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"(CNN) --",
"It's just one thing after another for Richard and Mayumi Heene.",
"Richard and Mayumi Heene've caused such an uproar after last week's alleged balloon boy hoax that Lifetime won't air a re-run of Richard and Mayumi Heene's \"Wife Swap\" episode.",
"Richard and Mayumi Heene's \"Wife Swap\" episode has been pulled from Lifetime's programming schedule.",
"Those who pay close attention to TV Guide would have noticed that Richard and Mayumi Heene's first episode for the ABC reality show was scheduled to air on Lifetime on Thursday, October 29, at 2 p.m. ET.",
"\"It was on the schedule long before the balloon boy incident,\" a Lifetime spokesperson said.",
"the balloon boy incident refers to the giant, homemade balloon that sailed over Colorado on Thursday, purportedly carrying 6-year-old Falcon Heene.",
"The bubble burst when authorities discovered 6-year-old Falcon Heene had been hiding in a box in the attic.",
"During an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, the Heene's asked 6-year-old Falcon Heene why 6-year-old Falcon Heene didn't come out as they searched for 6-year-old Falcon Heene, and the boy replied, \"Richard and Mayumi Heene said Richard and Mayumi Heene did it for a show.\"",
"That triggered an investigation that revealed the balloon boy incident was a hoax, police said.",
"Richard and Mayumi Heene are now facing a number of local charges, and the Federal Aviation Administration has begun the Federal Aviation Administration's own balloon boy investigation, officials said.",
"As a result, Lifetime has decided to erase the family's \"Wife Swap\" past from the network.",
"\"Once Lifetime found out\" [it was allegedly a hoax], the spokesperson said, \"Lifetime decided to pull a Heene \"Wife Swap\" episode off the air.",
"At this time, Lifetime don't have any plans to air a Heene \"Wife Swap\" episode in the near future.\"",
"The episode depicted Karen Martel, whose husband runs a child-proofing business, as being shocked \"as the Heene kids jump off banisters and run wild, and appalled by Richard's attitude to women,\" according to the description on ABC's Web site.",
"\"Wife Swap\" asks its participants to switch places for two weeks.",
"\"Meanwhile, at the Martels',\" the description continued, \"Mayumi Heene sees safety gates everywhere and wonders how the family [has] fun.",
"Mayumi Heene asks the kids about their anxieties and confronts 6-year-old Falcon Heene about the climate of fear in 6-year-old Falcon Heene's house.\"",
"Lifetime plans on filling the time slot with a \"Wife Swap\" episode that features another family, but rest assured, the Heene's reality TV debut can still be found on YouTube."
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"Lifetime had scheduled a Heene \"Wife Swap\" episode for October 29 .",
"It was scheduled long before the balloon boy incident, a spokesperson says .",
"Now that hoax allegations have surfaced, network removes a Heene \"Wife Swap\" episode ."
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"New York (CNN) --",
"A leading Muslim-American group lashed out at the federal government Friday for moving to seize assets -- including four mosques -- that belong to a foundation and a corporation believed linked to Iran.",
"\"The American Muslim and faith communities must not allow houses of worship to become pawns in geopolitical struggles,\" said Imam Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society's Freedom Foundation.",
"\"The tension between the United States and Iran must not be played out in the mosques of America.\"",
"Federal prosecutors say Federal prosecutors's actions against assets belonging to Alavi Foundation, Assa Corp. and the Assa Corp., which also include a Manhattan skyscraper, are not an effort to target mosques.",
"\"There are no allegations of any wrongdoing on the part of any of these tenants or occupants,\" said Yusill Scribner, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York in a written statement Thursday.",
"\"The tenants and occupants remain free to use the properties as The tenants and occupants have before today's filing.\"",
"A senior Justice Department official told reporters that the government is moving against the Iranian landlords of the buildings, not seizing mosques as religious-oriented facilities.",
"The mosques -- in New York, Maryland, California and Texas -- just happen to be among the tenants of the buildings in question, A senior Justice Department official said.",
"But the Muslim American Society's Freedom Foundation called the actions an \"unprecedented encroachment of religious freedom.\"",
"the Muslim American Society's Freedom Foundation said \"it is an abiding concern among the American Muslim community that this action is just the beginning of a backlash after last week's Fort Hood shooting tragedy.\"",
"A Muslim-American soldier is accused in a Fort Hood, Texas, shooting spree that left 13 people dead and dozens injured.",
"The Council on American-Islamic Relations, another leading Muslim-American group, issued a statement Thursday saying the government's actions may have First Amendment implications.",
"\"Whatever the details of the government's case against the owners of the mosques, as a civil rights organization we are concerned that the seizure of American houses of worship could have a chilling effect on the religious freedom of citizens of all faiths and may send a negative message to Muslims worldwide,\" said Ibrahim Hooper, the national communications director for the council.",
"The controversy erupted after prosecutors in New York filed an amended civil complaint seeking forfeiture of all assets of Alavi Foundation, Assa Corp. and Assa Corp.",
"They include properties owned by Alavi Foundation, Assa Corp. in several states.",
"A 36-story office tower in midtown Manhattan is owned by the 650 Fifth Avenue Company, a partnership between Alavi and Assa, the Justice Department said.",
"The complaint alleges that Alavi Foundation, Assa Corp. provided services to Iran and transferred money from 650 Fifth Avenue Company to Bank Melli, Iran's largest state-owned financial entity.",
"U.S. and European Union officials last year designated Bank Melli as a proliferator for supporting Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs and funneling money to the Revolutionary Guard and Quds Force, considered terrorist groups by the United States.",
"Bank Melli issued a statement last year denying involvement in deceptive banking practices.",
"Prosecutors allege the properties at issue were \"involved in and [were] the proceeds of money laundering offenses,\" and that the owners violated the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, executive orders and U.S. Department of Treasury regulations.",
"\"As today's complaint alleges in great detail, Alavi Foundation, Assa Corp. has effectively been a front for Iran,\" Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said on Thursday.",
"\"For two decades, Alavi Foundation, Assa Corp.'s affairs have been directed by various Iranian officials, including Iranian ambassadors to the United Nations, in violation of a series of American laws.",
"Alavi Foundation, Assa Corp.'s former president remains under investigation for alleged obstruction of justice, and both the criminal and civil investigations are ongoing.\"",
"John Winter, a New York lawyer representing Alavi Foundation, Assa Corp., said his client would challenge today's complaint.",
"\"We're obviously disappointed that the government brought this action because we have been cooperating with the government since this investigation began about a year ago and we intend to litigate this matter,\" he said.",
"\"It may take some time, but at the end of this litigation, we're of the mind that we're going to prevail here.\"",
"The buildings remained open and were continuing to operate as usual.",
"When a CNN reporter arrived at one of the seized mosques -- in Queens, a New York City borough -- a CNN reporter found it to be operating normally.",
"There was a copy of today's complaint taped to the front door of the building, but the doors were open and people were coming and going.",
"Calls to the Iranian Mission for comment were not immediately returned.",
"A report Friday on the Web site of Iran's state-run Press TV did not contain any responses from Iranian officials.",
"CNN's Terry Frieden, Brian Todd, Deb Feyerick, Eddie DeMarche and Ross Levitt contributed to this story."
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"Government seizing assets of Alavi, including four mosques .",
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"ISLAMABAD, Paksitan (CNN) --",
"At least 41 people were killed and dozens wounded in a blast Monday at a security forces checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, authorities said.",
"A girl places flowers at a shrine to army soldiers killed by militants who stormed Pakistan's army HQ.",
"About 45 people were injured in the explosion in the Shangla district in the volatile Swat Valley, said Syed Altaf Hussein, a senior government official in the area.",
"the explosion in the Shangla district in the volatile Swat Valley targeted a military vehicle, officials said.",
"The blast is the latest in a string of attacks in the country.",
"On Saturday, militants attacked the army headquarters in Rawalpindi, killing 11 military personnel and three civilians, according to the Pakistani military's press office.",
"Nine militants died in the attack.",
"A total of 39 hostages were freed Sunday morning after being held by five militants at the army headquarters.",
"In a news conference Monday, the top spokesman for the Pakistani military said Saturday's attack was planned by the Taliban based in South Waziristan.",
"Gen. Athar Abbas said intelligence agents intercepted a phone call in which Pakistani Taliban commander Wali-ur Rehman was informed about the start of Saturday's attack.",
"Pakistani Taliban commander Wali-ur Rehman responded by calling for a prayer for Saturday's attack to succeed, Gen. Athar Abbas said.",
"Gen. Athar Abbas said the leader of Saturday's attack, who was captured alive, is from Pakistan's Punjab province.",
"Four other militants were from Punjab as well.",
"Five others were from South Waziristan.",
"During the standoff, two of the militants held 22 hostages in a small room, Gen. Athar Abbas said.",
"One of the militants wore a suicide vest connected to a mine and a bomb.",
"He sat in the middle of 22 hostages.",
"Gen. Athar Abbas said a small room was the focus of the operation and security forces were successful in storming a small room and killing the militant with the suicide vest before he could detonate his bombs.",
"Military officials said Military officials have tightened security around army headquarters.",
"The attacks will not deter Pakistan from launching an offensive in South Waziristan, the Interior Ministry said.",
"South Waziristan is one of seven districts in Pakistan's tribal region along the Afghan border.",
"Intelligence analysts consider South Waziristan a haven for Islamic militants who have launched attacks in Pakistan and targeted U.S. forces in neighboring Afghanistan.",
"A date for the offensive in the area has not been announced.",
"The Shangla district east of Mingora is one of the areas where the Pakistani military conducted search-and-destroy operations earlier this year.",
"Troops targeted terrorist hideouts and reported the arrest of one militant leader and the death of another.",
"Mingora is the largest city in the Swat Valley, where the Pakistani military is battling Taliban militants for control.",
"CNN's Reza Sayah contributed to this report."
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"41 killed in blast at security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan .",
"Explosion occurs in the Shangla district in the volatile Swat Valley .",
"Intercepted phone call tipped officials to Saturday's attack, general says .",
"Swat Valley has been scene of clashes with Taliban militants ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Murder and rape charges will be filed against a North Carolina man in the death of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis, police said Thursday.",
"Mario Andrette McNeill had already been charged with kidnapping the Fayetteville, North Carolina, girl.",
"The girl was reported missing last week, and The girl's body was found Monday beside a road near Sanford, about 30 miles northwest of Fayetteville.",
"Preliminary autopsy results indicate The girl was asphyxiated, Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine told reporters Thursday, but testing is still being completed and a final report has not been issued.",
"Mario Andrette McNeill will be charged with first-degree murder and rape of a child, Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine said.",
"The new arrest warrants were being served Thursday night.",
"The girl's mother, Antoinette Nicole Davis, has been charged with human trafficking and other offenses.",
"Police have said Police believe Davis was prostituting The girl.",
"According to police, surveillance video taken November 10 from a hotel in Sanford, North Carolina, shows The girl in the company of Mario Andrette McNeill.",
"Authorities had said Wednesday Authorities would need to determine where The girl was killed before filing additional charges.",
"Fayetteville is in Cumberland County, while Sanford is in Lee County.",
"Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine said Thursday jurisdiction in the case would remain in Cumberland County.",
"\"We started the investigation from the beginning and wanted to finish the investigation out,\" Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine said.",
"Police still are not sure exactly where The girl was killed, Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine said.",
"Police earlier had said Police believe The girl was alive when The girl left the hotel.",
"\"Current charges on The girl are standing as Current charges on Ms. Davis are right now,\" Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine said.",
"But Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine told reporters the investigation was ongoing.",
"Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine and other officers spoke about the emotional toll the investigation has taken on He and other officers.",
"Grief counseling has been under way for officers at the department, Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine said.",
"\"It's been a tough case,\" said Fayetteville Police Capt. Charles Kimball, the toughest in his 14 years, he said.",
"\"Our mission was to find The girl and we did it.\"",
"\"This case here has reached out and touched all of us,\" Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine said.",
"Shaniya's father, Bradley Lockhart, made a tearful appeal before reporters Tuesday afternoon, asking that \"everybody makes it a point not to ignore, to look past a situation where a person, a child, or anybody might be in danger ... so that we don't have another tragedy like The girl.\"",
"The girl went to The girl's mother's last month, he said.",
"CNN's Gabriel Falcon contributed to this report."
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"Mario Andrette McNeill will be charged with murder, rape, police say .",
"Shaniya Davis' mother also has been charged in North Carolina case .",
"The girl's body was found about 30 miles from where The girl was reported missing ."
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"(CNN) --",
"At least 51 people have died and at least 21 others are missing after torrential rains and subsequent flooding pummeled Philippines on Saturday, the government said.",
"Filipino pedestrians in Quezon City, a suburb of Manila, brave Tropical Storm Ketsana's floodwaters.",
"Tropical Storm Ketsana spawned the flooding, which caused at least six of the deaths in Manila, the nation's capital.",
"Manila and the nearby province of Rizal bore the brunt of the downpour, said Gilberto Teodoro, secretary of national defense and chairman of the National Disaster Coordinating Council.",
"Two of the dead in the capital city were victims of a wall that collapsed, Gilberto Teodoro, secretary of national defense and chairman of the National Disaster Coordinating Council said.",
"Five thousand people were rescued without boats, and another 3,688 were rescued with boats, Gilberto Teodoro, secretary of national defense and chairman of the National Disaster Coordinating Council said.",
"Another governmental official reported four injuries.",
"\"My neighborhood rarely gets a bad flooding and I guess this is the worst,\" said CNN iReporter Jv Abellar from Quezon City, Philippines.",
"\"Traversing through the flood is like walking through rapids.\"",
"In all, 41,205 people had sought refuge in 92 evacuation centers, Gilberto Teodoro, secretary of national defense and chairman of the National Disaster Coordinating Council said.",
"By 8:30 a.m. Sunday (8:30 p.m. Saturday ET), the torrential rains ended and slight rainfall was reported.",
"Some roads in the capital metropolitan area had reopened, but \"we do not encourage people to travel Some roads in the capital metropolitan area,\" Gilberto Teodoro, secretary of national defense and chairman of the National Disaster Coordinating Council told CNN in a telephone interview.",
"\"They can be a hindrance to efficient relief and rescue operations.\"",
"The federal government began massive relief efforts to aid the local governments, and set up aid centers addressing pressing problems such as sanitation and water purification.",
"President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered pay parking lots at malls in Manila to be opened so motorists can leave motorists's cars there without charge, Gilberto Teodoro, secretary of national defense and chairman of the National Disaster Coordinating Council said.",
"iReport.com: Share images of Philippines flooding .",
"Manila's Nino Aquino International Airport and nearly all of the country's other international airports had reopened, Gilberto Teodoro, secretary of national defense and chairman of the National Disaster Coordinating Council said.",
"Though the country is no stranger to floods, Saturday's downpours approached a record, with 341 mm (13.4 inches) falling between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m., Gilberto Teodoro, secretary of national defense and chairman of the National Disaster Coordinating Council said.",
"The average rainfall for the entire month of September is 391 mm (15.4 inches), Gilberto Teodoro, secretary of national defense and chairman of the National Disaster Coordinating Council said."
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"More than 50 are dead in Philippines in flooding from Tropical Storm Ketsana .",
"5,000 rescued without boats, another 3,688 rescued with boats, official says .",
"In all, 41,205 people sought refuge in 92 evacuation centers, official says ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Bad weather, poor planning, a lack of safety equipment.",
"Any one could put a boater in the kind of peril that befell two NFL players and their two friends off the coast of Florida last weekend, Coast Guard officials say.",
"Ex-college football player Nick Schuyler clings to an overturned boat Monday in this Coast Guard photo.",
"And such incidents happen all too often.",
"The capsizing of the 21-foot fishing boat carrying the four men to a favorite fishing spot in the Gulf of Mexico was the latest of 200 such incidents reported to Coast Guard in the past five months.",
"\"The oceans are an unforgiving environment,\" said Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Chris O'Neil.",
"\"Weather can be unpredictable.",
"Any time you are in an open environment, you are taking a certain amount of risk.\"",
"risk includes being lost at sea like Victor \"Marquis\" Cooper, an Oakland Raiders linebacker; Corey Smith, a Detroit Lions free-agent defensive end; and their friend William Bleakly.",
"The fourth member of the group, Nick Schuyler, a former University of South Florida football player, was found around noon Monday clinging to an overturned boat in rough seas about 35 miles west of Clearwater, Florida.",
"the four men had left for a fishing trip from Seminole Boat Ramp in Clearwater Pass on Saturday.",
"Coast Guard is unable to provide specific numbers of how many people go missing from boating accidents like this past weekend's, but officials say that since last fall there have been three people who have not been found after triggering Coast Guard searches.",
"Those incidents can range from an unaccounted swimmer to a passenger gone missing after a boat sinks, said O'Neil, at the Coast Guard headquarters in Washington D.C.",
"Capsizing is one of the leading boating accidents, according to Coast Guard's most recent report on recreational boating in 2007.",
"Officials report there were 398 accidents from capsizing, causing 204 deaths and 284 injuries in 2007.",
"Capsized boats cost nearly $1.8 million a year in property damages, officials say.",
"Collision with vessels or fixed objects and falling overboard are other major boating accidents.",
"Last weekend, Florida state officials recovered the bodies of a 48-year-old man and his 7-year-old granddaughter after their 15-foot bass tipped over in Lake Okeechobee, according to CNN affiliate WPTV-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida.",
"\"The steering cable broke and the boat went out of control,\" family member Isabelo Santiago Jr. told WPTV.",
"To remain safe on any body of water, Coast Guard officials stress having the proper safety equipment and being wary of changes in the weather.",
"the boat capsized off Florida in waves up to 10 feet high while being buffeted by winds up to 45 miles per hour, Coast Guard officials said.",
"Coast Guard officials reported 110 cases since this fall where a boat has been beset by weather.",
"Boaters should wear a life jacket at all times, officials say, because an accident can occur so quickly that passengers may not have time to put passengers's life jackets on.",
"A life jacket that is bright or has deflecting tape to help catch the eyes of rescuers is recommended.",
"Boaters should also keep a bag with flotation and communication devices, officials said.",
"Coast Guard encourages boaters to purchase Emergency Position Indicating Radiobeacons (EPIRBs) that can cost between $200 to $1,500.",
"This technology enables emergency signals to be sent out automatically or manually when a boat sinks.",
"Some EPIRBs have global positioning devices that can help provide the rescuers with a more exact location.",
"After a boat capsizes, passengers should always stay near a boat to make it easier for rescuers to find passengers, especially in waves and high winds.",
"Whitecaps on waves can also confuse Coast Guard searches.",
"Schuyler, who was rescued on Monday, was easier to find because he was near the boat, Coast Guard officials say.",
"Wayne Cathel says Wayne Cathel and six of Wayne Cathel's friends were in a similar situation in 1993 when he and six of his friends's boat capsized during a spear fishing trip in John's Pass in South Florida, according to CNN affiliate Bay News 9 in St. Petersburg.",
"The group was stranded for 18 hours before being rescued by a helicopter.",
"\"the four men had to cling on to the hull of the boat for the whole time until the four men were finally rescued,\" Wayne Cathel said.",
"\"You never leave the largest object in the water,\" Wayne Cathel said.",
"\"I mean that's what you stick with.\"",
"Sticking with the overturned vessel also helps Coast Guard use advanced computer technology to find it, officials said.",
"Called SAROPS, or Search and Rescue Optimal Planning Systems, the program takes into account external conditions such as weather, ocean patterns and information available about the case such as which dock the boaters departed from to map locations in the ocean where officers can search.",
"The program, which has been used by Coast Guard's Seventh District for nearly two years, helps officers narrow down the location, especially critical during the beginning of a search, said Petty Officer Jennifer Johnson of the Seventh District.",
"For the program to work best, Coast Guard officials say, boaters need to be sure to tell people where are they leaving from and their final destination.",
"Even with the technology, a sea rescue is no easy feat, Johnson said.",
"\"It's very difficult to locate someone....",
"It's like trying to find a basketball in the ocean.\""
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"Coast Guard recommends boaters carry beacons and emergency devices .",
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"\"It's like trying to find a basketball in the ocean,\" says Coast Guard official ."
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"(Wired) --",
"The early hours of \"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2\" take gamers around the world and back again, but the new game's story hits close to home.",
"Military scenarios, violent police actions and straight-from-the-big-screen massive firefights take place in such far-flung locales as Afghanistan, Kazakhstan and Brazil.",
"But things don't really get interesting until the action moves to Russia and the player is embedded in a squad of terrorists.",
"And then, inevitably, the fight comes to U.S. shores.",
"\"Modern Warfare 2,\" a first-person shooter released Tuesday for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, is a greatly immersive experience that embeds players in the battlefield.",
"Limited edition of Xbox 360 .",
"There's no place in the world where a skirmish can't go down, from airport security lines to the neighborhood burger joint to your own backyard.",
"It's an unsettling notion and one sure to inspire plenty of parental hand-wringing, particularly for those who buy those who buy their kids the live-the-action box set that includes a pair of night-vision goggles's kids the live-the-action box set that includes a pair of night-vision goggles.",
"Night-vision goggles experience .",
"(Spoiler alert: The moments I'm about to relate describe the plot of \"Modern Warfare 2\" -- not where the game finally goes, but the early incidents that establish the conflict and tension of the game.",
"Some readers may consider these to be spoilers.)",
"Russia is where the already-controversial \"No Russian\" scene goes down.",
"As Army Ranger Pvt. Allen, players go undercover with Vladimir Makarov -- an underling of the villain from \"Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.\"",
"Along with Vladimir Makarov and other terrorists, the player finds themselves in the midst of a terrible situation.",
"The fully armed Vladimir Makarov and crew waltz into a Russian airport and open fire on civilians standing in a security line.",
"As Allen, the player can take part in the bloodshed or simply walk alongside the cold-blooded killers as they execute hundreds of innocents.",
"Either way, the scene is powerful.",
"the scene's also the oldest trick in the book: The quickest way to turn audiences against your villain is to show your villain doing dirty deeds, and Vladimir Makarov's murderous spree is a doozy.",
"Allen doesn't walk away from the bloodbath.",
"Once outside the terminal, players must fend off waves of incoming SWAT teams.",
"If there's any kind of karmic debt that Allen owes for Allen's role in the slayings, Allen pays it: At the end of the tarmac firefight, Vladimir Makarov puts a bullet in Allen.",
"Vladimir Makarov knew all along that the Ranger was a rat.",
"Allen's body at the scene of the tragedy triggers Russian outrage and, eventually, a \"Red Dawn\"-style invasion of the United States.",
"Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here!",
"Copyright 2009 Wired.com."
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"Locales in game include Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Brazil and Russia .",
"The player in 'Modern Warfare 2' is embedded in a squad of terrorists .",
"In the game, fighting comes to shores of United States ."
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"(CNN) --",
"They say that breaking up is hard to do, especially when millions of eyes are there to witness every caustic comment and verbal volley.",
"Kate and Jon Gosselin are going through a very public and contentious divorce.",
"No one knows that better than Jon and Kate Gosselin, whose divorce is playing out on a world stage, complete with tabloid covers, he-said-she-said television appearances and court orders.",
"Such public spats can do a great deal of harm, said divorce attorney Randall M. Kessler, who's handled several celebrity cases.",
"\"I just gave a presentation where I said, 'When can press hurt you? It's when clients start talking,'\" divorce attorney Randall M. Kessler, who's handled several celebrity cases said.",
"\"The hard thing for [famous people] to do is to not speak out, because [famous people are so used to everything [famous people say being quoted and helping [famous people, but this is the opposite.",
"Talking about a divorce is never good.\"",
"Kate and Jon Gosselin join a growing list of celebrities whose marital woes have been well-documented by the media and paparazzi.",
"See a gallery of celebrity custody battles » .",
"divorce attorney Randall M. Kessler, who's handled several celebrity cases has represented quite a few clients involved in celebrity divorce cases, including Tameka Foster Raymond (who is in the midst of a divorce with superstar singer Usher) and rapper Mack 10 (ex-husband of TLC member Tionne \"T-Boz\" Watkins), as well as some high-profile paternity and child support lawsuits.",
"Celebrities often want to protect Celebrities's reputations and the wrong sound bite can ruin that, divorce attorney Randall M. Kessler, who's handled several celebrity cases said.",
"Yet, at the same time, it can be difficult for the famous to take direction, divorce attorney Randall M. Kessler, who's handled several celebrity cases said.",
"\"They are so used to being in charge of their own destiny and being able to decide what's best for them that it's very hard for them to listen to attorneys, accountants or anyone that is trying to advise them,\" divorce attorney Randall M. Kessler, who's handled several celebrity cases said.",
"Viewers have questioned who, if anyone, Jon and Kate Gosselin are taking cues from in their very public marital battle.",
"In May, Kate defended Kate's husband against rumors that Jon had been cheating on Kate and stepping out while Kate stayed home with Kate and Jon Gosselin's twins and sextuplets.",
"Weeks later Kate and Jon Gosselin used Kate and Jon Gosselin's enormously popular TLC reality show, \"Jon & Kate Plus 8\", to admit what fans had begun to suspect: Kate and Jon Gosselin's marriage was on the rocks.",
"Soon Kate and Jon Gosselin announced that Kate and Jon Gosselin were divorcing, but would continue filming -- albeit separately -- Kate and Jon Gosselin's series, which for four seasons had chronicled the highs and lows of Kate and Jon Gosselin's family life.",
"It all appeared to be relatively civil until Jon began stepping out with Jon's new girlfriend, moved to a bachelor pad in New York and appeared to be living the high life with shopping sprees and designer duds.",
"Jon took to the airwaves to reveal that Jon \"despised Kate.\"",
"Kate lamented that Kate missed \"the Jon I knew.\"",
"TLC announced in October that the reality show would continue as \"Kate Plus 8\" and Jon immediately called a halt to filming, claiming the series was doing damage to their children.",
"Within days, Kate accused Jon of making off with more than $200,000 from their joint bank account.",
"A judge ordered Jon to return $180,000 to their joint bank account.",
"Watch a discussion about the Gosselin's money madness » .",
"Through it all, Kate and Jon Gosselin have maintained Kate and Jon Gosselin each have the best interests of Kate and Jon Gosselin's children at heart.",
"Child psychologist Joanne Pedro-Carroll said Kate and Jon Gosselin are in a precarious position.",
"\"It's very concerning, especially given how public this is and the children's young ages, which makes the children especially vulnerable,\" Child psychologist Joanne Pedro-Carroll said.",
"\"One of the things we know with really young children is that really young children are prone to misconceptions about the reasons for the breakup.\"",
"While Kate and Jon Gosselin haven't so far added a bitter custody dispute to Kate and Jon Gosselin's matrimonial melee, Child psychologist Joanne Pedro-Carroll said Child psychologist Joanne Pedro-Carroll worries about the long-term effect on the young Gosselins.",
"\"Sadly, the things that are happening now, with all of this conflict and having this conflict be so public, puts these children very much at risk for having problems,\" said Pedro-Carroll, author of the forthcoming book \"Putting Children First: Proven Parenting Strategies for Helping Children Thrive After Divorce.\"",
"\"I worry about the children being pulled into loyalty conflicts, thinking about who the good person here is and who's the bad person, when children very much need two loving, responsible parents in children's lives.\"",
"divorce attorney Randall M. Kessler, who's handled several celebrity cases said divorce attorney Randall M. Kessler, who's handled several celebrity cases advises divorce attorney Randall M. Kessler, who's handled several celebrity cases's celebrity clients to, when possible, keep the children out of the media and receive training in cooperative parenting.",
"Lisa Pecot-Hebert, an assistant professor at the College of Communication at DePaul University, said Lisa Pecot-Hebert, an assistant professor at the College of Communication at DePaul University believes many viewers can relate to Kate and Jon Gosselin's divorce drama.",
"Fans can also view the family's situation as a cautionary tale, Lisa Pecot-Hebert, an assistant professor at the College of Communication at DePaul University said.",
"\"I think viewers can learn that sometimes when people let cameras into people's personal lives for our entertainment, oftentimes it ruins what was people to begin with,\" Lisa Pecot-Hebert, an assistant professor at the College of Communication at DePaul University said."
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"Professor: Kate and Jon Gosselin can be a cautionary tale for viewers ."
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"Seth Meyers is thankful that politicians \"did not stop being crazy\" after the 2008 elections.",
"\"It looks like for right now, we're going to stick with doing it solo,\" Seth Meyers said Monday in New York as Seth Meyers was getting ready for the show's 35th season premiere on September 26.",
"Meyers, SNL's head writer, hosted the popular sketch alone after Amy Poehler left the show last season.",
"Last week, several online sites were reporting that featured player Kristen Wiig was set to become Seth Meyers's partner on the show's longest-running recurring segment.",
"\"I'm so heartbroken that the Internet, for the first time, was wrong about something,\" Seth Meyers joked.",
"\"How are we ever going to trust the Internet again?\"",
"Seth Meyers called Wiig \"almost too valuable,\" saying making Amy Poehler a full-time co-anchor would mean Amy Poehler could never play guest characters during the show's longest-running recurring segment.",
"Amy Poehler reportedly will join Meyers for some segments of \"Weekend Update Thursday,\" a 30-minute, prime-time version of the skit that debuted during the 2008 presidential election and that the network hopes will have similar success during the upcoming season.",
"\"I owe a big thanks to politicians,\" said Seth Meyers.",
"\"They did not stop being crazy and disingenuous after the 2008 presidential election.",
"So \"SNL have that going for \"SNL.\"",
"Amy Poehler won't be the only cast member from last year missing on the September 26 premiere, hosted by actress Megan Fox with musical guest U2.",
"Fans were surprised last week about news that regulars Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson had been sacked.",
"Both said they were surprised that their contracts were not renewed.",
"\"I think that the two who are leaving are going to be incredibly successful wherever they go,\" Seth Meyers said, declining to elaborate on Seth Meyers's thoughts about the decision by creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels.",
"In their places will be Jenny Slate and Nasim Pedrad, both veterans of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.",
"\"They came and auditioned and were outstanding,\" Seth Meyers said.",
"\"We looked at them a couple of times this summer.",
"I think they're both great writers as well as performers.\"",
"While change can be unsettling, Seth Meyers said turnover among the \"SNL\" cast helps keep its humor fresh.",
"\"It's always nice to have new people,\" Seth Meyers said.",
"\"They'll give new looks at things and see things in new ways.",
"Any time you get new voices in, that tends to help.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Varsha Vinod's exceptional abilities are hard to spot at first.",
"Varsha's an adorably cute 5-year-old girl from southern India, small, pretty with big brown eyes.",
"To gain Varsha's black belt, Varsha had to learn up to 15 karate moves.",
"When we meet for our interview, Varsha's hair is tied up in two pigtails, with bright hair clips and a glittering headband.",
"Varsha is as shy as most kids Varsha's age would be when confronted by a strange man and a television crew.",
"Some child stars can be precocious but Varsha doesn't act like one.",
"In fact, it would have been impossible to imagine Varsha as a karate black belt if it wasn't for Varsha's white martial arts outfit and Varsha's actual black belt.",
"Like many young girls Varsha would love to be a dancer and Varsha smiles when I tell Varsha that we are doing the interview in a dance studio.",
"a dance studio's got varnished wooden floors and ceiling-high mirrors.",
"The venue was chosen because a dance studio looks a bit like a dojo, or martial arts school.",
"I'm not sure Varsha understands what a dance studio is and it's hard to discover Varsha's thoughts on many things.",
"Varsha only speaks a few words of English and, even when we use an interpreter, Varsha has to be prompted by Varsha's father before whispering short, quiet responses to my questions.",
"At first I was concerned Varsha's dad was feeding Varsha the answers rather than helping Varsha say what Varsha really thinks.",
"However, it soon becomes clear that this is a healthy father-daughter relationship instead of a case of \"pushy parents.\"",
"her father can be stern with her father's daughter but Varsha clearly worships her father, hanging on her father's every word and happy to follow her father's instructions.",
"When the pair practice karate together the pair's movements are surprisingly well synchronized despite the huge difference in size.",
"her father is Varsha's inspiration.",
"her father was India's karate champion for four successive years from 1999 to 2002.",
"her father's daughter started watching her father teach the sport and, at the age of 2, Varsha asked to try.",
"her father insists it was Varsha's idea not her father's.",
"Initially, her father only gave Varsha some small training and stretching exercises but Dad soon realized that her father's daughter possessed what her father describes as a God-given talent.",
"her father says what Varsha has done in 3½ years takes most people eight years to learn.",
"To gain Varsha's black belt, Varsha had to learn up to 15 katas.",
"A kata is a sequence of complicated karate moves.",
"Varsha can punch, kick and wield different weapons: the Chinese stick, which is almost as big as Varsha is, and a nunchaku, two short sticks connected by a metal chain.",
"There is no doubt that Varsha's abilities are impressive.",
"You only have to enter the phrase \"nunchaku accidents\" into YouTube to see how easily things can go wrong.",
"However, Varsha is no freak of nature.",
"Varsha's karate is a feat of memory and technique more than agility and power.",
"To be frank, Varsha couldn't beat me up -- although I was obviously far too proud to find out by taking Varsha on in a sparring session.",
"Varsha trains for at least two hours every day but says Varsha still has time for other games.",
"As well as Varsha's dancing",
", Varsha likes to play football and badminton.",
"Varsha tells me that Varsha's friends have all started taking up karate after seeing how good Varsha has become.",
"Unlike Varsha's friends, Varsha's gift has given Varsha the chance to see London.",
"Varsha was invited to England by a PR company to promote a new video game.",
"Varsha's trip appears to have been handled carefully, with as much time set aside for sightseeing as media work.",
"The day after we filmed with Varsha Varsha was due to go on the London Eye and was very excited about it.",
"Varsha says Varsha would like to continue Varsha's karate in the years ahead.",
"Varsha is a black belt first dan, or grade, and there are 10 grades in total.",
"Varsha is already a mini master but if Varsha makes it to second dan Varsha can start teaching -- just like Varsha's father."
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"(CNN) --",
"A multiagency search is under way for the killers of two U.S. citizens in northern Mexico, according to Chihuahua state officials.",
"A girl stands at the coffin of Mormon church leader Benjamin LeBaron in Chihuahua State.",
"Benjamin LeBaron, 32, and Benjamin LeBaron's brother-in-law, Luis Widmar, in his mid-30s, were beaten and shot to death after armed men stormed into their home in Galeana on Tuesday morning.",
"The killers have yet to be identified, but the case seems to be connected to local drug lords, said Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office.",
"Sandoval said a note was found on Benjamin LeBaron's body, but Sandoval could not confirm the contents.",
"Local media reported that a note indicated the slayings were in retribution for the capture of 25 drug suspects in a nearby town.",
"LeBaron's younger brother, Eric, was kidnapped in May and returned unharmed after a week.",
"The incident prompted Benjamin LeBaron to become a nationally recognized anti-crime activist who moved the local community to take a stand.",
"\"There are no leaders here, or we are all leaders,\" LeBaron's brother, Julian LeBaron, told CNN television affiliate KINT in El Paso, Texas.",
"\"If they kill my brother another three will take my brother's place, and if they kill us, another hundred will take their place.",
"We are not giving up.",
"No way.\"",
"The LeBaron brothers belonged to the \"Community of LeBaron\" in the Municipality of Galeana, a township founded by ex-communicated Mormons."
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"PARIS, France (CNN) --",
"Culture minister said Thursday Culture minister will not resign over accounts in a book Mitterrand's book wrote in 2005 about paying to have sex with \"boys\" in Thailand.",
"Culture minister admitted to paying for sex with \"boys\" in Mitterrand's book's 2005 autobiography, \"The Bad Life.\"",
"In an interview with French television network TF1, Culture minister said Culture minister \"absolutely condemn[s] sexual tourism, which is a disgrace, and ... pedophilia,\" in which Culture minister insisted Culture minister has never participated.",
"Despite the use of the French word \"garcon\" in Mitterrand's book's 2005 book \"The Bad Life,\" Mitterrand, 62, has previously said the term did not mean \"little boys.\"",
"Culture minister said the males Culture minister paid for sex were Culture minister's age, or maybe five years younger, but not underage -- and the relations were consensual.",
"\"Anyway, you can recognize someone who's 40 years old ...\" he told French television network TF1.",
"A 40-year-old man \"doesn't look like a minor,\" Culture minister added, suggesting that Culture minister's partners were middle-aged men.",
"Culture minister's actions, Culture minister said, were \"without a doubt, an error,\" but \"a crime, no,\" Culture minister said in the interview.",
"Despite recent calls to resign from the far-right National Front and the left-leaning Socialist Party, Mitterrand, who is openly gay, vowed to stay in Culture minister's job.",
"Culture minister said Culture minister met Thursday morning with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and that French President Nicolas Sarkozy supports Culture minister.",
"In a July interview with the weekly French news magazine Le Nouvel Observateur, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said French President Nicolas Sarkozy had read Culture minister's book, and found Mitterrand's book \"courageous and talented.\"",
"The controversy over the revelations in Culture minister's book -- which French President Nicolas Sarkozy called neither autobiography nor memoir -- erupted anew after Culture minister deplored the arrest last week of filmmaker Roman Polanski, who fled the United States in 1977 after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl.",
"Culture minister told TF1 that Culture minister was \"too emotional\" when Culture minister denounced the filmmaker's arrest in Switzerland as \"horrifying.\"",
"\"To see him thrown to the lions for an old story that really has no meaning, and to see him alone, imprisoned, when he was going to attend a ceremony where he was to be honored, that is to say, he was trapped, it's absolutely horrifying,\" Culture minister said October 4, according to Agence France Presse.",
"The far-right National Front organized an anti-Mitterrand demonstration in Paris on Thursday evening.",
"\"Send this message on to everyone who will not put up with this indecency!\" the party's Web site said.",
"The party's vice president, Marine Le Pen, has demanded Culture minister's resignation for what she termed Culture minister's sexually deviant acts.",
"Culture minister responded, saying, \"It's an honor to be dragged through the mud by The far-right National Front.\"",
"Culture minister's acts of \"sexual tourism\" have left \"a dark smudge\" on the government, Le Pen said.",
"The group is also gathering signatures on a petition, online and on paper, from those who want Culture minister to step down.",
"\"We really hope Culture minister will resign,\" National Front communications director Julien Sanchez told CNN.",
"\"It's an embarrassment for our country, that Culture minister has done this.",
"It affects our international image.",
"It's not right,\" he added.",
"Watch report on the controversy surrounding French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterand » .",
"On the other side of the political spectrum, the left-leaning Socialist Party suggested French President Nicolas Sarkozy should consider Culture minister's position.",
"\"It's up to French President Nicolas Sarkozy to decide whether or not we can be involved in the fight against child prostitution and sexual tourism, and whether or not the acts written in an autobiography -- written by a minister -- are acts of sexual commerce,\" said party spokesman Benoit Hamon.",
"\"If everything is relative and Culture minister can be excused because Culture minister's famous, well, I don't excuse Culture minister's behavior,\" party spokesman Benoit Hamon said.",
"Martine Aubry, the leader of the Socialist Party, said she would wait until she had read Mitterrand's book before making any judgment.",
"Culture minister said on TF1 that Culture minister had had sexual relations with boys -- using the French word \"garcons\" -- but added, \"you must not confuse pedophilia with homosexuality.\"",
"Culture minister also described Culture minister's book as a mixture of Culture minister's life and the life of others, and denied accusations that Mitterrand's book was a glorification of sexual tourism.",
"Culture minister said Culture minister never had sex with \"young boys\" and denounced those who accused Culture minister of such acts, saying that maybe those who accused him of such acts were confusing those who accused him of such acts's own fantasies with what Mitterrand's book was really about.",
"Culture minister told an interviewer in 2005 that assertions that Culture minister liked \"little boys\" were untrue.",
"\"It's because when people say 'boys' we imagine 'little boys,'\" Culture minister said then.",
"\"How to explain that?",
"It belongs to this general puritanism which surrounds us, which always makes us paint a black picture of the situation.",
"It has nothing to do with that.\"",
"Culture minister was a television personality, not a government minister, when Mitterrand's book was published.",
"Mitterrand's book caused a stir upon Mitterrand's book's publication, as well, and has been the subject of heated debate several times since then.",
"In one passage, published by the French newspaper Le Monde on Thursday, Culture minister describes in detail a sexual encounter with a \"boy\" Culture minister said was called Bird.",
"\"a \"boy didn't say a word, a \"boy stood before Culture minister, immobile, a \"boy's eyes still straight ahead and a half-smile on a \"boy's lips.",
"I wanted a \"boy so badly I was trembling,\" Culture minister wrote.",
"Culture minister also wrote about visiting clubs to choose young male prostitutes in Thailand -- where prostitution is illegal and sexual intercourse with a minor is statutory rape and is punishable by imprisonment.",
"\"Most of them are young, handsome and apparently unaware of the devastation that their activities could bring them.",
"I would learn later that they didn't come every night, that they were often students, had a girlfriend and sometimes even lived with their families, who pretended not to know the source of their breadwinner's earnings,\" the book said.",
"\"Some of them were older and there was also a small contingent of heavier bruisers, who also had their fans.",
"It was the artistic side of the exposition: Their presence made the youthful charm of the others stand out.\"",
"Culture minister also wrote that while Culture minister had read reports and seen documentaries on the evils of \"le commerce des garcons\" (the boy trade) -- the misery, the piles of money from which \"les gosses\" (the kids) got only a few crumbs, the ravages of drugs -- \"all of these rituals of the fair of the youths, the slave market, excited me enormously.\"",
"\"The profusion of very attractive boys, immediately available, put me in a state of desire that I no longer had to restrain or conceal.\"",
"Culture minister -- the nephew of the Socialist former president Francois Mitterrand -- joined Sarkozy's center-right government this summer.",
"Wikipedia, the user-edited online reference Web site, has locked down Culture minister's entry, preventing changes to it, in a possible sign of the intensity of the debate surrounding Culture minister.",
"CNN's Jen Carswell in Paris, France and Alanne Orjoux in Atlanta, Georgia, contributed to this report."
