president will have his treatment.",
"The president will be with us in the campaign, he will be our candidate and he is our candidate for October 7. ...",
"The revolution will continue with Chavez in front,\" said Diosdado Cabello, president of Venezuela's National Assembly.",
"But some Venezuelans said they were skeptical.",
"\"What surprises me is that the president had said before that his cancer was completely cured, so it took all of us by surprise,\" attorney Lourdes Rivas said.",
"\"There is great anguish and uncertainty about whether he will be a candidate with such poor health.\"",
"Store owner Carlos Picardo said he was confident the Venezuelan president would pull through.",
"\"Of course it's quite sensitive, but he is going to come out of this like he has come out of everything else.",
"He will survive this. And if he does not, well, he is mortal like all of us,\" he said.",
"In his interview with state television late Tuesday, Chavez said he was confident he would leave a legacy in Venezuela, no matter what doctors discover.",
"\"Truly at this stage of life...I am no longer myself.",
"Truly I am the people, and I say this with much humility, but that's how I feel.",
"Independently of the days, years, et cetera that may be left in my physical life, I know that when I truly leave...I will remain alive for many years...I live in the people and the country,\" he said.",
"Journalist Osmary Hernandez contributed to this report."
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"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says Cuban doctors will operate .",
"The Venezuelan leader says the lesion is likely malignant .",
"\"It took all of us by surprise,\" one Venezuelan says of the news .",
"The operation comes at a critical time, seven months ahead of the election ."
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"(EW.com) -- Holy moly, America.",
"For the first time since Christmas weekend in 2008, four movies debuted to more than $20 million each this weekend: \"The Vow,\" \"Safe House,\" \"Journey 2: The Mysterious Island,\" and \"Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace 3D.\"",
"The first three of those four films far exceeded industry expectations, helping to make this the biggest non-holiday February weekend ever.",
"The box office was also up around 30 percent compared to the same weekend last year.",
"\"The Vow,\" starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, led the way with a hearty $41.7 million -- the strongest opening so far this year.",
"That also marks the best debut ever for the Sony-owned label Screen Gems (beating \"Dear John's\" $30.5 million), which produced the film with Spyglass Entertainment.",
"With Valentine's Day around the corner, audiences were clearly in the mood for love, especially considering that \"The Vow\" was the first major romantic drama to hit theaters since November's \"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1.\"",
"According to Sony, 72 percent of \"The Vow's\" audience was female.",
"The PG-13 movie, which cost $30 million to produce, received an okay \"B\" rating from CinemaScore graders.",
"Not too far behind was the Denzel Washington thriller \"Safe House,\" which took in $39.3 million.",
"That represents the second-best opening ever for Washington, after 2007′s \"American Gangster.\"",
"According to CinemaScore, 72 percent of moviegoers said the actor was their reason for buying a ticket, confirming Washington's status as one of the few performers who can guarantee a solid turnout.",
"The R-rated movie, which cost $85 million and also stars Ryan Reynolds and Vera Farmiga, attracted a diverse crowd.",
"African Americans made up 38 percent of the audience, followed by Caucasians (31 percent) and Hispanics (23 percent).",
"The film's audience was evenly split fifty-fifty between men and women, and CinemaScore participants gave it an \"A-\" rating.",
"\"Journey 2: The Mysterious Island,\" which saw Dwayne Johnson take over leading-man duties from Brendan Fraser, surprised the industry with $27.6 million.",
"By comparison, its 2008 predecessor \"Journey to the Center of the Earth\" opened to $21 million.",
"Of particular note, the PG-rated sequel rose a massive 94 percent from Friday to Saturday, indicating that it was the movie of choice for family audiences.",
"\"Journey 2\" also performed particularly well in 3-D, with three-dimensional showings accounting for 74 percent of its gross.",
"The $79 million film received an \"A-\" grade from CinemaScore moviegoers.",
"The only new movie that didn't overperform this weekend was the 3-D re-release of \"Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace,\" which collected $23 million.",
"The film was front-loaded, dropping 1 percent from Friday to Saturday as \"Star Wars\" enthusiasts rushed out to see it opening day.",
"But family audiences clearly opted for \"Journey 2\" over Jar Jar and company.",
"Still, $23 million is nothing to get upset about, Anakin, especially for a re-release.",
"The figure tops last month's 3-D re-release of \"Beauty and the Beast\", which debuted to $17.8 million.",
"And \"The Phantom Menace\" jumped past \"E.T.",
": The Extra-Terrestrial\" and Shrek 2 on the all-time domestic list.",
"With a total of $454.1 million, the movie is now the fifth-highest grossing domestic release ever (not adjusted for inflation, of course), and it will soon pass \"Star Wars\" ($461 million) to settle into the No.",
"4 spot. Among holdovers, \"Chronicle\" dropped only 44 percent for $12.3 million.",
"That's an impressive hold for a \"found-footage\" film; by comparison, \"The Devil Inside\" plummeted 76 percent and \"Paranormal Activity 3\" slid 66 percent.",
"The PG-13 movie has so far earned $40.2 million on a $12 million budget.",
"And \"The Woman in Black,\" starring Daniel Radcliffe, fell 51 percent for $10.3 million -- a respectable decline for a horror film.",
"In limited release, the Woody Harrelson cop drama Rampart opened to a so-so $65,100 at five theaters.",
"Two Oscar nominees, \"In Darkness\" (for foreign-language film) and \"Chico & Rita\" (for animated feature), debuted to $27,600 and $21,700, respectively.",
"1. \"The Vow\" -- $41.7 mil .",
"2. \"Safe House\" -- $39.3 mil .",
"3. \"Journey 2: The Mysterious Island\" -- $27.6 mil .",
"4. \"Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace 3D\" -- $23.0 mil .",
"5. \"Chronicle\" -- $12.3 mil .",
"See the full article at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"The Vow,\" starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, led the way with $41.7 million .",
"Not too far behind was the thriller \"Safe House,\" which took in $39.3 million .",
"Journey 2: The Mysterious Island\" surprised the industry with $27.6 million ."
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"(CNN) -- Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy is $2 million richer on Sunday after holding his nerve to beat American Anthony Kim in a play-off at the Shanghai Masters at Lake Malaren.",
"With both players sending their approach shots into the same greenside bunker, Kim missed his resulting three-foot putt, allowing world number three McIlroy to tap home from two feet to collect the richest current first prize in golf.",
"\"It was a very important win.",
"I'll be the first to say I have not won enough in the last four years as professional and could have done a lot more,\" McIlroy told reporters.",
"\"I was under pressure on the back nine and was one shot behind, so to be able to come back and win gives me a lot of satisfaction,\" added the 22-year-old.",
"U.S. Open champion McIlroy had led the 30-strong field from the opening day, but a wayward final round saw him having to dig deep to card a level par 72 to finish on a 72-hole total of 288 (-18).",
"That score tied with Kim's four-round effort, although a final round three-under par 69 ensured he was the only player to card four sub 70 rounds.",
"Kim collected $750,00 for second place, with American Hunter Mahan and Korean youngster Noh Seung-Yul tied for third place five strokes behind the leading two.",
"The tournament was unsanctioned by any major tour and was bankrolled by billionaire property tycoon Shi Jian.",
"It is the joint largest single first prize ever awarded in golf, equaling the fund offered in the Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa.",
"That tournament is also unsanctioned, although since that event first offered $2m to the winner in 2000, the $4.8m prize fund is now spread more evenly among the 12 players competing."
