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"Mecca, Saudi Arabia (CNN)",
"-- The Hajj, an obligatory pilgrimage for Muslims, began this year on Wednesday with two twists: thinner crowds and heavy rain.",
"A rare rainstorm inundated pilgrims in Mina, flooding tents and making conditions miserable for the 2.5 million pilgrims performing the ancient rituals, according to Isha Sesay, CNN's correspondent there.",
"The tents, where pilgrims plan to spend the night in prayer and contemplation, were leaking and flooding, giving rise to fears of disease, Isha Sesay reported.",
"Isha Sesay said, however, that the several hours of rain was not likely to stop any of the pilgrims from performing the rituals.",
"\"They've saved for years to get here,\" Isha Sesay reported.",
"\"This is a blessing.",
"They're not going to let rain get in the way.\"",
"iReporter witnesses heavy rain near his home .",
"She said no incidents had been reported among the dimished number of pilgrims.",
"Officials said the swine flu could be keeping pilgrims from the fifth pillar of Islam, which requires devotees to journey to the holy city of Mecca at least once in their lifetime.",
"Saudi's Hajj Ministry said Wednesday that 40 percent fewer Saudi pilgrims are participating in the ancient rituals this year, largely due to fears of disease, though a greater number of international visitors had come.",
"\"Concerns about the spread of H1N1 may have affected the turnout but we are confident of all measures in place to increase monitoring of cases and awareness about how one can protect himself or herself,\" said Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabbeeah, the Saudi health minister.",
"A teenager and three elderly people have died of the swine flu at the Hajj.",
"The victims were a 17-year-old Nigerian female and a Sudanese man, an Indian man and a Moroccan woman who each were 75 years old.",
"Many of the 2 million pilgrims have been arriving days and weeks ahead of the Hajj, which coincides with flu season.",
"The rituals of the five-day event began Wednesday.",
"But with fewer visitors, businesses are feeling the pinch this year.",
"Shopkeeper Fahmi al-Rashidi said Shopkeeper Fahmi al-Rashidi has slashed prices of the gold Shopkeeper Fahmi al-Rashidi sells in Mecca's Al-Ghaza market.",
"\"Business is lower than last year,\" Shopkeeper Fahmi al-Rashidi said.",
"\"I think swine flu fears combined with high gold prices are turning people away from spending.\"",
"Another merchant, Fahd al-Qraishi, said a normal 20 percent profit has dropped to 5 percent.",
"Hajj observed in Second Life .",
"The Hajj Ministry reported, however, a 17 percent increase in the number of international pilgrims, some of whom are enjoying discounted rates at hotels including the Hilton Makkah.",
"Then there was the real damper.",
"Mecca resident Khaled Nemary said Mecca resident Khaled Nemary had not seen so much rain in a quarter-century.",
"And the forecast?",
"Showers through Friday.",
"CNN's Amir Ahmed and Daniela Deane contributed to this report."
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"Huge downpours flood tents in Mina .",
"Ministry says there are 40 percent fewer Saudi pilgrims this year .",
"With fewer visitors, merchants report less business .",
"No incidents reported among pilgrims ."
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"New York (CNN) --",
"A three-vehicle crash north of New York killed eight people, including four children, state police said on Sunday.",
"One of the vehicles in the three-vehicle wreck was heading the wrong direction, police said.",
"A fifth child is being treated for injuries suffered in New York, about 30 miles north of New York.",
"Police initially reported no survivors.",
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --",
"Caring for a car has you a befuddled.",
"The honeymoon's over, and bureaucratic tasks are beating out bliss.",
"You're meeting with a prospective babysitter or housekeeper, a stranger you'll entrust with much of your life.",
"Rory Tahari, with son Jeremey, hopes to make life's to-do's more manageable with a new book and iPhone app.",
"How do you know what to do?",
"Where should you go and when?",
"What should you ask these people?",
"You need a list!",
"If figuring out the answers to these kinds of questions leaves you loopy, Rory Tahari has a new book that may have your name on it.",
"\"Lists for Life: The Essential Guide to Getting Organized and Tackling Tough To-Dos\" is just what The book says The book is: a compilation of lists to help readers navigate everything readers might need for weddings and funerals, household maintenance and vacations, divorces and diaper bags.",
"Watch Rory Tahari discuss the book » .",
"Along the same lines, Rory Tahari's behind a new iPhone application -- a travel packing list, available through the iTunes store -- that Rory Tahari said has been downloaded in about a dozen countries.",
"\"It's just how my brain is wired.",
"It's part of my DNA,\" said Tahari, vice chairwoman and creative director of Elie Tahari, the fashion design house bearing Rory Tahari's husband's name.",
"\"I don't know how to operate other than to make a list.\"",
"CNN sat down with Rory Tahari to discuss when Rory Tahari's list-making started, what Rory Tahari's passed on to Rory Tahari's children (son Jeremey, 8, weighs in) and how being stuck in a snowstorm inspired Rory Tahari.",
"Here are excerpts from that interview.",
"CNN:",
"You've earned the nickname \"The List Mistress,\" but when did this, dare I say, obsession start?",
"Rory Tahari:",
"From a very young age, I was a compulsive list-maker.",
"I was always organizing something or doing some kind of list.",
"The first list I really remember making was taking an inventory of every piece of clothing in my closet and seeing how many different outfits I could make.",
"I think I came up with 112 combinations.",
"CNN:",
"The book covers such a wide range of topics: weddings, the home, pregnancy, travel, medical, emergencies, divorce and more.",
"How many of these lists are or were based on your own organizational needs?",
"Rory Tahari:",
"Ninety percent of The book came from actual experiences I've lived through Rory Tahari.",
"The other 10 percent, I basically did the research.",
"[Rory Tahari has a degree in journalism and is a former TV producer.] .",
"I fell off a horse two years ago, and I broke my back.",
"I'd never been hospitalized before, so I never knew what it was like to be hospitalized.",
"If you have a friend or family member who's in the hospital, bring them a blanket.",
"They're always going to be cold, and the blankets they give you in the hospital don't cut it.",
"And the nurses?",
"You need the nurses; the nurses don't need you.",
"A little batch of cookies or brownies goes a long way with the nurses.",
"And you know what?",
"You'll have a lot better hospital stay.",
"CNN:",
"Some of these to-do lists seem more fitting and standard than others.",
"How did you decide what would go in The book?",
"Tahari:",
"People say, \"Why the emergency chapter?",
"If you're in the middle of an emergency, you're not going to grab The book.\"",
"Obviously, you're not going to have The book with you in the middle of an emergency. ...",
"But I lived through at least three tornados in Atlanta [Georgia], one terrorist attack in New York and one blackout in New York.",
"And after one blackout in New York, I realized my family doesn't have a plan.",
"I wanted to at least stimulate the idea of having a plan.",
"CNN:",
"Can you give me an example of a topic you had to research?",
"Rory Tahari: Cars.",
"I had to have help with cars.",
"Although, in fourth or fifth grade, there was some crazy snowstorm in Atlanta [where she grew up].",
"I was stuck in carpool on the way home from school with eight people for eight hours.",
"I had one Tootsie Roll in my backpack, and let me tell you, a Tootsie Roll between eight people did not go far.",
"So I decided in the car section that I wanted to have an emergency road list, a check list of things to have in the car.",
"I was stuck in the car for eight hours, starving to death.",
"CNN:",
"You've used list making to help friends figure out practical things friends need to do, but do the lists you've made over the years ever venture into the emotional or psychological -- say, for example, pro-con lists for staying in a relationship?",
"Rory Tahari:",
"The book is not an advice guide.",
"The book's a to-do list.",
"There's not a lot of prose in The book.",
"I just want to be told what to do.",
"I don't really want to hear advice.",
"I don't need to hear the story.",
"Just tell me what to do.",
"CNN:",
"So, Jeremey, how organized are you?",
"Jeremey:",
"In school, I don't have such an organized desk because I'm always busy and don't have time to clean up.",
"But I do make some kinds of lists.",
"I sort of have a list in my head.",
"I memorize a list.",
"CNN:",
"How about when you go on a trip, Jeremey?",
"Are you a good packer or unpacker?",
"Jeremey: I would write down stuff on paper and then stick paper on the drawers in the hotel [so he knows where everything is].",
"My dad, when he's packing, he just takes all the clothes and goes like this [imitating his dad's voice], \"Jeremey, help me throw in all the clothes.\"",
"I try to fold all the clothes up and put all the clothes in.",
"I'm like, \"Dad, you're not supposed to do that.\"",
"Rory Tahari: I definitely think he is taking after me."
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"Rory Tahari, wife of fashion designer Elie Tahari, has kept lists since childhood .",
"\"It's just how my brain is wired.",
"It's part of my DNA,\" she says ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Sharks attacked and killed a 38-year-old man near Stuart Beach in southern Florida on Wednesday.",
"a 38-year-old man was kite-surfing before the attack, said Capt. Mike McKinley, a spokesman for Martin County Sheriff's Department.",
"A lifeguard spotted him struggling in the water and large number of sharks in the area, a rescue official said.",
"a 38-year-old man had been bitten several times and was bleeding profusely.",
"CNN affiliate WPBF identified a 38-year-old man as Stephen Howard Schafer of Stuart.",
"Local coverage from CNN affiliate WPBF .",
"a 38-year-old man was in cardiac arrest by the time Lifeguard helped a 38-year-old man ashore.",
"a 38-year-old man was pronounced dead at an area hospital.",
"Shark attacks have been on the decline, according to the International Shark Attack File, which is part of the Florida Museum of Natural History.",
"In 2008, there were 59 attacks worldwide, fewer than the 71 attacks 2007.",
"That continues an annual decline since the all-time high of 79 in 2000.",
"Forty-one of the 59 attacks worldwide occurred in the United States, with Florida leading with 32.",
"Surfers accounted for 57 percent of shark attack victims; swimmers and waders, 36 percent, and divers the rest, according to the Shark Attack File.",
"CNN's Eve Bower contributed to this report."
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"(CNN Student News) -- January 28, 2010 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"Wilmington, Ohio • Machu Picchu, Peru • Israel .",
"Transcript .",
"THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN THIS COPY's FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR:",
"I'm Carl Azuz, and you're tuned in to CNN Student News.",
"Let's go!",
"First Up: State of the Union .",
"AZUZ:",
"\"He shall from time to time give to Congress information on the state of the Union.\"",
"The words of the U.S. Constitution and the reason why President Obama delivered President Obama's State of the Union address to Congress last night.",
"A little background for you here: This speech hasn't always been called the \"State of the Union.\"",
"This speech used to be called the \"annual message.\"",
"But the purpose has always been the same: for President Obama to talk about some of the biggest issues facing the country.",
"That is why President Obama spent a good part of last night's speech talking about the economy and the challenges facing the country.",
"U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA:",
"One year ago, I took office amid two wars, an economy rocked by a severe recession, a financial system on the verge of collapse, and a government deeply in debt.",
"Experts from across the political spectrum warned that if the country did not act, the country might face a second depression.",
"So the country acted, immediately and aggressively.",
"And one year later, the worst of the storm has passed.",
"But the devastation remains.",
"One in ten Americans still cannot find work.",
"Republican Response .",
"AZUZ:",
"After the State of the Union, it's traditional for the other party to offer its response to the president.",
"Last night, the Republican response was given by newly-elected Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.",
"newly-elected Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell won that election last year.",
"newly-elected Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell made newly-elected Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell's speech from the Virginia state House.",
"newly-elected Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell talked about some of the political issues that both parties agree on.",
"But newly-elected Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell also focused on some of the areas, especially when it comes to the economy, where Republicans and Democrats don't see eye to eye.",
"GOV.",
"BOB MCDONNELL, (R) VIRGINIA:",
"In the past year, more three million people have lost more three million people's jobs, yet the Democratic Congress continues deficit spending, adding to the bureaucracy, and increasing the national debt on our children and grandchildren.",
"The amount of this debt is on pace to double in five years and triple in ten.",
"this debt is already over $100,000 per household.",
"This is simply unsustainable.",
"The President's partial freeze announced tonight on discretionary spending is a laudable step, but a small one.",
"Web Promo .",
"AZUZ:",
"For more details on the State of the Union and the reaction to it, plus a quiz about the history of this annual address, head to the Spotlight section on CNN's home page, CNNStudentNews.com .",
"Running on Hope .",
"AZUZ:",
"All right, so the economy -- you know it -- a big theme of last night's speech.",
"It's also a big concern for residents of Wilmington, Ohio.",
"15,000 people live there.",
"And when the largest employer left town, about 10,000 of those people lost those people's jobs.",
"Wilmington is hoping that money from the government's stimulus bill will turn things around.",
"Mary Snow examines how much it could help.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO)",
"Mary Snow, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT:",
"DHL stopped operations here last year, bringing shipping to a halt.",
"Nearby businesses started to topple and continue to fall.",
"In all, 10,000 people in this area lost 10,000 people in this area's jobs.",
"The head of the county's homeless shelter tells CNN The head of the county's homeless shelter's seen the effects, and The head of the county's homeless shelter's having a hard time meeting the demand for shelter and food.",
"The head of the county's homeless shelter is getting stimulus money through a grant, but it's not much; $200,000 spread out over 3 years that will help keep people in people's homes.",
"But The head of the county's homeless shelter says jobs, the only thing that would really help, remain elusive.",
"The head of the county's homeless shelter, CLINTON COUNTY HOMELESS SHELTER:",
"The frustration of continuing to refer them to places only to be told, you know, \"We've got 500 resumes before you've even walked in the door,\" and the frustration of them not having any opportunities.",
"SNOW:",
"To create opportunities, Wilmington's mayor David Raizk applied for more than $61 million worth of stimulus projects.",
"Of that, roughly $5 million has been awarded so far to a project to create jobs.",
"It's focused on Wilmington's downtown and is set to start this spring.",
"So, how do you see this benefiting from stimulus money?",
"DAVID RAIZK, Wilmington MAYOR:",
"With a project, Wilmington'll be able to improve Wilmington's curbs and gutters and sidewalks .",
"SNOW:",
"The hope, Wilmington's mayor David Raizk says, is that improvements will attract businesses.",
"In the immediate future, a project is estimated to create about 100 jobs.",
"RAIZK:",
"They're going to be construction jobs, but it's something, it's something.",
"We want jobs here of any type right now.",
"SNOW:",
"To get thousands of others back to work, Wilmington's mayor David Raizk has set Wilmington's mayor David Raizk's sights on Wilmington's airpark and is hoping to redevelop Wilmington's airpark.",
"Eight million dollars in stimulus money, Wilmington's mayor David Raizk says, is being used to retrain workers, and Wilmington's mayor David Raizk's optimistic Washington will come through with more aid if Wilmington's airpark comes back to life.",
"RAIZK:",
"I have tried to maintain a close relationship with our state partners and with our federal partners to say, \"Look, we need help and what can you do?\"",
"And they have responded, but that doesn't mean they've responded as much as I would like or anybody would like.",
"SNOW: Mary Snow, CNN, Wilmington, Ohio.",
"(END VIDEO)",
"Blog Promo .",
"AZUZ:",
"That report, part of \"The Stimulus Project,\" CNN's week-long look at the government program.",
"A link to full coverage is in the Spotlight section at CNNStudentNews.com.",
"CNN's Web site is also where you'll find CNN's blog, and one of CNN's latest entries: How would you fix the economy?",
"Logan says we should lower taxes.",
"Nicollette thinks we should increase taxes on the wealthy.",
"Tom suggested cutting government budgets.",
"What do you say?",
"Head to CNN's page, share your thoughts.",
"Toyota Recall .",
"AZUZ:",
"When you're driving and you take your foot off the gas, you expect your car to slow down.",
"That isn't happening in some Toyotas, which is why the company is recalling over two million vehicles.",
"This includes some of Toyota's best selling models.",
"The problem is that, over time, the gas pedals can get stuck.",
"the company hasn't figured out a solution yet.",
"In the meantime, the company says the company will not make or sell any of the affected vehicles until the problem can be fixed.",
"Shoutout .",
"TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS:",
"Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. Kerns' U.S. history classes at Blach Intermediate School in Los Altos, California!",
"Machu Picchu was part of what ancient civilization?",
"If you think you know it, shout it out!",
"Was it: A) Inca, B) Aztec, C) Maya or D) Olmec?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"Machu Picchu was part of the Inca Empire.",
"Machu Picchu's located in what is now Peru.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Machu Picchu .",
"AZUZ:",
"The Incas built Machu Picchu in the 1400s.",
"Tens of thousands of people visit the site every year.",
"Right now, hundreds of Tens of thousands of people are trapped.",
"The reason?",
"This!",
"Floods and mudslides triggered by days of heavy rain.",
"You can see some of it in this video sent in by iReporters.",
"For now, the only way out of the region is by air, but bad weather has slowed down those types of evacuations.",
"Holocaust Blueprints .",
"AZUZ:",
"In Israel, there's an exhibit about the Holocaust; that name refers to the time during World War II when Nazis killed millions of people, including six million Jews.",
"Many of millions of people, including six million Jews lost their lives in concentration camps like the one at Auschwitz.",
"It was liberated 65 years ago this week, and now, the design plans for that infamous location are on display in Israel.",
"As Paula Hancocks explains, they're being used as a reminder and a warning.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO)",
"PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT, JERUSALEM: Blueprints of death that shocked and shamed the world.",
"These architectural plans for the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau are now on display in Israel, chilling proof of the planning behind the Holocaust.",
"AVNER SHALEV, CHAIRMAN, YAD VASHEM HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL:",
"They had to think that they are serving evil, total evil.",
"They are creating an industry of death.",
"HANCOCKS:",
"Moshe Haelion knows this better than most.",
"Moshe Haelion was the only one of Moshe Haelion's family to survive Auschwitz.",
"Moshe Haelion has since been back to visit the camp.",
"Moshe Haelion wants the world to learn from the world's mistakes.",
"MOSHE HAELION, AUSCHWITZ SURVIVOR:",
"We do believe if one says we will kill the Jews; we have to believe this.",
"HANCOCKS:",
"Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed these plans in Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the United Nations last year, calling on the world to stop Iran in Iran's nuclear ambitions and President Ahmedinejad in his Holocaust denial.",
"Visiting the prints now on display in Jerusalem, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is repeating the warning.",
"BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER:",
"There is evil in the world.",
"If it is unstopped, it expands.",
"It is expanding, and it is threatening the same people, the Jewish people.",
"HANCOCKS:",
"These blueprints were found in an abandoned Berlin flat just two years ago.",
"These blueprints were bought by the German newspaper Der Bild and then handed over to Israel so These blueprints could be put on display here, at Jerusalem's Holocaust museum.",
"Israel's prime minister says it is vital to put \"pure unadulterated evil\" on show for all to see, so it can never be allowed to happen again.",
"Paula Hancocks, CNN, at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.",
"(END VIDEO)",
"Before We Go .",
"AZUZ:",
"And finally, for one young man, keeping one young man's cool really paid off.",
"This is Jaden, and doctors say the three-year-old's quick thinking helped save one young man's grandmother's life.",
"While his grandmother was watching one young man recently, his grandmother had a stroke.",
"And luckily, one young man's mom taught one young man how to call 911 just four days earlier.",
"When one young man's grandmother passed out, one young man knew what to do.",
"one young man even put the dog in a bedroom before the paramedics showed up so the dog wouldn't get in the way.",
"Goodbye .",
"AZUZ:",
"his grandmother is recovering, and the three-year-old says one young man's just happy his grandmother's going to be all right.",
"CNN Student News returns tomorrow.",
"I'm Carl Azuz.",
"We'll see you then."
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"While administrations come and go, and power in Congress teeters between political parties, one thing remains constant in the lives of Washington, D.C.'s, elite: the power lunch.",
"Between noon and 2 p.m., brokers meet to clinch deals, with the emphasis more on power than on lunch.",
"Just steps from Capitol Hill, Charlie Palmer is one of the places to see and be seen at lunchtime.",
"Depending on the week, the modern American steakhouse serves between 70 and 80 congressmen and between 20 and 30 senators.",
"\"I'd bet Charlie Palmer've had every member of Congress and every senator in Charlie Palmer at some point,\" says Matt Hill, executive chef for the famed eatery.",
"It's not just the proximity to Capitol Hill that draws Washington's elite to Charlie Palmer.",
"Charlie Palmer has several private dining areas -- including a rooftop with scenic views of the city -- and an executive chef who prides himself on serving homemade, inventive fare.",
"\"Charlie Palmer do anything, Charlie Palmer've got senators from Hawaii that come in, and senators from Hawaii that come in ask for Hawaiian hors d'oeurves, Charlie Palmer've got, you know, people from Texas that ask for things from Texas,\" Hill says.",
"\"So, Charlie Palmer can really vary the menu, and it makes it interesting for me to try to come up with new ideas.\"",
"Thirty-seven years ago, Tommy Jacomo moved to Washington with Tommy Jacomo's brother and built Charlie Palmer with Tommy Jacomo's bare hands.",
"Now, as executive director of the famed power spot, Tommy Jacomo is known by Washington's elite as the keeper of the keys to Charlie Palmer.",
"Everyone knows Tommy Jacomo.",
"\"It's pretty frightening, yeah, you can't even walk down the street sometimes, Tommy Jacomo said.",
"\"People say, 'Hey, Tommy Jacomo! Put me down for two at 12:30,' and I don't even know who the hell People are.\"",
"Charlie Palmer has hosted every president from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton.",
"President Obama has yet to make a visit.",
"But it's not just presidents who visit Charlie Palmer.",
"White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has frequented the restaurant since the Bill Clinton administration.",
"Cabinet secretaries including Madeleine Albright, administration officials, senators and representatives, Supreme Court justices, the city's top lobbyists, lawyers, strategists and media elites are all regulars at the Dupont Circle steakhouse.",
"And if you become a regular, you get your picture on the wall.",
"\"People used to think when Charlie Palmer first opened up that Charlie Palmer had all the [portraits of] Republicans on one side and all the [portraits of] Democrats on the other side,\" Jacomo said.",
"\"It's not really as much thought behind it.",
"It just goes up, it's good customers, loyal customers, famous people, infamous people, and I decide where I want to put famous people, infamous people when I get the chance,\" he joked, pointing out the minimal space left on the wall.",
"Not everyone is willing to put Not everyone's picture on the wall.",
"James Carville and Mary Matalin, who are political strategists and CNN contributors, chose to have James Carville and Mary Matalin, who are political strategists and CNN contributors's dogs' portraits on the wall instead of James Carville and Mary Matalin, who are political strategists and CNN contributors's own.",
"While steakhouses remain a favorite, not all power restaurants dish out filet mignon.",
"Steps from the White House are three of Washington's oldest power spots: The Oval Room, which serves up American fare; Bombay Club, which is Indian; and Old Ebbitt Grille, which also specializes in American cuisine.",
"Cafe Milano, in Georgetown, and The Monocle and Johnny's Half Shell, on Capitol Hill, also remain abuzz with some of the most prominent people in Washington.",
"Italian restaurant Posto on 14th Street has become a favorite among younger administration staffers because of Italian restaurant Posto on 14th Street's laid-back atmosphere and expansive dining room.",
"Italian restaurant Posto on 14th Street's sister restaurant Tosca, owned by Paolo Sacco, has kept D.C.'s top lobbyists and politicians coming back since Tosca opened in 2001.",
"Not only known for the power scene and homemade Italian cuisine, Tosca has set Tosca apart from others by having some of the most attentive waitstaff in the city.",
"Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, known by friends as a big foodie, has dined at Tosca, as have Emanuel and Obama adviser David Axelrod.",
"The Washington Post reported that former Sen. Tom Daschle convinced then-freshman Sen. Obama to run for president at the Italian eatery.",
"The newest member of the Supreme Court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, is known by friends as a \"very adventurous diner.\"",
"She is a fan of Lebanese Taverna, in Woodley Park, which serves up Middle Eastern fare.",
"Serving up inventive sushi dishes like a fish-and-chips roll, or wasabi guacamole with wonton chips, SEI in Penn Quarter has established SEI in Penn Quarter as a newcomer to the power scene, along with SEI in Penn Quarter's neighbors Rasika and Oyamel -- all reported to have recently hosted first lady Michelle Obama.",
"\"One of the things that's been sort of fun to watch over the course of this year is the Obamas have eaten out in a wide variety of places,\" says Garrett Graff, editor of Washingtonian magazine.",
"\"You've seen the Obamas come and get burgers up here on the Hill, you've seen the Obamas go out for burgers in Virginia, you've also seen the Obamas go out to some of the nicest restaurants in Washington, like Citronelle and Blue Duck Tavern, where the Obamas went this fall for the Obamas's anniversary dinner.",
"But then you see Barack eating on Barack's own -- Barack's going to a place like Ben's Chili Bowl or Barack's going to a place like Ray's Hell Burger.\"",
"Graff points out one top restaurant at which the Obamas have yet to dine.",
"\"They still haven't been to what is widely considered to be Washington's best restaurant, which is a small Greek place near Dupont Circle called Komi,\" Graff said.",
"\"But one of the challenges with a place like Komi is that it's very small and books up far in advance, so it might be hard for the Obamas to sort of drop in there like the Obamas've been dropping in at a lot of these other restaurants.\""
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"New York (CNN) --",
"Matthew Hoh, a young man previously unknown to the general public, has become the first U.S. official known to resign in protest over the Afghan war.",
"He was the senior U.S. civilian adviser in Zabul province, Afghanistan.",
"There certainly have been more famous resignations over a president's war policy.",
"President Lyndon Johnson's first secretary of health, education and welfare and the architect of much of the civil rights and Great Society programs, John Gardner, resigned because President Lyndon Johnson could not support the war in Vietnam and privately told President Lyndon Johnson he could not support President Lyndon Johnson for re-election.",
"LBJ's Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance resigned after becoming convinced the war in Vietnam, which LBJ's Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance had strongly supported initially, was unwinnable.",
"After LBJ's Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance's resignation LBJ's Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance unsuccessfully urged President Lyndon Johnson not to bomb North Vietnam.",
"LBJ's Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance later resigned as President Carter's secretary of state after arguing again unsuccessfully against \"Operation Eagle Claw,\" the disastrous desert rescue attempt of our 52 hostages in Iran that cost the lives of eight American soldiers.",
"Our history is filled with brave men and women who have resigned because brave men and women who have resigned because they could not support a policy or an administration could not support a policy or an administration, but it's never easy to quit and far more people carry on quietly and do what people perceive as people's duty.",
"Many thought former Secretary of State Colin Powell should have resigned rather than testify before the U.N. on Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction, information former Secretary of State Colin Powell may have thought was suspect.",
"There might not have been an Iraq war if former Secretary of State Colin Powell had done that.",
"But the resignation of Hoh, a former Marine captain and Iraq veteran from Matthew Hoh, as reported Tuesday on the front page of the Washington Post may have more impact than the others.",
"Matthew Hoh's comments reflect the feelings of many of Matthew Hoh's countrymen who have far less knowledge of the Afghan situation then Matthew Hoh does.",
"The White House and State Department made every effort to keep Hoh from leaving and valued Matthew Hoh's service.",
"Matthew Hoh was exactly the kind of person we needed there if our Afghan efforts are to be successful.",
"Even though I support the continued efforts in Afghanistan and believe the president should give Gen. Stanley McChrystal what Gen. Stanley McChrystal needs, Hoh's words reflect thoughts that I, too, have pondered.",
"Hoh said in his resignation letter: \"I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States' presence in Afghanistan.",
"I have doubts and reservations about the United States''s current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how the United States' are pursuing this war, but why and to what end.\"",
"But before the president acts (and the president will make the president's decision quickly, I hope) the president needs to answer Hoh's: \"Why and to what end?\"",
"If the president can't, the president will have great difficulty convincing the president's party and the nation of the need for further action.",
"The why part is easier to answer.",
"the United States' and our NATO allies went into Afghanistan after the ruling Taliban government refused to turn over Osama bin Laden and to stop al Qaeda from operating with its protection.",
"the United States' has been in full pursuit of Osama bin Laden since the August 7, 1998, truck bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and in Kenya in which hundreds were killed.",
"These attacks were preceded by the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen.",
"After that came the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, which preceded the September 11, 2001, attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.",
"Thousands of our fellow citizens were murdered and our way of life was altered forever.",
"In spite of being on the FBI's Most Wanted list, Osama bin Laden has been an elusive target.",
"In the late '90s on several occasions Osama bin Laden was in our sights, but the inability or hesitancy to pull the trigger allowed Osama bin Laden to escape.",
"Osama bin Laden is still out there with tens of thousands of supporters who want to destroy Americans and Westerners.",
"The threat is still real.",
"The bad guys are still out there and may be here.",
"I feel this is the most important decision the president will make -- and other world leaders will judge the president on the president's decision.",
"Is the president a viable partner?",
"Can the president make the tough decisions U.S. presidents need to make?",
"Many Americans have doubts as Many Americans almost always do with any activity of the United States''s troops beyond the United States''s borders.",
"the United States' are still badly scarred from the divisions in the country caused four decades ago by the Vietnam War.",
"the United States''s president never served in the military, and it might be important to review the thinking of some who have and some who went before the president.",
"Caspar Weinberger was a young infantry captain in World War II who went on to be one of the most important secretaries of defense and who rebuilt the United States''s broken military after Vietnam.",
"Facing a demoralized military officer corps and troops who weren't in much better shape, Caspar Weinberger asked all the major leaders in the Pentagon who had been young officers in Vietnam what lessons they learned.",
"Included was a former young major in Vietnam who was now a brigadier general and served as Caspar Weinberger's military assistant, Colin Powell.",
"Caspar Weinberger came up with the Weinberger doctrine: . 1. the United States' should not commit forces to combat unless the vital national interests of the United States' or the United States''s allies are involved.",
"2. U.S. troops should only be committed wholeheartedly and with the clear intention of winning.",
"Otherwise, troops should not be committed.",
"3. U.S. combat troops should be committed only with clearly defined political and military objectives and with the capacity to accomplish those objectives.",
"The relationship between the objectives and the size and composition of the forces committed should be continually reassessed and adjusted if necessary.",
"5. U.S. troops should not be committed to battle without a \"reasonable assurance\" of the support of U.S. public opinion and Congress.",
"The commitment of U.S. troops should be considered only as a last resort.",
"A version of this became the Powell doctrine.",
"Every president should have a copy of Caspar Weinberger's doctrine on Every president's desk.",
"Number 2 and 5 are still the unanswered questions.",
"Number 2 and 5 are the biggest obstacles to whatever decision President Obama makes.",
"That, along with Hoh's question: \"To what end?\"",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ed Rollins."
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"(CNN) --",
"\"Family Ties\" actress Meredith Baxter made the media rounds Wednesday confirming the rumors that Meredith Baxter is a lesbian.",
"\"It was a later in life recognition,\" Meredith Baxter explained to Matt Lauer on the \"Today\" show Wednesday.",
"The National Enquirer recently ran a story about Meredith Baxter being spotted on a lesbian cruise through the Caribbean with a \"female friend,\" which was then picked up by celebrity blogs.",
"As a result, the 62-year-old decided to tell Meredith Baxter's fans Meredith Baxter.",
"\"I didn't want some tabloid to take the story and make the story up,\" Meredith Baxter said in the interview.",
"\"I wanted it to be in my own words.\"",
"Meredith Baxter was also interviewed on Sirius XM Radio's \"The Frank DeCaro Show.\"",
"Coming out was a difficult thing for Meredith Baxter to do.",
"Meredith Baxter told Matt Lauer on \"Today\" that Meredith Baxter's always \"lived a very private life.",
"To come out and disclose stuff is very antithetical\" to who Meredith Baxter is.",
"Meredith Baxter told DeCaro that Meredith Baxter knew Meredith Baxter could be outed when Meredith Baxter went on the cruise with her partner, Nancy Locke, but Meredith Baxter went anyway.",
"\"We live a very open life at home,\" Meredith Baxter said.",
"\"Anyone who's a friend of mine, anyone who knows and cares about Meredith Baxter knows.",
"It's no secret that I'm gay, but it has been to the greater world.",
"\"The reason I'm here [on Sirius XM Radio's \"The Frank DeCaro Show] is because I'm saying, yes, I'm a lesbian.\"",
"Meredith Baxter also told People magazine that Meredith Baxter has been in a four-year relationship with Locke, who works as a building contractor.",
"Meredith Baxter has been dating women for the past seven years, and \"the thought of being gay never crossed my mind,\" Meredith Baxter said.",
"Meredith Baxter was married three times before, during which Meredith Baxter \"was never comfortable with Meredith Baxter,\" Meredith Baxter told People.",
"Now, Meredith Baxter feels like Meredith Baxter's \"being honest for the first time.\"",
"Meredith Baxter has also come clean to Meredith Baxter's five kids, according to People.",
"Meredith Baxter's 25-year-old son Peter was all smiles.",
"Her 25-year-old son Peter told People magazine that Her 25-year-old son Peter \"just couldn't stop smiling, because Meredith Baxter finally figured it out.\""
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"As a result of the story, Meredith Baxter has come out on radio, TV and to People magazine .",
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) --",
"Pakistan's military said Tuesday that Pakistan's forces have taken over a Taliban stronghold during the ongoing ground offensive in the tribal region of South Waziristan.",
"Pakistani security forces have secured Sararogha and have started to clear the town of weapons and ammunition, Pakistan said.",
"It comes a day after Pakistan's forces gained control of Kaniguram, another key Taliban stronghold, which Pakistan says Pakistan's forces have now completely secured.",
"According to Pakistan, 21 militants and one Pakistani soldier died in the past 24 hours of fighting -- most of 21 militants and one Pakistani soldier in the raid on Sararogha.",
"Pakistan is trying to rout Taliban insurgents operating along the Pakistan-Afghan border.",
"The restive and largely ungoverned region of South Waziristan is the headquarters of the Pakistani Taliban.",
"Pakistan's military suspects Pakistan's leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, is still in the tribal region of South Waziristan backed by up to 8,000 militant fighters.",
"Pakistan's army has launched three similar offensives in Kaniguram and Sararogha since 2004 without success, sometimes agreeing to peace deals that eventually fall apart.",
"Pakistan spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas recently told CNN that this time a peace deal is not an option.",
"\"Certainly there is no scope of a peace deal,\" Abbas told CNN.",
"\"It is a fight to the finish.\"",
"Pakistan began Pakistan's ground offensive in South Waziristan three weeks ago, however South Waziristan has been affected by a broader anti-Taliban offensive that has uprooted more than 180,000 people this year, according to the United Nations.",
"Many of those people -- more than 94,000 -- have fled South Waziristan since June, the United Nations said last week.",
"In recent weeks, Pakistan has been relentlessly rocked by a wave of attacks as Islamic militants retaliate against the military campaign.",
"On Monday, the Pakistani cities of Lahore and Rawalpindi were hit by separate suicide bombings.",
"A suicide attacker believed to be on a motorcycle targeted people outside a bank in Rawalpindi who were lined up to pick up their monthly checks, police said.",
"That attack killed 30 people, police said on Tuesday.",
"That attack happened in the Cannt area of Rawalpindi, close to Pakistan's military headquarters where the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, was meeting with Pakistan's army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Monday.",
"It was unclear if he was there at the time of That attack.",
"Hours later, two suicide bombers detonated two suicide bombers's explosives at a police checkpoint in Lahore, injuring 17 police and civilians.",
"CNN's Samson Desta and Reza Sayah contributed to this report."
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"The U.S. Senate on Monday opened what is expected to be a lengthy and rancorous debate on a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system.",
"In statements laced with heated and conflicting rhetoric, Senate Democrats and Republicans outlined opposing positions on the 2,074-page Democratic measure that would provide health insurance to an additional 31 million people at a cost of almost $850 billion.",
"Democrats led by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada framed a lengthy and rancorous debate on a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system as historic and said a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system would provide vital health insurance for almost all Americans, hold down spiraling costs that threaten the U.S. economy and instill needed reforms to ensure the long-term solvency of the government-run Medicare health program for senior citizens.",
"\"In the greatest country on Earth, no American should die simply because no American don't have health insurance,\" said Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, one of a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system's architects, while Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system \"saves money, saves lives and saves Medicare.\"",
"Republicans countered that a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system was too big, too expensive and would cause more harm than good.",
"Sen. John McCain of Arizona called a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system a \"sham\" and a \"2,074-page monstrosity full of measures that would impair the abilities, particularly of our senior citizens, to keep the benefits our senior citizens've been promised.\"",
"Sen. John McCain of Arizona immediately proposed sending a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system back to committee to remove all provisions intended to bring down the costs of Medicare.",
"Sen. John McCain of Arizona cited proposed cuts to Medicare, including $118 billion in subsidies provided to private insurers for Medicare Advantage -- an enhanced benefits program for senior citizens.",
"\"There is no math, old or new, that gets you to no change in the benefits they have under Medicare Advantage and yet cuts $120 billion,\" Sen. John McCain of Arizona said.",
"A vote on Sen. John McCain of Arizona's proposal was likely on Tuesday.",
"The House has passed The House's version of a health care bill, and if the Senate passes the Senate's bill, the two measures would be merged by a congressional conference committee.",
"Both chambers then would have to approve a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system before a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system could go to President Obama's desk.",
"On Monday, debate quickly bogged down in Republican procedural objections, causing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada to lament: \"This is not a good way to start this debate.\"",
"Republican Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming challenged a motion by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada that Republican Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming said would unfairly cut off the proposal of amendments, including Sen. John McCain of Arizona's planned Republican amendment to prevent cuts to Medicare.",
"While Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada's motion failed, Republican Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming labeled Reid's motion a stunt.",
"So far, Republicans unanimously oppose a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system.",
"the Senate voted 60-39 to launch debate on a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system, overcoming a Republican filibuster through support from every member of the Democratic caucus.",
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada also will need 60 votes to eventually close this debate, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada's ability to secure that support remains uncertain.",
"this debate will feature amendments intended to delete or change controversial provisions, including creation of a government-run public health insurance option to compete against private insurers, tax increases and provisions intended to prevent federal tax dollars from paying for abortion except in cases of rape, incest or danger to the mother's life.",
"For the most part, battle lines are clearly drawn.",
"Liberal-minded senators such as Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an independent who sits with the Democratic caucus, favor a public option as the best way to force competition on private insurers to bring down costs, while fiscally conservative Democrats such as Nebraska's Ben Nelson are concerned about the cost and scope of a government-run alternative.",
"Ben Nelson has said Ben Nelson would join a Republican filibuster against closing debate on a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system if a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system retains the current public option provision, which allows states to opt out of a national plan.",
"Another Democratic caucus member, independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, says he also will prevent a final vote if a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system contains any form of public option.",
"On the Republican side, none of the 40 senators supports a public option, but one -- moderate Olympia Snowe of Maine -- has discussed a trigger mechanism that would automatically bring a public option if thresholds for expanded coverage and lower costs go unmet.",
"The trigger idea is considered the lone chance of a compromise that could gain the support of any Republicans.",
"For Democrats, each vote is crucial.",
"Overcoming a filibuster requires support every member of the Democratic caucus, so if Lieberman or others oppose a public option, Reid would need a GOP senator to switch sides on a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system.",
"the Senate Democrats concede that some changes are necessary to get a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system passed.",
"Senate Democrats contend Senate Democrats's comprehensive approach is necessary to reform a system in which higher costs are draining the national economy and harming businesses and individuals.",
"Republicans call for an incremental approach that Republicans say would reduce the costs of health care without needing to create bureaucracies and raise taxes in a huge overhaul.",
"Other risky issues for the Senate Democrats include abortion and tax increases to pay for health care reform.",
"a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system includes tax increases aimed at those earning more than $200,000 a year and insurers providing so-called \"Cadillac\" health plans worth more than $8,500 a year for individuals or $23,000 for families.",
"a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system also would set a 5 percent tax on elective cosmetic surgery.",
"In contrast, a separate health care bill narrowly passed by the House of Representatives earlier this month includes an income tax surcharge on individuals earning more than $500,000 a year and couples making more than $1 million.",
"Republicans say any tax increase is bad in a struggling economy because any tax increase hinders growth and gets passed on to consumers, while Democrats argue a separate health care bill's tax provisions wouldn't hit the lower or middle class and would create incentive for private insurers to lower the cost of policies.",
"However, a key Democratic constituency -- organized labor -- opposes taxing the \"Cadillac\" health plans negotiated for workers in lieu of wage increases.",
"On abortion, the House bill has more restrictive language regarding the use of federal funding, and some the Senate Democrats say some Senate Democrats oppose adding it to some Senate Democrats's chamber's proposal.",
"According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the the Senate health care bill would reduce the federal deficit by about $130 billion over the next 10 years, through 2019.",
"Any effect on the deficit in the following decade would be \"subject to substantial uncertainty,\" but probably would result in \"small reductions in federal budget deficits,\" the budget office report said.",
"the budget office report also reported that health insurance premiums would remain roughly the same for most people, with costs for lower-income Americans reduced due to subsidies under the plan.",
"According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, more than 80 percent of Americans would remain in employer-based health plans.",
"Both the Senate and House bills would require individuals to buy health insurance, with penalties for noncompliance.",
"Unlike the House version, the the Senate bill does not mandate that all employers offer health care.",
"The two bills are virtually identical on a broad range of changes, including creating health insurance exchanges, expanding Medicaid, subsidizing insurance for low- and some middle-income families, and capping out-of-pocket medical expenses, while preventing insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.",
"CNN's Ted Barrett, Alan Silverleib and Tom Cohen contributed to this report ."
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"the FDA said Friday the FDA has approved a new vaccine to prevent seasonal influenza.",
"The vaccine, made by Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, is not intended to protect against the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu.",
"The vaccine was approved using an accelerated approval process, the FDA said.",
"Novartis demonstrated that The vaccine induces levels of antibodies in the blood that are effective in preventing seasonal influenza, but Novartis still needs to conduct further studies.",
"The vaccine, for ages 18 and older, is administered as a single injection in the upper arm and is available in single-dose, prefilled syringes, according to the FDA.",
"Novartis produces another licensed vaccine for seasonal influenza, Fluvirin, approved for ages 4 and older.",
"Although no vaccine is 100 percent effective in preventing disease, vaccination is the key to flu prevention, according to the FDA.",
"Novartis spokesman Eric Althoff said The vaccine is made in Siena, Italy, with eggs, and The vaccine has been available in Europe under the brand name Aggripal.",
"This approval, Novartis spokesman Eric Althoff said, will add to future seasonal vaccine supplies."
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"Cohen is former U.S. secretary of defense.",
"They are co-chairs of the Genocide Prevention Task Force.",
"Albright served as secretary of state under President Bill Clinton.",
"(CNN)",
"-- In this age of electronic media communications, Americans are increasingly confronted in Americans's living rooms -- and even on Americans's cell phones -- with information about and images of genocide and mass atrocities virtually anywhere genocide and mass atrocities occur.",
"This instantaneous media communication has sensitized many Americans to the suffering of people in all corners of the globe.",
"The Internet has proved to be a powerful tool for organizing broad-based responses to genocide and mass atrocities, as we have seen in response to the crisis in Darfur.",
"With all of this information written and broadcast about the horrors of genocide and mass atrocities around the world, why do the horrors of genocide and mass atrocities around the world continue?",
"And as public citizens, public officials and policymakers, how can we prevent this horrendous crime that assaults our humanitarian values and threatens our national security?",
"Last year, we agreed to co-chair the Genocide Prevention Task Force, which was jointly convened by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The American Academy of Diplomacy and the United States Institute of Peace.",
"(The final report is to be released next week.)",
"The idea for the task force arose out of a desire by each of these institutions to reach beyond each of these institutions's individual capabilities and build a practical framework that could help the U.S. government better respond to threats of genocide and mass atrocities.",
"Our challenge was to match words to deeds and stop allowing the unacceptable.",
"That task is in fact one of the most persistent puzzles of our times.",
"Many people ask: Why do genocides and mass atrocities happen?",
"There is no consensus as to the causes of genocide and mass atrocities, nor is there one commonly agreed-upon theory that explains the key catalysts, motivations or mechanisms that lead to genocide and mass atrocities.",
"History has shown that genocide and mass atrocities manifest genocide and mass atrocities in highly variable ways, and we should not assume that future perpetrators will follow old patterns.",
"However, there are warning signs.",
"Genocide is not the inevitable result of \"ancient hatreds\" or irrational leaders.",
"Genocide requires planning and is carried out systematically.",
"But that fact also means that there are ways to recognize Genocide's signs and symptoms, and viable options to prevent Genocide at every turn, if we are committed and prepared.",
"Madeleine Albright, William Cohen's report recommends a number of distinct but interrelated areas where the United States government can develop and deploy more effective strategies to identify and pursue opportunities for prevention of genocide and mass atrocities: .",
"First, Madeleine Albright, William Cohen believe that leadership is an indispensable ingredient.",
"Nothing is more central to preventing genocide than leadership -- from the president, Congress and the American people.",
"Making progress requires leaders to summon political will not only after a crisis strikes, but also before one emerges.",
"Second is the importance of early warning.",
"It is critical for policymakers to have good analysis of areas where there is a high risk of genocide or organized violence in order to design effective strategies and spur action.",
"By improving the accuracy of warnings, we will find greater opportunities for preventive action.",
"Early prevention can avert a crisis.",
"Many countries are vulnerable to extreme violence.",
"By engaging leaders, institutions and civil society at an early stage, the United States can help countries steer clear of these dangers.",
"Preventive diplomacy is critical to halt and reverse escalation.",
"Even when signs of preparation for genocide are apparent, there are opportunities to alter leaders' decisions and interrupt leaders''s plans.",
"By improving the United States's crisis response system, the United States will be better prepared to mount coherent, carefully calibrated and timely preventive diplomatic strategies.",
"A willingness to utilize military options to stop ongoing atrocities when prevention efforts have failed is crucial.",
"U.S. military assets can also play an important role in supporting and providing credibility to options short of the use of force, including by deterring violence through military presence or threat.",
"Lastly, we cite the power of international action.",
"the United States has an interest in promoting a system of international norms and institutions that averts potential genocide and mass atrocities before potential genocide and mass atrocities occur, stops potential genocide and mass atrocities quickly and effectively when potential genocide and mass atrocities occur, helps societies rebuild in potential genocide and mass atrocities's wake and holds perpetrators accountable.",
"By working in partnership with others in the global community, the United States will multiply the United States's positive impact.",
"Madeleine Albright, William Cohen do not underestimate the challenge.",
"Madeleine Albright, William Cohen understand that the next president will face many pressing international priorities, as well as real limitations of time and resources.",
"But Madeleine Albright, William Cohen believe that preventing genocide is possible, and that striving to do so is imperative, both for our national interests and for our leadership position in the world.",
"Madeleine Albright, William Cohen's report seeks to honor the memory of past victims of genocide and mass atrocities by encouraging future action.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Madeleine K. Albright and William S. Cohen.",
"Other members of the Genocide Prevention Task Force include John Danforth, Thomas Daschle, Stuart Eizenstat, Michael Gerson, Dan Glickman, Jack Kemp, Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, Thomas R. Pickering, Vin Weber, Anthony Zinni and Julia Taft (1942-2008).",
"For more information about the Genocide Prevention Task Force, visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, The American Academy of Diplomacy or the United States Institute of Peace."
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"Leadership indispensable in preventing genocide, Albright and Cohen say .",
"Also key: early warning, preventive diplomacy, military, international action, Madeleine Albright, William Cohen say ."