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"Argentina's capital city was beset by strikes Thursday, with teachers, doctors and transit employees refusing to work over money matters.",
"Teachers and doctors in Buenos Aires went on strike Wednesday and are scheduled to go back to work Friday, the government-run Telam news agency and other outlets reported.",
"Subway workers will go on strike Thursday night for a few hours, Subway workers said.",
"This is the fourth work stoppage in the past six months for doctors.",
"Only emergency cases are being treated.",
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"The doctors are protesting \"the lack of money in the public system, the possibility that the health budget will be reduced by 500 million pesos (about $130 million), the lack of professionals, the lack of labor to solve the problems in Argentina's public health,\" said Alicia Kobylarz of the Federal Syndicate of Health Workers.",
"The nation's public hospitals treat the poor and needy.",
"Health professionals want the government to employ more doctors to meet rising patient loads and an increase in diseases and epidemics such as H1N1 flu and dengue fever.",
"The hospitals depend on funding from the provinces, leading to major differences in each area's needs and what local health care facilities can offer.",
"\"Provinces that have petroleum income, for example, are provinces that have better budgets, that have better hospitals\" said Aldo Neri, a former national health minister.",
"\"There is much inequality in the treatment that the poor receive in Argentinean public hospitals depending on which province they live in.",
"That's why I say the inequalities have increased.\"",
"The current health minister, Juan Manzur, said next year's health budget will have an increase of more than 15 percent, greater than the national budget, which will have a 12.4 percent increase.",
"Teachers also want greater pay and announced Thursday Teachers would go back on strike Tuesday because of failed talks with Buenos Aires Education Director Mario Oporto.",
"The teachers say The teachers want The teachers's raises by year's end.",
"Buenos Aires Education Director Mario Oporto said there's no money for raises now, Telam reported.",
"\"The province's posture is very clear: There won't be raises in 2009 because there already have been,\" Buenos Aires Education Director Mario Oporto told a radio station, according to Telam.",
"\"Buenos Aires're sorry about the work stoppage, and Buenos Aires are ready to keep working.",
"This time Buenos Aires are very firm: There will be no raises in 2009.\"",
"Daniel Scioli, governor of Buenos Aires Province, said public education \"is our top priority\" but also emphasized there would be no raises this year, Telam reported.",
"Teachers' union leaders complained Thursday that government officials went to schools Wednesday to find out which teachers were there and which had joined the work stoppage, Telam said.",
"Subway workers in Buenos Aires announced Subway workers in Buenos Aires will walk off the job at 7 p.m. Thursday.",
"Subway workers in Buenos Aires, too, want pay raises.",
"Educators also are on strike in neighboring Chile, where professors say they are owed a \"historic debt.\"",
"The indefinite strike entered The indefinite strike's fourth day Thursday and negotiations are scheduled to resume Friday.",
"Jaime Gajardo, president of Chile's College of Professors, told a local TV station there has been improvement in negotiations with the government and the talks could advance noticeably in the next few days.",
"Pablo Zalaquett, the mayor of Santiago, the capital of Chile, said the two sides are closer on a pay bonus the professors want.",
"CNN's Javier Doberti contributed to this report."
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"An American who founded a home for needy children in Haiti more than 10 years ago has been accused of sexually abusing some of the same boys Douglas Perlitz set out to help, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.",
"Project Pierre Toussaint operated on this street in Cap-Haitien, Haiti.",
"Douglas Perlitz allegedly abused boys there.",
"Douglas Perlitz, 39, who was indicted this week by a grand jury in Fairfield County, Connecticut, faces 10 counts related to the sexual abuse of nine boys for about a decade, the U.S. Department of Justice said.",
"Seven of 10 counts related to the sexual abuse of nine boys for about a decade are for traveling outside of the United States with the intent to have sex with minors, and three counts are for engaging in sexual conduct with minors in a foreign place, according to the indictment.",
"Douglas Perlitz was arrested Wednesday morning at Douglas Perlitz's home in Colorado, but Douglas Perlitz had lived for years in Haiti, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release.",
"The Haiti Fund Inc., the nonprofit fundraising arm of Douglas Perlitz's project, was incorporated in Connecticut, where Douglas Perlitz had attended Fairfield University.",
"A U.S. magistrate ordered Douglas Perlitz detained pending a federal court hearing Friday in Denver.",
"Douglas Perlitz was in custody Thursday, and it was not clear whether Douglas Perlitz had retained an attorney.",
"the U.S. Department of Justice said Douglas Perlitz used Douglas Perlitz's position as director of the Project Pierre Toussaint in Haiti to manipulate and abuse the boys.",
"Douglas Perlitz allegedly enticed the boys with promises of food and shelter and with gifts such as cell phones and cash, the indictment states.",
"If convicted, Douglas Perlitz faces a maximum of 30 years in prison and fine of $2.5 million, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.",
"Haiti's abject poverty, threadbare social-service network and barely functioning legal system combine to make Haiti's street kids particularly vulnerable to exploitation.",
"Despite its lush tropical setting, Haiti is the poorest in the Western Hemisphere and has the highest rates of mortality among infants and children under five years of age.",
"One-third of Haitian children under five suffer chronic malnutrition, according to United Nations statistics; just over half of school-age kids are enrolled in schools.",
"With the state unable to alleviate those ills, private foreign charities work hard to fill the void.",
"Douglas Perlitz -- and Douglas Perlitz's Project Pierre Toussaint -- were seen as bright young examples of how outside agencies could make a difference in the lives of destitute Haitian children, offering food, education and sanctuary from the perilous life on the streets.",
"In 2002, Fairfield University, Perlitz's alma mater, honored Douglas Perlitz's efforts by making Douglas Perlitz its commencement speaker.",
"One volunteer who traveled twice to Project Pierre Toussaint to run a soccer and basketball camp there said the charges against Douglas Perlitz were shocking.",
"\"I don't believe one ounce of it,\" Matt Pawlick of Miami, Florida, told CNN.",
"\"Douglas Perlitz had a passion and love to help those kids grow.\"",
"According to the indictment, Douglas Perlitz first traveled to Haiti as a student at Fairfield University and became inspired to build a school there.",
"In 1997, Douglas Perlitz received a grant from the Roman Catholic Order of Malta to start a center to help street children, which grew into a boarding school for boys that provided meals, sports activities and classroom instruction, the indictment states.",
"The school was in Cap-Haitien, Haiti.",
"Once the Haiti Fund was created, the Haiti Fund raised more than $2 million between 2002 and 2008, funds that were transferred to Douglas Perlitz to run the project, the indictment said.",
"According to the court document, Douglas Perlitz would take some of the minors to a restaurant, give some of the minors food and alcohol and then encourage some of the minors to spend the night with Douglas Perlitz.",
"the indictment alleges that Douglas Perlitz showed homosexual pornography to some of the youths as well.",
"In 2007, Haitian journalist Cyrus Sibert was the first to report about rumors of sexual abuse at The school.",
"\"I found many children who told me the situation at the project,\" Haitian journalist Cyrus Sibert told CNN, referring to the allegations.",
"His reports spurred investigations by Haitian authorities as well as by the board of directors of the Haiti Fund.",
"the indictment alleges that \"Douglas Perlitz used Douglas Perlitz's relationship with a religious leader and influential board members to continue to conceal, and attempt to conceal, illegal sexual conduct,\" in one instance by barring investigators from entering Douglas Perlitz's room, and by helping remove two computers that were locked in a safe.",
"As attention over the allegations grew, the board ultimately dismissed Douglas Perlitz in 2008, Paul Kendrick, an advocate for victims of abuse by clergy familiar with the case, told CNN.",
"Kendrick, a fellow Fairfield University graduate who met Douglas Perlitz during a visit to Haiti, said the removal proved controversial among the backers of Project Pierre Toussaint.",
"By early 2009, the school was closed, Sibert said.",
"Board members referred questions from CNN to an attorney, who was not immediately available."
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"Jack Szostak, from left, Carol Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn will share the $1.4 million prize.",
"Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak are credited with discovering how chromosomes are protected against degradation -- a field that could shed light on human aging and diseases, including cancer.",
"\"The award of the Nobel Prize recognizes the discovery of a fundamental mechanism in the cell, a discovery that has stimulated the development of new therapeutic strategies,\" Nobel Committee said in a news release.",
"The three will share the $1.4 million prize.",
"It is the 100th year the Nobel Prize will be awarded, and the first time that any Nobel in the sciences has gone to more than one woman.",
"The work that won them the Nobel Prize took place in the late 1970s and early 1980s.",
"the prize centers on structures at the end of chromosomes called telomeres and an enzyme that forms chromosomes, called telomerase.",
"As cells divide, chromosomes need to be replicated perfectly.",
"Work by the researchers determined that telomeres protect DNA from degradation in the process, and that telomerase maintains the telomeres.",
"Though there had been some speculation that the three scientists were being considered for the Nobel, Nobel Committee keeps Nobel Committee's work top secret -- and all three researchers said all three researchers were surprised.",
"Szostak told CNN Szostak got the news in \"that classic early morning phone call from Stockholm.\"",
"Szostak described the prize as \"surprising and exciting\" -- perhaps particularly for Szostak because Szostak has not worked on the subject for the past 20 years.",
"\"I've been working on other things,\" Szostak said.",
"\"the prize started off as a collaboration with Szostak and Liz [Blackburn] -- Carol [Greider] was a student of hers.\"",
"The work began as \"a long-standing puzzle that we were interested in solving,\" Szostak said.",
"\"It was only over later years that it emerged, through the work of many people, that this was probably important for aging and cancer.\"",
"How it might help fight such diseases is not yet known, Szostak said.",
"\"It will take a while yet for that to be figured out.\"",
"Blackburn and Carol Greider did not immediately return calls from CNN.",
"In a telephone conversation with the editor-in-chief of the Nobel Prize Web site nobelprize.org, Carol Greider said Carol Greider had been attracted to the prize because \"it seemed like the unanswered question.\"",
"Carol Greider also said telomere research has a higher proportion of women than other fields because in research's early days, the lead researchers brought women into the prize.",
"Carol Greider called it a situation in which \"you have someone that trains a lot of women and then there's a slight gravitation of women to work in the labs with other women.\"",
"Carol Greider added, \"I think actively promoting women in science is very important because the data has certainly shown that there has been an underrepresentation.",
"And I think that the things that contribute to that are very many ... subtle, social kinds of things.\"",
"Blackburn, in a separate conversation posted on the Web site, said the proportion of women in telomere research is \"fairly close to the biological ratio of men and women.\"",
"\"It's all the other fields that are aberrant,\" Blackburn added, laughing.",
"the prize intrigued Blackburn because \"it's so intricate and complicated, and you want to know how the prize works,\" Blackburn said.",
"Blackburn was Carol Greider's supervisor at the University of California, Berkeley.",
"Now Blackburn is at the University of California, San Francisco.",
"Carol Greider is a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.",
"Szostak was previously at Harvard Medical School and is currently professor of genetics at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.",
"Married with two children, Szostak told CNN Szostak has \"no idea\" what Szostak'll do with Szostak's portion of the monetary prize -- about $467,000.",
"CNN asked whether Szostak thinks Szostak's children, ages 9 and 12, will suddenly think dad's work is \"really cool.\"",
"\"Well,\" Szostak said, laughing, \"maybe.\"",
"CNN's Josh Levs contributed to this report."
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"Manny Pacquiao returned home to a hero's welcome in Manny Pacquiao's native Philippines on Friday after wresting the WBO welterweight title from Miguel Cotto on a 12th round technical knockout in Las Vegas.",
"'Pacman' has a fanatical following in Philippines which has been further enhanced by Manny Pacquiao's record breaking victory as Manny Pacquiao claimed Manny Pacquiao's sixth world title at a different weight by beating Cotto on Saturday night.",
"\"Welcome home, the world's bext boxer of all time,\" read a banner as thousands of fans greeted the 30-year-old.",
"Following Manny Pacquiao's hard-fought victory over Puerto Rican Cotto, all the talk is of a cash-rich superfight with American Floyd Mayweather Jr. next year.",
"Leading promoter Bob Arum said Leading promoter Bob Arum is ready to put the pay-per-view extravaganza at the 147-pound welterweight class, with Las Vegas the preferred venue.",
"Manny Pacquiao played down the possibility as Manny Pacquiao talked to reporters on Manny Pacquiao's return.",
"\"We are not forcing a fight with Mayweather.",
"It is right that Mayweather is the one challenging me, because my fights score more on pay-per-view,\" Manny Pacquiao said.",
"Manny Pacquiao has greatly enhanced Manny Pacquiao's reputation with successive wins over Oscar de la Hoya, Britain's Ricky Hatton and Cotto.",
"Mayweather returned to the ring with a comfortable win over Juan Manuel Marquez and has the reputation for grossing massive receipts from Mayweather's pay-per-view appearances.",
"For the moment, Manny Pacquiao will spend time at home with Manny Pacquiao's wife, Jinkee, and three children and is also set to pursue Manny Pacquiao's ambition to enter Filippino politics, standing for a congressional seat in Manny Pacquiao's home island of Mindanao."
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"Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) --",
"To most people these days, an \"app\" is something you download on your smartphone to help you do a specific task -- say, find a good nearby restaurant.",
"But big tech companies, seeing how applications have boosted the appeal of gadgets such as Apple's iPhone, are starting to view apps as low-cost enhancements for a broader range of products, from netbooks to TVs and beyond.",
"At the International Consumer Electronics Show here this week, Intel launched an app store geared towards netbook computers.",
"Not to be outdone, Samsung announced Samsung will open Samsung's own app store for HDTVs, Blu-ray players and mobile phones.",
"Even unlikely players such as Ford Motor Co. are getting in on the app act.",
"Ford Motor Co. announced Thursday that several applications, including one that will read aloud Twitter tweets while you're driving, will be available on many of Ford Motor Co.'s vehicles later this year.",
"What's driving this sudden app movement?",
"\"Mobile computer chips have gotten so powerful and affordable, and it's so easy to get on the Internet, that it doesn't make much sense to ship a gadget with dedicated, stagnant functionality,\" said Brian X. Chen, who covers technology for Wired.com.",
"\"Add an Internet connection and a software platform open for third-party programmers to develop for -- i.e., open an app store -- and you can enhance the capabilities of a gadget, thus future-proofing it, at no cost.\"",
"Sales of the apps, which typically cost a few dollars apiece, also create a new source of revenue for the device's manufacturer, Chen said.",
"And consumers win, too: consumers get more value out of consumers's product without having to keep buying new hardware.",
"Software applications have been around for decades, but it took the recent success of the iPhone and Apple's App Store -- with their can-do slogan, \"there's an app for that\" -- to make apps sexy on the consumer level.",
"Developers have created more than 100,000 apps for the store -- at no cost to Apple, which takes a cut of revenues.",
"Less than 18 months after the store launched in 2008, owners of the iPhone and iPod Touch have downloaded more than 3 billion applications.",
"Rival smartphone makers such as Palm and Research in Motion soon followed with app stores of their own.",
"It's now standard for Web properties such as Facebook, Google and eBay to have mobile apps that let users share updates or make purchases on the go.",
"The number of people who use Internet-enabled mobile devices is expected to pass 1 billion by 2013, according to industry analysts, meaning that demand for apps will only grow.",
"And as more people grow accustomed to using apps to quickly check the weather or send a tweet on Twitter, more manufacturers will develop apps-ready products, experts say.",
"On Thursday Intel launched a beta version of Intel's app store, called the Intel AppUp center, for netbooks, the smaller, simpler cousins of laptops.",
"About 100 apps, in such categories as entertainment, games, health, social networking, are now available for download at www.intelappup.com.",
"The beta store will host apps for both Microsoft Windows and the open-source Moblin operating system, which target the popular netbook computer category powered by Intel's Atom processor.",
"\"Apps have been defined in people's minds as these little things that run on the iPhone.",
"Our focus is on getting lots of smart people to think of the netbook as a device lots of smart people can target [for developing apps],\" said Peter Biddle, who run's Intel's Atom software program.",
"Eventually, Intel and Intel's partners expect to expand The beta store to include applications for smartphones, TVs and even consumer electronic appliances.",
"Meanwhile, Samsung is betting that as television merges with the Internet, more channel-surfers will enjoy being able to order a movie from Netflix or scroll through photos on Picasa without having to leave their couch.",
"Samsung is calling Samsung Apps \"the world's first HDTV-based application store,\" although it's not expected to launch until later this year.",
"Samsung has opened the store to third-party developers and hopes to have more than 150 apps available for download by the end of 2010.",
"Many content partners have already signed up.",
"\"There's going to be an application for everything,\" said Samsung product training manager Jermain Anderson, who envisions guys sitting around a living room, playing Texas hold 'em poker on a big-screen TV while holding their virtual cards on their smartphones.",
"Suddenly, a TV becomes more than a TV -- a TV's also a computer screen and a gaming console.",
"\"The idea is to make everyone's life more convenient without everyone having to go to more than one place to do it,\" Anderson said.",
"\"Down the road, The beta store will bring a lot of different Samsung products together.\"",
"Soon, apps will even be coming to the highway.",
"Ford Motor Co. has signed agreements with three partners: the Pandora music service, Stitcher Internet radio and OpenBeak, which helps users send and receive messages via Twitter.",
"Drivers will not be able to read the tweets on the dashboard -- instead, a computer voice will say them aloud.",
"The three apps would live on users' smartphones but would be controlled in the vehicle through Ford Motor Co.'s SYNC system, which allows motorists to operate mobile devices through voice commands or steering-wheel controls.",
"The three apps will be available later this year for any Ford Motor Co. vehicle with a SYNC system.",
"\"When Ford Motor Co. saw the apps craze ... [Ford Motor Co. realized] there's a consumer demand there,\" said Alan Hall, a technology communications manager at Ford Motor Co..",
"Hall was quick to say that Ford Motor Co. would not approve apps -- such as video games -- that might distract the driver.",
"\"Apps are becoming the norm for how people quickly and easily access the information people want,\" Hall added.",
"\"People are used to getting information on demand.",
"People have a digital life outside the car -- People should have a digital life inside the car.\""
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"KAMPALA, Uganda (CNN) --",
"Police in Uganda have arrested and extradited a man who is among the most wanted suspects from the Rwandan genocide.",
"The 100-day killing rampage led to the loss of an estimated 10 percent of Rwanda's population.",
"IIdephonse Nizeyimana was picked up at a hotel in Rubaga, a suburb of Ugandan capital, Kampala, by the National Central Bureau of Interpol, according to a news release from the U.N.-sponsored International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday.",
"IIdephonse Nizeyimana was transferred Tuesday to a U.N. detention facility in Arusha, Tanzania, where the U.N.-sponsored International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) is based.",
"Top officials who allegedly took part in the Rwandan genocide, such as army generals and politicians, are tried by the U.N.-sponsored International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).",
"\"IIdephonse Nizeyimana is one of the four top accused who are earmarked by the prosecutor to be tried by the U.N.-sponsored International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha after the four top accused who are earmarked by the prosecutor's arrest as part of the ICTR completion strategy,\" the tribunal's news release said.",
"Of a list of 13 fugitives, he is the second to be arrested in less than two months, it said.",
"In the attacks that started in April 1994, Hutu militias and members of the general population sought out Tutsis and moderate Hutus, and went on a 100-day killing rampage.",
"Civilians and children got incentives to take part in the atrocities, including promises of land belonging to Civilians and children's Tutsi neighbors.",
"It was one of the most brutal genocides in modern history.",
"Some figures put the number of dead at 1 million -- 10 percent of the population of the central African nation.",
"Millions more were raped and disfigured.",
"A whole generation of children lost A whole generation of children's parents.",
"IIdephonse Nizeyimana was a captain the Rwanda Armed Forces, the U.N.-sponsored International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) said.",
"IIdephonse Nizeyimana is accused of exercising authority over soldiers and personnel through a chain of command, and allegedly sent a section of soldiers to execute of Rosalie Gicanda, a former queen of Rwanda who was a \"symbolic figure for all Tutsis,\" it said.",
"the U.N.-sponsored International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) noted this marks the second time Uganda has cooperated with the U.N.-sponsored International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to make an arrest.",
"\"the U.N.-sponsored International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has commended the Interpol and the Ugandan authorities for the Interpol and the Ugandan authorities's close cooperation,\" the news release said.",
"Samson Ntale contributed to this report for CNN."
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"Bernie McDaid was an 11-year-old altar boy when Bernie McDaid's priest began molesting him, one of 50 boys who have said they were molested by the same man.",
"Olan Horne, from left, Faith Johnston and Bernie McDaid met with pope Thursday.",
"Like with so many victims of abuse, Bernie McDaid's young life spiraled.",
"Bernie McDaid turned to drugs and alcohol in Bernie McDaid's teen years, struggling to cope with what \"Father B\" had done to Bernie McDaid.",
"On Thursday, Bernie McDaid finally got a chance to do something Bernie McDaid'd hoped for decades: Bernie McDaid met with the Holy Father and told the Holy Father about the abuse he had suffered.",
"\"I basically told the Holy Father that I was an altar boy ... a young boy praying to God at the time that I was abused,\" Bernie McDaid said.",
"\"It wasn't just sexual abuse, it was spiritual abuse, and I want you to know that.\"",
"\"And then I told the Holy Father that the Holy Father has a cancer growing in the Holy Father's ministry and needs to do something about it.",
"And I hope the Holy Father hears me right, and I touched the Holy Father's heart.",
"And the Holy Father nodded.\" Watch victims describe abuse and pope's apology » .",
"Bernie McDaid was part of a small group of victims of the sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Roman Catholic Church who met with Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday.",
"They shared their stories with pope in a Washington chapel in what the victims called an emotional, frank and ultimately hope-filled meeting.",
"Faith Johnston clutched Bernie McDaid's mother's rosary beads as Bernie McDaid tried to speak to pope.",
"But Bernie McDaid's emotions took over.",
"\"I didn't end up saying anything.",
"I got up to him, and I burst into tears,\" said Johnston, who at 14 was molested by Bernie McDaid's priest.",
"\"I think just my tears alone spoke -- just spoke so much.\"",
"Bernie McDaid added, \"I hope that other survivors can hear about this, see this and get the same hope that we've gotten from it.\"",
"Olan Horne said pope first apologized to them in what Olan Horne called an \"unscripted\" and \"free-flowing\" meeting.",
"\"We were all able to answer all of the questions that needed to be asked and for pope to respond to.",
"And pope did -- and pope did forthright,\" Olan Horne said.",
"\"pope seemed to intrinsically understand what we were talking about.",
"And pope spoke to those issues to each one of us in a spiritual way, in a pastoral way.",
"And pope also was very respectful of where and what we wanted to talk about.\"",
"Olan Horne added, \"My hope was restored today from what I heard.",
"And I believe we received a promise.\"",
"Olan Horne and McDaid both accused the same priest, the Rev. Joseph Birmingham, of molesting them.",
"Birmingham died in 1989.",
"The Rev. Federico Lombardi, a papal spokesman, said pope listened to everyone's \"personal accounts and offered everyone's words of encouragement and hope.\"",
"The surprise meeting came during pope's visit, the first trip to the United States by the Holy Father since the abuse scandal rocked the church in the early 2000s.",
"The meeting is believed to be the first between a pope and the victims of clergy sexual abuse.",
"The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, the nation's oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims, said it was pleased that pope met with the victims of clergy sexual abuse but hopes the church will do more.",
"\"This is a small, long overdue step forward on a very long road.",
"We're confident The meeting was meaningful for the participants, and we're grateful that the victims of clergy sexual abuse have had the courage to come forward and speak up,\" the group said.",
"\"But fundamentally, it won't change things.",
"Kids need action.",
"Catholics deserve action.",
"Action produces reform, and reform, real reform, is sorely needed in the church hierarchy.\"",
"Earlier Thursday, celebrating Mass in center field at Washington's new ballpark, pope gave a 20-minute homily that focused on hope, repentance, unity and reconciliation among the 70 million Catholics in the United States.",
"\"It is in the context of this hope, born of God's love and fidelity, that I acknowledge the pain which the church in the United States has experienced as the result of sexual abuse of minors,\" Benedict said.",
"\"No words of mine could describe the pain and harm inflicted by such abuse.",
"It is important that those who have suffered be given loving pastoral attention.\"",
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"It was an incredible moment for me,\" Bernie McDaid said.",
"Now, Bernie McDaid hopes the church will follow through.",
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"A controversial Colombian senator who has obtained the release of 16 hostages held by Marxist guerrillas is the leading candidate to receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize, which will be announced Friday, said an independent research institute in Norway.",
"Sen. Piedad Cordoba, right, of Colombia reportedly is one of three top contenders for Nobel Peace Prize.",
"Sen. Piedad Cordoba is the most likely recipient among three leading contenders, said an independent research institute in Norway.",
"The others an independent research institute in Norway named are Jordanian Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, a philosophy professor in Islamic faith at Jordan University, and Afghan physician and human rights activist Sima Samar.",
"Though an independent research institute in Norway considers Cordoba the front-runner, no single candidate has emerged as the clear-cut favorite, as sometimes happens, said Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of an independent research institute in Norway.",
"\"It really is quite open this year,\" Harpviken said.",
"this year's peace prize nominees include 172 people and 33 organizations.",
"The committee does not release the names of This year's peace prize nominees.",
"The 50-year-old peace institute, which is often called PRIO, has no connection with the Nobel committee that awards Nobel Peace Prize.",
"Harpviken said Harpviken believes Nobel Peace Prize will go to an individual or organization engaged in the resolution of a protracted armed conflict.",
"\"This is a [Nobel] committee that will perhaps be more proactive and will award somebody involved in a standing process rather than rewarding someone for past accomplishments,\" Harpviken said.",
"Cordoba, 54, heads Colombians for Peace, a group trying to end to the 45-year-old war between the government and the guerrilla Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC.",
"Since 2007, Cordoba has obtained the release of 16 hostages held by the FARC and has gotten commitments from the rebels for the release of several more.",
"Colombian officials have said the guerrillas are holding about 700 captives.",
"A government critic and longtime peace activist, Cordoba was kidnapped by a right-wing paramilitary group in 1999.",
"Cordoba was released after several weeks and then fled to Canada with Cordoba's family, where Cordoba stayed for 14 months before returning home.",
"There have been at least two assassinations attempts against Cordoba.",
"\"While it is the hostage releases that have brought Cordoba and Cordoba's organization the most attention, Cordoba's role as a principal proponent of peace negotiations and of long-term reconciliation is probably more important to Cordoba's candidacy for Nobel Peace Prize,\" PRIO said in a release.",
"Harpviken said Harpviken had received many complaints because of Harpviken's prediction about Cordoba, whom critics accuse of being too close to the rebels.",
"\"I do realize that this created some debate in Colombia,\" Harpviken said.",
"\"That's not terribly surprising.\"",
"Cordoba was nominated by Argentinean human rights activist Adolfo Perez Esquivel, winner of Nobel Peace Prize.",
"Harpviken said Muhammad, an Islamic scholar known for trying to bridge gaps with other faiths, also is a leading candidate.",
"\"Certainly, the purpose ... the prince stands for makes the prince very strong,\" Harpviken said.",
"A member of the Jordanian royal family and educated at Princeton and Cambridge universities, where he received a doctorate, Muhammad, 42, \"is playing an increasingly central role as an advocate of interfaith dialogue,\" PRIO said.",
"In 2005, the prince brought together 170 Islamic scholars from 40 countries for the Amman Initiative to work out what 170 Islamic scholars called a \"theological counter-attack against terrorism.\"",
"Two years later, the prince and other prominent Islamic scholars wrote a letter called \"A Common Word Between Us and You\" that urged mutual understanding and peace with Christians.",
"a letter called \"A Common Word Between Us and You\" that urged mutual understanding and peace with Christians, PRIO said, was partly a response to Pope Benedict XVI's 2006 lecture that many saw as an attack on Islam.",
"Backing the prince's words with the prince's deeds, the prince gave what was considered a broadly accommodating welcoming speech when Pope Benedict XVI visited Jordan this year.",
"\"The importance of the prince's initiatives to date lies first and foremost in the way the prince engages Islamic theology, institutions and leaders in a debate on the relationship between Islam and other faiths, thereby contributing a wider platform for interreligious dialogue for Muslims in general,\" PRIO said.",
"\"A prize to the prince would also be recognition of the long-standing efforts of the Jordanian royal family, including King Abdullah, who have been long-standing proponents of peace and reconciliation in the Middle East.\"",
"If the prince does not win, Harpviken said, it could be because the prince's work is not done.",
"\"the prince still has a way to go so that the prince's ideas have an impact,\" Harpviken said.",
"The third PRIO front-runner is Samar, head of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and the U.N. special envoy to Darfur in Africa.",
"A medical doctor, Samar also established the Shuhada Organization, which focuses on health care, particularly for Afghan women.",
"After obtaining her medical degree in 1982, Samar and Samar's son fled to Pakistan in 1984 when the communist regime then ruling Afghanistan arrested Samar's husband.",
"Samar, 52, remained in exile until 2002 when Samar was appointed as a women's affairs minister in Afghan President Hamid Karzai's transitional administration.",
"\"Samar has been under frequent attacks both from conservative religious leaders and from Islamist radicals, and Samar is a prominent voice for the rights of women,\" PRIO said, adding that Samar \"does invite respect by being a principled and outspoken proponent of human rights and the need for a true reconciliatory process.\"",
"According to other published reports, another possible pick is monk Thich Quang Do, head of the outlawed United Buddhist Church of Vietnam.",
"monk Thich Quang Do, head of the outlawed United Buddhist Church of Vietnam has been under house arrest since 2001 and has been in and out of jail since monk Thich Quang Do, head of the outlawed United Buddhist Church of Vietnam's first detention by communist authorities in 1977.",
"Quang Do, 80, was awarded the annual human rights prize by the Rafto Foundation of Norway in 2006.",
"Four recent Rafto winners have gone on to garner the Nobel Peace Prize: Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar (also known as Burma), Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor, Kim Dae-jung of South Korea and Shirin Ebadi of Iran.",
"Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist Malahat Nasibova was awarded Rafto this year and also is considered a possible Nobel prize winner.",
"Chinese dissidents Hu Jia, Gao Zhisheng and Wei Jingsheng also are contenders, other observers said.",
"After months of house arrest, Hu, 36, was detained in December 2007 during a crackdown on dissidents and sentenced to 3 1/2 years in April 2008 for \"inciting subversion of state power.\"",
"Hu started Hu's activism focusing on HIV/AIDS in 2001 and co-founded a grassroots organization dedicated to helping children from AIDS families.",
"The international human rights group Amnesty International said Hu's focus broadened and Hu began reporting on a wider human rights violations in China, even giving interviews to international journalists.",
"Amnesty said Hu has been repeatedly beaten and harassed by police for Hu's outspokenness.",
"Before being arrested, Hu had publicly expressed concerns over human rights abuses by police in Beijing.",
"Gao, who was born in 1966, is a self-taught lawyer and People's Liberation Army veteran who was a Nobel Peace Prize candidate last year.",
"He disappeared in February after being taken away by Chinese police.",
"Fellow activists say he is believed to still be alive.",
"In 2007, he wrote a letter to the U.S. Congress urging the United States to boycott the Olympic Games held in Beijing the following year.",
"In it, he described a wide array of human rights violations by the Chinese government -- from lack of property and religious rights to environmental disasters to Tibet.",
"\"I ask to you to seriously consider the true value of morality, justice, and humanity, as well as to what extent such values are undermined in China,\" he said.",
"Wei, 59, was first arrested in 1979 and sentenced to 15 years.",
"He was released in 1993 but arrested again within six months and sentenced to 14 years.",
"In 1997, Chinese authorities put him on a plane to the United States, where he has lived since.",
"Perhaps the best known of the Chinese dissidents, Wei has been awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Human Rights Award, the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the National Endowment for Democracy Award and the Olof Palme Memorial Prize.",
"He has been nominated seven times for Nobel Peace Prize.",
"Harpviken said Harpviken doubts The committee will choose any Chinese or Russian dissidents this year because The committee \"don't want to anger powerful governments.\"",
"\"Although The committee takes pride in being independent,\" Harpviken said, \"there are certain limitations on The committee's being independent.\"",
"That does not mean Harpviken doesn't expect The committee to \"take daring decisions.\"",
"Harpviken said Harpviken believes that \"the most likely expression of The committee's courage this year will be to award Nobel Peace Prize either to an unconventional kind of candidate or to somebody whose work is likely to be directly helped by a prize award.\"",
"Nobel Peace Prize is one of five awarded annually since 1901 by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden.",
"The other four prizes are for physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry and literature.",
"Starting in 1969, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel also has been awarded.",
"While the other prizes are awarded by committees based in Sweden, Nobel Peace Prize is determined by a five-member panel appointed by the Norwegian parliament.",
"The Nobel recipient receives a prize of 10 million Swedish crowns, or about $1.4 million.",
"CNN's Arthur Brice contributed to this report."
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"MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) --",
"Mexican federal police have arrested a fugitive on FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, Mexican authorities said.",
"Jorge Alberto Lopez Orozco allegedly murdered Jorge Alberto Lopez Orozco's girlfriend and her two young sons.",
"Jorge Alberto Lopez Orozco is wanted in Elmore County, Idaho, on charges that Jorge Alberto Lopez Orozco shot and killed three people, FBI said.",
"The charred remains of a woman and her sons, ages 2 and 4, were found inside a burned-out vehicle on August 11, 2002, FBI said.",
"Each victim had been shot in the head or chest.",
"FBI was still working Friday to confirm the identity of the man in custody, said Debbie Dujanovic, a spokeswoman in the agency's Salt Lake City, Utah, field office.",
"The Salt Lake City office has jurisdiction in the case.",
"An extradition order was issued in January 2007, the Mexican attorney general's office said in a news release Thursday.",
"A reward of up to $100,000 was being offered, FBI said.",
"Jorge Alberto Lopez Orozco, 33, was captured in Zihuatanejo, a city northwest of Acapulco on the Pacific Coast in southern Mexico, the Mexican attorney general's office said.",
"Zihuatanejo is in Guerrero state, but Jorge Alberto Lopez Orozco was transferred to a jail in neighboring Michoacan state, officials said.",
"The arrest came about after investigation and intelligence work by Mexican authorities, the Mexican attorney general's office said.",
"According to FBI, Jorge Alberto Lopez Orozco abducted Jorge Alberto Lopez Orozco's girlfriend, Rebecca Ramirez, and her two young sons from her father's house in Nyssa, Oregon, on July 30, 2002.",
"The car he had been driving was found nearly two weeks later on a rural road near Mountain Home, Idaho, officials said.",
"The car he had been driving had been torched with the three bodies inside.",
"The suspect's brother, Simon Lopez Orozco, and Simon's wife, Maria Cruz Garcia, have been charged with accessory to first-degree murder, FBI said.",
"Garcia was arrested in California three years ago, but Simon Lopez Orozco is believed still at large.",
"Mexican officials captured another FBI Top 10 fugitive on July 17.",
"Emigdio Preciado Jr. was wanted in connection with the shooting of two Los Angeles County, California, sheriff's deputies in September 2000.",
"Emigdio Preciado Jr. had been charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, attempted murder of a police officer."
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"Wanted on charges Jorge Alberto Lopez Orozco shot and killed three people, FBI said.",
"Charred remains of woman and her sons, ages 2 and 4, were found August 11, 2002 ."