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"Rory McIlroy holds his nerve to win the Shanghai Masters in a play-off .",
"The world number three defeats American Anthony Kim on first extra hole .",
"McIlroy collects $2 million for his victory, the joint richest first prize in golf ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Smithsonian Institution officially began construction Wednesday on a new museum dedicated to African-American culture and heritage -- a complex committed to the celebration and study of one of the central components of the American story.",
"Construction of the Smithsonian's 19th museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture -- to be located on the National Mall -- is expected to last three years.",
"The museum is slated to open in 2015.",
"The nation's first black commander in chief, President Barack Obama, delivered remarks highlighting the importance of the museum's location.",
"National Museum of African American History and Culture.",
"\"It was on this ground long ago that lives were once traded, where hundreds of thousands once marched for jobs and for freedom.",
"It was here that the pillars of our democracy were built, often by black hands,\" the president said.",
"\"And it is on this spot --- alongside the monuments to those who gave birth to this nation, and those who worked so hard to perfect it --- that generations will remember the sometimes difficult, often inspirational, but always central role that African-Americans have played in the life of our country.\"",
"The museum \"will be a place where all Americans can learn about the richness and diversity of the African American experience, what it means to their lives and how it helped us shape this nation.",
"A place that transcends the boundaries of race and culture that divide us and becomes a lens into a story that unites us all,\" according to the Smithsonian website.",
"\"This was true bipartisan effort, echoing the museum's message of unity.",
"What a magnificent location, in view of powerful symbolism.",
"It is a fitting home for this museum, invoking the indelible threads that connect African American stories to the American tapestry,\" said Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian.",
"Former first lady Laura Bush and Georgia Democratic Rep. John Lewis -- an icon of the civil rights era -- were among the other speakers celebrating the start of the museum's construction.",
"\"I look forward to the day when I can amble through the exhibit, search through the archives, participate in a program, rest my tired feet in a cafe and get lost in history inside the granite wall of an idea whose time has finally come, \" Lewis predicted.",
"\"We didn't give up, didn't give in. We didn't give out. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair.",
"We kept the faith.",
"We kept our eyes on the prize.\"",
"The five-acre site, selected six years ago by the Smithsonian, is located between the Washington Monument and the National Museum of American History.",
"The museum will be the first environmentally sensitive \"green\" building on the Mall.",
"It is expected to cost $500 million, half of which will be covered by federal funds.",
"The groundbreaking ceremony was emceed by actress Phylicia Rashad, best known for her role as Claire Huxtable in the 1980s sitcom hit \"The Cosby Show.\"",
"Opera singers Denyce Graves and Thomas Hampson also performed.",
"CNN's Alan Silverleib contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Groundbreaking held for Museum of African American History and Culture .",
"NEW: President Barack Obama speaks at the ceremony .",
"Museum is set to open in 2015 .",
"Museum will be located on the National Mall ."
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"Baghdad (CNN) -- The Islamic State of Iraq has claimed responsibility for Thursday's attacks in that country that killed dozens of people and wounded hundreds more.",
"The umbrella group, which includes al Qaeda in Iraq, issued an audio message that was posted on an al Qaeda-linked website.",
"\"Shiite forces have been conducting campaigns, targeting Sunni people inside their homes day and night,\" the group's spokesman, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, said in the message.",
"\"I am calling on Sunni people in Iraq to wake up before it's too late and put their hands with the jihadis' hands and stand against the Shiite campaign,\" he said.",
"Al-Adnani added a warning that \"the gates of hell have opened\" and that the Islamic State of Iraq \"will carry out more attacks in the near future by suicide bombers, car bombs and roadside bombs.\"",
"He specifically threatened that the group will track down Shiite judges and investigators.",
"The series of explosions and shootings Thursday killed at least 44 people and wounded more than 200 in Baghdad and elsewhere, police said.",
"While most of the Baghdad attacks targeted majority Shiite neighborhoods, explosions also took place in the majority Sunni provinces of Salaheddin, Diyala, and Mosul.",
"The country has seen more coordinated attacks since U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq at the end of 2011, the official said.",
"An Iraqi government spokesman declined comment Thursday.",
"The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad said it \"strongly condemns\" the terrorist attacks.",
"\"These heinous acts targeted people going to work and shopping, children going to school and security forces working to protect the citizenry,\" the embassy said, adding the attacks were \"targeted at all the people of Iraq in a desperate effort to undermine Iraqi society and its institutions.\"",
"The United Nations' Assistance Mission in Iraq also condemned the violence \"in the strongest possible terms.\"",
"\"The continuing violent attacks on Iraqis are totally unacceptable and have to stop,\" said Martin Kobler, special representative of the U.N. secretary-general, in a statement.",
"The attacks \"are meant to hinder the achievement of national unity and stability,\" he said.",
"Iraq's Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish leaders have squared off in recent months after an arrest warrant was issued for Tariq al-Hashimi, the country's Sunni vice president.",
"Al-Hashimi is accused of organizing his security detail into a death squad that targeted government and military officials.",
"The warrant was issued shortly after the vice president's Sunni-backed Iraqiya party said it would boycott Parliament, saying Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was cutting it out of the decision-making process.",
"Al-Hashimi last week denied the charges in a televised speech, saying the Iraqi judicial council is under the control and influence of the central government and that the charges are \"politically motivated.\"",
"Iraqi officials expressed concern Thursday that the violence could cast a shadow over Iraq's hosting the next Arab summit on March 29.",
"The government said earlier this month that logistical and security arrangements had been agreed upon for the event."
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"The Islamic State of Iraq claims responsibility for Thursday's attacks .",
"The group includes al Qaeda in Iraq .",
"The group threatens to track down and target Shiite officials ."
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"(Financial Times) -- Walmart is taking a 51% stake in Yihaodian, a leading Chinese e-commerce website, in a significant move by the U.S. retailer to boost its online presence in China.",
"Walmart did not disclose financial details for the partnership, which Neil Ashe, president and chief executive of Walmart Global e-commerce, said would help deliver a \"superb customer experience\" to consumers in China.",
"\"This is testament to how seriously Walmart is developing their e-commerce platform in China.",
"Having a controlling stake obviously gives them a much more direct say in how Yihaodian expands,\" said Torsten Stocker, an analyst with the Monitor Group.",
"Founded in 2008, Yihaodian is one of the fastest growing companies in China, selling more than 180,000 products ranging from grocery items to consumer electronics and apparel.",
"Yihaodian, in which Walmart already held a minority stake, runs logistics centers in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Wuhan and Chengdu and is able to offer same-day and next-day delivery.",
"The Chinese consumer e-commerce market is dominated by homegrown online retailer Taobao.",
"Walmart remains a relative novice in e-commerce in the United States where the market is led by Amazon.",
"Online sales account for a tiny percentage of Walmart's total U.S. revenues, but in the past year it has sought to boost its in-house expertise by acquiring two U.S. technology companies: Kosmix, which specializes in organizing information from social media sites such as Facebook, and Small Society, which develops apps for mobile shopping.",
"While Walmart's website sells dried and packaged food as well as general merchandise for delivery across the US, its only involvement in selling fresh food online is a small pilot program launched in San Jose, California, last year.",
"Walmart has more than 350 stores in China, where it has been making steady progress.",
"In the three months to the end of October it reported a 16.1% increase in China sales from the previous year, but although individual shoppers were spending more money on each trip, visitor numbers were down 7.1%.",
"The company this month appointed Greg Foran, a 30-year industry veteran, as the chief executive of its China business.",
"Mr Foran will take over next month.",
"His predecessor, Ed Chan, stepped down in October, the fourth senior-level departure for the China business in six months.",
"In October, Walmart China closed its stores in Chongqing for a fortnight after the local government found it had mislabeled ordinary pork as organic.",
"\"Monitoring Walmart is as effective as punching cotton,\" Tang Chuan, head of enforcement at the Chongqing Administration of Industry and Commerce, told Xinhua news agency at the time.",
"Mr Ashe said that, in addition to helping Walmart's e-commerce goals in China, the increased investment in Yihaodian would \"further contribute to China's domestic consumption, help stabilize prices, and advance expansion in the middle and western regions\" of China -- a nod to Beijing's oft-repeated desire to make progress on these goals in the current Five Year plan.",
"© The Financial Times Limited 2012 ."