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"(OPRAH.com) -- What's it like to be a 30-something woman in America today?",
"From religious choices to parental pressures, a successful single woman in Washington, D.C. and a devoted mother of four open up.",
"American-born Muslim Mubaraka tries to be open with people so American-born Muslim Mubaraka can help people understand American-born Muslim Mubaraka's religion.",
"One issue that plagues an average of 6.3 million women in America is being single.",
"Julie, a Chicago pediatrician, struggles with the stigma of being alone in her 30s.",
"\"I've tried JDate, a Jewish Internet dating service, Match.com, setups by my friends,\" Julie says.",
"\"I recently adopted a dog, hoping to meet someone out in the dog park.\"",
"Like many single women in America, Julie is no stranger to the dating scene -- but finding dates isn't always the problem.",
"\"It's not that there are no men to date.",
"It's that I'm not meeting anyone that I'm attracted to.",
"Nobody that I think is quality and worthy of me and what I have to offer and what I want to do.\"",
"Now Julie thinks marriage may not even be what Julie wants.",
"Instead of waiting around for a husband, Julie's considering having a child on Julie's own.",
"\"I'm probably going to investigate an anonymous donor and do it artificially ...",
"I want it to be my own biological child,\" Julie says.",
"DeChane, a successful attorney in Washington, D.C., also struggles with the 30-something singles scene.",
"Mubarakah's fear is that men are intimidated by Mubarakah.",
"\"None of my female friends have ever said I'm intimidating,\" Mubarakah says.",
"\"Having an education, a house, a job does not make me intimidating.",
"It just makes me an adult living an adult life.\"",
"Mubarakah finds it ironic that Mubarakah's achievements may turn men off.",
"\"I would think they would find it more unusual if I walked into the picture not having anything.",
"But I think after 35 years of living, working and being driven, I should have something to show for it.\"",
"DeChane also thinks men make assumptions about single women in their 30s.",
"\"I think they assume that if you aren't married, you want to get married,\" Mubarakah says.",
"\"Instead of meeting you and approaching you in a manner that's very basic -- 'I want to get to know you, who you are, what your likes and dislikes are' -- I think they walk in the door expecting you to try to strong-arm them into getting married, and it scares them away.\"",
"For Amy, a divorced mom, dating in Amy's 30s has been stressful.",
"\"I wish there was a manual for dating, because I have been out of the game for so long,\" Amy says.",
"\"Growing up, I always wanted to be a wife and a mom and didn't expect that I would find Amy single again.\"",
"With four children at home, Amy faces a unique set of dating issues.",
"\"I run a criminal background check on every guy I go out with,\" Amy says.",
"\"I have to be very careful about who I invite into our lives.\"",
"Amy also realizes that a woman with kids isn't what every guy is looking for.",
"\"I don't consider children baggage.",
"I think children're the bonus piece to the set, but there are a lot of men who don't see it that way,\" Amy says.",
"For many women in their 30s, the pressure to get married can be intense.",
"Julie says Julie isn't feeling that pressure as much anymore.",
"\"My original goal was to meet a man, have a family just like I grew up in,\" Julie says.",
"\"But it just doesn't seem to be going that way.\"",
"As a single mom, Amy says the pressure comes from people who feel like something must be missing in Amy's life.",
"\"People see me as a single mom [as if] that's something wrong.",
"'Oh, you poor thing.",
"You'll find somebody.'",
"People will do that kind of thing because People don't feel like it's acceptable, or that you can't do it on your own,\" she says.",
"DeChane takes a more relaxed approach.",
"\"I am prepared to go with the flow as far as children and marriage are concerned,\" Mubarakah says.",
"\"I was raised in a family where a number of people, even married relatives, have chosen not to have children.",
"So it's never been the expectation that you have to get married, that you have to have children.",
"It's really more being who you are and having a happy life.",
"That's the focus for me.\"",
"Oprah:",
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"For devout Muslim Mubarakah, a 30-year-old mother of four, life in Mubarakah's 30s is about family and career.",
"Married for 14 years, Mubarakah never had to worry about the dating scene.",
"\"Dating in Islam is forbidden,\" Mubarakah says.",
"\"When you meet someone and you're talking to someone, the purpose is for marriage.",
"So you're getting to know someone to know whether or not that's somebody you want to be married to.\"",
"In Mubarakah's career as a certified personal trainer, Mubarakah's biggest challenge is finding workout clothes in keeping with Mubarakah's faith.",
"\"As Muslim women, we can only show our face and hands,\" Mubarakah explains.",
"\"Most workout outfits are either short sleeved or too tight.\"",
"Mubarakah modifies Mubarakah's clothes by adding length to sleeves and hems, taking care to look cute at the same time.",
"\"I try to at least look like I'm matching and I have some kind of style,\" Mubarakah says.",
"\"So generally my headscarf will match my outfit.\"",
"Mubarakah says Mubarakah encounters many myths about Mubarakah's religion, including Mubarakah's heritage.",
"\"People automatically think I'm from another country, but my mother's family is Cherokee, and my father's African-American, so I'm as American as it gets,\" Mubarakah says.",
"An open attitude helps Mubarakah deal with misconceptions.",
"\"If people don't understand, I just try to be very personable with it,\" Mubarakah says.",
"\"I'm very open as far as questions.\"",
"Commitment to Mubarakah's religion requires Mubarakah to pray five times daily, whether Mubarakah's working with a client, at the movies or in Mubarakah's living room.",
"Still, Mubarakah says that American Muslims are just like any other Americans.",
"\"We're no longer immigrants or converts to Islam, but rather American-born Muslims that lead regular American lives.",
"[We] incorporate our Islam beliefs and practices into our every day,\" Mubarakah says.",
"\"In the end, all our goals are the same.",
"All of us want to raise our kids to be contributing members of society, to be healthy, to be happy.",
"And no matter where you choose to worship, every woman wants to know, 'How do you get rid of cellulite?'\"",
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Obama on Tuesday proposed making \"pay-as-you-go\" rules for federal spending into law.",
"Obama proposed Tuesday that the government adopt \"pay-as-you-go\" rules for federal spending.",
"PAYGO proposal requires Congress to balance any increased spending by equal savings elsewhere, Obama said in announcing the measure that now goes to Congress.",
"A previous PAYGO mandate helped erase federal budget deficits in the 1990s, and subsequent ineffective rules contributed to the current budget deficits, Obama said.",
"Now the PAYGO rules should be the law, Obama said.",
"\"Paying for what you spend is basic common sense,\" Obama said.",
"\"Perhaps that's why, here in WASHINGTON, it's been so elusive.\"",
"Republican leaders said PAYGO proposal comes after record spending initiatives by the Obama administration, such as the $787 billion economic stimulus program.",
"\"It seems a tad disingenuous for the president and Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi to talk about PAYGO rules after ramming trillions in spending through Congress proposing policies that create more debt in the first six months of this year than in the previous 220 years combined,\" said Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House Minority Whip.",
"However, a group of fiscally conservative Democratic representatives known as the Blue Dogs called PAYGO proposal's proposal responsible and necessary.",
"\"Obama inherited an economy in free-fall and a $10.6 trillion national debt,\" said Rep. Jim Cooper of Tennessee, vice-chairman of the Blue Dog Budget and Financial Services Task Force.",
"\"While short-term spending was necessary to get the economy moving again, our long-term fiscal problems became that much more urgent.\"",
"A White House statement said PAYGO proposal's proposal calls for the Office of Management and Budget to maintain a ledger of the average 10-year budgetary effects of all legislation affecting mandatory spending or baseline tax levels.",
"Any extra cost that lacks payment authorized by Congress would require Obama to find money within the budget to pay it, while any tax cut would require a corresponding increase in tax revenue.",
"Some costs would be exempt, including Medicare payments to doctors, the estate and gift tax, and tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2002, A White House statement said."
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"NEW DELHI, India (CNN) --",
"The number of dead in devastating floods triggered by torrential rains in India has risen to at least 271, and about a million people have fled about a million people's homes, officials said Monday.",
"An aerial view of a flood-affected area in Bijapur district in North Karnataka, India.",
"At least 192 people have died in southern state of Karnataka, its disaster-management secretary H.V. Parshwanath told CNN.",
"More than 450,000 people there have been housed in 1,330 relief camps as authorities completed rescue operations in most of the flooded zones in southern state of Karnataka, its disaster-management secretary H.V. Parshwanath said.",
"\"The focus is now mainly on relief,\" Parshwanath said, adding that rains have now eased in southern state of Karnataka.",
"In neighboring Andhra Pradesh, authorities put the death toll at 51.",
"Some 531,000 people have been evacuated to safety, with more half of Some 531,000 people now sheltering in relief camps, said Dinesh Kumar, the commissioner of the state's disaster-monitoring department.",
"India has deployed the military to help with relief and rescue in southern state of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.",
"More than a dozen teams of naval divers have been sent to the two flood-hit states, India's defense ministry said.",
"Air force planes and helicopters have also been dropping food packets in the submerged regions.",
"the military has been able to rescue 1,336 people so far, it added.",
"Flood waters were now receding in two of the five worst hit districts of Andhra Pradesh, disaster official Kumar said.",
"But floodwaters from a local river might submerge the remaining three, disaster official Kumar warned.",
"Flooding also killed at least 25 people in Maharashtra state, officials said.",
"Three others died because of lightning strikes, said S.C. Mohanty, director of Maharashtra's disaster-management department.",
"About 3,000 people have been displaced because of flooding, he told CNN.",
"Thousands of people die each year in India during seasonal monsoon rains.",
"More than 1,100 had been killed in monsoon-triggered flooding in different parts of India as of last month, according to the disaster-management division of the federal home ministry."
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"(WIRED) -- Hackers who commandeer your computer are bad enough.",
"Now scientists worry that someday, they'll try to take over your brain.",
"Scientists can use brain signals to control computers -- hands free.",
"In the past year, researchers have developed technology that makes it possible to use thoughts to operate a computer, maneuver a wheelchair or even use Twitter -- all without lifting a finger.",
"But as neural devices become more complicated, and go wireless, some scientists say the risks of \"brain hacking\" should be taken seriously.",
"\"Neural devices are innovating at an extremely rapid rate and hold tremendous promise for the future,\" said computer security expert Tadayoshi Kohno of the University of Washington.",
"\"But if we don't start paying attention to security, we're worried that we might find ourselves in five or 10 years saying we've made a big mistake.\"",
"Hackers tap into personal computers all the time.",
"But what would happen if Hackers focused Hackers's nefarious energy on neural devices, such as the deep-brain stimulators used to treat Parkinson's and depression, or electrode systems for controlling prosthetic limbs?",
"According to computer security expert Tadayoshi Kohno of the University of Washington and computer security expert Tadayoshi Kohno of the University of Washington's colleagues, who published their concerns July 1 in Neurosurgical Focus, most devices carry few security risks.",
"But as neural engineering becomes more complex and more widespread, the potential for security breaches will mushroom.",
"\"It's very hard to design complex systems that don't have bugs,\" computer security expert Tadayoshi Kohno of the University of Washington said.",
"\"As these medical devices start to become more and more complicated, it gets easier and easier for people to overlook a bug that could become a very serious risk.",
"It might border on science fiction today, but so did going to the moon 50 years ago.\"",
"Some might question why anyone would want to hack into someone else's brain, but the researchers say there's a precedent for using computers to cause neurological harm.",
"In November 2007 and March 2008, malicious programmers vandalized epilepsy support Web sites by putting up flashing animations, which caused seizures in some photo-sensitive patients.",
"\"It happened on two separate occasions,\" said computer science graduate student Tamara Denning, a co-author on the paper.",
"\"It's evidence that people will be malicious and try to compromise peoples' health using computers, especially if neural devices become more widespread.\"",
"In some cases, patients might even want to hack into patients's own neural device.",
"Unlike devices to control prosthetic limbs, which still use wires, many deep brain stimulators already rely on wireless signals.",
"Hacking into these devices could enable patients to \"self-prescribe\" elevated moods or pain relief by increasing the activity of the brain's reward centers.",
"Despite the risks, computer security expert Tadayoshi Kohno of the University of Washington said, most new devices aren't created with security in mind.",
"Neural engineers carefully consider the safety and reliability of new equipment, and neuroethicists focus on whether a new device fits ethical guidelines.",
"But until now, few groups have considered how neural devices might be hijacked to perform unintended actions.",
"This is the first time an academic paper has addressed the topic of \"neurosecurity,\" a term the group coined to describe the group's field.",
"\"The security and privacy issues somehow seem to slip by,\" computer security expert Tadayoshi Kohno of the University of Washington said.",
"\"I would not be surprised if most people working in this space have never thought about security.\"",
"Kevin Otto, a bioengineer who studies brain-machine interfaces at Purdue Universty, said Kevin Otto, a bioengineer who studies brain-machine interfaces at Purdue Universty was initially skeptical of the research.",
"\"When I first picked up the paper, I don't know if I agreed that it was an issue.",
"But the paper gives a very compelling argument that this is important, and that this is the time to have neural engineers collaborate with security developers.\"",
"It's never too early to start thinking about security issues, said neural engineer Justin Williams of the University of Wisconsin, who was not involved in the research.",
"But neural engineer Justin Williams of the University of Wisconsin, who was not involved in the research stressed that the kinds of devices available today are not susceptible to attack, and that fear of future risks shouldn't impede progress in the field.",
"\"These kinds of security issues have to proceed in lockstep with the technology,\" neural engineer Justin Williams of the University of Wisconsin, who was not involved in the research said.",
"History provides plenty of examples of why it's important to think about security before security becomes a problem, computer security expert Tadayoshi Kohno of the University of Washington said.",
"Perhaps the best example is the Internet, which was originally conceived as a research project and didn't take security into account.",
"\"Because the Internet was not originally designed with security in mind,\" the researchers wrote, \"it is incredibly challenging -- if not impossible -- to retrofit the existing Internet infrastructure to meet all of today's security goals.\"",
"Kohno and his colleagues hope to avoid such problems in the neural device world, by getting the community to discuss potential security problems before they become a reality.",
"\"The first thing is to ask ourselves is, 'Could there be a security and privacy problem?'\" computer security expert Tadayoshi Kohno of the University of Washington said.",
"\"Asking 'Is there a problem?' gets you 90 percent there, and that's the most important thing.\"",
"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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"New York (CNN) --",
"Dr. David Ores, or \"Dr. Dave\" as \"Dr. Dave\"'s referred to by \"Dr. Dave\"'s patients, isn't your average neighborhood doctor.",
"It's not because \"Dr. Dave\"'s arms are covered with tattoos of nearly naked women or because \"Dr. Dave\" drives a Harley to work, but because eight months ago \"Dr. Dave\" started New York's first health care cooperative for restaurant workers.",
"The Harley-riding Dr. David Ores has started New York City's's first health care cooperative for restaurant workers.",
"The Restaurant Worker's Health Care Cooperative, currently servicing 15 restaurants in lower Manhattan, provides free health care to all restaurant employees, from bus boys to bartenders.",
"Every month the owner or manager of each restaurant contributes money into a common fund based on its number of employees.",
"In return, their workers can go see Dr. Dave with any kind of health issue their workers may have.",
"\"Dr. Dave\", has been treating uninsured people for more than a decade.",
"\"Dr. Dave\" decided to start the co-op after noticing a trend among patients working in the restaurant industry.",
"\"Over the past ten years, I've seen many patients that work in restaurants, and there were always two things in common: many patients that work in restaurants had no real access to any kind of medical care, and many patients that work in restaurants also waited a long time to come see a doctor,\" Ores says.",
"\"I decided to form the co-op in order to get them early, basic health care.\"",
"Watch the doctor at work » .",
"The restaurant workers, many of whom have never been medically insured, can now make appointments, stop by the office, text medical questions and even send photos of The restaurant workers, many of whom have never been medically insured's injuries to \"Dr. Dave\", free of charge.",
"\"This is my first checkup ever,\" Asaf, a waiter at Macao Trading Co., told CNN in the waiting room.",
"\"It's an example of how someone finds an easy and fair solution to a serious problem or a need.\"",
"And statistics show there is, in fact, a need.",
"According to a 2005 study by the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, about 73 percent of all New York restaurant workers -- about 160,000 people -- have no health insurance.",
"the co-op comes as a relief to restaurant owners who would ideally like to provide medical insurance to their employees but cannot afford to do so.",
"\"Obviously we want to take care of our people, but financially we're only capable of doing so much,\" says restaurant owner Billy Gilroy.",
"\"This was the perfect opportunity to be able to extend the ability to find medical services through the restaurant, but in a way that's affordable.\"",
"The price for use of the co-op's services ranges from as little as $50 a month for an establishment with a couple of employees to $400 a month for a larger restaurant.",
"\"Dr. Dave\", is able to support \"Dr. Dave\" because both \"Dr. Dave\"'s office and apartment are located in rent-stabilized buildings operated by the Lower East Side People's Mutual Housing Association, a not-for-profit housing group that charges \"Dr. Dave\" only $800 a month for rent.",
"With health care currently a hot-button political issue, \"Dr. Dave\" sees this local, not-for-profit health system as a model for how national health care in America could work.",
"\"I'm not against profit,\" \"Dr. Dave\" says.",
"\"I just don't think you can have a for-profit health system that provides everyone with proper health care.",
"It's just never going to work.\"",
"In the meantime, \"Dr. Dave\" has plans to expand.",
"\"In the next year I'd like for our little health co-op to offer more services.",
"Maybe dental, more hours in the evening, maybe hire a second doctor.\"",
"\"Dr. Dave\" also hopes to offer routine checkups for all workers, so \"Dr. Dave\" can catch illnesses early and hopefully prevent steeper medical costs down the road.",
"Although \"Dr. Dave\" started the program only eight months ago, \"Dr. Dave\"'s no stranger to helping others.",
"\"I would call \"Dr. Dave\" a pioneer in health care, I would call \"Dr. Dave\" a pioneer as a human being, and also as a doctor,\" says restaurant owner and longtime friend Julio Peña, who has been benefiting from \"Dr. Dave\"'s services for quite a while.",
"\"We've been trading pasta and cappuccinos for stitching somebody up with \"Dr. Dave\" for years, and now that \"Dr. Dave\"'s doing it with other people, it's great.\""
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"An independent research group predicts that cyberwarfare will accompany future military conflicts and is recommending international action to blunt cyberwarfare's impact.",
"Computers can become victims in future military conflicts, a nonprofit group says.",
"The nonprofit U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit studied the cybertactics used against the country of Georgia during the country of Georgia's military conflict with Russia last year.",
"Cyberattacks in August 2008 shut down the Web sites of crucial Georgian government agencies, the media and banks.",
"\"Russia have developed a model here that is very effective,\" said Scott Borg, director of US-CCU.",
"\"We can expect to see Russia use it in the future, and other countries as well.\"",
"Because of the sensitive nature of much of the information, the full 100-page report is being released only to U.S. government officials and selected cybersecurity professionals.",
"CNN was provided a nine-page summary.",
"The study concludes that the cyberattacks against Georgian targets were carried out by civilians, many of civilians recruited via social networking forums devoted to dating, hobbies and politics.",
"\"There was a large-scale collaboration on these forums,\" said US-CCU's chief technical officer, John Bumgarner.",
"\"They were used to recruit potential actors to launch attacks, to collaborate on what types of attacks worked and what types of attacks didn't work.",
"They were used to collaborate on how to bypass security controls and share attack codes.\"",
"As a result, Scott Borg, director of US-CCU said, Russian sympathizers who were not hackers, and who didn't even know much about computers, could participate.",
"the full 100-page report says civilians were aided and supported by Russian organized crime.",
"Although civilians found no evidence of direct involvement by the Russian government or military, the full 100-page report concludes that the organizers were tipped off about the timing of Russian military operations.",
"\"There was a lot of information being passed on, but at what level it was being passed on was hard to say,\" Scott Borg, director of US-CCU said.",
"the full 100-page report says that \"the necessary reconnaissance and the writing of attack scripts had to have been done in advance ... and suggests that cyber attacks against the country of Georgia had been on the Russian agenda for some time.\"",
"The hackers did not carry out physically destructive cyberattacks, although The hackers probably had the technical expertise to do so, suggesting that \"someone on the Russian side was exercising considerable restraint,\" the full 100-page report says.",
"the full 100-page report also notes that media and communications facilities, which might have been attacked by missiles and bombs in a conventional war, were spared that, \"presumably because media and communications were being effectively shut down by cyberattacks.\"",
"Because the cybercampaign against the country of Georgia presents a pattern that can be expected in future conflicts, the full 100-page report says, there is an \"urgent need\" for an international organization to provide risk advisories when preparations for a cybercampaign are detected.",
"the full 100-page report also says there should be an international cyber-response force to provide quick assistance to member countries, advising member countries on how to thwart an attack and setting up operations to do so.",
"the full 100-page report also recommends that every country conduct cyber-response exercises, otherwise \"the relevant officials will waste precious time trying to figure out whom the relevant officials should be contacting and what the relevant officials should be doing.\"",
"Bumgarner said that cyberwarfare \"is a global chess game in which citizens, governments and corporations are the pawns.\"",
"Borg added, \"Right now, the international community has no idea how to deal with this.\""
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"ST. BERNARD PARISH, Louisiana (CNN) --",
"This year, the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina will hold new meaning for Tina Caserta and Tina Caserta's family.",
"Liz McCartney runs The St. Bernard Project, which helps families rebuild in a parish hit by Hurricane Katrina.",
"Like countless other residents from St. Bernard Parish, a community just east of New Orleans, Tina Caserta lost everything in Hurricane Katrina.",
"Tina Caserta had lived there since Tina Caserta was 12, married and raised Tina Caserta three sons there and even lived on the same street as Tina Caserta's husband's family.",
"\"We had nothing to salvage ... nothing,\" said Caserta, 41.",
"Tina Caserta returned to Tina Caserta's community just two months after Katrina, but Tina Caserta and Tina Caserta's family have been enduring the challenges of moving from one form of FEMA housing to another ever since.",
"When the family home Tina Caserta had been fighting to return to was condemned and torn down earlier this year, it was the final straw for Tina Caserta.",
"\"I was spiraling down,\" Tina Caserta said, choking up.",
"\"I was totally hopeless.\"",
"That's when Tina Caserta found Liz McCartney and Liz McCartney's nonprofit The St. Bernard Project.",
"In the past three years, Liz McCartney and Liz McCartney's team have helped more than 230 families rebuild and move back into their homes.",
"At the fourth anniversary of Katrina, Tina Caserta and Tina Caserta's family finally see a light at the end of the tunnel.",
"\"The day that The St. Bernard Project called and told me The St. Bernard Project [would] be able to help my family rebuild, that was the first day I felt like I could breathe,\" recalled Tina Caserta.",
"\"The St. Bernard Project gave my family hope.\"",
"Liz McCartney, 37, was honored last November as the CNN Hero of the Year for Liz McCartney's efforts in St. Bernard Parish.",
"Liz McCartney said the CNN Heroes award has had an incredible impact on the effectiveness of Liz McCartney's St. Bernard Project, which Liz McCartney co-founded with Zack Rosenberg.",
"More than 5,000 new volunteers have joined The St. Bernard Project's cause, bringing The St. Bernard Project's total to date to 15,000; and The St. Bernard Project has raised more than $300,000 from new funding sources.",
"\"The St. Bernard Project're rebuilding homes more efficiently than ever before,\" Liz McCartney said.",
"But Liz McCartney's ultimate goal remains the same: \"The St. Bernard Project want to work The St. Bernard Project out of a job.\"",
"Read more about CNN Hero Liz McCartney and Liz McCartney's efforts in St. Bernard Parish .",
"For Liz McCartney, that means helping to address the housing needs of thousands of families still living in Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers or temporary housing.",
"The St. Bernard Project recently expanded to rebuild homes in New Orleans and opened a center for wellness and mental health, offering residents one-on-one and group counseling, among other clinical services.",
"A combination of the heartbreaking stories of continued suffering and the speed at which Liz McCartney's group can get those families back to normal, said Liz McCartney, \"re-energizes me and everyone on The St. Bernard Project's staff about working harder and working smarter to get the job done.\"",
"To that end, this anniversary will be \"business as usual\" for the group, Liz McCartney said.",
"Beginning Friday, it will hold a 24-hour build.",
"Liz McCartney predicts at least 120 volunteers from all over the country will each work an eight-hour shift to help build four homes.",
"\"The St. Bernard Project get out there and show how much work can get done in a 24-hour period, which is pretty significant,\" Liz McCartney said.",
"Watch how Liz McCartney's organization helped one St. Bernard resident move home .",
"Caserta and her 17-year-old son signed up to volunteer with the graveyard shift because \"it will give The St. Bernard Project a chance to help another family out and give another family the hope that I feel.\"",
"The St. Bernard Project also plans to launch a yearlong campaign called \"4 NOLA,\" which will include a number of fundraisers and events throughout the country.",
"\"It focuses on the positive, promotes the progress The St. Bernard Project've made, but shows that The St. Bernard Project still have a ways to go,\" Liz McCartney said.",
"\"The St. Bernard Project've seen thousands of people who are ready, willing and able to respond to the needs of people's fellow Americans.",
"It's The St. Bernard Project's job to continue reminding people that the need here is great.\"",
"Watch Liz McCartney describe Liz McCartney's turning point while volunteering in New Orleans .",
"Today, Liz McCartney is optimistic.",
"And thanks to Tina Caserta's organization's efforts to bring the community back, Tina Caserta and many other St. Bernard Parish families are optimistic, too.",
"\"This is going to be the first time that I can actually go through the anniversary with tears of joy, not tears of sorrow,\" Tina Caserta said.",
"\"Every day I see the progress [of] these volunteers, it makes me able to accept that date and the reality of what it's done to my family.",
"Without people like Liz, people like me wouldn't have that opportunity to come home.\""
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Suzanne Richard was born to be an actress.",
"Suzanne Richard says that navigating the maze of government aid regulations is a challenge.",
"Suzanne Richard was also, however, born with osteogenesis imperfecta, a bone-crippling disorder that can mean a lifetime of health problems and physical disability.",
"But rather than letting Suzanne Richard's condition hinder Suzanne Richard's acting ambitions, Suzanne Richard has embraced it, and now works to encourage other actors with disabilities to do the same.",
"As the artistic director of Open Circle Theatre, a theater founded to \"showcase professional artists with disabilities in an integrated setting,\" Suzanne Richard offers Suzanne Richard's actors respite from the challenges her actors face, and access to an industry that can often discriminate against people like Suzanne Richard.",
"\"I decided a long time ago that if people were going to stare at Suzanne Richard, people were going to pay me for it,\" Suzanne Richard quipped backstage at a rehearsal for Suzanne Richard's latest production, \"Is there ANYBODY OUT THERE?\"",
"And at a height of just under 4 feet, with legs encased in metal braces, Suzanne Richard said Suzanne Richard indeed often attracts curious stares from the public.",
"Suzanne Richard's condition, also known as Brittle Bones Disease, is a genetic disorder \"characterized by fragile bones that break easily,\" according to the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation.",
"The condition is considered rare, thought to affect only about 40,000 Americans, said Tracy Hart, CEO of the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation.",
"There is no cure, Tracy Hart, CEO of the OI Foundation said.",
"While the severity of the disorder varies greatly, common health issues related to OI are a short stature, weak tissues, fragile skin, muscle weakness, loose joints, hearing loss, breathing problems and curvature of the spine, according to the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation.",
"In Suzanne Richard's case, OI has meant frequent bone fractures, painful surgeries, leg braces, wheelchairs, and a multitude of symptoms caused by the pressure Suzanne Richard's weak frame puts on Suzanne Richard's body.",
"As a child, Suzanne Richard had to have rods surgically placed in Suzanne Richard's legs \"as infrastructure\" -- a painful routine that Suzanne Richard repeated as often as Suzanne Richard grew.",
"But for Suzanne Richard, the physical constraints of OI's condition are only half the battle.",
"When Suzanne Richard was forced to retire from Suzanne Richard's job as an accessibility specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts because Suzanne Richard was too sick to work, Suzanne Richard lost Suzanne Richard's work-provided private health insurance coverage.",
"Suzanne Richard now gets Medicare through Suzanne Richard's Social Security Income retirement benefits.",
"Social Security Income is a government program that \"makes monthly payments to people who have low income and few resources,\" and are either at least 65 years of age or disabled.",
"Social Security recipients are subject to income restrictions depending on what state Social Security recipients live in, and are only allowed to have resources worth $2,000, with certain exceptions, according to the Social Security Web site (www.socialsecurity.gov).",
"These strict financial eligibility limitations, Suzanne Richard said, can be nerve-wracking, and can make navigating the system extremely difficult.",
"\"If you lose your Social Security benefits because you make too much money, you lose everything.",
"You lose your Medicare, too,\" Suzanne Richard said.",
"\"So if you're on disability you have to be really careful not to make too much money, which is self-defeating.\"",
"It is \"self-defeating\" especially when one considers the massive medical bills Suzanne Richard accumulates due to her OI.",
"Though Medicare covers 80 percent of Suzanne Richard's medical costs, Suzanne Richard said Suzanne Richard often comes up short some months.",
"\"You can't get blood from a stone. ...",
"I'm on a fixed income.",
"That's why I'm on Medicare,\" Suzanne Richard said.",
"So, Suzanne Richard constantly finds Suzanne Richard in the precarious situation of having to rely on Suzanne Richard's loved ones and the government for Suzanne Richard's financial stability.",
"\"I'm hanging on by my fingernails.",
"...You can never get ahead,\" Suzanne Richard said.",
"It's a frustrating circumstance familiar to Suzanne Richard's fellow actors at Open Circle, as well as to the millions of disabled Americans in need of expensive medical treatment.",
"It's a system, said Suzanne Richard, that must be reformed.",
"\"It's a foreign concept to me.",
"... this idea that 'No, I'm sorry you don't have enough money to get this treatment,' \" Suzanne Richard said.",
"\"I sincerely believe that people with disabilities, if you want people with disabilities to be at all a useful part of the society, you need to have medical care that you don't have to worry about having.\"",
"But until then, Suzanne Richard said Suzanne Richard survives by familiarizing Suzanne Richard with the system and learning to navigate through the obstacles, a skill that Suzanne Richard was forced to learn early on.",
"\"You just get used to adapting.",
"I guess we always do that anyway,\" Suzanne Richard said."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Anthony and Lisa Leoni have little time to worry about whether California's budget crisis will affect their daughter's life-sustaining care.",
"Anthony and Lisa Leoni are afraid of budget cuts that pose a threat to daughter Jessica's care.",
"A steady stream of nurses, caregivers and therapists visit 12-year-old Jessica at home around the clock.",
"Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni suffers from a rare and fatal disease called Niemann Pick Type C.",
"A cholesterol imbalance destroys healthy cells in the liver, spleen and brain.",
"Although Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni led a relatively normal life before the illness worsened, Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni's mother always knew the disease would eventually take over.",
"\"Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni was playful, happy and loves people.",
"My heart was always a flutter because you never knew how many moments you'd get,\" Lisa Leoni says.",
"In Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni's case, a grand mal seizure suffered Memorial Day weekend 2005 brought a world of hurt to the Leonis.",
"At the height of Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni's symptoms, Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni suffered up to 60 seizures a day.",
"The disease, also known as NPC, has stolen Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni's ability to walk, talk, eat or even breathe on Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni's own.",
"An oxygen machine pumps air into Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni's lungs around the clock.",
"Anthony Leoni knew Lisa Leoni needed help.",
"\"If you told Lisa Leoni 10 years ago this is how your life is going to be, I would have said Lisa Leoni're not capable.",
"Lisa Leoni don't have the training, ability, Lisa Leoni don't have the energy, Lisa Leoni don't have the stamina.\"",
"Lisa Leoni found Bill Feeman of Westside Regional Center.",
"\"When you walk into this home and you see Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni, [you] just fall in love with Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni,\" Bill Feeman of Westside Regional Center says.",
"\"Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni is a sweet soul -- you see Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni, Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni's physically helpless, yet there's a light that shines out of Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni's eyes, it takes you in.",
"\"When you meet Lisa Leoni and you see how hard-working and involved Lisa Leoni are, you just wanna do everything you can to help.\"",
"Watch Lisa Leoni's heartbreaking struggle » .",
"Bill Feeman of Westside Regional Center worked to find in-home support in the form of nurse caregivers, therapists and medical supplies.",
"\"Lisa Leoni also has all the normal responsibilities of raising a family.",
"Lisa Leoni have to pay Lisa Leoni's mortgage, Lisa Leoni have to feed Lisa Leoni's family, Lisa Leoni have to go to work.",
"So when you have someone as medically involved as Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni is, and you're talking about all that worriment and responsibility of your child being ill and on top of that you still have to ... bring home a paycheck every week in order to pay your bills, you need a lot of help.",
"\"You have to be awake at night with Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni.",
"Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni cannot be left alone for even five minutes where someone is not awake and attentive to Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni's needs.",
"So you're looking at a family, who when I first met them a year ago had some help in the home but nowhere near enough and they were exhausted.",
"They were trying to be caregivers, nurses, doctors, and then get up and go to work during the day and still support their family.\"",
"\"We pieced all these programs together.",
"We finally got everything in place where they can be parents again, which is a wonderful thing.",
"And that's what scares me about these budget cuts ...",
"it scares me a little bit that things might start moving backwards.\"",
"One of those caregivers is Carmen Bailey, a certified nurse assistant and home health aide with Caring Connection.",
"She has been working with Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni for more than two years.",
"\"It's been an experience.",
"I call Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni my angel.",
"I bathe Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni, groom Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni, position Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni, massage Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni to make Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni comfortable.\"",
"Carmen may be affected by these budget cuts.",
"\"I also have to live to keep on going.",
"I know I will still be here and whatever I need to do extra I'm willing to do it for the family and Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni.\"",
"Westside Regional Center is one of 21 state regional centers providing services literally from birth to death.",
"They work with people diagnosed as developmentally disabled, including those with cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism and mental retardation.",
"Mike Danneker is executive director of Westside Regional Center.",
"\"Westside Regional Center's budget is in the 4 billion dollar range for about 240,000 clients in California,\" Mike Danneker says.",
"\"Westside Regional Center gets about 140 million dollars a year and we have about 7200 clients.\"",
"Mike Danneker believes the California budget fix will cut a half-billion dollars statewide from their budget.",
"\"It's going to affect everybody.",
"Camps, therapies like art, horseback riding, some of the things people have done for decades will be gone.",
"Westside Regional Center'll have to cut back the number of hours to about 300 hours a year.",
"Westside Regional Center estimate 40 percent of California clients have over 300 hours a year.\"",
"Anthony Leoni has this to say about impending cuts to Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni's life-sustaining care.",
"\"It's absolutely frightening to think about what happens if the services go away.",
"the services're absolutely essential to keep Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni going.\"",
"Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni's childhood friend Kristina Carmickle stands by her bedside.",
"\"We did a lot of tap (dance) together, that was Jessie's favorite.",
"Once you have a friendship that's big enough, you're always wishing for the best.\"",
"Anthony Leoni sums it up this way: \"We know that there are other families that have challenges similar to Lisa Leoni, sometimes even more dramatic than ours, and if Lisa Leoni can serve a purpose or a role to help bring the awareness to public what it takes to take care of a family like Lisa Leoni, then Lisa Leoni're willing to make that effort.\""
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"Editor's note: This is an excerpt from \"Zeitoun\" by Dave Eggers, a nonfiction account of a Syrian-American immigrant and his extraordinary experience during Hurricane Katrina.",
"Eggers is the author of five other books, including \"What Is the What,\" a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award.",
"Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney's, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco.",
"Eggers writes that Abdulrahman Zeitoun dreamed of fishing on the Gulf Coast as Katrina approached.",
"(CNN) -- FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 2005 .",
"On moonless nights the men and boys of Jableh, a dusty fishing town on the coast of Syria, would gather the men's lanterns and set out in the men's quietest boats.",
"Five or six small craft, two or three fishermen in each.",
"A mile out, the men would arrange their quietest boats in a circle on the black sea, drop the men's nets, and, holding the men's lanterns over the water, the men would approximate the moon.",
"The fish, sardines, would begin gathering soon after, a slow mass of silver rising from below.",
"The fish, sardines were attracted to plankton, and the plankton were attracted to the light.",
"They would begin to circle, a chain linked loosely, and over the next hour their numbers would grow.",
"The black gaps between silver links would close until the fishermen could see, below, a solid mass of silver spinning.",
"Abdulrahman Zeitoun was only thirteen when Abdulrahman Zeitoun began fishing for sardines this way, a method called lampara, borrowed from the Italians.",
"Abdulrahman Zeitoun had waited years to join the men and teenagers on their quietest boats, and Abdulrahman Zeitoun'd spent those years asking questions.",
"Why only on moonless nights?",
"Because, Abdulrahman Zeitoun's brother Ahmad said, on moon-filled nights the plankton would be visible everywhere, spread out all over the sea, and the sardines could see and eat the glowing organisms with ease.",
"But without a moon the men could make the men's own, and could bring the sardines to the surface in stunning concentrations.",
"You have to see it, his brother Ahmad told his brother Ahmad's little brother.",
"You've never seen anything like this.",
"And when Abdulrahman Zeitoun first witnessed the sardines circling in the black Abdulrahman Zeitoun could not believe the sight, the beauty of the undulating silver orb below the white and gold lantern light.",
"Abdulrahman Zeitoun said nothing, and the other fishermen were careful to be quiet, too, paddling without motors, lest the other fishermen scare away the catch.",
"the other fishermen would whisper over the sea, telling jokes and talking about women and girls as the other fishermen watched the fish rise and spin beneath the other fishermen.",
"A few hours later, once the sardines were ready, tens of thousands of the sardines glistening in the refracted light, the men would cinch the net and haul the sardines in.",
"the men would motor back to the shore and bring the sardines to the fish broker in the market before dawn.",
"He would pay the men and boys, and would then sell the fish all over western Syria -- Lattakia, Baniyas, Damascus.",
"the men would split the money, with Abdulrahman and his brother Ahmad bringing Abdulrahman and Ahmad's share home.",
"Abdulrahman and Ahmad's father had passed away the year before and Abdulrahman and Ahmad's mother was of fragile health and mind, so all funds the men earned fishing went toward the welfare of the house the men shared with ten siblings.",
"Abdulrahman and his brother Ahmad didn't care much about the money, though.",
"Abdulrahman and Ahmad would have done it for free.",
"Thirty-four years later and thousands of miles west, Abdulrahman Zeitoun was in bed on a Friday morning, slowly leaving the moonless Jableh night, a tattered memory of it caught in a morning dream.",
"Abdulrahman Zeitoun was in Abdulrahman Zeitoun's home in New Orleans and beside Abdulrahman Zeitoun Abdulrahman Zeitoun could hear Abdulrahman Zeitoun's wife Kathy breathing, her exhalations not unlike the shushing of water against the hull of a wooden boat.",
"Otherwise the house was silent.",
"Abdulrahman Zeitoun knew it was near six o'clock, and the peace would not last.",
"The morning light usually woke the kids once The morning light reached the kids's second-story windows.",
"One of the four would open his or her eyes, and from there the movements were brisk, the house quickly growing loud.",
"With one child awake, it was impossible to keep the other three in bed.",
"Kathy woke to a thump upstairs, coming from one of the kids' rooms.",
"Kathy listened closely, praying silently for rest.",
"Each morning there was a delicate period, between six and six-thirty, when there was a chance, however remote, that they could steal another ten or fifteen minutes of sleep.",
"But now there was another thump, and the dog barked, and another thump followed.",
"What was happening in the house?",
"Kathy looked to Kathy's husband.",
"Abdulrahman Zeitoun was staring at the ceiling.",
"The day had roared to life.",
"The phone began ringing, today as always, before their feet hit the floor.",
"Kathy and Zeitoun -- most people called Abdulrahman Zeitoun by Abdulrahman Zeitoun's last name because most people couldn't pronounce Abdulrahman Zeitoun's first -- ran a company, Zeitoun A. Painting Contractor LLC, and every day Abdulrahman and Ahmad's crews, Abdulrahman and Ahmad's clients, everyone with a phone and their number, seemed to think that once the clock struck six-thirty, it was appropriate to call.",
"And they called.",
"Usually there were so many calls at the stroke of six-thirty that the overlap would send half of them straight to voicemail.",
"Kathy took the first one, from a client across town, while Abdulrahman Zeitoun shuffled into the shower.",
"Fridays were always busy, but this one promised madness, given the rough weather on the way.",
"There had been rumblings all week about a tropical storm crossing the Florida Keys, a chance a tropical storm might head north.",
"Though this kind of possibility presented itself every August and didn't raise eyebrows for most, Kathy and Zeitoun's more cautious clients and friends often made preparations.",
"Throughout the morning the callers would want to know if Abdulrahman Zeitoun could board up the callers's windows and doors, if Abdulrahman Zeitoun would be clearing Abdulrahman Zeitoun's equipment off the callers's property before the winds came.",
"Workers would want to know if Workers'd be expected to come in that day or the next.",
"\"Zeitoun Painting Contractors,\" Kathy said, trying to sound alert.",
"It was an elderly client, a woman living alone in a Garden District mansion, asking if Abdulrahman Zeitoun's crew could come over and board up the woman's windows.",
"\"Sure, of course,\" Kathy said, letting Kathy's feet drop heavily to the floor.",
"Kathy was up.",
"Kathy was the business's secretary, bookkeeper, credit department, public-relations manager -- Kathy did everything in the office, while Kathy's husband handled the building and painting.",
"The two of them balanced each other well: Zeitoun's English had Zeitoun's English's limits, so when bills had to be negotiated, hearing Kathy's Louisiana drawl put clients at ease.",
"This was part of the job, helping clients prepare clients's homes for coming winds.",
"Kathy hadn't given much thought to the storm this client was talking about.",
"It took a lot more than a few downed trees in south Florida to get the woman's attention.",
"\"We'll have a crew over this afternoon,\" Kathy told the woman.",
"Kathy and Abdulrahman Zeitoun had been married for eleven years.",
"Abdulrahman Zeitoun had come to New Orleans in 1994, by way of Houston and Baton Rouge and a half-dozen other American cities Abdulrahman Zeitoun'd explored as a young man.",
"Kathy had grown up in Baton Rouge and was used to the hurricane routine: the litany of preparations, the waiting and watching, the power outages, the candles and flashlights and buckets catching rain.",
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"This one, named Katrina, would be no different."
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"Abdulrahman Zeitoun says Abdulrahman Zeitoun emigrated to America and settled in New Orleans .",
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"(CNN) --",
"From soup kitchen director Rita Baldwin's perspective, the notion that \"homeless people are the scum of the earth\" has returned to Baldwin -- formerly homeless herself --'s Gulf Coast town, which still struggles four years after Hurricane Katrina.",
"Loaves and Fishes executive director Rita Baldwin poses with Baldwin -- formerly homeless herself --'s son, Scott Blain, who works at the kitchen.",
"Baldwin -- formerly homeless herself -- found that \"the storm was a great neutralizer.",
"the storm put us all on the same level.\"",
"That social pendulum is swinging back to the pre-Katrina world, Baldwin -- formerly homeless herself -- said, but Baldwin -- formerly homeless herself -- added that the community has shown a renewed sense of compassion.",
"Baldwin, executive director of the Loaves and Fishes community kitchen in Biloxi, Mississippi, lost Baldwin -- formerly homeless herself --'s home in the storm as the storm barreled into the coastal community in 2005.",
"Baldwin -- formerly homeless herself -- said Baldwin -- formerly homeless herself -- watched with sadness as storm victims Baldwin -- formerly homeless herself -- dubbed \"amateurs\" -- \"people who didn't know how to be homeless\" -- attempted to survive after losing everything.",
"Homeless people who were accustomed to living in the woods and on the streets used Homeless people who were accustomed to living in the woods and on the streets's wherewithal to make it through each day, said Baldwin, who relied on the kitchen's services herself before Baldwin -- formerly homeless herself -- was hired there.",
"Biloxi was one of the cities that the storm hit hardest.",
"And though Biloxi has made progress rebuilding, the 26-year-old kitchen has seen steady increases in clients each year since the storm.",
"With few residents in Biloxi shortly after the storm, there was little activity.",
"But the kitchen reports serving 55,281 meals in 2007, 64,825 meals in 2008 and 38,877 in the first seven months of 2009.",
"Loaves and Fishes nearly closed this summer because of lack of funding, until the public was reminded of the need to feed the hungry.",
"After the Biloxi Sun-Herald reported in late June that the 26-year-old kitchen could close the 26-year-old kitchen's doors, more than $50,000 in donations poured in, and the 26-year-old kitchen is now funded until around March.",
"\"I certainly had never gotten that kind of response before.",
"So it just made me realize that they just didn't know\" about the hunger problem, Baldwin -- formerly homeless herself -- said.",
"After spending time focusing on themselves and picking up the pieces, the more fortunate Biloxi residents are starting to return to a more philanthropic frame of mind, according to Biloxi Public Affairs Manager Vincent Creel.",
"\"There's been a reawakening.",
"People are getting in a closer position where People can help others,\" he said.",
"'Hitting us with both fists' Loaves and Fishes hit a \"really bad financial crunch,\" Baldwin -- formerly homeless herself -- said, because its federal grants for disaster relief had run out.",
"Baldwin -- formerly homeless herself -- used to provide other services for the homeless, but when the money disappeared, Baldwin -- formerly homeless herself -- had to eliminate the additional assistance.",
"\"The economy really didn't get bad for those of us in the storm areas because so much money was flushed into Katrina areas to help us get back up on our feet.",
"And now those funds are gone, so the ... poor economy and the unemployment is hitting us with both fists now,\" Baldwin -- formerly homeless herself -- said.",
"Baldwin -- formerly homeless herself --'s clients include the expanding homeless population, day laborers, the elderly and other poor people in the area.",
"Terry, 59, who asked that Terry's last name not be used, was homeless for about three years after losing Terry's Gulfport, Mississippi, home in the storm.",
"Terry now rents a bedroom and regularly eats at Loaves and Fishes.",
"\"Most everyone just tries to keep to Most everyone right now,\" Terry said of the atmosphere there.",
"\"[We] struggle, try and get everything back in order.",
"However, the community is binding together and helping each other.",
"So that's a good thing.\"",
"Terry learned about six years ago that Terry had bone cancer, but only recently began receiving disability checks.",
"Before that, it was hard to get work despite all the post-Katrina construction because outside contractors were not hiring locals, Terry said.",
"Loaves and Fishes also serves down-on-their luck visitors to Biloxi's casinos.",
"\"A lot of people that come in here ... have gambled up A lot of people that come in here's money,\" Baldwin said.",
"\"A lot of people that come in here max out A lot of people that come in here's credit cards and A lot of people that come in here get stuck here.\"",
"Biloxi's casinos, however, have been struggling over the past year.",
"After showing signs of post-Katrina growth in 2007 with more than $1 billion in revenue, casinos pulled in $951 million last year.",
"casinos are trending down again this year, according to city data.",
"But A.J. Holloway, Biloxi's mayor, says Biloxi celebrates new milestones of recovery daily.",
"For example, the public school district has rebounded to about 4,600 students from a pre-Katrina population of about 6,100, and around 700 of 1,000 replacement homes have been built at Keesler Air Force Base.",
"The preliminary unemployment rate in Gulfport and Biloxi for June was 7.9 percent, compared with a national rate of 9.4 percent in July.",
"Gulfport-Biloxi's unemployment rate hit 23.2 percent the month after Katrina, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.",
"This weekend, Biloxi will break ground on $50 million worth of recovery, including a new library, civic center and visitor center.",
"Holloway also expects a $400 million infrastructure project to begin construction in January, which Holloway hopes will put people to work and stimulate the local economy.",
"Holloway says it will take awhile for Biloxi to return to normal.",
"It probably wasn't until 1992, when the casinos were established, before Biloxi was fully rebuilt after Hurricane Camille in 1969, Holloway said.",
"\"I think we'll feel the effects of Katrina for a long time,\" the mayor said.",
"For now, the area still struggles with poverty, homelessness and hunger, and Loaves and Fishes' Baldwin wants to be there to answer the call.",
"\"There's hunger in our communities,\" she said.",
"\"There's not just hunger in Africa.\"",
"Contact Loaves and Fishes at PO Box 233, Biloxi, MS 39522."