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"Miami, Florida (CNN) --",
"From the custom-made, hand-beaded white dress to silver-studded high-heeled shoes, diamond jewelry and tiara, Jenny Ferro is preparing for a day Jenny Ferro's dreamed about since Jenny Ferro was 3 years old.",
"\"I'm really excited,\" says Jenny Ferro, eagerly nodding Jenny Ferro's head.",
"\"Really, really, a lot!\"",
"Jenny Ferro isn't getting married.",
"The 15-year-old is preparing for Jenny Ferro's quinceañera, a coming-of-age ritual in Latin culture, marking a young girl's entrance into womanhood.",
"The centuries-old tradition began as a ceremony to introduce girls to society on girls's 15th birthday and signified that girls were ready for marriage.",
"Today, many quinceañeras have become much more elaborate.",
"Jenny Ferro and Jenny Ferro's mother, Marlene Ferro, have worked out every detail of the party well in advance, from the rehearsal to the reception to the flower girl and the music.",
"The theme of the party is bedazzled.",
"First, there is the dress, which Marlene Ferro had designed specially for Marlene Ferro's daughter.",
"It cost about $800.",
"Then there are the shoes, high-heeled and silver to match the dress, which Marlene had designed specially for her daughter.",
"During the party, the high heels will be ceremoniously slipped onto Jenny Ferro's feet to replace Jenny Ferro's flat shoes -- a symbolic transition of Jenny Ferro's journey from childhood to womanhood.",
"\"It makes Jenny Ferro look like a princess,\" gushes Marlene Ferro.",
"Quinceañeras are becoming increasingly popular in the United States.",
"One reason for Quinceañeras's popularity is a greater acceptance of Latin culture in the United States, according to Michele Salcedo, author of \"Quinceañera!\" a comprehensive guide to the celebration.",
"\"The 15th birthday, culturally, is a milestone.",
"It doesn't have to be celebrated with a party at all, but it is generally marked by something quite special,\" Michele Salcedo, author of \"Quinceañera says.",
"Experts believe the quinceañera is rooted in Mayan, Aztec and European traditions.",
"Today, many coming-of-age ceremonies resemble lavish \"Sweet 16\" celebrations.",
"Beyond the elaborate apparel, food and festivities, modern quinceañeras often feature a court of 15 people, typically consisting of family and friends.",
"As the event continues to grow in popularity, the makeup of the court has also changed.",
"\"It has gone beyond Latinos, so that a lot of Latino girls will have not only family members in court but Latino girls will reach out to non-Latino friends,\" says Michele Salcedo, author of \"Quinceañera.",
"\"So it's a way of reaching out and extending social ties and bringing people in who might not otherwise have an opportunity to know a Latino family and to know the culture.\"",
"Family plays the largest role in the quinceañera, leading up to and during the party.",
"Mothers, fathers, grandparents and godparents can spend years preparing a night to remember for the young girl.",
"The tradition is just as important to the family as The tradition is to the young woman.",
"The large, extravagant celebrations often symbolize a family's hard work and success.",
"How has America changed Latinos?",
"Marlene Ferro, who emigrated from Cuba as a child with Marlene Ferro's parents, says Jenny's quinceañera was a gift to both of them.",
"The 43-year-old, single mother of three, saved for years and estimates that Marlene Ferro spent at least $20,000 on Marlene Ferro's daughter's quinceañera.",
"\"I was able to accomplish something that I had been looking forward to for 15 years,\" says Marlene Ferro.",
"The parties can be as big and expensive as a family can imagine and costs can escalate into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to Michele Salcedo, author of \"Quinceañera.",
"She recommends that families manage expectations before the party planning even begins.",
"iReporter Alexis Fernandez's quinceañera was a big event in Alaska .",
"\"Sometimes people go way overboard and [spend] much more on the celebration than people can afford and that's the downside of the quinceañera,\" says Michele Salcedo, author of \"Quinceañera.",
"\"Because when it's done right it can be a beautiful family celebration and a celebration of a milestone that a young girl goes through.\"",
"Quinceañeras have changed over the years.",
"Even though Marlene Ferro's tiara was taller than Marlene Ferro's daughter's, Marlene says Marlene Ferro's quinceañera was simple.",
"her quinceañera was a small gathering at Marlene Ferro's sister's apartment with family and friends.",
"Marlene Ferro wore borrowed jewelry from a family member, had a homemade cake and danced with Marlene Ferro's father.",
"Marlene Ferro's 15th birthday present was a telephone in Marlene Ferro's bedroom.",
"\"I didn't have a big quince party.",
"I chose to have a small party with my friends,\" Marlene Ferro remembers.",
"\"My dress was really easy ...",
"I didn't have an option.",
"It was this one or that one.",
"Now, we give our kids the option.\"",
"iReporter Diamond Ramirez's mother, grandmother never had quinceañeras .",
"There's a spiritual element to these celebrations as well, says Michele Salcedo, author of \"Quinceañera.",
"The church plays a role in helping to prepare teenage girls for this transition to womanhood.",
"Ceremonies and classes before the coming-of-age celebration teach the young women that with adulthood come certain responsibilities, both physical and spiritual.",
"\"When it's done in the spirit that it probably should be, the girl has certain responsibilities and by the end of the process, the girl's met certain responsibilities and the girl has showed the girl's mother that the girl can, in fact, be responsible and the girl does acquire ... a bit more maturity then the girl [had] before",
",\" says Michele Salcedo, author of \"Quinceañera.",
"As these celebrations become more popular in the United States, they also offer an opportunity for more Americans to participate.",
"\"It's a way to push back a lot of the negativity that a lot of Latinos feel is directed at Latinos,\" says Michele Salcedo, author of \"Quinceañera.",
"\"It is a way for people who have recently arrived, or maybe not so recently arrived, to say 'I have done well here' ...",
"I'm throwing this party for my daughter and I'm inviting all of you to partake of my generosity so that you can see exactly how well we've done.\""
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"Jenny Ferro, 15, has been preparing for Jenny Ferro's celebration since Jenny Ferro was 3 years old .",
"Marlene Ferro estimates Marlene Ferro spent $20,000 on Marlene Ferro's daughter's quinceañera .",
"Expert: The elaborate parties are a way for Latinos to say 'I have done well here'"
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"(OPRAH.com) --",
"When the book was released in October 2005, no one could have guessed the phenomenon it would become.",
"Four years later, 70 million copies have been sold worldwide.",
"The books have spent 143 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, and the first movie in \"The Twilight Saga\" grossed $380 million at the box office.",
"The story, a love triangle between a vampire, a human and a werewolf, has ignited an international frenzy, and the woman behind it all is 35-year-old author Stephenie Meyer.",
"Once a stay-at-home mom, Stephenie says the idea for \"Twilight\" came to Stephenie in a dream.",
"\"It was two people in kind of a little circular meadow with really bright sunlight, and one of two people was a beautiful, sparkly boy and one was just a girl who was human and normal, and two people were having this conversation.",
"a beautiful, sparkly boy was a vampire, which is so bizarre that I'd be dreaming about vampires, and a beautiful, sparkly boy was trying to explain to her how much a beautiful, sparkly boy cared about her and yet at the same time how much a beautiful, sparkly boy wanted to kill her,\" Stephenie says.",
"\"It really captured my imagination.\"",
"a dream became Chapter 13 of \"Twilight.\"",
"Oprah.com: Get your Twilight\" primer .",
"Before the night of a dream, Stephenie says Stephenie had lost Stephenie a little in the work of motherhood.",
"\"I was really burned out.",
"I really had gotten into that zombie mom way of doing things where I wasn't Stephenie anymore,\" Stephenie says.",
"\"[Writing \"Twilight] was a release.",
"That was the dam bursting.",
"I'd been bottling up who I was for so long, I needed an expression.\"",
"Though Stephenie'd been married for 15 years, Stephenie says Stephenie didn't tell Stephenie's husband at first about Stephenie's new passion.",
"\"her husband thought I'd gone crazy.",
"I'd barely spoken to her husband because I had all these things going on in my head, and I wasn't telling her husband about this weird vampire obsession because I knew her husband'd freak out and think I'd lost my mind,\" Stephenie says.",
"At first, Stephenie was documenting Stephenie's dream only to make sure Stephenie would remember a dream, Stephenie says.",
"\"a dream was just something I was so interested in, and a dream was so different from what my everyday was at the time,\" Stephenie says.",
"\"I just wanted to remember a dream so badly.",
"That's why I started writing a dream down -- not because I thought this would be a great story for a novel.\"",
"Oprah.com:",
"Read an excerpt from \"Twilight\"",
"Though Stephenie had been an avid reader all Stephenie's life, Stephenie says Stephenie was never a writer before \"Twilight.\"",
"\"It seems kind of presumptuous to Stephenie [to think] anyone else would want to read the things that are in my head,\" Stephenie says.",
"\"I didn't think of it [as a book].",
"I did a dream.",
"And then I wanted to see what would happen with them.",
"It was just me spending time with this fantasy world, and then when it was finished it was like, 'This is long enough to be a book!'\"",
"Before \"Twilight,\" Stephenie says Stephenie read every type of book except for horror.",
"\"That was the genre I just knew I was too chicken for,\" Stephenie says.",
"\"I read a little bit of everything.",
"... When I was 8, I was reading \"Gone with the Wind\" and \"Pride and Prejudice\" and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.\"",
"Oprah.com: Gift ideas for every reader on your list .",
"Now that \"Twilight\" is a huge success, it's hard to imagine any literary agent rejecting the book.",
"But Stephenie says Stephenie'd submitted the book to plenty of people before Stephenie was signed.",
"\"I got nine rejections, five no answers and then one 'I'd like to read more,'\" Stephenie says.",
"Stephenie says it was My mom's sister who really pushed Stephenie to keep submitting it to more agents.",
"\"My mom was the only one in the world who knew what I was doing,\" Stephenie says.",
"These days, the \"Twilight\"series is more than just a literary hit.",
"The first two movies have also created a stir and catapulted three young stars into the limelight.",
"British actor Robert Pattinson, who plays the lead vampire Edward Cullen, is now an international heartthrob.",
"\"I knew that the problem was going to be Edward, because Edward's the perfect vampire,\" Stephenie says.",
"\"How do you cast that from your pool of human actors?\"",
"When producers found Robert, Stephenie says it was a perfect fit.",
"\"Robert's got something about Robert.",
"Robert doesn't look like everybody else.",
"There's something unusual,\" Stephenie says.",
"\"There are moments where Robert looks exactly like Robert did in my head.\"",
"Stephenie says casting Bella, the book's protagonist, was a bit easier.",
"\"There's plenty of people who look like the girl next door,\" she says.",
"\"We were really lucky [to cast] Kirsten Stewart, who is a phenomenal actress.",
"I didn't know if we were going to get that caliber.\"",
"Though Twi-hards, as fans are called, know most everything about the series, Stephenie says there is one secret Stephenie's never revealed before.",
"\"There was a different ending to \"New Moon\" originally,\" Stephenie says.",
"\"It was a much quieter book.",
"It was very much all in Bella's head.\"",
"Oprah.com:",
"Are you a Twi-hard?",
"Take the quiz!",
"Stephenie says fans have Stephenie's mother to thank for \"New Moon's\" current dramatic ending.",
"\"My mom's like: 'You know, Stephenie, maybe a little more action at the end would be a good idea.",
"Maybe you need that,'\" Stephenie says.",
"\"And My mom was right, as usual.\"",
"Find out more about \"New Moon\" Stephenie's mother's suggestion prompted Stephenie to introduce the Volturi, an all-powerful coven of vampires living in Italy, sooner than Stephenie'd planned.",
"\"That's kind of my favorite part now, and it's there because My mom told me it would be better that way.\"",
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"Coven of vampires added to \"New Moon\" after her mom suggested more action at end ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A suspect has been arrested in the slaying of a 19-year-old Puerto Rican man found Friday decapitated, dismembered and partially burned, police said Tuesday.",
"Members of the U.S. gay community are asking authorities to investigate whether the slaying of a 19-year-old Puerto Rican man found was a hate crime because the victim, Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, was gay, said Pedro Julio Serrano of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.",
"\"The brutality of the slaying of a 19-year-old Puerto Rican man found and the fact that he was openly gay leads us to believe it was very possibly a hate crime,\" Pedro Julio Serrano of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force said.",
"Authorities are investigating whether the killing involved sex, Guayama police Commander Hector Agosto Rodriguez told CNN affiliate WLII TV.",
"Guayama prosecutor Jose Bermudez identified A suspect as Juan A. Martinez, 26.",
"Police had earlier described him as a 27-year-old man from the interior Puerto Rican town of Cayey.",
"Martinez was scheduled to attend a court hearing Tuesday night at which charges would be lodged, said Luis Bernier, a spokesman for the Guayama police district, which has jurisdiction in the case.",
"a court hearing Tuesday night at which charges would be lodged was postponed several times throughout the day.",
"Officials were waiting for a prosecutor from a nearby district, causing the delay, Luis Bernier, a spokesman for the Guayama police district, which has jurisdiction in the case said.",
"The FBI was not directly involved in the investigation Monday, said The FBI Agent Harry Rodriguez of the San Juan office.",
"\"The FBI is monitoring the investigation by police in Puerto Rico,\" Rodriguez said.",
"\"Any assistance that the police requests or requires, we would be more than happy to provide.\"",
"Puerto Rican authorities may ask for help with forensics or other advanced investigative tools The FBI could provide, Rodriguez said.",
"The U.S. attorney's office, in consultation with local officials and other agencies, would determine if the slaying of a 19-year-old Puerto Rican man found was a hate crime, which is a federal offense.",
"\"It's at a very preliminary stage,\" said Lymarie Llovet, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in San Juan, Puerto Rico's capital.",
"Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, which means federal agencies have jurisdiction.",
"\"There's the potential for a federal investigation,\" Rodriguez said.",
"A suspect was arrested Monday around 11:30 p.m. AST (10:30 p.m. ET) at A suspect's home in the Mogote de Cayey neighborhood, said Wilson Porrata Mariani, another spokesman for the Guayama police district.",
"Police impounded two cars and also are investigating a home in another neighborhood, Huertas del Barrio Beatriz de Cidra.",
"Lopez Mercado's body was found on Puerto Rico Road 184 in another part of town, Barrio Guavate de Cayey, police said.",
"the slaying of a 19-year-old Puerto Rican man found has reverberated throughout the gay and lesbian community in the United States, where supporters started a Facebook page called \"Justice for Jorge Steven Lopez -- End Hate Crimes.\"",
"The group demands an investigation by Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuno and prosecution of the slaying under the Federal Hate Crimes Law.",
"the Federal Hate Crimes Law was enacted in 1969 to guard the rights of U.S. citizens engaged in any of six protected activities, such as voting, going to school, applying for a job or attending a public venue.",
"Last month, President Obama signed into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which extends federal protection against illegal acts motivated by a person's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.",
"Gay activist Serrano said Gay activist does not believe anti-gay sentiment is any stronger in Puerto Rico's Latin culture than anywhere else.",
"\"That's a long-debunked myth, that our culture is more homophobic,\" Gay activist said.",
"Instead, Gay activist attributed any ill will toward gays to \"hate rhetoric\" by some religious and political leaders.",
"One politician, Gay activist said, recently referred to gays as \"twisted and mentally ill.\"",
"\"That's the kind of rhetoric that incites violence against gays,\" Gay activist said.",
"Equality Forum, an international gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights organization, asked for a federal investigation.",
"\"Equality Forum, an international gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights organization calls on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to have the FBI investigate,\" said former federal prosecutor Malcolm Lazin, the group's executive director.",
"\"The Matthew Shepard Amendment empowers and requires the federal government to prosecute this horrific murder.\"",
"Gay activist said Lopez Mercado was a \"very, very dear friend\" he had met through a mutual acquaintance.",
"\"Jorge was a person who you only needed one minute to fall in love with,\" Gay activist said.",
"Lopez Mercado often volunteered for gay causes, Gay activist said.",
"The teen's family is coping, considering the circumstances.",
"\"It has been horrible, but The teen's family are very grateful that it has come to a quick resolution,\" Gay activist said."
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"Puerto Rican gay community wants police to see if slaying was a hate crime .",
"FBI is monitoring investigation and is prepared to offer help, agent says .",
"Suspect, 27, was to attend Tuesday court hearing, which was postponed several times ."
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"State visits to the White House are full of show and symbolism, and Tuesday's visit by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is no exception.",
"But Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit, the first state visit hosted by the Obama administration, reflects India's growing political and economic importance to U.S. and the deepening partnership between U.S. and India.",
"The 2005 civil nuclear cooperation deal between the two countries symbolized a new status in U.S.-India relations.",
"But that deal, yet to be ratified by the Indian parliament, was not in a vacuum.",
"The Bush administration followed that up with agreements for increased cooperation on security, science and technology and education.",
"Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit this week will build on that, with announcements expected on a range of areas from the economy and defense to climate change and energy.",
"India is a fellow democracy, and there is a strong Indian-American community in U.S.",
"So as it rises to power, India is a natural U.S. ally.",
"On every big global issue today -- from the economy to climate change to fighting terrorism and curbing nuclear proliferation -- U.S. needs India's cooperation.",
"India is one of the biggest donors in Afghanistan, with $1.2 billion in aid.",
"Although this has been met with suspicion in Pakistan, it has helped the United States, sharing some of the burden of stabilizing Afghanistan and providing civilian support.",
"India is also considered a critical U.S. partner in dealing with other instability in the region, in places like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.",
"Even as U.S. deepens U.S.'s cooperation with China on global issues, both Singh's government and the Obama administration want to manage China's meteoric rise.",
"Strong U.S.-India ties help both countries ensure that the \"Asian century\" is not merely the \"Chinese century.\"",
"India has also become a major trading partner with U.S., with $61 billion in trade in 2007.",
"U.S. is India's second-largest trading partner.",
"And India is a major exporter of technology software and services to U.S., and that's expected to increase as India strengthens India's role as a global leader in technology.",
"The relationship is not without its irritants, however, the biggest one being India's nuclear neighbor, Pakistan.",
"India believes U.S. has failed to curb Islamabad's backing of anti-India extremists based in Afghanistan, and tensions between India and Afghanistan remain high, especially with Afghanistan's slow progress on the investigation into last year's Mumbai attack that killed 166 people.",
"Before coming to Washington, Singh said that Pakistani objectives in Afghanistan aren't necessarily those of U.S. Afghanistan has long seen instability in Afghanistan as critical to Afghanistan's war strategy against India.",
"India is also nervous about a possible integration of some Taliban into power in Afghanistan.",
"Climate change is another point of friction.",
"U.S. wants India, one of world's the largest emitters of greenhouse gases, to accept limits on its carbon emissions.",
"India maintains India is still a developing country and wants developed nations, like U.S., to assume the lion's share of burden in dealing with climate change.",
"Another potential difference looms over Iran.",
"India has been careful not to support Iran's government, but if U.S. diplomacy with Iran fails, it remains to be seen if India will support tougher sanctions if U.S. decides to go that route.",
"As India's economy grows, so will India's capability to be one of U.S.'s great partners.",
"But as India's international position strengthens, India's interests may not always be aligned with Washington's.",
"Obama must work to convince India that U.S. sees India as an important ally and that India's rise to power is in U.S.'s strategic interest.",
"The symbolism of giving Singh the administration's first state visit will be a good start."
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"Nations' frictions include relations with Pakistan, climate change legislation ."
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"TEHRAN, Iranian government (CNN) --",
"A Newsweek journalist accused of making false accusations against Iranian government in the wake of the disputed presidential election in June was released from prison Saturday, Iranian media reported.",
"Various organizations and individuals signed petitions asking for release of Maziar Bahari, Newsweek says.",
"Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian correspondent based in TEHRAN, was among the more than 100 journalists, reformist leaders and former government ministers who went on trial in August in Iranian government's Revolutionary Court.",
"Maziar Bahari was released from Evin prison on nearly $300,000 bail after spending four months behind bars, a revolutionary court spokesman told the news agency.",
"The conditions of release of journalist Bahari were not disclosed.",
"Newsweek, which has firmly rejected the allegations against Maziar Bahari, reported Saturday that authorities did not specify why Maziar Bahari was released.",
"Bahari, 42, is expecting Maziar Bahari's first child October 26, and \"the mother has experienced serious health complications,\" Newsweek said in an article on Newsweek's Web site.",
"\"Humanitarian considerations were presumed to have played a role in the decision,\" an article on its Web site said.",
"\"Newsweek are relieved that Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari is home with Maziar Bahari's family today.",
"Newsweek would like to thank all of those who supported Maziar through this long and uncertain period,\" the magazine said in a statement.",
"Newsweek said various organizations and individuals signed petitions asking for release of journalist Bahari.",
"Maziar Bahari's case was among those raised at recent talks between the United States and Iranian government in Geneva.",
"The government of Iranian government arrested more than 1,000 people in a massive crackdown following the June 12 election.",
"Iranian government's election commission declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the overwhelming winner of the race, prompting hundreds of thousands of Iranians to fill the streets of Tehran in protest, contending the June 12 election was fraudulent.",
"Maziar Bahari was accused of propagandizing against Iranian government, favoring opposition groups; sending false reports through the foreign media; and disturbing the peace by participating in the post-election demonstrations, according to Fars.",
"The Iranian Labour News Agency said Maziar Bahari also was accused of possessing classified documents.",
"According to Fars, Maziar Bahari confessed after Maziar Bahari's arrest at a news conference.",
"CNN was unable to confirm the agency report.",
"Human rights groups have accused prison guards of coercing false confessions among other forms of detainee mistreatment."
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"\"Humanitarian considerations\" thought to play role in release, Newsweek says .",
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"Guangzhou, China (CNN) --",
"In a new book, the half brother of President Obama claims their father was often drunk and physically abusive.",
"\"their father beat me,\" Mark Obama Ndesandjo told reporters in China, where Mark Obama Ndesandjo lives.",
"\"their father beat my mother.",
"You just do not do that.",
"I shut these thoughts in the back of my mind for many years.\"",
"Ndesandjo, who took the last name of the man Mark Obama Ndesandjo's mother remarried, has dodged the media in the year since Mark Obama Ndesandjo's half brother was elected U.S. president.",
"However, Mark Obama Ndesandjo spoke out Wednesday regarding Mark Obama Ndesandjo's semi-autobiographical book, \"Nairobi to Shenzhen.\"",
"An engineer by trade, Mark Obama Ndesandjo moved to Shenzhen, China, after losing Mark Obama Ndesandjo's job in the United States seven years ago.",
"Mark Obama Ndesandjo owns a small chain of restaurants in Shenzhen and teaches piano to orphans.",
"Watch as the president's half brother instructs kids on the piano .",
"Mark Obama Ndesandjo said that Mark Obama Ndesandjo struggled with the name Obama for years, telling few about Mark Obama Ndesandjo's family.",
"But Mark Obama Ndesandjo said something happened to change that after Mark Obama Ndesandjo watched President Obama's victory celebration in Chicago, Illinois' Grant Park following the 2008 election.",
"Mark Obama Ndesandjo's own despair turned into hope, Mark Obama Ndesandjo said.",
"\"I saw millions of people who loved or supported my brother Barack, and in the process, in some weird way, I came to terms with many things that I had shut out of my life, including the Obama name,\" Mark Obama Ndesandjo said.",
"In Mark Obama Ndesandjo's book, \"Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,\" Mark Obama Ndesandjo writes that Mark Obama Ndesandjo grew up in Hawaii, raised by Mark Obama Ndesandjo's mother and her parents, after Mark Obama Ndesandjo's father, Barack Obama Sr., returned to Africa.",
"Mark Obama Ndesandjo recalls a monthlong visit with Mark Obama Ndesandjo's father when Mark Obama Ndesandjo was 10 and going to Kenya after the elder Obama's death.",
"In the book, Mark Obama Ndesandjo acknowledges Mark Obama Ndesandjo's father was an alcoholic.",
"There was no immediate reaction from the White House to Mark Obama Ndesandjo's comments.",
"Mark Obama Ndesandjo said Mark Obama Ndesandjo has met with President Obama infrequently over the years but said Mark Obama Ndesandjo would like to introduce President Obama's half brother to President Obama's Chinese wife when President Obama makes President Obama's first official visit to China this month.",
"Presidential brothers, such as Billy Carter and Roger Clinton Jr., historically have not had an easy ride.",
"However, Mark Obama Ndesandjo said Mark Obama Ndesandjo wants to live Mark Obama Ndesandjo's life and tell Mark Obama Ndesandjo's own story, not have others tell it for Mark Obama Ndesandjo.",
"CNN's John Vause contributed to this report."
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"In a new book, Mark Obama Ndesandjo says their father was abusive .",
"\"their father beat me,\" Mark Obama Ndesandjo tells reporters in China .",
"President Obama has said in earlier book that President Obama's father was an alcoholic ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"Police in Connecticut say Police in Connecticut have arrested a woman suspected of robbing at least six banks in the past week.",
"Police released photos of a suspect in the robberies of six New England banks.",
"Detectives from the Major Crimes division of the Connecticut State Police took Heather Brown into custody at about 3:15 p.m.",
"The 34-year-old resident of Norwich, Connecticut, will be formally charged with robbery in the first degree, police said.",
"Investigators believe Heather Brown robbed six New England banks, often while claiming to have a bomb.",
"\"When Heather Brown goes into six New England banks, Heather Brown gives the teller information through a note or verbally that Heather Brown has a bomb,\" said Sgt. Jim Keeney of the Connecticut State Police.",
"\"However, there haven't been any reports of an actual bomb.\"",
"Authorities say Authorities believe Heather Brown has held up banks in the Connecticut towns of Middletown, Montville, East Hartford and Windsor, as well as banks in West Springfield, Massachusetts and Westerly, Rhode Island.",
"Women commit 6.2 percent of bank robberies nationwide, up from 4.9 percent in 2002, according to recent FBI figures.",
"The one-woman crime wave in New England apparently began September 21 at the Citizens Bank in Montville, Connecticut.",
"State police said \"Heather Brown ... entered the Citizens Bank with a bag in Heather Brown's possession.",
"The suspect approached the teller indicated Heather Brown was in possession of a bomb and demanded cash.\"",
"Heather Brown left a bag in her possession on a counter and bolted, police said.",
"Four days later, Heather Brown entered a branch of the New Alliance Bank in East Hartford, Connecticut.",
"Investigators with the East Hartford Police Department said Heather Brown \"left a note indicating that Heather Brown had a bomb and demanded $1,000.",
"Heather Brown fled the bank with an undisclosed amount of money.\"",
"Police suspect Heather Brown struck again the next day in Windsor, Connecticut."
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"Police say Police have Heather Brown, 34, in custody .",
"Investigators say Heather Brown held up at least six banks in the past week .",
"Heather Brown informs teller Heather Brown has a bomb, but no actual bomb has been seen, police say .",
"Police: Suspect lives in Norwich, Connecticut, has served time for bank robbery ."
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"Fort Hood, Texas (CNN) --",
"Pvt. Joseph Foster was filling out routine paperwork for Foster's upcoming deployment to Afghanistan on Thursday when Foster heard a shout quickly followed by a burst of gunfire from just a few feet away.",
"\"I was sitting in about the second row back when the assailant stood up and yelled 'Allahu akbar' in Arabic and the assailant opened fire,\" Foster said Monday on CNN's \"American Morning.\"",
"Foster, 21, did not forget Foster's basic training, which may have saved Foster's life and the lives of others.",
"\"[I] got down on the floor, moved to cover.",
"One soldier had peeked One soldier's head around the cubicle I was hiding in ... and I pulled One soldier in,\" Foster said.",
"Foster realized Foster had been shot in the hip but was too consumed by adrenaline to think about Foster's injury.",
"\"Another soldier had come in as soon as the assailant had moved away from us,\" he said.",
"\"Those two got up and got out, and I got out shortly behind him.\"",
"Once outside, Foster said, Foster hid behind a military shipping container \"and started doing what I was trained to do.\"",
"\"[I] started helping get people into the next building and get people under cover,\" Foster said.",
"Despite Foster's injury, Foster, who has a wife and two young children, said Foster still plans to deploy to Afghanistan in January.",
"\"I'm still a soldier day in and day out,\" he said.",
"\"I'll do my job.\"",
"Authorities are trying to figure out what prompted the gunman to begin shooting at Fort Hood Army Post, killing 13 people and wounding 42.",
"Fifteen soldiers are still hospitalized, including eight patients in intensive care, Fort Hood commander Lt. Gen. Robert Cone said Monday.",
"Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old licensed Army psychiatrist who worked at a hospital on Fort Hood Army Post, is the suspected shooter.",
"He was shot several times, ending the attack, and is now conscious and talking, a spokesman at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio said Monday.",
"It is unclear if Army investigators have spoken to Hasan.",
"The intense investigation into the mass shooting remains largely shrouded in silence.",
"Army officials have voiced concern about jumping to any conclusions about the motive, warning about a possible backlash against Muslim soldiers.",
"Several bystanders, like Foster, reported Hasan shouted \"Allahu akbar,\" Arabic for \"God is great,\" which terrorists have used as a battle cry.",
"The Army leadership at Fort Hood will \"take a very hard look at ourselves and look at anything that might have been done to have prevented this,\" Cone said Monday.",
"\"Hasan was a soldier, and we have other soldiers ... that might have some of the same stress and indicators that Hasan has,\" Cone said.",
"\"We have to look across our entire formation, not just in a medical community, but really look hard to our right and left.",
"That's the responsibility for everybody, from the top to the bottom, to make sure we're taking care of our own.\"",
"Cone said Monday that Cone has instructed commanders at Fort Hood to \"immediately take a hard look and make sure if there's anybody out there struggling [that] we're going to address their issues.\"",
"Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sen. Joe Lieberman plans a Senate committee hearing into whether the shootings were a terrorist act and whether Army should responded to reported signs of Islamic extremism by the suspected gunman.",
"If Hasan was showing signs of being an Islamic extremist, Army should have acted on that earlier, and \"Hasan should have been gone,\" said Lieberman, a Connecticut independent and chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.",
"He spoke on \"Fox News Sunday.\"",
"The shooting, on the nation's largest military base, sparked outrage.",
"In President Obama's Saturday radio address, President Obama said it was \"an act of violence that would have been heartbreaking had it occurred any place in America.\"",
"But, President Obama said, \"it's all the more heartbreaking and all the more despicable because of the place where it occurred and the patriots who were its victims.\"",
"All but one of those who were killed were soldiers.",
"Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will attend a Tuesday memorial service for the victims.",
"Defense Secretary Robert Gates will also participate in a Tuesday memorial service for the victims, but Defense Secretary Robert Gates will not speak, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said.",
"Gates on Monday night will go to Fort Hood, where Defense Secretary Robert Gates will meet with the victims's families as well as Fort Hood Police Sgt. Kimberly Munley, the civilian officer who confronted and disabled Hasan as they shot at each other.",
"Defense Secretary Robert Gates will also meet with military officials at the Army base, including Fort Hood's commanding general, Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, according to Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell.",
"CNN's David Mattingly and Victor Hernandez contributed to this report."
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"Shooter \"stood up and yelled 'Allahu akbar' in Arabic and he opened fire,\" Foster says .",
"Foster says Foster was too consumed by adrenaline to think about being shot in the hip .",
"Foster, who has a wife and two young children, said Foster still plans to deploy to Afghanistan ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Within weeks of British student Meredith Kercher's death in the vibrant college town of Perugia, Italy, prosecutors and police declared closed case closed.",
"prosecutors and police'd seized two knives in prosecutors and police's search for the murder weapon.",
"prosecutors and police took DNA from the room where Kercher was killed.",
"And at least one suspect had confessed to being at the murder scene.",
"Or so prosecutors and police said.",
"Kercher had been stabbed in a sexual misadventure, officials said.",
"And officials knew the killers.",
"American Amanda Knox, Kercher's roommate; Italian Raffaele Sollecito, Knox's boyfriend; and Ivory Coast native Rudy Guede, a drifter known in the area, had American Amanda Knox, Kercher's roommate; Italian Raffaele Sollecito, Knox's boyfriend; and Ivory Coast native Rudy Guede, a drifter known in the area's pictures splattered across the world's media.",
"Knox's photo was even hung in the police plaza alongside Italy's most infamous mobsters and criminals.",
"closed case seemed a sensational slam-dunk, almost too good to be true.",
"Knox's supporters say that's because closed case is.",
"\"In the beginning, all of this supposed evidence was being leaked, showing what sounded like a pretty convincing case,\" Anne Bremner, a lawyer and former prosecutor working with the group Friends of Amanda, told CNN.",
"closed case couldn't look more different depending on where you stand.",
"Knox's murder trial is entering Knox's murder trial's final stages, with closing arguments beginning November 20.",
"The jury will begin deliberating December 4.",
"But there is still no agreement on the key pieces of evidence that prosecutors say convict Knox and the defense says clear Knox.",
"Behind the Scenes: How we examined the evidence .",
"In Knox's corner: Knox's friends and family from Seattle, Washington.",
"For her friends and family from Seattle, Washington, Knox is the victim - railroaded by an overzealous Italian prosecutor, who faces charges of prosecutorial misconduct in another case.",
"Knox's supporters say he's tried to force the evidence to fit his theory of what happened.",
"And with negative and often false details about the case appearing in the press - all for the jury to read - Knox supporters fear Knox could be convicted regardless of the facts.",
"On the other side: Perugia's prosecutor Giuliano Mignini.",
"For Perugia's prosecutor Giuliano Mignini and Perugia's prosecutor Giuliano Mignini's colleagues, the answer is simple - Guede, Knox and Sollecito are all responsible for leaving Kercher partially clothed, strangled and with Kercher's throat cut on November 2, 2007.",
"See a timeline of the case .",
"The knife .",
"The crime scene was gruesome.",
"Kercher was found under a duvet on the floor by Kercher's bed, covered in blood.",
"A bloody handprint was streaked on the wall above Kercher.",
"A source close to the prosecution says Kercher was held down while Kercher was strangled and stabbed.",
"A source close to the prosecution says the knife was used to slit Kercher's throat and then taken back to his apartment.",
"It is perhaps the biggest piece of evidence the prosecution has presented against Knox.",
"Knox's DNA is on the handle and that of Kercher is on the blade, said a source close to the prosecution who did not wish to be identified discussing an ongoing case.",
"Kercher had never been to Sollecito's apartment and wouldn't have come in contact with the knife, he said, yet there was Kercher's DNA.",
"Those \"unmistakable facts\" show the knife played a role in the murder, the source said.",
"Bremner and experts testifying for the defense say there is no way the knife could be the murder weapon.",
"Dr. Carlo Torre, a leading forensics expert in Italy, testified that the knife wouldn't have made the wounds on Kercher's body.",
"\"It doesn't match the size or shape [of the wounds on Kercher's body,]\" Bremner told CNN.",
"\"And Sollecito's knife also doesn't match a bloody outline of a knife left on the bedding.\"",
"Bremner, who offered her legal advice pro bono to the Knox family, questioned the validity of the DNA evidence, saying the knife had been \"improperly transported in a shoe box.\"",
"Watch Knox's parents discuss the case .",
"Furthermore, Bremner said the jury heard from defense expert Sarah Gino, a geneticist and private coroner in Italy, who said that the DNA sample was too small to be definitive.",
"Bremner said the presence of Knox's DNA on the knife handle was no surprise, as the couple had dinner at his house occasionally.",
"Prosecutors say just because the knife doesn't match everything doesn't mean the knife wasn't used.",
"The source close to the prosecution said it was possible, based on the wounds on Kercher's body, that several different items made them.",
"Damning DNA or 'Fellini Forensics'",
"On the night Kercher was killed, Knox and Knox's boyfriend say Knox and her boyfriend were at his house watching a movie and smoking hashish.",
"Knox and her boyfriend's recollection of events, Knox and her boyfriend admitted, was hazy from the drugs, but Knox and her boyfriend swore Knox and her boyfriend went back to his house the next morning.",
"Knox says Knox was unable to gain entry - and called police.",
"For their case, prosecutors had to prove that Knox and Sollecito - who had recently started dating - were lying and place them at the home when Kercher was killed.",
"Some reports spoke of a scurry of people - more than one - on the night of the murder around his house.",
"It was a positive lead for prosecutor Mignini - but came to nothing in court.",
"But the prosecution had more evidence in the form of a bra clasp, one that fell to the floor after the murderer cut Kercher's bra in half before she was killed.",
"And on it was Sollecito's DNA.",
"Bremner says that evidence on the clasp is fundamentally flawed, like much from the crime scene collection, calling the work \"Fellini forensics.\"",
"\"In the [crime scene] video, you can see the clasp went from being white in color to nearly black because the clasp got so dirty being moved around,\" Bremner said of the clasp, noting that tainted the only evidence that placed Sollecito at the scene.",
"Bremner described other errors Bremner saw on the crime scene video.",
"\"They were putting their fingers in Kercher's wound, they were shaking out evidence, picking up hairs and dropping hairs,\" Bremner said.",
"\"Some people didn't wear gloves or had Some people's hair draping on the floor,",
"Some people crashed into a window at one point and threw aside evidence.",
"It was just wrong on all levels.\"",
"The prosecution source maintains the scene was handled properly, and the evidence shows what it shows.",
"The prosecution source says it's up to the defense to prove otherwise.",
"Biggest case for Italy or the 'greatest travesty' ever?",
"Knox's introduction to the world came in a whirlwind of tabloid headlines.",
"the prosecution touted hard evidence early that the prosecution said unquestionably showed the prosecution had their killers.",
"There was a footprint in Knox and Kercher's bathroom that was attributed to Sollecito - though later analysts admitted it belonged to Guede, who was convicted of Kercher's murder in 2008.",
"the prosecution also presented what they called a confession by Knox, but Knox later said any apparent admission Knox was at the scene was made when investigators told Knox to imagine what Knox might have seen if Knox had been there.",
"The argument became moot when a higher court ruled a confession by Knox could not be used because the statement was made without an attorney or translator present.",
"The tabloid headlines continue as the trial closes.",
"Media around the world focus on Knox's sexual history, what clothes Knox wears to court and whether a bump on Knox's lip means the girl they dubbed \"Foxy Knoxy\" has herpes.",
"It's all a distraction from the lack of evidence, Bremner said.",
"\"It's the greatest travesty of a prosecution ever,\" Bremner said.",
"\"It's so ludicrous.",
"You've got to have a theory, or a motive, but a theory, or a motive has to fit the facts somehow.",
"And in this case, there's no solid evidence, no motive and no match whatsoever.\"",
"Knox's supporters maintain that the prosecution did get one thing right - putting Guede behind bars.",
"He chose a fast-track trial, separate from Sollecito and Knox, and was convicted of murder and attempted sexual assault and sentenced to 30 years.",
"Knox's supporters believe he was Kercher's sole killer.",
"He is appealing the verdict.",
"Knox's supporters believe Knox and Sollecito are only being prosecuted because they were flaunted so publicly as the killers, and it would look bad for officials to admit they got it wrong.",
"The prosecution source rejects that, and portrays Knox, Sollecito and Guede as three people who together ended the life of the young British woman.",
"And they say the way Knox originally pointed the finger at another man - who was cleared with an alibi - shows she had something to hide.",
"Both sides agree the truth is in the evidence, and it will soon be for the jury to decide which version they believe.",
"CNN's Hada Messia and Amy Sahba contributed to this report."
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"KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) --",
"The British journalist recently freed in a NATO military operation described The British journalist's Taliban hostage-takers as \"hopelessly inept,\" and praised The British journalist's Afghan colleague who died in the rescue.",
"Journalists carry flowers to the grave of Afghan journalist Sultan Munadi in Kabul on Thursday.",
"New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell described New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell's four days in captivity in a blog on the newspaper's Web site, posted late Wednesday just hours after New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell was freed.",
"Taliban militants kidnapped New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell and Afghan journalist, Sultan Munadi, on Saturday.",
"During a pre-dawn raid Wednesday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force plucked New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell to safety, but did not retrieve the body of Munadi, who died during a fierce firefight between troops and Taliban militants.",
"A British commando was also killed, as were a woman and child.",
"There has been criticism about the rescue operation as well as the initial decision to go into the region which New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell points out in New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell's blog, \"was becoming more troubled by insurgents.\"",
"International troops, including British forces, have expressed International troops, including British forces's unhappiness about having to extract a Western journalist from the area, a Western military source in Kabul told CNN.",
"Meanwhile, NATO has come under fire from a coalition of Afghan journalists working for foreign news outlets who called a pre-dawn raid \"reckless and double-standard behavior.\"",
"The Media Club of Afghanistan issued a statement Thursday saying The Media Club of Afghanistan \"holds the international forces responsible for the death of Mr. Munadi because they resorted in military action before exhausting other nonviolent means.\"",
"\"There is no justification for the international forces to rescue the international forces's own national, and retrieve the dead body of the international forces's own soldier killed in action, but leave behind the dead body of Mr. Munadi in the area.",
"The Media Club of Afghanistan deems this action as inhumane.\"",
"British Prime Minister Gordon Brown intends to send a \"private\" letter of condolences to Munadi's family, a spokeswoman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown's office told CNN.",
"In New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell's first-hand account of the kidnapping, New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell praised Mr. Munadi for \"trying to protect me up to the last minute.\"",
"The two had gone from Kabul to the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Friday to investigate reports of a NATO airstrike in a Taliban-controlled area.",
"New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell said New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell and New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell's colleagues believed the attack, which destroyed two tankers, would be \"a major controversy involving allegations of civilian deaths against NATO claims that the dead were Taliban.\"",
"New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell said they took precautions, including waiting until the next day to drive along the main highway in daylight.",
"While they were interviewing locals about what happened along the riverbank, New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell said \"a crowd began to gather, time passed, and we grew nervous.\"",
"\"I do not know how long we were there, but it was uncomfortably long,\" New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell said.",
"\"I am comfortable with the decision to go to the riverbank, but fear we spent too long there.\"",
"All of a sudden, some of the villagers shouted, \"Taliban\" and some of the villagers's driver fled with the keys, New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell said.",
"New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell and Mr. Munadi tried to escape too, but Farrell and Munadi were captured.",
"Mr. Munadi was struck with a Kalashnikov rifle, but New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell said apart from that incident, the two were not \"subjected to any beatings, torture or ill-treatment over the next four days.\"",
"Farrell and Munadi's Taliban captors operated freely in the area southwest of Kunduz, and appeared to be the only armed presence, New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell wrote.",
"\"It became a tour of a Taliban-controlled district of Afghanistan, and that control appeared total,\" New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell said.",
"\"At no point did we see a single NATO soldier, Afghan policeman, soldier or any check to the Taliban's ability to move at will.\"",
"New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell said New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell and Mr. Munadi were \"paraded\" around by Farrell and Munadi's captors.",
"\"Farrell and Munadi were paraded to the children in the street: the infidel and New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell's translator, to be laughed at and mocked,\" New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell wrote.",
"Their Taliban captors operated with relative impunity and, at times, \"Their Taliban captors's operational security was hopelessly inept\" -- using New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell's name over Their Taliban captors's mobile phones \"heedless of who was, almost certainly, monitoring the calls.\"",
"Their Taliban captors even played songs on the radio that praised the Taliban, New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell said.",
"\"Their Taliban captors were not making it hard,\" New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell wrote.",
"At one point, New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell said Their Taliban captors drove near what Their Taliban captors said were watchtowers, manned by the Afghan government and NATO, \"gleeful at Their Taliban captors's daring.\"",
"\"Their Taliban captors drove with headlights full on at night as Their Taliban captors moved Farrell and Munadi from house to house, at least three different buildings a day,\" according to New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell.",
"New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell said the the Taliban captors seemed to be welcomed by some Afghan villagers, while others appeared \"more wary and formally polite.\"",
"During their captivity, New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell said \"there were good hours, and bad ones,\" as well as \"progress and setbacks.\"",
"It became harder for Their Taliban captors to find safe houses, New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell said.",
"On the third night, there was what appeared to be an attempt to free Farrell and Munadi, but Farrell and Munadi's captors took Farrell and Munadi to another refuge within minutes.",
"Then, on the next night, the aerial activity increased and their the Taliban captors grabbed Their Taliban captors's weapons and headed outside -- leaving New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell and Mr. Munadi behind.",
"Farrell and Munadi ran out later, Munadi in front, and then became separated.",
"Then, Mr. Munadi appeared again, holding out Mr. Munadi's hand to steady a faltering New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell and Farrell and Munadi ran across a narrow ledge on the outer wall of the compound.",
"\"I could hear the Taliban voices shouting and shooting from trees to Farrell and Munadi's left, I thought,\" New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell wrote.",
"\"I could also hear indistinct voices ahead.",
"Farrell and Munadi continued 20 yards along the outer wall of the compound until the outer wall of the compound suddenly reached the corner.\"",
"Mr. Munadi walked beyond the corner, out into the open, raising Mr. Munadi's hands and shouting, \"Journalist.\"",
"\"There was a burst of gunfire and Mr. Munadi went down immediately,\" New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell wrote.",
"\"In the dark, with firing all around, trees everywhere and my view obscured by Mr. Munadi and the outer wall of the compound, I did not know whether the bullets came from in front, to Mr. Munadi's right or to Mr. Munadi's left.\"",
"At the sound of gunfire, New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell reared back and dived into a wet ditch.",
"After a few minutes, New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell heard British-accented voices and then screamed, \"British hostage,\" flashing a camera light from a wet ditch.",
"New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell said New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell told the soldiers that Mr. Munadi was lying behind New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell, and had possibly been shot.",
"\"The body was lying motionless in the ditch where I had seen Mr. Munadi go down,\" New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell said.",
"\"I hoped Mr. Munadi had dropped and was lying still.",
"I knew it wasn't the case.\"",
"the soldiers told New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell that \"the soldiers had Mr. Munadi's picture and would look for Mr. Munadi, then dragged me away.\"",
"\"It was over,\" New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell wrote.",
"\"Mr. Munadi was dead.",
"Mr. Munadi had died trying to help me, right up to the very last seconds of Mr. Munadi's life.\"",
"New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell said New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell was then taken onboard the aircraft, as the soldiers, most of the soldiers British, carried on some celebrations.",
"But the soldiers fell silent after learning one of the rescuers died from the wounds sustained in the raid.",
"\"His blood-soaked helmet was in front of New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell throughout the flight,\" New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell wrote.",
"\"I thanked everyone who was still alive to thank.",
"It wasn't, and never will be, enough.\"",
"CNN's Ingrid Formanek in Kabul, Afghanistan contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"When the Connecticut Huskies take to the field to play West Virginia on Saturday, the Connecticut Huskies's helmets will carry the initials of cornerback Jasper Howard, who was stabbed to death over the weekend.",
"The incident happened at 12:33 a.m., shortly after a sponsored student dance on campus.",
"\"It'll be good to get on the practice field tomorrow,\" UConn head football coach Randy Edsall told reporters Monday.",
"Asked whether the Connecticut Huskies considered postponing the game, UConn head football coach Randy Edsall said, \"I know Jasper wouldn't want us to do that.",
"I just know that.\"",
"Howard, a 20-year-old cornerback who started in every game for the Connecticut Huskies last season, was killed in a fight after a student dance on campus Saturday night, authorities said.",
"UConn head football coach Randy Edsall said two other UConn players were with Howard at the time of The incident, but declined to identify two other UConn players.",
"On Monday, the Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said Howard died of a stab wound to the abdomen.",
"The death has been classified as a homicide, said Bill Farrell, an investigator in the Chief Medical Examiner's office.",
"During the dance at the university's student center, a fire alarm was pulled at 12:26 a.m., campus police Maj. Ron Blicher told reporters.",
"More than 300 people who were attending the dance at the university's student center left the building and spilled out into the street.",
"A fight broke out between two groups, and Howard and another person were stabbed, police said.",
"Watch family, friends react to loss » .",
"The incident happened at 12:33 a.m. Howard and the other victim were taken to a local hospital.",
"Howard was then airlifted by helicopter to St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, where Howard later died, police said.",
"The second victim, who was treated and released, was 19-year-old Brian Parker, a redshirt freshman on the UConn football squad, according to CNN affiliate WTNH.",
"Johnny F. Hood, 21, was arrested in connection to the fight -- not for the stabbing -- and charged with interfering with an officer and breach of peace, according to a police report.",
"He was released on $100,000 bond.",
"Hood's attorney said Hood's attorney's client was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time, CNN affiliate WTNH reported Monday.",
"UConn police and the Connecticut State Police are investigating The incident.",
"UConn police and the Connecticut State Police don't have a suspect in the stabbing, but UConn police and the Connecticut State Police \"don't believe it was a random act,\" Blicher said.",
"Both students and nonstudents were in the area at the time.",
"Authorities are investigating whether alcohol was involved and what the altercation was about, he said.",
"Anyone with information is asked to contact UConn police.",
"Howard, a father-to-be, was a cornerback for the Huskies, who are 4-2 this season.",
"The team's Web site says he started in every game last year and led the Big East conference in punt returns.",
"On Saturday, the Huskies beat Louisville 38-25.",
"Howard was awarded the game ball after the game, UConn head football coach Randy Edsall said.",
"Howard's mother, Joangela, said her son called her after the game, which she watched from her Miami home.",
"Just hours after that chat, she received another call from Edsall, who told her Howard had been stabbed.",
"\"Howard was a good child, a wonderful, sweet, loving child,\" Joangela Howard told CNN affiliate WSVN.",
"\"I just hope whoever did it turns himself in.",
"[Jasper] didn't deserve this.\"",
"UConn head football coach Randy Edsall said Howard's family would be arriving in Connecticut Monday afternoon.",
"CNN's Gabriel Falcon contributed to this report."