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"Walmart has more than 350 stores in China .",
"It remains a relative novice in e-commerce in the United States .",
"Amazon leads the market there ."
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"LEWES, England (CNN) -- Tired of soaring prices and uncertain financial markets, a small town in southern England is fighting back -- with its own local currency.",
"Tuesday evening, the wealthy English town of Lewes plans to launch the Lewes Pound as a complementary currency to the British pound.",
"About 50 local traders have agreed to accept it, and organizers are selling the notes at a discount to entice people to buy them.",
"\"If you spend a pound in a supermarket,\" campaigner Adrienne Campbell told CNN, \"it almost immediately goes out of the community, leaks away, and then isn't remaining in the community serving the local people.\"",
"Organizers say the Lewes Pound benefits shoppers by strengthening local shops and increasing a sense of pride in the community.",
"For traders, it increases customer loyalty, minimizes the cost of card-based transactions, and attracts attention to the town.",
"The Lewes Pound also benefits the environment by keeping transactions local, thus reducing carbon emissions, organizers say.",
"Local cheese shop Cheese Please -- which plans to accept the new currency -- offers an example in the economics.",
"Owner Fiona Kay fills her counter with local cheeses, and a customer would use the Lewes Pound to buy them.",
"Kay would then pay the dairy with Lewes Pounds, and the dairy owner would use the Lewes Pound to buy local supplies.",
"The Lewes Pound is a basically a voucher worth one British pound that can only be redeemed at locally-owned participating stores.",
"Customers can buy it at several issuing outlets around town and trade it back for sterling at any time.",
"\"I think we will be keen to take it,\" said Hamish Elder, managing director of the local Harveys Brewery.",
"\"For us, it's as much about how well it's welcomed by the people who are using it.",
"If they find it a nuisance, and there is no real benefit for them, they they are not going to back it, so there is no point (in) us backing it.\"",
"To encourage people to buy the currency, organizers are offering a 10-percent discount on the notes for the next two weeks.",
"It's all part of a year-long pilot program designed to test how well the system works.",
"Lewes Mayor Michael Chartier plans to launch the program Tuesday evening in a ceremony at the Lewes Town Hall, unveiling the nearly 10,000 Lewes Pounds that have so far been designed.",
"Lewes has a history of being a bit rebellious.",
"U.S. revolutionary Thomas Paine spent six years in Lewes until 1774, and for hundreds of years the town has hosted a wild and colorful annual bonfire parade.",
"The town has also had its own currency once before, between 1789 and 1895.",
"The current currency initiative has the backing of Transition Towns, a non-profit organization that works with local communities to develop their own initiatives to address high oil prices and climate change."
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"UK town of Lewes launches own currency to encourage residents to shop local .",
"\"Lewes Pound\" will be accepted by around 50 local businesses .",
"Organizers say scheme will strengthen local shops, instill sense of local pride .",
"Southern English town had its own currency before between 1789 and 1895 ."
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"(CNN) -- Opening statements are scheduled for Friday in the case of a former Rutgers University student who allegedly used a webcam to stream footage of his roommate's sexual encounter with another man.",
"Dharun Ravi faces a 15-count indictment, which includes hate crime charges, in connection with the death of Tyler Clementi, Ravi's roommate.",
"Clementi killed himself after the incident, jumping from the George Washington Bridge between New York and New Jersey.",
"Last year, Ravi turned down a plea deal that would have allowed him to avoid jail time.",
"\"You want to know why he's rejected the plea?\"",
"his attorney, Steven Altman, said in December.",
"\"Simple principle of law, simple principle of life -- he's innocent.",
"He's not guilty.\" Ravi is a citizen of India who was studying in the U.S. legally.",
"The deal offered by Middlesex County prosecutors would have required Ravi, 19, to undergo 600 hours of community service, counseling and to dispose of any information that could identify the man that Clementi was with.",
"Prosecutors also offered to help Ravi avoid deportation, though they said they could not guarantee it.",
"A second student charged in the scandal, Molly Wei, 19, reached a plea deal and that requires her to testify against Ravi.",
"Less than a month after Clementi's suicide, President Barack Obama released a taped video message condemning bullying."
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"Dharun Ravi faces a 15-count indictment involving hate crime charges .",
"He has turned down a plea deal that would have allowed him to avoid jail time .",
"The offer would have required 600 hours of community service, among other things .",
"Roommate Tyler Clementi killed himself after he was secretly filmed having a sexual encounter with a man ."
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"(CNN) -- Australian spin king Shane Warne suffered a losing return to cricket on Saturday as he was upstaged in the Melbourne Stars' opening Big Bash League defeat by Sydney Thunder.",
"Playing in his home city of Melbourne for the first time in five years, the 42-year-old conceded 19 runs from his two overs as David Warner smashed 102 from just 51 balls to give Sydney a six-wicket win with six deliveries to spare.",
"Warner, who scored his maiden Test century in Australia's recent defeat by New Zealand, smashed Warne over the boundary ropes twice as he hit six sixes in a successful chase to overhaul the Stars' 153-7 from 20 overs.",
"\"Didn't go to plan for us tonight but hey it's only the first game.",
"We will bounce back -- well played David Warner, looking forward to Brisbane,\" Warne wrote on Twitter ahead of Tuesday's match against the Heat.",
"Warne retired from international cricket in 2007 but played in the Indian Premier League until earlier this year.",
"He went into the match under an injury cloud after burning his hand while cooking, but was boosted when his partner, actress and model Elizabeth Hurley, performed the pre-game toss of the coin.",
"She accompanied her son Damian and Warne's children Brooke, Summer and Jackson in the middle of the Melbourne Cricket Ground.",
"However, it was downhill from there for Warne as the Stars lost the toss and struggled after batting first.",
"David Hussey top-scored with 52 as Warne was not required to bat, then Warner took center stage as he scored more than half his team's runs.",
"Meanwhile, South Africa crushed Sri Lanka by an innings and 81 runs in the first Test in Centurion on Saturday.",
"Vernon Philander claimed his second five-wicket haul of the match to finish with figures of 10-102 as the tourists were bowled out for 150 in their second innings before tea on day three.",
"Wicketkeeper Mark Boucher claimed six catches as he matched the national record for the fourth time.",
"Sri Lanka trailed by 231 runs after the first innings, and slumped to 38-4 before lunch."
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"Shane Warne's Melbourne Stars lose in spinner's comeback match on Saturday .",
"Australia legend's partner Elizabeth Hurley performed pre-match coin toss .",
"Warne upstaged as David Warner guides Sydney Thunder to a comfortable win .",
"South Africa crush Sri Lanka by an innings and 81 runs in first Test at Centurion ."
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"(CNN) -- Mike Milbury, a former National Hockey League player, coach and executive, is accused of assault and battery on a child stemming from an incident at a youth hockey game.",
"Hours after the allegations became public, NBC -- the network where Milbury serves as a studio analyst for the \"Game of the Week\" broadcast -- announced that he won't appear on air for an indeterminate period of time.",
"\"In our discussions with Mike, we both came to the conclusion that he should remain off the air while focusing on his affairs,\" NBC spokesman Chris McCloskey said in a statement.",
"Milbury, 59, will be charged with one count each of assault and battery on a child, threatening to commit a crime and disorderly conduct, the Brookline, Massachusetts, police said Friday.",
"Daniel Rabinovitz, Milbury's Boston-based attorney, said Friday that his client \"denies any allegations that there was an assault of any kind.\"",
"\"He simply intervened in an altercation between his son and an opposing player,\" Rabinovitz said by e-mail.",
"\"No one was struck, no one was injured, and no one was threatened.\"",
"The alleged incident occurred at a skating rink in the suburban Boston community of Brookline.",
"Milbury is an assistant coach for one of the pee wee hockey teams that had been playing, according to a police statement.",
"The police did not immediately offer any further details.",
"Players on pee wee teams generally are 11 and 12 years old.",
"Born in Brighton, Massachusetts, Milbury attended high school in nearby Walpole and then went on to Colgate University.",
"After playing three games with his hometown Bruins in the 1975-76 season, Milbury became a regular on the NHL team's roster the next season, remaining a key part of the team until his retirement in 1987.",
"He ended up playing 11 full seasons with the Bruins, compiling 49 goals, 189 assists and 1,552 penalty minutes over his career, according to the league's official website NHL.com.",
"His also had a plus/minus rating of 173, meaning his team scored 173 more goals than it gave up when he was on the ice.",
"In 1979, Milbury participated in a hockey brawl when he joined his Bruins teammates in going into the stands to fight with fans in New York's Madison Square Garden.",
"Videotape of that incident shows Milbury removing a shoe from one spectator and striking the fan with it.",
"Milbury then went on to become a coach and executive with the Bruins and the New York Islanders.",
"Known for his provocative comments, he is a studio analyst for Boston-based NESN and TSN in Canada as well as NBC."