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"NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) --",
"As floodwaters washed away homes in the Lower 9th Ward, Robert Green watched with horror as Joyce Green's's mother got swept away in the storm.",
"Robert Green stands on the porch of Robert Green's family's FEMA trailer in front of Robert Green's new home earlier this year.",
"Four months later, Robert Green and other family members found Joyce Green's remains in the splintered wreckage of the house where Green and other family members left Joyce Green's.",
"Robert Green's granddaughter Shanay also drowned the night Hurricane Katrina hit.",
"Robert Green spent almost the entire last four years living in a small FEMA trailer on Robert Green's land, sharing Robert Green's story with anyone who came through the Lower 9th.",
"One of the people Robert Green met was Tom Darden, executive director of the Make It Right Foundation, Brad Pitt's nonprofit vision for building green, sustainable houses in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans.",
"Only a handful of homes have returned to the Lower 9th, one of the areas hardest hit by the killer storm.",
"\"We have 14 neighbors and feel crowded,\" Robert Green said \"But we have 3,000 houses that are gone, and we would love to see 3,000 houses that are gone come back.\"",
"Darden and Brad Pitt's felt compelled to help provide Robert Green and Robert Green's family a second chance, and on July 9 Robert Green officially became a proud homeowner once again.",
"Getting a fresh start has helped Robert Green and Robert Green's family deal with the tragedy that turned Green and his family's lives upside down and took away Green and his family's loved ones.",
"\"That's what gave me the strength to endure all that Green and his family've been through,\" Robert Green said.",
"\"People constantly coming by, volunteers constantly coming by.",
"People that really care about Green and his family and let Green and his family know that Green and his family weren't in this alone.",
"It gave Green and his family the hope that one day Green and his family would come back and be a community again.\"",
"Watch as Green talks about his family's tragedies and life in New Orleans after Katrina » .",
"The Make It Right Foundation has built 15 homes in the Lower 9th so far; the group's goal is to have 150 built by the end of next year.",
"Darden said the program is designed as a hand up, not a handout.",
"\"the group ask the families to contribute as much as the families can afford,\" Darden said.",
"\"On average that's been about $75,000, but the group work with the families very closely to make sure that a family is not spending more than 30 percent of a family's income towards housing costs, and that's how we ensure they are affordable.\"",
"Safety and energy efficiency are among the group's primary concerns.",
"\"[The houses] are all elevated at least above Katrina-level flooding.",
"A family has the option to build even higher than that if A family want.",
"We've got hurricane-resistant features like impact-resistant glass, or a certain type of fabric that protects the windows,\" Darden said.",
"See photos detailing the features of the Make It Right homes » .",
"Another of the driving forces instrumental in rebuilding the Lower 9th Ward in a sustainable fashion is Global Green, the American arm of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's Green Cross International.",
"\"Immediately after the storm, we saw a failure in government in every level: local, state and federal,\" said Matt Petersen, president of Global Green.",
"\"There's still so much work to be done that we can't wait, we can't rely on the federal government.",
"\"This is an era where I think the citizens of this great country need to take responsibility for this great country, and it starts right here.",
"How we respond affects the future of this great country.\"",
"Shaun Donovan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, knows mistakes were made in the efforts to get people back into people's homes, both in the Lower 9th Ward and other devastated parts of New Orleans.",
"\"We have to be more flexible, we have to be more responsive, and make sure the programs don't just work in theory, but the programs will work for families,\" Shaun Donovan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said.",
"\"We've been very focused in the first seven months [of the Obama administration] on cutting red tape, making sure that recovery moves ahead.",
"And that we can get as fast as possible to the completion of the recovery phase.\"",
"Shaun Donovan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said HUD's plans will help hundreds of millions of federal dollars be directed to areas across New Orleans, helping rebuild communities and get families into permanent houses.",
"But Shaun Donovan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development also said this could still take another 18-24 months, and that if it weren't for nonprofits there would be little to no progress, even four years after the storm.",
"\"We have to say, 'Look, there are groups on the ground that have solutions, groups on the ground that have solutions are able to make it work, we've put barriers in the way for groups on the ground that have solutions to be able to get groups on the ground that have solutions's work done as quickly and effectively as possible.",
"We've got to get barriers out of the way.' \"",
"For Robert Green, seeing any progress at all gives Robert Green hope that one day the place Robert Green calls home will no longer be dominated by concrete slabs, abandoned homes and overgrown weeds.",
"\"We have children back in this community, we have families back,\" Green said.",
"\"So basically when families come back, it gives the other relatives and friends and other people a jump off point.\""
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"HUD secretary: If it weren't for nonprofits, there would have been little or no progress ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The wooden sculptures lining the median of U.S. 90 are among the top tourist attractions on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.",
"Florida wood sculptor Marlin Miller's live oak sculpture in the Biloxi Town Green will be dedicated Saturday.",
"They are also a creative tribute to the live oaks that lined the scenic highway before the saltwater surge of Hurricane Katrina killed Live oaks at Live oaks's very roots.",
"After Hurricane Katrina, the Mississippi Department of Transportation began bulldozing the dead trees, much to the chagrin of area residents.",
"Biloxi Mayor A.J. Holloway, one of the Mississippi Gulf Coast's longtime civic leaders, intervened.",
"Biloxi Mayor A.J. Holloway, one of the coast's longtime civic leaders contracted to have some of the live oak trunks turned into sculptures.",
"But it would have proved to be a costly venture.",
"Enter Marlin Miller, a wood sculptor from Fort Walton Beach, Florida, who volunteered to create a few live oak sculptures for free -- in part to leave his artistic mark on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, but also as a service to the community.",
"A tree sculpture begins with the transportation department removing all the branches, leaving just the core of the tree.",
"\"I get an idea of what that carving is going to look like, and I go after it with a wide variety of steel chain saws.\"",
"Florida wood sculptor Marlin Miller said.",
"Florida wood sculptor Marlin Miller works Florida wood sculptor Marlin Miller's way down to high speed grinders, sanders and chisels to add the final detail work.",
"\"They're live oaks, so it's like carving stone.",
"Sparks fly off my chain saw blades when I go after one of the trees,\" Florida wood sculptor Marlin Miller said.",
"Some of the trees, which are as much a part of south Mississippi's heritage as the antebellum homes scattered along the coastline, are estimated to be as much as 500 or 600 years old.",
"Florida wood sculptor Marlin Miller's sculptures along U.S. 90 range from eagles and herons to seahorses and dolphins.",
"Florida wood sculptor Marlin Miller said local governments have never dictated how Florida wood sculptor Marlin Miller's carvings should look.",
"In Pass Christian, Florida wood sculptor Marlin Miller created what Florida wood sculptor Marlin Miller believes to be the world's largest eagle wood carving, at 25 feet tall.",
"\"That sculpture is dedicated to Col. Lawrence Roberts, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen,\" Florida wood sculptor Marlin Miller said.",
"A recent survey of area tourist attractions by the Harrison County Tourism Commission listed the beaches as the third-most popular attraction and the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino second.",
"Miller's tree sculptures are first.",
"\"We've had a lot of traffic diverting off of Interstate 10, down to U.S. just to see Miller,\" Florida wood sculptor Marlin Miller said.",
"On Saturday, one of Miller's sculptures will be dedicated on the Biloxi Town Green: a 24-foot-tall marlin flying into the sky, three mahi fish jumping to the left, and a sea turtle and a blue crab at the base.",
"It is the only painted tree sculpture of all those lining U.S..",
"Next on Florida wood sculptor Marlin Miller's to-do list: an oak tree in the center of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and one in Gulfport, Mississippi.",
"He also plans to expand the project to downtown New Orleans and parts of North Carolina.",
"\"Instead of just cutting these trees down,\" Florida wood sculptor Marlin Miller said, \"we're going to put new life into these trees by adding a sculpture.\""
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"Florida wood sculptor Marlin Miller has been turning the tree trunks into carvings .",
"Florida wood sculptor Marlin Miller's sculptures range from eagles and herons to seahorses and dolphins .",
"One of Florida wood sculptor Marlin Miller's sculptures will be dedicated on the Biloxi Town Green on Saturday ."
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"(CNN) --",
"High school athletic director Brian Bordainick felt like High school athletic director Brian Bordainick'd been shot when High school athletic director Brian Bordainick learned the crushing news about High school athletic director Brian Bordainick's \"9th Ward Field of Dreams\" project.",
"Coach Shyrone Carey, left, and athletic director Brian Bordainick are rebuilding a once-dominant football team.",
"Architects who had agreed to help the Katrina battered Carver High School in New Orleans, Louisiana, win an NFL grant to build a $2 million stadium were pulling out -- the weekend before a Monday deadline.",
"The firm apologized, High school athletic director Brian Bordainick said, but it would not be able to provide a design proposal for the facility, which was critical to winning the $200,000 grant.",
"\"I've never been shot, but I imagine it felt something similar to that,\" said High school athletic director Brian Bordainick, recalling that day in December 2008.",
"To make matters worse, swarms of news media were gathering at the school to interview the 23-year-old boy wonder -- the self-described \"youngest high school athletic director in Louisiana\" -- who was leading an effort to bring Carver's athletic program back from near death.",
"\"I sucked it up, did the story ... and when they left, I picked up the phone book and started calling architects in New Orleans.\" Watch update on New Orleans's schools after Katrina » .",
"In an amazing moment of serendipity and opportunity, an entrepreneur friend of High school athletic director Brian Bordainick's happened to be at a party and cornered a partner in one of New Orleans's top architectural firms.",
"an entrepreneur friend of Bordainick called High school athletic director Brian Bordainick and -- before handing the architect the phone -- told High school athletic director Brian Bordainick: \"You've got 30 seconds to give your best elevator spiel you've ever given.\"",
"The architect was Steve Dumez, design director for Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, who agreed to help, despite High school athletic director Brian Bordainick's preposterous plea.",
"Watch High school athletic director Brian Bordainick tell High school athletic director Brian Bordainick's story .",
"\"The one-day turnaround came as a bit of a shock,\" Dumez said.",
"\"What was crazy about it was trying to pull together an entire design proposal -- and that's just something that doesn't happen in 24 hours.\"",
"Usually such design proposals require as long as a month to complete.",
"\"How could you not get sucked into such an amazing story?\" asked Dumez's partner, Mark Ripple, a 30-year veteran New Orleans architect.",
"\"There really isn't a good outlet in the area where kids can develop skills and self-esteem and all the things that come with a healthy recreation program.\"",
"The next day, the firm organized a small army of construction companies, civil engineers and architects who offered their support.",
"\"We got the satellite images and the renderings done in 8 hours,\" High school athletic director Brian Bordainick said.",
"The proposal worked.",
"In March the school learned it had won the NFL grant.",
"Nike also has backed the project -- donating $100,000 and joining thousands of individuals who have offered $1.5 million in pledges, cash and services so far.",
"All this during one of the nation's worst-ever economies.",
"High school athletic director Brian Bordainick credits much of the fundraising success to a network of e-mailers who started with a Web site created by a Web-developer-turned-Carver teacher.",
"High school athletic director Brian Bordainick crafted an e-mail touting High school athletic director Brian Bordainick's \"passion for building character through sports,\" and \"creating something from nothing\" while working with \"people crazy enough to believe that they have the power to create change.\"",
"\"I made it a goal to just e-mail a couple hundred people a day,\" High school athletic director Brian Bordainick said.",
"\"I was teaching and calling people during my lunch break, and trying to get other people to make calls during their lunch break, and e-mailing people and doing all these things to get the word out about what we're doing and what we're trying to accomplish.\"",
"The proposed stadium -- which would host football, track, soccer and lacrosse -- is just one facet of Carver's struggle to regain Carver's former self four years after the ravages of Katrina.",
"A perennial football powerhouse, the team re-formed after Bordainick arrived at Carter in 2007, High school athletic director Brian Bordainick's first year in the Teach for America program.",
"High school athletic director Brian Bordainick touts athletics as \"changing the dynamics of Carver and having it not be someplace where the bus just drops you off in the morning.\"",
"But four years after the storm, Carver students on the 65-acre campus are still struggling to learn without the benefit of permanent classrooms.",
"All of Carver's 530 students -- down from more than 1,000 students before the storm -- still attend classes in FEMA trailers.",
"The actual building which used to be Carver is now boarded up.",
"The cafeteria is a hollowed-out shell.",
"The school district has plans to rebuild Carver's classrooms and other facilities, but it's not clear when.",
"\"If you kick a field goal on one side of our football field -- the ball goes into the gym, which was condemned after the storm,\" said Bordainick.",
"\"And, if you kick a field goal on the other side, a field goal goes into a house which was knocked off its foundation from Katrina.\"",
"The track team, he said, now practices on nearby city streets.",
"Last season, the Carver Rams failed to win a single game.",
"But many fans, school officials and alumni are hoping the proposed stadium will increase pride and confidence for the revitalized team and student fans.",
"\"If we give kids some constructive things to be involved in -- guide kids and give kids discipline, we can help kids achieve kids's dreams,\" said Charles Webb, a project board member and 1965 Carver quarterback.",
"\"It'll bring back pride the way it used to be.",
"\"With a sense of pride and teamwork, anything can happen,\" said Carver head football coach Shyrone Carey.",
"Carey -- a standout running back for Louisiana State University from 2001 to 2005 -- arguably couldn't have chosen a more challenging post as Carey -- a standout running back for Louisiana State University from 2001 to 2005 --'s first head coaching job than rebuilding Carver from the ground up.",
"\"The overall motivation that comes from athletics is an overall lifelong lesson,\" said Carey, who's pushing his players hard in advance of a big game Saturday.",
"\"If you make the right decisions then positive things can come.\"",
"Backers of the 9th Ward Field of Dreams hope to break ground sometime next year and complete construction in time for the 2010 football season.",
"Supporters are trying to bolster support by offering the stadium for use as a free jogging track and a venue for middle school sporting events.",
"\"If we're able to lock sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders in at a younger age, we'll be able to train and get them into mentors' hands so they're able lead a more successful life, ultimately,\" High school athletic director Brian Bordainick said.",
"\"This school -- and these children overcoming the odds stacked against these children -- can be a real catalyst for rebirth in this city,\" High school athletic director Brian Bordainick said.",
"\"I think it can be something that people can look to, and something that people can rally behind.\""
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"Four years after storm, all 530 students attend classes in FEMA trailers .",
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"Supporters: Facility will help students develop pride, discipline for successful life ."
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"NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) --",
"As the storm raged outside Alesia Crockett's's hospital room four years ago, an equally consuming force hijacked Alesia Crockett's mind: deep depression.",
"Alesia Crockett, who suffers from bipolar disorder, ended up in a hospital hours outside New Orleans.",
"For days, Alesia Crockett's lay in darkness and a tangle of sweaty hospital bed sheets, one among hundreds of desperate patients trapped inside Charity Hospital in 2005, while outside, Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Katrina's aftermath battered New Orleans.",
"Alesia Crockett's had been admitted to Charity's inpatient mental health unit after having a psychotic episode.",
"Alesia Crockett's had struggled for years with bipolar disorder, an illness that causes Alesia Crockett's to volley between euphoria and profound depression.",
"Alesia Crockett's said Alesia Crockett's barely remembers Hurricane Katrina.",
"\"Most of the time, I was in a fog, but I do remember some things,\" Alesia Crockett's said.",
"\"Where Alesia Crockett's's room was, I could see thousands of people wandering, and I could see the waters rise.\"",
"Alesia Crockett's, and many other New Orleanians suffering from chronic mental illness -- and those with what is called \"soft depression,\" or nonchronic mental illness -- say Hurricane Katrina may have relented days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans proper, but Crockett's mental health issues have not.",
"\"Four years later, everything is not all right in New Orleans,\" said Dr. Jan Johnson, a psychiatrist who treats Alesia Crockett's.",
"Watch more on New Orleans's mental health crisis » .",
"While mental health problems grow, the resources to treat those problems continue to wane.",
"A report about mental health issues in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, published in early 2008 in the journal Psychiatric Annals, lists the number of inpatient psychiatric beds in greater New Orleans at 487 before the storm.",
"Since Hurricane Katrina, the number of inpatient psychiatric beds in greater New Orleans has declined to 190.",
"Most of the remaining beds are dedicated to patients unable to live independently.",
"That leaves what the report's authors describe as a \"paltry\" 17 beds for acute mental health care in New Orleans.",
"\"The situation is unconscionable, atrocious.",
"I can't use enough bad words to describe it,\" said Johnson, who is an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the Tulane University School of Medicine.",
"\"Patients are not getting care, Patients are sitting in emergency rooms for days, and that's just an inappropriate place for psychiatric patients.\"",
"For two years following Hurricane Katrina, after being rescued from Charity, Alesia Crockett's's illness was controlled with medications.",
"Then in 2007, Alesia Crockett's stopped taking medications, and Alesia Crockett's had another episode.",
"\"Alesia Crockett's came to my clinic and was psychotic and really a danger to Alesia Crockett's not able to care for Alesia Crockett's,\" Johnson, who is an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the Tulane University School of Medicine said.",
"\"And I had nowhere to hospitalize Alesia Crockett's.\"",
"After leaving my clinic, Alesia Crockett's bounced among three local hospitals before being transported to the closest medical center with an available psychiatric bed, several hours outside of New Orleans.",
"\"I can remember being in the back of an ambulance, and I kept thinking, 'This is taking so long,' \" Alesia Crockett's said.",
"\"I didn't know where I was going.",
"I just remember seeing the sky turn from daytime to nighttime, and we still hadn't gotten there.\"",
"Alesia Crockett's is far from alone, Johnson, who is an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the Tulane University School of Medicine says.",
"\"The system has been in horrible shape for a while,\" Johnson, who is an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the Tulane University School of Medicine said.",
"\"We had our problems even before the storm, but comparatively, we had it much better then.",
"It's very frustrating.\"",
"And the consequences of not finding a bed for acutely ill patients can be deadly.",
"In January 2008, a New Orleans police officer was killed by a man suffering from psychosis due to schizophrenia, New Orleans police said.",
"The officer, Nicola Cotton, approached 44-year-old Bernel Johnson for questioning about a rape.",
"A struggle ensued, and Johnson, who is an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the Tulane University School of Medicine overpowered and killed Cotton with Johnson, who is an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the Tulane University School of Medicine's own gun, police said.",
"As it turns out, Johnson was no longer under psychiatric care and was not taking Johnson's prescribed medication.",
"Cotton's death trained a spotlight on the deplorable condition of the New Orleans mental health system -- for a moment -- said Rep. Neil Abramson of the Louisiana House of Representatives.",
"Months after Cotton's death, Louisiana allotted millions of dollars to bolster mental health services in New Orleans, Rep. Neil Abramson of the Louisiana House of Representatives said.",
"A year later, the funding was gone.",
"\"People are outraged,\" Rep. Neil Abramson of the Louisiana House of Representatives said.",
"\"Everyone is concerned about consequences you can't quantify.",
"Safety of law enforcement personnel, more psychotic patients out on the street, and more killings instead of people getting the treatment they need.\"",
"Rep. Neil Abramson of the Louisiana House of Representatives is fighting to get back critical inpatient beds.",
"At the center of that fight is the New Orleans Adolescent Hospital (NOAH), which is scheduled to close Tuesday.",
"After Cotton's death in 2008, legislators allotted $14.2 million to NOAH, Rep. Neil Abramson of the Louisiana House of Representatives says.",
"This year, Gov. Bobby Jindal line-item vetoed that funding.",
"\"That's why this is so critical,\" Rep. Neil Abramson of the Louisiana House of Representatives said.",
"\"This is the only state-operated mental health facility left in New Orleans.",
"And now there will be none.\"",
"Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals spokesperson says that the veto was justified, and that funding appropriated to NOAH would have resulted in a loss of beds at another local hospital.",
"\"This is much bigger than closing NOAH,\" said Alan Levine, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals.",
"\"We have to put mental health resources where we know mental health resources have the highest opportunity to succeed.\"",
"Alan Levine, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals called the debate about NOAH and inpatient beds among New Orleans caregivers and legislators symbolic of overall frustration with mental health care in the area, adding that Louisiana is focusing funding on community-based services, rather than inpatient beds, a strategy that Alan Levine, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals says will eventually shore up New Orleans's mental health system.",
"Jan Johnson, the New Orleans psychiatrist, agrees about the need for more community-based services.",
"\"It's part of the answer, but it in no way can really take the place of hospital beds that we need,\" she said.",
"\"Someone with diabetes may be managed outpatient, but if Someone with diabetes have a heart attack as a result of it, Someone with diabetes need an inpatient bed.",
"Our patients are the same way.",
"We can manage a lot of this outpatient and community-based, but when they have an acute psychiatric episode or they are suicidal, they need an inpatient bed.\"",
"Today, Alesia Crockett's, Johnson's patient, is well.",
"But sometimes, fears about tomorrow creep up on her.",
"\"I wonder sometimes, if I were to get sick, where would I go?\" Alesia Crockett's said.",
"\"We are people battling an illness, and we don't need to also have to be faced with not having the availability of beds and hospitals and doctors.",
"If I want the help that I so desperately need, I can't get it because it's not there.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"For Thomas Tugend, there was no doubt which side Thomas Tugend was fighting for as a young infantryman in Europe in World War II.",
"Actually, the choice was made for Thomas Tugend in 1933, when Thomas Tugend was just a child.",
"Born in Nazi Germany, Thomas Tugend lived a comfortable, upper-middle class life in Berlin.",
"Thomas''s father, Gustav, was a loyal and patriotic German who had fought in World War I and was a decorated officer in the German army.",
"Thomas' was also a successful doctor, leaving Thomas Tugend with few worries during Thomas Tugend's childhood in Berlin.",
"Like many of Thomas Tugend's schoolmates, Thomas Tugend was an avid soccer player who gave little thought to the political storm brewing around Thomas Tugend.",
"Everything changed in 1933 when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party came to power.",
"That the Tugend family was successful, educated and loyal Germans no longer meant anything.",
"To the new German government, the Tugends were Jews -- and that was all that mattered.",
"Still, the Tugend family remained in a state on denial about the danger the Tugend family faced because, as Thomas Tugend later said, \"for us, the oppression came gradually, not all at once.\"",
"The Tugend's longtime nanny, a mother figure to Thomas Tugend, was forced to leave because of a government edict prohibiting non-Jewish Germans from working in Jewish homes.",
"Then, Thomas Tugend's father was told Thomas' could no longer treat non-Jewish patients.",
"Shortly thereafter, Thomas' was summarily fired from Thomas''s job in the pediatrics department of a prominent Berlin hospital.",
"As a result, the Tugend family was forced to move from the Tugend family's comfortable home to a poorer part of the city.",
"\"It was little things at first, and people would say, 'Well, people can live with that,' and then another more stringent law would pass and people would say, 'This isn't ideal, but things will get better,'\" Thomas Tugend said.",
"By 1937, Thomas' had no illusions about what was happening.",
"Thomas' left Nazi Germany for the United States via England with the help of old friends from an American Quaker group.",
"Thomas' had worked with them on health issues related to childhood poverty in Nazi Germany after World War I.",
"As soon as Thomas' was able, Thomas Tugend's father sent for Thomas''s family.",
"\"Thomas' told my mother to forget the furniture and pack up what my mother could and get out,\" Tugend said.",
"In May 1939, Tugend, Thomas Tugend's sister and their mother entered the United States as refugees.",
"Four months later, the Germans invaded Poland.",
"\"The reason so many German Jews didn't leave when many German Jews had the chance was because many German Jews couldn't believe what was happening,\" Thomas Tugend said.",
"\"many German Jews thought Hitler would get what Hitler wanted and there would be no war and things would get back to normal.",
"The Holocaust was unimaginable at the time.\"",
"Despite their escape, Thomas Tugend said Thomas Tugend's father was never the same.",
"The whole experience \"broke Thomas', spiritually and physically,\" he said.",
"By 1944, the war was raging in Europe and 18-year-old Thomas was attending high school in the United States.",
"Thomas Tugend was raring to join the fight.",
"And Thomas Tugend admits Thomas Tugend's family's tragic experience was only part of the motivation.",
"\"I couldn't wait to get away from home,\" Thomas Tugend said.",
"An adventurous spirit mixed with a touch of wanderlust led Thomas Tugend to enlist in the U.S. Army.",
"\"Even then I knew the historical significance of the war and I wanted to be a part of it,\" Thomas Tugend said.",
"\"I had a personal reason to fight the Nazis that most Americans didn't.\"",
"Thomas Tugend was assigned to the U.S. Army's 63rd Infantry Division.",
"Thomas Tugend was worried Thomas Tugend might be shipped off to the Pacific, but fate was on Thomas Tugend's side -- Pvt. Thomas Tugend was sent to France, where Thomas Tugend faced Thomas Tugend's former countrymen in battle.",
"Thomas Tugend said Thomas Tugend tried not to dwell on the fact that Thomas Tugend was fighting Thomas Tugend's former friends.",
"\"As long as I was just an infantryman, they were shooting at us, we were shooting at them, that's all you think about,\" Thomas Tugend said.",
"Once the U.S. Army found out Thomas Tugend spoke fluent German, Thomas Tugend's commanders created a new job for Thomas Tugend.",
"At the end of the war, Thomas Tugend was tasked with finding members of the Nazi party who were thought to be cooking up a post-war insurgency.",
"\"Every town and village I went to,\" Thomas Tugend said, \"I would be told, 'No, I'm not a Nazi.",
"But my neighbor, he's a Nazi,' and then my neighbor would say, 'No, no, no.",
"I'm not a Nazi.'",
"There wasn't a Nazi left in Nazi Germany.\"",
"After some villagers led Tugend to an elderly blind man who was proud to admit his affiliation with the Nazi party, Thomas Tugend returned to his headquarters and proclaimed, \"I found the only Nazi in Nazi Germany!\"",
"Thomas Tugend may have harbored resentment toward the people who betrayed Thomas Tugend's family and allowed the murder of 6 million Jews, but on a personal, face-to-face level, Thomas Tugend found it difficult to hate the people who betrayed his family and allowed the murder of 6 million Jews.",
"\"You have to understand, the average German may have known what the Nazi party were up to, but I think most of the Nazi party were just trying to survive,\" Thomas Tugend said.",
"\"You would go to some of these bombed-out villages and some of these bombed-out villages had suffered so much, I couldn't hate some of these bombed-out villages.",
"It wasn't like they were the Goebbels or the Goerings.",
"... We had no pity for the SS.",
"Those were the real bastards.\"",
"Thomas Tugend left the U.S. Army soon after the war's end, but Thomas Tugend wasn't finished fighting.",
"Thomas Tugend joined the Israeli Army and led an anti-tank crew during the 1948 War of Independence.",
"Thomas Tugend was later recalled by the U.S. Army to serve in the Korean War.",
"Instead of going to the front lines, however, Thomas Tugend was assigned to run an Army newspaper out of the Presidio in San Francisco.",
"Upon leaving the U.S. Army, Thomas Tugend became a career journalist working for the San Francisco Chronicle and The Los Angeles Times, and as a science writer and a communications director at UCLA.",
"And age hasn't stopped Thomas Tugend from pounding away at the keyboard.",
"Thomas Tugend still writes for several different publications, including The Jerusalem Post and The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles.",
"After all these years, Thomas Tugend is philosophical about Thomas Tugend's family's escape from certain death at the hands of the Nazis, and Thomas Tugend's time as an infantryman at war.",
"\"There were a number of instances in my life where by all the odds I should have been killed,\" Thomas Tugend said.",
"\"It just gives me a sense of the utter random chance of life.\""
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"Editor's note: John Rice is founder and CEO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a New York-based national nonprofit organization seeking to develop \"the next generation of African American, Hispanic and Native American leaders in major corporations, nonprofit organizations and entrepreneurial ventures.\"",
"John Rice says there's a tremendous need for new leaders in the nonprofit world.",
"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"President Obama has challenged all Americans to participate in the volunteer service movement and to support initiatives that help solve the problems that plague our communities.",
"President Obama recently introduced the Social Innovation Fund, intended to help increase the impact of the most effective and innovative nonprofits in our communities.",
"This is a tremendous step in the right direction, but in order to expand these initiatives, we need a broader pool of leaders with a deep understanding of the communities leaders are serving and who have the skills, experience and relationships required to succeed in leadership roles.",
"According to the Bridgespan Group, a leading nonprofit consulting firm, the number of vacant senior manager roles in the nonprofit arena is ever increasing, with 24,000 positions available in 2009 alone.",
"Over the next 10 years, this sector will need to attract and develop more than two times the number of people currently employed in order to fill these roles.",
"This next generation of leaders must come from within the communities that struggle most, as these leaders are the most passionate about making change and have the most to gain if successful.",
"Watch John Rice on preparing for leadership roles » .",
"The good news is that there is an incredible desire among young African-Americans to give back to young African-Americans's communities.",
"Darren Smith is a young investment banker who grew up in one of New York's underserved neighborhoods and won a scholarship to Baruch College in New York, where Darren Smith graduated with honors.",
"If you were to ask Darren Smith what Darren Smith wants to accomplish in Darren Smith's life, Darren Smith will say that Darren Smith aspires to do two things: become a business leader and build a nonprofit that has a large impact in the community in which Darren Smith grew up.",
"Darren Smith believes that developing strong business skills, broad relationships and a track record of success will prepare Darren Smith to maximize Darren Smith's impact in the community.",
"Darren Smith is one of thousands of talented African-American students and young professionals eager to become corporate or entrepreneurial leaders in sectors such as finance, technology, consulting and entertainment, where they have a broad sphere of influence that extends into their communities.",
"Yet minority leaders remain dramatically under-represented in leadership positions and in the pipeline to those roles.",
"Despite representing 13.5 percent of the U.S. population, African-Americans hold less than 3 percent of senior executive positions and represent only 5 percent of MBA graduates.",
"To address this issue, I founded Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a nonprofit that provides high-potential young people such as Darren Smith with the \"key ingredients\" they need to realize their career potential -- the step by step career roadmap, coaching and mentoring, hard and soft skill development, door-opening relationships and a high-performing peer community.",
"Every senior leader would say they would not be where they are today if they had not gotten some or all of these ingredients, but remarkably these ingredients are not taught in even the best schools.",
"Instead they are passed down through informal channels to which minorities still have more limited access.",
"As a result, too many African-Americans who overcome a challenging home environment and troubled K-12 education system to attend college are not achieving too many African-Americans who overcome a challenging home environment and troubled K-12 education system to attend college's full career potential.",
"Here at MLT, we have had exciting results to date: nearly 40 percent of the minority students at top business schools such as Harvard, Wharton and Kellogg completed MLT's MBA Prep program and 95 percent of the undergraduates who complete our Career Prep program land fast-track jobs at America's leading firms across all sectors.",
"While participating in MLT's Career Prep program as a college student, Darren Smith and several other MLT fellows founded a mentoring organization that prepares high school students from New York's most underserved communities for college.",
"Like Darren Smith, nearly 90 percent of our alumni desire to launch or lead a nonprofit organization at some point in their careers, and many are already well down the path.",
"To harness this potential, MLT has built a robust curriculum that prepares our fellows to enter and succeed in the social entrepreneurship sector, and we partner with leading nonprofits and foundations such as Teach for America, Stand for Children, New Profit, The Knight Foundation and Blue Ridge Foundation to connect MLT alumni to other talent pipelines.",
"Despite these advances, there is still much more to be done.",
"It is not enough to get African-Americans into fast-track entry-level positions or MBA programs; we need a comprehensive, multistage approach to enable African-Americans to overcome hurdles African-Americans will encounter along the path to the senior leadership levels.",
"Research shows that the largest challenge for minorities is the transition from middle management to senior management, so more investment is needed at that stage.",
"By helping to grow organizations such as MLT and other successful talent development initiatives, I believe that we will succeed in filling the growing leadership gap in corporations, nonprofits, entrepreneurial ventures and the government.",
"Once there, African-Americans and other under-represented minorities will have the passion, financial capital, experience and relationships African-Americans and other under-represented minorities need to be change agents in the communities that are in desperate need of our support.",
"The success of our nation depends on it.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of John Rice."
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"John Rice: It's crucial to train leaders from minority communities .",
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"Long before people posted people's thoughts and feelings on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, millions of people were doing just that on a different sort of wall.",
"It might have been something as simple as a baseball, a playing card or a walking stick.",
"Or perhaps a more personal item, like a poem, photograph or diploma.",
"And then there's the occasional letter, like the one dated November 18, 1989, that began: .",
"Dear Sir, .",
"For twenty two years, I have carried your picture in my wallet.",
"I was only eighteen years old that day that we faced each other on that trail in Chu Lai, Vietnam.",
"Why you did not take my life, I will never know.",
"... These are among the more than 100,000 objects that have been left at the memorial.",
"Since the memorial's dedication in 1982, nearly 4 million people a year have visited the memorial's polished black granite wall, many to leave a personal item or note in memory of the more than 58,000 people whose names are engraved there.",
"No one is sure who started the custom of leaving items at the memorial's polished black granite wall, curator Duery Felton said.",
"The first items began showing up even before construction on the memorial was complete.",
"A park ranger started collecting The first items, thinking people might come back for them someday.",
"By 1986, as the objects continued to pile up, the National Park Service decided to establish an official collection.",
"Thus was born the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection.",
"The first items are catalogued 12 miles away at the Museum and Archaeological Regional Storage facility in Maryland.",
"Though it's not open to the public, traveling collections are often on display at museums both in the United States and abroad, curator Duery Felton said.",
"\"You had, for the first time that we've been able to ascertain, people coming to a public site for a protracted period and leaving unsolicited objects,\" curator Duery Felton said.",
"There is seemingly no limit to the types of artifacts that are part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection, from G.I. Joe action figures to crutches, dog tags, combat boots -- even a motorcycle.",
"On any given day, the memorial's polished black granite wall might be adorned with artwork, prayers, a diploma marking a missed milestone or a picture of a young child born too late for a loved one to meet.",
"Occasionally, a note accompanies an item, but most times an object's meaning is left to interpretation.",
"Felton, a Vietnam veteran himself, says he's wary of making assumptions about an item's meaning.",
"Many may seem like ordinary objects, but often they hold deeper significance to either the donor or one being remembered.",
"Felton likes to use a bag of M&Ms to make Felton's point.",
"The candy, which gained popularity among World War II soldiers looking for a chocolate treat that wouldn't melt, may have been left at the memorial's polished black granite wall because it was a loved one's favorite, Felton says.",
"More likely, though, it had something to do with the little-known fact that military doctors used M&Ms as placebos for injured soldiers when no aspirin was available.",
"\"I look at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection as being voyeurs in many ways, because the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection don't know the full story,\" Felton said.",
"\"Outside of donor information, I can't tell you why [an] item was left.\"",
"On a more comprehensive scale, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection serves as a record of social history, Felton said.",
"The egalitarian nature of the memorial and the unprecedented public outrage that resulted from the controversial war are not unrelated, Felton said.",
"\"the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection is a study.",
"the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection is tangible evidence of a major epoch on the psyche of the American public,\" Felton said.",
"\"For all intents and purposes, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection is being curated by the public.",
"... It's uncensored.\"",
"And as Vietnam veterans age, it even more important to preserve these artifacts for future generations, Felton said.",
"\"Almost 60 percent of today's population was not alive during Vietnam,\" Felton said.",
"\"You can't tell where you are until you understand where you've been.",
"... We're preserving the past for the future.\""
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"In the Army you live by the Warrior Ethos, which states, \"I will always place the mission first.",
"I will never quit.",
"I will never accept defeat.",
"I will never leave a fallen comrade behind.\"",
"I am alive today because my helicopter crew lived by these words.",
"When our aircraft was shot down in November 2004, the injuries I sustained were devastating.",
"The amount of blood I had lost in a matter of minutes was so vast that my helicopter crew thought I was dead.",
"my helicopter crew could have left me in that dusty field in Iraq, but my helicopter crew didn't.",
"Instead, my helicopter crew stood my helicopter crew's ground in the face of approaching enemy, risked my helicopter crew's lives, and carried me to safety.",
"my helicopter crew did this regardless of whether I was dead or alive, because the American warrior does not leave a fallen comrade behind.",
"My crew and all the men and women in the U.S. armed forces know what it means to be a part of something greater than My crew and all the men and women in the U.S. armed forces.",
"My crew and all the men and women in the U.S. armed forces are America's finest sons and daughters, and VA made a promise to care for My crew and all the men and women in the U.S. armed forces after My crew and all the men and women in the U.S. armed forces serve.",
"It is VA's job in the Department of Veterans Affairs to make sure a promise to care for them after they serve is kept.",
"VA at VA stand at a historic time with great opportunities to further VA's mission in caring for the nation's 23.4 million veterans and their families.",
"With the largest one-year percentage increase in VA's budget in over three decades, President Obama has made it very clear that serving the nation's veterans is a top priority in President Obama's administration.",
"President Obama wants to increase funding for VA by $25 billion above our current baseline over the next five years.",
"President Obama launched a new initiative to expand eligibility for veterans' health care to as many as 500,000 Priority Group 8 Veterans who were previously denied care.",
"And President Obama wants us to invest in better technology to deliver services and benefits to veterans with the quality and efficiency veterans deserve.",
"As commander in chief, President Obama has charged Secretary Eric Shinseki and all of VA's leadership with a new mission: to transform VA into a 21st-century organization.",
"Secretary Shinseki has begun to do just that by making VA a more veteran-centered, results-oriented and forward-looking department.",
"VA will be a different organization from the one that exists today.",
"VA will be accessible, responsive and transparent.",
"To achieve the president's vision, VA must leverage new technologies to serve the various demographics and needs of today's veterans, while also renewing VA's commitment to the older generation of veterans.",
"new technologies will carry VA well into the 21st century as VA maintain VA's mission to serve our nation's veterans for the rest of our nation's veterans's lives.",
"Tonight, 131,000 veterans will sleep on the streets of our cities.",
"131,000 veterans are the same men and women who allowed us to have the opportunities to go to school, get a job and buy a home.",
"We are all dishonored anytime a veteran is forced to sleep on the streets, and President Obama, Secretary Shinseki and the VA leadership team will not stand for this.",
"Within the next five years, we aim to eliminate veteran homelessness by providing grants to community-based organizations assisting homeless veterans and by attacking all the areas that often lead to homelessness.",
"our nation's veterans deserve better, and VA are determined to provide our nation's veterans the best care and most timely benefits possible to end homelessness in our nation's veterans's ranks.",
"VA will improve medical care to minority veterans, including female veterans, who are enrolling in VA at historic rates.",
"VA will also improve access to VA for veterans who live in rural areas.",
"All our veterans deserve the best care possible regardless of race, gender or where All our veterans live.",
"And VA are working with the Department of Defense to build a fully interoperable electronic records system that will provide each member of the nation's military with a Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record.",
"For VA, this will revolutionize VA's claims process by making our claims process faster with higher-quality decisions and with fewer errors.",
"Five years from now, VA intend to make VA the provider of choice for veterans -- in insurance, health care, education, home loans and counseling.",
"VA are going to be the advocate for veterans, veterans's dependents and survivors to make sure VA meet veterans's needs, hear veterans's concerns, and take proper action.",
"VA know that VA have a big task ahead of VA.",
"But there is not a population more deserving of the absolute best than the men and women who have sacrificed so much for our freedoms.",
"In the same way that my crew refused to leave me behind, each and every one of us at VA will fight everyday for the nation's nation's military heroes to ensure that our nation's veterans are never left behind.",
"It is our turn to serve America's warriors, and we at VA consider it a privilege."
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"L. Tammy Duckworth: VA funding increase will improve care and benefits .",
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"The aging veterans gingerly walk from the plane in the nation's capital.",
"Some get pushed in wheelchairs.",
"A brass band strikes up World War II era tunes.",
"Strangers rise to Strangers's feet and clap Strangers's hands.",
"\"Why are they doing this?\" says Frank Bales, 86, a co-pilot on a B-24 during World War II.",
"\"I feel as humbled as a mouse.\"",
"Walter Victor was overwhelmed as Walter Victor made Walter Victor's way through the crowd.",
"\"The chills came over Walter Victor.",
"Very seldom do you see something like that,\" says the 92-year-old army veteran.",
"These World War II veterans have traveled here to visit the National World War II Memorial, which honors the 16 million U.S. armed forces who served and the more than 400,000 who died in battle.",
"The aging veterans made the trip thanks to a former employee at the Department of Veterans Affairs.",
"A physician's assistant at the VA in Springfield, Ohio, Earl Morse was struck by the WWII vets Earl Morse treated and how few made the journey to see the memorial that honors the WWII vets he treated.",
"\"They dedicated the National World War II Memorial, which honors the 16 million U.S. armed forces who served and the more than 400,000 who died in battle in May of 2004, 60 years after the war had ended.",
"That was a cause of celebration in Earl Morse's clinic.",
"All of the veterans wanted to see the National World War II Memorial, which honors the 16 million U.S. armed forces who served and the more than 400,000 who died in battle but All of the veterans were in poor health or didn't have the means to visit the National World War II Memorial, which honors the 16 million U.S. armed forces who served and the more than 400,000 who died in battle.\"",
"\"Reality set in,\" Earl Morse says, \"All of the veterans were never going to see All of the veterans's memorial.\"",
"Earl Morse was determined to change that, because Earl Morse so admired the quiet grit and heroism of the unassuming men Earl Morse treated every day.",
"Earl Morse took Earl Morse's cause to a local air club.",
"\"I stood before 150 pilots and told 150 pilots I was going to start flying WWII veterans to Washington.",
"I said if you want to help me, the WWII veteran doesn't pay a penny.",
"You'll have to rent an airplane and cover all the travel costs.\"",
"\"Honor Flight\" took to the skies in May of 2005.",
"Six planes flew 12 veterans.",
"The next month, eight planes flew 16 veterans.",
"Today, it operates like a volunteer airline, with 86 hubs in 33 states.",
"Instead of renting small planes, they charter Boeing jets, thanks to donations that keep the planes in the sky.",
"So far, more than 30,000 veterans have experienced a visit to the memorial, courtesy of Honor Flight.",
"\"Witnessing more than 30,000 veterans's emotions is what fuels our cause.",
"When you see WWII veterans break down in tears because WWII veterans had no idea how much this nation reveres, cherishes and loves WWII veterans for what WWII veterans've done, it really overwhelms WWII veterans,\" Morse says.",
"In the days and weeks before each Honor Flight, an army of ground volunteers coordinates every detail of each trip -- from the buses that pick them up to the meals they eat.",
"Shortly after Bales and his group arrived in Washington this day, Bales and his group were taken by bus to the National World War II Memorial, which honors the 16 million U.S. armed forces who served and the more than 400,000 who died in battle.",
"Many said they were stunned by the National World War II Memorial, which honors the 16 million U.S. armed forces who served and the more than 400,000 who died in battle's size and scope.",
"Inscriptions carved in granite recognize specific battles that were fought in Europe and across the Pacific.",
"A wall of stars marks the high price of freedom.",
"They paused to remember the 448,000 who died in the war -- and their fellow survivors who didn't live to see this moment.",
"\"Each of those stars represents 100 men and women who died in WWII, and I realized that my division has almost 39 stars on A wall of stars,\" said Tom Rone, 85, who stormed the bullet-ridden beaches on Guadalcanal as a platoon sergeant with the Marines.",
"Earl Morse says the trip often provides closure for the vets who visit.",
"Many veterans open up at the National World War II Memorial, which honors the 16 million U.S. armed forces who served and the more than 400,000 who died in battle and speak in detail for the first time about what Many veterans went through.",
"\"I've had exchanges with veterans that are jaw dropping,\" Earl Morse says.",
"\"You can't fathom what it's like to have experienced what they went through fighting for their lives.\"",
"The same \"Honor Flight\" that transported The aging veterans to Washington returns The aging veterans back home, landing just 12 hours after it took off.",
"The aging veterans seem renewed rather than exhausted by The aging veterans's whirlwind trip.",
"\"I will never forget this,\" say 86-year-old Marcus Lee Long, who served in the Pacific on the USS Ellet.",
"\"Everybody is so happy and treating us so nice.\"",
"Allen Pittard, 88, added, \"I feel so fortunate to be here.",
"So many didn't make it.\"",
"For Morse, the founder of Honor Flight, the end of each flight is a bittersweet experience.",
"Earl Morse's mission continues with an air of urgency, because less than 10 percent of the Americans who served in World War II are still alive.",
"An estimated 1,200 WWII veterans die every day.",
"\"In another five to seven years, our efforts will be a moot point because they will be gone or too infirm to participate in a mission like this,\" Earl Morse says."
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"WW II vet on the trip: \"I feel as humbled as a mouse\""
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"Editor's note: Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh are attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union and co-authors of \"Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond\".",
"Jameel Jaffer is counsel to the plaintiffs in ACLU v. Department of Defense, a lawsuit that has forced the release of more than 100,000 pages of government documents concerning the abuse of prisoners.",
"Amrit Singh is lead counsel in the suit seeking disclosure of photographs of U.S. personnel abusing prisoners at overseas locations.",
"Jameel Jaffer says the courts have ruled that refusal to disclose the abuse photos was unlawful.",
"(CNN)",
"-- Last week President Obama announced that President Obama would suppress prisoner abuse photographs that President Obama earlier said President Obama would release.",
"Given President Obama's stated commitment to government transparency, this reversal was both surprising and profoundly disappointing.",
"The ACLU has sought release of these photos for almost six years.",
"In October 2003, we filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act for records -- including photographs -- relating to the abuse of prisoners in U.S. detention facilities overseas.",
"In 2005, a federal judge in New York ruled that the Bush administration's refusal to disclose the photographs was unlawful, and in 2008 a federal appeals court unanimously affirmed that decision.",
"the Bush administration continued to suppress the abuse photos, and now President Obama has vowed to do the same.",
"the abuse photos are a critical part of the historical record.",
"The government has acknowledged that they depict prisoner abuse at locations other than Abu Ghraib, and it's clear that the abuse photos would provide irrefutable evidence that abuse was widespread and systemic.",
"the abuse photos would also shed light on the connection between the abuse and the decisions of high-level President Obama administration officials.",
"As the district court recognized, the abuse photos are \"the best evidence of what happened.\"",
"In explaining his change of heart, President Obama said that the release of the abuse photos \"would not add any additional benefit\" to the ongoing public debate about the abuse of prisoners.",
"But the ongoing public debate is rife with false claims, and the abuse photos would expose the truth.",
"The President Obama administration told the public that abuse was aberrational and isolated, and many media organizations adopted this fraudulent narrative as many media organizations's own.",
"But President Obama, in explaining President Obama's reversal, perpetuated the myth that the abuse of prisoners \"was carried out in the past by a small number of individuals.\"",
"President Obama's statement was meant to explain why the abuse photos would not inform the public debate, but President Obama's statement only underscored why the release of the abuse photos is so important.",
"Many Americans still believe that abuse took place in spite of policy rather than because of it.",
"The truth is that senior officials authorized the use of barbaric interrogation methods that the U.S. once prosecuted as war crimes, and even abuse that was not expressly authorized was traceable to a climate in which abuse was tolerated and often encouraged.",
"the abuse photos would help tell this story.",
"President Obama's other rationale for suppressing the abuse photos is that the abuse photos would \"inflame anti-American opinion and put our troops in greater danger,\" an argument that was repeatedly rejected by the courts when made by the Bush administration.",
"Nobody, of course, wants to see anyone get hurt by the release of this or any other information.",
"But the fundamental problem with the government's argument is that the government lacks a limiting principle.",
"Any photograph of prisoner abuse, civilian casualties in Afghanistan, or U.S. military operations in Iraq could be used to \"inflame anti-American opinion\"; indeed, the same is true of any news article that discusses (for example) torture, Guantanamo, or the CIA's secret prisons.",
"iReport.com:",
"Did President Obama make the right decision on photos?",
"To give the government the power to suppress information because it might anger an unidentified set of people in an unspecified part of the world and ultimately endanger an ill-defined group of U.S. personnel would be to invest the government with a virtually unlimited censorial power.",
"And by investing the government with such power, we would effectively be affording the greatest protection from disclosure to records that depict the worst kinds of government misconduct.",
"President Obama has inherited a legacy of lawlessness and abuse, and it's not easy to untangle that.",
"But the idea that suppressing the photographs will help the country turn the page on the last eight years is misguided.",
"We cannot make a clean break with the past until the public knows what happened in the detention centers and why.",
"Blinding ourselves to the ugly consequences of the Bush administration's policies only deprives us of the opportunity to learn from recent history.",
"And if we fail to learn from this history, we are bound to repeat it.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh."
