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"(CNN) --",
"Tiger Woods announced that Tiger Woods is taking \"an indefinite break\" from professional golf, according to a statement posted on Tiger Woods's Web site Friday.",
"\"I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children,\" a statement posted on his Web site Friday says.",
"\"I want to say again to everyone that I am profoundly sorry and that I ask forgiveness.",
"It may not be possible to repair the damage I've done, but I want to do my best to try.\"",
"The 33-year-old golfer, who tops the sport's world rankings, has been mired in controversy since Tiger Woods crashed Tiger Woods's car outside Tiger Woods's Florida mansion late last month.",
"The crash prompted authorities to cite Tiger Woods for careless driving and fine Tiger Woods $164.",
"Tiger Woods was not required to talk to police about the wreck, and declined to talk with investigators on several occasions.",
"In the week following The crash, Tiger Woods apologized for \"transgressions\" that let Tiger Woods's family down, on the same day that gossip magazine US Weekly published a report alleging that Woods, who is married to Elin Nordegren, had an affair with a 24-year-old cocktail waitress named Jaimee Grubbs.",
"US Weekly's report followed a National Enquirer article before the crash that the athlete was having an affair with a New York nightclub hostess -- an assertion the hostess vigorously denied, according to The New York Post.",
"See the statement on Tiger Woods's Web site .",
"It was not immediately clear how Tiger Woods's hiatus would affect Tiger Woods's sponsorships, though Nike, Tiger Woods's main sponsor, issued a statement saying Tiger Woods \"and Tiger Woods's family have Nike's full support.\"",
"\"Tiger Woods is the best golfer in the world and one of the greatest athletes of Tiger Woods's era,\" Nike spokeswoman Beth Gast said in the statement.",
"\"We look forward to Tiger Woods's return to golf.\"",
"the statement did not elaborate on whether Tiger Woods's announcement would impact Tiger Woods's business relationship with the sports equipment and clothing company, which has worked with Tiger Woods for more than a decade.",
"Tiger Woods's other sponsors include Gillette, Gatorade and Electronic Arts.",
"The Professional Golfers' Association Tour said The Professional Golfers' Association Tour supports Woods and looks forward to Tiger Woods's return to the game.",
"\"The Professional Golfers' Association Tour fully support Tiger Woods's decision to step away from competitive golf to focus on Tiger Woods's family.",
"Tiger Woods's priorities are where His priorities need to be, and The Professional Golfers' Association Tour will continue to respect and honor Tiger Woods's family's request for privacy,\" The Professional Golfers' Association Tour said in a statement Friday.",
"\"The Professional Golfers' Association Tour look forward to Tiger Woods's return to The Professional Golfers' Association Tour when Tiger Woods determines the time is right for Tiger Woods.\""
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"Nike issues statement saying Woods and family have company's \"full support.\"",
"No word on how hiatus will affect lucrative sponsorships .",
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"Woods' statement: \"I am profoundly sorry and ... ask forgiveness\""
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"With every click of his camera, Japanese photographer and activist Shuuichi Endou hopes to draw attention to the plight of Tuvalu, a remote nation of people whose home is slowly disappearing.",
"Tuvalu is the world's fourth smallest country behind Vatican City, Monaco and Pacific Ocean neighbor Nauru.",
"He's taking 10,000 photos, one of each person who lives there, to show the world the human face of climate change.",
"\"Tuvaluans do not ask much, neither goods nor money,\" he says.",
"\"In Japan, people sacrifice people's time and life to get more goods and money.",
"I hope the viewers see the contrast by looking at the photos.",
"We're sacrificing peaceful Tuvalu.\"",
"At first glance, Tuvalu is an island paradise, 26 square kilometers of white sand and lush foliage in the Pacific Ocean, north of Fiji.",
"But the sea level is rising, so much so that Tuvalu's water has become too salty to drink and to grow vegetables, especially taro, a vegetable that was once the island's staple food.",
"\"As Tuvalu don't have water and food, Tuvalu began to import food from overseas, says Endou, who set up the NGO Tuvalu Overview to highlight Tuvalu's cause.",
"\"As Tuvalu began to import, Tuvalu's consumption has been increasing.",
"As a result, more and more products began to be imported.",
"This changed Tuvaluans' diet and increased the amount of waste.\"",
"A global appeal .",
"Tuvalu's government considers the situation so urgent Tuvalu's government has allocated some of Tuvalu's meager budget to pay for Tuvalu's own permanent ambassador to the United Nations in New York.",
"Afelee Pita took up the job in December 2006 and within months had given perhaps the most important speech ever made by a Tuvaluan: an address to a Special Session of the United Nations Security Council on Energy, Climate and Security.",