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"NEW: Milbury and NBC agree \"he should remain off air\" after the incident, NBC says .",
"Police say the incident occurred at a pee wee game involving a team that Milbury helps coach .",
"Milbury's lawyer says his client \"simply intervened in an altercation\" involving his son .",
"He played 12 seasons for the Boston Bruins, then became a coach, executive and TV analyst ."
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"(CNN) -- An arraignment is scheduled Thursday for Pfc.",
"Bradley E. Manning, who is suspected of leaking secret documents to the WikiLeaks website.",
"Manning, who is also the subject of a court martial, faces charges that include aiding the enemy, wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the Internet, theft of public property or records, transmitting defense information, and fraud and related activity in connection with computers.",
"If convicted of all charges, he would face a maximum sentence of life in prison, reduction to the lowest enlisted pay grade, E-1; forfeiture of pay and allowances; and a dishonorable discharge.",
"Aiding the enemy is a capital offense, but the investigating officer endorsed the view of military prosecutors not to seek the death penalty.",
"Manning is accused of orchestrating the biggest intelligence leak in U.S. history.",
"During the Article 32 proceedings in December, prosecutors presented evidence that Manning allegedly communicated with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a series of Internet chats about uploading 700 Guantanamo Bay detainee interrogation reports.",
"Prosecutors charge that Manning put software on secure computers that allowed him to download classified material and burn it to a compact disc.",
"Manning was assigned as an intelligence analyst in Iraq and had a top-secret clearance.",
"He worked in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).",
"Manning is being held in military custody.",
"At an Article 32 hearing a few weeks ago, Manning's defense lawyer, David Coombs, focused most of his attention on two issues: lack of security at the SCIF and the Army's lack of response to Manning's emotional and behavior problems.",
"WikiLeaks, the international online group that publishes secret government documents it receives from outside sources, set off a firestorm a year and a half ago when it made public on its website U.S. diplomatic cables and other sensitive documents, most of them pertaining to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.",
"The disclosure of hundreds of the documents continues to cast a shadow over the U.S. intelligence community.",
"Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told an information-sharing conference in January that plugging leaks of classified materials is still a challenge for the community as it develops new systems to protect information, while at the same time ensuring the right people have access to it.",
"The fact that Manning had access to so much secret information called into question whether the government had gone too far in responding to one of the biggest failures associated with the 9/11 terrorist attacks.",
"The intelligence community and law enforcement were faulted for failing to share information that might have prevented the attacks.",
"Clapper called the WikiLeaks disclosure a \"terrible event\" that heightened the intelligence community's sensitivity to inside threats.",
"He said changes have already been made to monitor information and keep track of who has access to it.",
"But he said it is a work in progress.",
"\"We have to do more to both tag data and ensure that we can properly identify people so that they are actually authorized to receive the information,\" he said."
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"Manning faces court-martial in the military case .",
"He is suspected of giving classified documents to WikiLeaks .",
"If convicted of all charges, Manning could face life in prison .",
"The intelligence community is trying to plug leaks ."
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"(CNN) -- The Chicago Bears waived wide receiver Sam Hurd on Friday, two days after federal authorities arrested him on charges of conspiring to possess and distribute cocaine.",
"Hurd, 26, was arrested Wednesday at a Chicago restaurant, where he accepted cocaine from an undercover U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court.",
"Authorities say he was trying to set up a drug distribution network in Chicago, having allegedly expressed interest in getting a supplier to sell him hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cocaine and marijuana per week, and that Hurd was a target of a five-month investigation in Dallas, where he once played for the Cowboys.",
"\"We are very shocked about what we heard,\" Bears General Manager Jerry Angelo said Friday while announcing Hurd's release from the NFL team's roster.",
"Hurd was freed from custody Friday after a judge in Chicago granted him a $100,000 cash bond, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago.",
"His attorney, Brett Greenfield, said Hurd had waived his preliminary hearing, and that a grand jury will now decide whether to indict him.",
"The case will be handled by a federal court in the northern district of Texas, where the criminal complaint was filed this week.",
"Greenfield said Hurd's frame of mind is confident, and that there is a \"very high level of relief\" that he is out of custody.",
"The complaint says that Hurd met with an ICE undercover agent at a restaurant in Chicago on Wednesday night.",
"A confidential informant with whom Hurd had communicated previously also attended the meeting, according to the complaint.",
"He was interested in buying 5 to 10 kilograms of cocaine, at $25,000 per kilogram, and 1,000 pounds of marijuana at $450 per pound, per week for distribution in the Chicago area, according to ICE.",
"Hurd said that \"he and another co-conspirator currently distribute about 4 kilograms of cocaine per week in Chicago, but that his supplier couldn't supply him with enough quantity,\" Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.",
"After they finished negotiating, Hurd accepted a kilogram of cocaine from the undercover agent, according to the complaint.",
"\"Hurd stated that he plays for the Chicago Bears and that he gets out of practice at about 5:30 p.m., after which he would make arrangements to pay for the kilogram of cocaine,\" ICE officials said in a news release.",
"\"Hurd left the restaurant with the bag of cocaine and was arrested shortly thereafter in the parking lot of the restaurant.\"",
"If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison and a $2 million fine for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine.",
"Hurd, a sixth-year NFL player out of Northern Illinois University, joined the Bears in July after playing with the Cowboys for five seasons.",
"Angelo, the Bears' general manager, said Friday that team research on Hurd turned up no red flags before he signed in July, according to the Bears' website.",
"\"We spend an inordinate amount of time on character, making sure we know the player as well as we can,\" Angelo said.",
"\"But no system is foolproof.",
"For me to sit here and say that we should have known something that we didn't know, I can't say that in this case.",
"There's no foundation for anybody to say that.\"",
"NFL wide receiver Terrell Owens also expressed shock after hearing of Hurd's arrest.",
"\"It would never cross my mind that Sam would ever be dealing or using drugs,\" said Owens of his former Dallas Cowboys teammate.",
"\"This is completely out of character for him.\"",
"Though Hurd has only eight catches for 109 yards in this season's first 13 games, he contributed in other ways.",
"He has long been a special teams force, leading the Cowboys in special teams tackles in 2009 and 2010.",
"CNN's Karan Olson, Jim Barnett, Bill Kirkos and Eliott C. McLaughlin contributed to this report."
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"Sam Hurd is released on $100,000 bail .",
"The Chicago Bears wide receiver was arrested on drug charges Wednesday .",
"Officials accuse Hurd of trying to set up a drug distribution network .",
"He accepted a kilogram of cocaine from an undercover agent, they say ."