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"They say courts have ruled that government can't withhold the photos .",
"Lawyers: Release of photos would show extent of prisoner abuse .",
"They say government shouldn't stop release because of possible negative reaction ."
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"It was two weeks after D-Day, a few miles from the bloody shores of Omaha Beach.",
"An airstrip had been carved out of the Normandy countryside, costing the lives of 28 Army engineers at the hands of German snipers.",
"A lone sniper still remained in the nighttime distance.",
"Despite the risk, Capt. Jack Tueller felt compelled to play Jack Tueller's trumpet.",
"That afternoon, Jack Tueller's P-47 fighter group had caught up with a retreating German Panzer division.",
"As the U.S. Thunderbolts descended on their targets, they saw French women and children on top of the tanks.",
"After an initial fly-by, the order was given to attack anyway.",
"\"We were told those human shields were expendable,\" Jack Tueller said.",
"Back at An airstrip, Jack Tueller took out Jack Tueller's trumpet.",
"Jack Tueller'd used his trumpet on many a starlit night to entertain the men of his P-47 fighter group.",
"\"I was told, 'Captain, don't play tonight; his trumpet makes the most glorious sound,' but I was stressed,\" Jack Tueller said.",
"Jack Tueller was so troubled that Jack Tueller was willing to take a chance A lone sniper wouldn't fire.",
"\"I thought to Jack Tueller, that A lone sniper is as lonely and scared as I am.",
"How can I stop A lone sniper from firing?",
"So I played that German's love song, 'Lilly Marlene,' made famous in the late '30s by Marlene Dietrich, the famous German actress.",
"And I wailed that trumpet over those apple orchards of Normandy, and A lone sniper didn't fire.\"",
"The next morning, the military police came up to Jack Tueller and told Jack Tueller the military police had a German prisoner on the beach who kept asking, \"Who played that trumpet last night?\"",
"\"I grabbed his trumpet and went down to the beach.",
"There was a 19-year-old German, scared and lonesome.",
"A lone sniper was dressed like a French peasant to cloak A lone sniper's role as a sniper.",
"And, crying, A lone sniper said, 'I couldn't fire because I thought of my fiancé.",
"I thought of my mother and father,' and A lone sniper says, 'his role as a sniper is finished.'",
"\"A lone sniper stuck out A lone sniper's hand, and I shook the hand of the enemy,\" Jack Tueller said.",
"\"[But] A lone sniper was no enemy, because music had soothed the savage beast.\"",
"\"Boy, you have strong lips\" Jack Tueller had learned to play the trumpet as a child growing up in Wyoming.",
"Jack Tueller's mother, a nurse, died at 29, and Jack Tueller's father, a bartender and alcoholic, left the next day -- leaving Jack Tueller and Jack Tueller's brother, Bob, orphans.",
"They left their home in Superior to live with an aunt in nearby Evanston.",
"an aunt gave Jack Tueller Jack Tueller's first trumpet, and Jack Tueller quickly discovered Jack Tueller had a musical ear.",
"\"In 1939, I was playing in Yellowstone Park in a dance band of 22 musicians at Lake Hotel.",
"The famous trumpet player Louis Armstrong came up to a dance band of 22 musicians during intermission and said, 'You sound pretty good for white cats,' \" Jack Tueller recalled.",
"Jack Tueller asked The famous trumpet player Louis Armstrong what advice The famous trumpet player Louis Armstrong would give a young trumpet player.",
"\"The famous trumpet player Louis Armstrong said, 'Always play the melody, man.",
"Look at them, see their age group, play their love songs, and you'll carry all the money to the bank.' \"",
"Jack Tueller enrolled at Brigham Young University, where Jack Tueller met Jack Tueller's future wife and fellow trumpeter, Marjorie.",
"\"This beautiful brown-haired gal with luscious lips said, 'Did you play the trumpet solo at the freshman assembly?'",
"And I said, 'Yes, ma'am, I did.'",
"This beautiful brown-haired gal with luscious lips said, 'Boy, you have strong lips.'",
"Being a sophomore, I said, 'Would you like to try me?'",
"This beautiful brown-haired gal with luscious lips nodded, and I went over and kissed This beautiful brown-haired gal with luscious lips.\"",
"In 1941, as war clouds gathered, Jack Tueller enlisted in the Army and was sent to fighter school because Jack Tueller was an \"individualist,\" Jack Tueller said.",
"\"I wanted to fly it, fire it, navigate it, shoot the guns.\"",
"Jack Tueller once flew Jack Tueller's plane through a dirigible hangar at Moffitt Field in Sunnyvale, California.",
"The commandant was fuming mad.",
"\"He stood me in a brace, then he kind of smiled and says, 'We don't want to quell spirit like that ... but don't do it again!'\"",
"When D-Day arrived on June 6, 1944, Jack Tueller was in the air, flying five missions.",
"\"I witnessed the invasion from a ringside seat.",
"his P-47 fighter group saw 2 million men, 10,000 ships.",
"And his P-47 fighter group just shot at everything,\" Jack Tueller said.",
"\"his P-47 fighter group tried to help those men trying to get off the landing craft at high tide, where a lot of those men were drowned.",
"\"I remember feeling pride and sadness as I saw the bodies of 4,000 killed in two hours.\"",
"Jack Tueller credits common sense and Jack Tueller's first flight instructor, a crop duster, with Jack Tueller's survival that day -- and the rest of the war.",
"\"I learned to love low-level flying.",
"I never came off enemy targets high.",
"I'd lay it down a row of trees 400 knots, a foot off the ground, so all the flak would go over my head.",
"They'd wonder where I'd gone.\"",
"Trumpet in the cockpit .",
"Jack Tueller managed to fly 140 missions without taking a single bullet hole to Jack Tueller's airplane -- the name of Jack Tueller's infant daughter, Rosanne, painted on the side.",
"\"Everyone wanted to fly it; Everyone thought it let a charmed life.\"",
"And on each mission, Jack Tueller carried Jack Tueller's trumpet in the cockpit.",
"\"I took his trumpet in a little canvas bag attached to my parachute.",
"I figured if I ever got shot down, his trumpet would go with me, and if I survived and got put into a prisoner of war camp, I could get an extra bar of soap from the guard.\"",
"Jack Tueller's tour of duty ended just before Jack Tueller's fighter group left for Belgium and the Battle of the Bulge.",
"Three months later, Jack Tueller's plane was shot down and destroyed.",
"The pilot was killed.",
"Jack Tueller went on to fight in the Korean and Vietnam wars, and served in the Pentagon during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War.",
"Jack Tueller retired in 1966 as a colonel, having earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, almost two dozen air medals and two Legions of Merit, the nation's highest peacetime award.",
"Now 89, Jack Tueller takes care of Marjorie, Jack Tueller's wife of 68 years, who has Alzheimer's disease.",
"As Veterans Day approaches, Jack Tueller has a word of advice to veterans: \"When you become a veteran, it's my opinion that you should do everything to make people realize the wonderful life that you really have.\"",
"Jack Tueller still has Jack Tueller's trumpet of 70 years and still performs at schools, family get-togethers and church functions.",
"Jack Tueller has a stereo system installed in the back of Jack Tueller's family van, where Jack Tueller inserts a CD of big band music and begins playing the melodies of a bygone era.",
"\"I was an unruly child,\" Jack Tueller said.",
"\"Music tamed me. ...",
"My ambition as the last action on my part as a veteran is to hit high C and fall right into the grave.",
"What a way to go!\""
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"Jack Tueller says Jack Tueller's playing once prevented a German sniper from killing Jack Tueller ."
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"Editor's note: Malaak Compton-Rock is founder and director of The Angelrock Project, \"an online e-village promoting volunteerism, social responsibility, and sustainable change.\"",
"One of Malaak Compton-Rock's initiatives, \"Journey for Change: Empowering Youth Through Global Service,\" will be seen as part of CNN's \"Black in America 2.\"",
"Malaak Compton-Rock's first book is being published by Broadway Books in May, 2010, titled, \"If It Takes a Village, Build One: How I Found Meaning Through a Life of Service to Others and 100+ Ways You Can Too.\"",
"Malaak Compton-Rock says focusing on problems facing African-Americans is difficult but necessary.",
"(CNN)",
"-- In the words of my mentor and America's foremost child advocate Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of The Children's Defense Fund, it's time to \"raise a ruckus people, it is time to raise a ruckus!\"",
"CNN's \"Black in America\" raised many critical issues facing African-American people in this great country of ours.",
"It was not pretty, America was not flattering, but America was very, very frank.",
"The show delved into the negative issues that have plagued the African-American community for generations, i.e., crime, education, single parent families, drug abuse and the like.",
"People got mad.",
"People sent many e-mails and letters to Soledad O'Brien and CNN and cried foul.",
"People said \"Black in America\" was not consistent with the lives of many African-American people and was one-sided.",
"Blogs and Web sites popped up all over the place where people \"raised a ruckus\" about the content of the show.",
"I read a lot of these comments.",
"As a matter of fact, I was obsessed with people's views for many weeks after America aired.",
"And the more I read, the more I got angry.",
"The more I read, the more I wanted to \"raise my own ruckus.\"",
"But I was frustrated and upset for a very different reason than most.",
"I was almost apoplectic with the amount of criticism for \"Black in America\" without critical, thought provoking commentary about how each person can do their part to make a difference to change the very startling and distressing issues facing most African-American children and adults in America.",
"On a typical day in the lives of black American children: . And on a typical school day for black children in America: .",
"And consider that in America, .",
"[Statistics are from the Children's Defense Fund's Child Research Data.] .",
"This is serious stuff people.",
"And it is the cold-hearted truth.",
"So, it is okay to comment that America did not represent your life.",
"It is okay to comment that it was upsetting to see images of black men in jail, children dropping out of school, and unwed mothers.",
"It is okay because the truth hurts, especially when the truth is seen by 16 million people.",
"In fact, most of the images shown in America\" do not represent my personal life or the lives of my children.",
"But because these issues face my brothers and sisters in my collective African-American family, these issues concern me, these issues hurt me, these issues belong to me, and I will own these issues.",
"We know that as African-Americans we have come a long way.",
"We know that we are doctors, lawyers, CEOs, philanthropists, politicians, and even the president of the United States of America.",
"And yes, it would do our children a lot of good if these images were portrayed more frequently in the media.",
"But this does not change the very real issues facing African-American people portrayed in America.\"",
"And frankly, with so many of our people struggling, we can't just celebrate our achievements -- we must make it a priority to work on the most critical and urgent matters in our community.",
"As I always say, \"The blessed and the best of us, must take care of the rest of us.\"",
"So why did the criticism make me so mad?",
"Because so much of it was unaccompanied by real ideas, thought-provoking suggestions, plans of action, or inspiring initiatives or solutions.",
"How can you complain if you are unwilling to join the fight?",
"How can you get mad, if you are disinclined to make a difference in someone else's life?",
"And why would you take the time to write an accusatory e-mail to Soledad O'Brien instead of writing a letter to your representative in Congress demanding health care for all children and pregnant women, increased funding for schools, or new initiatives to increase black-owned businesses in black neighborhoods?",
"\"Black in America 2\" will offer many solutions to the ills facing African-American people.",
"I think it will make the naysayers happy.",
"But it will only make me happy if the naysayers \"raise a ruckus\" by joining the fight to better the lives of all black folks.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Malaak Compton-Rock."
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"Malaak Compton-Rock says community has serious challenges to overcome, particularly for children .",
"Malaak Compton-Rock: \"Black in America 2\" will show solutions .",
"Malaak Compton-Rock says naysayers must join the fight to improve conditions ."
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"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) --",
"The one-star general almost yells when asked to talk about the infamous Abu Ghraib photos showing U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi detainees.",
"An Iraqi detainee grips a fence at Camp Cropper, one of the few U.S. detention centers remaining in Iraq.",
"\"If we had had a company commander doing what he was supposed to be doing, a battalion commander doing what he was supposed to be doing ...,\" Brig. Gen. David Quantock said.",
"Quantock carried on -- growing more and more angry.",
"So the next obvious question was, \"It makes you angry?\"",
"\"It does make me angry,\" Quantock said.",
"\"Because I think we lost a lot of American lives because of Abu Ghraib photos.\"",
"And there it is -- the issue of detainee abuse and what the U.S. military struggles with, and has struggled with, since the release of Abu Ghraib photos in 2004, some of which showed naked prisoners being humiliated, stacked in piles or subjected to mock torture.",
"Quantock, the head of detainee operations in Iraq, is echoing a debate raging in Washington.",
"Another round of photos allegedly showing further abuse of prisoners was to be released by the end of this month.",
"But President Obama asked that the photos be held back.",
"President Obama said President Obama believed the release of the pictures could put American lives in danger.",
"That is Catch-22 situation No. 1: on one hand transparency; on the other, the safety of U.S. troops.",
"Quantock agreed with Quantock's commander in chief.",
"\"The jihadists have used those pictures.",
"And it has spurred some of the violence,\" he said.",
"Walking through Camp Cropper -- one of the last remaining U.S. detention centers in Iraq -- it is clear the damaging photos have forced the United States to become more transparent in the United States's dealings with prisoners.",
"Detainees are now checked before and after interrogations to ensure the guards have not abused Detainees.",
"Officers who walk the catwalk, the long metal walkway that surrounds the sprawling yard housing the detainees, have more oversight.",
"These institutional checks reduce the possibility that abuse could reach the same scale as abuse did in Abu Ghraib in 2003.",
"The camp itself has a strange feeling to The camp itself.",
"Visitors are told to put on sunglasses before entering some of the holding areas.",
"Many of the detainees spit and even throw the detainees's own fecal matter at the guards, officials said.",
"Inmates in American detention with arrest warrants against Inmates in American detention with arrest warrants against them will be turned over to Iraqi authorities under the terms of the U.S.-Iraqi security agreement.",
"All others will be released.",
"But the United States has signed the international treaty against torture, which compels a nation to keep suspects detained rather than send them to another country if that other country might ill-treat them.",
"\"Iraqi detention facilities are not good; Iraqi detention facilities are not like American facilities,\" said a woman who had just visited a woman who had just visited her detainee husband at Camp Cropper's detainee husband at Camp Cropper.",
"\"There is a lot of witness testimony from detainees who suffered maltreatment in Iraqi detention facilities.\"",
"A U.N. report examining the second half of 2008 agreed, saying that detention centers run by Iraqis are using torture and physical abuse to extract confessions.",
"The lingering questions about Iraqi detention facilities create Catch-22 situation No. 2.",
"the United States very much wants not only to get out of Iraq, but to get out of the detainee operation business.",
"But the United States has a legal bar to satisfy.",
"For its part, the U.S. military said it is inspecting and monitoring nine of the Iraqi facilities where its detainees will go.",
"Iraqi government authorities maintain that Iraqi government authorities are treating all prisoners in accordance with international law.",
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"I have vivid memories of childhood.",
"The 5-year-old girl with endless questions; The 5-year-old girl with endless questions wanted to discover the secrets of the entire world within minutes.",
"The 5-year-old girl with endless questions dreamed of being a doctor once, an engineer another time, and a mother of lovely kids.",
"A dreamer, this is how I would describe the little girl Reem.",
"Reem is a 22-year-old student living in Gaza City.",
"Days passed fast.",
"Reem couldn't remember a lot of them, but Reem had some moments left in Reem's memory -- usually the happy moments of Reem's life -- and those memories were the basis for today's Reem, the 22-year-old girl who is ME.",
"I remember how happy I was when my teacher announced to the school that I was first in my class.",
"I remember my mother's voice singing to Reem before I fell asleep; I remember my father running behind my kite when I lost it in the air, and I remember me asking my parents for a real monkey as a pet.",
"I can't forget the day I finished high school; I felt so grown up.",
"I remember the day when the school announced the exam results and the tears of happiness my mother shed when I received a grade of excellent, and then I decided to enroll in the college of Business Administration.",
"I can call Gaza City the city of qualifications, where a lot of youth are qualified for good jobs.",
"I am one of those youth who is volunteering in organizations, participating in community service activities, getting trained in various skills and getting more qualified day by day.",
"But many young people like Reem cannot find jobs.",
"See perspectives from Palestinian youth » .",
"Sometimes, I feel disconnected from Gaza, but whenever I see the photos of Jaffa, I realize that it's where I and a thousand refugees belong.",
"I find Reem crying, missing a place I have never been to, but it's where my parents and my grandparents lived.",
"I remember all those bedtime stories my grandmother used to tell me about the land, the fence of roses they had, and her climbing trees and cutting fruits.",
"How I miss that place.",
"But life must go on.",
"My day starts with the smile of optimism and the plan of My day.",
"Waking up early to go to my university; I have to attend all of my lectures even though some are boring.",
"My friends are a big part of My day.",
"We start with our updates and then go to courses where we can develop our skills.",
"When I arrive home, I feel so exhausted, but still I continue working and studying hard.",
"I am always looking for chances for personal development, whether through volunteer work or at school.",
"I was offered a great opportunity to volunteer with the aid organization Mercy Corps as a founding member of the Why Not? youth program, and then I had the pleasure of seeing this program blossom into the Global Citizen Corps, or GCC, a cultural exchange between Palestinian and American students.",
"I believe this program is deeply important because this program changes the negative impression of Palestinian youth that is too often spread by media.",
"All my friends and 1,000 others are engaged in this program, which develops our personalities, our skills and serves the community.",
"We use digital media as a tool to express what we feel and what we do.",
"We make changes in ourselves, in our community, and we pave the way for global change.",
"We are thinking globally and acting locally.",
"My ambition is to be a researcher in business studies all over the world.",
"I finished my B.A. and a diploma of business studies, and I hope to obtain a scholarship to do graduate work in media and development.",
"I am also interested in the field of project management and human interaction management.",
"I know it is a good ambition to be Ph.D. holder and a worldwide researcher, but as Palestinian girl, I have fewer opportunities, not because I am not qualified or hard-working enough but because I am Palestinian.",
"Usually Palestinian students have fewer opportunities than others to get scholarships, because it's hard for Palestinian students to leave the Gaza Strip, as all of the borders are closed.",
"But I have not lost hope, and I will not.",
"I will keep trying to pursue my dream of being the researcher I want to be.",
"It's true that I am a girl, and girls face some challenges in our society.",
"For example, I can't stay a late hour at work.",
"But I am so happy and honored to be a Muslim; putting the scarf on my head is something that I love.",
"To many foreigners, it might seem to be against women's freedom, but I can tell that when a lady is convinced of it, it becomes part of a lady's self-esteem, a lady's self-confidence and a lady's protection each day.",
"I feel sad when the world gets angry at Muslim girls while Muslim girls are peaceful and happy, enjoying Muslim girls's choices and freedom.",
"I found that I'm not that different from Catherine, who lives in the United States and whom I contact through the Global Citizen Corps.",
"I have realized how similar Palestinian youth are to youth all over the world.",
"Catherine likes some of the food I like, and Catherine loves swimming just like I do.",
"There are also lovely differences between us: I tried to cook what Catherine taught me once, and Catherine is learning Arabic now.",
"Maybe our lifestyle is different.",
"I focus on my own development; I spend most of my time working to become a more qualified person with more knowledge and skills.",
"I do not work hard because I am super girl or I aspire to be one but because I always want to be ready for the worst situation.",
"In Palestine where I live, surprises can happen at any time, and I don't want to be caught off guard.",
"I want to make my future secure by being a really good person.",
"I deserve to live.",
"I enjoy my life as it is now, but I hope that when I find a scholarship and live in the West, I will not be obliged to take off my scarf and won't hear negative comments about me because I am Muslim.",
"I consider religion a personal freedom that is related to your beliefs and what you feel in your heart.",
"I love letting others live in peace.",
"... Why can't we enjoy peace, too?",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer."
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"Reem describes Reem's day filled with school work, friends, studying and volunteering .",
"Reem says Reem realizes Palestinian youth are similiar to youth all over the world .",
"For more, go to In Depth: Generation Islam ."
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"New York (CNN) --",
"Investigators suspect arson in a fire that killed five Guatemalan immigrants in Brooklyn, Investigators said Monday.",
"\"People are all concerned and very sad,\" said Maria Luz de Zyriek, the Guatemalan consul in New York.",
"\"This is a horrible tragedy.\"",
"Authorities continue to investigate and have not formally determined a cause, the Fire Department of New York said.",
"The blaze damaged a restaurant and apartments in a three-story building in the Bensonhurst neighborhood, Frank Dwyer, a fire department spokesman, has said.",
"Luisa Chan, a mother of two, died in The blaze, said Mario Alvarado, a member of Jovenes Cristianos -- Christian Youth, a church with about 200 members, most of about 200 members Guatemalan immigrants, on 17th Avenue in Brooklyn.",
"Chan usually attended services on Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, Mario Alvarado, a member of Jovenes Cristianos -- Christian Youth, a church with about 200 members, most of them Guatemalan immigrants, on 17th Avenue in Brooklyn said.",
"The congregation mourned Chan on Sunday.",
"\"The service was so quiet,\" Mario Alvarado, a member of Jovenes Cristianos -- Christian Youth, a church with about 200 members, most of them Guatemalan immigrants, on 17th Avenue in Brooklyn said.",
"Are you there?",
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"Investigators have not publicly identified the victims, but the Guatemalan consul said they were all from the western part of the country.",
"Two were from the state of Totonicapan and three were from the state of Quetzaltenango, the Guatemalan consul said.",
"After The blaze broke out, Chan managed to get her 2-year-old son to safety, apparently by handing him to someone on the floor below, and threw Chan's 2-month-old daughter toward a passerby, said Alvarado, who said Mario Alvarado, a member of Jovenes Cristianos -- Christian Youth, a church with about 200 members, most of them Guatemalan immigrants, on 17th Avenue in Brooklyn received that account from someone close to the family.",
"\"Thank God they're safe,\" Mario Alvarado, a member of Jovenes Cristianos -- Christian Youth, a church with about 200 members, most of them Guatemalan immigrants, on 17th Avenue in Brooklyn said.",
"A 2-month-old baby was in critical condition, fire officials said, but A 2-month-old baby was not immediately identified; three other people sustained injuries ranging from serious to minor.",
"Thirteen firefighters sustained minor injuries.",
"The blaze started about 2:30 a.m. Saturday behind a door in one of the apartment units, Dwyer said.",
"\"If somebody starts a fire there intentionally, that would certainly be looking to kill somebody, because there's no way for them to get out,\" Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano said.",
"At Chan's church, members in mourning were waiting Monday for more information from authorities, Alvarado said.",
"members in mourning also were getting ready for a memorial service and trying to comfort Chan's husband, who survived The blaze, the consul said.",
"\"The husband and wife belonged to Chan's church.",
"Everybody there knew The husband and wife,\" said Luz, who went to Chan's church during the weekend.",
"\"Everybody there was so sad.",
"Everybody was crying and praying for the husband,\" she said.",
"\"the husband's going to have to raise those two little kids now by the husband.\"",
"CNN's Miguel Susana contributed to this report."
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"Many people are struggling just to provide the basics these days.",
"The big question is, how do you find joy and fulfillment during lean holiday times like these?",
"For the answer, I look back upon the philosophy by which my mother, Mieke Frankenberg, led my mother's life, through both her life's brightest and darkest hours.",
"my mother's philosophy originated during World War II through my mother's experiences as a prisoner of war in a Japanese concentration camp in Indonesia.",
"my mother had lived in Indonesia with an abusive husband, whom my mother left before the war broke out and the Japanese captured my mother.",
"Through the bleakest times, my mother reached out to my mother's fellow prisoners to provide her fellow prisoners with comfort and care.",
"The lack of medical supplies meant care wasn't much more than holding someone's hand or sharing some of my mother's starvation rations.",
"While not a nurse, my mother gave of my mother and drew a sustaining love in return.",
"Returning to England after the war, my mother remarried and started a family, which grew to include me and my two sisters.",
"With the camp behind my mother, Jane Seymour's mother's philosophy remained to always keep an open heart.",
"my mother volunteered with the Red Cross and regularly provided emotional support for friends.",
"my mother found that when love flows with no boundaries from an open heart, love also finds love's way back in.",
"my mother gave and gave, and received love in return.",
"her philosophy has sustained me, as well, through the most difficult of times, including a painful divorce about 20 years ago that left me near penniless.",
"At that point in my life, I attended a fundraiser for ChildHelp USA.",
"I donated some of the last money I had, and in return, I secured a session where an artist drew a picture of my two children at the time.",
"At that sitting, an artist saw potential in some finger paintings I'd made for my children and offered to give me free painting lessons.",
"As I started painting, I discovered my emotional outlet.",
"I began creating images of hearts that were always open, never closed.",
"These hearts may have appeared unfinished in a way.",
"But These hearts brought me back to the lessons of my mother, a reminder to live as my mother lived -- openhearted.",
"Soon, I changed from a frantic, terrified and angry person into someone who was able to let go of the past.",
"I began to let other people into my life and to give back emotionally.",
"Around that same time, I landed the TV role of \"Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman\" and was back on my feet.",
"I now embody my mother's belief that only when you can love yourself and keep your heart open can you best give and receive love.",
"My family continues my mother's tradition at Christmas, when My family open My family's home to relatives, neighbors, my six children and even their friends -- extending My family's family to include those unable to head home for the holidays.",
"Some years, there are as many as 50 people at the dinner table.",
"Living with an open heart can be a path to rewarding holidays for many people this year, even if budgets tighten and troubles mount.",
"The holiday table may be less bountiful.",
"There may be fewer presents under the tree.",
"But an open heart can bring a wealth of love, hope and inspiration.",
"You might think these are shaping up to be your gloomiest holidays ever.",
"But remember, as my mother taught me, someone is always worse off than you.",
"Find a way to give, even if you're in need yourself.",
"Find the place where you can provide comfort, care or love.",
"Volunteer at a food bank or a shelter.",
"Reach out to elderly neighbors to find out how you might make elderly neighbors's lives a little easier.",
"By opening your heart to others, good things will come to you, too.",
"With that approach, I hope you'll find that 2009 could become the most fulfilling of holiday seasons.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jane Seymour."
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"(CNN) --",
"In a little-known corner of southern England, more than 130 men are wrapping up in more than 130 men's winter warmers and drinking down more than 130 men's last whiskeys, as more than 130 men prepare to do battle with more than 130 men's fiercest foes on the fairways.",
"more than 130 men's goal: a place in the fabled history of sporting rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge Universities.",
"The \"President's Putter\" event takes place every January at Rye Golf Club between alumni of the two famous academic institutions.",
"Competitors, whose ages can range from 18 to 85, travel from such far-off places as the U.S., South Africa and Asia in a quest to attach their winning ball to the fabled President's Putter -- a hickory-shafted instrument dating back to the inaugural event of 1920.",
"David Normoyle flew in from Far Hills, New Jersey last week to see in the New Year with friends before heading down to Rye to take part in the event, which is scheduled to start on Friday.",
"David Normoyle is just hoping the heavy snowfall forecast for the rest of the week will not cause the competition to be called off for only the second time in the competition's history.",
"\"There's a great tradition of the event going forward in spite of the weather,\" says Normoyle, 31, who studied history at Cambridge.",
"\"Last year, there was a hard frost and a very thick fog.",
"There's something lovely about the warmth in the clubhouse at the end of the day when it's freezing cold outside.",
"It really adds to the atmosphere of the whole thing.\"",
"While the competition is always intense -- many players have scratch or single-figure handicaps -- the matches are played in a jovial spirit and the motto of the competition is \"serious fun.\"",
"The winner's medal carries the Latin inscription \"Primus inter pares,\" which is loosely translated by the Putter fraternity as \"he was lucky to win.\"",
"the competition takes place over four days, with a dinner held on the eve of the Sunday final, followed by a night out amid the cobbled streets of the medieval town of Rye.",
"\"People push the boat out at both ends of the day,\" says David Bonsall, Treasurer of the Oxford and Cambridge Golfing Society, which organizes the competition.",
"\"There are often a few whiskey macs and bloody marys on the first tee to bury the memories of the night before.\"",
"Entry to the President's Putter is limited to golfing \"Blues,\" the term given to those who play for the Oxford or Cambridge teams at sport.",
"January is the chosen month because if falls at a time when students and graduates are generally on vacation.",
"In its early years, the President's Putter would be contested by some of the finest players of the day: four of Great Britain's 1926 Walker Cup side were Oxbridge graduates.",
"The record for consecutive appearances is held by World War Two army parachutist Peter Gracey, who played in 57 Putters before finally hanging up his spikes in 2006 at the age 84.",
"Other well-known competitors include the former England cricket captain Ted Dexter, who won the event twice in the 1980s.",
"While the snow flakes continue to fall on the frosty fairways of the course, braver competitors have been out practicing braver competitors's games.",
"Others have been sharing stories in the warmth of the clubhouse bar as Others wait to find out whether Others's annual pilgrimage has been worthwhile.",
"\"It would be a huge disappointment if it didn't happen,\" says Normoyle.",
"\"But we'll make do with whatever the decision is and we'll have fun whatever.\""
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"the boys shuffle into the room in a remote army base high in the mountains of Pakistan's Swat Valley.",
"the boys are disheveled, disoriented.",
"the boys say the boys were kidnapped by the Taliban and trained to be suicide bombers.",
"There are no smiles, the boys's eyes stare at the floor.",
"the boys are the lost souls of Pakistan's battle with the Taliban.",
"Each has a story of terror to tell, but the trauma runs so deep the boys can't even begin to properly find the words to describe what the boys have been through.",
"That task is best left to the psychiatrist who, with the psychiatrist, Dr. Fareeha's team, was brought in to try to pick through the pieces of this nightmare; to make sense of the brutality here and try to put broken lives back together.",
"Watch Stan Grant's report on the boys » .",
"Dr. Fareeha Peracha describes the boys variously as \"psychotic,\" \"depressed,\" and in some cases, \"psychopathic.\"",
"\"the boys have been brainwashed.",
"Brainwashed against people like you and me,\" the psychiatrist, Dr. Fareeha said.",
"CNN was given limited access to about a dozen boys.",
"They had all been kidnapped by the Taliban and taken to camps where they would be trained to kill; trained to be suicide bombers.",
"Watch Stan Grant's's exclusive interview with a wanted a the Taliban leader » .",
"CNN cannot reveal the boys's names; the boys have handkerchiefs tied across the boys's faces to conceal the boys's identities.",
"The army fears the boys could face retribution should the boys be returned to the boys's homes and families.",
"the boys sit in a circle as I try to get the boys to open up about the boys's ordeal.",
"What happened?",
"Were the boys brutalized?",
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"So many questions.",
"the boys answer hesitatingly, the boys's voices barely a whisper.",
"\"The first day the Taliban beat the boys and then made the boys exercise,\" one boy said.",
"\"the Taliban made the boys run and told the boys you will wage jihad.\"",
"the boys said the Taliban especially poisoned the boys's minds against the Pakistan army.",
"\"They just told the boys that they (army) are against Islam, are against the Quran.",
"They said wage jihad against them; the boys are waging jihad for the Quran,\" said another boy.",
"the boys say the boys were kidnapped by the Taliban, some snatched from fields and others from the towns the boys lived in.",
"\"I was coming from the shop to my house, I had some stuff with me.",
"the Taliban said, 'put some stuff in the car.'",
"I helped the Taliban put stuff in the car.",
"the Taliban asked if the Taliban should drop me in my village, but when we reached the village the Taliban blindfolded me and put a hand over my mouth,\" one boy said.",
"the Taliban's tactics seem to have worked.",
"I ask one boy, would one boy kill for God?",
"one boy replied: \"Yes.\"",
"I asked the psychiatrist, Dr. Fareeha, if the psychiatrist, Dr. Fareeha believes the boys are capable of killing.",
"\"Oh yes,\" the psychiatrist, Dr. Fareeha said.",
"\"Two of the boys would not even give it a thought.\"",
"The army freed the boys during fierce fighting with the Taliban.",
"Now The army are hoping to rehabilitate the boys and one day return them home.",
"But the psychiatrist, Dr. Fareeha thinks that is a long way off -- if ever.",
"the psychiatrist, Dr. Fareeha told army chiefs the boys are unpredictable.",
"one boy, the psychiatrist, Dr. Fareeha said, told the psychiatrist, Dr. Fareeha if one boy had a suicide bomber's jacket one boy would use a suicide bomber's jacket, that if one boy had a Kalashnikov, one boy would shoot.",
"Of course, it is impossible to verify all of the accounts of the boys, but the doctors have no doubt about their trauma.",
"the psychiatrist, Dr. Fareeha told Army chiefs that the boys were just a tip of the iceberg.",
"After talking to the boys, the psychiatrist, Dr. Fareeha believes there are possibly hundreds of others just like them.",
"the boys are the victims of the Taliban's uprising here.",
"All the boys are left with are the terrible memories, the voices in the boys's heads: the voices of the Taliban telling them to kill, they said."
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"The London Fire Brigade said The London Fire Brigade was called to the scene at 4:26 a.m. (11:26 p.m. ET Wednesday), and police said police were called minutes later.",
"Ten fire engines and around 75 firefighters were on the scene some eight hours later, a spokesman for The London Fire Brigade said.",
"the fire which took hold of the building in the early hours of Thursday engulfed an entire building site in Peckham, an area of south London, and spread to several three- and four-story residential buildings in the area, police and fire officials said.",
"Firefighters had the fire which took hold of the building in the early hours of Thursday surrounded by noon and said there may still be deep-seated pockets of fire, a fire brigade spokesman said.",
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"None of Four people's conditions was serious, a spokeswoman for the London Ambulance Service said.",
"\"I was in bed and my neighbor knocked and told me to wake up -- the building's on fire,\" said one woman wrapped in a coat on a nearby street.",
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"(CNN) -- American tourists heading to Mexico's Baja California state in the future can expect more police protection from a new task force, according to Mexican authorities.",
"Mexican officials want to make sure the tourist traffic continues to flow into Tijuana.",
"Officials from the Baja California cities of Tijuana, Ensenada and Rosarito gathered earlier this week to announce the creation of the task force, which will be made up of bilingual officers and which will be designed primarily to serve Americans.",
"The initial plan, according to Ensenada Secretary of Public Safety Cesar Santiesteban, is to create a force that patrols a 50-mile tourist corridor from Tijuana through Las Playas Rosarito to Ensenada in Baja California, which is Mexico's northernmost and westernmost state.",
"There were no immediate details as to when the task force would go into operation or how many officers would be in the unit.",
"City officials in San Diego, California, said the city's police force would extend help in ways that Mexican officials deemed necessary in getting the task force up and running, including training the officers.",
"\"We've always prided ourselves in our working relationship with our friends to the south,\" San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, said.",
"\"When you look at it, we're really one community.\"",
"For a region whose reputation has been tarnished by ongoing drug-fueled violence, plans for the task force couldn't come soon enough.",
"Policing the drug war has proven complicated for Mexican authorities, including the military, and also hindered the tourism industry in Mexico.",
"American travelers, who represented 80 percent of Mexico's booming $13 billion travel industry last year, are a critical part of Mexico's economy.",
"In 2008, more than 18 million Americans visited Mexico, according to the Mexico Tourism Board.",
"In some areas, hotels and local businesses are struggling to recover from low visitor numbers, according to the Mexico Tourism Board.",
"Tijuana Mayor Jorge Ramos said tourism in Baja California in the past two years has remained steady, and the task force was set up to create a stronger police presence for tourists.",
"\"We're here on this side of the border to invite you to Mexico and to [show you] we're making a lot of things ... better, and to make some progress in Mexico,\" Tijuana Mayor Jorge Ramos said in a news conference in San Diego Monday."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Katherine Jackson's mother fired the lawyers helping Katherine Jackson's fight for control of Katherine Jackson's son's estate, but Katherine Jackson's new lawyer missed a key hearing where the judge gave more power to the men Katherine Jackson is opposing.",
"Katherine Jackson, with Katherine Jackson in 2005, is challenging the appointment of Katherine Jackson's estate trustees.",
"Katherine Jackson replaced lawyers Burt Levitch and Londell McMillan with Adam Streisand, a lawyer known for his expertise in LOS ANGELES probate cases.",
"\"The family came to a decision before The family called me,\" probate lawyer Adam Streisand said.",
"\"The family felt The family needed a different perspective and fresh look at how this case was being approached.\"",
"But probate lawyer Adam Streisand arrived at court Thursday minutes after LOS ANGELES Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff ended a hearing in which Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff granted a request from estate special administrators John Branca and John McClain for more authority to make deals on behalf of Katherine Jackson's estate.",
"\"I want her son's estate to move forward and I want these creditors to be dealt with,\" Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff said.",
"\"And while we are proceeding in this posture, I want Katherine Jackson to have information about what is going on and I don't want to be in court all the time.\"",
"The process of probate of Katherine Jackson's will, which named Branca and John McClain as executors, has been slowed since soon after the pop star's June 25 death by numerous legal challenges filed by Katherine Jackson's lawyers, led by Levitch.",
"Howard Weitzman, lead lawyer for her son's estate's administrators, expressed optimism that the two sides would be able to work better toward a settlement with Streisand in charge.",
"her son's estate's administrators were able to make a series of deals expected to bring in at least $100 million to her son's estate this year, mostly through a documentary movie that premieres next week.",
"Katherine Jackson's legal team has asked that a member of The family \"have a seat at the table\" as a third executor.",
"Katherine Jackson's legal team've also raised questions in sealed court papers about possible conflicts of interest that might prevent Branca and McClain from controlling her son's estate.",
"probate lawyer Adam Streisand said The family was frustrated with the inability \"to get this case going.\"",
"probate lawyer Adam Streisand indicated Katherine Jackson still planned to challenge Branca and McClain's control of Katherine Jackson's son's wealth.",
"Under the 2002 will, Katherine Jackson's three children and Katherine Jackson's mother are the chief beneficiaries of Katherine Jackson's estate, while unnamed charities will share in 20 percent of her son's estate.",
"probate lawyer Adam Streisand said when probate lawyer Adam Streisand met with Katherine Jackson and the children to discuss this case, Katherine Jackson and the children were united.",
"probate lawyer Adam Streisand said Katherine Jackson patriarch Joe Jackson was not present at the meeting and probate lawyer Adam Streisand's never talked with Jackson patriarch Joe Jackson.",
"Jackson patriarch Joe Jackson appeared frustrated earlier this month when Jackson patriarch Joe Jackson attended Jackson patriarch Joe Jackson's first hearing in the probate process, suggesting the lawyers should be more aggressive in court.",
"probate lawyer Adam Streisand said the three Jackson children are doing \"absolutely wonderful.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"A 9-year-old girl was laid to rest Wednesday as a 15-year-old girl, described as an acquaintance, was in court on charges she carried out Elizabeth Olten's murder .",
"Elizabeth Olten was coming home from a friend's house last week in St. Martins, Missouri, when Elizabeth Olten disappeared.",
"Distraught residents searched for days for Elizabeth Olten without luck, when the Cole County Sheriff's Department received a tip that led the Cole County Sheriff's Department to the alleged killer.",
"It didn't lead the Cole County Sheriff's Department to a stranger, a child predator or a convicted sex offender -- avenues police had originally considered because of Elizabeth Olten's age .",
"Instead, it led the Cole County Sheriff's Department to a 15-year-old girl who, according to Peggy Florence, a family spokeswoman, had played with Elizabeth Olten.",
"The girl then led police to the body -- which was found in an area authorities searched before, the Cole County Sheriff's Department said, but was hidden so well police hadn't seen the sheriff's department.",
"Authorities said both physical evidence and some written evidence led to The girl's arrest.",
"The girl has been charged with first-degree murder.",
"On Wednesday, Elizabeth Olten's family looked towards closure as two drastically different scenes unfolded in Missouri.",
"Olten's family and friends watched as two white horses pulled Elizabeth Olten's casket in a glass hearse.",
"Hours earlier, a judge had ordered The girl to be held while a judge decides whether The girl should be tried in adult court.",
"Authorities have not released The girl's name.",
"Authorities released few details about the case, though Authorities said an autopsy was conducted Saturday.",
"Olten's family spent the day of Elizabeth's funeral remembering Elizabeth Olten and mourning Olten's family's loss, choosing to celebrate Elizabeth Olten's life, instead of attending the court hearing of the teen accused of killing Elizabeth Olten.",
"After the funeral ceremony, Olten's family released pink balloons, in honor of Elizabeth Olten's favorite color.",
"For Olten's family, it was about Olten's family's little girl -- the one who was always ready with a bright smile.",
"\"Elizabeth Olten wanted to be a mother, Elizabeth Olten wanted to love others and take care of others,\" family spokeswoman Florence told HLN's Nancy Grace.",
"\"Elizabeth Olten was just a lovely child -- Elizabeth Olten never met an animal Elizabeth Olten didn't love and dress up and play with.\"",
"Elizabeth Olten loved to dress up and put on fancy dresses, family spokeswoman Florence said, even in the snow and the mud.",
"\"Elizabeth Olten was a beautiful little girly girl,\" family spokeswoman Florence said.",
"\"Elizabeth Olten had everyone's heart.\""
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"(Editor's note: Marnie Gustavson is Executive Director of PARSA, a Seattle-based nonprofit working with widows, orphans and the disabled in Afghanistan.",
"Marnie Gustavson spent Marnie Gustavson's teenage years in Kabul, where Marnie Gustavson now lives with Marnie Gustavson's family.",
"For more information about PARSA, read here and here .",
"Marnie Gustavson says Afghanistan is more textured than could be seen from secure bunkers.",
"KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) --",
"In my Afghanistan, the days are compiled images of Afghans living their simple lives.",
"my Afghanistan is a kaleidoscope of real people, from the stick-thin bearded Paghmani man, an imposing 6-foot-5, rhythmically lifting rocks, 12 hours a day, seven days a week for $4 a day, his shalwar kameez billowing in the hot summer breezes; to the grin of the boy in his blue shirt as he labors to cut the alfalfa after school to feed the flock of big-bottomed sheep.",
"To the kiss of the old widow, her family gone, whose feet hurt incessantly; she's forgotten the English she once knew when she worked for the government.",
"And of course, to the communities my organization works with to help them better their lives through direct education and training programs.",
"A Pashtun orphan, about 11, enters my office with a plate of freshly picked summer apricots.",
"A Pashtun orphan, about 11 was rescued from a madrassa that trained A Pashtun orphan, about 11 how to throw grenades and to be a suicide bomber.",
"A Pashtun orphan, about 11 spends time with me when A Pashtun orphan, about 11 gets a chance, tidying my desk, pulling my papers out of the copier and stacking them.",
"We can't speak much as I do not know Pashtun and A Pashtun orphan, about 11 hasn't yet learned Dari or English, but A Pashtun orphan, about 11 tucks A Pashtun orphan, about 11's head into the crook of my neck for a couple of minutes watching me type.",
"In these gentle moments, A Pashtun orphan, about 11 begins to unwind and I experience the fragile connection that is being created between our worlds.",
"Living and working in Afghanistan for nearly five years now, I do not recognize most of what the international news accounts of this area report as anything remotely close to my experience.",
"A visiting journalist recently observed with some surprise that \"parts of Afghanistan are at war and parts are peaceful.\"",
"Indeed, like Ireland and many other sites of civil unrest in the world, there are pockets of peace and pockets of war.",
"The things that concern me most as I go about my day-to-day activities are not suicide bombers, kidnappings, and the \"insurgency.\"",
"These are all just a backdrop to the much more textured story that is Afghanistan, though it rarely touches the lives of the 2,500 or so foreign aid workers who live and work in Kabul.",
"Yet these stories of violence dominate the news outside and thus color the way the world imagines Afghanistan.",
"Internationals living in Afghanistan are constantly bombarded with \"threat alerts\" and rarely visit the desperately poor Afghan communities their projects are ostensibly attempting to help.",
"This is what concerns me: how Afghanistan is spending development dollars here without really being here.",
"The results of the fear that dominates the management of most development projects are an incompletely informed group of international professionals working in Afghanistan who can literally spend years here without seeing Afghanistan but through the windows of their armored cars.",
"Living as they do under cloistered, fearful conditions behind razor-wired walls, venturing out only to a select list of \"secure\" locations, they make often questionable decisions on spending, frequently without the input of Afghan nationals.",
"From this entrenched, isolated position, they are managing hundreds of millions of dollars of international development funds.",
"When news reports talk about Afghanistan's high levels of corruption, they do not lift the veils to see that the development projects themselves are actually enabling it with security conditions that resemble apartheid.",
"While folks at home are hunkering down, Afghanistan projects are concerned with tripling Afghanistan projects's monthly \"burn rates\" and managing projects remotely -- projects that almost certainly are less than the books indicate, or worse, have been paid for several times over by different organizations.",
"It is time for those controlling the funding investment in Afghanistan to listen to their citizens, especially Afghan-Americans and other Americans like me and my family who live and work here.",
"We are the people on the front lines, and connected as we are to the community here, we have much to offer in the way of supporting the success of the donor efforts.",
"The good news is that there are more than a few Americans in Afghanistan who have the privilege of experiencing the Afghan people the way I do.",
"But so far, my attempts to connect the Afghan people with the American mission here as the new administration \"rethinks\" the strategy for Afghanistan have been unsuccessful as calls and e-mails to the ambassador have gone unanswered.",
"There is a story of a young American worker for a nongovernmental organization who stopped on the road recently to pull out a van that was stuck in the snow, having veered into the oncoming lane when the sun was going down.",
"In the car were two women, three small children and an elderly man, plus the two men who were attempting to dig out the wheels with sticks.",
"It took less than 10 minutes to pull the wheels out, and they were grateful for the help...",
"they'd been there for nearly four hours and many trucks and security vehicles had passed them without offering a helping hand.",
"They thought they would either freeze or be pushed over the brink of the cliff once it darkened.",
"I know that story is true because the young man is my son Reese and I was with the young man.",
"I propose a simple and very Afghan solution to the Afghanistan dilemma: We need to be good neighbors.",
"Offer help.",
"Be visible.",
"Take some risks to communicate with ordinary people.",
"My young Pashtun orphan, trained to kill, is now growing up in an institution where he mixes with internationals, with the very \"infidels\" he was previously conditioned to hate.",
"... Are these not the ways for us to build bridges into this community?",
"With shared meals instead of divisive policies?",
"These are not new thoughts, but they are often unspoken and certainly not practiced in America's Afghanistan, which is a world divided by sandbags, concrete T-beams and armed guards.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Marnie Gustavson."