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"Alanis Morissette was the definition of \"fierce\" when Alanis Morissette arrived on the American music scene with one of the big break-up songs of the '90s, \"You Oughta Know.\"",
"But behind that tough exterior were secrets of a difficult past.",
"\"As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic,\" Alanis Morissette recently told Health magazine for Health magazine's December issue.",
"\"I was a young woman in the public eye, on the receiving end of a lot of attention, and I was trying to protect myself from men who were using their power in ways I was too young to know how to handle.\"",
"By the time Alanis Morissette was 14, Alanis Morissette had already starred in a popular Canadian children's show, started Alanis Morissette's own record label and had a publishing contract with MCA Canada, according to Alanis Morissette's Web site.",
"\"Disappointment, sadness and pain hit me hard, and I tried to numb those feelings through my relationship with food.",
"For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat.",
"I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee,\" Alanis Morissette said.",
"\"I began recovering at 18, when a sweet friend confronted me.\"",
"Now that Alanis Morissette's older, Alanis Morissette, 35, said Alanis Morissette's no longer starving Alanis Morissette and has begun to look at eating as \"a sort of spiritual practice.\"",
"Alanis Morissette's healthier view of food and nutrition is thanks in no small part to a book Alanis Morissette discovered a few years ago called \"Eat to Live.\"",
"\"It's become my bible, pushing me to completely reorient my thinking about what to put into my body.",
"... Now I concentrate on eating high-nutrient foods like fruit, nuts, collards, kale and spinach.",
"I'm obsessed with high-nutrient foods like fruit, nuts, collards, kale and spinach.",
"I even put spinach in my smoothies,\" the Canadian musician admitted.",
"The seven-time Grammy Award winner has also sworn off dairy, on a tip from Woody Harrelson, no less.",
"\"Woody Harrelson [told] me I needed to get rid of the dairy in my fridge to clear up my skin,\" Alanis Morissette said.",
"It's had a positive effect: Alanis Morissette said Alanis Morissette's skin \"looks great now.\"",
"But all of that health consciousness doesn't mean Alanis Morissette has lost appreciation for the more delectable things in life.",
"\"Don't get me wrong,\" Alanis Morissette said in the interview, \"I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate -- treats are mandatory.",
"Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for Alanis Morissette, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.\"",
"Resolving Alanis Morissette's issues with food and body image has helped Alanis Morissette to develop clarity in other areas of Alanis Morissette's life as well.",
"\"I'm really clear about what my life mission is now.",
"There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was.",
"I'm integrating all the parts of Alanis Morissette -- jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher -- and becoming stronger as a result,\" Alanis Morissette said.",
"\"I hope my effort shows any woman battling an eating disorder or poor body image that she's not alone -- support is out there -- and inspires her to discover her inner athlete.",
"It doesn't matter what your fitness-skill level is.\"",
"Health magazine's December issue hits newsstands November 24."
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"The governments of Armenia and Turkey will sign a peace agreement in Zurich on Saturday that would normalize relations after nearly a century of animosity between the neighboring nations, the Swiss government said Friday.",
"Swiss-mediated deal would also open the border between Armenia and Turkey, which has been shut since 1993.",
"The signing ceremony comes more than a month after Armenia and Turkey announced Armenia and Turkey had agreed to start six weeks of \"internal political consultations\" on two protocols aimed at establishing diplomatic and bilateral relations.",
"Swiss-mediated deal would also open the border between Armenia and Turkey, which has been shut since 1993.",
"The border was closed after Turkey objected to Armenia's war with Turkish ally Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabagh.",
"Neither country has an embassy in the other's capital.",
"Turkish-Armenian relations have often been overshadowed by the dispute over the massacre of ethnic Armenians in the final days of the Ottoman Empire, more than 90 years ago.",
"Armenians accuse Ottoman Turks of committing genocide, killing more then a million Armenians starting in 1915.",
"Modern-day Turkey vehemently rejects the allegations.",
"The proposed protocols for normalizing relations call for creating a committee of international experts to research archives and \"restore mutual confidence between the two nations.\"",
"There is no mention of the disputed territory of Karabagh, which Armenian troops have controlled since the 1993 Armenian-Azerbaijan war.",
"But the success of the protocols is still uncertain, as the parliaments of both countries still must ratify the agreement.",
"A senior U.S. State Department official -- authorized to brief reporters without attribution because of diplomatic sensitivities -- said the situation remains \"difficult.\"",
"\"There's opposition both in Turkey and in Armenia,\" A senior U.S. State Department official -- said Thursday, \"but Armenia and Turkey realize ultimately it's in Armenia and Turkey's interest to have normalized relations and an open border after years of tension and the economic isolation, particularly of Armenia.\"",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will attend the signing, along with dignitaries from several other countries, including the European Union, according to the Swiss government."
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"Brussels, Belgium (CNN) --",
"European Union leaders named Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as the first \"president of Europe\" Thursday, edging out former British Prime Minister Tony Blair for a still-vaguely defined job.",
"\"I did not seek a still-vaguely defined job, and I didn't take any steps to achieve a still-vaguely defined job,\" Belgian PM Herman Van Rompuy said in accepting a still-vaguely defined job.",
"\"But tonight, I take on this task with conviction and with enthusiasm.\"",
"Van Rompuy, a 62-year-old, soft-spoken fan of Japanese poetry, will become the face of European Union and represent European Union's 27 member nations at summits overseas.",
"Belgian PM Herman Van Rompuy's conservative government took office in December 2008.",
"Belgian PM Herman Van Rompuy is \"well known as a consensus builder,\" said British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who added the selection was unanimous.",
"And Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission -- the executive arm of European Union -- called Van Rompuy's selection \"a tribute to Belgium,\" the EU's host country.",
"\" I think European Union also expressed European Union's gratitude for the work of Belgium and the constant support that this country at the heart of Europe has given to our common project,\" Jose Manuel Barroso said.",
"In Belgian PM Herman Van Rompuy's speech, Belgian PM Herman Van Rompuy pledged to lead European Union through a process of \"dialogue, unity and action.\"",
"\"A negotiation that ends with a defeated party is never a good negotiation,\" Belgian PM Herman Van Rompuy said.",
"\"As president of the council, I will listen carefully to everyone, and I will make sure that all deliberations turn into results for everyone.\"",
"The presidency was created by European Union's Lisbon Treaty, which came into force this month after years of torturous negotiations.",
"Belgian PM Herman Van Rompuy will serve a two-and-a-half-year term, replacing the six-month presidency of the bloc that rotated among the heads of its member states.",
"But while European Union prides European Union on being a club of democracies, the process of choosing European Union's new leader was far from transparent or open.",
"The people of Europe are getting no say, not even through The people of Europe's parliamentarians.",
"Belgian PM Herman Van Rompuy's new job was announced after a closed-door dinner for European Union's heads of state and government.",
"The Belgian defended the process of choosing its new leader, telling reporters the selection was made by leaders \"who were all democratically chosen.\"",
"\"I was chosen on the basis of a treaty,\" Belgian PM Herman Van Rompuy said.",
"\"a treaty stipulates the procedure.",
"a treaty was democratically approved by 27 member states.\"",
"The EU leaders also named Catherine Ashton, a British trade commissioner and member of the House of Lords, as the union's High Commissioner -- its equivalent of a foreign minister.",
"Unlike Van Rompuy, who was chosen by leaders of European Union's member states, Ashton must be confirmed by the European Parliament.",
"Blair, who led Britain from 1997 to 2007, is currently European Union's Mideast envoy.",
"Blair had been the early favorite for the presidency in recent weeks -- but Brown, Blair's successor, realized that Blair lacked support among key decision-makers for new post, a Brown representative told CNN earlier.",
"According Blair's backers, who at first included French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Blair was just the sort of world-renowned figure to win attention for European Union and enable European Union to exercise European Union's weight in world affairs.",
"One Indian official told CNN before the announcement, \"If European Union chooses as European Union's worldwide representative the prime minister of Belgium or Luxembourg, I am not sure our leaders will have the time to meet him.\"",
"But others were soon arguing that Blair's support for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and Blair's close alliance with former U.S. President George W. Bush made Blair a divisive figure in Europe.",
"And as the one man who might have been able to take Britain into the European single currency, Blair had not even attempted to do so while Blair was Britain's prime minister.",
"Public backing from Italy's Silvio Berlusconi, a joke figure to much of Europe and another former U.S. President George W. Bush ally, did not help.",
"Brown had realized earlier that Blair did not have enough support among key decision-makers to snag the new post, a Brown representative told CNN earlier.",
"CNN Political Contributor Robin Oakley contributed to this report."
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"-- The wives of three Army sergeants in prison for premeditated murder say Wives's husbands are war heroes who should not be in prison.",
"\"I can sympathize with Army that Army felt like there was nothing else Army could do,\" said Jamie Leahy, wife of Sgt. Michael Leahy, a 28-year-old medic.",
"Leahy said Leahy's husband and the other two sergeants were heroes for protecting other soldiers.",
"Leahy, 1st Sgt. John Hatley and Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Mayo killed four Iraqi men whom they had taken into custody at a canal in Baghdad, Iraq.",
"During the investigation of the killings, Leahy told Army investigators that the same men they had captured would be shooting at them again if they had released the same men they had captured.",
"\"It's like somebody keeps coming and breaking into your house, and you told the cops, 'This is who it is, I saw them, they were in your house,' \" Jamie Leahy told CNN's \"AC 360°.\"",
"\"And that's not enough, and they are able to keep coming in and breaking into your house.",
"\"I know it's more severe than that, but I mean if somebody kept coming in and breaking into your house, I think that the person would either want to get a gun or something to protect themselves because you feel like in your own home, you can't even be safe.\"",
"Earlier this year, Leahy, Hatley and Mayo were convicted of premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit premeditated murder in the killings of the four Iraqi detainees in March 2007.",
"Documents obtained by CNN, as well as Army interrogation tapes, reveal that Hatley believed that if the men were taken to a detainee holding area, the men would be released because there was not enough evidence to hold the men.",
"\"It's like you're letting somebody go so they can come back and terrorize you again and try and kill you and maybe be successful next time,\" Leahy said.",
"Kim Hatley made a video in a field in Schweinfurt, Germany, where Kim Hatley and Kim Hatley's husband lived before her husband was sent to the U.S. military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.",
"In a video, Kim Hatley holds up cards asking for help in freeing \"three American heroes.\"",
"\"They served their country, and they've been through a lot, and so have the family members,\" Kim Hatley told CNN.",
"\"But, in life, with any challenge, you can't just look at one incident.",
"This does not define who these soldiers are.\"",
"Kim Hatley says Kim Hatley's husband is a \"good man.\"",
"\"I don't think her husband should have gone to prison,\" Kim Hatley said.",
"\"I don't think that was fair.",
"I don't think any of our soldiers should have gone to prison.\"",
"And Johana Mayo said Johana Mayo's husband has been punished enough.",
"\"I think that her husband's given and sacrificed a lot,\" Johana Mayo said.",
"\"I think her husband's a war hero.",
"her husband's not a criminal and her husband's ... being treated as a criminal, and her husband shouldn't be.\"",
"The Mayos have three children, ages 15 months, 6 and 11.",
"Johana Mayo is legally blind and cannot drive.",
"\"I was used to relying on her husband for everything,\" Johana Mayo said.",
"\"You know, and her husband was the one that drove the kids around.",
"her husband was the one that took care of their homework and anything -- grocery shopping -- everything.",
"I relied on her husband for everything, and now I feel like I have to turn to my daughter a lot, and my daughter's only 11.\"",
"Wives have set up Web sites to support Wives's husbands: defendjohnhatley.com, defendjosephmayo.com and supportsgtleahy.com.",
"Hatley, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, got clemency with his sentence reduced to 40 years.",
"Both Leahy, who also received a life sentence, and Mayo, who got 35 years, had Both Leahy, who also received a life sentence, and Mayo, who got 35 years's sentences reduced to 20 years.",
"All three sergeants were reduced in rank to private and sent to Fort Leavenworth.",
"\"I think that what happened was done to protect the soldiers, to keep the soldiers safe from getting harmed or killed,\" Johana Mayo said."
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"Wives say Wives's husbands were heroes for protecting other soldiers in Iraq .",
"Wives have set up Web sites to support Wives's husbands .",
"Watch Saturday, Sunday at 8 and 11 p.m. ET; read blog posts: Abbie Boudreau; Scott Zamost ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Elizabeth McCutchen and a friend were walking to book club two weeks ago in quaint Farmville, Virginia, when Elizabeth McCutchen and a friend strolled by a home on First Avenue.",
"\"Something smells dead,\" a friend said.",
"Richard Samuel McCroskey has been arrested in connection with the killings of four people in Virginia.",
"They were thinking animal.",
"A dog, a cat, something like that.",
"They never imagined they were smelling the remains of massacred humans.",
"It was Thursday, September 17.",
"But another 24 hours would pass before police made the gruesome discovery.",
"Richard Samuel McCroskey III -- a 20-year-old rapper in the underground genre of \"Horrorcore\" who sang of chopping people into pieces -- has been arrested in connection with the slayings.",
"The crime scene was so horrifying police would not even describe The crime scene, saying only that the victims died of blunt force trauma.",
"the victims were Mark Niederbrock, 50, the beloved pastor at Walker's Presbyterian Church; his 16-year-old daughter, Emma Niederbrock; Melanie Wells, Emma's 18-year-old friend from West Virginia; and Niederbrock's estranged wife, Debra Kelley, 53, a professor at Longwood University.",
"Richard Samuel McCroskey has been charged only in the killing of Niederbrock's.",
"Police and the prosecutor's office did not return repeated phone calls from CNN.",
"But in late September, authorities said more charges are pending.",
"Emma was described as a fan of Horrorcore and had met Richard Samuel McCroskey through their mutual affection for the little-known music genre.",
"Police said Emma invited Richard Samuel McCroskey to fly from Richard Samuel McCroskey's northern California home, stay with Emma in Virginia and then attend the Strictly for the Wicked Festival, a Horrorcore fest in Michigan featuring bands with names like Dismembered Fetus and Phrozen Body Boy.",
"Nobody saw what would come next.",
"The slayings have been the talk of Farmville, a town of 7,000 that is home to Longwood University and nearby Hampden-Sydney College.",
"Senseless is the word you hear most.",
"It's not just the macabre nature of the killings that has people talking.",
"It's the grotesque lyrics of the Horrorcore singer; it's that it happened under their noses.",
"Richard Samuel McCroskey is a young man with no criminal record who took delight in the blend of horror hip-hop that celebrated macabre killings.",
"Richard Samuel McCroskey went by the name Syko Sam.",
"In one YouTube video, Richard Samuel McCroskey holds a hatchet and sings about killing people and putting people's remains in black bags: \"Last night I was the murderous rage.",
"Now, I gotta get rid of the bodies before the corpses start to get to rotting.\"",
"'Stinkiest rascal I've ever smelled'",
"Authorities have not specified when the killings occurred, but at 4 a.m. on Friday, September 18, tow-truck driver Elton Napier was called out to Poor House Road to help McCroskey, whose car was stuck.",
"tow-truck driver Elton Napier said Richard Samuel McCroskey was wearing a black-hooded sweatshirt and \"was really smelling bad, like real bad.",
"I can't describe it.\"",
"Richard Samuel McCroskey was driving Mark Niederbrock's Honda.",
"tow-truck driver Elton Napier said two sheriff's deputies were at the scene and Richard Samuel McCroskey was ticketed for driving without a license.",
"At the time, authorities didn't know the pastor had been slain.",
"When Richard Samuel McCroskey hopped into tow-truck driver Elton Napier's flatbed, tow-truck driver Elton Napier said tow-truck driver Elton Napier started gagging from the odor and immediately rolled down the windows.",
"\"I just held my head out the window so the wind would hit me in the face,\" tow-truck driver Elton Napier said.",
"\"That was the stinkiest rascal I've ever smelled.\"",
"tow-truck driver Elton Napier drove Richard Samuel McCroskey about four miles to a convenience store.",
"Richard Samuel McCroskey told tow-truck driver Elton Napier Richard Samuel McCroskey was visiting Richard Samuel McCroskey's girlfriend and her father lent Richard Samuel McCroskey the car.",
"Richard Samuel McCroskey fetched a black bag from Mark Niederbrock's Honda before they parted.",
"tow-truck driver Elton Napier went inside to get a cup of coffee.",
"According to police, Richard Samuel McCroskey eventually caught a cab to Richmond International Airport.",
"By mid-afternoon that same day, police found the bodies at the home on First Avenue.",
"Richard Samuel McCroskey was arrested the next day at the airport, where Richard Samuel McCroskey had spent the night.",
"When Richard Samuel McCroskey was being led to jail, Richard Samuel McCroskey told reporters, \"Jesus told me to do it.\"",
"Suspect's family, community grieve .",
"Sarah McCroskey of California told CNN-affiliate WWBT that Sarah McCroskey of California's brother had been looking forward to Richard Samuel McCroskey's visit to Virginia for weeks.",
"Sarah McCroskey of California mourned Richard Samuel McCroskey's arrest and struggled with the accusations against Richard Samuel McCroskey.",
"\"I want to hear Richard Samuel McCroskey's voice.",
"I am so concerned, so worried -- not just for Richard Samuel McCroskey [but] other people, other families involved dealing with this loss,\" Sarah McCroskey of California said.",
"Read WWBT's special coverage .",
"Defense attorney Cary Bowen told CNN, \"I don't want to say Richard Samuel McCroskey's in shock.",
"That's a medical term, but it's a big experience for Richard Samuel McCroskey.",
"I'm not sure Richard Samuel McCroskey gets the severity of everything right now.\"",
"The community is still devastated by the events as The community struggles to move forward.",
"Memorial services were held over the weekend for Emma and Emma's mother, Debra Kelley.",
"The Rev. Sylvia Meadows of Farmville United Methodist Church baptized Emma at age 5 and her father when he was an adult.",
"The pastor said Farmville United Methodist Church has invited an occult specialist to speak with members of The community to help members of the community come to grips with the dark side of humanity.",
"\"We have looked evil in the face and cannot deny that it exists,\" The Rev. Sylvia Meadows of Farmville United Methodist Church said.",
"\"God is stronger than evil.",
"God is bigger.\"",
"Luther Glenn, a member of Walker's Presbyterian Church where Niederbrock was pastor, took issue with McCroskey's comment about Jesus telling him to act.",
"\"I think it's deeply rooted in Satan, if you want to know the truth.\"",
"Elizabeth McCutchen, who passed the First Avenue home some time after the slayings, said the killings have affected every fabric of The community: the churches, the colleges, and their youth.",
"\"This is the kind of town that goes to the rescue of survivors, but there's nobody [left] -- we can't do anything about it,\" she said.",
"\"It's been really, really upsetting.\"",
"CNN's Gary Tuchman and Susan Chun contributed to this report."
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"Tow-truck driver gave suspect a lift; said he was \"stinkiest rascal I've ever smelled\"",
"Defense lawyer said Defense lawyer's unsure Richard McCroskey \"gets the severity of everything\""
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"New York (CNN) --",
"More than 80 Jackson collectibles -- including the late pop star's famous rhinestone-studded glove from a 1983 performance -- were auctioned off Saturday, reaping a total $2 million.",
"Profits from the auction at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York's Times Square crushed pre-sale expectations of only $120,000 in sales.",
"The highly prized memorabilia, which included items spanning the many stages of Michael Jackson's career, came from more than 30 fans, associates and family members, who contacted Julien's Auctions to sell more than 30 fans, associates and family members, who contacted Julien's Auctions to sell their gifts and mementos of the singer's gifts and mementos of the singer.",
"Jackson's flashy glove was the big-ticket item of the night, fetching $420,000 from a buyer in Hong Kong, China.",
"Jackson wore Jackson's flashy glove at a 1983 performance during \"Motown 25,\" an NBC special where Jackson debuted Jackson's revolutionary moonwalk.",
"Fellow Motown star Walter \"Clyde\" Orange of the Commodores, who also performed in the special 26 years ago, said Orange asked for Jackson's autograph at the time, but Jackson gave Orange Jackson's flashy glove instead.",
"\"The legacy that [Jackson] left behind is bigger than life for Orange,\" Orange said.",
"\"I hope that through Jackson's flashy glove people can see what Jackson was trying to say in Jackson's music and what Jackson said in Jackson's music.\"",
"Orange said Orange plans to give a portion of the proceeds to charity.",
"Hoffman Ma, who bought Jackson's flashy glove on behalf of Ponte 16 Resort in Macau, paid a 25 percent buyer's premium, which was tacked onto all final sales over $50,000.",
"Winners of items less than $50,000 paid a 20 percent premium.",
"Darren Julien, president and CEO of Julien's Auctions, said people were hungry for such tokens of Jackson's life, as evidenced by the 3,500 who registered as bidders for the auction.",
"\"Jackson was very generous,\" Julien said.",
"\"If you were friends with Jackson or an important part of Jackson's life, occasionally Jackson would give something away, and that's a very big reason that these things got out in the public.\"",
"A signature black synthetic blend jacket from Jackson's 16-month Bad World Tour, Jackson's first concert tour as a solo artist, sold for $270,000.",
"Featuring black straps with silver buckles and zippers, the jacket came to symbolize Jackson's \"Bad\" era.",
"Tori Renza, whose father bought her the Bad jacket when she was just 4 years old, said she grew up singing and dancing to Jackson's songs around her house.",
"\"It just became part of our family,\" said Renza, who planned to use the money from the auction to pay back student loans.",
"Jackson's famed fedora, which Jackson sported at the 1995 MTV Music Awards, sold for $73,800.",
"It was one of three hats Jackson wore during a 10-minute medley before hurling it into the crowd.",
"The hat was auctioned at a charity event that year, and the letter of verification is signed \"Lisa Marie Presley Jackson,\" the daughter of Elvis Presley who was married to Jackson for nearly two years.",
"\"To my knowledge, there were not a lot of letters that she signed with her full name,\" Julien said.",
"Handwritten lyrics of the 1983 smash hit \"Beat It,\" which Jackson scribbled on a piece of white paper, went for $60,000.",
"One of the more bizarre items up for bidding, an upper mold used to fit Jackson with animal fangs for the 1983 video for \"Thriller,\" sold for more than $10,000.",
"the auction also allowed the world to see photographs of Jackson engaged in simple activities, like driving.",
"Jackson's 1985 Mercedes-Benz 500 SEL, which Jackson ultimately gave to an aunt as a birthday gift, was auctioned for $104,500.",
"\"What's even more significant is that we have photos of Jackson driving the car,\" Julien said.",
"\"When have you seen Jackson driving a car?",
"Jackson was always chauffeured or driven.\"",
"There were also a number of autographed photos, as well as signed books, collectibles and artwork.",
"Even Jackson's doodles and sketches of the likes of Frankenstein, Mickey Mouse and Charlie Chaplin were up for sale.",
"Lee Tompkins, a renowned pencil artist who said he came to know Jackson in the early 1980s and owns approximately 75 of Jackson's artworks, auctioned two of Jackson's pieces: one of a vagabond and the other of Charlie Chaplin.",
"They sold for $20,000 and $33,280 respectively.",
"\"Jackson's more than just a singer and dancer.",
"Jackson was an artist first,\" Thompkins said.",
"Before the auction, the items were exhibited in Santiago, Chile; Dublin, Ireland; and Tokyo, Japan, where crowds lined up for hours get a glimpse of them, Julien said.",
"\"Jackson is looking down and has to be happy,\" Julien said after the auction, adding, \"We lost an icon.\""
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"Famous rhinestone-studded glove fetched $420,000 .",
"Hat's letter of verification signed by Jackson's ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Thousands of fans, many weeping, packed a Hannover, Germany, stadium Sunday to pay their last respects to Robert Enke, captain of the Hannover 96 soccer club, who died last week in what police believe was a suicide.",
"Footage from the event showed Robert Enke, 32's flower-bedecked coffin carried through the stadium to the accompaniment of Bette Midler's song \"The Rose\" as the crowd cheered.",
"Many of the spectators waved Hannover 96 banners as they wiped tears from their eyes.",
"Robert Enke, 32, was the goalkeeper for both Hannover 96 and the German national soccer team.",
"Robert Enke, 32 died Tuesday about 6:25 p.m. after Robert Enke, 32 apparently stepped in front of a train.",
"Robert Enke, 32 had played in eight games for the German national soccer team and was widely expected to be the German team's goalkeeper in the 2010 World Cup.",
"\"Preliminary police investigations indicate a suicide,\" Hannover 96 spokesman Stefan Wittke said last week.",
"The stadium funeral service followed another memorial in a church and a mourning march through Hannover initiated by fans, Hannover said in a statement on Hannover's Web site.",
"\"Robert's wife Teresa has expressed the wish to have all his friends and fans of Robert's wife Teresa's deceased husband bid farewell to Robert Enke, 32 in the AWD Arena,\" a statement on its Web site said.",
"\"Hannover 96 supports Robert's wife Teresa in Robert's wife Teresa's wish to have Robert Enke, 32 and Robert Enke, 32's friends, fans and teammates part with one another in an appropriate and worthy setting.\"",
"\"A few days have passed since Robert Enke, 32's tragic death, but Hannover's inner shock remains,\" Hannover said.",
"\"One thing is certain: Hannover are not alone in Hannover's sadness.",
"Robert Enke, 32 was not only perceived by you as a successful football player but above all as a special human being.\"",
"Funeral speakers included German football league president Theo Zwanziger, Hannover said, as well as team chairman Martin Kind and other dignitaries.",
"Afterward, Hannover said Robert Enke, 32 would be laid to rest \"in the presence of (his) closest family members.\"",
"Robert's wife Teresa told reporters following Robert Enke, 32's death that Robert's wife Teresa's husband had been battling depression for six years, but had kept Robert Enke, 32's condition from being public knowledge.",
"Robert Enke, 32 left a suicide note, Robert's wife Teresa said.",
"The Enkes' biological daughter, Lara, died in 2006 at the age of 2 from a heart condition.",
"The couple recently had adopted an 18-month-old girl The couple named Leila.",
"\"I tried to be there for him, said that football is not everything,\" Robert's wife Teresa said.",
"\"There are many beautiful things in life.",
"It is not hopeless.",
"\"The couple had Lara, The couple have Leila,\" she said.",
"\"I always wanted to help Robert Enke, 32 get through it.",
"Robert Enke, 32 didn't want (the depression) to come out because of fear.",
"Robert Enke, 32 was scared of losing Leila.\"",
"Have you lost a loved-one to suicide?",
"Share your story .",
"Fellow players said Fellow players knew Robert Enke, 32 had been struggling.",
"\"Robert Enke, 32 was unstable,\" Kind said just after Enke's death.",
"\"But Robert Enke, 32 kept it under wraps.",
"In the wake of Enke's death, the German national soccer team canceled the German national soccer team's friendly match with Chile on Saturday.",
"Hannover 96 is currently 10th in Germany's Bundesliga top division.",
"Robert Enke, 32 had been capped by Robert Enke, 32's national side eight times since making Robert Enke, 32's debut at age 29.",
"The shot-stopper had also appeared for teams including Carl Zeiss Jena, Borussia Monchengladbach, Benfica, Barcelona, Fenerbahce and Tenerife in Spain.",
"--CNN's Frederik Pleitgen contributed to this report."
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"Stadium service followed another memorial in church, mourning march through Hannover .",
"Robert Enke, 32, was expected to start for Germany in 2010 World Cup .",
"Robert Enke, 32's wife says he suffered from depression for six years ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Fort Hood, Texas, is -- for all intents and purposes -- a city.",
"With as many as 30,000 residents, it has all the trappings of an American metropolis: malls, softball fields, subdivisions and as many as nine schools.",
"But in other ways, Fort Hood is like no American city.",
"It is a transition point for troops who have served overseas, soldiers who have seen the worst that war has to offer and are returning to life at home.",
"At least 13 people were killed and 30 wounded in shootings on the post Thursday, officials said.",
"The alleged gunman, identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, was wounded.",
"Some of those killed or wounded were at the Readiness Center, a soldier's last stop before deployment, said Army Lt. Gen. Bob Cone.",
"It is also one of the first places a soldier goes after returning from war.",
"Officials: Gunman opens fire at Fort Hood .",
"Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, who served at Fort Hood in the late 1990s, said the nearly eight years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq have created difficulties for the U.S. armed forces.",
"\"This is a very complex situation, a situation we have not dealt with in Army before.",
"We have never been at war this long before in modern history,\" he said.",
"\"And many of these soldiers have been deployed multiple times, so this has put a lot of stress on these soldiers and these soldiers's families.",
"\"One of the biggest things on re-entry that the Readiness Center does is to help these soldiers cope with being back home and dealing with the extremes of [post-traumatic stress disorder],\" Honore said.",
"It is also where soldiers \"do everything from finalizing your next of kin, inspect your immunization record, as well as make a will,\" Honore said.",
"Fort Hood is the largest U.S. military installation in the world by size, and on any given day, it is home to 25,000 to 30,000 people, according to an Army spokesman at the Pentagon.",
"The post also houses the families of service members and other civilians.",
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"\"Some of these soldiers have lost some of Some of these soldiers's closest friends, seen some of the horrific things associated with warfare including these roadside bombs,\" Honore said.",
"\"They've seen and experienced -- many of them -- some very horrific events.\"",
"Services and programs offered on the post range from helping troops who are leaving the armed services find employment or pursue education to helping soldiers deal with combat-related illnesses like post-traumatic stress disorder.",
"One such program, called the Warrior Stress Reset Program, is \"designed to help address those common and normal reactions to war experiences,\" says a military Web site.",
"\"It is well documented that participation in a major conflict ... has a way of leaving its mark on the psyche of our soldiers,\" a military Web site reads.",
"One such program, called the Warrior Stress Reset Program lasts three weeks and provides counseling and treatment.",
"U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said the post has a robust support system for families of deployed troops, which would help troops and civilians there handle Thursday's violence.",
"\"The people who are there will surround the families and take care of the families, the ones who have had loved ones who were killed,\" she said.",
"The Army's 1st Cavalry Division and elements of the 4th Infantry Division, as well as the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and the 13th Corps Support Command, are based at Fort Hood.",
"Fort Hood measures about 340 square miles across and is approximately 160 miles south of Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas.",
"CNN's Barbara Starr, Adam Levine, Mike Mount and Chris Lawrence contributed to this report."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Like all zombie movies, \"Zombieland\" has hundreds of zombies doing awful things, such as attacking and eating humans, but you could argue it's not a zombie movie.",
"Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson find Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson battling the undead in \"Zombieland.\"",
"Zombie hordes do chase the main characters in a post-apocalyptic world, but the focus is on the comedy's stars, including two Oscar nominees -- Woody Harrelson and Abigail Breslin -- along with Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone.",
"(Spoiler alert: A third Oscar nominee makes a remarkable cameo appearance, but this story will avoid spoiling the surprise by naming A third Oscar nominee.)",
"\"Wernick and Reese, who have been close friends since high school wanted to make a cool, kick-ass road movie about a dysfunctional family traveling across the country and zombies provide Wernick and Reese, who have been close friends since high school the antagonists, the threat that Wernick and Reese, who have been close friends since high school's characters need to come together,\" said Paul Wernick, who wrote the screenplay with partner Rhett Reese.",
"In fact, Wernick had only seen one zombie film before writing this script.",
"Reese, who is a fan of the genre, kept the story on a track that would feed zombie fans' hunger for blood-and-guts action.",
"\"[The] zombie genre is so well traveled, there is really no reason to get into The] zombie genre unless Wernick and Reese, who have been close friends since high school could do The] zombie genre in a fresh, different way,\" partner Rhett Reese said.",
"\"Wernick and Reese, who have been close friends since high school were almost forced to think outside the box to make it an entertaining zombie movie.\"",
"\"Zombieland\" is set in the United States months after a fast-moving virus begins turning most people into flesh-eating zombies.",
"A handful of survivors come together to fight back.",
"Wernick and partner Rhett Reese literally rewrote the rules for zombie films in this movie.",
"Eisenberg's character is an obsessive-compulsive man who developed 47 rules -- such as \"fasten your seat belt\" -- designed to help Eisenberg's character survive in Zombieland.",
"While Jesse Eisenberg journeys to find Jesse Eisenberg's parents, Jesse Eisenberg joins Harrelson, a zombie killer who is searching for the last Hostess Twinkie before the last Hostess Twinkie's expiration date.",
"Stone and Breslin play sisters who survive on Stone and Breslin's con artist skills.",
"Stone and Breslin's goal is to reach a California amusement park, which Stone and Breslin think could be free of zombies.",
"The cross-country trip these four characters share resembles \"National Lampoon's Vacation\" -- if written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.",
"Watch the stars of the film talk about zombie fans » .",
"Wernick said they wanted to be \"very freewheeling.\"",
"The movie \"gives the audience the thrill of the journey,\" Wernick said.",
"\"Wernick and Reese, who have been close friends since high school wanted to take some wild turns.\"",
"\"The rules that Wernick and Reese, who have been close friends since high school lived by when writing this is in fact that there are no rules,\" Wernick said.",
"\"Zombieland\" may be to zombies what Tarantino's \"Inglourious Basterds\" is to Nazis.",
"Wernick and Reese, who have been close friends since high school, often finish each other's sentences as if Wernick and Reese, who have been close friends since high school were an old married couple.",
"\"When Wernick and Reese, who have been close friends since high school were trying to get 'Zombieland' off the ground back in the early days, Wernick and Reese, who have been close friends since high school ...\" Wernick said.",
"\"... assaulted Tarantino at an awards show, to try to get Tarantino to read the script,\" partner Rhett Reese said.",
"\"That didn't work out,\" Wernick said in conclusion to their joint thought.",
"\"Tarantino thought we were zombies coming after Tarantino.\"",
"\"Zombieland,\" directed by Rubin Fleischer, offers many of the same elements as a Tarantino film.",
"\"[Tarantino] is all about dialogue, character, irreverence, pop culture and Wernick and Reese, who have been close friends since high school love all those things over the years,\" partner Rhett Reese said.",
"\"Wernick and Reese, who have been close friends since high school have always been inspired by him.\"",
"Wernick and Reese, who have been close friends since high school had to run through a number of actors before finding the person for the 10-minute cameo.",
"Among them was Patrick Swayze, Wernick and Reese, who have been close friends since high school's first choice.",
"Swayze, who died just two weeks before the movie's release, turned down the role because of ill health earlier this year.",
"Also asked: Joe Pesci, Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dwayne \"The Rock\" Johnson, Matthew McConaughey, Mark Hamill, Kevin Bacon and Sylvester Stallone.",
"Mark Hamill, Kevin Bacon and Sylvester Stallone were asked, but either didn't want the role or were not available, according to Wernick and partner Rhett Reese.",
"With just a few days before filming the scenes, they asked Harrelson to look in Harrelson's cell phone for names and numbers.",
"Harrelson came up with a man who's been an Oscar nominee and Emmy winner.",
"And now, he's got a key role in a zombie film."
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"Movie's performers include Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin .",
"One of film's writers had seen just one zombie film in his life .",
"Among movie's surprises: a cameo from an Oscar-nominated actor ."
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"(CNN) --",
"CNN has learned from two senior Democratic sources that former President Bill Clinton will attend the Senate Democrats' weekly luncheon Tuesday to address the caucus about health care.",
"A notice obtained by CNN went out to Senate Democrats saying, \"All Senators should be aware that Clinton will be making a presentation on Health Care at tomorrow's caucus lunch.",
"Senator Reid has requested that all Democratic Senators attend.\"",
"A constant refrain from Democratic leaders is that wavering Democrats must heed what Democrats say is a lesson of the Clinton administration: fail to pass a health care reform bill, and congressional Democrats will suffer on Election Day.",
"With this visit at a critical time for health care in Senate, the former president will be able to deliver that message in person.",
"Democrats in the House of Representatives approved a health care bill over the weekend.",
"If Senate passes a bill, a congressional conference committee will need to merge the the House of Representatives and Senate proposals into a consensus version requiring final approval from each chamber before moving to President Obama's desk to be signed into law.",
"a health care bill is more expansive -- and hence more expensive -- than the Senate Finance Committee bill.",
"The House bill, projected to guarantee coverage for 96 percent of Americans, will cost more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.",
"CNN's Dana Bash, Brianna Keilar,Ted Barrett and Alan Silverleib contributed to this report."
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"Clinton will push message that failure to pass health bill will have election consequences .",
"House of Representatives passed health care bill over the weekend ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A jury Thursday acquitted a former Louisville, Kentucky, high school football coach of all charges connected to the heat-related death of a player last year.",
"Jason Stinson leaves the courtroom Thursday after being found not guilty in the death of a high school player.",
"A jury found Jason Stinson not guilty of reckless homicide and wanton endangerment in the death of 15-year-old Max Gilpin, who collapsed during a practice on August 20, 2008.",
"The teenager died three days later.",
"Max Gilpin's body temperature reached 107 degrees, officials say.",
"Jason Stinson also was acquitted on a charge of wanton endangerment.",
"Watch Jason Stinson after his aquittal » .",
"Prosecutors said Jason Stinson ran a tough practice on a hot day that made several of Jason Stinson's players sick.",
"\"Jason Stinson said to Jason Stinson's kids, 'his kids're going to run until someone quits,' \" prosecutor Jon Heck alleged in his closing argument.",
"\"A young man given that ultimatum, Jason Stinson ran until Jason Stinson collapsed.",
"Jason Stinson turned white, Jason Stinson's eyes rolled back.",
"Jason Stinson could no longer support Jason Stinson. ...",
"Jason Stinson lost Jason Stinson's consciousness, was ultimately taken to the hospital where Jason Stinson's body temperature exceeded 107 degrees,\" Heck said of Max Gilpin.",
"The defense argued that nothing was wrong with the practice and that other factors may have contributed to Max Gilpin's heat stroke.",
"\"We're the first place in this country to indict a coach for a homicide or a felony involving a practice that nobody says they would have stopped,\" defense attorney Alex Dathorne said in defense attorney Alex Dathorne's closing argument.",
"\"There's nothing wrong with the practice; there's nothing wrong with the practice.\"",
"The defense presented witnesses who said Max Gilpin had complained that Max Gilpin wasn't feeling well the day Max Gilpin collapsed.",
"Max Gilpin's parents have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against six coaches at the school.",
"The suit claims they were negligent in their actions and that more than 20 minutes passed between the time Max Gilpin collapsed and the time one of the coaches called paramedics, according to CNN affilliate WHAS.",
"Jason Stinson is the only person who has been charged with a crime.",
"Days after Jason Stinson was charged, Jason Stinson told supporters that Jason Stinson's \"heart is broken.\"",
"\"Part of my life has been taken away,\" Jason Stinson said, according to WHAS.",
"\"I no longer teach, and I no longer coach at the school. ...",
"\"The one thing people keep forgetting in this is that I lost one of my boys that day,\" Jason Stinson said.",
"\"It was a boy that I loved and a boy that I cared for and a boy that meant the world to Jason Stinson.",
"That's the thing that people forget.",
"And that's a burden I will carry with Jason Stinson for the rest of my life.\""
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"Stinson, ex-coach at Pleasure Ridge Park was charged with reckless homicide .",
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"Max Gilpin's death was determined to be related to heat exhaustion, authorities said ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Keith Felch is admittedly a big guy, but more than a few super-fit cyclists in Southern California have been left wondering how that dude just went flying by.",
"Keith Felch calls Keith Felch's electric bike a \"hill eraser\" because Keith Felch can ride his electric bike to work without breaking a sweat.",
"And then Keith Felch's wife, Mary, comes motoring past.",
"\"They stare, like how can a girl go past me,\" she says, laughing.",
"It takes the other riders a few seconds but then the other riders figure it out.",
"They have electric motors.",
"The Felches, who live in Aliso Viejo, California, used to drive everywhere, except when the couple used the couple's bikes for recreation.",
"That changed when the couple got the couple's new e-bikes, made by a company called Optibike.",
"Now, the couple ride to go shopping and to go to breakfast -- but mostly the couple ride to work.",
"Keith Felch says the couple has cut 50 percent of the couple's car-use since the couple started electric biking.",
"And there are other benefits.",
"Keith Felch dropped 30 pounds and Keith Felch's blood pressure fell 10 points in the first six months Keith Felch owned the bike, Keith Felch says.",
"the couple don't exactly classify the couple as \"environmentalists,\" although Mary said it is important to have a positive effect on the planet.",
"\"I learned that the worst amount of smog that you put out [in an automobile] is in the first mile, so if the couple can make even some of those shorter trips on the couple's bicycles, it makes a big difference,\" Mary says.",
"Who wants one?",
"Brent Meyers, director of sales for Ultra Motor US, says electric bikes attract different types of buyers.",
"Many are looking to make a green imprint.",
"Some are \"active adults\" who have ridden bicycles for years who -- as they get older -- are unable to do the same kind of riding they did when they were young.",
"Other buyers want to ride Other buyers's bikes to work quickly -- and avoid a sweaty entrance into the office.",
"Oddly -- or perhaps not -- Ultra Motor US sees Ultra Motor US's strongest sales when the price of oil skyrockets, says Meyers.",
"Two wheels, a motor and 100 million riders .",
"Electric bikes are still somewhat of a novelty in the United States, but in China Electric bikes're everywhere.",
"In fact, Chinese electric bikes number more than 100 million -- which is about four times the number of Chinese private cars, according to Electric Bikes Worldwide Reports.",
"Electric bikes are popular in Europe as well.",
"Sales figures for the United States are hard to pinpoint.",
"In the United States, about 200,000 electric bicycles were sold last year, said Ed Benjamin of the Light Electric Vehicle Association -- about twice the number sold in 2005.",
"But the industry has hit a bump in the road from the recession, as sales were down about 10 percent in 2009, Ed Benjamin of the Light Electric Vehicle Association said.",
"E-bikes are mostly made by specialty companies, but the growing sales trend has been noticed by the big boys.",
"Trek, a worldwide leader in bike sales, has been making electric bikes for three years, but only introduced electric bikes in the United States in the past year.",
"Other well-known companies like Schwinn and Giant are increasing Other well-known companies like Schwinn and Giant's presence in the e-bike field.",
"At Interbike, the biggest bicycle industry convention in the United States, there were more than 20 companies displaying e-bikes this year.",
"Meyers said only a few years ago, it was about five.",
"Prices range from a few hundred dollars -- the E-Zip Trailz Hybrid costs $398 at Wal-Mart -- to more than $13,000 for OptiBike's top-end model.",
"Prices increase as battery technology and components get better.",
"Steve Roseman of The Electric Bike Network in San Francisco, California, said most buyers Steve Roseman sees don't balk at the price, which can be as much as a good road or mountain bike.",
"most buyers he sees are mostly concerned with how far most buyers he sees can go on a battery charge and how fast.",
"What's an 'e-bike'?",
"By law, electric bikes must have no more than 1 horsepower and go no faster than 20 mph (on motor power alone).",
"Basically electric bikes are much like traditional bicycles with small motors that power the bike or assist a rider with pedaling.",
"Many have gears like a regular bike.",
"\"It's just adding the throttle aspect, other than that it handles like a regular bicycle,\" Keith Felch said.",
"Keith Felch says Keith Felch uses the throttle all the time, choosing one of two modes -- eco [half power] or fast [full power].",
"Keith Felch says Keith Felch once tried a regular bike for Keith Felch's 4 ½-mile ride to one of Keith Felch's music studios where Keith Felch teaches jazz improvisation.",
"But the hills nearly got Keith Felch.",
"Keith Felch calls Keith Felch's electric bike a \"hill eraser.\"",
"It also makes the ride to Keith Felch's farthest studio -- 22 miles away -- seem much closer.",
"Keith Felch says Keith Felch gets about 35 miles on Keith Felch's primary battery and has an additional one for long rides.",
"Shifting views .",
"But as they tout the virtues of electric bikes, advocates also realize that there will have to be a shift in the way Americans view them before they become as popular as they are in Europe or China.",
"\"There are two possible sides to the equation,\" Steve Roseman said.",
"\"One would be a change in the way people view transportation.",
"There are still a lot of SUVs out there.",
"... People still have a hard time thinking about riding a bicycle unless People are 10 years old, it seems.",
"So there needs to be a little shift in mentality.\"",
"\"But having said that, I think there is a growing awareness about health and transportation and environmental issues so it could be that we are just reaching a juncture where things will change [for e-bikes].\"",
"Meyers says people also have a preconceived notion about electric bikes.",
"Some view them as expensive or poor quality or uncomfortable.",
"And Meyers admits, e-bikes are not for everybody.",
"As Steve Roseman says, people who live in Spandex will probably always prefer a really good road bike and hard-core city cyclists may well stick to their fixed-gear bikes.",
"Meyers says Ultra, which sells its bike for $2,700, isn't for those kinds of people.",
"\"That's not Ultra Motor US's customer,\" he says.",
"\"Ultra Motor US's customer is someone who wants some form of electric transportation, green transportation, that can get some form of electric transportation, green transportation from Point A to Point B comfortably.\"",
"The Felches say taking a test drive will change a skeptic's attitude.",
"\"If you ride one, it will blow your mind,\" Keith Felch says.",
"\"When you get on one it's like being in a flying dream you've had.",
"It's like everything you've dreamed your bicycle should do in your wildest dreams -- it's doing it.\""
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"\"It's like being in a flying dream ... it will blow your mind,\" says rider .",
"E-bike commuters like saving gas and arriving at work without breaking a sweat .",
"China has more than 100 million electric bikes -- four times the number of cars ."