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"(CNN) -- You can take the man out of the uniform, but you can't take the uniform out of the man.",
"Once a soldier, always a soldier.",
"That's why, despite my cautious optimism regarding President Obama's recent announcement of the planned end of the Iraq war, I'm still a little wary.",
"This isn't the first time a president has told me the war was over.",
"On May 1, 2003, my men and I were in Kuwait, waiting for orders to move into Iraq.",
"A young rifle platoon leader in the infantry, I knew just enough to be both eager and nervous.",
"Everyone knows what happened next: the aircraft carrier, the flight suit, the Mission Accomplished banner.",
"A declaration of an end to major combat operations.",
"We thought our war had ended before it even began.",
"Little did we know it was just starting.",
"Our orders to move north were issued that very day.",
"And very soon, we found the war we thought was gone, in the streets and alleys of Baghdad.",
"Eight-and-a-half messy years later, a war the American people were led to believe would only last a few weeks is -- in theory -- winding down.",
"Historians will debate the question of whether it was worth it for generations.",
"Did it establish a stable democracy in the heart of the Middle East?",
"No one can say for sure.",
"Did it punish the deserving and bring justice to those that sought to do us harm?",
"That's an even tougher one.",
"Did it affect the Arab Spring?",
"Perhaps, but so did Twitter.",
"And can we really say the war is \"over\" when bombs are still going off and killing Iraqis, untold amounts of contractors are staying, and troops are still dying?",
"What can't be debated are the effects on those who did the fighting.",
"More than 4,400 American families are forever shattered, having lost a son or a daughter or a mother or a brother.",
"Over 32,000 service members were wounded in action physically.",
"And the war lives on in the hearts and memories of every Iraq veteran, whether they've transitioned smoothly back to civilian life with a job or are still ravaged by their experience and in desperate need of help.",
"Make no mistake about it -- America has only started to pay for this war.",
"It's like the hidden charges on bills from the cable company, they might not get you right away, but they'll get you eventually.",
"Iraq veterans are young hard-chargers now, but as time passes, that will change, just as it does for every person.",
"They will grow older, marry, have kids, and, if given the opportunity, grow into the New Greatest Generation title bestowed upon them.",
"But that's going to take time, care and money.",
"Long term, it's estimated that these wars could cost between $600 billion and $1 trillion, to include the care for more than 2.3 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.",
"Those are imposing numbers, to be sure, especially in this time of an economic recession and spiraling debt.",
"But those numbers will only increase with time if we slash veteran program funding in a shortsighted rush, as some in Washington have begun chattering about.",
"Whether one agreed with the Iraq war or not, we all own it now.",
"That's how our country works.",
"Every single brave man and woman who wore the uniform overseas went over there wearing the American flag, representing us and our nation's ideals.",
"Now, the time has finally come for all of them to return home on December 31, 2011.",
"And a new front awaits back here.",
"One president began the Iraq war.",
"Another ended it.",
"But it was yet another commander-in-chief, President Lincoln, who said, \"Let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.\"",
"That work isn't done. And until it is, I won't consider the Iraq war over.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul Rieckhoff."
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"Paul Rieckhoff says he once was fooled into thinking the Iraq war was over .",
"After the \"Mission Accomplished\" speech, the real war began, he says .",
"Whatever happens after U.S. troops leave Iraq, the war will continue for America .",
"He says it could cost up to $1 trillion to care for the Iraq, Afghanistan veterans ."
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"(CNN) -- A late goal from Eric Abidal gave Barcelona a 2-1 comeback victory in the first leg of their Spanish Cup quarterfinal clash with arch rivals Real Madrid.",
"The French defender scored the decisive goal in the match known as 'El Clasico' at Real's Bernabeu stadium after Barcelona captain Carles Puyol had canceled out Cristiano Ronaldo's opener.",
"It means Barcelona are favorites to progress into the final four of the competition and eliminate the holders when the two contest the second leg next Wednesday.",
"After a cagey opening, in which Barcelona dominated possession, Real took the lead with their first meaningful attack on 11 minutes.",
"Karim Benzema's pass found Ronaldo scampering through the middle, and the Portuguese forward stepped past Gerard Pique before firing beyond Barca keeper Pinto.",
"Ronaldo, who has been criticized by some fans for not celebrating some of his recent goals and for missing several chances in the last match with Barca, certainly looked like he enjoyed his opener.",
"Five minutes later Barcelona striker Alexis Sanchez, from Chile, got on the end of Cesc Fabregas' pass but though his looping header beat Real goalkeeper Iker Casillas, it bounced back off the post.",
"Lionel Messi had his first sight of goal on 26 minutes as his low shot forced Casillas into a smart save at his near post.",
"Andres Iniesta then made some room inside the penalty area but he fired wide after Sanchez's lay off.",
"But just three minutes into the second half Barcelona pulled level as their captain Carles Puyol stooped to head a corner into the net.",
"Moments later Real defender Sergio Ramos deflected a volley from Iniesta onto the woodwork after a chipped pass from Fabregas.",
"Real then hit the woodwork themselves as Benzema's header cannoned back off the upright with Pinto beaten.",
"Tempers frayed when Real's Pepe appeared to stamp on Messi's hand as the Argentine was on the floor after a foul before Barca edged in front with just over ten minutes to go.",
"Abidal, who signed a new contract at the club this week, controlled Messi's pass on his chest before shooting low into the net.",
"In Italy, AC Milan progressed to the quarterfinals of the Italian Cup but they needed extra time to beat Novara 2-1.",
"Stephan El Shaarawy gave the Rossoneri the lead on 24 minutes with a curling shot but Ivan Radovanovic equalized for Serie A's bottom club with a long range free kick two minutes from time.",
"It was left to Milan's Brazilian striker Pato to seal victory, ten minutes into the extra half an hour."
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"Barcelona beat Real Madrid 2-1 in their Spanish Cup quarterfinal first leg tie .",
"French defender strikes 13 minutes from time as holders suffer defeat at home stadium .",
"Cristiano Ronaldo had given Real the lead before Carles Puyol equalized .",
"Milan beat Novara to progress into the quarterfinals of the Italian Cup ."