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"Marnie Gustavson says the image of Afghanistan provided in the media isn't complete .",
"Marnie Gustavson says some aid organizations hide behind fences and miss the real story .",
"Marnie Gustavson: We must build bridges to the young people of Afghanistan ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A small town in Maryland is setting a precedent in eco-friendly road construction, breaking ground this week on one of the greenest streets in the nation.",
"A small town in Maryland is billing the thoroughfare as the greenest on the East Coast.",
"The road will help clean and filter toxic storm water pollution that drains into rivers, and eventually into Chesapeake Bay.",
"\"What we're hoping to do, from top to bottom, is build a street that is completely environmentally sustainable, \" said Edmonston Mayor Adam Ortiz.",
"Edmonston Mayor Adam Ortiz says the blueprint incorporates native tree cover to cool off the streets, wind-powered street lights that use high-efficiency LED bulbs, and pedestrian and bicycle access .",
"But most important, says Edmonston Mayor Adam Ortiz, is the plan for all that water that rolls down the streets when it rains.",
"\"[It's] not going to be flushed into A small town in Maryland's local rivers.",
"Instead it's going to be naturally filtered.",
"And that's very important for A small town in Maryland to save A small town in Maryland's rivers and to help save Chesapeake Bay here in Maryland.\"",
"Storm water runoff often carries toxins and pollution from parking lots and city streets, and from farms and agricultural lands in rural areas.",
"Most cities and towns have underground concrete drain systems that collect the runoff and dump the runoff into rivers and streams, pollutants and all.",
"\"What A small town in Maryland're going to do, instead, is divert that water into natural gardens.",
"To the naked eye it just looks like a regular garden, but actually it's very specially engineered to absorb a lot of water and naturally filter it before it gets into the water table, and to keep it from washing all those pollutants into the river,\" according to Edmonston Mayor Adam Ortiz.",
"The storm water runoff in A small town in Maryland drains into the nearby Anacostia River, which feeds into the Washington Channel, then empties into the Potomac River and eventually Chesapeake Bay.",
"The eco-street project includes using porous bricks in building the road and creating bioretention cells or rain gardens.",
"The idea is to trap the polluted runoff water, sending it through natural filter systems so that when it makes it into the Anacostia, it's a lot cleaner.",
"Maryland Department of the Environment Deputy Secretary Robert Summers hopes this new main street in A small town in Maryland is just the first of many.",
"\"This kind of green infrastructure project to reduce storm water and energy consumption is exactly the kind of thing we need to do around the bay watershed to reduce pollution.\"",
"the Environment Deputy Secretary Robert Summers says the benefits of The eco-street project are twofold: a reduction in storm water pollution and, through the energy efficiency in powering lighting, a reduction in air pollution and fallout.",
"But how much can converting one street really help in cleaning up an area the size of the Chesapeake Bay?",
"Summers acknowledges this is just the beginning.",
"\"We need to grow it by leaps and bounds.\"",
"The eco-street project is funded by the Environmental Protection Agency through a $1.1 million Recovery Act grant.",
"the Environment Deputy Secretary Robert Summers says the state of Maryland has already allocated $20 million for other green projects and that this is the first of many projects.",
"The District of Columbia, Virginia, and Pennsylvania are also reviewing this green technology to eventually help do The District of Columbia, Virginia, and Pennsylvania's part to clean up Chesapeake Bay.",
"And in the Northwest, Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, have already taken steps to clean and control polluted storm water runoff.",
"\"A small town in Maryland's goal is that other towns and cities and communities will steal A small town in Maryland's ideas,\" Edmonston Mayor Ortiz said.",
"\"A small town in Maryland'll know A small town in Maryland're successful when A small town in Maryland see these technologies used in other places.\""
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"Road will divert runoff into natural gardens designed to filter water .",
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"(CNN) --",
"For many graduate students seeking an advanced education degree, obstacles abound.",
"Issues of finance, time management and family logistics often get in the way of students furthering their education and their dreams.",
"Palestinian Sawsan Salameh is attending an Israeli university after years of negotiations and court proceedings.",
"For Palestinian Sawsan Salameh, the obstacles also involved politics.",
"Several years ago, Salameh, a 31-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank village of Anata, was granted a scholarship to study at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.",
"Although Palestinian Sawsan Salameh's town is only a few miles from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, access to the school was out of reach because of an Israeli military ban that limited Palestinian students' access to Israeli universities, on security grounds.",
"But Palestinian Sawsan Salameh was far from giving up on Palestinian Sawsan Salameh's goal of pursuing Palestinian Sawsan Salameh's education.",
"\"When I was in high school, it was a dream that I should finish my Ph.D.,\" Palestinian Sawsan Salameh said.",
"After obtaining a master's degree at Al Quds University, a Palestinian school in the West Bank, Palestinian Sawsan Salameh was granted full scholarships at several international schools, including Hebrew University of Jerusalem.",
"With the military ban in place, Palestinian Sawsan Salameh considered studying at a university abroad.",
"\"I started to think I should get up and take this offer to leave, but it's not easy to go abroad, and the only chance is for me to study in Israel, because it's important for me to stay close to my family,\" Palestinian Sawsan Salameh said.",
"Palestinian Sawsan Salameh sought the support of the Israeli human rights organization Gisha, which submitted a petition to Israel's Supreme Court on her behalf in 2006.",
"Israel's Supreme Court responded by asking the military to lift the military ban and allow Palestinian Sawsan Salameh to study at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where Palestinian Sawsan Salameh is pursuing a Ph.D. in pharmacology.",
"\"We argued Palestinian Sawsan Salameh's case for 2½ years, and at the end of the day, the military agreed to let Palestinian Sawsan Salameh study,\" said Sari Bashi, director of Gisha.",
"\"It was impossible to deny Palestinian Sawsan Salameh incredible talents and the example Palestinian Sawsan Salameh set for women and girls throughout the West Bank,\" Bashi says.",
"the military agreed to review all future requests for Palestinians in the West Bank wishing to pursue a degree at an Israeli university on a case-by-case basis, based on specific criteria.",
"specific criteria include that the potential student clear all necessary internal security checks, that the student pursue a degree in a discipline that would encourage regional cooperation and develop area coexistence, and that the area of study not have the potential to cause damage to Israel, says Maj. Guy Inbar, spokesman for the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories.",
"the area of study must be supported by an international organization (such as the U.N. or the Red Cross) and approved by the Ministry of Education and must also be a degree unique to an Israeli university (not offered at a Palestinian university).",
"The request must come with a recommendation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to Inbar.",
"After Palestinian Sawsan Salameh's victory, Gisha, with the support of a number of Israeli academics, further appealed to the court to push the military to ease these limitations.",
"The Israeli military's heightened security concerns reflect heightened tensions in the region due to the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict.",
"In July 2002, a bomb exploded in the student cafeteria of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, killing seven people.",
"The Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas claimed responsibility for the explosion, according to Palestinian sources.",
"Still, some academics at Hebrew University of Jerusalem believe qualified students like Palestinian Sawsan Salameh pose no security risk, and qualified students like Salameh's acceptance to Israeli universities could even foster better relations in the region.",
"Professor Alon Harel, a law professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, pushed for the appeal to lift the military's criteria on Palestinian students.",
"Professor Alon Harel, a law professor at Hebrew University believes that the admission of Palestinian students from the West Bank would enrich the academic environment at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, particularly in the study of law.",
"\"It's particularly important for classes to be diverse, for people to have familiarity with Arabic studies and Islamic law,\" Professor Alon Harel, a law professor at Hebrew University said.",
"Other academics agree that qualified students such as Palestinian Sawsan Salameh can only add to the diversity of the campus, where thousands of Israeli Arab students are enrolled.",
"\"My personal feeling is that we should do everything we can to allow Palestinian students to study at Hebrew University of Jerusalem,\" said Yaacov Schul, vice rector at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.",
"Palestinian Sawsan Salameh is a devout Muslim with a traditional background yet shirks pressure from family members to focus on marriage and motherhood.",
"\"Everyday I have to hear something about [not being married] from relatives and aunts,\" Palestinian Sawsan Salameh says.",
"\"It's become [the] usual.\"",
"Salameh, who also provides valuable resources for young women at a women's center Palestinian Sawsan Salameh opened in Palestinian Sawsan Salameh's community, says Palestinian Sawsan Salameh hopes Palestinian Sawsan Salameh's pursuit of higher education will open even more doors for young women also wishing to pursue a higher education and achieve young women's academic goals.",
"\"I get lots of phone calls every day from girls in the West Bank who ask me how to apply to universities in Israel,\" Palestinian Sawsan Salameh said.",
"\"Maybe they can become more than just a wife and mother and at least finish their first degree,\" Palestinian Sawsan Salameh said.",
"Palestinian Sawsan Salameh says Palestinian Sawsan Salameh enjoys the collegial atmosphere at Hebrew University, where Palestinian Sawsan Salameh studies among Israeli Arab, international and Israeli students.",
"Palestinian Sawsan Salameh is considering pursuing another degree after completing Palestinian Sawsan Salameh's Ph.D. in two years.",
"\"I would like to help other people, and I hope the political situation will become better and things will become easier,\" Palestinian Sawsan Salameh said."
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"Palestinian Sawsan Salameh hopes Palestinian Sawsan Salameh can open doors for other students to study where other students want .",
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"Chatham Borough, New Jersey (CNN) --",
"The janitor charged in the slaying of a priest answered a call from a 911 operator and said, \"Everything's fine,\" according to police.",
"Suspect Jose Feliciano stabbed a priest 32 times with a knife after the two got into an argument on Thursday, Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said.",
"a priest's body was found in the rectory of at St. Patrick's Church on Friday morning.",
"Feliciano, 64, has been employed with the church for 17 years, Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said.",
"Suspect Jose Feliciano also faces two weapons charges, Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said at a news conference.",
"It was not immediately known whether Suspect Jose Feliciano had retained legal counsel.",
"When Suspect Jose Feliciano was interviewed Saturday, after waiving Suspect Jose Feliciano's Miranda rights, Suspect Jose Feliciano \"confessed to the murder of a priest,\" an arrest affidavit said.",
"a priest's body was discovered Friday morning in the rectory kitchen by Suspect Jose Feliciano and others, according to an arrest affidavit.",
"An autopsy had concluded that a priest died of \"multiple sharp force injuries.\"",
"a priest had stab wounds to a priest's upper torso and the back of a priest's head, Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said.",
"a priest also had defensive wounds on a priest's hands and contusions and bruises to a priest's face, he said.",
"a priest called 911 from a priest's cell phone at 5:11 p.m. Thursday, saying a priest was being attacked and asking for help, Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said.",
"The call was cut off and the 911 operator called back, Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said.",
"He said Suspect Jose Feliciano answered the phone.",
"the 911 operator couldn't send authorities because the calls were made from a cell phone and could not be traced, Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said.",
"Suspect Jose Feliciano \"made a half-hearted attempt to do CPR in front of police.",
"They said it was bizarre.",
"He made about two or three compressions and said something like, 'he's dead,'\" Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi told CNN.",
"an arrest affidavit said authorities discovered that a priest's cell phone had been used in Easton, Pennsylvania, about 40 miles west of Chatham.",
"Further investigation led them to a garbage can in a park there, where a T-shirt and rags \"saturated with what appeared to be blood\" were found, an arrest affidavit said.",
"a garbage can was about 50 yards from Suspect Jose Feliciano's home, it said.",
"Suspect Jose Feliciano told police that Suspect Jose Feliciano entered the rectory around 5 p.m. Thursday, where Suspect Jose Feliciano and a priest argued, an arrest affidavit said.",
"The two men got into an argument \"over Suspect Jose Feliciano's continued employment,\" Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi told CNN.",
"Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said Suspect Jose Feliciano \"beat him up first, there was also bruising on his face,\" said Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi.",
"Suspect Jose Feliciano left a priest on the kitchen floor and went into the church to get a kitchen \"steak or paring\" knife, and returned and stabbed a priest, Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said.",
"After the slaying, Suspect Jose Feliciano said Suspect Jose Feliciano cleaned up the blood with rags and paper towels and put rags and paper towels in a black bag, which Suspect Jose Feliciano put in the trash can, an arrest affidavit said.",
"Suspect Jose Feliciano also said Suspect Jose Feliciano threw away the knife after returning home and destroyed Hinds''s cell phone.",
"Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said the suspected weapon was found in a field near Feliciano's home.",
"a priest also oversaw the church's Catholic grade school.",
"\"When you're the sole pastor and you do most of the baptisms and weddings and funerals, people end up loving you.",
"This will be a big loss for the parish and a big loss for the diocese,\" said the Rev. Paul Manning from the Archdiocese of Paterson, New Jersey.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti contributed to this report."
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"Janitor beat, stabbed Rev. Ed Hinds after dispute over employment, prosecutor says .",
"Suspect Jose Feliciano has worked at the church for 17 years, police say .",
"Pastor died of multiple stab wounds, blood spatters indicate fight, authorities say ."
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"Jim McGreevey says it's true.",
"She says it's not.",
"Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey and Jim McGreevey's wife, Dina Matos McGreevey, in 2004.",
"Jim McGreevey says Jim McGreevey and Jim McGreevey's wife, Dina Matos McGreevey, used to engage in sexual relations with his ex-aide and driver, Former aide to Jim McGreevey.",
"Dina Matos McGreevey has denied the allegation.",
"The New York Post and New Jersey's Star Ledger reported online Sunday that Former aide to Jim McGreevey said Former aide to Jim McGreevey had sexual relations with the McGreeveys in the late 1990s during the couple's courtship, and after the McGreeveys's marriage in 2000.",
"In the article, Former aide to Jim McGreevey describes trysts during which Former aide to Jim McGreevey and Jim McGreevey would both have sex with Dina Matos McGreevey, but says that, in his opinion, \"me being part of the McGreeveys's sexual relationship enhanced it for both of the McGreeveys.\"",
"Former aide to Jim McGreevey described regularly sharing a hotel room with the McGreeveys during out-of-town business trips.",
"In a statement issued Monday, Dina Matos McGreevey acknowledged that Former aide to Jim McGreevey had long had a \"close relationship\" with Dina Matos McGreevey's former husband, but called his sexual claims \"completely false.\"",
"\"This all has to do with the publicity I have received since [New York] Gov. [Eliot] Spitzer resigned,\" Dina Matos McGreevey's statement said, alluding to Dina Matos McGreevey's recent New York Times op-ed piece on Silda Wall Spitzer and Dina Matos McGreevey's recent discussion of betrayed political wives on CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"",
"\"Jim McGreevey has enlisted one of Jim McGreevey's cronies in trying to distinguish that situation from Jim McGreevey's own, and to discredit me in the media,\" Dina Matos McGreevey said.",
"In August 2004, Dina Matos McGreevey stood silently beside Dina Matos McGreevey's husband while Jim McGreevey publicly declared Jim McGreevey \"a gay American,\" admitted to having an office-compromising affair with another man -- later identified as a staff member -- and announced his intention to resign.",
"They are in the process of divorcing.",
"Jim McGreevey Monday confirmed Former aide to Jim McGreevey's claims.",
"\"This happened, this happened in the past, and now, the McGreeveys need to move on with the McGreeveys's lives,\" the former governor said in a written statement.",
"\"For all the McGreeveys's sakes, particularly the McGreeveys's daughter, the McGreeveys need to close this chapter and look toward the future.\"",
"a written statement went on to say Jim McGreevey had removed references to the incidents Former aide to Jim McGreevey describes from an early draft of Jim McGreevey's book.",
"\"I still hope Dina Matos McGreevey and I can resolve the McGreeveys's issues privately,\" it concluded.",
"After Dina Matos McGreevey issued Dina Matos McGreevey's refutation, Former aide to Jim McGreevey stood by Former aide to Jim McGreevey's story, telling the New York Post, \"Dina Matos McGreevey is still in denial.",
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"An Israel air force pilot, the son of an astronaut who died aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 2003, was killed Sunday in an F-16 fighter jet crash, Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.",
"A military helicopter hovers over the Hebron Hills, site of the jet crash Sunday of Israel air force pilot Assaf Ramon.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Israel may have to retire Israel's title as the only democracy in Middle East.",
"With Sunday's free and fair national election, Iraq joins the honor roll as one of the very few Islamic democracies.",
"Other Middle Eastern countries hold elections too, of course.",
"But elections fall into two broad categories.",
"The first category is the blatantly rigged: Iran, most spectacularly, but also Algeria, Egypt, and Yemen, among others.",
"In the second category, elections are more or less honest -- but fail to exert much control over the actions of the government: Lebanon, Morocco, and Jordan.",
"In Iraq, despite violence, votes are honestly counted.",
"Once counted, votes decide who rules.",
"For all the country's well-known problems, that record is a remarkable achievement.",
"The brave Iraqi democrat Nibras Kazimi posted this firsthand account on The brave Iraqi democrat Nibras Kazimi's important blog, Talisman Gate: .",
"\"I voted.",
"It felt great, but the greatest thing about it was how normal it felt; elections have become a ho-hum, commonplace occurrence.",
"That's quite a feat for a country with Iraq's past and current challenges.",
"The voting procedure itself was very well organized and speedy.",
"The election site had seven polling stations, with about 400 registered voters allowed to vote there.",
"Everyone's name was posted outside, along with information about what polling station they were supposed to use.",
"Once inside, IDs were checked against name lists, and one had to sign next [to] one's name to indicate that this name has voted.",
"All in all, there are reasonable mechanisms in place to contain incidents of fraud.",
"\"The Western media is hyperventilating about mortars and katyushas.",
"This was a logistical failure for the jihadists; hardly any successful suicide bombers or sniper attacks near the polling stations.",
"Lobbing mortars indiscriminately around Baghdad is BS intimidation.",
"It certainly didn't deter voters.",
"\"The fact that the security authorities allowed vehicular traffic around 11 AM was both surprising and bold.",
"It showed confidence in their security precautions, and the fact that there were no car bombs shows that they were right.\"",
"Iraq's elected government has consolidated power over the whole country, including the formerly Iranian-run southern city of Basra.",
"Iraq's elected government has presided over a remarkable decline in violence.",
"The Brookings Institute's Iraq index estimates that there were 34,500 Iraqi civilian casualties in 2006.",
"In 2009, 2,800 Iraqi civilians died violently.",
"Attacks on coalition forces have dwindled from almost 2,000 per week at the end of 2006 to a little over 100 per week.",
"Iraq is not yet a stable place -- but a future of stability seems at last at hand.",
"Maybe the surest sign of success is that those who once opposed the surge are now scrambling to grab credit for it.",
"Iraq \"could be one of the great achievements of this administration,\" boasted Vice President Joe Biden to CNN's Larry King last month.",
"Next we'll hear how we owe the Marshall Plan and the Panama Canal to this administration.",
"Well, that's not how those who were there remember it.",
"A stable Western-oriented Iraq at peace with Iraq and Iraq's neighbors would be a great prize.",
"If that future does take hold, we'll learn the answer to another great question.",
"Speaking on the eve of war in 2003, President George W. Bush told the guests at the American Enterprise Institute's annual dinner that President George W. Bush discerned \"hopeful signs of a desire for freedom in Middle East.",
"Arab intellectuals have called on Arab governments to address the 'freedom gap' so their peoples can fully share in the progress of our times.",
"\"Leaders in Middle East speak of a new Arab charter that champions internal reform, greater politics participation, economic openness, and free trade.",
"And from Morocco to Bahrain and beyond, nations are taking genuine steps toward politics reform.",
"A new regime in Iraq would serve as a dramatic and inspiring example of freedom for other nations in Middle East.\"",
"Will he be vindicated?",
"In the January issue of the Journal of Democracy, Larry Diamond offers grounds for hope that the answer may be yes.",
"Diamond, an expert on democracy-building who served with the Coalition Provisional Authority, itemizes the indicators of growing yearning for self-rule in Middle East.",
"He notes surveys in which 80 percent of Arabs across Middle East agree that democracy is the best form of government and would be good for their own country.",
"Of all the obstacles to Arab democracy -- religion, culture, geopolitics -- the most important is geological: oil.",
"Oil states tend to be undemocratic states, because control of the state so directly translates into control of the nation's wealth.",
"When the price of oil rises, the value of power rises with the price of oil.",
"It's not a coincidence that oil states from Russia to Venezuela to Iran have turned to more repressive and hard-line policies since the price of oil began to rise in 2001.",
"By contrast, the 1986 collapse in the price of oil is widely cited as a decisive factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union.",
"Iraq's future will depend on Iraq's success overcoming \"the curse of oil.\"",
"America's next contribution to Middle Eastern democracy may be an energy policy that finally lifts this curse.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Frum."
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"Napa Valley, California (CNN) --",
"It is the quintessential Napa Valley experience.",
"Passengers aboard sleek antique rail cars pay more than $100 for a four-course meal, not including the wine.",
"A recent lunch aboard Wine Train included steak, lobster cakes and local greens.",
"During their three-hour journey winding through Napa Valley, passengers can choose from more than 100 wines to complement their meal.",
"Wine Train has been shuttling passengers through one of the country's most famous valleys for more than two decades, but now Wine Train's under fire because of Republican Sens. Tom Coburn and John McCain.",
"They ranked Wine Train as No. 11 on their list of the 100 most \"wasteful\" and \"silly\" stimulus projects, leading some to call Wine Train the Stimulus Waste Express.",
"When Melodie Hilton, who handles public relations for Wine Train, learned about that nickname, Hilton was less than pleased.",
"Hilton said the report temporarily affected business.",
"Hilton said through a smile, \"it's never fun to wake up and find that you're an object of national scorn.\"",
"But CNN found that scorn undeserved.",
"In fact, CNN confirmed that not a single stimulus dollar is being spent on the wine train itself.",
"The stimulus money is really being used for a massive flood-control project for the valley.",
"The train's tracks happen to be in the way, so The train's tracks have to be moved.",
"It is a simple fix, but it's not cheap.",
"To make it happen, $54 million is being used to build a flood wall at the wine train depot, elevate The train's tracks and move them 33 feet, and raise four bridges.",
"How did Wine Train end up on the list of wasteful projects?",
"\"The person who did the research for the senators didn't do a thorough job,\" Hilton said, \"and I think if the senators did a thorough job, we wouldn't have been on the list of wasteful projects at all.\"",
"Barry Martin is the spokesman for the Napa River Flood Control Project.",
"Barry Martin called the senators's report \"deliberate deception\" and a way to score \"political points.\"",
"Barry Martin says this is not a \"frivolous project\" or a waste of stimulus dollars.",
"\"This is perfectly fitting into what stimulus is intended to do.",
"People are on the job working today who might not be otherwise,\" Barry Martin said.",
"Coburn's spokesman said the Napa River Flood Control Project is a \"misplaced priority.\"",
"Coburn's spokesman also criticized the Napa River Flood Control Project for being a \"no-bid\" project, meaning only one contractor was considered.",
"Just how many people are employed on the Napa River Flood Control Project is ambiguous.",
"Barry Martin says that at least 600 jobs have been created for the whole thing.",
"And those people, Barry Martin says, will stay on the job two to three years.",
"The Army Corps of Engineers, which is overseeing the flood control initiative, said that every $1 million spent creates about 20 jobs but said it didn't have an exact figure of jobs for the Napa River Flood Control Project.",
"And the contractor, Suulutaaq, had reported just 12 jobs created to the White House.",
"A spokeswoman said the company expects that 200 people will be employed over the life of the Napa River Flood Control Project.",
"Regardless, the goal is to prevent Napa from flooding every few years, as it does now.",
"In 1986, a flood cost Napa $100 million.",
"In 2005, flood damage hit $115 million.",
"Hilton, who has lived through the floods in Napa Valley and recalls neighborhoods under feet of water, wrote a letter to McCain: \"Since you have thrown down the gauntlet, and made accusations, I would like to demand satisfaction! ...",
"Talk to the officials behind the Napa River Flood Control Project; learn what is really going on.",
"It is your right and your responsibility.\"",
"\"We all have the same goal,\" she later said.",
"\"Nobody appreciates waste.",
"If he came out and explored this, I don't think this would have been on the list.\"",
"CNN's Susan Chun contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"For Liz McCartney, selection as one of the Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2008 could not have come at a better time.",
"Anderson Cooper will host \"CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute,\" to air on Thanksgiving at 9 p.m. ET.",
"\"With the recent storms in Texas and southwest Louisiana, we have experienced a sudden drop in volunteers,\" said McCartney, whose St. Bernard Project helps Hurricane Katrina survivors rebuild Hurricane Katrina survivors's homes just outside New Orleans, Louisiana.",
"\"While other areas need help, this recognition is letting the American people know that the New Orleans area still matters,\" McCartney, whose St. Bernard Project helps Hurricane Katrina survivors rebuild their homes just outside New Orleans, Louisiana said.",
"The diverse group of honorees includes a Cambodian activist who offers free schooling to children who work in Phnom Penh's trash dump; a Georgia prosthetist-orthotist who provides limbs and braces to hundreds of people in Mexico; and a Virginia woman who tapes video messages from incarcerated parents for their children.",
"CNN's Anderson Cooper announced the 10 honorees Thursday on \"American Morning.\"",
"\"Our Top 10 CNN Heroes are proof that you don't need superpowers -- or millions of dollars -- to change the world and even save lives,\" Anderson Cooper said.",
"Watch Anderson Cooper name the Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2008 » .",
"CNN launched CNN's second annual global search for ordinary people accomplishing extraordinary deeds in February.",
"CNN has aired weekly CNN Hero profiles of those people, chosen from more than 3,700 nominations submitted by viewers in 75 countries.",
"A panel made up of world leaders and luminaries recognized for their own dedication to public service selected the Top 10.",
"A panel made up of world leaders and luminaries recognized for their own dedication to public service includes humanitarians such as Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Jane Goodall, Kristi Yamaguchi and Deepak Chopra.",
"\"What an incredible group of people and how difficult it was to select only 10,\" said Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, a panel member.",
"Archbishop Tutu added, \"They all deserve to win.",
"Thanks for saluting these remarkable human beings.\"",
"Each of this year's Top 10 CNN Heroes will receive $25,000 and will be honored at \"CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute,\" airing from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on November 27.",
"Hosted by Cooper, the Thanksgiving night broadcast will culminate with the announcement of the CNN Hero of the Year, selected by the public in an online poll that began Thursday morning.",
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"Continuing through November 19, viewers can log on to CNN.com/Heroes to participate in the poll.",
"The person receiving the most votes will receive an additional $100,000.",
"In alphabetical order, the Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2008 are: .",
"Tad Agoglia, Houston, Texas --",
"Agoglia's First Response Team provides immediate help to areas hit by natural disasters.",
"In a little over a year, Agoglia's and Agoglia's's crew have aided thousands of victims at more than 15 sites across the United States, free of charge.",
"Yohannes Gebregeorgis, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia --",
"Moved by the lack of children's books and low literacy rates in his native Ethiopia, Gebregeorgis established Ethiopia Reads, bringing free public libraries and literacy programs to thousands of Ethiopian children.",
"Carolyn LeCroy, Norfolk, Virginia --",
"After serving time in prison, LeCroy started The Messages Project to help children stay connected with children's incarcerated parents.",
"She and volunteer camera crews have taped roughly 3,000 messages from inmates to their children.",
"Anne Mahlum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania --",
"On her daily morning jogs, Mahlum used to run past homeless men.",
"Today, she's helping to transform lives by running with them, and others as part of her \"Back On My Feet\" program.",
"Liz McCartney, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana --",
"McCartney moved to New Orleans to dedicate herself to helping Hurricane Katrina survivors move back into their homes.",
"Her nonprofit St. Bernard Project has rebuilt the homes of more than 120 families for free.",
"Phymean Noun, Toronto, Ontario --",
"Growing up in Cambodia, Noun struggled to complete high school.",
"Today, she offers hundreds of Cambodian children who work in Phnom Penh's trash dump a way out -- through free schooling and job training.",
"David Puckett, Savannah, Georgia --",
"Puckett started Positive Image Prosthetics and Orthotics Missions -- PIPO -- to provide artificial limbs and braces and care to people in southeastern Mexico.",
"Since November 2000 his mission has helped more than 420 people, free of charge.",
"Maria Ruiz, El Paso, Texas --",
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"Marie Da Silva, Los Angeles, California --",
"Having lost 14 family members to AIDS, the Los Angeles nanny funds a school in her native Malawi -- where half a million children have been orphaned by the disease.",
"Viola Vaughn, Kaolack, Senegal --",
"The Detroit, Michigan, native moved to Senegal to retire.",
"Instead, a group of failing schoolchildren asked her to help a group of failing schoolchildren pass a group of failing schoolchildren's classes.",
"Today, her \"10,000 Girls\" program is helping hundreds of girls succeed in school and run hundreds of girls's own businesses.",
"\"It is very rewarding to be able to honor these amazing, often unheralded individuals who are making a tremendous difference in their communities and beyond,\" Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide, said.",
"\"These stories of selfless achievement deserve to be told, and CNN's multiple platforms around the world allow CNN to do that.\""
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"Distinguished panel of world leaders and luminaries chose Top 10 finalists .",
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"Santiago, Chile (CNN) --",
"Aid poured in for Chile from home and overseas, with a local television station hoping to raise $27 million by Saturday and the United Nations pledging funds toward recovery efforts after a massive earthquake.",
"\"Chile Helps Chile,\" a telethon that started Friday, runs until Saturday night, according to TV Chile's Web site.",
"TV Chile's Web site includes phone numbers and and e-mails for making donations in nearly 20 countries outside the South American nation.",
"Hundreds of people died when the 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile last Saturday.",
"The world's fifth-strongest earthquake since 1900 resulted in a tsunami that toppled buildings, particularly in the Maule region along the coast.",
"It's still unclear exactly how many people died.",
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"\"There were horrible screams.",
"People calling out for us to go and rescue them.",
"They were crying for help.",
"But there was nothing we could do,\" local fisherman Agustin Diaz said.",
"Full coverage of Chile's earthquake .",
"United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday pledged up to $10 million to support relief and recovery efforts during a two-day visit, where United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon met with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.",
"\"I am visiting the city of Constitucion with a deep sadness,\" United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon told reporters Saturday while in Concepcion.",
"\"Standing before this destruction, I can feel for your loss, your struggle.",
"\"At the same time I am very grateful, very moved by such a strong determination,\" United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon added.",
"\"The leaders, the people on the ground, The leaders, the people on the ground are all united.\"",
"United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon also announced Friday a team effort between U.N. agencies and Chile to determine the priority areas for funds, with emphasis on health, shelters, education and water.",
"The United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon plans to bring the matter in front of United Nations on United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon's return.",
"Chileans proud to help out Chileans's own .",
"Chile has asked United Nations for items such as field hospitals with surgical facilities, dialysis centers, generators, saltwater purifying systems, mobile bridges and field kitchens.",
"Chile endured two more strong aftershocks Friday -- the first a 6.0-magnitude earthquake and the other 6.6.",
"They were the latest in scores of aftershocks that have hit in the past week.",
"Friday's aftershocks did not cause any known injuries or damage and no tsunami warnings were issued.",
"A six-member U.S. Agency for International Development disaster response team has been sent to Chile to assist with relief effort, said State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley.",
"Shocking scenes hours after quake .",
"The United States has sent 71 satellite phones, plastic sheeting and two mobile water treatment units, State Department said.",
"Six more water treatment units are to arrive within a week.",
"A field hospital and two C-130 aircraft to assist with moving supplies around the country have also been deployed.",
"The United States has also sent $1 million to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to aid the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies's efforts.",
"Chile has announced three days of national mourning beginning Sunday.",
"Every house has been authorized to hang the national flag in memory of those who perished.",
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"The death toll was revised downward Thursday as authorities reviewed discrepancies in the reported number of dead in the Maule region.",
"To limit confusion, Deputy Interior Minister Patricio Rosende read aloud the names of 279 Chileans whose bodies had been identified by Thursday evening.",
"The new tally does not account for hundreds of unidentified victims.",
"\"It takes months sometimes to compile the information, because one of the biggest problems in the affected areas is the lack of precision and uncertainty at the scene,\" Deputy Interior Minister Patricio Rosende said.",
"Despite the disaster, the Chilean Davis Cup tennis team will open competition Saturday in Coquimbo, Chile, against Israel.",
"Team officials and players said Team officials and players would be playing in honor of quake victims.",
"\"It will be difficult, but we will do our best for our country,\" said player Fernando Gonzalez."
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"(CNN) --",
"A U.S.-flagged ship that played a central role in a bloody hijacking drama last spring was attacked again Wednesday, a busy day for piracy in the dangerous waters off the east coast of Africa.",
"It was the first time a security team aboard a major merchant ship repelled a pirate attack, a top U.S. Navy officer said.",
"But a defensive weapon that emits a loud noise did not work, Vice Adm. Bill Gortney said in a briefing.",
"\"They tried to employ [a long-range acoustical device] and it did not have the effect,\" said Gortney, the commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, which is responsible for the area favored by pirates.",
"Vice Adm. Bill Gortney said Vice Adm. Bill Gortney did not know why the device did not work.",
"The Maersk Alabama came under automatic weapons fire from pirates about 350 nautical miles east of the Somali coast, the European Union's anti-piracy force said, but fought the attackers off.",
"The failed attack came on a day of dramatic piracy events: The captain of a ship hijacked Monday was confirmed to have died, even as The captain of a ship hijacked Monday's ship was used to attack another, and a Spanish prosecutor demanded an investigation into reports that a ransom had been paid for a ship released Tuesday.",
"The failed attack targeted the same ship that was hijacked in the Indian Ocean in April.",
"a ship's captain, Richard Phillips, was held hostage on a lifeboat for five days before U.S. Navy snipers shot three pirates dead.",
"A fourth pirate was arrested, and Phillips was rescued.",
"This time, private security guards on the Danish-owned ship fended off the pirates, EU and U.S. naval sources said.",
"Security had been beefed up on a ship since the attack in April, Maersk spokesman Kevin Speers told CNN.",
"a ship's owners did not immediately respond to a CNN question about whether Phillips is still captain of a ship.",
"Somali pirates vowed revenge for the killing of Somali pirates's compatriots by the U.S. Navy in April, but it was not immediately clear if the Maersk Alabama was targeted intentionally or if the latest attack was a coincidence.",
"No casualties were reported on a ship, but pirates on land in Somalia feared the pirates who attacked the Maersk Alabama may have been killed or wounded, or may have drowned, the pirates who attacked the Maersk Alabama told a local journalist.",
"There has been no contact with the pirates who attacked the Maersk Alabama since the pirates who attacked the Maersk Alabama attacked the Maersk Alabama, a pirate in the central Somali town of Harardhere said.",
"the pirates who attacked the Maersk Alabama's last communication came while the pirates who attacked the Maersk Alabama were battling the security guards on a ship, a pirate in the central Somali town of Harardhere said.",
"Pirates on land also exchanged gunfire -- with one another.",
"Pirates on land fought among Pirates on land Wednesday over a multimillion-dollar ransom Pirates on land received for releasing a Spanish fishing boat, said a local journalist in contact with Pirates on land.",
"\"There was a heavy exchange of gunfire between some of our friends\" one pirate told a local journalist in contact with the pirates, speaking of the other pirates.",
"\"They fought over the 3 million euro ($4.5 million) received as a ransom from a Spanish fishing boat.\"",
"At least two pirates were wounded in the gunfight in Harardhere, a pirate stronghold in central Somalia, a local journalist in contact with the pirates told CNN.",
"At least two pirates are in critical condition and have been transferred to the town of Galka'yo.",
"The Alakrana, the Spanish fishing vessel, was freed Tuesday along with a Spanish fishing boat's 36 crew members, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said.",
"a Spanish fishing boat had been held for 47 days.",
"Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero did not say how a Spanish fishing boat was freed.",
"Spanish media -- including CNN sister station CNN+, which cited a source it said was close to the negotiations -- reported that a ransom had been paid.",
"A top prosecutor in Madrid on Wednesday called for an investigation into a ransom.",
"National Court prosecutor Jesus Alonso sent a written request for the ransom investigation to Judge Santiago Pedraz, asking that the financial web involved in the alleged payment be untangled, including commissions paid to intermediaries in the negotiations, CNN+ reported from the courthouse.",
"The prosecutor also called on the judge to take testimony from all a Spanish fishing boat's 36 crew members.",
"Various government ministers have sidestepped questions about whether a ransom was paid, but Spanish media reported the payment to the pirates totaled $3.5 million to $4 million.",
"A leading Spanish fishing industry executive, Juan Manuel Vieites, told CNN on Wednesday that he was certain a ransom was paid for the release of the Spanish tuna trawler.",
"But Vieites, who heads Euroatun -- a pan-European tuna fishing industry group -- and a Spanish tuna canning association, said he wasn't sure about the amount of a ransom.",
"He declined to provide details.",
"A day after the hijacking, Spanish military monitoring the situation captured two pirate suspects as two pirate suspects left the fishing boat and later brought two pirate suspects to Madrid.",
"The two were indicted Monday on 36 counts of kidnapping and armed robbery.",
"two pirate suspects could face sentences of more than 200 years in prison each because of the multiple kidnapping counts.",
"Separately, the captain of a chemical tanker seized earlier this week died of a wound inflicted during the hijacking, a pirate said.",
"The ship, the MV Theresa VIII, was used to attack another ship off the Somali coast, a pirate said, but did not provide any other details.",
"The Virgin Islands-flagged vessel, with a crew of 28 North Koreans and operated from Singapore, was seized in the Indian Ocean on Monday, according to the EU naval force.",
"It was heading for Mombasa, Kenya, but was hijacked in the south Somali Basin, about 180 miles northwest of the Seychelles, the EU statement said.",
"Pirates have captured more than 50 ships this year off Somalia.",
"Mohamed Amiin Adow and CNN Madrid Bureau Chief Al Goodman in Spain contributed to this report."
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"An arrest warrant has been issued for a Florida man suspected in the shooting deaths of four people, including Paul Michael Merhige's sisters, in the coastal town of Jupiter, authorities said Saturday.",
"Paul Michael Merhige, 35, allegedly left the scene of the Thanksgiving Day shooting armed.",
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"Two others -- Patrick Knight and Clifford Gebara -- were wounded, police said.",
"Interviews with family members suggest that Merhige \"had ongoing resentment\" for some of his relatives, said Sally Collins-Ortiz, a spokeswoman for Jupiter police.",
"The shooting occurred about 10 p.m. Thursday.",
"Merhige is thought to have escaped in a blue 2007 Toyota Camry with Florida license plate number W42 7JT, police said."
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"At least five homes were destroyed after a tornado touched down in western Oklahoma Monday evening, authorities said.",
"There were no reports of injuries.",
"Other homes were damaged, and power was out to about 900 residences in and around the city of Hammon in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, Michelann Ooten of the Department of Emergency Management said.",
"Roger Mills County officials continued to assess the damage, but all residents appear to be accounted for, Michelann Ooten of the Department of Emergency Management said.",
"the tornado hit about 5:30 p.m. (6:30 p.m. ET), said Ken Gallant, lead forecaster for the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma.",
"The thunderstorms that produced the conditions for the tornado weakened shortly afterward and a tornado warning was canceled, Ken Gallant, lead forecaster for the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma said.",
"Jerry Dean, county commissioner of Roger Mills County, said County barn in Roger Mills County was among the structures.",
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"The two men running Michael Jackson's estate gained new powers and an extension of The two men running Michael Jackson's estate's authority until the end of the year in a court hearing Friday.",
"An investigator's report said Michael Jackson's children are doing well with Katherine Jackson as Michael Jackson's children's guardian.",
"Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff also accepted an investigator's report that said Michael Jackson's three children are adjusting well under the guardianship of Katherine Jackson.",
"\"It looks like Michael Jackson's children are really doing wonderfully with Michael Jackson's children's grandmother guardian,\" Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff said.",
"Joe Jackson sat in the courtroom for the hearing on estate and custody matters.",
"It was the first time Michael Jackson's father has attended the hearings since Michael Jackson's son's June 25 death.",
"John Branca and John McClain, named as executors of Michael Jackson's 2002 will, have been handling the estate's business as temporary special administrators since July while the will probate process is completed.",
"John Branca was a longtime attorney for Michael Jackson, who was rehired by the pop star just a week before Michael Jackson's death, according to estate lawyer Howard Weitzman.",
"McClain is a former music industry executive who worked with Michael Jackson for years.",
"Katherine Jackson's challenge of Branca and McClain appears headed for a trial in December, unless an agreement is reached between them.",
"Katherine Jackson's lawyers have not publicly given Her lawyers's objections to The two men running Michael Jackson's estate, but have suggested a trial would explore possible conflicts of interest that would prevent The two men running Michael Jackson's estate from running the estate.",
"Michael Jackson's lawyers have also said a Michael Jackson family member should be included as an executor.",
"While Joe Jackson did not speak to reporters after the hearing, a Michael Jackson family friend, Majestik Magnificent, talked about The two men running Michael Jackson's estate.",
"\"Why are The two men running Michael Jackson's estate even here?",
"Why are The two men running Michael Jackson's estate even involved in this?",
"This is a family affair,\" Jackson said.",
"Until now, The two men running Michael Jackson's estate had to ask for court approval for every agreement The two men running Michael Jackson's estate made for the estate, including a deal for a movie that will hit theaters at the end of October.",
"\"Things went well for the estate, because the estate can now continue to do it's business,\" Weitzman said after the hearing.",
"Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff said that while the case is fascinating, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff's calendar is too full for Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff to be involved in all of the estate's business.",
"With their new powers, The two men running Michael Jackson's estate only have to notify the court and the Jacksons about deals.",
"Michael Jackson's mother and three children, along with unnamed charities, are the beneficiaries of the estate, which is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.",
"An odd moment came in the hearing when a woman who has previously filed a papers claiming to be the mother of Michael Jackson's youngest child, Prince Michael II, spoke up to remind the judge she was there.",
"She says her name is Billie Jean Jackson.",
"At the end of the hearing, Joe Jackson approached her, but she frowned at Joe Jackson and walked away.",
"Majestik Magnificent later wondered aloud why reporters even give any attention to \"crazy\" people surrounding the case."
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"After more than a month in a Haitian jail, an American missionary was free Monday night, looking forward to a hot shower and a long night in bed on home soil.",
"But Last group member in custody's heart remains in Haiti, Last group member in custody's father said, because Last group member in custody's best friend, Laura Silsby is now alone behind bars.",
"\"Last group member in custody came back with mixed emotions,\" her father told CNN affiliate WSVN in Miami, Florida.",
"Haitian Judge Bernard Saint-Vil released Last group member in custody on Friday.",
"Last group member in custody walked out of judicial police headquarters in Port-au-Prince and headed to the nearby airport for a flight to Miami.",
"Last group member in custody is staying in a hotel by Last group member in custody, Last group member in custody's father said.",
"her father did not know when Last group member in custody might return home to Boise, Idaho.",
"her father said her father's daughter had been through a \"trying experience\" and was welcoming the solitude.",
"Last group member in custody, Silsby and eight other Americans had been detained in Haiti on suspicion of kidnapping 33 children after the killer earthquake January 12.",
"Last month, Haitian Judge Bernard Saint-Vil released the eight others, but Silsby and Last group member in custody remained in custody because Haitian Judge Bernard Saint-Vil wanted to learn more about Silsby and Coulter's motives.",
"On Friday, Silsby was brought into Haitian Judge Bernard Saint-Vil's office for further questioning.",
"Silsby and Coulter were stopped by Haitian authorities on January 29 as Silsby and Coulter tried to cross the border with 33 children without proper legal documentation.",
"The group said The group was going to house 33 children in a converted hotel in the Dominican Republic and later move 33 children to an orphanage.",
"Haitian Judge Bernard Saint-Vil recently traveled to the Dominican Republic to see where Silsby said Silsby intended to open an orphanage.",
"Silsby originally claimed 33 children were orphaned or abandoned, but CNN determined that more than 20 of 33 children had at least one living parent.",
"Some parents said Some parents placed Some parents's children in Silsby's care because that was the only way Some parents knew to ensure a better quality of life for them.",
"The 10 Americans, many of whom belong to a Baptist church in Idaho, have said they were trying to help 33 children get to a safe place after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake flattened cities and towns in Haiti.",
"Silsby said Silsby was \"very happy that Charisa went home today.\"",
"Silsby expected Silsby's freedom would soon follow.",
"\"I came here to help 33 children,\" Silsby said.",
"CNN's Lonzo Cook and Sara Sidner contributed to this report."