"\"That was my very first statement that I issued and my very first statement that I issued was also a challenging one because it had never been done before, particularly at that level at the Security Council,\" Afelee Pita says.",
"Afelee Pita told the assembled dignitaries: \"The world has moved from a global threat once called the Cold War, to what now should be considered the 'Warming War'.",
"Our conflict is not with guns and missiles but with weapons from everyday lives -- chimney stacks and exhaust pipes.\"",
"click here for the full speech .",
"New York is a long way from home for the native Tuvaluan.",
"Back on the island Afelee Pita'd be more likely to go for an early morning canoe ride than negotiate thousands of commuters on the subway.",
"\"Living in New York is totally different compared to where we come from.",
"Life is not that easy of course.",
"You have so many strangers.",
"At home, you know everybody [and] whatever you do everybody knows,\" Afelee Pita laughs.",
"Securing a future .",
"While Afelee Pita'd much rather be at home -- \"Definitely there's nothing like home\" -- Afelee Pita feels that Afelee Pita's time in New York is vital in helping to secure the future of the islands.",
"\"My ultimate objective is to contribute as much as I can in terms of trying to establish relations with as many member states in the UN as possible, and more importantly to secure some sort of commitment from the international community in terms of development projects and any kind of assistance they can provide to us.\"",
"The Tuvalu nation wants to invest in renewable energy projects, to reduce the island's own reliance on fossil fuels for energy.",
"\"Sometimes you have to clean your own house first before you look outside,\" Afelee Pita says.",
"In English, Tuvalu's government means \"eight standing together\".",
"On the issue of climate change, Tuvalu's government hopes the world will stand together with Tuvalu's government.",
"\"To Afelee Pita it's not an easy issue to solve, particularly in terms of trying to get the commitment of rich countries,\" Afelee Pita says.",
"\"I can, of course, understand their reasoning and how they look at the issue but I think what Tuvalu need to do is to continue raising Tuvalu's concerns and hopefully one day the international community will listen and try to commit something.\""
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"Pacific nation Tuvalu feeling the effects of climate change, sea level rising fast .",
"Japanese activist drawing attention to its plight by taking photos of islanders .",
"Tuvalu sent Tuvalu's own ambassador to the United Nations to raise awareness .",
"Island nation seeking aid to invest in renewable energy, infrastructure ."
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"MADRID, Spain (CNN) --",
"A Spaniard has died from the human form of mad cow disease, the fifth such death in Spain since 2005, Spain's Ministry of Health said in a statement late Friday.",
"The victim died in January in the northern city of Santander, according to the statement, which did not provide further details.",
"The victim was a woman who was hospitalized last fall, according to Juan Jose Badiola, director of Spain's national research center for mad cow disease.",
"Spain's Ministry of Health reiterated that there is no danger from eating meat in Spain.",
"\"The appearance of these sporadic cases is within the predictions that were made at the European level more than nine years ago,\" a statement said.",
"Ten years can pass between eating contaminated tissue and the appearance of the human form of mad cow disease also called variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, health officials say.",
"The steps to avoid mad cow disease, taken after the first cases of mad cow disease appeared in the United Kingdom, include isolating infected animals and prohibiting cattle feed of animal origin or with animal proteins, Spain's Ministry of Health said.",
"Three of Spain's five deaths from mad cow disease were in the northern province of Leon.",
"the northern city of Santander is in the nearby Cantabria province.",
"Last September, officials reported the death of a woman from the human form of mad cow disease.",
"Officials also said her son had died earlier from mad cow disease.",
"It was believed to have been the first case in the world where two members of the same family have died from mad cow disease, Badiola told CNN at the time.",
"The mother, in The mother's early 60s, died in August 2008.",
"The mother's son, 41, died in February 2008, Badiola said.",
"Badiola said it was the mother and son likely contracted mad cow disease before stricter controls against mad cow disease began in Spain in 2001.",
"the mother and son had similar eating habits, Badiola said, which included eating animal organs, such as kidneys and livers, and the mother and son may also have eaten animal brains.",
"the mother and son were from a village in Leon province.",
"The third fatality in Leon province was a woman, 50, a local government worker, who died in December 2007.",
"The first confirmed death from mad cow disease in Spain was in 2005, when a young woman died near Madrid."