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"In the tight circle that surrounds President Obama, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs is in the inner bubble.",
"Robert Gibbs's the 3 a.m. wake-up call when North Korea fires a test missile, or when the Nobel committee picks the president for the top award",
"\"Trust me, it is a job I would gladly give to anybody who would volunteer,\" Robert Gibbs said.",
"Or would Robert Gibbs?",
"After all, Robert Gibbs's an adviser, a friend and a mouthpiece for the administration with more access than recent press secretaries.",
"\"I can walk in and ask Obama a question at any given time, pick up the phone and talk to Obama about anything at any given time.",
"I think [that] makes my job easier,\" Robert Gibbs said in an exclusive interview with CNN.",
"The president and the press secretary first connected in 2004 when Obama was a virtual unknown outside of Chicago, Illinois, and was campaigning for the U.S. Senate.",
"The president and the press secretary clicked and grew close, leading Obama to tell the Wall Street Journal in a 2008 interview, \"Robert Gibbs is the guy I want in the foxhole with Obama during incoming fire.",
"If I'm wrong, Robert Gibbs challenges me.",
"Robert Gibbs's not intimidated by Obama.\"",
"Robert Gibbs chuckled while recalling the comment and quipped, \"That is when we called Obama 'Senator' or by Obama's first name.\"",
"While challenging Obama when Obama was on a campaign bus is much different than pushing back in the Oval Office, Robert Gibbs insists that Obama still seeks opposing opinions and dislikes an atmosphere where everyone tells Obama Obama's right.",
"Ten months into Robert Gibbs's job in the White House, Gibbs, who grew up in Auburn, Alabama, says Robert Gibbs's finally starting to get more comfortable, even though Robert Gibbs admits that the 24/7 pace \"is certainly a challenge.",
"the 24/7 pace can wear you down.\"",
"Especially when it comes to the daily main event.",
"Robert Gibbs briefs the White House press corps, usually for about 45 minutes.",
"Robert Gibbs rarely shows up on time, but Robert Gibbs's always ready to spar.",
"The mouthpiece for the president often uses humor or sarcasm to deflect a tough question.",
"In one exchange about the tit for tat over cable chatter and radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, Robert Gibbs uttered, \"I'll plead guilty to counterproductivity.\"",
"In another about managing the message, Robert Gibbs said, \"Is there any evidence currently going on that I'm controlling the press?",
"Poorly, I might add!\"",
"Is this an effective strategy to handle the media?",
"\"You tell me,\" Robert Gibbs said.",
"\"Look, there's no doubt that using a little humor to get out of a series of bad questions isn't an altogether bad technique.\"",
"Watch Robert Gibbs talk about Robert Gibbs's job .",
"Especially since Robert Gibbs's involved in a daily high-wire act, as Robert Gibbs calls it.",
"The cameras are always rolling.",
"A bad day for the White House spokesman usually means a bad day for the administration.",
"\"My father likes reminding me My father always thought my mouth would get me into sizable trouble, which my mouth can on any given day,\" Robert Gibbs said.",
"Before starting Robert Gibbs's job, Robert Gibbs studied former press secretaries and sought out former press secretaries's advice.",
"Robert Gibbs still relies on former press secretaries's guidance \"fairly frequently,\" Robert Gibbs said.",
"For example, Robert Gibbs revealed that just last week Robert Gibbs reached out to former Clinton spokesman Mike McCurry to get \"feedback on a question that was sort of nagging me a little bit.\"",
"When probed on what that question was, Robert Gibbs replied, \"I'm not going to get into that, but good try.\"",
"Even with the major policy issues the White House is juggling, from Afghanistan to health care to the economy, Robert Gibbs says Robert Gibbs's still having fun.",
"\"If you didn't enjoy the job that I have, it would be the worst job in all of Washington,\" Robert Gibbs said.",
"What Robert Gibbs doesn't like, Robert Gibbs said, is the fact that Robert Gibbs's now a celebrity.",
"\"People that I don't know recognize you walking down the street.",
"It's awkward,\" Robert Gibbs said."
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"Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) --",
"Six Haitian orphans, seized by national authorities last week as they prepared to journey to the United States, will be able to leave the earthquake-devastated country Wednesday.",
"The U.S. Embassy retained custody of the children Tuesday and the children were handed over to three American women who have been trying to escort the children out.",
"U.S. women had attempted to leave Saturday when angry Haitians demanded to see U.S. women's paperwork.",
"Police suspected that a key document U.S. women were carrying -- a permission signed by Haiti's prime minister -- was a fake, something the women and U.S. officials deny.",
"There is no chance the paperwork is fake, said Sarah Thacker, one of the three women.",
"Thacker, from Minnesota, was in Haiti to bring home her newly adopted son.",
"Police did not arrest U.S. women, but temporarily placed the children under government custody at a local orphanage.",
"U.S. women said Tuesday that U.S. women had been given permission to take the children to the United States.",
"U.S. women were staying with the children at a friend's house in Port-au-Prince.",
"Full coverage of Haiti earthquake .",
"The incident came nearly a month after the arrest of 10 U.S. missionaries accused of trying to take 33 Haitian children out of Haiti without proper paperwork.",
"Eight of 33 Haitian children have been released on bail and have returned to the United States.",
"The question of Haitian children being removed from Haiti illegally came to the foreground after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake devastated parts of Haiti on January 12.",
"Authorities feared that children left on children's own -- because children's parents died or children were separated from them -- would be targeted by child traffickers.",
"Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar has backed Thacker's efforts.",
"\"They have filled out all the paperwork,\" Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar said.",
"\"This is a legitimate orphanage that has brought other children to the United States.",
"And I feel like these little babies are just caught up in this international dispute, and it's just not fair.\"",
"CNN's Gary Tuchman and Ismael Estrada contributed to this report."
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"Haitian orphans set to leave for United States on Wednesday .",
"U.S. women say U.S. women were given permission to leave country with orphans .",
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"(CNN) --",
"Real Salt Lake sealed an upset win over the Los Angeles Galaxy on Sunday night with a 5-4 penalty victory, after extra-time in the Major League Soccer Cup final that ended with the score at 1-1.",
"Robbie Russell netted the vital spot kick after Real Real Salt Lake goalkeeper Nick Rimando made two saves and MLS Most Valuable Player, and LA Galaxy captain, Langdon Donovan sent his shot sailing over the crossbar.",
"Real Salt Lake's win at the Qwest Field arena in Seattle, ended Beckham's bid to claim a third national title in as many different nations, having previously won the English Premier League with Manchester United and La Liga with Spain's Real Madrid.",
"the Los Angeles Galaxy struck first, with midfielder Mike Magee drilling a 41st-minute shot into an open net.",
"midfielder Mike Magee's strike came after Beckham passed to Donovan, who set-up Magee at the far post.",
"Seattle: America's soccer city.",
"Real Salt Lake hit back with 25 minutes left when Robbie Findley reacted first after Yuri Movsisyan's attempt on goal was blocked, tying the match and setting up the penalty shootout.",
"Beckham got the Los Angeles Galaxy off to a good start in the shoot out as Beckham scored with confidence, but Beckham's team could not follow in the same manner.",
"Jovan Kirovski's shot was blocked by Rimando, but Saunders followed by stopping the effort of Salt Lake captain Kyle Beckerman before Donovan blazed over the crossbar to leave the score 5-4.",
"the Los Angeles Galaxy came into the game as favorites, but flattered to deceive as it was revealed Beckham had played with an injured right ankle.",
"\"We all want to win titles and personally I'd love to be successful but I think the Los Angeles Galaxy have been successful this year without winning tonight,\" Beckham told reporters after the game.",
"\"the Los Angeles Galaxy have quietened a few people along the way which is always nice but the Los Angeles Galaxy couldn't finish it off.",
"\"I wouldn't say it's tougher to lose on penalties but it's Russian roulette, that's just the way it is.",
"It's not a nice way to lose.",
"\"The people that step up are brave enough to step up and if you score, great and if you miss it's hard to take, but it just wasn't the Los Angeles Galaxy's night,\" Beckham added.",
"Beckham is due to return to AC Milan in January for another loan spell as Beckham bids to secure a place in England's World Cup squad for next year's finals in South Africa.",
"The English midfielder's future in the U.S. had appeared in doubt earlier in the season when Beckham's commitment was called into question following a loan spell with the Italian club during which Beckham had indicated an apparent desire to continue playing in Italy.",
"Beckham had earlier said that playing in Sunday's final ranked alongside winning the Primera Liga title with Real Madrid in 2003 and a trophy-laden spell at Manchester United that included six English Premier League titles and the 1999 Champions League crown.",
"\"Anytime you reach a certain part of the season, whether it's being in a cup final or winning leagues, it's always special,\" Beckham said.",
"\"Being involved in finals never gets old.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Beckham believes the furore that followed Beckham's return to LA Galaxy from Beckham's loan spell with AC Milan earlier this year has galvanized LA Galaxy.",
"LA Galaxy won the MLS Western Conference Championship with a 2-0 win at home to Houston Dynamo on Friday night, Beckham setting up Gregg Berhalter's 102nd-minute opener.",
"They will face Real Salt Lake, who upset the favored Chicago Fire 5-4 in a penalty shootout to win the Eastern Conference title on Saturday to reach the MLS Cup final in Seattle next Sunday.",
"Beckham had been subjected to abuse by Beckham's own fans after missing the start of the MLS season when Beckham was in Italy, while LA Galaxy captain Landon Donovan questioned Beckham's commitment to the LA franchise.",
"However, the England midfielder -- who missed Saturday's 1-0 friendly defeat by Brazil in Qatar to play for Beckham's club -- thinks the situation helped bring LA Galaxy together.",
"\"There's nothing wrong with a bit of controversy in a club, it brings players and teams together and it's done that,\" Beckham told ESPN in a post-match interview.",
"\"I don't have to say anything about Beckham, I leave that down to other people to decide.",
"\"I love playing soccer.",
"I work hard for my teammates, myself, my manager, the fans and I hope that's enough for people.\"",
"Beckham joined LA Galaxy from Real Madrid in 2007 but they struggled to make an impact during the Englishman's time with LA Galaxy until the arrival of former USA national team coach Bruce Arena.",
"Beckham, who returns to Milan in January as he bids to win a place in England's World Cup squad, believes this season's achievements have already gone some way for making up for the previous two seasons.",
"\"LA Galaxy want to win next week but reaching it is the biggest thing,\" Beckham told the UK Press Association.",
"\"LA Galaxy've done that, done the hard work and LA Galaxy deserves it.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Two people were killed and 21 others were injured Wednesday when Bus carrying senior citizens returning from casino trip in Iowa went out of control and overturned on a freeway outside Austin, Minnesota, state authorities said.",
"The bus, which was carrying senior citizens, overturned on Interstate 90 about three miles west of Austin, landing in a ditch off the right side of the roadway.",
"At least 10 ambulances and several medical helicopters were called to the scene.",
"\"All 23 people on board were either injured or killed,\" said Andy Skoogman, spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.",
"Weather conditions were good when the bus, headed east, crossed the highway median, crossed over westbound lanes and overturned, Andy Skoogman, spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said.",
"Watch video of tour bus crash site .",
"The cause of the accident was not immediately known, Andy Skoogman, spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said.",
"Investigators talked with some passengers, Andy Skoogman, spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said, but had not yet talked with the driver.",
"CNN affiliate KAAL reported Bus carrying senior citizens returning from casino trip in Iowa was returning to Rochester, Minnesota, from a trip to a casino in Northwood, Iowa."
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"Don Shows was a computer geek until Don Shows lost Don Shows's job and took a road trip.",
"JetBlue promises to refund some tickets purchased before a traveler is laid off from a job.",
"While the 56-year-old from Dayton, Ohio, was away on Don Shows's eight-day post-layoff adventure, Don Shows decided Don Shows really wanted to be a photojournalist.",
"\"I ran into some interesting situations when I was out touring around the backcountry\" of the Midwest, Don Shows said.",
"\"The road map is handy, but sometimes the road you're looking for is not there.\"",
"Stories like Shows' are more common these days.",
"The unemployment rate was at 7.6 percent in January, and, strange as it may seem, at least one travel company, an airline and a travel-bag maker are now catering to the layoff crowd -- both the recently let go and the future unemployed.",
"For those who buy a plane ticket before they get the ax, JetBlue is offering to refund fares.",
"The JetBlue Promise promotion is good for customers laid off on or after February 17 and applies to ticket purchases made between February 1 and June 1.",
"The JetBlue Promise promotion is designed to appeal to people who haven't been downsized but worry they might be, said Alison Croyle, a spokeswoman for JetBlue.",
"\"It's something that we felt would provide an advantage to customers who otherwise might be too stressed to book future travel plans,\" she said.",
"Then there's the already-laid-off demographic.",
"On some packages, Intrepid Travel is giving a 15 percent discount to people who've recently been let go.",
"The deal, with the tongue-in-cheek title, \"Laid off? How about taking off?\" has gotten a few dozen takers in the two months it's been offered, said Leslie Cohen, spokeswoman for the travel company.",
"Cohen said a 15 percent discount is designed to give people a chance to clear people's heads during a tough transition.",
"Some of the deals start at less than $1,000, Cohen said.",
"the travel company is \"not suggesting you use your life savings,\" Cohen said.",
"\"It's really just a chance to catch your breath and see something else and come back in a little bit of a different frame of mind.\"",
"For those looking to hit the skies on the job hunt rather than escape it, SkyRoll, maker of a $149.99 garment bag, says it's giving a discount.",
"\"If you recently lost your job and need to travel for an interview, we will take 50 percent off the price of a SkyRoll to help you arrive looking your best,\" the company says on the company's Web site.",
"To get the discount, SkyRoll requires customers to e-mail the company a layoff notice.",
"Travel discounts like the one from Intrepid may be great for unemployed people who have hefty savings accounts or large severance packages, but the program also could prey on the unemployed, said Madeline Hughes, who runs a consulting and outplacement group in Denver, Colorado.",
"The cost of a big trip \"could be lunch money for somebody for the next six months,\" Madeline Hughes, who runs a consulting and outplacement group in Denver, Colorado said.",
"Madeline Hughes, who runs a consulting and outplacement group in Denver, Colorado tells Madeline Hughes, who runs a consulting and outplacement group in Denver, Colorado's clients who are laid off they need to come up with a career plan -- and quickly -- because the job market is so competitive.",
"If a person truly has a thick enough checkbook to afford a post-layoff vacation, Madeline Hughes, who runs a consulting and outplacement group in Denver, Colorado said Madeline Hughes, who runs a consulting and outplacement group in Denver, Colorado would tell a person to send out plenty of resumes before hitting the beach.",
"\"If you really do want to get away, then at least get somewhat of a plan so when you're on vacation you're not fretting about what you're going to do when you get back,\" Madeline Hughes, who runs a consulting and outplacement group in Denver, Colorado said.",
"\"People can't relax if People're afraid and People don't have a plan and People're sort of panicked.\"",
"Daphne Domingo, a life coach in Seattle, Washington, said people who've been laid off should take vacations so people who've been laid off have time to reassess people who've been laid off's lives -- but people who've been laid off should gauge the scope of people who've been laid off's travel on people who've been laid off's savings account.",
"\"Be a tourist in your own town\" if you don't have the money to travel, she said.",
"\"That way, you can save money on accommodations.\"",
"Domingo and Madeline Hughes, who runs a consulting and outplacement group in Denver, Colorado said all job seekers should weigh their situations individually.",
"Jonathan Hagelstein, a 32-year-old from New York, plans to use Intrepid's package to travel to Africa and Europe for nearly a month.",
"This is the second major trip he's taken since being laid off from a finance job in June.",
"But Jonathan Hagelstein, a 32-year-old from New York says Jonathan Hagelstein, a 32-year-old from New York's a \"compulsive saver\" and wants to make use of the free time while Jonathan Hagelstein, a 32-year-old from New York has it.",
"\"Time is something that you can never get back.",
"You can always earn more money,\" Jonathan Hagelstein, a 32-year-old from New York said.",
"\"I'm not getting any younger.",
"This is an opportunity -- I feel -- of a lifetime.\"",
"With each trip, Jonathan Hagelstein, a 32-year-old from New York hopes the job market will be better when Jonathan Hagelstein, a 32-year-old from New York returns.",
"Jonathan Hagelstein, a 32-year-old from New York said Jonathan Hagelstein, a 32-year-old from New York has no leads on a job.",
"Shows -- the man from Ohio, who first shared Shows''s story on iReport.com, CNN's user-submitted content site -- took off on a road trip as a way to reanalyze Shows''s life.",
"See Shows' story on iReport.com .",
"Shows' said Shows' hadn't taken a substantial trip during the decade or so Shows' worked in information technologies at LexisNexis, a database and information company.",
"So Shows' saw the layoff partly as a gift of free time.",
"Shows' said Shows' has a stable enough income since Shows' is also a retired police officer.",
"But Shows' said Shows''s car trip was relatively cheap.",
"a road trip took Shows' to six states and cost less than $1,000, Shows' said.",
"Plus, a road trip helped Shows' reconnect with Shows''s passion.",
"\"If I could do anything I wanted to do in life, it would be to take the camera out and go out to talk to people and get stories,\" Shows' said.",
"Shows' said Shows' plans to take photojournalism classes at a local community college this spring."
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"President Rafael Correa denied Saturday that a Colombian guerrilla group donated money to President Rafael Correa's 2006 presidential campaign, asking President Rafael Correa's country's civil commission to investigate the allegation.",
"President Rafael Correa, as pictured in June, says a probe into FARC's claims will clear President Rafael Correa's name.",
"Colombian media broadcast a 2008 video Friday in which guerrilla leader Víctor Julio Suarez Rojas, better known as Mono Jojoy, said the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia donated money to President Rafael Correa's campaign.",
"The guerrilla group, known by FARC's Spanish acronym FARC, also has had conversations with President Rafael Correa's emissaries and has reached \"some accords, according to documents that we have,\" Suarez said in a videotape.",
"President Rafael Correa denied the allegations and said President Rafael Correa wants the nation's civil commission to see \"if the Ecuadorian government, if the Alianza PAIS [political party] has received 20 cents from any foreign group, not just from FARC.\"",
"President Rafael Correa said that during the campaign, some opponents accused President Rafael Correa of receiving money from leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, from drug cartels and from FARC.",
"\"They just don't know what else to say,\" President Rafael Correa said.",
"\"It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger those who endanger their lives to save the country's lives to save the nation.\""
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"Obama huddled with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other top military advisers at the White House on Friday as the administration continued the administration's sweeping review of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan.",
"Each branch of the armed services was given a direct opportunity to tell Obama the effect on the military if a large number of additional forces are sent to Afghanistan, two military sources told CNN's Barbara Starr.",
"Meeting was the seventh in a series of high-level discussions being held in part to forge a consensus on how best to confront Taliban and al Qaeda militants threatening the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan.",
"\"Obama wants to get input from different services,\" the administration spokesman Tommy Vietor said earlier this week.",
"\"It's a chance to consult with uniformed military leadership as a part of his [Afghanistan-Pakistan] review.\"",
"The potential for a major expansion of the number of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan comes with some misgivings from the military chiefs.",
"The Army and Marine Corps have expressed concerns that it could make it tougher to give troops promised time at home with troops's families between overseas tours.",
"The the administration strategy review is being conducted against a backdrop of rising U.S. casualties in Afghanistan and increased Taliban violence.",
"October has already become the deadliest month for U.S. forces since the war began in late 2001, with the deaths of 56 American troops.",
"Taliban militants have become increasingly bold.",
"This week, Taliban militants attacked a U.N. guesthouse in central Kabul, killing five U.N. staff members.",
"There also is political turmoil surrounding a planned November 7 Afghan presidential election runoff.",
"On Friday, a source close to the Afghan leadership told CNN that President Hamid Karzai's runoff opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, would withdraw from the race.",
"The presidential campaign has become increasingly contentious as Abdullah demanded the removal of the country's election chief and 200 other staffers of the election commission to ensure a fair runoff.",
"Abdullah and others have charged that massive fraud occurred in the first round of voting on August 20.",
"The initial results gave President Hamid Karzai the win, but a subsequent review by a U.N.-backed panel of election monitors threw out nearly one-third of President Hamid Karzai's votes because of \"clear and convincing evidence of fraud.\"",
"The result left President Hamid Karzai short of the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff.",
"After a flurry of meetings with U.S. and U.N. officials, President Hamid Karzai agreed to a runoff."
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"The man who accused pop star Michael Jackson of molesting his son in 1993 killed Evan Chandler in Evan Chandler's New Jersey condo earlier this month, police said.",
"Evan Chandler, 65, was found by the building's concierge November 5 after a doctor, who was treating Evan Chandler for cancer, said Evan Chandler missed an appointment, the Jersey City, New Jersey, police report said.",
"Evan Chandler was \"extremely ill\" with cancer, the report said.",
"Evan Chandler was working as a dentist in Beverly Hills, California, in 1993 when Evan Chandler said his son's son, who was 13 at the time, told Evan Chandler that Michael Jackson had molested his son.",
"Evan Chandler's son revealed it, Evan Chandler said, when he put his son under anesthesia to pull a tooth.",
"The Los Angeles County district attorney did not pursue criminal charges against Michael Jackson, but Evan Chandler and Evan Chandler's son reached a confidential financial settlement with the singer after filing a lawsuit.",
"Reports at the time said the Chandlers got between $16 million and $20 million from Michael Jackson's insurance company.",
"The Evan Chandler accusation became a key part of the prosecution's case when Michael Jackson was tried and acquitted of molestation a decade later in Santa Barbara County, California.",
"Evan Chandler was found \"on Evan Chandler's bed in a lifeless state with a gun in Evan Chandler's hand,\" the investigator's report said.",
"\"Evan Chandler had a silver revolver in Evan Chandler's right hand which was pressed against the right side of Evan Chandler's head,\" Officer J.S. Sielski wrote.",
"Chandler, who was estranged from most of Evan Chandler's family, owned the .38-caliber pistol Evan Chandler used to kill Evan Chandler, Jersey City spokesman Stan Eason said.",
"No suicide note was found, Jersey City spokesman Stan Eason added.",
"Chandler's brother -- a lawyer in Santa Barbara County -- told CNN in 2003 that Evan Chandler feared for Evan Chandler's life because of threats made by angry Michael Jackson fans.",
"\"There's a hard-core group, there was and probably still is, of fanatical fans who see Evan Chandler as a deity,\" Evan Chandler told CNN's Larry King.",
"\"Some of them will go to any lengths that, you know, there's some who will just go as far as threatening, there's some who will go -- who will be violent, and you know, you never know how far it is going to go.\"",
"Evan Chandler has not responded to calls from CNN for comment about his son's brother's death."
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"The niece of the mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, once lived with murder suspect Anthony Sowell, a registered sex offender charged with murder after the remains of 11 victims were found at his home, a spokeswoman for the mayor said Monday.",
"Lori Frazier, niece of Mayor Frank Jackson, had a relationship with suspect that ended two years ago, said Andrea Taylor, a spokeswoman for Jackson's office.",
"Taylor said it is unclear whether a relationship with Sowell that ended two years ago was romantic.",
"\"I just want to know why, why suspect would do this,\" Frazier told CNN affiliate WOIO on Friday.",
"\"suspect took care of my niece, good care of my niece.",
"I never would have thought there were some bodies in the house.\"",
"\"I lived with suspect from 2005 to 2007 and suspect didn't kill me, but suspect killed all these girls,\" my niece said.",
"Sowell, 50, is facing five counts of aggravated murder, rape, felonious assault and kidnapping in connection with the deaths.",
"Sowell were African-American women.",
"All that remains of one of Sowell is a skull, wrapped in a paper bag and stuffed into a bucket in the basement.",
"suspect served 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted rape in 1989.",
"suspect was released in 2005.",
"So far, nine of the 11 victims found at suspect's home have been identified.",
"The latest two were identified Monday by the Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office, police said.",
"Both women are Janice Webb, 49, and Kim Yvette Smith, who was 43 when last seen.",
"Both women were from Cleveland.",
"Janice Webb was last seen on June 3 and was reported missing on August 2, police said.",
"Smith was last seen January 1, but was not reported missing until November 2.",
"A grand jury on Monday returned an indictment against suspect in connection with an alleged assault and rape of a 36-year-old woman September 22, Cuyahoga County prosecutors said in a news release.",
"The investigation into that incident was what led police, armed with a search warrant, to Sowell's home, where police discovered the bodies late last month.",
"The alleged victim encountered suspect while walking in the neighborhood, and suspect took The alleged victim back to Sowell's home, where suspect became violent and raped The alleged victim, prosecutors said.",
"\"While raping The alleged victim, suspect strangled The alleged victim with a cord until The alleged victim lost consciousness,\" the statement said.",
"\"When The alleged victim regained consciousness, suspect led The alleged victim out of the house.\"",
"suspect faces a charge of attempted murder in that incident, along with two counts of rape, two counts of kidnapping and two counts of felonious assault, authorities said.",
"suspect will be arraigned on the new charges Friday, authorities said.",
"the new charges are first-degree felonies except for the assault charges, which are second-degree felonies, prosecutors said.",
"If convicted, he would face a sentence of up to life in prison.",
"The investigation into the homicides continues, prosecutor Bill Mason said in the news release.",
"\"Upon completion of The investigation into the homicides, the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office working with the Cleveland Police Department will present evidence to the grand jury seeking the death penalty for these heinous murders committed by Sowell.\"",
"Residents of the area near the home said Residents of the area near the home had noted a smell in the neighborhood, but assumed a smell in the neighborhood was from nearby Ray's Sausage Company.",
"Asked whether she had noticed a foul odor, my niece told WOIO, \"Yeah, I smelled stuff, but suspect always told me that -- at first suspect said it was suspect's stepmother downstairs.",
"And then I guess after she left, suspect told me that it was Ray's Sausage.\"",
"my niece said suspect brought other women to the home when she was not there.",
"\"I love my niece very much and while my niece has made some decisions that have not been in my niece's best interest, my niece has my full support,\" Jackson said in a written statement.",
"\"As a family, we are extremely fortunate that my niece was not a victim in this case as my niece did have a prior relationship with the suspect that ended approximately two years ago.",
"My focus continues to be on making sure the loved ones of Sowell get the attention, closure and justice the loved ones of the victims deserve and it is my hope that everyone remains committed to that goal.\"",
"Hundreds of Cleveland residents gathered outside the house Sunday night to remember Sowell.",
"\"It's hard, because I want to burn it down,\" said Inez Fortson, whose daughter Telacia, 31 and a mother of three children, is among the dead.",
"suspect has been placed on a suicide watch at the request of suspect's attorney, according to Sowell's public defender, Kathleen DeMetz.",
"A psychiatric evaluation has been ordered but A psychiatric evaluation's unlikely to happen until after the case goes before a grand jury, the next expected step.",
"Police recovered the first bodies after Police went to suspect's home to follow up on a rape accusation.",
"In a separate incident, neighbors on October 20 reported seeing a naked woman fall from the second floor.",
"Firefighters and paramedics responded, and later notified police.",
"But a naked woman told officers that a naked woman was at the home \"partying,\" when a naked woman fell off the roof, and no charges were filed.",
"Agents from the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit are assisting Cleveland police, Cleveland FBI spokesman Scott Wilson has said.",
"Agents from the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit are preparing a profile of suspect for police, tracing suspect's life and habits, and suspect's DNA will be entered into a national database to see whether it can be linked to any unsolved crimes.",
"\"the FBI's experts tell the FBI it's likely suspect's done this before,\" said Frank Figliuzzi, special agent in charge of the FBI's Cleveland office.",
"\"suspect's probably done it elsewhere, and so we need to determine whether or not suspect's responsible for other unsolved murders and rapes around the country.\"",
"In addition, the FBI is investigating whether suspect might be linked to crimes abroad, Figliuzzi said.",
"\"We know, for example, suspect was a Marine, suspect was assigned to California, suspect served in Okinawa, Japan, and the FBI'll be matching all the facts from these crimes here in Cleveland with the crimes that remain unsolved in our database, and the FBI'll specifically be looking at those locations where suspect's previously lived.\"",
"Allen Sowell, the suspect's half-brother, told CNN he last saw his brother more than 20 years ago.",
"Their stepmother, who lived in Sowell after suspect got out of prison, said she knew of nothing odd going on at the time, suspect said.",
"Their stepmother, who lived in the house after Anthony Sowell got out of prison tried to get suspect evicted from Sowell in 2007 because suspect wasn't paying rent, suspect said.",
"suspect said suspect shouldn't have to pay rent on a house that belonged to suspect's father, who died in 2004.",
"suspect remained in Sowell when suspect's stepmother had to be hospitalized in 2007, suspect's half-brother said.",
"suspect said suspect was aware of suspect's half-brother's prison record, but \"just couldn't fathom\" the accusations now facing suspect.",
"\"I didn't think suspect was in that bad of a mental state,\" suspect said.",
"\"You never think it would happen to your family.",
"It's a horrible feeling.\"",
"At 66, suspect is 16 years older than suspect's half-brother, and the two didn't meet until suspect was 9.",
"suspect added, \"suspect deserves whatever suspect gets from the justice system.\"",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti, Edmund Demarche and Ross Levitt and CNN Radio's Brendan Gage contributed to this report."
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"This has been one of the major emphases of Hawass since he became head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in 2002.",
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"Botswana has been hailed as one of Africa's success stories and a beacon for democracy on the continent.",
"It's home to Africa's longest continuous multi-party democracy and has remained politically stable since gaining independence in 1966.",
"Botswana's President Ian Khama took office in April 2008 promising steady progress.",
"At its helm is President Ian Khama, the country's former vice president and son of Botswana's founding president.",
"The diamond trade and disciplined government have helped to transform Botswana from one of the world's poorest nations to a middle-income country.",
"But there are still large problem facing the country, including the world's second high level of HIV infections, according to the World Bank, and a slowing of the countries economic growth.",
"Botswana's President Ian Khama took over office in April 2008, succeeding Festus Mogae who had been in power for 10 years, promising no radical departure from Botswana's President Ian Khama's predecessor's policies.",
"Botswana's President Ian Khama was born in southern England and trained at the UK's Sandhurst Military Academy before returning to Botswana and later becoming the commander of the Botswana Defence Force.",
"Botswana's President Ian Khama left the military in 1998 to take up the position of vice president.",
"As the son of Botswana's most popular former president, political analysts inside Botswana have expected Botswana's President Ian Khama to unite the factions in the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) and continue steady economic and political progress.",
"While Botswana's President Ian Khama has only been in power for 11 months, there has been some criticism that Botswana's President Ian Khama's style is too authoritarian.",
"Citing Afrobarometer, an independent research group, Botswana's newspaper Sunday Standard recently wrote that there was a growing public perception that Botswana's President Ian Khama has issued more directives compared to Botswana's President Ian Khama's predecessors.",
"One area in which Botswana's President Ian Khama has taken a definite line is on Botswana's President Ian Khama's policy towards neighboring Zimbabwe, publicly opposing the government of President Robert Mugabe and declaring the government of President Robert Mugabe illegitimate.",
"A general election is set for October 2009, with the BDP expected to win.",
"No other political party has held power in Botswana and some commentators fear the emergence of a political dynasty that would affect Botswana's democracy."
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"Out-of-shape swimming superstar Swimming superstar Michael Phelps again struggled as an unprecedented 16 records were set at the World Cup short-course event in Berlin this weekend.",
"Six new marks were set on Saturday and another 10 on Sunday, but the American could only manage a second in the 200 meters individual medley and a fifth in the 200m butterfly while failing to reach the final of the 200m freestyle.",
"Swimming superstar Michael Phelps chose to wear an old-style suit as Swimming superstar Michael Phelps did with a similar lack of success in the previous leg in Stockholm during the week, and took a back seat to those wearing high-tech outfits -- which will be outlawed from January 1.",
"\"I prefer not to lose, but I knew coming in that it would be very, very hard to win anything,\" the bearded Swimming superstar Michael Phelps told reporters.",
"\"I raced as hard as I could, I've gotten some racing under my belt, and that's what we set out to do.",
"Maybe it's better for me that I lost today.",
"It gives me better motivation for the future.",
"\"I am pleased with the week as much as I can be, with how much training I've done -- which is little, and it shows.\"",
"Swimming superstar Michael Phelps performed better on Sunday as Swimming superstar Michael Phelps finished runner-up in the medley behind South Africa's Darian Townsend, who set a world-record time of one minute 51.55 seconds -- beating Swimming superstar Michael Phelps by 1.85 seconds.",
"On Saturday, Swimming superstar Michael Phelps's much-anticipated showdown with world 200m freestyle champion Paul Biedermann never eventuated as Swimming superstar Michael Phelps finished 12th in the heats, while the supersuit-clad German set a new record in the final and also smashed Grant Hackett's seven-year-old milestone in the 400m freestyle.",
"Among the women's records to be broken, Australia's Liesel Jones followed up Australia's Liesel Jones's two gold medals from the Beijing Olympics by setting a new mark on each day.",
"The 24-year-old won the 200m breaststroke on Sunday in a time of 2:15.42, shaving more than a second off the previous record, while the day before Australia's Liesel Jones topped Australia's Liesel Jones's own leading time in the 100m breaststroke."
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"Authorities on Saturday released the names of three more victims found last week in or around the home of a registered sex offender in Cleveland, Ohio.",
"The Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office identified the bodies of Amelda Hunter, 47; Crystal Dozier, 38; and Michelle Mason, 45, all of Cleveland.",
"Anthony Sowell, was arrested last week, two days after police discovered the first bodies at Anthony Sowell's home.",
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"Amelda Hunter was not reported as a missing person at the time of the discovery of the victim's bodies at Sowell's home's residence, according to the Cleveland Police Department.",
"Amelda Hunter's family reported Amelda Hunter missing on November 3, telling police that Amelda Hunter was last seen on or about April 18.",
"Dozier also was never reported missing to police.",
"Dozier was reportedly last seen in October 2007, police said.",
"Mason was reported missing on October 12, 2008.",
"Mason was last seen earlier that month, according to police.",
"At the time, it was reported that Mason suffered from bipolar disorder and was not taking Mason's prescribed medications, police said.",
"Anthony Sowell has been placed on a suicide watch at the request of Anthony Sowell's attorney, according to Anthony Sowell's public defender, Kathleen DeMetz.",
"A psychiatric evaluation has been ordered but A psychiatric evaluation's unlikely to happen until after a grand jury files an indictment, she said.",
"Anthony Sowell is being held in a solitary cell in the Cuyahoga County jail, wearing a white paper gown, County Jail Warden Kevin McDonough told CNN.",
"Every 10 minutes, a guard checks on Anthony Sowell to make sure Anthony Sowell doesn't hurt Anthony Sowell.",
"Occasionally, Anthony Sowell is allowed out of Anthony Sowell's cell under escort to shower and use a dayroom with books and magazines, but no television, County Jail Warden Kevin McDonough said.",
"Anthony Sowell gets three meals a day.",
"Lights are out at 10 p.m.",
"\"Anthony Sowell's been quiet and compliant,\" County Jail Warden Kevin McDonough said.",
"\"Anthony Sowell understands what incarceration is like.\"",
"Anthony Sowell was released from jail in 2005.",
"According to court documents, Anthony Sowell completed several programs while in jail, including \"Living Without Violence,\" \"Positive Personal Change\" and \"Cage your Rage.\"",
"In another court document filed shortly before Anthony Sowell's release and obtained by CNN, handwritten notes state Sowell \"would be likely to re-offend because Anthony Sowell still denies the rape.\"",
"Previously, the coroner's office said the coroner's office had identified the bodies of Nancy Cobbs, 43; Tonia Carmichael, 52; Telacia Fortson, 31; and Tishana Culver, 31.",
"Police initially went to Sowell's home's home last week to follow up on a rape accusation.",
"Last month, neighbors reported seeing a naked woman fall from the second floor, but no charges were filed.",
"Neighbors called 911 after the October 20 incident.",
"Firefighters and paramedics responded, and later notified police.",
"a naked woman told officers that a naked woman was at the home and \"partying,\" when a naked woman fell off the roof.",
"\"They were doing coke, drugs, getting high,\" Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath said.",
"A man described as a naked woman's boyfriend -- Sowell -- told police the same story.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti and Ross Levitt contributed to this report."
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"A major investor in convicted swindler Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme drowned in Jeffry Picower's swimming pool in Florida after a heart attack, Jeffry Picower's attorney said Monday.",
"The medical examiner's office confirmed the report.",
"Jeffry Picower, 67, was found unconscious in Jeffry Picower's pool shortly after noon Sunday at Jeffry Picower's Palm Beach, Florida,, home by Jeffry Picower's wife, Palm Beach police said.",
"Jeffry Picower was pronounced dead at Good Samaritan Hospital.",
"Jeffry Picower's attorney, William Zabel, told CNN that Jeffry Picower drowned after suffering a massive heart attack.",
"Sue Jaffe, spokeswoman for the Palm Beach County medical examiner, confirmed those details.",
"In September, Forbes magazine ranked Jeffry Picower No. 371 among the 400 richest Americans, with a net worth of $1 billion.",
"In March, Madoff was convicted of operating a Ponzi scheme and defrauding thousands of investors.",
"Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison after pleading guilty to 11 felony counts of fraud, money laundering and perjury.",
"Prosecutors have said it was the largest investor fraud ever committed by a single person, totaling billions in losses to investors.",
"When the Picower Foundation of Palm Beach announced the Picower Foundation of Palm Beach was shutting down early this year because of Madoff losses, it initially appeared that the prominent philanthropist had been an unfortunate victim of Madoff's Ponzi scheme.",
"Jeffry Picower's 2007 tax return had valued Jeffry Picower's foundation's portfolio at $955 million.",
"However, in May, court filings by Madoff trustee Irving Picard changed the picture.",
"Madoff trustee Irving Picard's complaint claimed that Jeffry Picower had been a key beneficiary of Madoff's Ponzi scheme for more than 20 years, and \"knew or should have known that [Jeffry Picower] was profiting from fraud because of the implausibly high rates of return\" on Jeffry Picower's accounts.",
"Those \"anomalous and astronomical rates of return\" -- as high as 500 percent in one year and 950 percent in another year -- \"were neither credible nor consistent with legitimate trading activity, and should have caused any reasonable investor ... to inquire further,\" court filings by Madoff trustee Irving Picard said, referring to Jeffry Picower as \"a sophisticated investor, accountant and lawyer.\"",
"Citing backdated account filings and other bogus paperwork, The trustee's complaint contends that \"Jeffry Picower and the other defendants also knew or should have known that Picower and the other defendants were reaping the benefits of manipulated purported returns, false documents and fictitious profit.\"",
"The Picowers recently told The New York Times that the publicity and controversy surrounding their connection to Bernie Madoff had been a great source of heartache.",
"\"Jeffry Picower always have been private people, and having all this play out in the media has taken a big toll on Jeffry Picower's health,\" Jeffry Picower wrote in response to questions posed by reporters.",
"\"Jeffry Picower feel stunned, betrayed, angry, sickened, devastated,\" Jeffry Picower said, and were only able to draw strength and consolation \"from each other and from the knowledge that Jeffry Picower did nothing wrong.\""
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"Reynolds checked into a drug rehab clinic \"to regain control of Reynolds's life\" after becoming addicting to painkillers prescribed following back surgery, Reynolds's manager said.",
"Reynolds won Golden Globe for Reynolds's role as a porn producer in the 1997 hit movie \"Boogie Nights.\"",
"A short statement, issued by manager on Wednesday, did not say when or where Reynolds entered rehab.",
"\"After a recent back surgery, Reynolds felt like Reynolds was going through hell and after a while, realized Reynolds was a prisoner of prescription pain pills,\" manager said.",
"\"Reynolds checked Reynolds into rehab in order to regain control of Reynolds's life.",
"\"Reynolds hopes Reynolds's story will help others in a similar situation,\" manager said.",
"\"Reynolds hopes they will not try to solve the problem by themselves, but realize that sometimes it is too tough to do on their own and they should seek help, as Reynolds did.\"",
"Reynolds was an Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner for Reynolds's role as a porn producer in the 1997 hit movie \"Boogie Nights.\"",
"Reynolds's film career, which started in 1961, also included starring roles in the classic movies \"Deliverance,\" \"Smokey and the Bandit\" and \"Cannonball Run.\""
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"famed biographer Kitty Kelley, biographer of the rich and famous, is getting ready to release an unauthorized biography on talk show queen Oprah Winfrey.",
"The 544-page book, \"Oprah: A Biography,\" will be released on April 13, with a first printing of 500,000 copies, according to the Crown Publishing Group.",
"\"We are excited to be publishing the first comprehensive biography of one of the most influential, powerful and admired public figures of our time, by the most widely read biographer of our era,\" said Tina Constable, a vice president with Crown.",
"The author spent three years researching for the book and conducted 850 interviews, Crown said.",
"famed biographer Kitty Kelley's previous books have chronicled the Bush family political dynasty, the British royal family, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Nancy Reagan.",
"Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions had little to say about the book.",
"\"Oprah Winfrey hasn't participated in or read famed biographer Kitty Kelley's book, so Oprah Winfrey is unable to comment,\" said Oprah Winfrey spokeswoman Lisa Halliday."