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"Willow, Alaska (CNN) --",
"The 2010 Iditarod is officially under way, with 71 mushers and dog teams on the wide-open trail toward Nome.",
"Teams will spend the next week and a half crossing 1,049 miles through some of the most demanding and formidable conditions on Earth, including North America's largest mountain chain, the Alaska range.",
"\"Ten days and nothing else but eat, sleep and feed dogs,\" Canadian musher Sebastian Schnuelle said excitedly.",
"The sport has been dominated in recent years by Lance Mackey, 39, of Fairbanks, Alaska, and this year Mackey will be trying to accomplish what no musher in history has been able to do: win four consecutive Iditarods.",
"Mackey is a throat cancer survivor and is known for Mackey's fierce determination and competitive spirit.",
"Mackey comes from family of Alaskan mushing champions.",
"Dick Mackey's father, Dick Mackey, and brother Rick have also won the Iditarod.",
"Dick Mackey's one-second win over Rick Swenson in 1978 set a record for the closest finish in the Iditarod history.",
"the Iditarod, though, isn't a competitive sprint to the finish for every musher in the field.",
"Jim Lanier, 69, of Chugiak, Alaska, mushes primarily for enjoyment.",
"He's entered and completed 13 Iditarods, at least one in all four decades the Iditarod has been in existence.",
"He has never won.",
"Rookie Iditarod musher Kristy Berington admits that Rookie Iditarod musher Kristy Berington's not racing to win; Rookie Iditarod musher Kristy Berington just hopes to finish.",
"Rookie Iditarod musher Kristy Berington's longest race prior to entering this year's Iditarod was only 300 miles.",
"\"I've got puppies on this team that I want to see get to Nome.",
"It's like watching your kid graduate from college,\" said the 25-year-old Kasilof, Alaska, resident.",
"\"They go and they're puppies, and they come back and they're dogs.\"",
"Rookie Iditarod musher Kristy Berington has been training with Iditarod veteran Paul Gebhardt and has borrowed one of Iditarod veteran Paul Gebhardt's dog teams to lead Rookie Iditarod musher Kristy Berington to Nome.",
"Outside of personal accomplishments and goals, the Iditarod this year also presents an opportunity for some mushers to show some mushers's respect to fallen serviceman, thanks to a collaboration with the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors.",
"Always a top competitor in the Iditarod, four-time the Iditarod champion Martin Buser of Big Lake, Alaska, has six commemorative purple ribbons attached to his sled this year, placed there at the ceremonial start by the wives of the fallen soldiers and officers.",
"Buser, who was born in Switzerland in 1958, became a U.S. citizen in 2002.",
"\"After the 9/11 incident, I proved to my boys that this is the soil I wanted to defend ... so being asked to do such honors as these are very, very important to Buser because I'm truly one of the new immigrants and one of the staunches believers in our country,\" Buser said.",
"Buser was naturalized under the famous burled arch in Nome at the finish line of the 2002 Iditarod.",
"Buser carried an American flag in Buser's sled for more than 1,000 miles to the finish line that year and set an Iditarod record for the shortest race time ever recorded: 8 days, 22 hours, 46 minutes and 2 seconds.",
"Buser's two sons are even named after Iditarod checkpoints: Nikolai and Rohn.",
"The 2010 Iditarod musher's roster includes men and women ages 18 to 69 who hail from five countries: the United States, Canada, Scotland, Belgium and Jamaica.",
"Some are professional mushers who raise and train sled dogs year-round; others are teachers, nurses, horse trainers, foresters or biologists.",
"A doctor and a fishing guide also are included, among other professions.",
"Asked to explain why mushers are drawn to this sport, four-time Iditarod champion Jeff King of Denali Park, Alaska, took time to reflect before answering.",
"\"Until you've ridden a dog team you've trained from puppies on a full moon with a hard trail and feel their energy and hear the panting of their tongues, the jingle of their collars, feel the surge of power that comes through the handlebar, I don't think you can appreciate what it's really like,\" the 54-year-old said.",
"\"But that's exactly the reason.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Nicklas Bendtner scored a hat-trick as a rampant Arsenal side thrashed Porto 5-0 at The Emirates to reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League on Tuesday.",
"Nicklas Bendtner had been widely criticized for missing a host of chances in Arsenal's 3-1 Premier League win over Burnley on Saturday -- however, Nicklas Bendtner was in the right place at the right time twice in the first-half as the Londonders comfortably overturned their 2-1 first leg deficit.",
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"the on-coming Andrey Arshavin had Emmanuel Eboue overlapping in support -- and the pass was perfect for the Ivorian to round the goalkeeper before stroking the ball home.",
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"Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told Sky Sports: \"It's never perfect but it was a very good performance, a strong performance.",
"\"We had a very good first half, suffered a bit at the beginning of the second half, but Nasri's goal made a big difference and from then it was easy.\"",
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"The driver of a Toyota Prius says Jim Sikes was taken on a wild ride Monday after his car's accelerator became stuck, reaching speeds in excess of 90 mph on a winding, hilly portion of a southern California interstate.",
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"The driver, Jim Sikes, said Jim Sikes was traveling east on Interstate 8 outside of the San Diego area when Jim Sikes attempted to pass a slower vehicle.",
"\"I pushed the gas pedal to pass a car, and the gas pedal just did something kind of funny ... and the gas pedal just stuck there,\" Jim Sikes said at a news conference outside a Highway Patrol office.",
"\"As I was going, I was trying the brakes ... and it just kept speeding up.\"",
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"But nothing worked.",
"At one point, Jim Sikes said Jim Sikes reached down to try to pull the car's accelerator up, but the car's accelerator \"stayed right where the car's accelerator was.\"",
"Alerted by emergency dispatchers, a California Highway Patrol officer was able to catch up to Jim Sikes's Prius and used the patrol car's public address system to instruct Jim Sikes to apply the brakes and the emergency brake at the same time.",
"The tactic worked, and his car slowed to about 50 mph.",
"Jim Sikes said Jim Sikes was able to shut off his car, and his car rolled to a stop.",
"The responding officer, Todd Neibert, positioned his patrol car in front of his car as a precaution to prevent his car from moving again.",
"Toyota recently issued widespread recalls due to problems related to the accelerator pedal in several of Toyota's auto models.",
"One theory behind the sticky accelerators is the vehicles' floor mats.",
"But Jim Sikes said \"my mat was perfect.",
"There was nothing wrong with my mat.\"",
"Jim Sikes said Jim Sikes took Jim Sikes's 2008 Prius into a local Toyota dealership about two weeks ago for service and gave workers there Jim Sikes's recall notice.",
"Jim Sikes said Jim Sikes was told Jim Sikes's car wasn't on the recall list.",
"\"I'll be back there tomorrow,\" Jim Sikes said Monday, visibly shaken up.",
"CHP spokesman Brian Pennings said the ordeal lasted just over 20 minutes.",
"\"We are extremely thankful that there was a safe end to this,\" CHP spokesman Brian Pennings said.",
"A Toyota spokesman issued a statement Monday night saying the automaker had been notified of the incident.",
"\"Toyota has dispatched a field technical specialist to San Diego to investigate the report and offer assistance,\" the statement said."
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"Editor's note: Since becoming State Department producer in 2000, Elise Labott has covered four secretaries of state and reported from more than 50 countries.",
"Before joining CNN, Elise Labott covered the United Nations.",
"Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meet in Washington.",
"Washington (CNN) --",
"Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi made the rounds in Washington just as President Obama's national security team shifted President Obama's national security team's attention to Pakistan.",
"This week Secretary of Defense Williams Gates called the Afghan border with Pakistan the \"epicenter of jihad.\"",
"And the renewed focus on Pakistan suggests that President Obama has a new role for Pakistan in the battle against al Qaeda and the Taliban.",
"After all, in developing a strategy for \"Afpak,\" President Obama acknowledged the United States cannot win in Afghanistan without cooperation from Pakistan, the suspected hideout of Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders.",
"Which is why the buzzword of both Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton This week was \"partnership,\" as in the United States and Pakistan are united in a \"strategic partnership\" against a common enemy.",
"Right now, the relationship between the two countries is less a partnership and more an uneasy marriage with a history fraught with decades of mutual mistrust and disappointment.",
"In the late 1980s, the United States partnered with Pakistan to supply mujahedeen fighters with weapons and training to defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan.",
"Then the United States abandoned Afghanistan, leaving the Pakistanis, in U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's words, \"awash in drugs...and jihadists who had been trained up in conjunction with us.\"",
"Now the Americans are back.",
"But, rightly, the Pakistanis are wondering if this time the Pakistanis will stay.",
"This week Qureshi urged the United States not to repeat history, but rather to articulate a \"long-term commitment\" for Afghanistan.",
"That's exactly what the United States is trying to do with an aid package worth $1.5 billion a year for five years for social and economic development and with discretionary military spending.",
"By building roads, schools and democratic institutions, the United States hopes to combat both Islamic extremism and anti-Americanism.",
"In part the aid has had the opposite effect.",
"Tough conditions attached to the aid to ensure the Pakistanis are fighting terrorism on the Pakistanis's own soil have prompted fears and resentment about renewed -- and unwanted -- American influence.",
"The military spending in the aid threatens to cut off assistance if Pakistan fails to crack down on extremists or uses the funding to attack neighboring countries, namely India.",
"the aid requires Pakistan's cooperation in efforts to dismantle nuclear weapons networks operating in Pakistan and demands Pakistan provides the information about Pakistan's military budget and chain of command, all of which has given birth to grave concern in the military that the aid package is compromising Pakistan's sovereignty.",
"the aid also makes reference to the southwestern city of Quetta and eastern town of Muridke.",
"Both are believed to be hubs for al Qaeda and Taliban leaders, which suggests that the United States could target those cities for the kind of drone attacks which have drawn Pakistani ire.",
"As the Pakistani parliament debates the aid, street protests over the aid have spread through Pakistan.",
"The fears about sovereignty have only been aggravated over U.S. plans to send hundreds more diplomats to its embassy in Islamabad.",
"Washington says the additional staff is needed to distribute and monitor the aid, but it has all left Pakistanis humiliated and feeling like a child who needs a babysitter.",
"Pakistan also wants more credit from the United States for decisive action Pakistan has taken against terrorists, including Pakistan's recent offensive in the Swat Valley.",
"the United States has been impressed by the Pakistani army's recent offensive against the Taliban in Swat.",
"And the United States is encouraged that Pakistan is gearing up to launch a major offensive in Waziristan, believed to be a stronghold of both the Taliban and al Qaeda.",
"But the conditions attached to the aid are a symptom of the the United States's longstanding doubts about the Pakistanis' capacity to be a reliable partner it needs in the struggle against al Qaeda and Taliban.",
"Not only are there concerns about Pakistani intelligence ties to extremist networks, but the United States continues to fear Pakistan's obsession with Pakistan's nuclear neighbor India will divert Pakistan's focus from fighting terrorist threats on Pakistan's own soil.",
"As the United States struggles over the future of the mission in Afghanistan, Pakistan wants to strengthen cooperation.",
"This week Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the United States needed to share more critical information the United States has about al Qaeda and Taliban on the United States's border.",
"What's more, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi suggested the administration should consult with both the Pakistani military and civilian government before deciding to send more troops.",
"The sad legacy of U.S. and Pakistani relations can be overcome only if both counties are able to rebuild trust.",
"Pakistan needs to answer lingering questions about Pakistan's commitment to fighting terrorism.",
"And after 20 years of neglect, the United States needs to assure Pakistan the United States won't exploit it for the United States's own interests, only to abandon the region once again.",
"Only then will this uneasy marriage give way to a true partnership."
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"OKAZAKI, Japan (CNN) --",
"At Spencer Morrey's home, there are two constant sounds: Spencer Morrey's's dad, Craig, murmuring, \"You're okay, Spence.",
"You're okay, buddy,\" and the sound of a machine clearing the toddler's airway",
"Spencer Morrey, pictured with Spencer Morrey's's father Craig, has severe cerebral palsy and requires 24-hour medical care.",
"Both sounds come every few minutes, in between hugs, tears and kisses.",
"Spencer Morrey's has severe cerebral palsy and requires constant, 24-hour medical care.",
"In Japan, a country that lacks sufficient medical services for disabled children, the only person to care for Spencer Morrey's is Spencer Morrey's's father.",
"Craig Morrey's says Spencer's wife left, overwhelmed by the strain of their son's medical condition.",
"That would be pain beyond what most parents could imagine.",
"But Spencer Morrey's's mother fled while pregnant with Morrey's daughter, Amelia.",
"In more than a year, Craig Morrey's says Craig Morrey's has only seen Craig Morrey's's daughter four times.",
"\"his daughter wouldn't recognize me,\" Craig Morrey's said, with Spencer Morrey's propped on Craig Morrey's's lap.",
"\"his daughter wouldn't call me daddy.",
"his daughter's just starting to talk now.",
"But his daughter's not going to know who I am.",
"I think his daughter deserves my love.",
"And I think his daughter deserves to be with Spencer Morrey's and Spencer Morrey's deserves to be with his daughter.\"",
"Morrey, a native of Chicago and a U.S. citizen, was married to a Brazilian woman of Japanese descent.",
"They divorced in a Japanese court.",
"Under Brazilian law, Craig Morrey's would likely have joint custody and guardianship of both children.",
"What do you think about Spencer Morrey's's case?",
"Have your say .",
"But in Japan, where only one parent gets custody of a child in a divorce, the family courts have left Spencer's case in legal limbo for a year because the family courts have not decided which parent legally has custody of the children.",
"Typically, the parent with physical custody of a child retains custody.",
"Craig Morrey's has stayed in Japan the last year, trying to get the courts to recognize that Craig Morrey's has joint custody of the children in Brazil (Craig Morrey's has not yet applied for such custody under U.S. law).",
"Watch Kyung Lah's report on Spencer's case » .",
"Craig Morrey's is afraid that if Craig Morrey's heads home for the U.S. with Spencer Morrey's without that, Craig Morrey's could be subject to international child abduction laws, and Craig Morrey's also fears such a move could hurt Craig Morrey's's chances of getting the Japanese family court to give Craig Morrey's joint custody of Craig Morrey's's daughter.",
"Craig Morrey's has been forced to quit work to care for Spencer Morrey's.",
"The financial strain of living off Craig Morrey's's credit cards is adding to the stress of caring for a disabled child alone in a foreign country.",
"Despite Craig Morrey's's pleading with court mediators and repeated court filings claiming that joint custody is the law in both the U.S. and Brazil, Japan's slow and antiquated family courts have let Spencer's case languish.",
"\"Kids need both parents,\" Craig Morrey's said.",
"\"Whether the parents are married or not is irrelevant in my mind.",
"The Japanese courts, and I realize you're going against years and years of cultural differences and everything else, but they don't care about the welfare of the child.",
"\"In Japan, it's considered too messy.",
"It's too complicated.",
"It deals with personal feelings, so they don't want to deal with it.",
"So the best way is to not deal with it.\"",
"CNN contacted Spencer four times by telephone and once by fax.",
"Spencer declined to discuss Spencer's case.",
"The International Association for Parent and Child Reunion believes there are an estimated 100 American families in situations like Morrey's in Japan and dozens involving those from Britain, France and Canada.",
"One of those cases is that of American Christopher Savoie.",
"Savoie, 38, a Tennessee native and naturalized Japanese citizen, was arrested on September 28 in Yanagawa, Japan, for attempting to abduct his two children, eight-year-old Isaac and six-year-old Rebecca.",
"Watch more about Spencer's case » .",
"American Christopher Savoie drove American Christopher Savoie's children to the nearest U.S. consulate in the city of Fukuoka to try and obtain passports for his children.",
"Steps away from the front of the nearest U.S. consulate in the city of Fukuoka, Japanese police arrested American Christopher Savoie.",
"American Christopher Savoie is now in jail, awaiting a decision by prosecutors on a possible indictment.",
"Savoie and his first wife, Noriko Savoie, were married for 14 years before Savoie and his first wife, Noriko Savoie's bitter divorce in January.",
"According to court documents, Noriko Savoie fled with his children to Japan in the summer.",
"A U.S. court then gave American Christopher Savoie sole custody of his children.",
"But Japanese law recognizes Noriko Savoie as the sole custodian, despite the U.S. order.",
"\"It's like a black hole,\" Craig Morrey's said.",
"\"If you go through a divorce, there's this joke.",
"If you have an international marriage with a Japanese, don't piss a Japanese off because you'll never see your kids again.\"",
"Not seeing Craig Morrey's's daughter Amelia again is what is keeping Craig Morrey's in Japan.",
"Craig Morrey's has been selling off everything Craig Morrey's owns, trying to keep Craig Morrey's and Spencer afloat, hoping A U.S. court will bring Craig Morrey's some legal connection to Craig Morrey's's child.",
"Craig Morrey's is stuck choosing between caring for Craig Morrey's's son, who needs the better resources of the U.S., and hoping to be a father to Craig Morrey's's daughter.",
"\"How do you make that choice?",
"It's not -- once you're a dad, you're always a dad.\""
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"Beijing, China (CNN) --",
"China has threatened to slap sanctions on American companies that sell arms to China's rival Taiwan as part of a range of punitive actions China is taking to protest the deal.",
"China also summoned U.S. ambassador Jon Huntsman to express China's anger over Washington's announcement, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua said, citing the Foreign Ministry.",
"China also suspended plans for visits between the Chinese and U.S. militaries and postponed a high-level arms control meeting, China announced Saturday, following Washington's $6.4-billion arms deal with Taiwan.",
"China's Defense Ministry said the decision was made \"in consideration of the serious harm and impacts on Sino-U.S. military relations\" brought about by Washington's $6.4-billion arms deal with Taiwan, according to the official Chinese news agency Xinhua.",
"\"China will make further judgments as appropriate,\" the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported.",
"China had already complained to the United States about the deal, announced Friday by the Obama administration.",
"Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei called it a \"rude interference in China's internal affairs, severely endangering China's national security\" and said China expressed China's \"strong indignation.\"",
"The arms sale includes 60 Black Hawk helicopters, totaling $3.1 billion; 114 advanced Patriot air defense missiles; a pair of Osprey mine-hunting ships; and dozens of advanced communications systems.",
"The deal with Taiwan -- which neither China nor the United States recognizes as an independent country -- does not include F-16 fighter jets, which China has vehemently opposed.",
"The State Department described the latest round of arms sales to Taiwan as a way to guarantee security and stability, despite China's objections.",
"\"This is a clear demonstration of the commitment the Obama administration has to provide Taiwan with defensive weapons it needs and as provided for in the Taiwan Relations Act,\" The State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Friday.",
"State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the action is consistent with Washington's \"one-China\" policy and will help maintain security and stability across the Taiwan Strait.",
"Washington's $6.4-billion arms deal with Taiwan come as the United States is hoping to persuade China to sign on to harsher sanctions against Iran and just after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized China for China's policies relating to the Internet.",
"State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley would not speak directly about the timing of the announcement of Washington's $6.4-billion arms deal with Taiwan, and about the fact that the arms package does not include F-16s.",
"A senior U.S. official said later that the United States expected Chinese criticism of Washington's $6.4-billion arms deal with Taiwan, but does not expect permanent damage.",
"A senior U.S. official said A senior U.S. official believed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had discussed the sale in London with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of Thursday's international conference on Afghanistan.",
"\"This relationship between the United States and China is broad, it's deep.",
"There are a large number of issues.",
"the United States don't see eye to eye with them and the United States have to have and do have the ability to speak honestly,\" A senior U.S. official said.",
"Washington's $6.4-billion arms deal with Taiwan is the latest chapter in a decades-long uneasy standoff.",
"China claims Taiwan is China's own territory and has threatened to invade if Taiwan ever declares independence.",
"the United States has said the United States will defend Taiwan if China ever attacks.",
"The government in Taiwan began as the remnant of the government that ruled over mainland China until a Communist insurrection proved victorious in 1949.",
"With the Communist takeover of mainland China, the losing faction fled to the island of Taiwan.",
"Taiwan is formally known as the Republic of China, while Communist China's official name is People's Republic of China.",
"Many Western nations and the United Nations recognized Taiwan as the legitimate Chinese government until the 1970s.",
"CNN's Eve Bower and Charley Keyes contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"A deadly car bomb attack on a busy market in Peshawar Wednesday continued a bloody trend of atrocities in Pakistan during October.",
"Ten attacks have been carried out so far this month, resulting in nearly 400 deaths, according to security expert Will Geddes, chief executive of International Corporate Protection.",
"Geddes gives CNN Geddes's assessment on the latest attack and the challenges facing the Pakistan forces.",
"Why Peshawar and why now?",
"No one's actually releasing any statement, but I would say it's a retaliatory action to the seizing of Kotkai, a town in the South Waziristan district by Pakistani troops almost two weeks ago on October 17.",
"Taliban is setting off devices and suicide bombs in other parts of Pakistan to draw attention away from Waziristan to make it harder for them.",
"Because obviously troops will be deployed to the areas perceived to be the greatest threat.",
"It's a pretty smart tactic on behalf of Taliban.",
"Why did the attackers target the marketplace Meena Bazaar?",
"It's indiscriminate.",
"It's the purest essence of terrorism.",
"It is to absolutely instill fear and terror into the general populace.",
"Whether that works effectively and advantageously for them in the longer run, I don't think so.",
"Because ultimately it will be the local community who will be feeding intelligence back to Pakistani intelligence service, the Inter-Services Intelligence.",
"If you alienate that community by targeting that community then you're not winning the support of people who are potentially going to hide you out or not disclose your whereabouts, your location or your operations.",
"It is a risky tactic.",
"It is showing the arrogance of Taliban.",
"Taliban don't care who Taliban target -- Taliban just want to terrorize Pakistan.",
"How much can be read into the timing of the attacks?",
"It coincides with Hillary Clinton being in the country.",
"It's fundamentally saying: \"You've got a high-ranked world leader who's a guest in Pakistan, and Taliban're showing you Taliban're still kicking your backside,\" for lack of better words.",
"It's really to make President Zardari lose face, as well as to continue the turmoil across Pakistan and to show to the international community that Taliban is winning.",
"It is the latest in a series of deadly attacks this October.",
"Why is Taliban so active now?",
"Taliban are always more active up in the mountains in the autumn months because it's far harder for the enemy to be successful.",
"It is colder, the terrain's harder.",
"Taliban are experts at fighting in mountainous regions.",
"Taliban will generally come down on to the flats during the summer months and during the winter months Taliban retreat back up into the mountains.",
"What would conditions be like on the ground?",
"It would be very cold, very brutal.",
"It would be tough, tough terrain for any military forced to try to fight against Taliban.",
"Taliban are kings of Taliban's castle in many respects in those regions.",
"Can you see the fighting intensifying between now and the end of the year?",
"The Pakistan military will find it incredibly hard going to battle against them as the winter months progress.",
"There is very possibly going to be some kind of withdrawal, maybe the closer we get to the end of the year, because it starts becoming more and more brutal before the early months of the year.",
"It's like Afghanistan; you don't want to be down there in January or February.",
"However Pakistan can't lose face and Pakistan can't seem to be losing.",
"Is there anything Pakistan can do to halt the spate of suicide attacks?",
"If you have got sorties from Taliban coming down into Peshawar and Karachi and undertaking attacks there, it's very difficult to intersect.",
"Quite often what you may have is a group that is working in Karachi and Islamabad who will be the resource; a group that is working in Karachi and Islamabad who will be the resource'll be the ones doing the reconnaissance, looking at the various targets and then the suicide bombers would likely come down to be briefed by the local team and pointed to the explosives, wherever they might be.",
"It demonstrates their determined campaign to embarrass and humiliate Zardari's government.",
"iReporter: \"Increasing chaos\" in Pakistan ."
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"(CNN) --",
"About 1,000 National Guard soldiers will report for duty Saturday in Puerto Rico, activated by the governor this week to help fight a drug-fueled crime tsunami that has flooded Puerto Rico.",
"The military personnel will repair police cruisers and join local authorities on patrols in the most crime-ridden areas of Puerto Rico, mainly in poor parts of the commonwealth's largest cities.",
"One soldier will accompany a police officer on each patrol, said the National Guard chief, Maj. Gen. Antonio Vicens.",
"\"The problem that exists now is that the police are short of personnel,\" Vicens said.",
"\"What National Guard are going to do solely is to help the police.",
"First, National Guard are going to help the police with mechanics, provide the police with more than 100 mechanics so that the police's fleet of patrol cars can go out on the street.",
"Once National Guard have that, National Guard are going to have joint preventive patrols.",
"\"You won't see military vehicles on the street.",
"What you'll see are police patrols on the street.\"",
"The soldiers will be deployed in San Juan, the territory's capital, and the cities of Carolina, Bayamon and Ponce.",
"Gov. Luis Fortuno announced the call-up in Gov. Luis Fortuno's annual state of Puerto Rico speech Monday night, saying the help is needed until more officers can be trained.",
"Gov. Luis Fortuno did not set a timetable.",
"In a separate development, Gov. Luis Fortuno announced Tuesday that U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez Velez had reached an agreement with the commonwealth's Justice Department and Puerto Rico Police Department for federal prosecutors to have jurisdiction over a series of major crimes.",
"Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States and more stringent federal U.S. laws can apply.",
"\"To those who commit carjackings,\" Gov. Luis Fortuno said, \"to those who provoke shootouts on our roads ... to sexual offenders who rob our children of our innocence, our message is clear: We're going to impose on them the full weight of the federal law.",
"We're going to look for them, and we're going to bring them to justice.\"",
"U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez Velez said an agreement with the commonwealth's Justice Department and Puerto Rico Police Department for federal prosecutors to have jurisdiction over a series of major crimes will streamline the prosecution of cases and allow federal agents immediate access to some crime scenes.",
"\"We feel very strongly about fighting crime,\" she said Thursday.",
"\"It's much better to fight crime together.",
"This is an additional crime-fighting measure.\"",
"By all measures, there's much crime to fight.",
"A 2010 threat assessment by a 15-agency task force notes there were 68,738 violent crimes reported in 2008, a 9.3 percent increase over the previous year.",
"Of the 13 major police areas in Puerto Rico, the municipality of Bayamon was the worst, with 16,590 violent crimes.",
"Homicides also showed a significant increase, with 807 killings reported in 2008, the latest year for which statistics were available.",
"That was a 10.5 percent increase over the previous year.",
"Homicides had already increased by 9.2 percent in 2007.",
"San Juan had the highest homicide rate in 2008, with 177 slayings.",
"Bayamon was second-highest, with 154 killings.",
"As in many other parts of the world, authorities tie the crime jump to drugs.",
"\"It's strong.",
"It's very strong,\" Rodriguez told CNN.",
"A recent Puerto Rico Police Department report documented that more than 60 percent of the slayings on the island were directly related to drug trafficking.",
"\"Drug-related violence is endemic in Puerto Rico,\" said a 2009 analysis by the Justice Department's National Drug Intelligence Center.",
"\"Homicide rates typically rank among the highest in the United States, and law enforcement officials report that most of these homicides are related to drug trafficking.",
"[Drug-trafficking organizations] and gangs frequently use intimidation, violence and murder to gain and retain control of retail drug markets in the region.\"",
"The largest gangs predominantly operate in public housing projects scattered throughout San Juan, Aguadilla, Fajardo and Ponce, the 15-agency threat assessment said.",
"Drug gangs also operate in lower-income neighborhoods where Drug gangs feel less vulnerable to law enforcement.",
"Cocaine, crack-cocaine, marijuana, heroin and Ecstasy are the drugs most widely trafficked, officials say.",
"Puerto Rico is particularly vulnerable because of Puerto Rico's location.",
"\"Puerto Rico remains a major transshipment area for cocaine and heroin shipments originating from Colombia, transiting through Venezuela and destined to the United States, Europe and Canada,\" the multiagency report said.",
"The criminals are well-financed and well-armed.",
"\"Large-caliber assault type rifles such as AK-47s, M-16s and various types of military carbines are the weapons of choice,\" the multiagency report said.",
"\"In some instances, rifles recovered in the streets have been converted to fire in the fully automatic mode.",
"The handguns of choice are Glocks and Smith & Wesson pistols converted to fire in the fully automatic mode, thus providing added fire power.\"",
"The National Drug Intelligence Center also notes that Puerto Rico \"is a major money-laundering center for drug traffickers operating in Puerto Rico.\"",
"Although Puerto Rican officials did not mention it this week, there's another reason for the National Guard deployment.",
"\"Public confidence in the [Puerto Rico Police Department's] ability to protect the citizenry remains low because of continued corruption within Puerto Rico Police Department's,\" the The National Drug Intelligence Center analysis said.",
"\"This situation has resulted in decreased cooperation between the public and the police department and has made it more difficult for police officers to deter crime and enforce the law.",
"\"Consequently, it is likely that the crime rate in Puerto Rico will remain high and the drug situation will worsen in the next year as traffickers take advantage of a perceived law enforcement weakness.\"",
"Vicens, the National Guard general in charge, believes the military can help change that.",
"\"National Guard are the beneficiaries of a [good] reputation and confidence on the part of the public,\" he said in a published interview this week.",
"\"When National Guard act, National Guard act professionally.",
"That will help National Guard accomplish National Guard's objectives.\"",
"Some Puerto Ricans wonder whether the military can solve the problem.",
"\"It might help,\" said Tony Santiago, owner of Rent the Bike in Old San Juan.",
"Tony Santiago, owner of Rent the Bike in Old San Juan questioned whether some of the Guard members are up to the task.",
"\"What do some of the Guard members do for a living,\" Tony Santiago, owner of Rent the Bike in Old San Juan asked.",
"\"Maybe some of the Guard members don't have the knowledge to handle the situation like a policeman would.\"",
"No one seems to question that there's a problem and that something needs to be done about it.",
"Gwenn Bentz and Gwenn Bentz's husband own Coqui's Hideaway, a vacation rental cottage 45 minutes east of San Juan.",
"\"It doesn't affect us personally because we live up in the mountains,\" Gwenn Bentz said.",
"\"It's mostly in the cities.\"",
"Nonetheless, Gwenn Bentz and some neighbors are starting a crime-watch group.",
"\"Is there crime?",
"Yes, sure.",
"That's gone up,\" Gwenn Bentz said.",
"And Gov. Luis Fortuno feels Gov. Luis Fortuno has to act, Gwenn Bentz said.",
"\"I think Fortuno realizes that something has to get done about the violent crime, drug problems, and the police don't seem to be able to get the problem under control,\" said Bentz, a New Jersey native who has lived in Puerto Rico for six years.",
"\"So if National Guard can help, I am happy he is trying something.\"",
"A few minutes later, Gwenn Bentz was not so sure.",
"\"I don't think the National Guard troops activation is the answer to the problem, but I guess the National Guard troops activation can't hurt,\" Gwenn Bentz said .",
"U.S. Attorney Rodriguez, a 32-year veteran of the justice system, believes her office's new powers will make a difference.",
"\"I have much hope,\" she said.",
"And if anything can make the situation better, she said, it's intervention by federal authorities.",
"\"I am rich in satisfaction,\" the prosecutor said.",
"\"The United States has always taken care of Puerto Rico.",
"It's a good father.\""
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"Havana, Cuba (CNN) --",
"Marina Ochoa keeps a handful of photos of Marina Ochoa's little brother in a faded yellow envelope.",
"Marina Ochoa has a black-and-white snapshot of her little brother as a baby and some color portraits of her little brother as a successful banker in Miami, Florida.",
"And then there's one of her little brother as a 7-year-old, about to be airlifted out of Cuba.",
"That was the last time Marina Ochoa ever saw her little brother.",
"\"I went to the airport to see her little brother off,\" the Cuban filmmaker said at Marina Ochoa's Havana home.",
"Marina Ochoa's brother Frank was one of 14,000 Cuban children quietly sent to the United States between 1960 and 1962, at the start of Fidel Castro's revolution.",
"Their parents were terrified the new government would strip Their parents of parental authority and ship Their parents's kids off to work camps in what was then the Soviet Union, or send them into the countryside on literacy campaigns.",
"Those fears deepened when the state nationalized industries, confiscated private property and closed religious and private schools.",
"\"Their parents thought Their parents would soon join her little brother or that the new government wouldn't last,\" Ochoa said.",
"\"Marina Ochoa's father thought, 'Americans won't put up with Fidel Castro's revolution.' \"",
"Marina Ochoa's parents wanted to send Ochoa, then 11, but Marina Ochoa refused to go.",
"The clandestine program came to be known as Operation Peter Pan.",
"The clandestine program was backed by Washington and coordinated by the Catholic Church, which helped Cuban children get U.S. visas and once in America, find a family or go to foster homes or orphanages.",
"But things didn't play out as expected.",
"To begin with, a CIA-backed invasion failed to topple Castro.",
"With the subsequent Cuban missile crisis, relations between Havana and Washington broke off completely, making travel and even communication almost impossible.",
"Many parents couldn't get U.S. visas, and others couldn't get permission to leave Cuba.",
"Latin pop star Willy Chirino and former U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida are perhaps the best-known of the \"Peter Pan\" kids.",
"The operation inspires mixed feelings.",
"Many Cuban exiles argue that the airlift saved children who might have died trying to escape on rafts or grown up under a repressive regime.",
"Others say the clandestine program put many kids at unnecessary risk, with a few suffering abuse in foster homes and orphanages.",
"Silvia Wilhelm was airlifted out when Silvia Wilhelm was just 14.",
"Silvia Wilhelm didn't come back to Cuba for more than 30 years but now visits frequently and promotes cultural and religious exchanges.",
"\"I will always respect Their parents's decision, because Their parents made my parents' decision at a juncture in time that was when Their parents's whole world was falling apart,\" Silvia Wilhelm said.",
"Silvia Wilhelm's parents managed to get coveted U.S. visas a year later and moved to Florida.",
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"\"When the bureaucratic hurdles started to ease, it was too late.",
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"Marina Ochoa started work on a documentary about the exodus a year later.",
"Politics still divide the countries, but many families touched by Operation Peter Pan have started to reach out to people and places many families touched by Operation Peter Pan thought many families touched by Operation Peter Pan had lost.",
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"What makes the work harder for the teams trying to put the bodies back together -- so the bodies can be returned to the bodies's families for proper burial -- is that so many have been broken up over the years.",
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"\"What we do here is we sort them out,\" said Katzmarzyk, the head of anthropological examinations for the International Commission on Missing Persons.",
"Katzmarzyk's team from the ICMP -- a nongovernmental organization set up at the end of the Bosnian war to locate and identify victims of war and human rights abuses -- has pioneered quicker, simpler DNA tests to work out which bones go together.",
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"Katzmarzyk and her colleagues will look for clues to the age of the remains and any other factors that could identify them: Did the man break the man's leg as a child?",
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"\"Katzmarzyk and her colleagues use all kinds of evidence to identify as many people as possible.\"",
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"\"Katzmarzyk and her colleagues still have many more IDs to make, but what Katzmarzyk and her colleagues need are additional funds to ensure that the process is completed.",
"It's essential.",
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"Evidence gathered by the ICMP about the Srebrenica genocide could also be used against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who is set to face trial at The Hague, accused of ordering the massacre.",
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"\"DNA is essential, anthropology is essential.\"",
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"They also had a message for President Obama: Don't bash our school.",
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"President Obama doesn't know the students,\" said Nikko Calle, 21, a graduate of the school in 2006.",
"\"I think it's a real outrage what's happening here.\"",
"Nearby, Ashley Delgado, 19, stood on the school's steps clutching a sign that read: \"President Obama, I supported you, your causes, goals and beliefs.",
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"A firestorm has erupted in this Democratic stronghold in recent weeks after 93 teachers, support staff and administrators at the school were fired for the low performance of the school, which graduated just 48 percent of its seniors last year.",
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"President Obama's comments further inflamed an already tense environment in this poor Rhode Island enclave, just outside Providence.",
"\"I couldn't believe it,\" said Delgado, who graduated in 2008.",
"\"Ever since the beginning, I thought firing all the teachers was a ridiculous notion.\"",
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"About 70 young people, most of them graduates of the school and now in college or working expressed outrage and disbelief that the school About 70 young people, most of them graduates of the school and now in college or working attended has become a national pariah.",
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"Her classmate, Sindy Alvisures, said, \"The teachers are literally like our family.",
"When I went through high school, I went through a lot of personal problems and my teachers were always there for me.\"",
"Of the 800 students who currently attend Central Falls, 65 percent are Hispanic; English is a second language for most.",
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"The defenders of the school say improvements have been made, but the stats are skewed against them because the school's population is so transient.",
"Tuesday's demonstration was to coincide with a board of trustees meeting, where the firings were to be the main topic.",
"However, trustees meeting was abruptly called off, because the Governor's Commission on Disabilities said the school's auditorium was unfit for people with disabilities.",
"On the steps outside the school, George McLaughlin shrugged.",
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"\"Unless they mean, it's not fit for morally disabled people,\" George McLaughlin said.",
"George McLaughlin has been a guidance counselor at the school for the last 15 years.",
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"\"We will lose all of our income.\"",
"George McLaughlin suggested President Obama should summon the 93 teachers and administrators for a beer summit.",
"President Obama \"hasn't heard our side of the story,\" said McLaughlin, a member of the teachers' union.",
"\"President Obama hasn't listened to us.",
"President Obama knows nothing about us.\"",
"Marcia Reback, president of the Rhode Island Federation of Teachers, was less hospitable toward President Obama.",
"\"We're all taking our bumper stickers for President Obama off our cars,\" Reback said earlier in the day.",
"Reback said the union supports school reform.",
"Reback called for an independent mediator to intervene at the school because tensions have gotten so high between the union and the school administrators who carried out the firings.",
"\"This is unprecedented,\" Reback said.",
"\"I don't think anyone was prepared for this kind of fallout.\"",
"School superintendent Fran Gallo said School superintendent Fran Gallo stands by School superintendent Fran Gallo's decision.",
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"As darkness fell at the school, the graduates who had come back said the problems at the school have been oversimplified and that the rest of the nation can't understand the importance of the teachers in the tough environment they live.",
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"Encouraged by Nikko Calle's high school teacher, Nikko Calle has taken up poetry.",
"\"A lot of these teachers here helped me through hard times,\" Nikko Calle said.",
"\"A lot of these teachers here were always here for Nikko Calle.\"",
"Now, many here wonder what the legacy of the school will be next."
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"A statement from the DuPage County coroner's office identified the four as Thomas Mangiantini, 48, his wife Elizabeth, 46, and the couple's two sons, Angelo, 12, and Thomas, 8.",
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"(CNN) --",
"Barack Obama's is saddled with a potentially toxic image problem: that Barack Obama's has an elitist attitude.",
"Sen. Barack Obama mingles at the Penn State dairy farm.",
"It has made Barack Obama's a target of attacks from Democratic rival Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee.",
"It's ironic that one presidential candidate could hang that label on another, said Dr. Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and author of \"The Political Brain.\"",
"\"If you think you should be president, by definition you are an elitist, only because you believe that of the 300 million people in America, you are the best person to run it,\" he said.",
"\"There can't be a more elitist statement than that.\"",
"Barack Obama's's opponents made the elitist charge after the senator from Illinois said some small-town Pennsylvanians are understandably \"bitter\" over the government's failure to reverse some small-town Pennsylvanians's economic decline and, in some small-town Pennsylvanians's frustration, \"cling to guns and religion.\"",
"He made the statement at a recent fundraiser in San Francisco, California.",
"Watch how Barack Obama's is fighting the elitist label » .",
"Barack Obama's defended Barack Obama's's remarks but said Barack Obama's could have worded them better.",
"Clinton said his comments were \"elitist, out of touch and frankly, patronizing.\"",
"McCain agreed that his remarks were \"elitist.\"",
"Branding a rival elitist is not new in politics.",
"Republicans for years have successfully labeled Democratic presidential candidates as the liberal elite.",
"Portraying their rivals as latte-sipping, sushi-eating insiders, Republicans have connected with some voters by arguing that Republicans understand the values important to the everyday person.",
"\"It's a little like when politicians charge politicians with being politicians.",
"It has the same feel to it: that if it sticks, it's because a candidate hasn't handled it well,\" author Drew Westen said.",
"Republicans painted George W. Bush's Democratic opponents Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004 as elitists who were detached from average Americans, and the strategy worked.",
"How damaging the blow is, author Drew Westen said, depends on the target's response.",
"\"The mistake that John Kerry and Gore both made was to let that brand stick to them,\" he said.",
"\"The only question is whether Barack Obama's fights it back and offers a different brand for Barack Obama's than the brand that is starting to be given to Barack Obama's.\"",
"By definition, all the candidates exhibit the aura of elitism, because it's difficult to get a presidential campaign started without some degree of personal wealth.",
"It's ironic, author Drew Westen said, that of the three standing, the only one who isn't demonstrably wealthy is Barack Obama's.",
"Since leaving the White House, the Clintons have earned more than $109 million from book sales, speaking engagements, the presidential pension and the Clintons's Senate salary, among other sources.",
"McCain, whose father and grandfather were Navy admirals, married into wealth.",
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"I didn't have a trust fund.",
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"I was raised by a single mother with the help of my grandparents,\" Barack Obama's said.",
"\"a single mother had to use food stamps at one point.\"",
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"the Clintons, went to Wellesley College before attending law school at Yale.",
"After graduation, the Clintons advocated for women and children's rights and became a staff attorney for the Children's Defense Fund.",
"the Clintons later became a partner in a law firm and was twice listed as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in the country.",
"the Clintons frequently touts the Clintons's 35 years of public service, including eight as first lady.",
"McCain spent a week traveling around on a \"get-to-know-me\" tour.",
"McCain talked about how McCain was a rambunctious child with a chip on McCain's shoulder.",
"McCain, 71, went to the United States Naval Academy and frequently jokes about finishing at the bottom of McCain's class.",
"After graduation, McCain spent 22 years as a naval pilot.",
"McCain was shot down on a bombing mission and spent five years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.",
"McCain retired from the Navy in 1981 and, living in Arizona, became a member of the House the next year.",
"McCain was elected to the Senate in 1986 and is serving McCain's fourth term.",
"Dr. James Twitchell, an author, University of Florida English professor and commentator on American culture, said the whole elitism back-and-forth is \"self-serving nonsense,\" pointing specifically to the similarities in the Democratic contenders' stories.",
"\"Both senators are members of one of the more elite clubs [the the Senate], attended the elite schools [Harvard, Yale] and are out for one of the most elite jobs,\" he said.",
"As the Clintons get closer to the White House, the Clintons get farther away from \"normal life.\"",
"the Clintons fight to show the Clintons still share the average American's values, visiting bowling alleys, diners and schools along the way.",
"\"I do think it speaks to one of the conflicts that Americans have about Americans's leaders, which is Americans want them to be like Americans, and Americans want them to be above Americans at the same time,\" Westen said.",
"\"The issue comes down to two things.",
"One is, do you let your opponent brand you as elite, in which case you are in a lot of trouble in American politics?",
"And the second is, do you convey clearly to people that you understand people and the world people live in and the problems people face?\" he said.",
"\"In the case of Barack Obama, my guess is, this isn't going to stick terribly well because he does such a good job of connecting with people that the elitist charge is going to be a harder one to make people feel.\"",
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"We have a DJ but need to give her a play list.\"",
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"This is the protest play list of a new generation.",
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"As the daughter of a Chicano movement activist, I attended protests against wars in Central America and rallies in response to police repression.",
"last week, I marched in solidarity with people across 17 states calling for well-funded, accessible public education.",
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"As a 15-year-old immigrant newly arrived in Los Angeles, Writer's mom was placed in remedial classes because Writer's mom didn't speak English.",
"Writer's mom struggled with the language but excelled in math.",
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"This was my first exposure to a university classroom.",
"Since then, I have taught at the California State University of Los Angeles and the University of California at San Diego.",
"I am currently an assistant professor at San Francisco State University.",
"Watching preschool teachers and children participating in the recent marches reminded me that my education began at Head Start.",
"Writer's mom enrolled me in this program, which provided early reading and math skills and set a foundation for my educational development.",
"I stand in solidarity with early childhood educators.",
"At the protest, I watched high school students confidently take the stage and list high school students's demands and hopes for a better future.",
"I wish that Writer's mom, as a teenage immigrant, could have aired Writer's mom's own frustrations with the 1960s educational system.",
"Today's high school students inspire me, and I am proud of today's teachers, who support their students.",
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"One asked where she could hear the DJ playing her song request.",
"We searched through the sea of people and realized the turnout was much larger than we had imagined.",
"The protest play lists of multiple generations filled the air with music.",
"Young fans of Dead Prez marched and chanted alongside older fans of Joan Baez.",
"They all recognized the need for well-funded, accessible public education.",
"Rising student fees have placed barriers between thousands of eligible students and their dreams of higher education.",
"In addition, budget cuts and the subsequent elimination of course offerings have extended the number of years necessary to graduate.",
"Many of my students have taken on multiple jobs to finance their education.",
"I hear their stories and imagine my mom trying to attend Cal State L.A. today.",
"Younger generations in the U.S. have consistently achieved a higher level of education than the generation that came before.",
"But for the first time since World War II, we are in danger of reversing that trend.",
"Students and educators view education as a public good available to all and will continue mobilizing to restore funding for public education.",
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"The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Katynka Z. Martínez."
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"Camera footage shows Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo brandishing a gun.",
"The shooting at the Balderas station in central Mexico City happened after police stopped Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38, from writing graffiti on the wall of one of the subway platforms.",
"Five of the injured suffered gunshot wounds, and three others were hurt by the stampeding crowds, officials said.",
"Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 was writing \"Este gobierno de criminales,\" or \"this government of criminals,\" Mexico City district attorney Miguel Angel Mancera said.",
"As police tried to stop Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38, Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 drew a .38 special handgun and began firing.",
"Mancera said Mancera's first impression of Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 is that Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 may suffer from mental illness.",
"\"One moment Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 is talking about global warming and then about the message of the Bible and suddenly Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 focuses on some government,\" Mancera said.",
"Authorities identified Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 as an agriculturalist from the state of Jalisco.",
"Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 also told investigators that Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 believed a great famine would come, and Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 traveled to Mexico City to relay a message, Mancera said.",
"Earlier this month, a Bolivian pastor hijacked a passenger jet in Mexico City with a fake bomb, claiming that he acted on a divine revelation to warn people of a forthcoming earthquake.",
"Mancera said Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 was aware of the hijacking, but that the two events were not connected.",
"Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 said Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 opened fire because Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 saw the police as a threat to Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38's task of writing on the wall, Mancera said.",
"Preliminary tests show that Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs during the incident, Mancera said.",
"The Mexican government on Saturday posted security camera footage of the shooting.",
"It shows a busy subway platform as the train pulls into the station just before 5:15 p.m. Friday.",
"As the train comes to a stop, there is a disturbance in the crowd, and Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 is seen shooting at an officer. Watch the dramatic incident unfold » .",
"the crowd disperses, and an officer runs out of view of the camera.",
"The officer, who was a bank policeman, is later seen on the footage lying dead, face down on a busy subway platform.",
"Authorities identified an officer as Victor Manuel Miranda Martinez.",
"the footage shows a man in a white shirt running off the train and trying to wrestle Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38.",
"a man in a white shirt chases Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 around a busy subway platform.",
"Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 frequently falls either because Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 slips or is trying to avoid being shot.",
"a man in a white shirt is on the floor facing Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38, about to get up and try to grab Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38, when a man in a white shirt is shot in the head and falls to the ground.",
"Mancera initially said a man in a white shirt was a federal security agent in plain clothes, but later clarified that a man in a white shirt was a civilian, a 58-year-old construction worker.",
"A scattered handful of people remain on a busy subway platform during the shooting.",
"Some stay on the train.",
"Others walk on a busy subway platform very close to the shooter, seemingly undisturbed.",
"Seven minutes later, the camera pans out to show a man in a white shirt lying on a man in a white shirt's back and the bank police officer in the foreground.",
"Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 remains on the train, occasionally firing his gun and peeking out of the train.",
"At 5:23 p.m., the camera shows first one, then two, then three plain-clothes police getting into position on a busy subway platform.",
"Within moments three plain-clothes police rush Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 and pull Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 out of the train, with nearly a dozen police officers then wrestling Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 to the ground.",
"Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 was treated at a hospital for a bullet wound to the right shoulder before being transferred to the local attorney general's office, a common place to hold prisoners during preliminary investigations, a spokesman for the local attorney general said.",
"He faces two counts of murder and one count each of attempted murder, aggression, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace, said the spokesman, who declined to be named because a spokesman for the attorney general is not authorized to speak to the press.",
"CNN's Esprit Smith in Atlanta, Georgia, contributed to this report."
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"When police tried to stop Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 drew a gun and began firing .",
"Witnesses heard Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38 yelling anti-government slogans ."