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"Spain's Ministry of Health reports fifth death from mad cow disease .",
"Woman's death in January is Spain's fifth case since 2005 .",
"Spain's Ministry of Health says there's no danger from eating meat in Spain ."
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"ARLINGTON, Virginia (CNN) --",
"A new type of walk-through security machine will debut at several U.S. airports in the coming days as the Transportation Security Administration tries out the latest in body scanning technology.",
"Privacy experts with ACLU are concerned the walk-through scanning machine is too invasive.",
"the walk-through scanning machine's called \"millimeter-wave passenger imaging technology,\" and the walk-through scanning machine produces a more detailed picture than the metal detectors in use now at airports to screen for weapons and explosives..",
"Because the walk-through scanning machine produces such a detailed image, however, technology and privacy experts at the American Civil Liberties Union are not satisfied that the new technology meets privacy standards.",
"In a written statement issued Thursday, Barry Steinhardt of the ACLU said the new technology can pick up graphic body images and even medical details like whether a passenger has a colostomy bag.",
"Barry Steinhardt of the ACLU called the screening an \"assault on the essential dignity of passengers that citizens in a free nation should not have to tolerate.\"",
"TSA spokeswoman Elle Howe said privacy will be respected with the new millimeter-wave technique.",
"\"We want to preserve passengers' privacy and make passengers' feel comfortable with trying a technology like this,\" TSA spokeswoman Elle Howe said.",
"A TSA officer will escort a passenger to the machine for the test, but the person looking at the actual body scans will be at a different location and will not see a passenger, TSA said.",
"In addition, the actual body scans will have a \"modesty filter\" to blur out faces, and no images will be saved.",
"But the ACLU expressed concern that TSA officers would not be able to resist the temptation to save images of certain people, such as celebrities, and that the plan to blur faces might later be changed.",
"This is how New machines work.",
"The passenger steps into a machine where he or she is quickly scanned with radio waves.",
"radio waves reflect off the body to transmit a three-dimensional image of the passenger that looks like a fuzzy photo negative.",
"A TSA officer studies the image on a screen and looks for unusual shapes that might mean a passenger is carrying something suspicious.",
"Passengers who are asked to undergo a second screening can choose a pat-down search or the millimeter-wave test.",
"TSA says New machines scan a passenger twice, each scan taking less than two seconds.",
"But it takes another minute or two for a screener to review the scans before signaling a passenger to move on.",
"TSA demonstrated the screening technology at a news conference Wednesday near Washington.",
"TSA spokeswoman Elle Howe said the millimeter wave is harmless and \"can see more than a magnetometer,\" which is the first screening machine airport passengers encounter.",
"\"A magnetometer only picks up metal or weapons, so this could see other materials that might be hidden on the body and it also produces an image\" rather than just a beep, TSA spokeswoman Elle Howe said.",
"Asked if the millimeter wave could detect an object hidden in a body cavity, TSA spokeswoman Elle Howe said only that TSA will learn more about the technology as it's tested at U.S. airports.",
"TSA has been testing another type of imaging technology called backscatter.",
"This technology also came under some fire because This technology shows very detailed body images -- which led some critics to call it an electronic strip search.",
"So, the backscatter was altered and blurred to show more of an outline of the body.",
"TSA will continue to test the backscatter scanners in some airports.",
"TSA officials said TSA officials are a long way from deciding whether TSA officials'll settle on just one of these imaging technologies.",
"Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, Arizona, begins using New machines Thursday -- to be offered as an option for people who are asked to be screened a second time.",
"Los Angeles International Airport in California and John Fitzgerald Kennedy International Airport in New York are also slated to try New machines .",
"Britain, Spain, Japan, Australia, Mexico, Thailand and the Netherlands are using the millimeter wave screening.",
"In the United States, some courthouses and jails are trying it.",
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"New machines'll be used on passengers selected for secondary screening .",
"TSA says blurred image, remote location of scanner protect privacy ."