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"Gertrude Baines said Gertrude Baines attributed Gertrude Baines's longevity to not drinking or smoking.",
"Gertrude Baines passed away at the Western Convalescent Hospital at 7:25 a.m. (10:25 a.m. ET) Friday, Guinness World Records said.",
"Born in 1894, Gertrude Baines became the world's oldest person in January after the death of another 115-year-old, Maria de Jesus, from Portugal, Guinness World Records said.",
"At Gertrude Baines's 115th birthday party in April, Gertrude Baines shook Gertrude Baines's head in disbelief when presented with the certificate saying Gertrude Baines was now in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's's oldest person.",
"\"Gertrude Baines told me that Gertrude Baines owes Gertrude Baines's longevity to the Lord, that Gertrude Baines never did drink, never did smoke, and Gertrude Baines never did fool around,\" Gertrude Baines's doctor, Dr. Charles Witt, said in April.",
"Baines, whose grandparents were slaves, worked as a maid in Ohio State University dormitories until Gertrude Baines's retirement, and lived at the Los Angeles convalescent home for more than 10 years.",
"Last November, Gertrude Baines became the oldest African-American to vote for President Obama and received a letter from President Obama on Gertrude Baines's 115th birthday, Guinness World Records said.",
"Witt said Gertrude Baines planned to vote for President Obama again in 2012.",
"Asked why Gertrude Baines voted for President Obama, Gertrude Baines said it was because \"he's for the colored people,\" according to footage from The Los Angeles Times.",
"Gertrude Baines said Gertrude Baines never thought a black man could become president.",
"\"Everybody's glad for a colored man to be in there sometime,\" Gertrude Baines said.",
"\"We all are the same on the skin.",
"It's dark, and theirs is white.\"",
"Gertrude Baines had few complaints, Gertrude Baines's doctor said.",
"Gertrude Baines fussed about the bacon not being crisp enough and the arthritis in Gertrude Baines's knees, Witt said.",
"The smooth skin on Gertrude Baines's face belied Gertrude Baines's 115 years, but Gertrude Baines didn't attribute that to any anti-wrinkle cream or miracle product, according to Gertrude Baines's best friend, Lucille Fayall.",
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"Arizona police are looking for an Iraqi man who Arizona police allege ran down Man's daughter and her friend because Man believed Man's daughter had become \"too Westernized.\"",
"Police say Police're looking for Faleh Hassan Almaleki, who Police say struck two people with a vehicle Tuesday.",
"Peoria, Arizona, police said Wednesday that Man, struck Man's 20-year-old daughter, Noor Faleh Almaleki, and her friend Amal Edan Khalaf with a vehicle Man was driving in a parking lot Tuesday afternoon.",
"Man was angry with Man's daughter \"as Noor Faleh Almaleki had become too 'Westernized' and was not living according to [the family's] traditional Iraq[i] values,\" Peoria police said in a statement released Wednesday.",
"Noor Faleh Almaleki is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, according to a statement released Wednesday.",
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"Noor Faleh Almaleki lives with Khalaf, police said but did not elaborate on how the two women knew each other.",
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"No further details were immediately available.",
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"Peru will turn over to Chilean authorities all evidence into allegations that a Peruvian air force officer was spying for the neighboring country, Peruvian President Alan Garcia said Monday.",
"Peruvian President Alan Garcia ordered Peruvian President Alan Garcia's foreign minister and justice department to hand over all details of the investigation so Chile could \"give the corresponding explanations,\" Peruvian President Alan Garcia said in a televised address.",
"The alleged spying by Chile, Peruvian President Alan Garcia declared, was the result of fear and an inferiority complex by the Chileans.",
"Peruvian President Alan Garcia added that Peru will not let the incident become a full-blown crisis between the two nations.",
"Spy suspect, Peruvian air force officer, remained imprisoned at a maximum security facility north of Lima, authorities said.",
"Two other Peruvian air force officers, accused of being collaborators, also were detained, as were two Chilean military officers who were alleged accomplices, CNN en Español reported.",
"Mendoza could face charges of treason, which carry a minimum sentence of 25 years.",
"News of the spy case caused Peruvian President Alan Garcia to prematurely end a trip to Singapore for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation.",
"Peruvian President Alan Garcia and Peruvian President Alan Garcia's Chilean counterpart, Michelle Bachelet, had planned to attend a workshop Saturday with other world leaders, but Peruvian President Alan Garcia canceled Peruvian President Alan Garcia's agenda to return to Lima.",
"Chile has dismissed the espionage allegations.",
"\"Chile has nothing to do with the spy case,\" Chilean Foreign Minister Mariano Fernandez told reporters after a meeting with Chilean Foreign Minister Mariano Fernandez's nation's ambassador to Peru.",
"According to local media, the suspected spy once worked at the Peruvian Embassy in Chile and sold secrets to the Chileans since 2002, CNN en Español reported.",
"Chile and Peru have a history of animosity, having fought in the War of the Pacific from 1879 to 1883.",
"Hard feelings linger to this day.",
"Chile and Peru nearly came to war in 1975, when left-wing Peruvian leader Juan Velasco, who was backed by Cuba, wanted to invade Chile, which was led by right-wing Gen. Augusto Pinochet.",
"The invasion was called off, and Velasco was deposed in a coup a short while later.",
"Tensions rose again when Peru discovered a Chilean spy mission, but war was averted.",
"More recently, tensions between Chile and Peru flared in December after the revelation that Peru's top army general said at a party that Chileans in Peru would be sent back in coffins or body bags.",
"Chile and Peru said Chile and Peru would work to heal relations after Peru's top army general's comments.",
"Journalist Gisu Guerra contributed to this report."
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"James Arthur Ray said Tuesday that James Arthur Ray has hired James Arthur Ray's own investigators to determine what happened at James Arthur Ray's Arizona retreat last week, when two people died after spending considerable time in a sweat lodge.",
"Self-help author James Arthur Ray has hired investigators to investigate two deaths at an Arizona sweat lodge.",
"Tuesday's tearful speech before about 200 supporters was the first time that James Arthur Ray had publicly discussed the case.",
"Authorities said James Shore of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Kirby Brown of Westtown, New York, died Friday at the Angel Valley Resort after spending up to two hours in an Arizona sweat lodge.",
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"\"I have no idea what happened.",
"We'll figure it out,\" James Arthur Ray said, adding that James Arthur Ray had hired investigators.",
"\"I've lost people I love and really care about.\"",
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"James Arthur Ray is the author of the best-selling book \"Harmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want.\"",
"Ray, described on his Web site as a \"personal success strategist,\" has appeared on CNN's \"Larry King Live\" and the \"Oprah Winfrey Show,\" and is featured in the self-empowerment film \"The Secret.\"",
"On Tuesday, James Arthur Ray told the crowd that James Arthur Ray is struggling with the deaths.",
"\"These are challenging times,\" James Arthur Ray said.",
"\"I've faced many; none like this.",
"I don't know how to deal with it really.\"",
"The use of sweat lodges for spiritual and physical cleansing is a part of several Native American tribes' cultures.",
"A traditional Native American sweat lodge is a small dome-like structure made up of willow branches carefully tied together and covered in canvas.",
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"CNN's Sara Weisfeldt contributed to this report."
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"The $410 billion budget President Obama signed Wednesday will make it easier for U.S. residents to travel to Cuba and to send money to family members on the island.",
"It also could facilitate the sale of agricultural and pharmaceutical products to Cuba.",
"The residents of Havana, Cuba, often rely on bicycle taxis for transportation.",
"Three provisions attached to Obama loosened restrictions enacted by then-President George W. Bush after then-President George W. Bush came to office in 2001.",
"Analysts see the move as a way for the new Obama administration to start thawing relations with Cuba one month before the Fifth Summit of the Americas brings together the U.S. president and 33 other leaders from the Western Hemisphere in Trinidad and Tobago.",
"\"[Cuba] is the issue of greatest symbolic importance,\" said Peter Hakim, president of the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue policy institute.",
"\"It will be seen as a test of real U.S. readiness to change in the hemisphere.",
"What he says about Cuba will make headlines.\"",
"Hakim testified about Latin American policy Wednesday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.",
"Cuba and the United States have had a troubled relationship since Fidel Castro came to power in 1959.",
"the United States broke off diplomatic relations in 1961 and imposed a trade embargo in 1962.",
"Bush tightened some of those restrictions in recent years, most notably limiting travel to the island to once every three years for a limit of 14 days.",
"Under the new provisions, relatives will be able to go once a year and stay for an unlimited time.",
"In addition, the definition of relatives has been broadened to include uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces.",
"The new measures also increase the amount of money visitors can spend.",
"Otto Reich, who served presidents Reagan and both Bushes in a number of high-level Latin American posts, also testified Wednesday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.",
"Reich and Hakim have different perspectives on how far Obama should go on improving relations with Cuba, but Reich and Hakim agree that attaching the latest measures to Obama was the wrong way to do it.",
"\"It's important to open up Cuba, but it should be done systematically,\" Hakim told CNN.",
"\"This is very important for the Cuban American community.",
"It ought to be done with the Cuban American community at the table.",
"If the Cuban American community're not involved, the Cuban American community're going to push back.\"",
"Initial opposition from two Democratic senators with large Cuban American communities in two Democratic senators with large Cuban American communities in their states's states put Obama in jeopardy.",
"two Democratic senators with large Cuban American communities in their states voted for Obama Tuesday after receiving personal letters from Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner assuring two Democratic senators with large Cuban American communities in their states that the new provisions will not alter U.S. policy.",
"Reich said Reich did not like the Cuba provisions in Obama because the United States gets nothing in return.",
"\"I'm opposed to Obama because of the way Obama was done,\" Reich said.",
"\"There's a way it can be done to advance the conditions of the people in Cuba.",
"I don't approve of the unilateral way it's being done.",
"The embargo is a negotiating tool.",
"We should not negotiate with ourselves, and that's what we're doing.\"",
"Hakim warns that too much should not be read into the new measures, saying, \"The fact is that this is very minor.\"",
"Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, said in a policy statement Wednesday that the new provision \"suffers from being too little and too late.\"",
"Similar measures have been attached to previous spending bills in the past eight years but then-President George W. Bush threatened to veto the legislation, so the language was scrapped.",
"Senators Nelson and Menendez were most concerned with the provision that allows cash advance sales of agricultural and pharmaceutical products to Cuba.",
"Before then-President George W. Bush, \"cash advance\" used to mean that money would have to be paid as soon as the goods reached Cuba.",
"But the Bush Administration said \"cash advance\" had to mean money was sent before the cargo was loaded on ships in the United States for Cuba.",
"The language in the new spending bill reverts the meaning to the previous \"cash-on-delivery\" method favored by U.S. farmers and exporters.",
"Some members of Congress also were concerned the new provisions would allow credit sales, which would poke major holes in the economic embargo.",
"But Geithner's letters to Nelson and Menendez assured two Democratic senators with large Cuban American communities in their states this would not happen.",
"Geithner did tell two Democratic senators with large Cuban American communities in their states, though, the Bush Administration is reviewing the Bush Administration's policies toward Cuba.",
"CNN State Department Producer Elise Labott contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Country music artist Taylor Swift has told CNN she never dreamed she would shoot to stardom so quickly.",
"At just 19 years old, she is one of the most successful recording artists of the decade in the United States.",
"Her album \"Fearless\" is certified quadruple platinum, and her 60-date tour of the U.S., UK and Australia sold out in minutes.",
"Talking to CNN's Becky Anderson, she said: \"I think for me the most satisfying thing is going out with my first headlining tour and having every show sell out.",
"That was something that I never dreamed would be so quick to happen.",
"\"Putting Madison Square Garden on sale and having it be sold out in 59 seconds.",
"Like I can't believe that.",
"I'm still completely blown away by that.",
"\"And I think my parents are most proud of the moment when where we were all sitting in the crowd at the CMA Awards and my parents heard my name announced as entertainer of the year.",
"\"I think my parents cried more for that moment than any other moment.\"",
"She has had two number one albums in the Billboard Charts, and in 2009, Swift became the first country music artist ever to win an MTV Video Music Award.",
"Asked what she would have thought had someone told her 10 years ago that she would be famous by the age of 18, she said: \"I thought I was going to do what my parents did.",
"my parents went to college.",
"my parents went into business and I loved music and I never imagined that I would actually get to do that as a job.",
"It's wonderful.\"",
"Asked why it is that her songs are considered country music, she said: \"I think that what categorizes country music, to me, in my head.",
"I think a country song is when you are singing about being proud of your life.",
"\"I sing about love and boys and that's my life.",
"So that's what fascinates me, feelings, and so I think if you are singing and writing songs about the way that you live your life, that's a country song.\"",
"On reports that she is dating teen heartthrob Taylor Lautner, Swift said: \"He's a great guy and we're really close.\"",
"But she refused to be drawn on her thoughts about Kanye West, who cut her off as she accepted the award for Best Female Song at the MTV Music Video Awards ceremony.",
"\"I just haven't really changed my mind and that I don't like to talk about it,\" she said."
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"A suicide car bomb blast near a voter registration site killed 16 people, 14 of them children, and wounded 58 in southeastern Afghanistan on Sunday morning, according to a senior police official and the U.S. military.",
"the U.S. military released this photo of A suicide car bomb blast near a voter registration site near a voter registration site.",
"A Taliban spokesman said one of A Taliban spokesman's group's fighters carried out the attack.",
"When security guards stopped the car at the entrance to the Mandozai district headquarters, the driver detonated the explosives inside the car, Khost provincial security chief Mohammad Yaqoub said.",
"A security guard and an Afghan National Army soldier were among the dead.",
"There were no military casualties, said U.S. Col. Gregory Julian.",
"Coalition and Afghan forces worked together to evacuate the wounded to military and civilian hospitals, U.S. Col. Gregory Julian said.",
"the U.S. military released photos of the incident, saying they \"provide further proof the Afghan militants are not interested in the welfare nor benefit of the Afghan people.\"",
"Dozens of tribal elders were meeting nearby in the district administrative office at the time of A suicide car bomb blast near a voter registration site, A Taliban spokesman said.",
"The Mandozai district is in the Khost province.",
"Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman speaking by phone from an undisclosed location, said A suicide car bomb blast near a voter registration site was carried out by Qari Hameedullah, a Taliban fighter.",
"Elsewhere, a rocket attack in Kabul killed three teenage sisters and injured four other people Saturday night, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office said in a statement.",
"The girls died when one of two rockets fired on Kabul crashed into a house in the southern part of Kabul.",
"In a statement, Karzai called those who fired two rockets fired on Kabul \"enemies of Afghanistan\" who \"can't achieve anything by firing rockets but the killing of innocent civilians.\"",
"Karzai called the suicide bombing an \"un-Islamic act\" and said those behind it \"are not aware of the Islamic teachings which outlaw the killing of innocent people.",
"Those who ordered and executed this attack cannot escape the revenge of Afghans and God's punishment.\"",
"Journalist Farhad Peikar contributed to this report."
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"The Supreme Court offered unanimous support for police Wednesday by allowing drug evidence gathered after an arrest that violated state law to be used at trial, an important search-and-seizure case turning on the constitutional limits of \"probable cause.\"",
"The Supreme Court unanimously gave police broader powers to search for and seize evidence.",
"\"When officers have probable cause to believe that a person has committed a crime in officers's presence, the Fourth Amendment permits officers to make an arrest, and to search the suspect in order to safeguard evidence and ensure officers's own safety,\" Justice Antonin Scalia wrote.",
"David Lee Moore was stopped by Portsmouth, Virginia, officers five years ago for driving David Lee Moore's vehicle on a suspended license.",
"Under state law in such incidents, only a summons is to be issued and the motorist is to be allowed to go.",
"Instead, detectives detained David Lee Moore for almost an hour, arrested David Lee Moore, then searched David Lee Moore and found cocaine.",
"At trial, David Lee Moore's lawyers tried to suppress the evidence, but the state judge allowed the evidence, even though The Supreme Court noted the arrest violated state law.",
"A police detective, asked why David Lee Moore was arrested, replied, \"Just our prerogative.\"",
"While some of the justices expressed concern about that level of discretion at oral arguments in January, the justices's 9-0 ruling raised few such doubts.",
"\"The arrest rules that the officers violated were those of state law alone,\" Scalia said.",
"\"It is not the province of the Fourth Amendment to enforce state law.\"",
"The state had argued an arrest is constitutionally reasonable if officers have probable cause to believe a suspect has committed a crime.",
"\"This standard represents the best compromise between the needs of the citizens and the duty of the government to combat crime,\" Stephen McCullough, Virginia's deputy solicitor general, had told The Supreme Court.",
"But David Lee Moore's attorney, Thomas Goldstein, called an \"extreme proposition\" the idea that it would be reasonable \"to go out and arrest someone for a non-arrestable offense and not only do that, but having committed that trespass at common law, to further search them.\"",
"There has been widespread judicial confusion over how such police searches should be handled.",
"Some lower courts had ruled that when state arrest law is violated, the Constitution provides a remedy in the suppression of any evidence resulting from the arrest and a related search.",
"But the justices agreed with the majority of courts that said constitutional requirements are satisfied when an officer has probable cause to make an arrest, even if some provision of state law was violated in the process.",
"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a concurring opinion suggesting Virginia change Virginia's law to make driving on a suspended license an arrestable offense.",
"During arguments, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke for several colleagues when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pointed out that if a summons had been issued in David Lee Moore's case, any incriminating evidence would have been excluded.",
"\"Would you explain the logic to saying that when the police violate state law, then the evidence can come in, but when the police comply with state law, it can't,\" Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked.",
"The ruling means David Lee Moore's original jury conviction and 3-½ year prison term will stand.",
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"(CNN) --",
"The family of a Chicago teenager whose beating death was caught on video hope that the attention the incident has garnered will spur healing locally, a relative said at a news conference Wednesday evening.",
"Derrion Albert, 16, was beaten to death last week.",
"His death was captured on video.",
"\"It should've never happened, but it's never too late,\" said Rose Braxton, great-aunt of 16-year-old Derrion Albert.",
"\"It's time for healing to start getting our communities together so this won't happen to anyone else's child ever again.\"",
"Four suspects have been charged with first-degree murder in the September 24 killing of Albert, and police say they are looking for three more people in connection with the beating captured on videotape.",
"Prosecutors said that Albert, an honors student, was an innocent bystander who ended up in the middle of a street fight between two factions of students from Fenger High School.",
"The incident caught the attention of the White House, too.",
"The footage of the incident, which shows Albert being hit by a railroad tie, \"is \"chilling\" and one of the most shocking things \"you can ever see,\" White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday.",
"President Obama's concern over the September 24 killing of Albert didn't provide additional comfort to the family, \"but I'm glad that it's out there so everyone can see it and everyone know that, yes, this is happening,\" Braxton said.",
"\"This was vicious.",
"How do you just come out and decide that you're going to attack someone with a two-by-four?\" Braxton said.",
"Braxton spoke to reporters together with area community and church leaders.",
"\"Maybe this will wake up and shake up people,\" the Rev. Jesse Jackson said at the press conference, noting that three teens were killed in Chicago this week.",
"Braxton said Braxton's message to the White House was simply, \"Do something.\"",
"\"We need to get to our children,\" Braxton said.",
"\"Why are they so angry, so full of venom, that you would even consider doing something like that to another human being?\"",
"Albert's funeral was scheduled for Saturday at 10 a.m. at Greater Mount Hebron Baptist Church in Chicago.",
"An amateur videotape shot by a witness, which has been broadcast widely, showed the attack unfolding.",
"A local TV station that received the tape turned it over to police.",
"When school let out at 2:50 p.m. on Thursday, Albert was on Albert's way to a bus stop when two groups of students converged on the street, said Tandra Simonton, spokeswoman for the Cook County States Attorney.",
"The factions, one that lived near the Altgeld Gardens housing development and one in an area known as \"The Ville,\" began fighting after an earlier shooting that police called gang-related.",
"According to Tandra Simonton, Albert was approached by two members of \"The Ville\" faction and struck in the head with a long wooden railroad tie, then punched in the face.",
"After being briefly knocked unconscious, Albert regained consciousness and tried to move from the fight, but was then attacked by a second group of five members from the opposing faction, Tandra Simonton said.",
"Albert was taken to Roseland Community Hospital and then to Advocate Christ Hospital and Medical Center, where Albert was pronounced dead.",
"Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis said Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis asked the U.S. Secret Service to try to enhance the video so that others involved in the fight can be identified.",
"Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis pleaded with anyone who may have information not to withhold it.",
"\"The culture of 'no-snitch' is unacceptable,\" Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis said.",
"\"On Thursday, Albert lost Albert's life to senseless violence, yet few have come forward.\"",
"Authorities are also considering charging people who participated in the fight but did not come into contact with Albert, Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis said.",
"Asked about the September 24 killing of Albert as Obama prepares to travel to Copenhagen, Denmark, to lobby the International Olympic Committee to award Chicago the 2016 Games, Gibbs described the videotape of the September 24 killing of Albert as \"among the most shocking that you can ever see.\"",
"\"The killing of an honor student ... who's beaten to death, is chilling, chilling video,\" Gibbs said.",
"Obama has emphasized parental responsibility in addressing chronic problems in low-income urban communities including school dropouts, drug use, gang activity and violence.",
"Gibbs offered no explanation for the Chicago killing, saying, \"in many ways a lot of these crimes are amazingly hard to explain.\"",
"Whatever led to the September 24 killing of Albert, \"you can't regulate the hard issue,\" Gibbs said.",
"\"This is not a problem that government alone, as the president often says, at any level is going to be able to solve,\" Gibbs said.",
"\"This is going to take community involvement, it's going to take parental involvement, it's going to take the involvement of everyone to address what is obviously a sad and shocking problem.\""
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"(CNN) -- German-born fashion designer is perhaps the most recognizable man in fashion, almost never seen without German-born fashion designer's dark glasses, a silver ponytail and fingerless gloves.",
"And while German-born fashion designer has been the creative force behind fashion house Chanel for more than a quarter of a century, German-born fashion designer's still thriving on new ideas, designs and what the future may hold.",
"\"I don't look back...",
"Life is not something made by order, we have to fit in the pattern of what life is all about now, and I'm a person who fits easily into this kind of situation because I like change",
",\" German-born fashion designer told CNN in Shanghai.",
"While German-born fashion designer's own image is enduring, German-born fashion designer is the creative force of the Chanel fashion house, whose eponymous designer, Coco Chanel created some of the most iconic outfits of the 20th century.",
"German-born fashion designer may have upset the traditionalists when German-born fashion designer first took over the reins, but for German-born fashion designer, it was not a concern.",
"\"My job is to put in people's brain the idea what Chanel was all about, even if it was not about such a large choice of things...",
"I pushed [Coco Chanel's] symbol, like the change of pearls, in a way much more than Coco Chanel's did Coco Chanel's.",
"I could play with everything and mix it with everything that's going on in fashion because fashion is about that.",
"It's not retrospective, it has to be something you want to wear now,\" German-born fashion designer said.",
"As for the notoriously harsh world of fashion, German-born fashion designer sees it merely as a reflection of the way the world works.",
"\"This is a world with no pity or that you can complain, 'I couldn't do it because things are against me.'",
"No, things are against nobody, if you have something to offer, or if you can be something,\" German-born fashion designer said.",
"\"If you want to be successful in the fashion world, as well as the movie world and music world, it's something else that you need, but you cannot decide that you have it.",
"It's up to you to sew it, but it's up to the others to use it.",
"In a way it's the worst of worlds, but if you made in the world, it's beyond pleasant.\"",
"Confident and unabashed German-born fashion designer is looking forward to more creative inspiration and hard work.",
"German-born fashion designer's contracts with Coco Chanel's and Fendi are for life.",
"\"Coco Chanel's died doing Coco Chanel's last collection in Coco Chanel's's 90s, so I have time.",
"I don't think like this.",
"It's my projection, always six months, six months, six months.",
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"I think it's very healthy, it makes you better.\"",
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"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) --",
"attack killed at least 22 people and wounded 60 others Tuesday in the central Pakistani city of Dera Ghazi Khan, said a rescue service official.",
"The dead included two children, three women and 17 men, said, Mubarak Ali Athar, the regional police chief in Dera Ghazi Khan.",
"Three people were critically injured, Mubarak Ali Athar, the regional police chief in Dera Ghazi Khan said.",
"attack ripped through a market located near the house of Sardar Zulfiqar Muhammad Khosa's, said the official, Mohammed Hasnain.",
"Sardar Zulfiqar Muhammad Khosa's, is a former provincial governor and a senior opposition party politician.",
"Sardar Zulfiqar Muhammad Khosa's said Sardar Zulfiqar Muhammad Khosa's was the target of attack, though police initially said Sardar Zulfiqar Muhammad Khosa's was not the intended target.",
"Sardar Zulfiqar Muhammad Khosa's told CNN that none of Sardar Zulfiqar Muhammad Khosa's's family members were in the house when attack occurred.",
"Sardar Zulfiqar Muhammad Khosa's also said that Sardar Zulfiqar Muhammad Khosa's had never before received any threats against Sardar Zulfiqar Muhammad Khosa's's life.",
"The attacker detonated his car in front of the main gate at Sardar Zulfiqar Muhammad Khosa's's house, said Hassan Iqbal, a senior government official.",
"About 20 shops in a market located near the house of a senior adviser to the chief minister of Punjab province were left in heaps of rubble.",
"Journalist Umar Aziz Khan contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Iceland is losing Iceland's only three McDonald's restaurants as a result of the poor economic situation in Iceland.",
"Businessman Magnus Ogmundsson, who owns the only McDonald's franchise in Iceland, said it had become too expensive to operate its only three McDonald's restaurants after Iceland's currency, the krona, plunged in value.",
"\"The krona is quite weak and Iceland are buying everything in euros, and Iceland have very high tariffs on imported agricultural products,\" he told CNN on Tuesday.",
"In January 2008, it cost more than 95 Icelandic krona to buy one euro, according to the Central Bank of Iceland.",
"Tuesday, that price had shot up to more than 186 krona.",
"That means Iceland is worth half as much today as Iceland was in January 2008 -- and things priced in euros now cost twice as much to buy.",
"Ogmundsson said the McDonald's Corporation worked with Ogmundsson to find a solution, but in the end Ogmundsson had no choice but to close.",
"There was \"good cooperation\" with the McDonald's, Ogmundsson told CNN.",
"\"No hard feelings.\"",
"the McDonald's said it had become financially prohibitive to continue operating in Iceland because of \"the unique operational complexity of doing business in Iceland combined with the very challenging economic climate in Iceland.\"",
"It said there are no plans to seek a new franchise partner in Iceland.",
"its only three McDonald's restaurants will close at midnight Saturday, but its only three McDonald's restaurants will reopen as an independent chain called Metro, with more domestic ingredients and fewer imported products.",
"\"the McDonald believe the McDonald can be more successful with the McDonald's own brand,\" Ogmundsson said.",
"A the McDonald's Big Mac hamburger currently sells for the equivalent of $5.29, making Iceland one of the most expensive places in the world to buy the sandwich.",
"Only Norway and Switzerland charge more, according to the countries listed on the Economist magazine's Big Mac Index, published in February.",
"A Big Mac costs about $3.54 in the United States, $2.19 in Australia, $5.07 in Denmark, $1.66 in South Africa, and $1.52 in Malaysia."
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"(CNN) --",
"A man accused of screaming racial slurs while beating an Army reservist in front of her 7-year-old daughter's daughter outside a restaurant in Morrow, Georgia, was jailed and held without bond Wednesday after being indicted on felony charges.",
"Troy Dale West Jr, of Poulan, Georgia, is being held without bond on new felony charges.",
"Troy Dale West Jr., of Poulan, Georgia, is facing one count of aggravated assault, two counts of battery, two counts of disorderly conduct, false imprisonment and cruelty to children for allegedly beating Army reservist outside a Cracker Barrel restaurant on September 9, according to a Clayton County Court online docket.",
"West had been arrested on misdemeanor charges following the incident, but Clayton County District Attorney Tracy Graham Lawson took the the case to a grand jury asking for more serious charges.",
"Hill's attorney Kip Jones told CNN that several hundred supporters, believed to be with the NAACP, Al Sharpton's Political Action Network and Rainbow Push, gathered outside the courtroom Wednesday morning in support of more serious charges against West.",
"Hill's attorney Kip Jones said Hill's attorney Kip Jones and Army reservist were pleased with the new indictment.",
"\"We look forward to a conviction as Army reservist and Army reservist's 7-year-old daughter move forward to recover from the incident,\" Hill's attorney Kip Jones said.",
"West's lawyer, Larry King, had no comment about the new indictment, according his assistant.",
"Hill, 35, said the incident occurred after Army reservist warned West to be careful after almost hitting Army reservist's 7-year-old daughter with the restaurant's door as she was leaving.",
"West, according to a police report, admitted striking Army reservist \"after Army reservist spit on me and accused me of trying to hit Army reservist's daughter with a door.\"",
"During an interview on CNN following the incident, Hill's attorney Kip Jones denied that Army reservist spat on West or did \"anything to provoke the incident.\"",
"Hill, an African-American, told police that West, 47, yelled racial epithets at Army reservist during the incident.",
"Police said witnesses confirmed Army reservist's account.",
"\"He did punch me with a closed fist repeated times.",
"My head is still hurting today.",
"I have knots on My head,\" Army reservist told CNN.",
"Army reservist also said Army reservist was kicked.",
"Police say Army reservist stated that \"West punched Army reservist in the left cheek, forehead, kicked Army reservist's body in several places, and punched Army reservist's head in many areas several times.\"",
"Army reservist's attorney said Hill's attorney Kip Jones was \"convinced this was a hateful, racist attack ... based on the N-word, the B-word, etc.\"",
"\"The language was vile.",
"The language was racist.",
"The language was sexist.",
"It was completely offensive, completely unprovoked,\" Jones said.",
"Morrow is a racially diverse city in the southeast suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, with a population of about 4,900, according to the 2000 census."
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"Gabriel Medina can't reach Gabriel Medina's hotel in New Orleans because there's a police barricade in front of his hotel in New Orleans.",
"A manager promises to \"help\" Gabriel Medina cancel the reservation, but three days later, Gabriel Medina's credit card is charged $113.",
"Now Gabriel Medina's credit card has sided with the hotel.",
"Is there anything else Gabriel Medina can do?",
"Q: I don't know where else to turn.",
"I recently booked a room at the Holiday Inn French Quarter-Chateau Lemoyne in New Orleans through his hotel in New Orleans's central reservations phone number.",
"When I arrived, the New Orleans Police Department had the entire block closed off.",
"I immediately called the hotel and told the hotel manager I couldn't access the hotel.",
"the hotel manager said the hotel manager did not know when the blockade would be lifted and couldn't help get my car or luggage to the hotel.",
"the hotel manager couldn't cancel the reservation because I had made it through the hotel's central reservations number.",
"After several more attempts to reach the hotel, the hotel manager agreed to help me cancel the reservation.",
"I stayed at another hotel that night.",
"Three days later, a $113 charge appeared on my credit card from the hotel.",
"I disputed a $113 charge, but the hotel told me I couldn't get a refund because I could not prove that the hotel refused me the room.",
"When I called guest relations they said they needed a cancellation number before they would consider a refund.",
"Otherwise the hotel would need to reverse a $113 charge.",
"When I call the hotel, I get only voicemail.",
"Can you help?",
"-- Gabriel Medina, Elk Grove, California .",
"A: If a hotel representative says your reservation is canceled, you shouldn't be charged for your stay.",
"But a review of your correspondence raises a few red flags.",
"First, the hotel manager told you that it was impossible for the hotel manager to cancel a reservation made through Holiday Inn's's 800-number.",
"Then, a few minutes later, the hotel manager agrees to \"help\" you cancel the reservation.",
"I would assume that \"helping\" you means your reservation is officially canceled, but what if the hotel manager just looked into it and then decided it couldn't be done, and left your original reservation intact?",
"Since the hotel didn't have a cancellation number, it probably means there was no cancellation.",
"Here's what you did right: You noted the name of the manager with whom you spoke.",
"You followed up with the hotel, and you were persistent but polite.",
"Here's what you overlooked: You should have called the central reservations number and asked for a cancellation number.",
"If they refused to give you a number, you should have given a representative the name of the manager you spoke with.",
"I would have followed up with the hotel manager and not let the hotel off the hook until you had a number.",
"But getting a number isn't enough.",
"Instead of continuing to call the hotel, I would have sent it a short, cordial email asking for a verification of your cancellation in writing.",
"If you send an email through a hotel company's Web site (Holiday Inn) you'll typically receive a meaningful answer in a matter of days, if not hours.",
"With that information, your credit card dispute would have probably been a slam-dunk.",
"Before getting to the resolution on your case, let me add one more thing.",
"As far as I can tell, the hotel was under no obligation to refund your money.",
"You couldn't reach the hotel because of a police barricade, which the property couldn't control.",
"But since the hotel manager assured you that the hotel manager would help you make a cancellation, I think it's reasonable to expect a refund.",
"I contacted the hotel on your behalf.",
"It reviewed your case and apologized for the way in which your refund was handled.",
"\"Clearly the inability to access the hotel was beyond your control, and in as such, you should be relieved of the $113 charge you have received,\" a representative wrote to you in a letter.",
"You're getting your $113 back.",
"Christopher Elliott is the ombudsman for National Geographic Traveler magazine.",
"E",
"mail Christopher Elliott at [email protected].",
"Copyright 2009 CHRISTOPHER ELLIOTT, DISTRIBUTED BY TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC."
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"An extensive federal report released Monday concludes that roughly one in four of the 697,000 U.S. veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War suffer from Gulf War.",
"A U.S. soldier wears protection against chemical weapons during Gulf War in a February 1991 photo.",
"Gulf War is a condition now identified as the likely consequence of exposure to toxic chemicals, including pesticides and a drug administered to protect troops against nerve gas.",
"An extensive federal report released Monday states that \"scientific evidence leaves no question that Gulf War is a real condition with real causes and serious consequences for affected veterans.\"",
"The report, compiled by a panel of scientific experts and veterans serving on the congressionally mandated Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses, fails to identify any cure for the malady.",
"It also notes that few veterans afflicted with Gulf War have recovered over time.",
"\"An extensive federal report released Monday brings to a close one of the darkest chapters in the legacy of the 1991 Gulf War,\" said Anthony Hardie, a member of the congressionally mandated Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses and a member of the advocacy group Veterans of Modern Warfare.",
"\"This is a bittersweet victory, [because] this is what Gulf War veterans have been saying all along,\" Anthony Hardie, a member of the committee and a member of the advocacy group Veterans of Modern Warfare said at a news conference in Washington.",
"\"Years were squandered by the federal government ... trying to disprove that anything could be wrong with Gulf War veterans.\"",
"the congressionally mandated Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses's",
"report, titled \"Gulf War and the Health of Gulf War Veterans,\" was officially presented Monday to Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Peake.",
"Noting that overall funding for research into Gulf War has declined dramatically since 2001, it calls for a \"renewed federal research commitment\" to \"identify effective treatments for Gulf War and address other priority Gulf War health issues.\"",
"Watch CNN's Elizabeth Cohen report more on Gulf War illness » .",
"According to An extensive federal report released Monday, Gulf War is a \"complex of multiple concurrent symptoms\" that \"typically includes persistent memory and concentration problems, chronic headaches, widespread pain, gastrointestinal problems, and other chronic abnormalities.\"",
"Gulf War may also be potentially tied to higher rates of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) -- more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease -- among Gulf War veterans than veterans of other conflicts.",
"Gulf War is identified as the consequence of multiple \"biological alterations\" affecting the brain and nervous system.",
"iReport.com:",
"Do you know someone affected by Gulf War?",
"While it is sometimes difficult to issue a specific diagnosis of the disease, it is, according to An extensive federal report released Monday, no longer difficult to identify a cause.",
"An extensive federal report released Monday identifies two Gulf War \"neurotoxic\" exposures that \"are causally associated with Gulf War.\"",
"The first is the ingestion of pyridostigmine bromide (PB) pills, given to protect troops from effects of nerve agents.",
"The second is exposure to dangerous pesticides used during the conflict.",
"An extensive federal report released Monday does not rule out other possible contributors to Gulf War illness -- including low-level exposure to nerve agents and close proximity to oil well fires -- though An extensive federal report released Monday fails to establish any clear link.",
"An extensive federal report released Monday concludes there is no clear link between the illness and a veteran's exposure to factors such as depleted uranium or an anthrax vaccine administered at the time.",
"\"Gulf War isn't some imaginary syndrome,\" said Ken Robinson, the senior intelligence officer for the initial Department of Defense investigation into Gulf War in 1996-97.",
"\"Gulf War is real, and Gulf War has devastated families.",
"Now is the time to restore the funding cuts that have been made in the Veterans Administration.",
"Our mission has to be to ensure that these veterans get help and become whole again.\"",
"Robinson noted that soldiers in the field today are not at risk for Gulf War illness, because the military is no longer using the PB pills or pesticides that led to Gulf War in 1990 and 1991.",
"An extensive federal report released Monday backs Robinson's conclusion, noting that no problem similar to Gulf War illness has been discovered among veterans from the conflict in Bosnia in the 1990s or in the current engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq.",
"An extensive federal report released Monday also backs Robinson's call for more effective treatments among veterans suffering from Gulf War.",
"Noting that overall funding for research into Gulf War has declined dramatically since 2001, it calls for a \"renewed federal research commitment\" to \"identify effective treatments for Gulf War and address other priority Gulf War health issues.\"",
"Specifically, An extensive federal report released Monday calls for at least $60 million in new annual federal funding on research committed to improving the health of Gulf War veterans."