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"ROME, Italy (CNN) --",
"Nearly two dozen Americans -- most thought to work for CIA -- were sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday by an Italian court for The Americans's role in the seizing of a suspected terrorist in Italy in 2003, the prosecutor in Case told CNN.",
"The Americans did not appear for trial and are not in custody, but ruling could effectively make The Americans international fugitives.",
"trial was the first to deal with a practice that human rights groups call \"extraordinary rendition.\"",
"They say the United States has often sent suspects to countries that practice torture.",
"the United States acknowledges making secret \"rendition\" transfers of terrorism suspects between countries but denies using torture or handing suspects over to countries that do.",
"Case centered on the extraordinary rendition of a Muslim cleric, Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, or Abu Omar.",
"a Muslim cleric, Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, or Abu Omar was seized on the streets of Milan, Italy, in 2003, transferred to Egypt and tortured, a Muslim cleric, Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, or Abu Omar said.",
"a Muslim cleric, Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, or Abu Omar was suspected of recruiting men to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan and was under heavy surveillance by Italy's intelligence agency.",
"Prosecutors said a Muslim cleric, Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, or Abu Omar was nabbed by a CIA team working with Italian intelligence officials.",
"The verdict \"shows governments and institutions that the fight against terrorism has to be carried out in accordance with the law.",
"There are no shortcuts,\" Spataro told CNN.",
"Those who were found guilty were ordered to pay a Muslim cleric, Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, or Abu Omar 1 million euros ($1.48 million) and a Muslim cleric, Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, or Abu Omar's wife 500,000 euros.",
"A total of 22 Americans were each sentenced to five years in prison for their role in a Muslim cleric, Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, or Abu Omar's abduction.",
"Another -- Robert Seldon Lady, whom prosecutors said was the CIA station chief in Milan -- was sentenced to eight years in jail, prosecutor Armando Spataro told CNN.",
"Cases were dismissed against three other Americans, including Jeff Castelli, the man assumed to be the CIA station chief in Rome at the time, because they had diplomatic immunity from prosecution.",
"Spataro said Spataro may appeal ruling.",
"Cases were also dismissed against the former head of Italy's intelligence service and his deputy because of state secrecy provisions.",
"Two other Italians were sentenced to three years in jail for aiding the plot.",
"Sabrina De Sousa, one of the American defendants, was \"saddened, angered and dismayed\" by ruling, her lawyer told CNN.",
"She felt the United States had \"stabbed her in the back,\" Mark Zaid said.",
"\"We understand why the Italians did what the Italians did.",
"the Italians were following the Italians's laws.",
"But at the end of the day, representatives of our United States government abroad were let down and left alone by representatives of our United States government abroad's own government.\"",
"De Sousa, a career diplomat, is suing the State Department over Case, Mark Zaid confirmed.",
"She has never said she worked for CIA.",
"CIA spokesman George Little said Wednesday: \"The CIA has not commented on any of the allegations surrounding a Muslim cleric, Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, or Abu Omar.\"",
"But U.S. officials confirmed to CNN when Case first broke that CIA was involved in the rendition of a Muslim cleric, Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, or Abu Omar from Italy to Egypt.",
"U.S. officials never disclosed the number of Americans involved or their names.",
"Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell responded to the verdict as it applied to an Air Force officer, Lt. Col. Joseph Romano III, who was among the Americans sentenced.",
"Pentagon had asserted jurisdiction over the incident under the NATO Status of Forces Agreement, a position that the Italian minister of justice supported, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said.",
"\"Pentagon are clearly disappointed by the court's ruling,\" Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said.",
"\"Pentagon's view is that the court has no jurisdiction over Lt. Col. Romano and should have immediately dismissed the charges.\"",
"The American Civil Liberties Union, a persistent critic of Washington's extraordinary rendition program, demanded the United States match Italy's actions.",
"\"The decision in Italy underscores the need for the United States to hold the United States's own officials accountable for crimes committed under the 'extraordinary rendition' program.",
"It is shameful that the first convictions of this kind came from a foreign justice system, where those convicted are not likely to serve their time,\" said Steven Watt, staff attorney for the ACLU Human Rights Program.",
"Italian authorities originally indicted 26 Americans and five Italians in 2007 for kidnapping in the matter.",
"five Italians included the former head of Italian intelligence, Nicolo Pollari, and one of his deputies.",
"They testified in preliminary hearings that Italian intelligence played no role in the alleged abduction.",
"None of the Americans is in custody in Italy and the Italian government did not ask for The Americans's extradition; The Americans were tried in absentia.",
"Former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer told CNN in the past that the Italian military secret service had approved the operation involving Hassan, and CIA sources who refused to be named told CNN in 2005 that CIA had briefed and sought approval from CIA's Italian counterpart for such an abduction.",
"The Italian government of the day -- which was led by Silvio Berlusconi -- vigorously denied having authorized Hassan's kidnapping, which it called illegal.",
"Silvio Berlusconi has since returned to power.",
"CNN's Hada Messia in Rome; Paula Newton in London, England; and Pam Benson and Jim Barnett in Washington contributed to this report."
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"Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica, a former Marxist Tupamaro guerrilla fighter, won Uruguay's presidential runoff election Sunday, exit polls showed.",
"Exit polls had Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica defeating Former president Luis Alberto Lacalle by a margin of 4 to 8 percentage points.",
"Current Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez confirmed the projection to reporters Sunday evening, and Former president Luis Alberto Lacalle conceded in a speech.",
"The streets of the South American country's capital were filled with Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica's supporters, who cheered and honked their horns.",
"Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica belongs to the same Broad Front Party as Vazquez, who is popular.",
"Both men are considered leftists.",
"Former president Luis Alberto Lacalle is considered more conservative.",
"In a victory speech, Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica said Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica's administration will continue the policies of Current Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez.",
"\"Tomorrow, the commitment continues,\" Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica said.",
"Mujica, 74, was imprisoned for 14 years and released in 1985 when democracy was restored to Uruguay after a 17-year dictatorship.",
"Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica was minister of livestock and agriculture from 2005 to 2008 and is now a senator.",
"Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica has played down Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica's connection with the Tupamaros, who were defeated in 1973.",
"In Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica's victory speech Sunday, Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica called for unity and asked Mujica's followers not to offend those who voted for other candidates during the first and second rounds of voting.",
"Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica's administration may make mistakes, but his administration will never turn his administration's back to the problems facing the country, Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica said.",
"\"Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica is the man who talks and dresses austerely,\" analyst Gabriel Pereyra said of Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica.",
"\"Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica is the man who communicates and talks the language of the people.\"",
"Analyst Rosario Queirolo describes Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica as \"a person who somehow lives what Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica preaches and is an antipolitician in another way.\"",
"\"Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica doesn't very well fit the image of a president we have in the country,\" Analyst Rosario Queirolo said.",
"the country is one of the smallest countries in South America, about the size of Washington state.",
"But the country is also considered one of the most economically developed.",
"Located on South America's southeastern coast, the country has a population of 3.5 million, 92 percent of whom live in urban areas.",
"CNN en Español's Dario Klein and CNN's Arthur Brice contributed to this report."
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"Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica said to win by margin of 4 to 8 percentage points .",
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"Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica belongs to the same Broad Front Party as the current president ."
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"-- The death toll from weekend violence in central Nigeria climbed to more than 200 Monday after members of a machete-wielding Muslim group attacked a mostly Christian town south of the city of Jos, officials said.",
"More than 200 were dead and 32 injured, according to Choji Gyang, a religious affairs adviser to the head of Plateau state, who said bodies were still being recovered.",
"Sani Shehu, president of the nongovernmental agency Civil Rights Congress, put the number of dead at about 485 people.",
"Twenty-six arrests had been made in connection with weekend violence in central Nigeria, Choji Gyang, a religious affairs adviser to the head of Plateau state, who said bodies were still being recovered said.",
"Nigerian Vice President Goodluck Jonathan put security on high alert Sunday and began operations to capture the \"roving bands of killers\" who attacked Dogo Nahauwa, a town just south of Jos.",
"Are you there?",
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"The townsfolk are predominantly Berom, an ethnic group that mostly practices Christianity, said Manase Pampe, spokesman for the Red Cross Plateau state office.",
"Reports of the attack described the assailants as members of the Muslim Hausa-Fulani ethnic group, Pampe and government spokesman Gregory Yenlong said.",
"The attackers stormed the town at 3 a.m. Sunday (9 p.m. Saturday ET) and remained there for 2½ hours, Pampe said.",
"Buildings were set afire, and people were attacked with machetes, Yenlong said.",
"weekend violence in central Nigeria resembled previous outbreaks of ethno-religious clashes in the West African nation.",
"But John Onaiyekan, archbishop of Abuja, told Vatican Radio the most recent outbreak is the result of a dispute over access to natural resources, not religion.",
"\"The point that needs to be made is that people are not killing one another because of religion,\" John Onaiyekan, archbishop of Abuja said.",
"Instead, John Onaiyekan, archbishop of Abuja called it a \"classical\" economic conflict between farmers and less sedentary groups.",
"the attack prompted Jonathan to place the area and neighboring states on \"red alert,\" the vice president's office said in a news release.",
"He directed security forces to \"undertake strategic initiatives to confront and defeat these roving bands of killers,\" the vice president's office said.",
"Jonathan, who became acting head of state in February while President Umaru Yar'Adua recovers from illness, called for calm.",
"\"President Umaru Yar'Adua calls on all Nigerians to remain peaceful and law abiding since violence only begets further violence,\" a news release said.",
"\"President Umaru Yar'Adua also sympathizes with those who have lost relatives and friends in these attacks, asking the Almighty to grant those who have lost relatives and friends in these attacks the fortitude to bear the loss.\"",
"John Onaiyekan, archbishop of Abuja said the government had imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew but noted it's difficult for authorities to impose curfews outside the cities.",
"The recent casualties don't \"say much about the ability of government to defend government's citizens,\" John Onaiyekan, archbishop of Abuja said.",
"Hundreds fled the town as the violence raged Sunday.",
"The Red Cross was caring for about 600 people at The Red Cross's camp in Boto in Bauchi state, said Alhaji Abubakar, the group's spokesman in Bauchi state.",
"Bauchi is just north of Plateau state.",
"Forty-eight people were treated at hospitals, national Red Cross spokesman Umar Maigari said.",
"The Red Cross officials counted 30 bodies in one community but were unable to continue Red Cross officials's investigation, national Red Cross spokesman Umar Maigari said.",
"Residents wanted to direct the attention to burying the dead, national Red Cross spokesman Umar Maigari said.",
"Nigeria -- with more than 150 million people -- is the most populous country in Africa and almost evenly divided between Muslims and Christians.",
"It has the sixth-largest Islamic population in the world -- 78 million-plus Muslims, according to a study last year by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.",
"While some outbursts of violence are between Christians and Muslims, some disputes are also ethnic-based.",
"Nigeria is home to 250 to 400 ethnic groups, making Nigeria one of the most diverse African nations, according to the International Displacement Monitoring Center.",
"Thousands were displaced in January when violence flared up in Jos, said Shehu of the Civil Rights Congress.",
"A local activist said 69 people were killed and about 600 injured.",
"Also in January, at least 150 Muslims were killed during an attack in Kuru Karama south of Jos, Human Rights Watch reported.",
"Community leaders from Jos and journalists told Human Rights Watch Community leaders from Jos and journalists saw dozens of bodies lodged in wells or sewage pits.",
"Most of the town's homes were burned, the group said.",
"In November 2008, at least 700 Nigerians died in Christian-Muslim riots that followed a disputed local election, Human Rights Watch reported.",
"CNN's Christian Purefoy contributed to this report."
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"Predominantly Christian town attacked with machetes, buildings set on fire .",
"Reports describe attackers as members of Islamic Hausa-Fulani ethnic group .",
"Nigeria has seen other religious, ethnic violence, including deadly attack on Muslims ."
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"A fire at a karaoke bar and discotheque in Medan, in North Sumatra province, killed at least 20 people Friday night, according to a hospital.",
"At least two people survived, according to Aida Sofiati of the Pringadi Hospital in Medan.",
"Aida Sofiati of the Pringadi Hospital in Medan said 20 people were killed.",
"Mohammad Zein, a fire official, said Blaze started around 10 p.m., but firefighters were able to extinguish Blaze within a half-hour.",
"He said the cause of the fire was not known."
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"Blaze hits karaoke bar and discotheque in Medan, in Medan .",
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"Snow Leopard, the highly anticipated new operating system for Mac, will be released ahead of schedule Friday, Apple announced Monday.",
"\"Ordered already: I'm just one of those nut cases,\" one Twitter user wrote about the new release.",
"Mac will be available as an upgrade to the current Leopard system for $29 and can be pre-ordered now, Apple said.",
"\"Mac builds on Apple's most successful operating system ever, and Apple're happy to get Mac to users earlier than expected,\" said Bertrand Serlet, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering.",
"\"For just $29, Mac users get a smooth upgrade to the world's most advanced operating system and the only system with built-in [Microsoft] Exchange support.\"",
"Apple said in a news release that, for Mac, Apple engineers refined 90 percent of the 1,000 projects that currently make up Apple's operating system.",
"Among the anticipated features will be what Apple promises to be faster applications, including e-mail and Web browser Safari 4, while freeing up 7 GB of drive space, compared with Mac.",
"An upgraded QuickTime system will let users more easily view, record, trim and share video, Apple said, and it will include improvements to Mac's iCal calendar, podcast producer and wiki server.",
"The system had been scheduled for a September release date.",
"But speculation in recent days had centered on an earlier release.",
"Apple rival Microsoft is set to release Windows 7, a new version of Apple rival Microsoft's PC operating system, on October 22.",
"Mac users were reporting that Apple's online stores were unavailable Monday morning, presumably to add the order page for Snow Leopard.",
"The announcement Monday created the buzz typical of any Apple announcement among the world of devoted Mac users.",
"Both \"Snow Leopard\" and \"Mac OS X Snow\" had become trending topics on Twitter on Monday morning -- with response mostly positive.",
"\"Ordered already: I'm just one of those nut cases,\" one user wrote."
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"Apple promises new and faster apps, while saving 7 GB of space .",
"Upgrade available for pre-order: $29 for current Leopard users .",
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"Havana, Cuba (CNN) --",
"Cuba is wrapping up the island's biggest military exercises in five years, saying Cuba wants to be prepared in the event of a U.S. invasion.",
"Under the watchful eye of Cuban President Raul Castro, the armed forces is ending four days of extensive maneuvers, war-room strategy sessions and military parades across the island.",
"\"This is a necessity of the first order,\" Gen. Leonardo Andollo Valdez said on state television.",
"\"The political, military situation, which characterizes the confrontation between our country and the empire, can go from a relatively normal situation to a much more urgent, confrontational, aggressive one in a month, a week, or even in a night,\" Gen. Leonardo Andollo Valdez added.",
"Cuban television broadcast images of camouflaged troops firing from trenches and fighter aircraft dropping bombs.",
"Many of the images are from exercises in previous years.",
"The exercises come amid a slight thaw in relations between the Cold War enemies.",
"President Obama has lifted restrictions on Cuban-American travel and remittances, and the two countries have resumed immigration talks.",
"President Obama recently said the United States has no intention of invading Cuba just 90 miles off its coast.",
"But the fear of an attack has been a constant concern here, and not without reason.",
"In 1961, Washington backed an invasion by Cuban exiles bent on overthrowing Fidel Castro, the brother of Raul Castro and former president of Cuba.",
"Cuban exiles bent on overthrowing Fidel Castro, the brother of Raul Castro and former president of Cuba were defeated at the Bay of Pigs, but the United States has maintained an economic embargo, and Raul Castro has survived numerous attempts on Raul Castro's life.",
"the island began in 1980 and have been repeated every few years.",
"The latest maneuvers, called \"Bastion 2009,\" are the first since Raul Castro succeeded Raul Castro's brother and President Obama assumed the White House.",
"Preparations for the island began in 2004, before either was in office.",
"the island end Saturday, and on Sunday, Cuba will celebrate Day of Defense."
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"Four days of maneuvers, war strategy sessions, military parades set across island .",
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"President Obama recently said the United States has no intention of invading Cuba ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Troops in the southern Philippines early Sunday took advantage of martial law to hunt down those believed responsible for last week's killings there.",
"President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared martial law in Maguindanao province after 57 people were killed in politically motivated violence.",
"Maj. Randolph Cabangbang, deputy of operations for the Eastern Mindanao command, told CNN on Saturday that searchers have made arrests and recovered firearms and vehicles from a clan implicated in last week's killings there.",
"He said local residents welcome the deployment of the troops.",
"\"We need this because we do not want those who perpetrated the crime to slip out of Maguindanao province.",
"And we may be having a hard time catching them,\" he said.",
"Army spokesman Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner Jr. said martial law -- under which police can make arrests without a warrant -- went into effect at 9 p.m. Congress would have to approve any extension beyond 60 days.",
"Brawner said the measure was invoked to impose peace on the region after the unrest, which led to troops being mobilized.",
"\"Life is to resume normally and martial law is established to prevent new violence, with troops on the ground monitoring any possible violence breakout,\" he said.",
"\"But the civilian government will be running the affairs of Maguindanao province, not a military governor.\"",
"Military police have detained three brothers and their father on suspicion of involvement in the unrest: Akmad Ampatuan, the vice governor of Maguindanao province; Anwar Ampatuan, the mayor of Sherif Auguak, Maguindanao's capital; and Zaldy Ampatuan, governor of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao.",
"Andal Ampatuan Sr., the patriarch, became ill and was hospitalized after Andal Ampatuan Sr., too, was taken in.",
"\"Local government will function, Local government will prevent armed groups from wreaking havoc ... and Local government will allow the officials search and find the guilty parties,\" Brawner said.",
"Security forces on Friday searched the home of Andal Ampatuan Jr., mayor of Datu Unsay and son of the provincial governor of Maguindanao province, according to Brawner.",
"Authorities say Andal Ampatuan Jr. directed last week's killings there.",
"Weapons were found in the house, Brawner said.",
"On Tuesday, Philippine authorities charged Ampatuan and other suspects with 25 counts of murder in last week's killings there.",
"Still more suspects were taken into custody Friday.",
"The Philippine military is investigating The Philippine military's own forces in connection with the case as well, Brawner said.",
"The National Bureau of Investigation has moved a third witness to Manila for questioning, the Philippines News Agency reported Thursday.",
"\"At the moment, we are interviewing a third witness so that we would know what a third witness knows about the incident in Maguindanao province,\" NBI Director Nestor Mantaring said.",
"a third witness claimed to have been at the site during last week's killings there.",
"\"a third witness is very vital,\" NBI Director Nestor Mantaring said.",
"\"From what I know ... a third witness knows a lot of information regarding the unrest.\"",
"Among the victims in last week's killings there were the wife and sister of political candidate Ismael \"Toto\" Mangudadatu, who had sent the women to file paperwork allowing him to run for governor of Maguindanao province.",
"He said he had received threats from allies of Gov. Andal Ampatuan, the father of the accused mayor, saying he would be kidnapped if he filed the papers himself.",
"Witnesses and local officials have blamed the younger Ampatuan, a longtime ally of the Philippines president and a known warlord.",
"Witnesses and local officials said last week's killings there were an attempt to block Mangudadatu from challenging him in the May gubernatorial election.",
"Also killed were a dozen journalists who had accompanied the women.",
"Group: Philippines most dangerous country for journalists .",
"Asked why martial law was imposed 12 days after last week's killings there, Cabangbang said authorities \"were trying to build a case -- a tight case\" against suspects.",
"\"But it is taking long to build a case, so I think the government gave us a free hand in arresting those who are suspects, and allowed us to search, even without warrant.",
"So we really need this declaration of state of martial law.\"",
"Violence in the run-up to elections is not uncommon in the Philippines.",
"The Maguindanao province massacre, however, is the worst politically motivated violence in recent Philippine history, according to state media.",
"Maguindanao province is part of an autonomous region in predominantly Muslim Mindanao, which was set up in the 1990s to quell armed uprisings by people seeking an independent Muslim homeland in the predominantly Christian Asian nation.",
"Suspicion fell on Ampatuan after a government construction vehicle was found at the hastily dug mass grave that held the bodies of the massacre victims.",
"CNN's Talia Kayali contributed to this report."
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"Martial law follows killings of 57 last week in Maguindanao province .",
"Several members of powerful Ampatuan political family detained .",
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"Pakistan's religious affairs minister escaped with a minor injury in an attack that killed Religious affairs minister, Hamid Saeed Kazmi's driver Wednesday.",
"Religious affairs minister, Hamid Saeed Kazmi and Religious affairs minister, Hamid Saeed Kazmi's driver are helped into an ambulance at the site of the shooting.",
"Attack took place at an Islamabad market, next to a police station, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan said.",
"Religious affairs minister, Hamid Saeed Kazmi, was shot in the leg but Religious affairs minister, Hamid Saeed Kazmi's injury was not serious, hospital officials said.",
"Minister's driver, however, died in Attack, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan said.",
"Kazmi, 51, is the federal minister for religious affairs and member of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party.",
"Security analyst Hasan Askari-Rizvi told CNN affiliate Time.com Attack shows that the serious security problems in Pakistan remain.",
"\"If this type of attack can take place in the center of Islamabad,\" Security analyst Hasan Askari-Rizvi said, \"then nowhere in Pakistan is safe.\"",
"Attack comes a day after Pakistani officials claimed fighting in the northwest of Pakistan left 43 militants dead and two commanders captured.",
"The deaths came as a result of a military operation in Bara, in the Khyber Agency, according to the Khyber Agency's Office of Political Administration.",
"CNN's Samson Desta contributed to this report."
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"-- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a strong signal Thursday that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has full hands-on control of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's country.",
"As part of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's annual town hall forum, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spoke for four hours and fielded 80 questions out of 2 million-plus submitted on a live call-in program, \"Conversation With Vladimir Putin -- Continued.\"",
"Responding to a question on whether Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had any plans to retire and enjoy the life of an ordinary citizen, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin tersely replied, \"Don't count on that.\"",
"And when asked whether Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin plans to run for the presidency again in 2012, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said, \"I will think about it.",
"There is plenty of time for that.\"",
"Speaking of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's \"tandem\" with President Dmitry Medvedev, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had \"known him for many years, graduated from the same universities, having been taught by the same professors.\"",
"\"Those common principles allow us to effectively work together,\" Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said, responding to the never-ending speculation about which one of the duo is more important and whether a rift between them is possible.",
"Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin juggled a myriad of facts and statistics, giving instructions to subordinates along the way to fix problems, as Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin responded to questions mostly on Russia's domestic issues.",
"These covered pensions, medication prices, the overhauling of entire industries and Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization, Amur tigers and hip-hop music, and everything in between.",
"The program was broadcast live on government television and radio.",
"The program marked Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's eighth annual year-end \"town meeting,\" first launched in 2001 when Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was president.",
"This year's forum was Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's second as prime minister.",
"Representatives from all Russian industries as well as university students packed the auditorium in Gostiny Dvor, a large conference hall next door to the Kremlin, where Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appeared.",
"Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took questions from the hall's floor, with live cameras positioned in towns and cities across Russia, and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin also responded to phone calls, e-mails and mobile SMS messages.",
"Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin started off by addressing the issue of terrorism, coming nearly a week after the derailment of a luxury Moscow-St.Petersburg express train, which left 26 people dead and more than 100 injured.",
"Russia's Federal Security Service said an improvised explosive device, which unknown bombers placed beneath the railroad bed, caused Friday's derailment.",
"It was the biggest terror act outside Russia's troubled North Caucasus region since 2004.",
"\"We did a lot [in recent years] to break the backbone of terrorism, but the threat has not been eliminated yet,\" Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.",
"\"The entire society, each of us, should be conscious of the threat and be vigilant.\"",
"Addressing the economy, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the peak of the global economic crisis has passed, \"although turbulent trends in the global and, as a result, the economy, are still in place.\"",
"\"It will take time and effort to overcome the crisis,\" Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.",
"The past year has been \"one of the most difficult\" for Russia in this decade, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin added, saying the 2009 gross domestic product will shrink by 8.5 percent to 8.7 percent.",
"The slump in Russia's industry will be even bigger, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said, around 13 percent, but the projected inflation for 2009 will be lower than in the past year, about 9 percent.",
"Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin also cited what Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called \"positive developments\" in the economy.",
"Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said some industries, such as military hardware production and agriculture, are even growing.",
"In the arena of international politics, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told a questioner that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and former President George W. Bush had a good relationship but have not been in touch.",
"Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin described former President George W. Bush as a \"very honest and nice person,\" saying that if the ex-U.S. leader wanted to continue he and former President George W. Bush's relationship, he would be glad to do so.",
"Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said the wide range of issues on which Russians posed questions \"provides an excellent instrument for sociological study, and all questions that are being raised, are carefully studied.",
"That [call-in show] gives a very reliable sociological survey.\"",
"Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's popularity ratings at home demonstrates Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's political dominance in Russia.",
"Confidence in Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin stood at 70 percent, as opposed to 59 percent for Medvedev, according to a recently published opinion poll conducted by Russia's Public Opinion Foundation.",
"While Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's town hall forum, Medvedev was holding meetings in Italy with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Pope Benedict XVI."
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"(CNN) --",
"Sowell has been indicted on 85 counts -- including aggravated murder, rape and kidnapping -- in the deaths of 11 women whose bodies were found at Sowell's home, authorities said Tuesday.",
"In addition, Anthony Sowell, 50, is charged with \"brutalizing\" three women and raping two of them, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason said.",
"Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Sowell, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason said.",
"Sowell is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.",
"Sowell is now charged with 11 counts of aggravated murder with a \"mass murder specification,\" meaning multiple people were killed in a similar fashion, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason said.",
"Sowell also is charged with abuse of a corpse, kidnapping and tampering with evidence.",
"The indictment also alleges that Sowell assaulted women on December 8, 2008, and on September 22 and October 20 of this year.",
"The September and October victims were raped, and the other woman was punched and choked before the other woman escaped, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason said.",
"Sowell's charges in the incidents include attempted murder, rape or attempted rape, kidnapping, robbery and felonious assault.",
"Sowell already faced charges in the September 22 rape and has pleaded not guilty.",
"On October 20, neighbors reported seeing a naked woman fall from the second floor of Sowell's house.",
"Firefighters responded and later notified police.",
"But the woman told officers the woman fell off the roof while the woman was at the home \"partying,\" police said earlier.",
"No charges were filed at the time.",
"Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason said, however, that the woman had been invited to Sowell's home and left, but was lured back in.",
"After being choked and raped, the woman attempted to escape out a second-floor window as Sowell tried to pull the woman back in.",
"When Sowell was unsuccessful, Sowell pushed the woman out, and the woman lay unconscious in an alley for a while before Sowell pulled the woman back in Sowell.",
"Sowell threatened Sowell's victims and warned his victims not to contact police, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason said.",
"It's possible there are other victims, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason said, and Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason urged anyone who has not come forward to do so.",
"Sowell \"knew what Sowell was doing was wrong at the time Sowell was doing it,\" Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason said.",
"As of last month, Sowell was on suicide watch at the request of Sowell's public defender, Kathleen DeMetz.",
"She had said a psychiatric evaluation of Sowell had been ordered but was unlikely to happen until after an indictment was filed.",
"Cuyahoga County Sheriff Bob Reid said Tuesday that Sowell has been a \"model prisoner,\" is kept in an isolated unit and has declined visitation requests.",
"All of the 11 victims were African-American women, authorities have said.",
"Most of them were strangled by ligature -- which could include a string, cord or wire -- and at least one was strangled by hand, officials said.",
"Seven still had ligatures wrapped around their necks.",
"All that has been found of one woman is a skull that was wrapped in a paper bag and stuffed into a bucket in the home's basement.",
"Sowell served 15 years in prison for a 1989 attempted rape and was released in 2005.",
"Sowell was required to register as a sex offender.",
"After the 11 victims were found, police in mid-November used thermal imaging in an attempt to see whether any additional human remains were on the property.",
"They dug certain areas by hand.",
"No more were found.",
"Police and the FBI have said Police and the FBI are looking at the unsolved murders of three women in East Cleveland to determine whether there are similarities with the remains found at Sowell's home.",
"The inquiry continues, Mason said Tuesday.",
"Police in Coronado, California, have said they are attempting to determine whether Sowell is linked to a 1979 rape there.",
"Though the statute of limitations has expired, authorities said authorities would like to provide closure to the victim.",
"Neighbors and police have said that women were seen at Sowell's home from time to time and that Sowell would offer them alcohol.",
"Police said Sowell also might have offered them drugs.",
"In the September assault, the woman told police that the woman encountered Sowell while walking in Sowell's neighborhood and Sowell took the woman back to Sowell's home, where Sowell became violent and raped the woman, according to prosecutors.",
"\"While raping the woman, Sowell strangled the woman with a cord until the woman lost consciousness,\" authorities said in a statement.",
"\"When the woman regained consciousness, Sowell let the woman out of the house.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"David Headley, the Chicago, Illinois, man appearing in court Wednesday in connection with terror attacks in India, was born Daood Gilani, the son of a prominent Pakistani broadcaster, according to David Headley's half-brother.",
"David Headley grew up in both the United States and Pakistan, with a parent from each country.",
"David Headley's father, Syed Saleem Gilani, was working for the U.S.-government-funded Voice of America when David Headley was born in 1960 in Washington, his half-brother said in a statement.",
"David Headley's mother was American, and David Headley's parents divorced after his parents moved to Pakistan together, not long after David Headley was born",
", David Headley's half-brother said.",
"He did not name Headley's mother.",
"David Headley's mother returned to the United States, but David Headley remained in Pakistan, David Headley's half-brother said, citing \"family elders.\"",
"David Headley went to high school at the Hassan Abdal Cadet College in Pakistan, his half-brother and an FBI complaint against David Headley indicate.",
"At some point after high school, David Headley moved back to the United States to be with David Headley's mother, and has had little contact with David Headley's Pakistani family since then, his half-brother said.",
"his half-brother last saw David Headley, whom his half-brother still refers to as Daood, \"when his half-brother visited Pakistan a few days after my father's death, nearly a year ago.\"",
"David Headley got a Social Security number in Pennsylvania sometime in the late 1970s, public records show.",
"David Headley changed David Headley's name from Gilani to David Headley on or about February 15, 2006, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in order to present David Headley in India as an American who was neither Muslim nor Pakistani, according to the criminal complaint against David Headley.",
"\"David Headley's having another name or changing David Headley's name at some stage in life has come as a surprise to me.",
"David Headley has four kids and a Pakistani wife who also live in the United States,\" said Danyal Gilani, a public relations officer for the Pakistani prime minister's office.",
"his half-brother issued a long statement last month distancing his half-brother from his half-brother's half-brother, in response to reports in the Indian press trying to link David Headley to Pakistan's prime minister, whose last name also is Gilani.",
"But his half-brother said his half-brother's family was not related to the prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani.",
"David Headley was arrested by federal agents on October 3 in Chicago, accused of helping plan terror attacks against a Danish newspaper that ran cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, sparking Muslim anger worldwide.",
"David Headley was later linked to the bloody four-day terrorist siege in Mumbai, India, in November 2008 in which 160 people were killed.",
"The Justice Department accuses David Headley of attending terrorism training camps in Pakistan in 2002 and 2003, and working with the group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba to carry out terror attacks.",
"The United States lists Lashkar as a terrorist organization.",
"India blamed the group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba for the Mumbai attacks.",
"At the time of David Headley's arrest October 3, David Headley was on David Headley's way back to India to plan a second attack, a source close to the investigation said.",
"David Headley is cooperating with the authorities investigating both terror plots, The Justice Department has said.",
"David Headley's lawyer did not dispute that.",
"Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed, a retired major in the Pakistani military, was also charged with conspiracy in planning to attack the Danish newspaper.",
"So was Tahawwur Hussain Rana, whom U.S. authorities identify as a Pakistani native and Canadian citizen who lives mainly in Chicago.",
"David Headley said David Headley worked for First World Immigration Services, a company owned by Rana, though authorities have said in court papers that surveillance showed that David Headley \"performs few services\" for the company.",
"CNN's Reza Sayah in Islamabad, Pakistan, Terry Frieden in Washington, and Kathleen Johnston, Drew Griffin and Amy Roberts in Atlanta, Georgia, contributed to this report."
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"This article was brought to CNN.com by UWIRE, the leading provider of student-generated content.",
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"-- Site developed this year that allows students to share old exams online is causing debate among professors about Site's ethical implications.",
"PostYourTest.com creator Demir Oral says Site is a tool for education, not for cheating.",
"PostYourTest.com is an educational tool that lets students anonymously upload materials and tests from students's previous and current classes, said Demir Oral, creator of Site.",
"However, there are teachers who do not want teachers who do not want their tests to be posted for every student to see's tests to be posted for every student to see.",
"\"I would not be happy if a student who had taken a class of mine had taken an exam and posted it online,\" Sarah Hall, graduate professor of psychology at Penn State University, said.",
"\"I know that some teachers reuse past exams and it would be hard to have to write a new test for every class.\"",
"However, Mary Bojan, professor of chemistry at PSU, said Bojan wouldn't mind if students posted Bojan's tests online.",
"\"For my classes I always write new exams every time, and I wouldn't object because I have some old exams up online that I've posted Bojan,\" Bojan said.",
"Currently, there are no tests online for Penn State University, because Site was developed on the West Coast, Oral said.",
"\"Primarily the main audience is San Diego, but that's because I've only advertised around there,\" Oral said.",
"Oral said Oral is looking into expanding Site more to include universities and colleges across the country.",
"\"Also, although I am still focused on the United States, in the future I would like to go global,\" Oral said.",
"\"I think it would be really effective worldwide.\"",
"While studying for an exam in the HUB-Robeson Center, Christal Cozier (senior-nutrition) said Christal Cozier (senior-nutrition) would consider using Site.",
"\"I think looking at an old exam helps -- it at least gives the student an idea of how the teacher poses questions,\" Christal Cozier (senior-nutrition) said.",
"While Christal Cozier (senior-nutrition) said Christal Cozier (senior-nutrition) wouldn't go through the trouble of posting a test Christal Cozier (senior-nutrition), Christal Cozier (senior-nutrition) said Christal Cozier (senior-nutrition) didn't think students posting old tests online would be a problem.",
"\"Most teachers give out practice exams and old exams anyway,\" Christal Cozier (senior-nutrition) said.",
"\"The only time I would think it would be a problem is if the teacher uses exams more than once.\"",
"In response to criticism of the site from professors, Oral said Oral wants people to know Site is a tool for education and not a tool for cheating.",
"Oral added teachers can ban teachers's exams from Site if teachers don't want students sharing them online.",
"\"The first professor that banned his exams said he wanted to ban them because he was copyrighting them and publishing them in a book, and that made total sense to me,\" Oral said.",
"Even with the option to ban tests, Tara Chismar said professors may not know Site exists and may not know to ban professors's exams from Site.",
"Tara Chismar said Site might be OK only if students get permission from students's teachers to post exams online.",
"Bojan said the biggest problem Bojan saw with students posting material online would be putting up tests the teachers wanted handed back in.",
"\"Common sense needs to come into play with something like this because there's a student responsibility side to it,\" Bojan said.",
"\"Having access to an exam you're not supposed to is cheating.\"",
"Students shouldn't have to rely on old tests online to prepare for an exam from a new teacher, Hall said.",
"\"There are likely a lot of professors who would be happy to give students more of a sense of what the exam is going to be like -- maybe giving students sample questions,\" she said.",
"Bojan warned students should use materials posted online wisely because looking at an exam may not always be the best way to study.",
"\"One problem is old tests may not be the most effective study tool,\" Bojan said.",
"\"By just going off of old exams students aren't learning how to actually do the problems.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"The news was devastating, the aftermath surreal.",
"Diena Thompson clutched a tissue in Diena Thompson's right hand, frequently wiping Diena Thompson's eyes as Diena Thompson told reporters that Diena Thompson couldn't believe it was Diena Thompson's daughter whose body was found in a Georgia landfill.",
"Diena Thompson's visage revealed the weight of grief and a yearning for justice.",
"Standing outside Diena Thompson's home in Orange Park, Florida, Diena Thompson looked into the camera and, with Diena Thompson's voice cracking, sent out a stern warning to Diena Thompson's daughter's killer.",
"\"I want you to know that I will not sleep until this person is found.",
"I hope they get you, and I hope they make you pay for a long, long time.",
"You don't take from somebody.",
"You didn't just take Somer from Diena Thompson.",
"You took Somer from my family; you took Somer from all these people.",
"And you don't do this to a little baby and put my baby in the trash like she's nothing.",
"That's not OK, this is not OK.\"",
"The body of Diena Thompson's daughter, 7-year-old Somer Thompson, was found in a South Georgia landfill, Clay County, Florida, Sheriff Rick Beseler said Thursday.",
"On Monday, Somer became separated from Somer's siblings and schoolmates on Somer's way home from school in Orange Park.",
"Somer was seen in a fight at school before disappearing, according to a police report Thursday.",
"Somer's 10-year-old sister told police that Somer had gotten into a fight with another girl at school earlier in the day.",
"Her 10-year-old sister said Her 10-year-old sister brought up the fight while Her 10-year-old sister and Her 10-year-old sister's brother walked Somer home from school, and that Somer ran off from she and her brother, apparently upset.",
"Her 10-year-old sister said Her 10-year-old sister lost sight of Somer in a group of other kids leaving the school, according to a police report Thursday.",
"A medical examiner in Savannah, Georgia, used dental records to identify the body positively as Somer's, said Clay County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Mary Justino.",
"The sheriff told Somer's mother Wednesday night that Her 10-year-old sister's daughter had been identified.",
"Thompson was devastated, he said.",
"\"It was the hardest phone call I've ever had to make in my life, and I hope I never have to make another one like that,\" Beseler said at a Thursday news conference.",
"Authorities are turning Authorities's full attention to finding the child's killer.",
"The landfill where Somer's body was found is near Folkston, Georgia, 55 miles north of where Somer became separated from Somer's schoolmates.",
"Authorities will work to pinpoint where the garbage load that contained Somer's body came from, Beseler said.",
"The garbage brought into that part of The landfill where her body was found was collected in the Orange Park area, Beseler has said, noting that authorities routinely search garbage when a missing person case has been initiated.",
"The investigation has turned into a murder probe.",
"\"There is a child killer on the loose,\" the sheriff said.",
"\"I fear for our community until we bring this person in.\"",
"Investigators in Georgia are combing through a \"tremendous mountain\" of garbage at The landfill where her body was found, searching for clues, said Justino, the sheriff's office spokeswoman, on Friday.",
"Some possible evidence has been removed from The landfill where her body was found, but authorities won't describe what authorities found, Justino said.",
"Police have no suspects, Justino said.",
"Justino said other law enforcement teams are focusing on the locale where the child apparently was last seen.",
"Justino said witnesses, including some children, saw her on the sidewalk in front of a vacant house under renovation after a fire.",
"\"Since Monday, we have been trying to figure out who frequents that area,\" including anyone working on the home, Justino said.",
"Rewards totaling $30,000 have been offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible.",
"Justino said of the 810 leads called in to a tip line, 231 were being actively pursued by a group of 50 detectives.",
"Overnight, detectives finished interviewing 90 registered sex offenders or predators within a five-mile radius of the Thompson home, Justino said.",
"Somer's family was making funeral arrangements Friday, Justino said, and many in the community had offered to help financially.",
"\"There has been an outpouring of support from the community,\" Justino said.",
"CNN's Maria P. White contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Tuesday said Huckabee accepts \"full responsibility\" for granting clemency in 2000 to a man authorities say gunned down four Lakewood, Washington, police officers Sunday.",
"Maurice Clemmons, 37, was shot and killed early Tuesday by Seattle police.",
"He was the subject of a two-day manhunt after 4 Washington officers were killed at a coffee shop as 4 Washington officers met before 4 Washington officers's shifts began Sunday morning.",
"Clemmons had a criminal history in Arkansas and Washington.",
"In May 2000, Huckabee commuted Clemmons's 108-year prison sentence to make Clemmons immediately eligible for parole, which was granted by the parole board two months later.",
"Clemmons had been sentenced to 95 years, to run after time Clemmons was already serving on previous convictions.",
"In a statement on the conservative news Web site Newsmax.com, Huckabee wrote that Huckabee commuted Clemmons's sentence from 108 years to 47 years.",
"Reports that Huckabee had pardoned Clemmons or set Clemmons free were erroneous, Huckabee said.",
"\"I take full responsibility for my actions of nine years ago,\" Huckabee said.",
"\"I acted on the facts presented to Huckabee in 2000.",
"If I could have possibly known what Clemmons would do nine years later, I obviously would have made a different decision.",
"But if the same file was presented to Huckabee today, I would have likely made the same decision.\"",
"But the Arkansas prosecutor who put Clemmons behind bars told CNN on Tuesday that Huckabee was issuing clemency at \"an astounding rate\" during Huckabee's tenure as governor.",
"\"Huckabee was exercising the clemency power at what I call a wholesale rate,\" Larry Jegley said.",
"\"Huckabee was letting murderers out, Huckabee was letting rapists out, and Huckabee was letting the likes of Clemmons out.\"",
"One survey, Jegley said, showed Huckabee issued more clemencies from 1996 to 2004 than the governors of all six surrounding states, including Texas.",
"Jegley said Jegley didn't know why so many clemencies were granted.",
"\"That was part of the frustration that we felt with the entire process.",
"... We never felt as though Huckabee gave victims, victims's families, jurors, law enforcement and the community in general an adequate explanation as to why Huckabee felt compelled to let people of proven danger go in our community.\"",
"Huckabee was a Republican presidential candidate in the 2008 election and has not ruled out another White House bid in 2012.",
"During Huckabee's 2008 campaign, Huckabee was criticized for granting clemency to another inmate, convicted rapist Wayne DuMond, who was later convicted of raping and murdering a woman in Missouri.",
"\"Between 1,000 and 2,000 requests for some form of clemency came to my desk each and every one of the 10½ years I was governor,\" Huckabee said Tuesday.",
"\"Ninety-two percent of the time, I denied the requests.\"",
"Huckabee noted that in Arkansas, a governor does not initiate a sentence change -- the Post Prison Transfer Board makes a recommendation to the governor after reviewing an inmate's file.",
"the governor then can grant or deny it.",
"Clemmons was 16 when Clemmons was charged with robbery and burglary.",
"\"For the crimes Clemmons committed and the age at which Clemmons committed the crimes, [a 108-year sentence] was dramatically outside the norm for sentencing,\" Huckabee said.",
"the Post Prison Transfer Board unanimously recommended that the sentence be commuted.",
"Jegley said that while in prison in Arkansas, Clemmons had a disciplinary record for violent incidents, and that something should have tipped off the board or the governor that \"Clemmons was not a good candidate to be put back in society, because Clemmons couldn't live in the cloistered environment of prison and stay out of trouble.\"",
"Watch what Jegley has to say .",
"In the case of any form of clemency -- a commutation or a full pardon -- notice is given to the prosecutor, the judge, law enforcement officials, the attorney general and the secretary of state, as well as the media, for a public response period, Huckabee said.",
"\"The only record of public response to the notice to commute was from the trial judge, who recommended the commendation in concert with the Post Prison Transfer Board.\"",
"Jegley told CNN Jegley was not notified of the commutation, but Jegley doesn't \"attribute that to something sinister. ...",
"I just think that maybe the system fouled up and didn't get notification out to all the parties who were interested in it, my office included.\"",
"Clemmons was returned to prison after violating Clemmons's parole, Huckabee said.",
"Clemmons \"should have stayed there.",
"For reasons only the prosecutor can explain, charges were not brought forth in a timely way and only the prosecutor ended up dropping charges, allowing Clemmons to leave prison and return to supervised parole.\"",
"He noted that Clemmons, who had been picked up again in Pierce County, Washington, was released on bail there only days before the officers were slain.",
"\"I can't explain why Clemmons wasn't prosecuted properly for the parole violations or why Clemmons was allowed to make bail in Washington state and not incarcerated earlier for crimes committed there,\" Huckabee wrote.",
"On Sunday, Huckabee's office issued a statement saying that if Clemmons was \"found responsible for this horrible tragedy, it will be the result of a series of failures in the criminal justice system in both Arkansas and Washington state.\"",
"Police responded sharply to that statement.",
"\"We're disappointed that Huckabee came out in the middle of the night without calling anybody here and blamed this on the criminal justice system in the state of Washington,\" Pierce County Sheriff's Department spokesman Ed Troyer said.",
"\"We're guessing that's probably a spin doctor, not him.\"",
"Huckabee wrote of Clemmons, \"I wish Clemmons's file had never crossed my desk, but his file did.",
"The decision I made is one that I now wish were different, but I could only look backwards at Clemmons's case, not forward.",
"None of this is of any comfort to the families of 4 Washington officers, nor should it be.",
"4 Washington officers's loss is senseless.",
"... Our system is not perfect, and neither are those responsible for administering Our system.",
"\"The system, and those of us who are supposed to make sure it works, sometimes fail,\" Huckabee said.",
"\"In this case, we clearly did.\""
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"Huckabee: I \"acted on the facts presented to me in 2000,\" denied 92% of clemency requests ."
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"A Fort Drum soldier has been arrested in the deaths of two fellow soldiers found stabbed in an apartment near the upstate New York military base, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said.",
"The suspect, Joshua Hunter, 20, is being held at an undisclosed location in Ohio after being charged with two counts of second degree murder, Undersheriff Tim Dowe told CNN.",
"the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office identified the victims as Spc. Waide T. James, 20, of Cocoa, Florida, and Spc. Diego A. Valbuena, 23, of Port St. Lucie, Florida.",
"The two men were found dead with multiple stab wounds Tuesday in an apartment at Meadowbrook Apartments in LeRay, NEW YORK, Undersheriff Tim Dowe said.",
"The complex houses mostly military families near the main entrance of Fort Drum, Undersheriff Tim Dowe said.",
"The motive is unknown at this time, Undersheriff Tim Dowe said.",
"Sheriff's deputies were called to the apartment complex after the soldiers were reported missing for duty, but the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office could not say when that report was filed.",
"James and Valbuena, who joined the Army in 2007, worked as motor transport operators with the Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 10th Mountain Division, according to a Fort Drum press release.",
"The two men had served in Iraq, a Fort Drum press release said.",
"Police and Fort Drum officials would not release information about the suspect, including his rank or relationship to the victims.",
"CNN's Evan Buxbaum contributed to this report."
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"Soupy Sales, a comedian from the golden era of television, died Thursday.",
"The funny man was 83.",
"The funny man seen many times on popular game shows died at a New York hospice, said Paul Dver, The funny man's longtime friend and manager.",
"\"We have lost a comedy American icon,\" Dver said.",
"\"I feel the personal loss, and I also feel the magic that The funny man had around The funny man being gone.",
"That's a much more severe loss than a loss of a friend.\"",
"Sales was known for The funny man's long-running children's show \"Lunch With Soupy Sales,\" which started in 1953 and began The funny man's trademark slapstick pie-throwing antics.",
"his long-running children's show \"Lunch With Soupy Sales,\" which started in 1953 and began his trademark slapstick pie-throwing antics featured skits that culminated in The funny man getting walloped with pies in the face.",
"What are your memories of The funny man?",
"\"Soupy was the last of the great TV comics when you talk about Ernie Kovacs, Red Skelton, right down to Howdy Doody,\" Dver said.",
"\"But it was bigger than that, because The funny man used a children's format aimed at the kids and then The funny man would forget The funny man was doing a kids' show and do a wild, unrehearsed, wacky improv for a half-hour every day for 15 years.\"",
"The funny man could also inflame the authorities.",
"One New Year's Day, upset at being asked to work, The funny man asked The funny man's youthful audience to send The funny man those \"green pieces of paper\" from their parents' wallets.",
"Though The funny man didn't receive much -- The funny man told The New York Times The funny man received only a few dollars -- The funny man was suspended for a week for the prank.",
"Later in The funny man's career, The funny man was a regular on TV game shows, such as \"Hollywood Squares,\" \"To Tell the Truth\" and \"What's My Line?\"",
"Sales recently fell backstage at a local Emmy awards show in New York and developed serious ailments after that, Dver said."