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"(CNN) -- A hot night in Beirut and hipsters, dressed to kill, dance the night away.",
"A DJ plays in a bar in Gemayzeh -- one of the few areas in Beirut where nightlife continues .",
"A few years ago this scene would have played out across the city.",
"Now, soldiers line the pavements and night time revelers are more likely to hear the sporadic crack of gunshots than dance music beats.",
"While trendy districts of Beirut like Gemayzeh are valiantly carrying on as usual, the nation's critical political and economic situation is hard to ignore.",
"\"The Lebanese have this vibrance for life, this addiction for life, and the people just really want to exclude themselves from the political scene,\" Mazen Hajjar, owner of 961 Brewery.",
"It is a devastating political scene culminating in the current parliamentary deadlock which has blocked the election of a new president and put the economy on ice.",
"\"Our best export from the country is now exporting our highly educated young men and women.",
"We are losing them at the rate of six to seven thousand a month,\" said Fadi Abboud, President of the Association of Lebanese Industrialists.",
"The Lebanese who have chosen to stay are uncertain and fearful of war.",
"They are staying in and saving money in case the political situation deteriorates.",
"In spite of the discouraging climate, young entrepreneur Mazen Hajjar is bucking the trend with his 961 micro-brewery.",
"\"We're doing very, very well,\" he said, \"We're looking very much like a lot of our counterparts to now start expanding internationally,\" continued Hajjar.",
"But then Hajjar is not short of nerve.",
"He started 961 Brewery -- which is named after Lebanon's international dialing code -- during the 2006 Hezbollah war with Israel.",
"961 Brewery is an example of the complicated economic situation in Lebanon where some industries thrive and others fail.",
"Construction is another industry which is booming while others go bust.",
"Fuelled by low interest rates and Gulf oil money, it is growing at around 30 to 40 percent a year.",
"Fears of more sectarian violence and another war with Israel are ever present -- and they are the kiss of death for sensitive industries like tourism.",
"The Lebanese are renowned for their love of a good time and Beirut's club scene used to attract tourists and partygoers from all over the region.",
"Tourists from Kuwait and Bahrain used to spend as much money on Lebanon's ski slopes in the winter as on its beaches in summer.",
"But recently their governments advised tourists not to travel there.",
"Saudi Arabia, Lebanon's main bankroller, has also warned its citizens to steer clear of the unstable country.",
"Shopkeepers are missing the custom of Saudis and Emiratis who are known for the extravagance of their purchases and hoteliers have noticed a big drop in occupancy rates.",
"According to the General Union of Arab Chambers of Commerce, losses in the Lebanese tourism sector over the past two and a half years have run to $2.2 bn.",
"Lebanon's beleaguered industrialists have also been hit hard by the political turmoil.",
"They claim they are being ruined by high, unsubsidized energy costs and war damage.",
"This has meant factories have closed and workers laid off.",
"\"We are the Phoenicans for God's sake.",
"We invented glass.",
"It is now not commercial to produce glass, ceramics, plastics, building materials and bricks.",
"All intensive energy industries are suffering and they have no future,\" Abboud told CNN.",
"Criticisms have been leveled at the Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA) for failing to put any measures in place to support Lebanon during this time.",
"The complicated nature of Lebanon's economic situation means that relief is coming from an unexpected source -- the country's huge diaspora.",
"Lack of stability may be keeping the expatriate population from returning home but it doesn't stop them from sending back money -- roughly $6 bn a year which makes up around a quarter of the country's GDP.",
"This money cannot keep the economy afloat indefinitely and the political problems must be solved before any long-term solutions can be found to the economic issues.",
"Nicholas Chammas, an eminent strategy consultant based in the country thinks Lebanon must rethink even more radically than that.",
"\"We cannot defy gravity indefinitely.",
"Lebanon has to go back to basics.",
"We cannot function as we used to do before the war, or even 10 years ago.",
"We have to change gears.",
"We have to reinvent the Lebanese economy.\"",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Lebanon is famous for its nightlife but political deadlock is wrecking the sector .",
"Uncertainty is discouraging tourists but real estate and construction are growing .",
"It is all part of Lebanon's complex economic landscape -- neither boom nor bust .",
"What can Lebanon do to solve its political problems and get ailing sectors off ice ."
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"(CNN) -- Diego Milito scored the only goal as Inter beat Milan 1-0 in the San Siro derby, a result that threw open the Italian Serie A title race after the top three teams all failed to win on Sunday.",
"After leaders Juventus and third-placed Udinese both struggled in earlier matches, defending champions Milan knew victory over their city rivals in the evening kick-off would send them two points clear at the top of the table.",
"And Milan nearly took the lead on the stroke of halftime when Mark van Bommel's strike crashed against the crossbar with goalkeeper Julio Cesar well beaten.",
"Who are football's top January transfer targets?",
"Inter made the most of that stroke of good fortune and Argentine forward Milito scored the only goal nine minutes after the break.",
"Milan defender Ignazio Abate slipped as he attempted to clear Javier Zanetti's cross and Milito was on hand to stroke the ball home.",
"Inter's victory consolidated fifth place, but just six points separate the top five teams after 18 games.",
"The defeat left Milan a point behind Juventus, who remained top and unbeaten after a 1-1 draw at home to mid-table Cagliari.",
"A superb team move resulted in striker Mirko Vucinic tapping home the opener for Juve after just seven minutes, but the Sardinian visitors leveled early in the second half through Andrea Cossu's long-range strike.",
"Udinese dropped two points behind Milan after slipping to a 3-2 defeat at Genoa.",
"Damiano Ferronetti headed Udinese into the lead but quick-fire goals from Andreas Granqvist and Bosko Jankovic gave Genoa the advantage early in the second half.",
"Rodrigo Palacio added a third before Antonio Di Natale pulled a goal back from the penalty spot after Genoa captain Marco Rossi had been sent off.",
"Goals from Brazilian midfielder Hernanes and veteran Germany striker Miroslav Klose gave Lazio a 2-0 home win over Atalanta, putting the Rome club five points behind Juve in fourth position."
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"Diego Milito scores the only goal as Inter beat Milan 1-0 in the San Siro derby .",
"The result opens up the Serie A title race with just six points between the top five .",
"Juventus and Udinese fail to win but Lazio close gap with 2-0 victory over Atalanta ."
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"Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- In the beginning the question was whether we could do it at all.",
"Around-the-clock news?",
"Was there even enough news to fill 24 hours?",
"Those were the questions being asked when I joined the staff of CNN on February 4, 1980, five months before the network went on the air.",
"I had come to CNN from the Atlanta Journal via a six-year stint at UPI.",
"Aside from knowing how to write a five-minute newscast for the broadcast wire, I knew nothing about television.",
"That day I was told I would be the broadcast industry's first full-time copy editor.",
"Even at the networks, it seemed, producers had read scripts, but with 24 hours of news, editors had been added to the team.",
"Down to the last few minutes before we went on the air at 6 p.m. on June 1, 1980, there were doubts about whether we could do it.",
"Ted Kavanau was the fast-talking, endlessly energetic vice president whose job was not only to get us on the air but make our shows interesting.",
"As the clock ticked down, he called the show team into the back where the executive offices were located.",
"\"Listen,\" he intoned.",
"\"We don't know if this is going to work or not.",
"But do not worry. If it doesn't work, we will all go to TV stations and hire one another.\"",
"And on that cheery note, out we went to produce the first show.",
"We had been asked to tie our futures to the dreams of Ted Turner, someone many considered to be a mad man.",
"Not only were we ready, but eager.",
"As Turner was dedicating the news channel to America, I was marking up seven-part scripts with a black copy pencil in the newsroom downstairs.",
"And by the end of that first hour, I knew the answer to the question of whether CNN would survive.",
"Civil rights leader Vernon Jordan had been shot and was in a Fort Wayne, Indiana, hospital.",
"That day his friend, President Carter, flew to Fort Wayne to visit his bedside.",
"When Carter came out of Jordan's room and stepped up to the waiting microphones, CNN was live.",
"The three broadcast networks would air portions of Carter's remarks later on their 30-minute evening newscasts, but CNN was live as it happened.",
"As I listened to Carter speak, I thought to myself, \"You know, this is going to work.\"",
"And it did. Cell phones were still a few years away.",
"There was no Internet, but people could look at CNN and see history unfold before their eyes.",
"A cartoon in the New Yorker magazine from that time showed a dead bird, its feet in the air and a CNN cameraman capturing the event.",
"\"A sparrow falls,\" said the caption, \"and CNN goes live.\"",
"There were countless important events in those first years.",
"The arrival of the hostages who had been freed by Iran in 1981, the chaos following the shooting of President Reagan that year, and those unforgettable images as the Challenger blasted off into a clear blue Florida sky in January 1986 only to explode a few moments later.",