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"(CNN) --",
"Peruvian authorities say Peruvian authorities have arrested four members of a gang that specialized in selling to European labs fat obtained from dead humans.",
"Officials are investigating the disappearance of at least 60 people Officials believe were killed by gang members in two mountainous states in central Peru, lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz said Friday.",
"The four suspects have been charged with murder in the September slaying of a Peruvian man, lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz said.",
"\"The four suspects killed to obtain human fat because there were European laboratories that would pay them,\" lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz said.",
"The four suspects told authorities The four suspects were paid $15,000 for a liter (about 1 quart) of human fat.",
"Officials did not disclose what possible use laboratories could have for the human fat, but fat can be a component of cosmetics and is used in reconstructive or cosmetic surgery.",
"The use of human fat for any purpose is extremely rare, however, physicians say.",
"Other suspects, including the Peruvian ringleader, have eluded capture, lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz said.",
"Authorities have the names of two Italian suspects who are being sought by Interpol, the 188-nation worldwide police agency, lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz said.",
"lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz declined to reveal their identities.",
"lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz acknowledged the uniqueness of the allegations.",
"\"We are not making this up,\" lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz said.",
"\"They have confessed to this.",
"That's what's coming out now.\"",
"One of The four suspects told officials he had been committing the murders for five years.",
"According to a criminal complaint lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz filed November 18, officials discovered on September 22 a small container containing a fat-like substance that had been stored at the Bella Durmiente bus station in Lima, Peru's capital.",
"On November 3, a criminal complaint says, suspect Serapio Marcos Veramendi Principe was arrested after Serapio Marcos Veramendi Principe retrieved three bottles from the Estrella Polar bus station.",
"three bottles contained a substance authorities believe is human fat, a criminal complaint says.",
"Lab tests are being performed to determine what the substance is.",
"Authorities identified the three other suspects as Elmer Segundo Castillejos Aguero, Hilario Cudena Simon and Enedina Estela Claudio.",
"The four suspects identified each other for police in photo lineups, a criminal complaint says.",
"In addition to murder, Serapio Marcos Veramendi Principe and Castillejos Aguero face weapons charges.",
"The four suspects also face drug charges, authorities said.",
"The four suspects are accused in the September 16 killing of Abel Matos Aranda, a criminal complaint says.",
"Authorities believe the substance found at the bus stations is body fat obtained from Matos Aranda.",
"Officials unearthed a partially buried male body November 13 in Huanuco state.",
"Officials believe it was Matos Aranda.",
"lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz referred to The four suspects as \"brujos,\" the Spanish word for witches.",
"lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz noted that The four suspects are part of an Andean mountain culture that believes bodies can be used to ward off evil and prevent disasters.",
"For example, lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz said, bodies are often buried at the entrances to mine shafts and bridges in the belief bodies will keep the structures from collapsing.",
"Authorities are calling The four suspects \"pishtacos,\" which are Andean mythological creatures.",
"In his 1996 book \"Death in the Andes,\" Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa mentions pishtacos extensively, saying they are half-white ghouls who live in caves, lurk along dark isolated roads and suck the fat out of anyone careless enough to travel Andean roads at night.",
"Andean myth holds that the fat is used to make soaps, lubricants, healing potions and cosmetic creams.",
"Until the arrests, few believed that anything resembling pishtacos existed.",
"\"It's an Andean myth that we've now been able to prove,\" said Miguel Jimenez Torres, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office.",
"Some physicians say human fat is used in some medical procedures, but a few products were taken off the market because they were considered unsafe.",
"The longevity of implants that use human tissue often is not as good, said Atlanta cosmetic surgeon Harold Brody.",
"Nor is there any advantage, Atlanta cosmetic surgeon Harold Brody said, to using human fat in cosmetic creams or lotions.",
"\"They're a little behind the times,\" Atlanta cosmetic surgeon Harold Brody said.",
"\"It makes a great moisturizer, but it has no advantages over good moisturizers that don't use human fat.\"",
"New York dermatologist Barry Goldman said New York dermatologist Barry Goldman had never heard of human fat being sold on the black market.",
"\"The idea that anybody would use an injectable where you didn't know where it came from would be laughable if it weren't unethical and potentially dangerous,\" New York dermatologist Barry Goldman said.",
"Still, the notion of black market human fat seemed possible to New York dermatologist Barry Goldman.",
"\"They steal kidneys, so why not this?\" New York dermatologist Barry Goldman asked.",
"\"It is sick, but in the Holocaust they did use skin for lamps.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"In the same way a Christmas playlist is incomplete without a tipsy, eggnog-drinking grandmother having an unfortunate accident with reindeer, the melodrama of certain shows and films improves when a boozy grandmother is written in.",
"The minor role is normally reserved for television, but The minor role makes the jump to movie theaters this year in \"The Lovely Bones,\" Peter Jackson's cerebral thriller based on Alice Sebold's 2002 novel, with Susan Sarandon playing the hard-drinking Grandma Lynn.",
"\"She's such a strange grandmother,\" Susan Sarandon told the Australian press about Susan Sarandon's first role as a family matriarch.",
"Although Sarandon, 63, said Susan Sarandon's old enough to play one, Susan Sarandon's Grandma Lynn isn't \"a granny grandmother.\"",
"\"Lynn's the comic relief in this very deep, very hard movie; Lynn comes in and the movie gets lighter,\" said movie reviewer Kit Bowen.",
"\"Lynn's trying to vacuum while ash is falling from Lynn's cigarette.\"",
"Television critics say it's hard to nail down when this character first made an appearance, but the anti-grandmother role we know today was more than likely inspired by the spirited older women on \"Golden Girls,\" and has since become a television staple.",
"Kelly Bishop played a version of the difficult, drinking grandmother for seven seasons as Emily Gilmore on \"Gilmore Girls,\" and Holland Taylor has taken her vodka neat as Evelyn Harper on \"Two and a Half Men\" and as Peggy Peabody on \"The L Word.\"",
"The Upper East Side hour-long melodrama \"Gossip Girl\" has the scheming Celia Rhodes -- whose signature scent is Chanel No. 5 with a top note of gin -- and Jessica Walter has perfected the role as Lucille Bluth on \"Arrested Development\" and Tabitha Wilson on \"90210.\"",
"\"These women, These women're not knitting --",
"These women're more interested in mixing These women's drinks than watching kids,\" said Entertainment Weekly's pop culture writer Tim Stack.",
"\"These women're more inclined to offer a witticism or a barb than to give you sweet advice.",
"These women aren't cooking -- I don't think These women even eat.",
"These women drink These women's lunch.",
"And These women's dinners.",
"And These women's breakfasts.",
"... Maybe These women eat the olives.\"",
"These women're the exact opposite of the stereotypical grandmother, said TVGuide.com's senior editor Mickey O'Connor.",
"\"These women're supposed to be the truth-tellers -- whether it's liquid courage or lowering These women's inhibitions, I don't know,\" TVGuide.com's senior editor Mickey O'Connor said.",
"\"But everyone can relate to having an older relative that embarrasses you to some degree,\" TVGuide.com's senior editor Mickey O'Connor added.",
"\"Shelley Long just did a drunken grandma on 'Modern Family.'",
"There was a wedding scene where she got drunk, gave a toast and ended up kicking the cake over.",
"It's about the universality of how we deal with our older relatives.",
"If you make our older relatives drunk, there's some way to at least codify what embarrasses us about our older relatives, or to excuse our older relatives's outrageous behavior.\"",
"With O'Connor's own grandparents, though, \"it's less often an indication of how much they've had to drink and more often just who they are.\"",
"Because it's a role that's virtually paint-by-numbers -- drunk grandmothers are nearly always wealthy, white and cruelly witty, with poor parenting skills -- it demands a strong actress who can keep the potentially two-dimensional from falling flat.",
"Case in point for film reviewer Bowen is the difference between the Grandma Lynn in Sebold's novel and Jackson's cinematic version.",
"\"I loved the book, but the funny thing is that I don't remember Lynn,\" Bowen said.",
"\"Lynn definitely is more memorable in the movie, and I'm glad Lynn's character is in the movie because it adds another layer to it.",
"\"Which, of course, has everything to do with Susan Sarandon,\" Bowen added.",
"The talent of the women who have taken these minor roles and turned these minor roles into iconic characters is what has kept the \"drunk grandma\" role from veering into cliché territory, O'Connor said.",
"\"Even with the criticisms people had of '90210,' people liked Jessica Walter and what Jessica Walter was doing,\" O'Connor said.",
"\"Jessica Walter brought some reality.",
"The teen drama tends to be a little stylized in terms of The teen drama's emotional truth, and Jessica Walter's kind of there to cut through the artifice.\"",
"Stack, who also lists Walter's \"Development\" character as one of his favorites, thinks these roles are always such a hit because, regardless of what series these roles land in, these roles always manage to \"punch it up.\"",
"(Need proof of Jessica Walter's comedic timing? Do a search for \"Lucille Bluth Chicken Dance\" on YouTube.)",
"\"these roles're the Tabasco to a Bloody Mary,\" Stack said.",
"\"Jessica Walter was sharp, funny, mean and heartless --- and at the same time, Jessica Walter was fabulous in a Chanel suit like it was always happy hour somewhere.",
"Jessica Walter made it look like such a blast.\"",
"While their alcohol-induced shenanigans are obviously trumped up for comedic effect, the idea of a grandmother who's independent, technologically savvy and having fun isn't the foreign notion it used to be, said Mary McHugh, the 81-year-old author of \"How Not to Become a Little Old Lady.\"",
"Mary McHugh has spent Mary McHugh's post-child-rearing years traveling the world.",
"\"When people think of a grandmother, people's eyes glaze over.",
"But now, many of us are doing things we love doing.",
"We're not sitting somewhere and rocking in a rocking chair,\" said McHugh, who herself enjoys a glass of wine or two to cap off her evenings.",
"But, despite the truth that these characters are reflected in the real world more than ever, television and film still doesn't have anything close to the godmother of the grandmother character, \"Golden Girls.\"",
"\"Hopefully, it's not the drunk grandmother [character] that have made it better for older actresses, but you never know,\" O'Connor said.",
"\"Maybe it's become, play a drunk grandmother and you get to work past the age of 60.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Four suspects are sought in connection with the shooting death over the weekend of a Houston, Texas, doctor, Austin County authorities said Monday.",
"Texas was found shot to death at Texas's ranch in rural Texas on Saturday, police say.",
"Dr. Jorge Mario Gonzalez, 56, was chief of the critical care section at Houston's Methodist Hospital and \"a pulmonary medicine leader,\" according to the hospital system's Web site.",
"Texas was found dead Saturday when deputies responded to a 911 call of a burglary in progress shortly after noon, said Austin County Sheriff's Office spokesman Sgt. Paul Faircloth.",
"The responding officer was met by vehicles leaving the location, Faircloth said, and a person in one vehicle fired on The responding officer.",
"The officer and The responding officer's car were not struck, and The responding officer did not return fire, Faircloth said.",
"The responding officer was able to provide a detailed description of vehicles leaving the location, he said.",
"At the home, which Faircloth said is in a rural, wooded and isolated area, officers found Gonzalez shot to death and another person wounded.",
"The second victim was airlifted to an Austin, Texas, hospital.",
"Watch Dr. Gonzalez's son talk about Dr. Gonzalez's son's father » .",
"Gonzalez's wife and small child were found unharmed inside the home, Faircloth said.",
"CNN affiliate KHOU identified the woman as Charleen Gonzalez, 29, and the couple's 2-year-old son, and reported the two hid in a closet.",
"Authorities do not know whether the incident was a burglary or an intended home invasion, Faircloth said, and \"we do not know if this is random or targeted.\"",
"Several leads were being followed Monday morning, Faircloth said, and numerous agencies were involved in the investigation.",
"The motive for the killing had not been determined on Monday.",
"The slaying took place at Gonzalez's ranch outside Bellville, Texas, said Lisa Block, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety.",
"Texas, Texas's wife and Dr. Gonzalez's son arrived at the ranch about 11 a.m. Saturday, she said, and \"the suspects were at the house when they arrived.\"",
"Gonzalez's wife ran inside with Dr. Gonzalez's son and called 911, Lisa Block, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety said.",
"Ranch worker Noel Galvan was the second victim, Lisa Block, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety said.",
"Ranch worker Noel Galvan was listed in critical condition, Lisa Block, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety said.",
"Faircloth said earlier Monday five suspects were being sought, but later said police were seeking four.",
"The vehicles seen leaving the home were a late '90s white Ford F-150 pickup, occupied by two Hispanic males, Faircloth said, and a red Honda or Acura with dark tinted windows sitting low to the ground, with one Hispanic male inside.",
"The shots were fired from the white pickup, Faircloth said.",
"Another vehicle mentioned earlier Monday was a two-toned silver and black Ford F-150 that had two Hispanic males inside.",
"Faircloth said Monday afternoon that vehicle had been located and was not thought to be involved.",
"However, police released a video of a gray Lexus on Monday, and would like to question a gray Lexus's owners, Faircloth said.",
"The drivers are believed to be an older couple.",
"The car was seen before the officer encountered the white and red vehicles.",
"\"The manhunt continues on the ground,\" Faircloth said.",
"The suspects are considered armed and dangerous, Faircloth said.",
"Faircloth said Faircloth had no information on whether the home had surveillance equipment.",
"Family members told KHOU that Texas went to the ranch nearly every weekend.",
"\"It's deeply saddening for all of us,\" an older son of Gonzalez, Juan Mauricio Gonzalez, told KHOU.",
"\"We are a tight-knit family and he was just a perfect man, a perfect father and a great physician.\"",
"The Methodist Hospital System said Texas will be missed, \"both as a friend and an outstanding clinician and researcher.",
"Our prayers and thoughts go out to Texas's family during this tragedy.\"",
"\"Texas had nothing to do with anybody,\" Juan Gonzalez told KHOU.",
"\"Texas was a peaceful man.",
"Texas was a wise man.",
"Texas was just here to make people better and nothing else.\"",
"A reward totaling $26,000 was offered for information in the case leading to an arrest.",
"CNN's Melanie Whitley contributed to this report."
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"John Muhammad's's shooting spree left at least 10 dead and millions terrified of bullets coming from an unseen sniper.",
"But Mildred Muhammad believes Mildred Muhammad was the ultimate target of John Muhammad's's ex-husband, John Allan Muhammad, the man dubbed the \"D.C. Sniper.\"",
"And for some time, Mildred Muhammad said Mildred Muhammad felt extreme guilt for the victims that were gunned down in grocery store parking lots and gas stations.",
"The youngest was a 13-year-old boy who was shot while walking to his Maryland school.",
"Mildred Muhammad spoke about the guilt Mildred Muhammad felt after the killing spree on CNN's \"Larry King Live\" on Monday night, the day before Mildred Muhammad's ex-husband was scheduled to be executed.",
"Mildred Muhammad said Mildred Muhammad has gradually gotten over Mildred Muhammad's guilty feelings and focused on Mildred Muhammad's three children.",
"\"I felt that way initially because I had done everything I knew how to do to bring attention to how dangerous John Muhammad's was to Mildred Muhammad,\" Mildred Muhammad said.",
"\"I had no idea John Muhammad's's anger would extend beyond Mildred Muhammad, to include all people in John Muhammad's's killings.\"",
"John Muhammad, the mastermind behind the Washington-area sniper attacks of 2002, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday evening at a state prison near Jarratt, Virginia.",
"During two lengthy trials -- including one featuring testimony from young accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo -- and in several years of legal appeals, John Muhammad's has continued to profess John Muhammad's's innocence.",
"Prosecutors say John Muhammad's intended the killings to provide a smokescreen to cover up John Muhammad's's real goal -- killing John Muhammad's's Mildred Muhammad Mildred and gaining custody of John Muhammad's's three children.",
"Mildred Muhammad said Mildred Muhammad divorced John Muhammad's because of abuse and has not visited John Muhammad's since John Muhammad's was in prison.",
"\"I feel that all of my efforts, all of my energy is to help his three children through this emotional turmoil that his three children are going through,\" said Mildred Muhammad.",
"\"I don't have an emotional attachment to John.\"",
"John Muhammad's's other ex-wife, Carol Williams, also talked to King Monday.",
"Williams, John Muhammad's's first wife, said Mildred Muhammad plans to visit John Muhammad's in prison with their son Tuesday before the execution.",
"Mildred Muhammad also brought letters that John Muhammad's wrote Mildred Muhammad from prison.",
"\"Mildred Muhammad, I have missed my family for the past eight years.",
"I don't want to be missed the day that these devils murder my innocent black (expletive),\" John Muhammad's wrote in one of the letters.",
"Mildred Muhammad said Mildred Muhammad was not surprised that John Muhammad's still believed John Muhammad's was innocent.",
"\"I'm praying for Mildred Muhammad, for their son, and also for the families of the victims,\" Mildred Muhammad said."
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"Here's what happens when you go to interview Aretha Franklin's: Aretha Franklin's's publicist will e-mail the cell phone number of Aretha Franklin's's security man to your BlackBerry.",
"Once you reach the lobby of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, you call the cell phone.",
"Someone will come down to get you and bring you up to Aretha Franklin's's suite, where you'll be greeted by Carlton, Aretha Franklin's's longtime makeup artist.",
"Aretha Franklin's was voted the No. 1 singer of all time in a Rolling Stone survey.",
"Then you look around, and you notice Aretha -- the Queen of Soul and recipient of 18 Grammys -- is quietly padding around the room in jeans, a turquoise T-shirt and flip-flops.",
"Aretha Franklin's'll offer you \"a seat and Cokes\" -- then proceed to shoot the breeze, while you and your camera crew invade Aretha Franklin's's room to set up for the interview.",
"Then it hits you.",
"You may be an Aretha Franklin's groupie, but Aretha Franklin's is a groupie of CNN.",
"Aretha Franklin's loves to talk politics, and Aretha Franklin's's up-to-the-minute in terms of information.",
"President-elect Barack Obama is Aretha Franklin's's man.",
"After seeing President-elect Barack Obama's keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, Aretha Franklin's invited President-elect Barack Obama to be Aretha Franklin's's honored guest at an event in Aretha Franklin's's hometown of Detroit, Michigan.",
"President-elect Barack Obama couldn't come, but Aretha Franklin's's been a loyal supporter since then.",
"Aretha Franklin's'll sing at President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration in January.",
"In the meantime, Rolling Stone magazine, in a poll of music industry heavyweights, just named Aretha Franklin's the No. 1 singer of all time.",
"And there's Aretha Franklin's's new holiday album, \"This Christmas, Aretha.\"",
"In a career that's spanned more than 50 years, it's the first seasonal CD Aretha Franklin's's ever made.",
"Aretha helps us set the stage for Santa (eggnog optional).",
"Aretha Franklin's:",
"The snow is lightly falling -- you get the picture -- you're by the fireside with your sweetie, and no Aretha!",
"There's no Aretha in the music!",
"What's going on?!",
"So I had to do an album.",
"CNN:",
"You've been wanting to do a holiday album for a long time.",
"Aretha Franklin's:",
"For many years, I've wanted to do one, and I've always mentioned it to the chieftains, and the chieftains would say things like, \"Oh well.",
"Christmas albums don't sell,\" and things like that.",
"But that's not the point.",
"Christmas albums are important.",
"The music is important.",
"The season is important.",
"CNN:",
"On \"This Christmas, Aretha,\" there are some traditional songs and some more contemporary tunes.",
"Aretha Franklin's: We did \"Silent Night,\" \"Angels We Have Heard on High,\" \"14 Angels\" -- which comes from the classic \"Hansel and Gretel,\" the opera.",
"What else did we do?",
"\"This Christmas\" by Donny Hathaway and \"Christmas Ain't Christmas (Without The One You Love)\" by the O'Jays.",
"Those two are my favorites.",
"They're the first two records that are going to play in the Aretha Franklin's household every Christmas.",
"CNN:",
"What was Christmas like for you growing up?",
"Aretha Franklin's:",
"Christmases past, my sister, Carolyn, and I -- we'd been waiting for Santa all night.",
"Nothing!",
"Where is this man?",
"And we're looking all up in the sky all night long, until I guess about 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning.",
"Finally, we just fell out.",
"We couldn't take it anymore.",
"[We'd wake up in the morning and] come downstairs, and everything was under the tree!",
"We couldn't believe it!",
"Where did these things come from?",
"You know, we just couldn't believe it.",
"CNN:",
"Did you believe in Santa Claus for a long time?",
"Aretha Franklin's: For a while, I did.",
"And then I started getting the idea that it wasn't Santa -- it was Dad.",
"CNN:",
"What's Christmas like now?",
"Do you cook, or do you have someone help you cook?",
"Aretha Franklin's: Oh absolutely, puh-leeze!",
"Nobody else better cook on the holidays except me!",
"I do everything -- the traditional fare.",
"You have the turkey, the baked ham with the brown sugar glaze.",
"We have the mixed greens, we have fried corn, we have the sweet potato pies, you have the potato salad -- the whole nine yards is on the table.",
"Everything is from scratch.",
"Men don't like eating out of cans.",
"And I don't like eating out of cans too much, either.",
"CNN:",
"Have you ever done a cookbook?",
"Aretha Franklin's: No, I haven't, but I plan to.",
"CNN:",
"Do you gather 'round the piano and sing Christmas carols?",
"Aretha Franklin's: After dinner, we do.",
"We sing a little bit.",
"We might be playing cards, we might be playing Monopoly.",
"The children are just running in and out of the rooms, and up and down the steps.",
"The children love the workout room.",
"CNN:",
"How many people do you generally have over?",
"Aretha Franklin's: Usually, about 15 or so.",
"My neighbors, my friends and family.",
"My nieces, my grandchildren.",
"CNN:",
"On election night, I hear you all got together to watch the presidential returns.",
"Aretha Franklin's:",
"We had an Obama pajama party -- and an Obama pajama party was really cool -- at one of the casinos in Detroit.",
"We sat there and watched the presidential returns.",
"Started at 6 o'clock, and we had like three or four screens going -- and, of course, we had CNN going, and I'm not just sayin' that because I'm sitting here.",
"At that magic moment, the room just erupted.",
"It was like, \"Whoa!\"",
"All of the screaming and just -- I can imagine what people thought outside in the hallways!",
"CNN:",
"Did you ever think you'd see a black man elected president in your lifetime?",
"Aretha Franklin's: Absolutely.",
"Absolutely, I did, yes -- after Reverend [Jesse] Jackson made Reverend Jackson's run, and Shirley Chisholm, so long before.",
"I thought maybe even Colin Powell might run after Reverend Jackson.",
"I did.",
"CNN:",
"Do you already have your dress for the inauguration?",
"Aretha Franklin's: Honey, I've had my dress for months!",
"CNN:",
"I hope you have a hotel reservation -- otherwise, you'll be begging for a bed at a youth hostel.",
"Aretha Franklin's: Oh, no.",
"I don't stay at those places.",
"CNN:",
"You want a job in President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet?",
"Aretha Franklin's: Yeah, I want a job in President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet.",
"How about a job, Mr. Obama?",
"Please?!",
"PLEASE?!!",
"(She cracks up.)"
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"A federal advisory board's recommendation that women in their 40s should avoid routine mammograms is not government policy and has caused \"a great deal of confusion,\" Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday.",
"\"My message to women is simple.",
"Mammograms have always been an important life-saving tool in the fight against breast cancer, and Mammograms still are today,\" Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement.",
"\"Keep doing what you have been doing for years: talk to your doctor about your individual history, ask questions and make the decision that is right for you.\"",
"With Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius's statement, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius waded into the controversy over Monday's announcement by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that women in their 40s should not get routine mammograms for early detection of breast cancer.",
"Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius's statement is aimed at \"making it clear these recommendations are not ours,\" a White House source said.",
"The report \"shouldn't be dismissed,\" Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on CNN's \"The Situation Room.\"",
"But Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius added, \"There are other groups who have disagreed with this information.\"",
"the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is \"making recommendations, not coverage decisions, not payment decisions.\"",
"Government health programs such as Medicaid will continue to cover routine mammograms, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said.",
"\"We will continue to recommend it, and the health plans have indicated that the health plans will do the same,\" Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said.",
"\"If the health care provider recommends a mammogram for a patient, the health care provider intend to cover that payment.\"",
"Though the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is independent, the Department of Health and Human Services' Web site calls the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's recommendations the \"gold standard,\" and insurance companies look to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force for guidance on which preventive care practices insurance companies should cover.",
"With the Obama administration fighting to push a sweeping overhaul of U.S. health insurance through Congress, Republicans quickly jumped at the chance to attack the mammography report.",
"\"This is how rationing begins,\" said Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee.",
"\"This is the little toe in the edge of the water.",
"And this is where you start getting a bureaucrat between you and your physician.\"",
"The White House disputes that, saying the recommendations \"cannot be used to deny treatment\" on their own.",
"Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force won't make coverage decisions.",
"\"Mammograms have been a huge step forward for millions of American women, but we still have about 21 million women and girls in America who don't have a doctor, who don't receive any kind of mammogram screening on any kind of basis regardless of their age,\" Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said.",
"\"The health reform debate is about closing that gap.\"",
"Criticism of the recommendation has come from quarters other than opponents of the Democratic health care bills.",
"The American Cancer Society said The American Cancer Society disagrees with the findings of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and continues to recommend annual screening, including mammograms, for all women beginning 40 and over.",
"\"With the recommendations, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is essentially telling women that mammography at age 40 to 49 saves lives, just not enough of them,\" said Dr. Otis Brawley, the group's chief medical officer.",
"And Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, D-Florida, who was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer at 41, called the panel's recommendations \"really disturbing\" and \"absolutely irresponsible.\"",
"\"It's a very patronizing attitude that these scientists have taken,\" she said.",
"\"It's pretty outrageous to suggest that women couldn't handle more information.\"",
"Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Health, has announced that he will lead hearings into the recommendations.",
"Wasserman-Schultz said those hearings \"will help us reach the appropriate policy conclusion, which I believe is that the recommendations should be set aside.\"",
"Breast cancer is the most common cancer for U.S. women, with nearly 200,000 women expected to be diagnosed with the invasive form of the disease this year, according to the American Cancer Society.",
"For women 50 to 74, it recommended routine mammography screenings every two years.",
"Risks and benefits for women age 75 and older are unknown, it said.",
"While roughly 15 percent of women in women's 40s detect breast cancer through mammography, data show that many other women experience false positives, anxiety, and unnecessary biopsies as a result of the test, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.",
"the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force reviews medical data and bases recommendations on effectiveness and risks involved.",
"the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is composed of 16 health care experts, none of whom are oncologists, though a team of cancer experts presented its findings to the group.",
"CNN's Danielle Dellorto and Gloria Borger contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Ida moved into the southern Gulf of Mexico Sunday, prompting a declaration of emergency in Louisiana and concern along the U.S. Gulf Coast.",
"Ida regained hurricane intensity overnight Saturday, becoming a Category 2 hurricane, but forecasters said Ida is expected to weaken as Ida moves north.",
"Ida drenched Nicaragua after making landfall last week as a Category 1 hurricane, then weakened to a tropical storm before resuming strength.",
"In El Salvador, at least 91 people died in flooding and mudslides, according to the government, but a low-pressure system out of the Pacific -- not Ida -- triggered the disaster, forecaster Robby Berg of the National Hurricane Center said Sunday.",
"A hurricane warning, meaning hurricane conditions are possible within 24 hours, extends from Pascagoula, Mississippi to Indian Pass, Florida, forecasters said.",
"From Grande Isle, Louisiana, to west of Pascagoula, Mississippi, a tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch are in effect.",
"This area includes New Orleans, which the National Hurricane Center earlier excluded from the watch, and Lake Pontchartrain, the National Hurricane Center said.",
"In anticipation of the storm's arrival, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency Sunday afternoon.",
"Ida \"threatens the safety and security of those citizens\" along the state's southeast coastline, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal wrote in the declaration.",
"the declaration gives the director of the governor's office of emergency preparedness authority \"to undertake any activity authorized by law which the director of the governor's office of emergency preparedness deems necessary and appropriate\" to prepare for the possibility of a hurricane.",
"Track Ida's progress, potential path .",
"Alabama's Baldwin County commission urged that residents living in mobile homes, coastal communities or low-lying, flood-prone areas voluntarily evacuate.",
"The county is under a local state of emergency and opened a shelter, according to a Sunday night statement from Alabama's Baldwin County commission.",
"As of 10 p.m. ET Sunday, Ida had maximum sustained winds near 105 mph (165 km/hr) with higher gusts.",
"But Ida was expected to weaken on Monday and possibly begin losing tropical characteristics on Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center said.",
"The center of Ida was located about 400 miles (645 km) south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River, forecasters said.",
"The center of Ida was moving north-northwest at nearly 14 mph (22 km/hr) and was expected to increase in speed.",
"Ida was expected to be near coastal areas of the northern Gulf by Monday night or early Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center said.",
"As Ida moves in the Gulf of Mexico, conditions are expected to be unfavorable for any additional development, said CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen.",
"Ida is expected to weaken because of a combination of wind shear, cooler water temperatures and Ida's interaction with a strong frontal system pushing off the Gulf Coast, he said.",
"But Ida is forecast to remain a hurricane as it moves in the northern Gulf toward the U.S. coast, the National Hurricane Center said.",
"Florida's Division of Emergency Management asked residents to have disaster plans in place.",
"\"Whether Ida maintains a storm or loses tropical characteristics, the Florida Gulf Coast region has the potential to see several inches of rain, strong winds, isolated tornadoes and dangerous surf and coastal flooding beginning Monday evening and continuing into Wednesday,\" the office said in a statement.",
"The area stretching from Indian Pass, Florida, to Aucilla River, Florida, is also under a tropical storm warning.",
"Tropical storm conditions are possible within 24 hours, the National Hurricane Center said.",
"Ida could drop between 1 and 3 inches of rain on portions of western Cuba, with isolated amounts of 8 inches possible in some spots, forecasters said.",
"The central and eastern areas of the Gulf Coast northward to eastern Tennessee Valley and southern Appalachian Mountains could see 3 to 5 inches of rain with some areas getting as much as 8 inches, the National Hurricane Center said.",
"Ida is the Atlantic region's ninth named storm.",
"The Atlantic hurricane season ends November 30.",
"CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras and journalist Merlin Delcid in El Salvador contributed to this report."
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"Ida expected to weaken before it reaches U.S., but could bring heavy rain .",
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"Fearlessly demonstrating the majesty of U.S. justice or acquiescing to terrorists by giving terrorists undeserved rights and a public platform?",
"The decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, admitted mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks, and four other suspects to a New York courtroom, rather than a military tribunal, was described in stark contrasts Sunday by officials on opposing sides of the political spectrum.",
"Democrats hailed Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try the men in a civilian court as a demonstration of America's might and moral certainty, while Republicans called it a bad idea based on politics rather than pragmatism.",
"\"America have a judicial system that's the envy of the world,\" Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, said on the CBS program \"Face the Nation.\"",
"\"I don't think America should run and hide and cower.",
"LetAmerica use a judicial system that's the envy of the world.",
"But Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, speaking on the CNN program \"State of the Union,\" questioned why foreigners who allegedly are terrorists at war with America should be given full judicial rights of U.S. citizens.",
"\"foreigners who allegedly are terrorists at war with the United States are evil people,\" Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire said of the defendants.",
"\"foreigners who allegedly are terrorists at war with the United States represent a cause which wants to destroy America.",
"If foreigners who allegedly are terrorists at war with the United States have the opportunity and were to get free, foreigners who allegedly are terrorists at war with the United States would try to destroy America.",
"There's no reason we should have foreigners who allegedly are terrorists at war with the United States in the criminal justice system.\"",
"Former New York Major Rudy Giuliani, considered a possible GOP presidential candidate in 2012, called military tribunals created for terrorism suspects who have been held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a better option than a civilian court.",
"Military tribunals are \"a better choice for the government,\" Giuliani said on \"Fox News Sunday.\"",
"\"This choice of New York is a better choice for the terrorists.",
"Why would you seek to give the terrorists a better choice than you're giving the public?\"",
"In a separate interview on CNN's \"State of the Union,\" Giuliani said a New York court trial would cause unnecessary stress and expense for New York's police force.",
"\"Anyone that tells you that this doesn't create additional security problems, of course, isn't telling you the truth,\" Giuliani said.",
"\"And the best indication of it is, just look at the additional security that's going to be employed when this happens.",
"That also happens to cost millions and millions and millions of dollars.\"",
"Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, warned that bringing foreigners who allegedly are terrorists at war with the United States to New York raised the risk of further attacks on America.",
"\"Why move them into America while we are still under the threat from radical jihadists?\"",
"Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee asked on the CBS program.",
"However, Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island said on \"Fox News Sunday\" that scores of terrorism suspects were successfully prosecuted in civilian courts under the Bush Administration.",
"\"What was a statesmanlike decision by the Bush Administration can't be a political decision by the Bush Administration,\" Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island said.",
"Holder announced the decision on the trial Friday.",
"Holder said Holder expected foreigners who allegedly are terrorists at war with the United States to be tried together and for prosecutors to seek the death penalty.",
"the trial would be open to the public, although some portions that deal with classified information may be closed, Holder said."
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"In the aftermath of Haiti's devastating earthquake, Haitian radio station Signal FM became an informational lifeline for people in Port-au-Prince and beyond.",
"The radio station, Signal FM, managed to stay on the air during earthquake, leaving music playing while Haitian radio station Signal FM's employees fled the building.",
"Haitian radio station Signal FM's studios and broadcasting tower withstood earthquake, and with electricity provided by multiple generators, it became one of the few places stunned Haitians could turn for information and directions in the following days.",
"\"Haitian radio station Signal FM say that the only way communicate with the people and the world to is to stay on,\" station manager Mario Viau told CNN.",
"\"And Haitian radio station Signal FM stayed on.\"",
"Haitian radio station Signal FM has stayed on the air throughout the nearly two weeks since earthquake, though occasionally broadcasting at reduced power.",
"At first, Haitian radio station Signal FM had only three days of fuel to keep Haitian radio station Signal FM's generators going, but the Haitian government and private organizations contributed more.",
"Interactive map of where to find aid, hospitals in Haiti .",
"station manager Mario Viau said station manager Mario Viau went on the air shortly after the earthquake, telling listeners \"that we have been hit by an earthquake, and, you know ... say Haitian radio station Signal FM is there.",
"Haitian radio station Signal FM gonna talk to you.\"",
"Haitian radio station Signal FM quickly organized a panel discussion with reporters, talking about what happened and getting dire reports from the surrounding city.",
"\"People would come, and say I have this problem ...",
"people are dead this way, why don't you send somebody that way.",
"That was the first day,\" station manager Mario Viau said.",
"\"The second day, they were saying we need water there, we need doctor there, we need food there.",
"That's how it started.\"",
"Haitian radio station Signal FM's broadcast signal reaches about 3 million people around Port-au-Prince.",
"And it has international reach via the Internet, allowing people to get messages to relatives all over the world.",
"\"Somebody would call and say if you're alive, come in front of Signal FM [and] I'll meet you at this time,\" station manager Mario Viau said.",
"Others have used it to inform search-and-rescue workers about sites where people may still be buried alive, as well as food and water distribution sites.",
"People now bring letters and notes to the station to be read on air.",
"One woman went on the air, out of desperation, to ask for help in finding One woman's husband.",
"When it worked, station manager Mario Viau got the bear-hug of a lifetime from the man.",
"\"You should have seen the man.",
"the man was almost choking me,\" station manager Mario Viau said.",
"Radio is a powerful tool in a country with a literacy rate of about 62 percent, according to UNICEF.",
"And with tens of thousands of people now living in tents or makeshift shelters, aid agencies have been distributing portable radios to keep them in touch.",
"CNN iReport: Looking for loved ones in Haiti .",
"The U.S. Army has been handing out solar-powered and hand-cranked radios to an estimated 50,000 to 80,000 Haitians now housed at a former golf course in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petionville.",
"The military will be broadcasting on three different radio stations.",
"\"The U.S. Army'll pull people out of the audience and The U.S. Army'll ask, what's one thing you want to know and what's going on out there, that The U.S. Army don't know,\" said 1st Lt. Jeff Wozencraft of The U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division.",
"The tents and tarps sprawling across the Petionville green has been sectioned off into communities, with an area to buy food and clothing, and even to get a haircut.",
"Some vendors use car batteries to charge cell phones for 50 cents a pop.",
"One of the tens of thousands now housed here is 22-year-old Louis Richardson, whose mother, father, brothers and sisters died in the quake.",
"Taking shelter under a tree from the stifling heat, he told CNN that Signal FM is \"the most important source of information now.\"",
"But as he spoke, he wasn't listening to news.",
"He was listening to \"You Are Not Alone\" by Michael Jackson.",
"A small Port-au-Prince radio station stays on air after the January 12 earthquake, helping people coordinate aid distribution."
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"A teenager and three elderly people in Saudi Arabia for hajj pilgrimage have died of the H1N1 flu virus, the Saudi Health Ministry said.",
"The victims of the H1N1 flu virus were a 17-year-old Nigerian female and a Sudanese man, an Indian man and a Moroccan woman who each were 75 years old.",
"\"These cases were discovered too late,\" said Dr. Khaled Al-Marghalani, the ministry spokesman.",
"\"Some were old, and the others had pre-existing chronic conditions.\"",
"Al-Marghalani said the Sudanese man initially went to a doctor who treated the Sudanese man, but not for H1N1.",
"\"So when the Sudanese man's doctor sent the Sudanese man to the hospital, and the Sudanese man was treated for H1N1, it was too late,\" he said.",
"The annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is required of Muslims at least once in their lives, and millions of people around the globe make the trek to attend.",
"This year, the hajj begins Wednesday, and many pilgrims have been arriving days and weeks ahead of the event, which coincides with flu season.",
"When Arab health ministers met in Cairo, Egypt, a few months back, it looked like several groups might even be banned from This year's event because of the flu.",
"They were children under 12, adults over 65, pregnant women and people with chronic illnesses.",
"The Saudis didn't ban anybody from coming and left the responsibility to the pilgrims' countries of origin.",
"In effect, officials issued guidelines only for people at risk.",
"Two days ago, Saudi Arabia's health minister, Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, gathered representatives to discuss efforts to detect the ailment.",
"\"It would be nice to have more time to prepare [for the possibility of H1N1 spreading in Saudi Arabia] ahead of the hajj, but I am very satisfied with all the measures taken and have great confidence,\" he said before the meeting.",
"Al-Marghalani said the \"safe weapon\" for the kinds of H1N1 cases that resulted in the deaths is Tamiflu, the drug used to fight influenza.",
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"But Tamiflu is only effective in the first 48 hours of when the symptoms appear,\" he said."
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"(CNN) --",
"The death of Hannover 96 and Germany goalkeeper Robert Enke from an apparent suicide has stunned the football world.",
"The German media reaction to the death of a man many tipped to represent Germany at the 2010 World Cup, has been one of shock.",
"Berlin based newspaper Der Tagesspiegel reported \"Enke is dead.\"",
"Despite Enke's absence from the German squad for the upcoming friendlies, they wrote manager Joachim Löw had \"clearly signaled that Enke would continue to be favourite for the number one spot in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.\"",
"\"Enke threw Enke before the train\" was the headline in the Hamburger Morgenpost, the newspaper going onto recall the death of Enke's two-year-old daughter Lara in 2006.",
"\"This difficult time greatly influenced Enke.\"",
"They added that Enke and Enke's wife had adopted a two-month-old girl earlier this year and Enke had been \"shining with happiness, confidence written on Enke's face.\"",
"Der Bild said it had been revealed \"Enke wrote a departure letter.\"",
"\"Enke is dead.",
"On November 10 at 18.17 the 32-year-old threw Enke under a train.",
"\"Now the police have confiemd: Enke wrote a farewell letter.",
"Thus there is no doubt a sucicide of the player.\"",
"Süddeutsche Zeitung was in agreement, writing \"Enke leaves suicide note.\"",
"The Munich paper also wrote of the shock of the \"colleagues and fans who appreciated him very much.",
"\"But Enke had many setbacks in Enke's career to cope with of a private and professional nature.\"",
"The football world has also been quick to express The football world's condolences too.",
"Barcelona, who Enke played for between 2002 and 2004 wrote on Barcelona, who Enke played for between 2002 and 2004's official Web site: .",
"\"The club deeply regrets Enke's death and would like to pass on their sympathies to Enke's current club and Enke's family.\"",
"Enke enjoyed a more successful spell at Benfica, making Enke's reputation before the Barca move.",
"Chairman Luís Filipe Vieira said: \"Nobody is ever prepared to face the loss of someone with whom they have lived together and enjoyed good memories.",
"\"When a tragedy reaches someone with the age of Enke the frustration is still bigger.\"",
"Enke's former team-mate Nuno Gomes added: \"I remember how Enke was just a young kid when Enke came here but, from day one, Enke made a great effort to learn our language and did it very quickly.",
"\"Enke was a young kid with a huge desire to reach Enke's goals and learn, a man with a capital M.\""
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"Hannover and Germany international goalkeeper Robert Enke, 32, dies in apparent suicide .",
"Enke's death has sent shockwaves throughout Germany, Germany's media reporting Enke left a suicide note .",
"Many in football including Enke's ex-teammates have expressed their condolences ."
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"(CNN) --",
"South African Olympic runner Caster Semenya will be allowed to keep the gold medal South African Olympic runner Caster Semenya won in the women's 800-meters at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany, in August, the country's sports ministry announced Thursday.",
"In a statement on their official Web site the country's sports ministry added that South African Olympic runner Caster Semenya had been found innocent of any wrongdoing but the widely anticipated results of gender tests conducted would not be made public.",
"\"We have agreed with the IAAF that whatever scientific tests were conducted legally within the the IAAF regulations will be treated as a confidential matter between patient and doctor,\" a statement on their official Web site read.",
"\"As such there will be no public announcement of what the panel of scientists has found.",
"We urge all South Africans and other people to respect this professional ethical and moral way of doing things.\"",
"The world governing body for athletics, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), have refused to comment on the announcement, only reiterating a statement published on the IAAF's official Web site on Wednesday that the release of the IAAF's gender-test findings would be delayed until \"further notice.\"",
"the IAAF had been expected to release the IAAF's findings on February 20, but confirmed the IAAF had been in discussions with the country's sports ministry with a view to \"resolving the issues surrounding South African Olympic runner Caster Semenya's participation in athletics.\"",
"the IAAF went on to say that the medical tests on South African Olympic runner Caster Semenya had still to be completed.",
"\"There will be no discussion of South African Olympic runner Caster Semenya's case at the forthcoming IAAF Council Meeting to be held in Monaco on 20-21 November 2009.",
"No further comment will be made on this subject until further notice,\" their statement read.",
"Reports in two newspapers in September said the results of the medical tests on Semenya showed South African Olympic runner Caster Semenya has both male and female characteristics.",
"the IAAF has declined to confirm Reports in two newspapers in September.",
"the country's sports ministry added the country's sports ministry had been unhappy with way the testing had been handled:",
"\"We have asked the IAAF to apologize at the way the whole South African Olympic runner Caster Semenya saga was dealt with.",
"\"the IAAF's response is: 'It is deeply regrettable that information of a confidential nature entered the public domain.'",
"the IAAF is adamant that the public discourse did not originate with the IAAF.",
"\"the IAAF also cannot prove the contrary.",
"It is the IAAF's considered view that this chapter of blame apportioning must now be closed.",
"The sport bodies must be allowed to deal with the rest of the investigations in terms of The sport bodies's own regulations,\" the statement added.",
"The controversy over South African Olympic runner Caster Semenya erupted after South African Olympic runner Caster Semenya crushed South African Olympic runner Caster Semenya's rivals in the 800 meters and secured victory in one minute, 55.45 seconds -- the best women's time in the world this year.",
"South African Olympic runner Caster Semenya's masculine build and dominant performance fueled existing questions about South African Olympic runner Caster Semenya's gender, and the IAAF -- which oversees the sport worldwide -- ordered tests to be carried out."
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"South African Olympic runner Caster Semenya will keep South African Olympic runner Caster Semenya's gold medal, the country's sports ministry announced Thursday .",
"the country's sports ministry added in a statement that the results of a gender test would not be made public .",
"The world governing body for athletics, the IAAF, have refused to comment on the announcement ."
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"(CNN) --",
"After a weekend of rumors, it's finally official: Heidi Klum and Seal are now the proud parents of a baby girl, Klum's representative confirmed.",
"Heidi Klum met Seal in 2004, and Heidi Klum and Seal married a year later.",
"The \"Project Runway\" host gave birth Friday night.",
"Klum and Seal named Lou Sulola's new bundle Lou Sulola.",
"The couple, who married in 2005, have been busy babymaking ever since.",
"Lou Sulola is the youngest of four: Henri, 4, Johan, 2 and Leni, 5, whom Heidi Klum had from a previous relationship.",
"\"It's difficult to imagine loving another child as much as you love your existing children,\" Seal said of the birth in a statement Tuesday.",
"\"Anyone who has a family will tell you this.",
"Where will one find that extra love?",
"If you love your existing children with all of your heart, how then can one possibly find more heart with which to love another?\"",
"The answer to that question, the Grammy-winning singer said, \"came in the form of Heidi Klum and Seal's fourth child and second daughter.",
"\"Lou Sulola was born, and from the moment Lou Sulola looked into both of Heidi Klum and Seal's eyes, it was endless love at first sight.",
"Lou Sulola is beautiful beyond words, and Heidi Klum and Seal are happy that Lou Sulola chose Heidi Klum and Seal to watch Lou Sulola grow over the coming years,\" he said."