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"Scalia is a conservative in thought, but not in personality.",
"A new biography of the colorful Supreme Court jurist paints a complete picture of his enormous ongoing influence on the law and society.",
"\"American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia\" (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) offers the first comprehensive look at the first Italian-American on Supreme Court, and the rhetorical battles he has waged on Supreme Court and off.",
"CNN spoke with Joan Biskupic, the book's author, who also is a reporter for USA Today.",
"Biskupic has covered Supreme Court for two decades, holds a law degree from Georgetown University and has also written a biography of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.",
"CNN:",
"Scalia has a certain public image in the minds of many Americans.",
"You've known Scalia for years and interviewed Scalia several times for the book.",
"Is Scalia the same in private?",
"Biskupic:",
"Scalia's a lot more of Scalia in private.",
"Scalia actually is very confrontational behind the scenes, just as Scalia is in public.",
"Scalia's very defiant.",
"But Scalia also can be quite funny, quite casual, generous and decent.",
"Scalia's best friend on the bench is Justice [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg [a low-key, liberal justice but, like Scalia, a native New Yorker who loves opera].",
"Scalia's many things.",
"Scalia's very consistent on the law, but Scalia's a lot of things in terms of Scalia's personality.",
"CNN:",
"Scalia has told me that one of the happiest times in Scalia's career was in the executive branch, where Scalia said that's where the action was, instead of serving on the bench.",
"Biskupic:",
"Remember what it was like working in the [Department of Justice's] Office of Legal Counsel in the post-Watergate era [in the Nixon and Ford administrations].",
"It was an exciting job for Scalia, there was a lot of tension, and conflicts with the legislative branch.",
"Scalia really thrived on that.",
"At a time when many Republican lawyers were trying to get out of the Nixon administration, as Watergate was moving to a climax, Scalia was trying to move up and be promoted.",
"Scalia sparred with Democratic lawmakers, and was trying to exert executive privilege claims, when that was a dirty word in the wake of Watergate.",
"CNN:",
"Growing up, you describe \"Nino\" -- as Scalia's friends and family call Scalia -- as something of a golden child.",
"Biskupic:",
"I'd always known Scalia was an only child, who, interestingly, later went on to have nine children, but I didn't know Scalia was the only offspring of Scalia's generation from two immigrant Italian families.",
"For Scalia's parents and Scalia's aunts and uncles, Scalia was the center of his parents and his aunts and uncles's universe, but it put a burden on Scalia to perform, to be this special child.",
"I found the conflicts in terms of being a product of two different families continue to reveal Scalia.",
"The father was quite cerebral, was a professor, always had The father's nose in a book, The father didn't abide any kind of silliness.",
"And Scalia's mother's side was much more flamboyant.",
"You had these contrasting families, and, as I write in the book, Scalia learned to deal with conflict and tension early on in Scalia's life, and went on to readily generate it as an adult.",
"CNN:",
"Many conservatives worship Scalia, and yet you suggest Scalia's influence has not had as far-reaching an effect inside Supreme Court as many believe it to be.",
"How do Scalia's colleagues view Scalia?",
"Biskupic:",
"I talked to Scalia's colleagues about where Scalia's at.",
"Justice [John Paul] Stevens says Scalia is committed -- some of Scalia's impact made a huge difference, some of it unfortunate.",
"Stevens, the senior liberal, has dueled with Scalia dozens of times, from Bush v. Gore [the 2000 presidential election dispute] to recent dilemmas testing the Guantanamo detainees.",
"Justice Ginsburg, Scalia's closest friend on Supreme Court, sees Scalia's influence beyond the marble walls, and that's the way I've been mostly viewing Scalia until the recent terms.",
"Scalia is influential with conservative acolytes.",
"Within Supreme Court, Scalia certainly alienated [now-retired Justice Sandra Day] O'Connor, Justice [Harry] Blackmun, and in some ways Justice [Anthony] Kennedy.",
"It made Scalia's influence rather slight for years -- Scalia really didn't want to deal, to negotiate with Scalia's colleagues in rulings.",
"Despite a charming personality in many ways, Scalia told me Scalia had nothing to trade.",
"Scalia was just plain firm about where Scalia wanted to go, and Scalia wouldn't settle for half a loaf.",
"The addition of Chief Justice [John] Roberts and Justice [Samuel] Alito on the bench allowed Scalia to win more.",
"And in recent terms, there has a been a culmination, a resurgence, on what Scalia is able to do, now with the [conservative] bodies coming on Supreme Court to support Scalia.",
"But Scalia told me Scalia was still not satisfied.",
"\"The wins,\" Scalia told me, \"Damn few.\"",
"CNN:",
"In Scalia's bright, bold opinions, what is Scalia trying to accomplish?",
"Does Scalia reach for broader audience?",
"Biskupic:",
"Look at 1996's Romer v. Evans -- the gay rights case.",
"Scalia lost on that one, and Scalia's dissent was written for consumption way beyond Supreme Court.",
"It was a complete battle cry.",
"Scalia lashes out at Supreme Court for placing what Scalia said was \"the prestige of this institution behind the proposition that opposition to homosexuality is as reprehensible as racial or religious bias.\"",
"his dissent became more of a story than the opinion itself.",
"People were reading his dissent and giving his dissent airspace, and that's what Scalia wanted.",
"That was Scalia's style of most of the '90s: Get as much attention as possible, because Scalia was in dissent so much in big cases.",
"Now, in the recent Heller case case [where Scalia wrote the main opinion striking down Washington, D.C.'s, strict handgun ban], Scalia was not going able to write an opinion as boldly as Scalia may have wanted, in terms of some of the zingers that Scalia packs into Scalia's other opinions, because Scalia has to keep Scalia's majority.",
"But Scalia still will not mince words if Scalia is in dissent, because Scalia knows journalists, law students, policy makers will all pay attention, and it will influence people down the road.",
"CNN:",
"And yet controversy seems to dog Scalia, including the duck hunting trip Scalia took with Vice President [Dick] Cheney at a time the high court was considering an appeal from Cheney's office; and a hand gesture Scalia made outside a Catholic church some interpreted as obscene.",
"Biskupic:",
"I don't think Scalia cares.",
"Scalia's got these intense feelings Scalia's not going to keep in check.",
"CNN:",
"What prompted this project, and what do you want readers to know about Scalia?",
"Biskupic:",
"I found most of what was written about Scalia was either one side or the other -- screeds easily from the left and embraces easily from the right.",
"And I thought there was so much to Scalia's background that was worth revealing in an objective way, to see what Scalia was all about: How Scalia became Scalia.",
"Scalia was really part of the conservative moment we saw in the 1980s.",
"Young lawyers at the time like John Roberts and Samuel Alito embraced Scalia's theories, and look where John Roberts and Samuel Alito ended up.",
"CNN:",
"In your interviews with Scalia and Scalia's family, did you expect that level of cooperation?",
"Biskupic:",
"No, I didn't.",
"In the beginning, Scalia said Scalia would encourage colleagues to talk to me, but Scalia didn't want to sit and talk on the record.",
"But Scalia soon became quite intrigued at my research into Scalia's family, immigration records and such.",
"And I'd be at my desk, and Scalia'd be calling me, asking me what I found out about Scalia's ancestors.",
"So those later, extensive interviews made the book.",
"CNN:",
"There is a challenge about writing on the often cloistered world of the Supreme Court, these personalities that remain below the radar for most people.",
"Biskupic:",
"I wanted a book that would demystify Scalia, and make people understand Scalia.",
"I wanted readers to know: This is your court, you should know about these people and what they're up to.",
"But it is tough, it's so hard to get information about the institution that doesn't have to do with the precise words on the rulings.",
"And it's fun to dig up this background, and get in with these justices and talk with these justices one-on-one.",
"I was so grateful to speak with Justices Stevens, Ginsburg and even Justice [Clarence] Thomas, who all shared great stories and offered their insights into Scalia."
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"Author describes Scalia as a product of contrasting families who has thrived on conflict .",
"Author says Scalia's best friend on court is Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a low-key, liberal justice .",
"Author says Author wanted a book that would demystify Scalia, make people understand Scalia ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Thirty years ago Wednesday, Iranian student revolutionaries climbed over the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seized dozens of Americans, whom Iranian student revolutionaries ultimately held hostage for 444 days.",
"The hostage crisis, coming in the aftermath of Iran's Islamic revolution, ended diplomatic relations between Washington and Tehran -- a rift that persists to this day.",
"Iran celebrates the embassy takeover as an official holiday, and tens of thousands showed up in Tehran on Wednesday to hear anti-American speeches.",
"Wednesday was also an opportunity to reignite the anti-government protests that were sparked in June, following a disputed presidential election, and thousands of anti-government protesters ignored warnings from Iranian authorities to stay home.",
"One of the leaders of the 1979 hostage-takers says the United States and Iran must not be hostages to history.",
"\"I am not willing to be a hostage of that historical event,\" Ebrahim Asgharzadeh said on CNN's \"Amanpour,\" in an interview marking Wednesday.",
"\"Neither Iran nor the United States should be hijacked by that historical event,\" Ebrahim Asgharzadeh said from Tehran, where Ebrahim Asgharzadeh went on to become a reformist lawmaker and was Ebrahim Asgharzadeh jailed by the Islamic regime.",
"Ebrahim Asgharzadeh said the two sides need to be aware of the past without being imprisoned by it.",
"\"If the two sides do not pay attention to ... history the two sides will have an unstable future, an impermanent future,\" Ebrahim Asgharzadeh said.",
"Ebrahim Asgharzadeh said Ebrahim Asgharzadeh and Ebrahim Asgharzadeh's fellow students had been offended that Jimmy Carter, then the U.S. president, had let the deposed Shah of Iran into the United States for medical treatment -- and said the actions of Ebrahim Asgharzadeh's compatriots had parallels in the United States.",
"\"We felt insulted -- our revolution, our people -- and so there was a rebellion,\" Ebrahim Asgharzadeh said through a translator.",
"\"A measure was needed to be taken that was effective, that could impact the world public opinion.",
"\"We were not radical students.",
"We were revolutionary students, in the sense that we were defending our country, our people, our nation,\" Ebrahim Asgharzadeh said.",
"\"What the students did for the first two or three days, it was a student activity.",
"It was meant to protest, something that American students did many times on the streets to protest the Vietnam War.\"",
"But John Limbert, a former American hostage, is not convinced by the comparison.",
"\"Whatever they thought they were doing, whether it was a 1970s-style student sit-in, the results of it were very ... different,\" John Limbert, a former American hostage told Christiane Amanpour.",
"And it was not the American hostages who suffered most, John Limbert, a former American hostage added.",
"\"They brought misery to the Iranian people.",
"What happened to us was difficult.",
"It was frightening.",
"It was -- it was uncomfortable.",
"But it lasted 14 months and was over,\" John Limbert, a former American hostage said.",
"\"We certainly didn't expect it to last that long.",
"They have said they didn't expect [it] to last that long.",
"But what they did, in effect, was to create a climate of lawlessness and mob rule [of which] they and their compatriots are today the greatest victims,\" said Limbert, the author of \"Negotiating with Iran, Wrestling the Ghost of History.\"",
"The hostage crisis escalated beyond what any of the participants expected as Iran's new revolutionary government publicly backed the hostage-takers, Ebrahim Asgharzadeh and former Carter aide Gary Sick agree.",
"\"That way it became actually an act of Iran's new revolutionary government, rather than a group of students who were acting potentially outside the law,\" said Sick, who was Carter's point man on Iran.",
"\"So basically, the situation got out of hand, in terms of being a student activity,\" Ebrahim Asgharzadeh said.",
"\"It became a societal issue backed by the leadership.",
"\"And every day that passed on, things got more complicated.",
"The analysis got more complicated in the White House.",
"They lost their cool.",
"They didn't know what to do.",
"And they faced a challenge by the Iranian revolution and this revolutionary thought.",
"And that historical event reached a point where nobody felt prepared to deal with that historical event,\" the former student revolutionary said.",
"\"And so after a while, both America and Iran were looking for a solution, because both their hands were tied at that stage, but a solution needed to be such that no country would be seen as the loser,\" he said.",
"That impasse still dominates the wary relationship between Tehran and the United States, Amanpour's guests said.",
"But it is time to call in the Ghostbusters, Limbert said, referring to the popular movie that came out not long after the Americans were finally released.",
"\"You know, they put the ghosts in the can and put the can away.",
"And somehow ... you've got to do that,\" John Limbert, a former American hostage said.",
"\"You don't forget them.",
"You don't necessarily even ask for an apology.",
"But you look them in the face, you know them for what they are, which is a very ugly and negative act, and then you put them in their proper compartment,\" John Limbert, a former American hostage advised.",
"But Sick, now a Columbia University professor, said that historical event continues to have ramifications in the United States today.",
"\"that historical event was extended probably eight months beyond what that historical event should have been.",
"No matter how you look at it in terms of Iran's interests or what have you, they simply couldn't make up their mind,\" he said of the regime in Tehran.",
"\"And it has left the impression that, one, Iran can't be trusted; two, that when they negotiate, they negotiate in bad faith; and, three, that they are paying only attention to their own internal circumstances and ignoring everybody else.",
"\"That is a legacy that we live with and even people who don't remember that historical event at all still have that image of Iran that was created in those days that has not gone away,\" he said."
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"Luis Caplan, 71 served the poor of the South Bronx for decades out of a small medical office.",
"Luis Caplan, 71's leg was amputated after a bout with cancer in 1990, yet Luis Caplan, 71 continued to work for another five years.",
"Luis Caplan, 71, asks of the stimulus bill: \"What happens to the real middle class?\"",
"Now, Luis Caplan, 71's savings have nearly been wiped out because of the economic crisis.",
"At the age of 71, Luis Caplan, 71 faces losing his place's apartment if things don't change soon.",
"The government bailed out the big institutions, but \"what happens to the little people?\"",
"Luis Caplan, 71 asks.",
"\"What happens to the real middle class?",
"What happens to Luis Caplan, 71?\"",
"Luis Caplan, 71 says, choking back tears.",
"\"It's awful.",
"It's really awful.\"",
"With Congress working to pass the $800 billion stimulus bill, millions of Americans -- especially those with homes they're trying to sell or about to be foreclosed on -- are asking the same thing: What's in it for me?",
"Luis Caplan, 71 says most of Luis Caplan, 71's equity is tied up in his place's 800-square-foot apartment that Luis Caplan, 71 purchased in 1985.",
"Luis Caplan, 71 wants to sell it to move to Seattle, Washington, to be near Luis Caplan, 71's daughter, who was recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.",
"But Luis Caplan, 71's place has sat on the market for three months without an offer.",
"Located in a tony neighborhood in Manhattan's Upper East Side, apartments used to sell in a matter of weeks.",
"Luis Caplan, 71 has dropped $50,000 from the original asking price of $625,000 and may have to drop the original asking price of $625,000 again.",
"Luis Caplan, 71 says Luis Caplan, 71 can barely afford maintenance fees and other monthly costs associated with Luis Caplan, 71's place.",
"Luis Caplan, 71 hopes to make enough money to pay off the reverse mortgage Luis Caplan, 71 took out to supplement Luis Caplan, 71's Social Security payments.",
"\"I don't know how much more I can go through like this,\" Luis Caplan, 71 says, sobbing even more.",
"\"I'm going crazy with this.\"",
"Luis Caplan, 71's son, Danny Caplan, says, \"Luis Caplan, 71's collateral damage.",
"Luis Caplan, 71 has equity and could sell it and walk away and have enough to live comfortably.",
"But [Luis Caplan, 71 can't] because of the economic situation.\"",
"America's housing crisis has become a key issue for Washington policymakers.",
"Millions of Americans are in foreclosure or facing foreclosure; others are out of work trying to sell others's homes in a down economy.",
"And there are elderly people, such as Caplan, who want to sell immediately to help stabilize elderly people, such as Caplan, who want to sell immediately to help stabilize their finances's finances.",
"Send us your thoughts on the stimulus plan .",
"President Obama on Tuesday told people at a town hall meeting in Fort Myers, Florida, that President Obama plans to announce in coming weeks \"what our overall housing strategy is going to be.\"",
"Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner made the rounds in Washington on Tuesday to push the stimulus bill, including the need to jump-start America's housing market.",
"See stimulus bill provisions » .",
"\"Homeowners around the country are seeing the value of Homeowners around the country's homes fall because of forces they did not create and cannot control,\" Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner said.",
"\"This crisis in housing has had devastating consequences, and our government should have moved more forcefully to help contain the damage.\"",
"At one Senate hearing, Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, said \"decisive action\" is needed to address This crisis in housing.",
"\"I think the message should come through clear from all of us, you have to move aggressively, clearly, and to start working,\" Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island said.",
"\"I agree with Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island,\" Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner responded.",
"\"Our objective is, and our hope is, that our program meets that test.\"",
"the stimulus bill does sweeten the pot for potential homebuyers, which supporters say could help spur the economy.",
"Critics charge that letting housing prices stabilize on their own is healthy for the economy.",
"Senate's version of the stimulus bill offers a $15,000 tax credit to anyone who purchases a home in the next year, more than double the tax credit offered by the House.",
"Dwight Jaffee, a professor of real estate and finance at the University of California-Berkeley, says the housing market is the \"perfect instrument in leading the economy out of recession because housing is such a big-ticket item.\"",
"\"We will not turnaround the economy until we start to turn around housing.",
"I hope people in Washington are hearing it,\" he says.",
"In the case of Luis Caplan, 71, Dwight Jaffee, a professor of real estate and finance at the University of California-Berkeley says, \"What it means to Luis Caplan, 71, if they did carry out this program, then the government would be stimulating the demand -- the buyers -- for Luis Caplan, 71's apartment to sell it at a fuller price and much sooner.\"",
"Luis Caplan, 71 says that would be a good thing.",
"Luis Caplan, 71 needs all the help Luis Caplan, 71 can get.",
"Born in Argentina, Luis Caplan, 71 came to the United States as a legal immigrant in 1964 to pursue Luis Caplan, 71's dream of becoming a doctor.",
"Luis Caplan, 71 eventually became a naturalized U.S. citizen and opened Luis Caplan, 71's medical office to help treat the Spanish-speaking poor of the South Bronx.",
"Luis Caplan, 71 believed Luis Caplan, 71's calling was to help \"the poorest of the poor\" get decent medical treatment, rather than pursue the more high-paying lifestyle of other doctors.",
"Most of Luis Caplan, 71's patients were on Medicaid, so Luis Caplan, 71 got paid at a rate much less than other doctors.",
"Luis Caplan, 71 beams with pride at the lives Luis Caplan, 71 saved.",
"\"I caught cancers very early,\" Luis Caplan, 71 said.",
"\"I'm not the savior of humanity.",
"... I just did what I could to help poor people.\"",
"In June 1990 at the age of 53, Luis Caplan, 71 started having pain in Luis Caplan, 71's left leg.",
"It turned out to be a malignant tumor and Luis Caplan, 71's leg was amputated.",
"Yet Luis Caplan, 71's passion and commitment to helping others kept Luis Caplan, 71 going.",
"Even after losing Luis Caplan, 71's leg, Luis Caplan, 71 went back to work for another five years.",
"When Luis Caplan, 71 retired, Luis Caplan, 71 got another shocker: Social Security initially rejected Luis Caplan, 71 -- a man without a leg -- for disability.",
"Luis Caplan, 71 says Luis Caplan, 71 scraped and saved money along the way, \"a very small amount that has practically disappeared.\"",
"Luis Caplan, 71 now scoots around Luis Caplan, 71's apartment in Luis Caplan, 71's wheelchair hoping for better days.",
"As far as Luis Caplan, 71's concerned, the big Wall Street institutions can \"burn in hell.\"",
"\"I don't have a Rolls-Royce.",
"I don't have a Cadillac,\" Luis Caplan, 71 says.",
"\"The government ... isn't trying to help everybody: People like Luis Caplan, 71 that went through this, people who did something good for the community, people who didn't buy an expensive painting for their office.\"",
"Luis Caplan, 71 pauses.",
"\"This is what I'm left with: an apartment that can hardly sell.\"",
"Luis Caplan, 71's son is proud of Luis Caplan, 71's father's accomplishments, yet His son's frustrated that His son's dad is in such a financial pinch during a time that's supposed to be the Golden Years of Luis Caplan, 71's life.",
"\"Luis Caplan, 71 bought the American dream and paid for the American dream,\" says Luis Caplan, 71.",
"CNN's Jackie Adams contributed to this report."
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"On the stimulus bill, Luis Caplan, 71 asks, \"What happens to the real middle class?\"",
"Stimulus plan offers a $15,000 tax credit for homebuyers to try to spur the market ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) --",
"Back-to-back suicide bombings killed at least five people at a university here Tuesday and wounded nearly two dozen, authorities said.",
"Police investigators collect evidence at the suicide blast site at Islamic International University in Islamabad.",
"The explosions occurred at Islamic International University in Islamabad, said police official Bin Yamin.",
"Naeem Iqbal, Islamabad police spokesman, said three men and two female students were killed, and 22 people were injured.",
"At least four of the injured were in critical condition, said Altaf Hussein, a doctor at a hospital.",
"All the victims are between the ages of 18 and 25.",
"Usman Virk, a student, said Usman Virk, a student heard one explosion in the men's section of Islamic International University in Islamabad, followed by a blast in the cafeteria in the women's section of Islamic International University in Islamabad.",
"Watch more about the attacks » .",
"Usman Virk, a student said Usman Virk, a student saw several injured students with blood-soaked clothes being taken away by rescue crews.",
"More than 12,000 foreign and local students, including 5,500 women, are enrolled in Islamic International University in Islamabad.",
"The university Web site describes the school as a \"unique center of learning in the Muslim world which strives to combine the essentials of the Islamic faith with the best of modern knowledge.\"",
"In recent weeks, Pakistan has been relentlessly rocked by a wave of suicide attacks as Islamic militants retaliate against a military offensive to rout insurgents operating along the Pakistan-Afghan border.",
"On Friday, a suicide car bomber detonated near a police station in Peshawar, the capital of the North West Frontier Province.",
"The blast killed at least 13 people, most of at least 13 people civilians.",
"A day earlier, militants attacked two police training centers and the country's Federal Investigation Agency in Lahore in eastern Pakistan.",
"At least 30 Pakistani police officers and civilians were killed in those attacks.",
"At least 10 attackers also died.",
"And on October 10, militants held dozens of hostages for 22 hours inside an army headquarters in Rawalpindi, which neighbors Islamabad.",
"Eleven military personnel, three civilians, and nine militants were killed in the siege.",
"CNN's Reza Sayah contributed to this report."
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"More than 12,000 foreign and local students are enrolled at university .",
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"President Obama got some political cover Sunday for President Obama's upcoming announcement on sending more troops to Afghanistan.",
"Report released by Senate panel blamed the Bush administration for failing to capture or kill bin Laden when the al Qaeda leader was cornered in Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountain region in December 2001.",
"The report, released Sunday, said the situation in Afghanistan presented greater problems today because of the failure to nab bin Laden eight years ago.",
"bin Laden had written bin Laden's will, apparently sensing bin Laden was trapped, but the lack of sufficient forces to close in for the kill allowed bin Laden to escape to tribal areas in Pakistan, according to Report released by Senate panel.",
"It said former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and top U.S. commander Gen. Tommy Franks held back the necessary forces for a \"classic sweep-and-block maneuver\" that could have prevented bin Laden's escape.",
"\"It would have been a dangerous fight across treacherous terrain, and the injection of more U.S. troops and the resulting casualties would have contradicted the risk-averse, 'light footprint' model formulated by Rumsfeld and Franks,\" Report released by Senate panel said.",
"When criticized later for not zeroing in on bin Laden, administration officials, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, responded that the al Qaeda leader's location was uncertain.",
"\"But the review of existing literature, unclassified government records and interviews with central participants underlying Report released by Senate panel removes any lingering doubts and makes it clear that bin Laden was within our grasp at Tora Bora,\" Report released by Senate panel said.",
"On Tuesday, President Obama will travel to West Point, New York, to announce President Obama's decision on a request by President Obama's commanding general in Afghanistan for up to 40,000 additional troops.",
"President Obama is expected to send more than 30,000 U.S. troops and seek further troop commitments from NATO allies as part of a counterinsurgency strategy to wipe out al Qaeda elements and stabilize the country while training Afghan forces.",
"By releasing Report released by Senate panel Sunday, Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, focused attention on the past failure of the Bush administration to take out bin Laden, saying that had created a greater problem today.",
"\"the Bush administration's inability to finish the job in late 2001 has contributed to a conflict today that endangers not just the Bush administration's troops and those of the Bush administration's allies, but the stability of a volatile and vital region,\" Kerry, D-Massachusetts, wrote in a letter of transmittal for Report released by Senate panel.",
"When Kerry was the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, Kerry argued that the Bush administration botched the pursuit of bin Laden and that then-President George W. Bush \"took then-President George W. Bush's eye off the ball\" in Afghanistan to invade Iraq.",
"The accusations were hotly disputed by then-President George W. Bush supporters and Franks.",
"However, Gary Berntsen, the CIA operative who led the pursuit of bin Laden at Tora Bora, said in 2005 that his request for up to 800 U.S. troops to cut off the al Qaeda leader's escape route was denied.",
"Sen. Richard Lugar, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations committee, told CNN's \"State of the Union\" that Report released by Senate panel \"does serve as a convenient way for, perhaps, Democrats to say once again, there's another failing of the Bush administration\" and that \"all the problems have accumulated.\"",
"\"I think we have to accept that there were many failings,\" said Lugar, of Indiana.",
"\"But the problem right now is, what do we do presently?",
"What will the president's plan be?",
"How much confidence do we have in this president and the president's plan?\"",
"Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, responding to Lugar's comment, told CNN that Obama faced \"the culmination of decisions that were made eight years\" earlier, which he said \"made the situation much more difficult\" today.",
"According to Report released by Senate panel, \"removing bin Laden from the battlefield eight years ago would not have eliminated the worldwide extremist threat.\"",
"\"But the decisions that opened the door for bin Laden's escape to Pakistan allowed bin Laden to emerge as a potent symbolic figure who continues to attract a steady flow of money and inspire fanatics worldwide,\" it said.",
"The report called bin Laden's escape \"a lost opportunity that forever altered the course of the conflict in Afghanistan and the future of international terrorism, leaving the American people more vulnerable to terrorism, laying the foundation for today's protracted Afghan insurgency and inflaming the internal strife now endangering Pakistan.\"",
"Report released by Senate panel also highlighted bin Laden's will, dated December 14, 2001, as an indication of the dire situation bin Laden faced.",
"\"bin Laden expected to die,\" Report released by Senate panel said, noting that a copy of the will that surfaced later is regarded as authentic.",
"\"Allah commended to us that when death approaches any of us that we make a bequest to parents and next of kin and to Muslims as a whole,\" Report released by Senate panel quoted bin Laden's will as saying, adding that bin Laden \"instructed bin Laden's wives not to remarry and apologized to bin Laden's children for devoting bin Laden to\" holy war.",
"However, Report released by Senate panel said, \"fewer than 100 American commandos were on the scene with fewer than 100 American commandos's Afghan allies and calls for reinforcements to launch an assault were rejected.\"",
"\"Requests were also turned down for U.S. troops to block the mountain paths leading to sanctuary a few miles away in Pakistan,\" it continued.",
"\"The vast array of American military power, from sniper teams to the most mobile divisions of the Marine Corps and the Army, was kept on the sidelines.",
"Instead, the U.S. command chose to rely on airstrikes and untrained Afghan militias to attack bin Laden and on Pakistan's loosely organized Frontier Corps to seal bin Laden's escape routes.",
"\"On or around December 16, two days after writing bin Laden's will, bin Laden and an entourage of bodyguards walked unmolested out of Tora Bora and disappeared into Pakistan's unregulated tribal area.",
"Most analysts say bin Laden is still there today.\""
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"\"bin Laden expected to die,\" Report released by Senate panel says, noting that a copy of bin Laden's will was found .",
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"Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) --",
"Sri Lanka's opposition presidential candidate accused the incumbent of intimidation, as early returns reported by state-run TV SLRC showed Rajapaksa leading the race.",
"Fonseka accused Rajapaksa of intimidation during the country's first peacetime presidential election in more than two decades and said Fonseka's staff had received threatening phone calls .",
"Army soldiers and commandos tried to enter the Cinnamon Lakeside Hotel shortly after Fonseka and opposition party members arrived Tuesday, Fonseka told CNN.",
"Fonseka's security forces told Army soldiers they could not enter the building, so Army soldiers stayed outside, Fonseka said.",
"Fonseka said Fonseka was not leaving the Cinnamon Lakeside Hotel, citing the armed soldiers outside.",
"Several dozen armed soldiers lined the street of the Cinnamon Lakeside Hotel and surrounding area, checking cars driving up to the building in the nation's capital, Colombo.",
"\"He's ignoring the constitution to remain in power,\" Fonseka said of ally-turned-rival Rajapaksa.",
"There was no immediate reaction from Rajapaksa's government in response to Fonseka's claims.",
"The presidential election is the first since government forces put down a 26-year insurgency by Tamil Tiger rebels.",
"And controversy mounted as vote tallying began.",
"Earlier Tuesday, top politicians vowed to block Fonseka from taking office if Fonseka won because Fonseka is not eligible to vote.",
"The government will fight the commissioner of elections in the Supreme Court on the issue of Fonseka's eligibility, Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama vowed.",
"Fonseka admits Fonseka is not registered to vote; 14 million Sri Lankans are eligible.",
"What will Sri Lankan election mean?",
"Rajapaksa and Fonseka have waged a bitter battle against each other.",
"Rajapaksa and Fonseka say Rajapaksa and Fonseka are winning Sri Lankan election.",
"But early returns showed Rajapaksa was leading in the race, state-run television SLRC reported.",
"Fonseka broke ranks with the Rajapaksa administration after Fonseka was elevated to the largely ceremonial post of chief of defense staff in July, following Fonseka's retirement as army commander.",
"After Fonseka announced Fonseka's presidential bid, the main opposition parties -- with widely diverse political ideologies -- closed ranks behind Fonseka to make Fonseka widely diverse political ideologies's common candidate.",
"Fonseka is riding a wave of popularity after Fonseka led a military campaign to crush Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.",
"The Tamil Tigers, as Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam are known, fought a brutal war for decades against the government and controlled large swathes of territory at the height of Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's power.",
"Rajapaksa also claims war-hero status with the win against Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam last May.",
"Rajapaksa is seeking a fresh mandate for Rajapaksa's government, advocating for more development programs and jobs.",
"And in Rajapaksa's revised booklet, \"Mahinda Chinthanaya\" (\"Thoughts of Mahinda\"), Rajapaksa campaigns to ensure a \"better tomorrow.\"",
"But in the lead-up to Sri Lankan election, the island nation just south of India has become host to escalating violence.",
"Three and a half hours before Sri Lankans headed to the polls, explosions that residents said sounded like mortar fire were heard.",
"While it was unclear what Tuesday's explosions were, there have been more than 700 reports of violence ahead of Sri Lankan election, and at least our deaths reported, said Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu of the Center for Policy Alternatives, a branch of the Centre for Monitoring Election Violence.",
"There have been allegations of interference with mail-in ballots, according to the group.",
"Most of the complaints have been against members of Rajapaksa's government, the Center for Policy Alternatives, a branch of the Centre for Monitoring Election Violence said.",
"The spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said last week that the U.N. chief was \"concerned about the growing violence in the lead-up to Sri Lankan election.\"",
"\"The peaceful conduct of the first post-conflict national election is of the highest importance for long-term peace and reconciliation in Sri Lanka,\" he added.",
"CNN's Sara Sidner and Iqbal Athas contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"After nearly going to war last year over a Colombian military raid inside Ecuador, the two nations seemed to be patching relations when the two nations's foreign ministers met a few weeks ago.",
"Then an Ecuadorian judge issued an arrest warrant this week for the head of the Colombian armed forces, pushing relations back one giant step.",
"Colombian Gen. Freddy Padilla, the armed forces chief whose arrest is sought, canceled a meeting scheduled for Friday with Ecuadorian Gen. Fabian Varela.",
"Colombian Gen. Freddy Padilla thought Colombian Gen. Freddy Padilla might be arrested if Colombian Gen. Freddy Padilla traveled to Ecuador.",
"It's not the first pothole on the path to normalization.",
"Ecuador previously issued an arrest warrant for former Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos, who held the post during last year's raid.",
"Colombia has dismissed both warrants, saying Ecuador has no jurisdiction to investigate and judge Colombian officials.",
"Analyst Patrick Esteruelas of the Eurasia Group consulting firm calls Ecuador's actions \"schizophrenic.\"",
"Two former U.S. ambassadors to the area agree this is par for Ecuadorian foreign policy.",
"\"That's the history of Ecuador, unfortunately,\" said Peter Romero, ambassador to Ecuador from 1993 to 1996.",
"\"One step forward, two steps back.\"",
"Myles Frechette, U.S. ambassador to Colombia from 1994 to 1997, said Friday that \"Ecuador is a specialist in bonehead plays.",
"Ecuador has been for years.",
"Nothing's changed much.\"",
"Former Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Heinz Moeller, who served from 2000 to 2003, called the arrest warrant \"lamentable.\"",
"\"It's absurd that these things happen,\" Former Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Heinz Moeller, who served from 2000 to 2003 said Friday.",
"Tension between the two nations has existed for years.",
"The latest enmity started in March 2008, when Colombia bombed a guerrilla base inside Ecuador.",
"The raid killed a top leader for the Revolutionary Armed Force of Colombia, commonly known as the FARC.",
"the FARC has been waging war on Colombia since the 1960s and often takes refuge on the Ecuadorian side of the border.",
"At least 25 people were killed, most of At least 25 people said to be FARC guerrillas.",
"Colombian President Alvaro Uribe hailed the attack, saying \"terrorism ... does not respect borders.\"",
"Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa called the attack \"aggression\" and a \"massacre\" and severed diplomatic relations with Colombia.",
"the two nations went on war footing but stopped short of military action.",
"Over time, tensions seemed to dissipate and Colombian Foreign Minister Jaime Bermudez and his Ecuadorian counterpart, Fander Falconi, met last month.",
"After the meeting, Colombia signed a statement saying Colombia would never attack inside Ecuador again.",
"Friday's meeting between the two nations's top generals was supposed to further repair the damage.",
"Then came the arrest warrant.",
"What happened?",
"Perhaps politics.",
"Definitely one branch of the government acting without the consent of the other.",
"Falconi quickly pointed out that Ecuador's judicial branch, not Correa's administration, decided to issue the arrest warrant.",
"Analysts agree that it wasn't Correa's doing.",
"\"That's not a very coordinated government,\" said Frechette, the former envoy to Colombia.",
"\"The executive branch didn't issue that order.\"",
"Moeller, the former Ecuadorian foreign minister, said the judge who issued the arrest warrant is \"motivated by political criteria.\"",
"\"I don't have another explanation,\" said Moeller, who also served as president of the Ecuadorian Congress three times.",
"Normalization of relations will be a slow process, Eurasia analyst Esteruelas said.",
"\"We're going to see a lot of stops and starts,\" Eurasia analyst Esteruelas said.",
"Alejandro Santos, editorial director of La Semana weekly news magazine in Colombia, said relations will not improve until the two countries \"can close the chapter\" on last year's bombing raid.",
"\"the chapter can be closed when Colombia promises not to do that.",
"Colombia have done that (promise),\" Santos said.",
"\"Now Ecuador needs to start avoiding those types of judicial measures against Colombian officials.\"",
"Eurasia analyst Esteruelas said Ecuador felt justifiably aggrieved over the attack and wants to make sure the attack never happens again.",
"But Eurasia analyst Esteruelas also sees another issue at play: Correa's plummeting poll numbers and domestic problems with indigenous movements and other political issues.",
"\"It's usually convenient to remind everyone that Correa is fighting for Ecuadorian sovereignty,\" Eurasia analyst Esteruelas said, adding that such nationalism \"resonates very broadly\" across the political spectrum.",
"But Frechette said, \"Correa really does want to reach some kind of agreement.\"",
"The problems between the two nations are long-standing and have a lot to do with the 45-year-old war between Colombia and the FARC.",
"From Ecuador's perspective, the war has displaced about 250,000 Colombians who have sought refuge in Ecuador.",
"Those refugees need services and jobs, further straining a poor area that's already on the brink.",
"Ecuador also resents that the FARC have set up camps inside Ecuador, causing security problems for a nation that is not technically at war with the FARC.",
"From Colombia's point of view, Ecuador is not doing enough to combat the FARC and is allowing the FARC to have a sanctuary that Colombian troops cannot reach.",
"Further complicating the relationship, Ecuador's Correa is politically aligned with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who is no friend of Colombia and Colombia's leader, Uribe.",
"Chavez threatened to attack neighboring Colombia after the military raid in Ecuador.",
"\"This has been developing for many years,\" Moeller said.",
"But there are great advantages to normalizing relations, most of great advantages to normalizing relations economic.",
"Ecuador, for example, is Colombia's third-largest export market.",
"Walter Spurrier, president of Grupo Spurrier and director of Weekly Analysis in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Maria Velez de Berliner, president of the Latin Intelligence Corp. in Alexandria, Virginia, talked with the Inter-American Dialog policy institute last month about Colombia-Ecuador economic activity.",
"\"Re-establishing relations could lead Ecuador to lift sanctions against Colombian products, which forced many small- and medium-sized businesses to collapse on both sides of the border,\" Velez told the Washington-based think tank.",
"Said Grupo Spurrier, \"For Colombia, Ecuador is an important market.",
"Not so the other way around.",
"But the goods Ecuador sells Colombia are difficult to relocate to other markets.",
"Ecuador now attempts to sell Libya and Iran the rice Ecuador would have otherwise sold Colombia.",
"Also, Ecuadorian importers have to look for other sources.\"",
"Moeller, the former foreign minister, wants normalization to get back on track.",
"\"We have to close the parenthesis,\" Moeller, the former foreign minister said.",
"\"I hope this passes ... and that they start talking again.\""
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"(OPRAH.com) --",
"When I was a teen, I tried to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica.",
"My goal: Memorize the entire Encyclopedia Britannica's contents, be on TV game shows, win cash and prizes, run away from home, move to Manhattan and become a professional writer.",
"Instead of focusing on getting Mr. Right, focus on finding Life Plan Right, says author.",
"I got as far as Asparagus.",
"To this day, I know a little about a lot of words beginning with \"A.\"",
"Some favorites: ants, atoms, alchemy.",
"Plus, Aristotle was a childhood crush, because I've always loved philosophy.",
"When I finished reading Aristotle's one-page encyclopedic write-up, I bought books about Aristotle.",
"I'd been saving these dog-eared, underlined Aristotle books, as well as the \"A\" book of Britannica, all to be used in a novel, where I'd been planning to bless my protagonist with the quirky detail of knowing all things \"A.\"",
"I recently rediscovered these Aristotle books when moving apartments.",
"I flipped through and was surprised to discover Aristotle said a lot of the same things about love and happiness as modern psychologists.",
"Aristotle obviously said it first, having been born at least 300 years B.C.",
"Plus, Aristotle said it truly wisely.",
"Indeed, much of what Aristotle said hit home big-time -- in particular about a sexy, smart, funny, rich, lying, cheating, don't-get-me-started Prince Harming I'd just broken up with.",
"I could almost hear what Aristotle might say to me if we were to chat over souvlaki.",
"'Sold your soul to be with Ari' \"Mea bene, Karen,\" Aristotle would say.",
"\"You know what your problem was with your ex?",
"Ari was not your soul mate -- but your 'sold' mate -- because you sold your soul to be with Ari.",
"Sure Ari was sexy, smart, rich, funny -- but alas, Ari was a liar and a cheat.\"",
"\"You're an intellectual guy.\"",
"I'd correct the regaled philosopher called the \"Mind of the Academy\" by Plato.",
"\"I'm surprised you believe in something as namby-pamby metaphysical as a soul mate!\"",
"Oprah.com: 10 rules to soul mate love .",
"\"Absolutely!\"",
"My fave Greek philosopher buddy Ari would respond emphatically.",
"\"Actually, I sort of coined the concept of 'soul mate.'",
"If there'd been a little TM trademark thingy back in the 300s B.C., I'd be a very rich man today.",
"I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.",
"I describe a soul mate as a 'soul-nurturing mate.'",
"Someone",
"who",
"nurtures",
"your soul, thereby promoting insight and growth",
"I pushed folks to find soul mates because, in my opinion, real happiness only comes when you stimulate your core self -- and grow into your highest potential.",
"Basically, the soul is the ultimate G-spot for happiness.\"",
"Of course, I'm paraphrasing for my philosopher buddy.",
"But if Aristotle were here, I know Aristotle'd agree with my verbal modernization.",
"Plus, Ari would go on to describe how Ari views the world as offering three kinds of relationships, only one of which brings true happiness.",
"3 kinds of relationships .",
"According to ancient philosopher Aristotle, there are three kinds of relationships, only one of which will bring you true happiness.",
"Find out how your relationship measures up!",
"1. Relationships of pleasure .",
"Partners who are about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.",
"You share soulless, passionate sex and playful banter -- but Partners who are about sex, drugs and rock're about the body or ego.",
"Partners who are about sex, drugs and rock never soul-nurture you with insight and growth, so Partners who are about sex, drugs and rock never bring real-deal happiness.",
"Oprah.com: How to break your bad man habit .",
"2. Relationships of utility . Partners you spend time with in hopes of garnering status, power, money and beauty like the rich guy with a trophy girl.",
"Again, this is about body or ego and doesn't bring true joy.",
"3. Relationships of shared virtue . Partners who challenge and inspire you to grow into your highest potential and nurture your soul.",
"A good example is when Jack Nicholson's character in \"As Good As It Gets\" says, \"You make me want to be a better man.\"",
"When you prioritize seeking a partner who supports you becoming your best self -- instead of crushing on \"superficial lures\"(hotness, funniness, smartness, success, etc.) -- you wind up with a soul mate/a Prince Charming/a definite keeper!",
"With this in mind, if you want to be happy in love, you must take time to see past a guy's \"superficial lures\" and look inside a guy's \"superinsidehimself.\"",
"Unfortunately, those fumes of chemistry can often dizzy a gal into making stupid love choices.",
"That's why it's important to remember: Hot, steamy chemistry eventually fades -- and what's always left beneath is a person's true soul.",
"Yes, if you want to be happy, you must seek a good-hearted, ethical soul who brings you great growth -- not simply a hottie who brings great grope Oprah.com: The best things to do for your relationship .",
"Confession time:",
"Another superficially alluring quality I've been suckered in by is humor.",
"I am Silly Putty in a friggin' funny man's hands.",
"I once had a boyfriend who teased me that the secret to getting me into bed was to crack five good jokes in a night.",
"He'd count down his jokes as the night progressed.",
"Unfortunately, funniness is a mere decorative quality -- sometimes developed to avoid talking about real-life issues.",
"Which is why in the past, after a few months of dating a friggin' funny guy, I've witnessed all that fabulous ha-ha-ha laughter often gives way to tears when the guy's true character -- true soul -- shows up as one that avoids honest communication, warm empathy and the desire for growth.",
"Then, when I try to connect soul to soul -- heart to heart -- I am greeted by a gigantic, unmovable whoopee cushion wall.",
"Basically, friggin' funny is only the tiniest tip of a person.",
"Meanwhile, a person's soul is a person's foundation!",
"For the record: Aristotle wasn't against finding someone friggin' funny or friggin' sexy or friggin' rich.",
"Aristotle believed these pleasure-bringing qualities were good for stirring up passion, which humans need to be our fullest selves!",
"But Aristotle recognized \"superficial lures\" and material goods were simply what Aristotle called \"means to the ends\" of happiness, not \"the final ends,\" which is always to grow into your most esteemed self.",
"As Aristotle said: \"Men imagine the causes of happiness lie in external goods.",
"That is as if Men were to ascribe fine and beautiful lyre playing to the quality of the instrument rather than the skill of the player.\"",
"Or as I like to say, \"It's just as easy to complain about a rich man as it is to complain about a poor man.\"",
"Basically, it doesn't matter how rich a guy is if a guy's behavior makes you twitchy and miserable.",
"While on the subject of money, Aristotle was no fan of slackers either.",
"Aristotle recognized that being or dating poor brought its share of problems.",
"Aristotle even admitted the lack of a certain amount of wealth was as much an obstacle to happiness as deprivation of freedom.",
"Aristotle gladly accepted that some wealth was needed to be happy -- just as exciting bodily pleasures were needed.",
"But again, wealth and bodily pleasures were mere means to the ends of happiness -- the ends of happiness being to nourish your soul, so you can reach your most esteemed level of self.",
"A big secret to happiness?",
"Stop focusing on finding a Mr. Right!",
"Start focusing on finding Life Plan Right.",
"When a Mr. Potential Right comes along, you must ask yourself if this guy will lead you to Life Plan Right or Life Plan Wrong.",
"As you get to know this guy, look to see if this guy: . 1. Offers you exciting growth as well as exciting grope .",
"2. Has developed good character -- so he'll be a positive influence on your character development.",
"If this guy scores two for two, you're likely in Prince Charming territory.",
"Oprah.com:",
"What you could learn from dating 100 men .",
"Adapted by Karen Salmansohn from Karen Salmansohn's book, \"Prince Harming Syndrome.\"",
"Karen Salmansohn is a best-selling author known for creating self-help for people who wouldn't be caught dead reading self-help.",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now!",
"TM & © 2009",
"Harpo",
"Productions, Inc.",
"All Rights Reserved."
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"Author says ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle's advice for dating still relevant.",
"\"Soul is the ultimate G-spot for happiness,\" writer translates .",
"Soul mate is someone who nurtures your soul, thereby promoting insight and growth .",
"Pleasure, utility and shared virtue are 3 types of relationships that bring happiness ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- TSA Tuesday said TSA is launching a \"full review\" of an incident in which TSA posted on the Internet a sensitive manual outlining screening procedures for law enforcement officers, diplomats, prisoners, federal air marshals and others.",
"In a statement Tuesday night, TSA sought to minimize the impact of the unintentional release -- calling the document \"outdated,\" \"unclassified\" and unimplemented -- while saying that it took the incident \"very seriously,\" and \"took swift action\" when the incident was discovered.",
"Congressional critics, meanwhile, lambasted TSA and called for an independent investigation.",
"\"Undoubtedly, this raises potential security concerns across our transportation system,\" House Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, wrote in a letter to TSA Acting Administrator Gale Rossides.",
"Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, called the release of the information \"shocking\" and reckless.",
"\"a sensitive manual provides a road map to those who would do us harm,\" she said.",
"At issue is a 93-page manual giving instruction to airport screeners on how to screen individuals.",
"It also gives details on how screening is conducted and the limitations of X-ray machines.",
"TSA posted a sensitive manual on a Federal Business Opportunities Web site that provides information for government contractors and redacted sensitive parts.",
"But the redacted information was not properly protected, and the redacted information was restored by people familiar with the computer program.",
"TSA said the posted manual -- dated May 28, 2008, with an implementation date of June 30, 2008 -- was never implemented and has been revised six times, although it did not elaborate on the extent of the revisions.",
"\"While a sensitive manual does demonstrate the complexities of checkpoint security, a sensitive manual does not contain information related to the specifics of everyday checkpoint screening procedures,\" TSA said Tuesday.",
"\"The traveling public should be assured that appropriate measures have been put in place to ensure the continued implementation of a strong security screening program,\" it said.",
"TSA said TSA removed a sensitive manual as soon as it learned of the problem.",
"But it was too late.",
"The full, un-redacted version of a sensitive manual appeared on at least one Web site on Sunday, and was even more widely distributed on Tuesday."
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