"A breakthrough moment came with the start of the Persian Gulf War.",
"That war produced something called \"CNN Syndrome.\"",
"As video of bombs falling on targets and reports from the field streamed in, people were reluctant to be away from their televisions.",
"They carried pocket radios into business meetings to listen to CNN Radio.",
"They were unwilling to be unplugged, and it was more than exciting to be a part of it.",
"In 1993, CNN created its own internal wire service, The CNN Wire, and I was one of three members of that fledgling staff.",
"We were to be the repository of what CNN knew because our charge was to cover the major story of the day.",
"In 1994, it included a slow chase down a Los Angeles freeway.",
"When caught, O.J. Simpson was charged with murdering his wife, Nicole Brown-Simpson.",
"My colleague Anne Brown and I watched and filed dispatches on every day of the trial.",
"In 1996, I went to Moscow to cover the first democratic election of a Russian president.",
"Boris Yeltsin danced on the stage at Rostov-on-Don and swept past the Communists to win.",
"Then followed four trips to Israel to cover elections there.",
"One evening my colleague Izzy Lemberg invited me to visit his home in Abu Tor, a mixed neighborhood in Jerusalem where Israelis and Palestinians live.",
"The cab driver was a little reluctant but took me anyway.",
"On the terrace roof of Izzy's home that summer evening we ate cool slices of watermelon and sipped Israeli wines.",
"As darkness fell, an arc of lights was visible on the horizon.",
"\"That is Amman, Jordan,\" Izzy said.",
"\"It's only about 70 miles away.\"",
"Soon bright flashes of light began to appear off to the right, beyond the Mount of Olives.",
"Izzy and his wife Rickie seemed to pay no notice.",
"What was that, I wanted to know.",
"\"Oh, that, just the Israelis practicing tank fire in the Jordan Valley,\" Izzy said.",
"Normal life in Israel.",
"One of my most memorable days at CNN was a day of tragedy, April 19, 1995.",
"A national desk editor had received a call from a CNN affiliate in Oklahoma City.",
"The station had heard on a police scanner that an explosion had occurred at the federal building and planned to send a reporter and a microwave truck.",
"I called the Oklahoma City police to find out what was going on.",
"I asked if there had been an explosion at the federal building.",
"\"Yes,\" the dispatcher told me, \"and it's bad.\"",
"She slammed down the phone, but with that confirmation I wrote the first bulletin of many I would write that day.",
"Within the next 10 minutes, the first video of the scene was streaming in -- the mushroom cloud of black smoke, the façade of the building collapsed into the street.",
"As the lead writer on the story, it was my job to take that stream of facts, update the story as developments came in, and try to keep the story as coherent as possible.",
"At times that day, it felt as if I had grabbed a live wire as the death toll inched toward 168.",
"The stories of survivors began to flow in.",
"And then there were the questions. Who did this and why? About 80 minutes after the blast, Timothy McVeigh, the man who would ultimately be convicted of the worst act of homegrown terror in American history, was arrested in a routine traffic stop in Perry, Oklahoma.",
"In 1997, I would go to Denver to cover his trial.",
"My worst day at CNN was an even worse day of tragedy.",
"September 11, 2001, when almost 3,000 people died.",
"That Tuesday morning began routinely.",
"An editorial meeting had started on the 6th floor of the CNN Center when word came from the New York bureau that a plane had hit the World Trade Center.",
"Like many, I thought it must have been a small private plane and wondered how it got so close.",
"Then the first video came in from CNN affiliate WABC with the Trade Center's North Tower ablaze.",
"I sat down and wrote a bulletin.",
"My colleague, international desk editor Lynn Felton, and I were watching a monitor when a plane entered the frame and struck the South Tower.",
"Did we really see what we just saw?",
"I wrote another bulletin.",
"Then, as we tried to understand the magnitude of what had occurred, a third plane, at the Pentagon.",
"Another bulletin.",
"Then a fourth plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.",
"That short span -- between a few minutes before 9 a.m. until just after 10:30 a.m. -- was the longest period of time I have ever experienced.",
"The seconds ticked down as if they were made of lead.",
"We were under attack, and it wouldn't stop.",
"But, of course, the story was just beginning to unfold.",
"Very soon, the twin towers would collapse in roiling clouds of smoke and ash.",
"A lead writer's job when a story begins is to give the facts as quickly, clearly and concisely as possible.",
"But as the day progresses, it is the writer's job to pull back, look at the larger picture, include some context, and say, if possible, what this means.",
"My final lead that day talked about terrorists striking the twin symbols of America's financial and military might, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.",
"The only routine thing about September 11 was at the end of the day when the lead writer who was to replace me tapped me on the shoulder.",
"I logged off the computer, stood up and stumbled away -- spent both emotionally and physically in a way I had never been before.",
"On the day of Ted Turner's last visit to his office in the CNN Center, my old friend and colleague Will King, who like me was there on day one, happened to ride the elevator down with Turner.",
"As they crossed the bridge over the food court, Will tried to express to Turner what his vision had meant to us, how proud those of us who were there at the beginning had been to be a part of it.",
"Turner thanked him and headed down the escalator.",
"Then the mad man turned, threw up his hand, and shouted back to Will, \"Keep the spirit!\"",
"This week, more than 32 years after I joined CNN -- after being a part of thousands of stories, working with thousands of people, and forming friendships that have lasted a lifetime -- I will sign off of my computer for the last time and retire.",
"It has been a great career.",
"As I leave I am as convinced today as I was early on that there is no better front seat to history than to be a part of CNN.",
"And as I slip down the escalator, I plan to turn back and wave to all the colleagues I'm leaving behind, confident that the spirit lives on."
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"Randy Harber retires this week after a career that goes back to the first day of CNN .",
"He says the 24-hour news channel quickly overcame doubts that it was needed .",
"Harber: Ted Turner's innovation found an audience as events demanded constant attention .",
"He says his 32-year career provided a front row seat to history ."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester City reaffirmed their grip on top spot in the English Premier League on Saturday with a 3-0 win over Fulham at the Etihad Stadium.",
"Sergio Aguero put the Sky Blues ahead from the penalty spot in the 10th minute after Adam Johnson was brought down by Chris Baird.",
"The Northern Ireland defender compounded his mistake with an own goal 20 minutes later with Edin Dzeko adding a third midway through the second half to ensure three points and maintain City's 100% home record.",
"Manchester United can join their city rivals on 57 points if they beat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.",
"Arsenal banged in seven goals against Blackburn Rovers at the Emirates Stadium to banish the disappointment of drawing away to Bolton Wanderers on Wednesday.",
"Robin van Persie's scored a hat-trick while Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain scored a brace as the Gunners ran riot.",
"There were also goals for Mikel Arteta and Thierry Henry to complete a 7-1 victory to move Arsene Wenger's men up to fifth place ahead of Newcastle who entertain Aston Villa on Sunday and Liverpool who take on Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield on Monday.",
"Defeat keeps Blackburn in 19th place with 18 points.",
"Norwich City move up to ninth place after a 2-0 win against Bolton at Carrow Road.",
"Second-half goals from Andrew Surman in the 70th minute and Anthony Pilkington five minutes from the end sees Bolton slip back into the relegation zone.",
"Wolverhampton Wanderers, meanwhile, move up to 17th place thanks to a 2-1 win against Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road.",
"Second-half strikes from Matt Jarvis (46th minute) and Kevin Doyle in the 71st minute cancelled out debutant Bobby Zamora's first-half goal.",
"The defeat, which also saw other new signing Djibril Cisse sent off for violent conduct in the 33rd minute, keeps Mark Hughes' men in 16th place.",
"Sunderland continued their excellent run under new manager Martin O'Neill as they beat 10-man Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium.",
"Robert Huth's tackle on midfielder David Meyler earned the German defender a straight red shortly before half-time.",
"Sunderland's numerical advantage soon told as James McLean scored in the 60th minute to earn Sunderland a fifth win in six league matches.",
"Swansea City claimed a rare away victory beating West Bromwich Albion 2-1 at the Hawthorns.",
"Marc-Antoine Fortune gave the home side the lead nine minutes into the second half but Swansea wasted no time getting back on level terms with Icelandic midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson netting a minute later.",
"Four minutes later, English striker Danny Graham put the Welsh side in front.",
"The win -- only the second on Swansea's travels this season -- moves Brendan Rodgers' side up to 10th with 30 points while West Brom remain in 15th with 26 points.",
"Everton couldn't match their midweek heroics against top-of the-table Manchester City in their match with bottom-side Wigan.",
"A Phil Neville own goal in the 76th minute put Wigan on course for their first league win since November, but Nigerian striker Victor Anichebe grabbed a point for Everton, heading home seven minutes from the end to salvage a point.",
"Wigan remain bottom with 16 points, while Everton are 11th with 30 points."