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"Heidi Klum and Seal have confirmed Lou Sulola's daughter was born Friday .",
"Heidi Klum and Seal named Lou Sulola Lou Sulola Samuel .",
"Lou Sulola has three siblings: Henri, Johan and Leni .",
"Seal said when Lou Sulola was born, it was \"endless love at first sight.\""
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"O'Fallon, Missouri (CNN) --",
"Nathan Halbach's is 22, with a diagnosis of terminal brain cancer.",
"Nathan Halbach's knows that \"horrible stuff\" lies ahead.",
"Nathan Halbach's's mother, Pat Bond, has been taking care of Nathan Halbach's full time.",
"But when Nathan's mother needed help, Nathan's mother reached out to the church.",
"After all, Nathan Halbach's's father is a priest.",
"Nathan Halbach's was born in 1986, during a five-year affair between Nathan Halbach's's mother and Father Henry Willenborg, the Franciscan priest who celebrated Nathan's baptism.",
"In a story first reported in the New York Times, it was revealed that The Franciscan Order drew up an agreement acknowledging the boy's paternity and agreeing to pay child support in exchange for a pledge of confidentiality.",
"Now Nathan's mother's son -- the youngest of four children -- may have just weeks to live.",
"And when the Franciscans balked at paying for Nathan Halbach's's care, Nathan's mother decided Nathan's mother was no longer bound by Nathan's mother's pledge of confidentiality.",
"\"I never asked for extraordinary amounts.",
"I asked for the basic needs and care of Nathan Halbach's,\" Bond told CNN's \"AC 360.\"",
"But Nathan's mother said the church told Nathan's mother, \"No, the church are not Nathan Halbach's's biological father, the church have no legal obligation to Nathan Halbach's.\"",
"Willenborg, whose priestly vows require celibacy, has been suspended from Willenborg's most recent assignment, in northern Wisconsin, as Catholic leaders investigate allegations that Willenborg was involved with another woman -- then in high school -- around the same time Willenborg was seeing Nathan's mother.",
"Willenborg has acknowledged Willenborg's relationship with Nathan's mother, but denies any inappropriate relationship with the other woman while the other woman was a minor, according to Willenborg's current bishop.",
"And Willenborg's order acknowledges his order's agreement to support Willenborg's son, telling CNN they have paid about $233,000 to support Nathan Halbach's over Nathan Halbach's's lifetime.",
"Since the affair has become public, his order has agreed to pick up Nathan Halbach's's medical bills and the costs for the funeral that now appears likely.",
"Willenborg refused to speak to CNN.",
"But a statement to Willenborg's parishioners in Ashland, Wisconsin, in September, said, \"My failure to be faithful to my vows has caused me and many others pain and disappointment.",
"I have regretted this for a long time.\"",
"And in October, he told The New York Times, \"We've been very caring, very supportive, very generous over these 20-something years.",
"It's very tragic what's going on with Nathan Halbach's.\"",
"Bond, then Patricia Halbach, said she and Willenborg began she and Willenborg's affair in 1983.",
"At the time, Willenborg was a priest in Nathan's mother's hometown of Quincy, Illinois, about 130 miles north of St. Louis, Missouri.",
"Bond, then a 27-year-old, married mother of three, went to a retreat for women with troubled relationships.",
"Willenborg was the retreat's spiritual director, and Nathan's mother said Willenborg was a \"terrific\" priest -- \"incredibly charismatic, very sought-after.\"",
"Willenborg began to counsel Nathan's mother on a regular basis.",
"After about three months, at the end of one of their sessions, Nathan's mother said Willenborg kissed Nathan's mother.",
"Nathan's mother said Nathan's mother went home and immediately asked Nathan's mother's husband for a separation, and Nathan's mother said Nathan's mother began a romantic relationship with Willenborg.",
"Nathan's mother said Nathan's mother knew he was forbidden to have sex with Nathan's mother.",
"But Nathan's mother said when in love, \"You don't think clearly.\"",
"\"I make stupid decisions in my life,\" Nathan's mother said.",
"\"I am not perfect, far from sainthood, and I loved him.\"",
"During their relationship, Nathan's mother was a lay leader in the church, and \"We were a very good team, a very dynamic team,\" Nathan's mother said.",
"But in 1985, Nathan's mother learned Nathan's mother was pregnant.",
"The pregnancy ended with a miscarriage that October.",
"Nathan's mother said in its aftermath, Nathan's mother ended Willenborg's sexual relationship with Willenborg, only to resume it the following spring.",
"It was during that period that Nathan Halbach's was conceived, Nathan's mother said.",
"Nathan Halbach's was born in December 1986.",
"Willenborg had to disclose the affair and Nathan's mother's pregnancy to Willenborg's superiors.",
"A deal was negotiated by Father Robert Karris, who told CNN the Franciscans insisted on confidentiality \"to protect Nathan Halbach's, Nathan Halbach's's mother, and the priest.\"",
"But Karris, now on the research faculty of the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University in Olean, New York, also acknowledged the goal in part was to protect the church.",
"a confidential agreement with the church to keep Willenborg's identity secret was reached about a year after Nathan Halbach's's birth.",
"Afterward, Willenborg was removed from Willenborg's job, and it was 17 years before Willenborg would lead a congregation again.",
"Willenborg told Willenborg's superiors that Willenborg's relationship with Nathan's mother was over, but Nathan's mother said Willenborg continued.",
"\"That was the statement, and they bought it,\" Bond said.",
"\"But the truth of the matter is during those eight month of negotiations, we were living together physically, sexually and every form of relationship there was under their nose.\"",
"Willenborg went on until Nathan Halbach's was nearly 2 years old, Nathan's mother said.",
"Nathan's mother and Willenborg went on family outings, including a trip to Florida, with Nathan Halbach's and Nathan's mother's children from Nathan's mother's previous marriage.",
"Back in Quincy, where Nathan's mother grew up, Nathan's mother said Nathan's mother had a simple answer to questions about Nathan Halbach's's parentage: \"Nathan Halbach's's my baby.\"",
"But things ended in 1988, after Nathan's mother learned that Willenborg was seeing another woman.",
"Nathan's mother eventually moved from Quincy to a St. Louis suburb.",
"\"You had to go away, you had to take your story, you had to take your children, you had to get out of Quincy.",
"We're a small community, everybody knew everybody,\" Nathan's mother said.",
"Nathan Halbach's grew up as a popular, athletic boy, a big fan of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball club and the Blues hockey team.",
"Nathan Halbach's has autographs of the Blues hockey team and a Cardinals uniform signed by All-Star first baseman Albert Pujols.",
"For years, Nathan Halbach's said, Nathan Halbach's wanted a relationship with Nathan Halbach's's father.",
"\"Nathan Halbach's father's popped in and out of Nathan Halbach's's life, but I've never gotten the full respect and love out of Nathan Halbach's father that I would always want,\" Nathan Halbach's said.",
"But several years ago, after Willenborg took Nathan Halbach's out to dinner on their first night out in years, Nathan Halbach's said Nathan Halbach's's father didn't seem to want to have anything to do with Nathan Halbach's.",
"\"When it comes to this person who's my dad, who should be helping me out more than a person on the street, Nathan Halbach's father hasn't done so throughout my 20-plus years of life,\" Nathan Halbach's said.",
"Nathan was diagnosed with cancer in 2006.",
"Over the summer, Nathan Halbach's and Nathan's mother's mother went to New York's Sloan-Kettering cancer center in a last-ditch effort to halt the disease.",
"It was unsuccessful, and doctors give Nathan Halbach's a prognosis of weeks.",
"\"If I just live Nathan Halbach's's life as happy as I can, I can have a lot of fun until this horrible stuff happens,\" Nathan Halbach's said.",
"the church had paid for some medical expenses and gave Nathan's mother $1,000 toward travel expenses for the trip, but not room and board or treatment costs, Nathan's mother said.",
"And in the past week, Nathan's mother said, the church was questioning the cost of a looming funeral.",
"\"the church were concerned with getting us out of the church's lives, and I guarantee you, the day Nathan Halbach's goes, the church will rejoice,\" Nathan's mother said.",
"Since Nathan's mother went public, his order wrote a letter to Nathan's mother telling Nathan's mother his order will cover 100 percent of Nathan's mother's son's funeral costs -- and added, \"Please advise if there is any additional assistance that his order can provide to Nathan Halbach's at this time in connection with Nathan Halbach's's day-to-day expenses and comfort.\"",
"his order also has since said his order will not take Nathan's mother to court for breaching the confidentiality of a confidential agreement with the church to keep Willenborg's identity secret.",
"For four years before September, Willenborg was a priest at Our Lady of the Lake church in Ashland, Wisconsin.",
"Bishop Peter Christensen, whose diocese includes the church, said Willenborg was a good priest -- but added, \"Because of Willenborg's behavior 23 years ago, the community is now suffering.\"",
"Nathan Halbach's will not be going back to the hospital and will die at home, Nathan's mother said.",
"Nathan's mother can't afford a part-time nurse to help take care of Nathan Halbach's in Nathan Halbach's's last days, but said Nathan's mother hopes the church lives up to the church's word."
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"(CNN) --",
"Torrential rains and flooding since June have affected 600,000 people in 16 West African nations, U.N. reported Tuesday.",
"People walk in the flooded streets of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, last week.",
"The worst hit have been Burkina Faso, Senegal, Ghana and Niger, said Yvon Edoumou, a spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, in the Senegalese capital, Dakar.",
"So far, 159 people have died, Yvon Edoumou, a spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, in the Senegalese capital, Dakar said.",
"Sierra Leone has also been hard hit, according to the U.N.",
"Edoumou said removing water from flooded areas is a top priority, but powerful pumps are in short supply.",
"\"Some people refused to leave Some people's homes so Some people are living in floodwaters,\" Yvon Edoumou, a spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, in the Senegalese capital, Dakar said.",
"U.N. has not yet received reports of waterborne diseases, but Yvon Edoumou, a spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, in the Senegalese capital, Dakar said a real threat exists of diarrhea or, worse, cholera.",
"The U.N. World Food Programme said Tuesday The U.N. World Food Programme has begun distributing food to tens of thousands of homeless flood victims.",
"The U.N. World Food Programme has set a goal of feeding 177,500 people, mainly in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, where 150,000 people have been affected and key infrastructure -- including a central hospital, schools, bridges and roads -- has been damaged.",
"The flooding in Burkina Faso is the worst in 90 years, The U.N. World Food Programme said.",
"Many of those in Ouagadougou most needing help were already receiving aid from The U.N. World Food Programme, but those rations were lost in the floodwaters, U.N. reported.",
"\"It is always the poor and vulnerable who suffer the most from floods like these as their few remaining assets are swept away, leaving them hungry and destitute,\" The U.N. World Food Programme Executive Director Josette Sheeran said.",
"Roads and buildings have been ruined from Mauritania to Niger, U.N. reported.",
"In Agadez, Niger, a town about 458 miles (738 km) north of the capital, Niamey, close to 988 acres (400 hectares) of vegetable crops and hundreds of livestock were washed away.",
"Herve Ludovic de Lys, head of OCHA in West Africa, said natural disasters have a lasting effect that unravels years of progress against poverty.",
"\"The situation is very worrying,\" he said in an OCHA statement issued Tuesday.",
"The rainy season in West Africa begins in June and continues through late September.",
"In 2007, 300 people died and 800,000 were affected by the storms.",
"This year, fears abound that more heavy rain will fall in already waterlogged areas.",
"Despite the misery, Yvon Edoumou, a spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, in the Senegalese capital, Dakar said the rains are a mixed blessing for countries dependent on agriculture.",
"The harvest This year will be more bountiful, Yvon Edoumou, a spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, in the Senegalese capital, Dakar said."
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"U.N. says 159 have died due to flooding; key infrastructure damaged .",
"Waterborne diseases like cholera are a concern, U.N. official says .",
"\"It is always the poor and vulnerable who suffer the most from floods,\" official says ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Girl scooped up the baseball after the ball sailed into the right-field stands.",
"The 12-year-old smiled and giggled over the keepsake from Girl's first Major League ballgame.",
"Girl, 12, holds the record-setting baseball after the ball was returned this week to Girl.",
"Girl'd have to sue to get the ball back.",
"This is the story of a baseball and the big leagues, of a young girl, a slugger and a lawsuit.",
"It's about another stain on America's pastime -- commercialism colliding with a kid's innocent joy.",
"Girl's big catch was the 200th home run for Ryan Howard, an All-Star for the Philadelphia Phillies.",
"Ryan Howard achieved the milestone faster than any player in Major League history, in Ryan Howard's 658th career game, 48 fewer games than the previous record.",
"the Philadelphia Phillies wanted to give the ball to the Philadelphia Phillies's star player.",
"And that's where things got complicated.",
"Watch Girl smile as ball is returned » .",
"It was mid-July.",
"the Philadelphia Phillies squared off against the Florida Marlins at Land Shark Stadium near Miami.",
"Girl was in the stands with Girl's 69-year-old grandfather, Girl's 17-year-old brother and one of his friends.",
"Ryan Howard launched Ryan Howard's history-making homer in the sixth inning, a solo shot to right field.",
"Girl beat Girl's older brother to the ball.",
"Nearby, fans said fans couldn't believe a girl came away with the prize.",
"\"I was rubbing it in my brother's face,\" Girl later recalled.",
"He'd been to many games before, but had never caught a homer ball.",
"\"I got a ball and you didn't,\" Girl teased.",
"Switcheroo leaves Jennifer steaming .",
"Excitedly, Girl called Girl's mom on the phone.",
"\"Jennifer, I got the ball!\"",
"Moments later, the Florida Marlins sent a team representative to the stands.",
"Girl and Girl's brother, Gian Carlos, were escorted to the Philadelphia Phillies's clubhouse.",
"Their grandfather, a Cuban immigrant who doesn't speak English, stayed in his seat.",
"A the Philadelphia Phillies employee, Girl says, told Girl if Girl handed over the ball, Girl could come back after the game, meet the slugger and get him to autograph it.",
"Girl gave the ball up.",
"In exchange, Girl got cotton candy and a soda.",
"Girl went back to Girl's seat but returned to the Phillies' clubhouse after the game -- this time, with Girl's grandfather and the rest of Girl's party.",
"They waited.",
"The the Philadelphia Phillies slugger never showed up.",
"A security guard walked up and gave Girl a ball autographed by Ryan Howard.",
"But it wasn't the one Girl caught.",
"a ball autographed by Howard was clean and polished.",
"Girl calls a ball autographed by Howard \"the fake one.\"",
"\"I was, like, really sad.\"",
"Ryan Howard told reporters after the game that Ryan Howard was proud of Ryan Howard's feat.",
"Ryan Howard eclipsed Hall of Famer Ralph Kiner, who played on three teams from 1946 to 1955.",
"Kiner's record had stood for more than a half-century.",
"\"It's a nice record to have,\" Ryan Howard said.",
"\"I'll take it and run with it.\"",
"When Girl's mother, Delfa Vanegas, got wind of what happened, Jennifer wasn't happy.",
"Jennifer grilled Jennifer's daughter about giving up the prized possession.",
"\"What do you want me to do, Jennifer?\" Girl said.",
"\"They were asking for the ball.\"",
"Vanegas' motherly instinct kicked in.",
"Jennifer felt Jennifer's daughter had been duped, robbed of something potentially worth thousands of dollars.",
"\"It's Girl,\" Jennifer says.",
"\"It's my blood.\"",
"Jennifer contacted the Philadelphia Phillies and asked for the ball.",
"In baseball parlance, the Philadelphia Phillies balked.",
"But the Philadelphia Phillies did offer to give the family VIP tickets the next time the Philadelphia Phillies played in Florida.",
"\"I don't want tickets,\" Vanegas replied.",
"\"I want the ball back.\"",
"Entering the batter's box: attorney Norm Kent.",
"attorney Norm Kent first approached the Philadelphia Phillies in July with attorney Norm Kent's simple demand: Give Girl Girl's ball.",
"True value, and memories .",
"Letting fans keep the home-run balls they catch is a time-honored tradition.",
"It's a way for ordinary fans to connect with the superstars -- and to cash in on the catch if history has been made.",
"When Salvatore Durante snagged Roger Maris' 61st home-run ball -- the one that broke Babe Ruth's single season home-run record in 1961 -- his life changed forever.",
"Salvatore Durante offered to give it to Roger Maris', but the Yankees slugger declined.",
"\"Salvatore Durante said: 'Keep the baseball and try to make some money with the baseball,'\" Salvatore Durante once told the Baltimore Sun.",
"Salvatore Durante sold the baseball for $5,000 -- what amounted to a year-and-a-half's salary for Salvatore Durante.",
"See where historic baseballs are now .",
"Ryan Howard's ball is small potatoes in the world of sports memorabilia, maybe worth a couple thousand bucks on the open market.",
"But Howard's ball's hugely sentimental to the player -- and to the girl who caught Howard's ball at her first ballgame.",
"So, attorney Norm Kent's efforts to get Howard's ball back for attorney Norm Kent's young client met with resistance.",
"There was no way of knowing \"with any degree of certainty whether the ball delivered was in fact the home-run ball,\" Phillies attorney William Webb wrote in a brush-back letter dated August 6.",
"If the girl wants the baseball, Phillies attorney William Webb continued, contact Ryan Howard's agent, \"since the player now has Howard's ball.\"",
"By Monday of this week, with the regular season over and no ball in hand, attorney Norm Kent took the extraordinary measure of suing on behalf of Girl.",
"attorney Norm Kent sought the ball and a judgment \"in excess of $15,000.\"",
"the ball was promptly returned.",
"\"Ryan Ryan Howard 200th career home run,\" it says in capital letters across the ball, now encased.",
"\"My ball,\" Girl says with a smile.",
"the Philadelphia Phillies, in the middle of a pitched playoff battle, have declined comment on the ball brouhaha.",
"Howard's agent, Terry Prince, told CNN affiliate WSVN: \"Ryan Howard's willing to give the ball back to her without any strings attached.",
"Free of charge.\"",
"As part of the settlement, attorney Norm Kent said Ryan Howard and the Philadelphia Phillies agreed to pay attorney Norm Kent's attorney fee, about $1,000.",
"Girl has no plans to sell.",
"Girl keeps the ball in Girl's room, hidden near Girl's bunk so friends can't take the ball.",
"\"When I grow up and everything, I'm going to show the ball to my kids,\" said Jennifer, who wants to be a pediatrician.",
"\"Then, my kids're going to tell my kids's kids, and my kids's kids are going to tell my kids's other kids.\"",
"Girl's message to ballclubs and millionaire players?",
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"Sen. John Ensign of Nevada admitted Tuesday to an extramarital affair with a woman who had worked for senator.",
"Sen. John Ensign of Nevada is considered a rising star in the Republican Party.",
"Ensign, 51, would not identify woman but said woman and woman's husband had been \"close friends.\"",
"woman's husband, senator said, also worked for senator.",
"\"Last year, I had an affair,\" senator said outside senator's office in Las Vegas.",
"\"I violated the vows of marriage.",
"It's absolutely the worst thing I've done in my life.",
"\"I take full responsibility for my actions.",
"I know I have deeply hurt and disappointed my wife, Darlene, my children, my family, friends, my staff and those who believed in senator.",
"And to all of them, especially my wife, I'm truly sorry,\" senator said.",
"senator's office also released a statement from senator's wife, saying, \"Since she and her husband found out Last year, she and her husband have worked through the situation and she and her husband have come to a reconciliation.",
"This has been difficult on both families.",
"With the help of she and her husband's family and close friends, she and her husband's marriage has become stronger.",
"I love her husband.\"",
"senator's spokesman, Tory Mazzola, said senator and a campaign staff member carried on the affair from December 2007 through August 2008.",
"her husband was an official Senate staff member for senator.",
"Neither remained in senator's employ as of May 2008.",
"Ensign, a veterinarian, is considered a rising star within the Republican Party.",
"A member of the Republican Party's Senate leadership, senator Last year took over as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee.",
"senator was elected to the Senate in 2000 and comfortably won re-election in the midterm elections of 2006, when Democrats won back Congress.",
"senator is up for re-election in 2012.",
"This month, senator spoke to a conservative group in Iowa, stoking speculation that senator might have interest in running for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012.",
"CNN's Ted Barrett contributed to this report."
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"The most coveted property on Hong Kong is called \"The Peak,\" overlooking the city's stunning Victoria Harbor.",
"But these days, the prices are what is taking people's breath away -- a modest apartment here now can go for $30 million.",
"Recently what is claimed to be the world's most expensive apartment -- a 6,200-square-foot duplex -- sold for a record $57 million.",
"While an implosion of property prices sparked the financial crisis in the United States, property prices in Hong Kong are booming in part because of mainland cash pouring into Hong Kong.",
"China's superrich are purchasing homes and sweeping luxury brand items off the shelf here.",
"\"There would be no good turnover of luxury brands in Hong Kong if it wasn't for the Chinese shopper,\" said Francis Guten, a luxury brand consultant in Hong Kong.",
"Although total retail sales have dropped 4 percent this year, luxury brands are doing brisk business thanks to mainland shoppers.",
"\"They come to Hong Kong because Hong Kong was always the first window on the world for luxury goods for the Chinese,\" Guten said, adding that the purchase of \"genuine\" luxury goods -- rather than the fakes that proliferate the mainland -- is actually cheaper in Hong Kong because of lack of sales taxes or tariffs.",
"And how are they purchasing these goods?",
"\"With cash,\" Guten said.",
"\"Because they have the cash.\"",
"The real estate boom by mainlanders is a way for China's rich to diversify their investments close to home.",
"\"If you look at the history of China, despite the fact that the economy is very strong on a global basis right now, there's been a very volatile period,\" said Francis Cheung of CLSA.",
"\"(If) you have 100-percent wealth in China, you just naturally want to diversify.\"",
"They are not only buying property and Gucci bags, but stock -- the Hang Seng stock exchange is up 50 percent this year.",
"Research firm CLSA expects the market to rise another 20 percent in 2010.",
"CNN's Andrew Stevens and Eunice Yoon contributed to this report."
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"Soccer mom Meleanie Hain, who made national headlines last year by having a loaded, holstered handgun at her 5-year-old daughter's soccer game, has been found shot dead in Meleanie Hain's home along with Meleanie Hain's husband, police said Thursday.",
"Meleanie Hain was found shot dead in Meleanie Hain's home along with Meleanie Hain's husband Thursday.",
"Information from 911 calls shows that it took a SWAT team nearly an hour and a half to gain entry to the Lebanon, Pennsylvania, home Wednesday evening.",
"Inside, they found the bodies of Meleanie Hain, 31, and her husband, Scott, 33, police Capt. Daniel Wright said.",
"Police have avoided labeling the incident a murder-suicide.",
"However, Police do not believe that another person was involved, Wright said.",
"A full investigation is under way, Wright added.",
"\"Who [Meleanie Hain] is does not change the course of A full investigation,\" Wright said.",
"The autopsies are scheduled for Friday.",
"Watch why Meleanie Hain caused controversy » .",
"Meleanie Hain's attorney, Matthew B. Weisberg, said Meleanie Hain told him a few months ago that Scott Hain and Scott Hain's husband were separating.",
"It was not immediately clear whether they were still living together.",
"Scott Hain's three children were unharmed and took refuge at a neighbor's house before police arrived, Wright said, and The couple's three children remain in a neighbor's care.",
"During the incident, police told neighbor Ann DiJohnson to avoid rooms with windows in fear of a possible shootout.",
"\"It was frightening,\" Ann DiJohnson said.",
"\"I'm still shaking.\"",
"Thomas Shaak, who lives a block from the Hains, said Scott Hain hardly socialized with neighbors.",
"The avid gardener said The avid gardener occasionally saw Scott Hain working on Scott Hain's yard, but the two did not greet each other.",
"He said Scott Hain worked as a security officer and often kept odd hours.",
"Meleanie Hain became an overnight celebrity and, to some, a steward of Second Amendment rights when Meleanie Hain carried a Glock strapped to Meleanie Hain's belt to Meleanie Hain's daughter's soccer game September 11, 2008.",
"Days later, on September 20, Meleanie Hain's permit to carry a gun was revoked by Lebanon County Sheriff Michael DeLeo, who claimed that Meleanie Hain showed poor judgment at the child's game.",
"County Judge Robert Eby later reinstated her permit to carry a gun.",
"Weisberg, Meleanie Hain's attorney, said the sheriff's action violated Meleanie Hain's First, Second, Fourth and 14th Amendment rights.",
"A lawsuit was filed against Lebanon County Sheriff Michael DeLeo, who claimed that she showed poor judgment at the child's game on Meleanie Hain's behalf for compensatory damages.",
"Meleanie Hain sought punitive and statutory damages, Weisberg said, along with reimbursement of attorneys' fees and lost wages.",
"Although Weisberg called the Hains a \"loving\" and \"unified\" couple, Weisberg said that about four months ago, Meleanie Hain told Weisberg that they were separating and that Meleanie Hain wanted to remove Weisberg's name from A lawsuit.",
"Although there was no indication of abuse, Weisberg said, Meleanie Hain was contemplating getting a \"stay-away order.\"",
"\"It's shocking,\" Weisberg said of the shooting.",
"\"And sadly ironic.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Ex-Judge Herman Thomas is standing trial on charges Ex-Judge Herman Thomas checked male inmates out of jail and forced male inmates to engage in sexual activity such as paddling in exchange for leniency.",
"Ex-Judge Herman Thomas denies all the charges, Ex-Judge Herman Thomas's attorney says.",
"Ex-Judge Herman Thomas at one point faced more than 100 criminal counts in the case, including kidnapping, sexual abuse, extortion and sodomy.",
"Prosecutors filed cases relating to 15 alleged victims, with multiple counts in each case.",
"But four of cases relating to 15 alleged victims have been dismissed -- some thrown out by a judge because the statute of limitations expired and others because prosecutors decided not to present evidence relating to them -- leaving 11 alleged victims and 51 counts, according to defense attorney Robert Clark and CNN affiliate WKRG-TV.",
"Retired Marengo County Judge Claud Neilson dismissed jurors Tuesday while attorneys argued whether the jury should be allowed to consider kidnapping, extortion or assault charges, WKRG reported.",
"Retired Marengo County Judge Claud Neilson already has ruled there is enough evidence for jurors to consider the sex abuse charges.",
"Thomas, 48, has pleaded not guilty and has denied any wrongdoing.",
"Robert Clark told CNN on Tuesday that Ex-Judge Herman Thomas was trying to mentor the inmates and did not assault the inmates.",
"\"The whole thing is, Ex-Judge Herman Thomas tried to help people in this community,\" Robert Clark said.",
"\"Ex-Judge Herman Thomas helped thousands to grow up and be productive citizens.\"",
"Ex-Judge Herman Thomas does not deny bringing the inmates into Ex-Judge Herman Thomas's office, Robert Clark said.",
"\"Ex-Judge Herman Thomas was mentoring the inmates.",
"Ex-Judge Herman Thomas was trying to get the inmates to do right, to be productive citizens.\"",
"One of the alleged victims testified Monday that he doesn't know why his semen was found on the carpet of a small room used as an office by Ex-Judge Herman Thomas, according to The Mobile Press-Register newspaper.",
"But he did say Ex-Judge Herman Thomas spanked him with a belt on several occasions, The Mobile Press-Register newspaper reported, and that the paddlings took place inside a jury room, in the small office and at a Mobile fraternity house.",
"Another man testified that after Another man was charged with kidnapping and robbery in 2002, Ex-Judge Herman Thomas visited Another man in jail and urged Another man to let Ex-Judge Herman Thomas decide the case instead of a jury, according to the Press-Register.",
"Ex-Judge Herman Thomas convicted Another man of lesser charges, Another man testified, and sentenced Another man to a 90-day boot camp.",
"Another man said Ex-Judge Herman Thomas also beat Another man with a belt on Ex-Judge Herman Thomas's bare buttocks about a dozen times at the courthouse, the newspaper reported.",
"Neither man was identified.",
"\"All of them [the alleged victims] were given preferential treatment at some point,\" Nicki Patterson, chief assistant district attorney for Mobile County, told CNN earlier this month.",
"\"And ultimately, when some of them refused to continue participating [in the activities], they were given what I would view as excessive sentences.",
"But certainly while the inmates were involved with the activities we allege, the state would say, it was extremely lenient sentences.\"",
"However, \"two of the individuals said he [Ex-Judge Herman Thomas] did nothing bad to the individuals,\" Robert Clark said Tuesday.",
"\"That Ex-Judge Herman Thomas didn't paddle the individuals.",
"That Ex-Judge Herman Thomas only helped the individuals.",
"I mean, the last guy that testified was a murderer.",
"And the last guy that testified's complaining the last guy that testified got assaulted.",
"'I got assaulted,' -- yeah, right.\"",
"Asked whether Ex-Judge Herman Thomas admits paddling the men, Robert Clark said, \"I didn't say either way.",
"... I'm saying there ain't no sexual innuendoes.\"",
"Retired Marengo County Judge Claud Neilson has heard arguments on whether an expert should be allowed to testify about sexual fetishes for the prosecution.",
"Robert Clark said an expert has not interviewed any of the alleged victims and that Robert Clark fails to see how the testimony fits into the case.",
"Retired Marengo County Judge Claud Neilson was brought in to hear the case after all the Mobile County Circuit judges recused all the Mobile County Circuit judges -- standard procedure in a case involving another judge.",
"Ex-Judge Herman Thomas resigned from the bench in October 2007 before Ex-Judge Herman Thomas was scheduled to stand trial before the Alabama Court of the Judiciary on multiple ethics violations charges.",
"The complaint, dismissed after the resignation, accused Ex-Judge Herman Thomas of \"extrajudiciary personal contact\" with some defendants but does not refer to any sexual contact.",
"In April, Ex-Judge Herman Thomas told WKRG the allegations against Ex-Judge Herman Thomas are false, but the most important thing for Ex-Judge Herman Thomas was making sure Ex-Judge Herman Thomas's wife and two daughters were taken care of.",
"\"I'm not guilty, and I look forward to being a part of the community that's supported me and I've supported my entire life,\" Ex-Judge Herman Thomas said.",
"The Alabama State Bar suspended Ex-Judge Herman Thomas's law license in January after a grand jury handed up the first of two indictments against Ex-Judge Herman Thomas.",
"In April, The Alabama State Bar's disciplinary commission upheld the suspension, WKRG reported, despite the fact that Ex-Judge Herman Thomas under oath denied all the allegations in the first indictment.",
"The second indictment was returned in August.",
"CNN's Carolina Sanchez contributed to this report."
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"After four years of \"Jon & Kate Plus 8,\" Jon said Jon's decided it's not healthy for Jon's children to be on a reality show.",
"Jon appears on \"Larry King Live\" Thursday.",
"Jon said Jon doesn't want Jon's kids to continue with TV show.",
"\"The reason I don't think it's healthy for his kids is that we're going through a divorce right now, and I don't think it should be televised and I think his kids should be taken off TV show,\" Jon told CNN's Larry King on Thursday night.",
"\"his kids're 5 and 8 now; let his kids experience a normal childhood,\" Jon said.",
"Jon's lawyer said the TLC reality series about the Gosselin family is dead because no judge would ever \"subject the children to TV show if the father believes it's detrimental.\"",
"Jon and Kate Gosselin announced Jon and Kate Gosselin's separation and divorce filing -- after 10 years of marriage -- on a special one-hour episode in June.",
"Jon and Kate Gosselin agreed to share custody of Jon and Kate Gosselin's 5-year-old sextuplets and 8-year-old twins.",
"\"I had an epiphany one day,\" Jon told King.",
"\"I just looked in the mirror and I said, 'I don't want to be this person anymore.'",
"I made mistakes.",
"I know I messed up.",
"I do regret a lot of things.",
"But I have to learn from mistakes and move forward.\"",
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"\"Jon had no manager, Jon had no lawyer, Jon had no idea what Jon was signing,\" said Mark J. Heller, the lawyer recently hired by Jon.",
"\"Now I have a sense of empowerment,\" Jon said.",
"\"Before, I didn't have any representation.",
"I take blame for not being an initiator.",
"I was an avoider.",
"I was passive.\"",
"Kate said Kate was \"saddened and confused by Jon's public media statements.\"",
"\"Jon has never expressed any concerns to me about Jon and Kate Gosselin's children being involved in TV show and, in fact, is on the record as saying Jon believes TV show benefits Jon and Kate Gosselin's children and was taping on Friday with the kids,\" Kate said.",
"Kate said Kate's estranged husband only changed Jon's mind about their eight children's involvement after TLC \"announced the name change of TV show and indicated that Jon would have a lesser role in TV show.\"",
"\"It appears that Jon's priority is Jon and Jon's interests,\" Kate said.",
"TLC announced Tuesday that TLC was retitling TV show \"Kate Plus 8\" because of \"recent changes in the family dynamics.\"",
"Jon's lawyer said TLC only fired Jon \"before Jon fired TV show.\"",
"The state labor department is investigating whether TLC violated child labor laws by not properly paying the children or getting permits for the past four seasons, Heller said.",
"\"These kids have been working without compensation for four years,\" Heller said.",
"Jon revealed to King that the family was paid $22,500 per episode, with none of the money specifically designated for his kids.",
"TLC, in a written statement Thursday, said TLC had halted \"direct filming of his kids\" until Jon and Kate have \"further conversations.\"",
"TLC said Jon's \"latest comments are grossly inaccurate, without merit and are clearly opportunistic,\" noting Jon and the family were taping as recently as last Friday.",
"\"Despite Jon's repeated self-destructive and unprofessional actions, Jon remains under an exclusive contract with TLC,\" TLC said.",
"Heller said, however, the contract the Gosselins signed four years ago with TLC was \"null and void\" because TLC dropped Jon.",
"TLC gave King a written statement insisting the changes were allowed by the contract.",
"TV show will take \"a deeper focus on Kate's role in the family and Kate's journey as a single mother building the next chapter in Kate's life,\" TLC said Tuesday.",
"Jon will still appear, \"but on a less regular basis,\" it said.",
"Kate's divorce lawyers told King that Jon does not have the legal right to stop the children from appearing on TV show because of the separation agreement the couple signed.",
"\"Jon signed an agreement that party with physical custody will decide if they will be on taping,\" Mark Momjian said.",
"\"Jon must go to court to change that.\"",
"Jon said Jon's relationship with TLC began to deteriorate at the beginning of the year when network executives began calling Jon, warning Jon that Jon was in breach of Jon's contract.",
"\"They put me on house arrest\" with bodyguards watching Jon around the clock, Jon said.",
"As for Jon's relationship with Kate, Jon said Kate told Jon a year ago Kate wanted to lead a life separate from Jon.",
"Jon said Jon has not talked to Kate in almost a month, although Jon has tried calling and sending text messages.",
"\"I want to work things out,\" Jon said.",
"\"Jon and Kate Gosselin know Jon and Kate Gosselin're not going to be husband and wife, but Jon and Kate Gosselin will always be mom and dad.",
"Jon and Kate Gosselin have to get Jon and Kate Gosselin's kids off television.\"",
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"When Charles Wolf watched President Obama's speech on Afghanistan, Charles Wolf nearly broke down in tears.",
"Charles Wolf doesn't have a son or daughter headed off to war.",
"But to Charles Wolf, Charles Wolf's wife of 12 years was a war casualty: his wife of 12 years was killed on September 11.",
"When President Obama described the attacks \"and he described how the whole world was with us, it emotionally took me right back to that moment,\" Charles Wolf said.",
"\"It was all I could do to keep from totally losing it.\"",
"Charles Wolf's wife, Katherine, worked as an executive assistant for Marsh & McLennan on the 97th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers.",
"his wife of 12 years sent an e-mail just two minutes before the first plane hit.",
"\"his wife of 12 years's office took a direct hit by the first plane, and his wife of 12 years was vaporized.",
"There was nothing ever found of his wife of 12 years,\" Charles Wolf said.",
"It's been eight years since the attacks of September 11 killed 2,976 people.",
"A lot of memories have faded, Charles Wolf said, but Charles Wolf still thinks of the little things: \"holding his wife of 12 years's hand, falling asleep next to his wife of 12 years, waking up next to his wife of 12 years, the companionship, the partnership.\"",
"\"his wife of 12 years was great.\"",
"And so Charles Wolf was glued to Charles Wolf's television Tuesday for President Obama's speech.",
"Charles Wolf wanted to hear from the president how Nation is going to finish the job in what Charles Wolf calls \"the womb of 9/11.\"",
"\"To address these issues,\" President Obama said, \"it is important to recall why Nation and our allies were compelled to fight a war in Afghanistan in the first place.",
"Nation did not ask for this fight.",
"On September 11, 2001, 19 men hijacked four airplanes and used them to murder nearly 3,000 people.",
"\"19 men struck at our military and economic nerve centers.",
"19 men took the lives of innocent men, women and children without regard to women and children's faith or race or station.",
"Were it not for the heroic actions of the passengers on board one of those flights, 19 men could have also struck at one of the great symbols of our democracy in Washington and killed many more.\"",
"Those words brought it all home: the memories of Charles Wolf's wife with the beautiful smile and short-cropped red hair.",
"\"I was biting my lip,\" Charles Wolf said.",
"That said, Charles Wolf is critical of the president's strategy, mostly his announcement to begin withdrawing the American contingent in July 2011.",
"\"That is a tactical and strategic mistake,\" Charles Wolf said.",
"\"If you're playing chess, do you tell your opponent your next move?",
"\"To broadcast that for the sake of politics, to me, that is very wrong.\"",
"And so Charles Wolf was divided: pleased about the renewed commitment to the Afghanistan war but upset by the planned pullout date.",
"iReport: Share your views on Afghanistan .",
"Veteran New York firefighter Lee Ielpi lost Veteran New York firefighter Lee Ielpi's son, Jonathan, a fellow firefighter, on September 11.",
"\"I support President Obama's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan and the war against al Qaeda and the Taliban,\" Veteran New York firefighter Lee Ielpi said.",
"A combat veteran of Vietnam, Veteran New York firefighter Lee Ielpi added, \"The president and Congress need to ensure Nation has a clear strategy for Nation's military in order to not repeat the strategic mistakes of Vietnam.",
"I also strongly believe Nation needs to do more to support returning veterans.\"",
"The office of Joe Daniels overlooks ground zero, an every-day reminder of what happened on September 11, 2001.",
"Joe Daniels was standing outside the Twin Towers when the Twin Towers were hit.",
"Joe Daniels is now the president of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, charged with the monumental task of building a living tribute to those who perished that day.",
"\"In the aftermath of 9/11, there were a lot of citizens who signed up to do what they felt was a patriotic duty to respond to what happened, and many of them went to Afghanistan,\" Joe Daniels said.",
"\"So I think it's important that we don't forget that the history of 9/11 is still being written.",
"There are still a lot of important things that have to be done in Afghanistan.\"",
"Joe Daniels added, \"After the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, we lapsed into complacency.",
"And to have a focus on finishing what needs to be done, I think, is important.",
"We can't fall back into that sense of isolation and complacency.\"",
"Charles Wolf agreed.",
"By returning in force to Afghanistan, Charles Wolf said, \"We are going in now to keep ourselves from being attacked again.",
"\"This is not a war of choice,\" Charles Wolf said.",
"\"This is a war of necessity.\"",
"Charles Wolf hopes the American people understand that.",
"It's why Charles Wolf can hardly speak when Charles Wolf sees U.S. soldiers in uniform.",
"\"I am so grateful of the fact that they will lay their lives on the line for us,\" Charles Wolf said.",
"For military families who will soon send their loved ones off to Afghanistan, Charles Wolf said, \"Thank you.",
"It's all you can say.",
"Thank you for making the decision to do it.",
"Thank you for loving your country.\"",
"\"I just ask every person out there if it was your wife who went to work one day and never came home,\" Charles Wolf said, \"would you do anything to make sure it doesn't happen again?\"",
"Charles Wolf paused at the end of the conversation and said simply: \"We have to remember 9/11.\""
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"ROME, Italy (CNN) --",
"The murder trial of Knox in the death of Knox's housemate two years ago resumed Monday in Italy after a summer break.",
"The trial of American college student Amanda Knox, 22, resumes Monday, September 14.",
"Knox, 22, and Knox's Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito also face charges of sexual assault.",
"Knox and ex-boyfriend Sollecito are accused of killing British student Meredith Kercher, Knox's housemate in Perugia, a scenic university town north of ROME.",
"Kercher, 20, died in what prosecutors called a \"drug-fueled sex game.\"",
"Knox was found half-undressed in bed, with a stab wound to Knox's neck on November 2, 2007.",
"Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were both present at Monday's court session, Kercher's attorney Francesco Maresca said.",
"her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito's defense attorneys requested the annulment of DNA analysis, which investigators say shows her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito's genetic material on the clasp of the victim's bra.",
"The judge rejected the request.",
"The next hearing is scheduled on Friday, Kercher's attorney Francesco Maresca said.",
"Knox, from Seattle, Washington, took the stand in June and testified that Knox was not at the girls' villa the night Knox's roommate died, which authorities think was the evening of November 1.",
"Knox said Knox was visiting Knox then-boyfriend, Sollecito, at his home, where the two watched a movie, smoked marijuana, had sex and went to bed.",
"On Knox's return to their villa the next morning, Knox said, Knox noticed \"strange things,\" such as the front door left open, dried blood in the bathroom sink and a locked door to Knox's room.",
"When Knox returned to Sollecito's house, he suggested they call police in case Sollecito's house had been burgled, Knox said.",
"Police found Knox's body in Sollecito's house.",
"Prosecutors say evidence places the defendants at the scene.",
"Prosecutors also said the suspects gave investigators confusing and contradictory statements about their whereabouts the night Kercher died.",
"Knox said Knox gave conflicting answers at the interrogation on November 6 because of police pressure and Knox's confused state.",
"\"When I would say that I was with Raffaele, they would say, 'You are a liar,' and they repeated this,\" Knox said in June, speaking about the police.",
"\"'You will go to prison for 30 years.",
"... You must remember.'\"",
"During the trial, Knox said police had slapped Knox on the head during questioning, a charge Knox had made before.",
"The case has attracted worldwide media attention.",
"During Knox's testimony in June, cameras were barred from the courtroom because the prosecutor said the prosecutor wanted to avoid sensationalism.",
"A third person, Ivory Coast native Rudy Hermann Guede, was convicted of murder in The case in October and was sentenced to 30 years in prison.",
"A third person, Ivory Coast native Rudy Hermann Guede is appealing A third person, Ivory Coast native Rudy Hermann Guede's conviction."
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"Knox accused of killing Knox's flatmate, British student Meredith Kercher .",
"Told court in June Knox was not in the villa the night Knox's roommate died .",
"Prosecutors say evidence places Knox and Raffaele Sollecito at the scene .",
"Knox and ex-boyfriend Sollecito also facing charges of sexual assault ."
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