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"Robin van Persie scores hat-trick as Arsenal hit seven against Blackburn Rovers .",
"Swansea claim rare away victory at West Brom; Wolves earn valuable 2-1 at QPR .",
"Chelsea play Manchester United at Stamford Bridge on Sunday ."
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"(CNN) -- Guinea equaled the record for a winning margin in an Africa Cup of Nations match on Saturday with a 6-1 over 10-man Botswana in Franceville.",
"Sadio Diallo opened the scoring in the 15th minute when he coverted a Abdoul Camara cross.",
"Dipsy Selolwane equalized for Botswana scoring at the second attempt from a penalty in the 23rd minute after Jerome Ramatlhakwana was brought down by Guinea goalkeeper Naby Yattara.",
"But parity didn't last long as Diallo scored his second four minutes later to put Guinea back in front.",
"Camara extended the lead in the 42nd minute and Ibrahima Traore made it 4-1 in first half injury time.",
"The Stuttgart winger scored from a free kick which saw Botswana substitute Patrick Motsepe sent off for a foul on Feindouno.",
"Guinea saw more chances come and go in the second half before Mamadou Bah made it 5-1 in the 84th minute with Naby Soumah completing the rout two minutes later.",
"In Group D's other match, Ghana beat Mali 2-0.",
"Asamoah Gyan opened the scoring from a free kick in the 63rd minute with Ayew doubling the Black Stars' lead 13 minutes later.",
"Saturday's results means the 2010 World Cup quarter-finalists sit at the top of the group with six points from their two games while Guinea and Mali both have three points.",
"Although bottom-placed Botswana have no points they still have a mathematical chance of qualifying for the knockout stages.",
"All will be decided on Wednesday February 1 when Mali take on Botswana in Libreville and Ghana face Guinea in Franceville."
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"Guinea keep Africa Cup of Nations hopes alive with 6-1 thrashing of Botswana .",
"Ghana beat Mali 2-0 to maintain 100% record .",
"All to play for in final round of matches with even pointless Botswana able to qualify for knockout stages ."
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"(CNN) -- Cheick Diabate scored twice as Mali defeated 10-man Ghana 2-0 to finish third in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations on Saturday.",
"The Bordeaux striker opened the scoring in the 23rd minute stabbing home a rebound after Ghana keeper Adam Larsen failed to hold onto Bakaye Traore's low shot.",
"Ghana offered little in reply during the remainder of the first period with only a Jordan Ayew shot forcing a save from Oumar Sissoko.",
"The Black Stars did manage to get the ball in the back of the net when Sulley Muntari fired home but he was ruled offside.",
"Best of Africa?",
"Ivory Coast and Zambia clash in final .",
"Their chances of getting back on level terms were dealt a blow in the 64th minute when Issac Vorsah was given his second yellow card of the game for kicking out at Samba Diakite.",
"Mali made sure of third place 10 minutes from time when Cheick Diabate scored his second to ensure The Eagles' best result in the competition since 1972 when they were beaten finalists.",
"Zambia take on Ivory Coast in Sunday's final."
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"Mali finish in third place after defeating Ghana 2-0 .",
"Bordeaux striker Cheick Diabate scores twice to record Mali's best finish for 40 years ."
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"(CNN) -- An injury time penalty from Mario Balotelli secured a dramatic 3-2 win for Manchester City as they staved off a brave fight back from Tottenham to maintain their three point lead at the top of the English Premier League.",
"City's main title rivals, Manchester United, also negotiated a difficult test at Arsenal by winning 2-1 to remain on the coat tails of their big-spending neighbors.",
"Victories for both Manchester clubs saw them pull clear from third-placed Tottenham -- City are now eight points ahead of them, and United five -- with the race for the championship now seeming like a two-horse race.",
"Italy striker Balotelli was involved in another contentious incident in the match as he appeared to aim a stamp at Scott Parker's head, a flashpoint that angered Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp.",
"\"What reason did he have to kick Scott in the head with his studs while he is lying on the floor?",
"It's not a nice thing to do and it has no place in football,\" Redknapp told a press conference.",
"\"It's not the first time he's done that is it?",
"I'm sure it won't be the last. I'm the last person to talk about getting people sent off, but it's blatantly obvious if you see that, he reacts like that at times to challenges.\"",
"Prior to Balotelli's late spot kick the game burst to life in nine second half minutes.",
"First, Samir Nasri's emphatic finish from Silva's pass on 56 minutes gave City the lead before Joleon Lescott bundled a corner into the net three minutes later.",
"But City let the visitors back into the game within a minute as centre back Stefan Savic failed to deal with a long ball and Jermain Defoe took the ball round City goalkeeper Joe Hart to finish into an empty net.",
"And five minutes later, Tottenham were level as Gareth Bale struck a superb equalizer from the edge of the penalty area after Aaron Lennon's pass.",
"Defoe had a chance to win the game for Tottenham in injury time but though he stretched to connect with Bale's cross he could only poke the ball wide of the target from four yards out.",
"And Tottenham were made to pay for that miss as Ledley King brought down Balotelli in the final minute of added on time and the Italian made no mistake from 12 yards.",
"Manchester United took the lead at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium in north London when Antonio Valencia headed home Ryan Giggs' cross on the stroke of half time.",
"Arsenal's Dutch captain Robin van Persie, who had already squandered a great chance to bring his side level, found the net on 71 minutes with an angled drive from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's pass.",
"Teenage winger Oxlade-Chamberlain was substituted straight after the equalizer, drawing boos from the home support.",
"And his replacement, Russian Andrei Arshavin, failed to close down Valencia as he got into the area late in the game to tee up England striker Danny Welbeck for the winner."
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"Mario Balotelli's late penalty hands Manchester City a 3-2 victory over Tottenham Hotspur .",
"Italian appeared to aim a stamp at opponent's head before he scored the winning goal .",
"Manchester United beat Arsenal 2-1 at the Emirates to keep pace with title rivals .",
"City remain three points ahead of United as both Manchester clubs move clear of third ."
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"(CNN) -- Bayern Munich failed to regain top spot in the Bundesliga on Saturday night after dropping points in a 1-1 draw at Hamburg.",
"Hamburg took the lead in the 23rd minute when Jacopo Sala headed home from a Jose Guerrero cross.",
"Bayern pushed for an equalizer but were frustrated by a resilient Hamburg defence but Croatian striker Ivica Olic found a way through in the 71 minute to salvage a point.",
"The result completes a thoroughly mixed bag of results for Bayern since resuming after the Christmas break with four points taken from a possible nine.",
"Their current indifferent form means that, thanks to a 2-0 at Nuremburg on Friday, Borussia Dortmund finish the weekend on top of the Bundesliga with 43 points with Bayern on 41 points.",
"Third-placed Schalke also have 41 points after a 1-1 draw at home to Mainz.",
"The visitors took a shock lead when Egypt striker Mohamed Zidan scored 15 minutes into his Mainz debut.",
"But Schalke were back on level terms after an hour thanks to a strike from Nigeria striker Chinedu Obasi.",
"Fourth-placed Moenchengladbach could only manage a goalless draw at Wolfsburg while fifth-placed Bayer Leverkusen also drew (2-2) with mid-table Stuttgart as both sides finished with 10 men on the pitch.",
"Leverkusen had Czech Republic defender Michal Kadlec sent off midway through the second half for his second bookable offence while Stuttgart's Cristian Molinaro saw red in the 92nd minute for striking Andre Schuerrle in the face.",
"At the other end of the table, 17th-placed Augsburg earned a point with a 2-2 draw at Hoffenheim.",
"Hertha Berlin lost 1-0 to Hanover, a result which lifts The Reds up to seventh."
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"Bayern Munich's recent patchy form continues with a 1-1 draw at Hamburg .",
"Borussia Dortmund now two points clear at top of Bundesliga .",
"Schalke also draw at home to Mainz; Moenchengladbach draw black at Wolfsburg ."
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