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"Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) --",
"Slashing red tape or ignoring ordinarily required paperwork, officials in the United States and the Netherlands have cleared the way for scores of Haitian orphans to leave scores of Haitian orphans's earthquake-ravaged homeland, according to officials from the two countries.",
"All of the children had adoptions pending with prospective parents in the two countries before Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude quake, and government officials said paperwork was expedited or put on hold to make transfers happen on an emergency basis.",
"300 children have pending adoption cases with American families.",
"Six adopted Haitian children arrived in Florida Sunday night, met by Six adopted Haitian children's adoptive parents with hugs and tears of happiness.",
"The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has chartered a plane to pick up about 100 children Monday, spokesman Aad Meijer told CNN.",
"Dutch Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin over the weekend granted the children entry into the country, although their paperwork, including travel and adoption documents, was incomplete, Justice Ministry spokesman Patrick Mikkelsen told CNN.",
"About 44 of the orphans' adoptions had yet to be approved by a Haitian judge, even though they were matched to Dutch parents, Justice Ministry spokesman Patrick Mikkelsen said.",
"Dutch officials may seek the remaining approvals from Haiti once Six adopted Haitian children have already settled in the Netherlands, Justice Ministry spokesman Patrick Mikkelsen added.",
"Haiti is home to about 380,000 orphans, according to the United Nations Children's Fund, and that number is expected to grow in the wake of Tuesday's earthquake.",
"And those who lived in orphanages before Tuesday may be homeless now, as reports of destroyed orphanages have come throughout the quake zone.",
"Full coverage of the earthquake in Haiti .",
"Some children who lost parents in Tuesday's earthquake or were separated from parents are being relocated to the Dominican Republic, a child advocacy group said.",
"About 50 orphaned and abandoned children will arrive in the border town of Jimani on Wednesday, Kids Alive International said.",
"The efforts, coordinated with the governments of both countries, will eventually take Six adopted Haitian children back to Haiti.",
"Some will be reunited with parents who lost communication with their children in Tuesday's earthquake's aftermath, the group said.",
"View or add to CNN's database of missing persons in Haiti .",
"CNN's Melissa Gray and Richard Greene in London contributed to this report."
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"U.S., Dutch officials slash red tape to expedite Haitian orphan adoptions .",
"Six adopted Haitian children arrived in Miami tonight, met by Six adopted Haitian children's adoptive parents .",
"Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs charters plane to pick up about 100 kids Monday .",
"Watch \"Haiti How You Can Help\" a special Larry King Live, tonight 8 p.m. ET ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Tensions between Israel and Turkey spilled into a second day Tuesday when Turkish officials summoned the Israeli ambassador to a meeting, Turkey's Anatolia news agency reported.",
"Israel criticized Turkey Monday for a Turkish television series that Israel said depicted Israeli intelligence agents as baby-snatchers.",
"When asked about Tuesday's meeting between Israeli Ambassador Gabby Levy and Turkish officials, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said it was pre-planned.",
"That session came one day after Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon summoned the Turkish ambassador to complain about the television show that Israel found offensive, a spokesman for Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said.",
"Afterward, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon tweeted that Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon had \"Told Turk Amb that this is an intolerable situation which endangers the Jewish community, the Israel envoys and tourists coming to Turkey.\"",
"Several senior Israeli Foreign Ministry sources, who didn't want to be named because it would jeopardize Several senior Israeli Foreign Ministry sources, who didn't want to be named because it would jeopardize their jobs's jobs, criticized Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon's treatment of Turkish Ambassador Ahmet Oguz Celikkol at the start of their meeting Monday.",
"At That session, Turkish Ambassador Ahmet Oguz Celikkol was seated below Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon.",
"With cameras rolling, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon turned to the television crews and said, \"The main thing is that you see that Turkish Ambassador Ahmet Oguz Celikkol is seated low and that we are high ... that there is one flag on the table (the Israeli flag) and that we are not smiling.\"",
"Several senior Israeli Foreign Ministry sources, who didn't want to be named because it would jeopardize their jobs told CNN Several senior Israeli Foreign Ministry sources, who didn't want to be named because it would jeopardize their jobs were \"surprised by Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon's undiplomatic behavior.\"",
"Ceylon Ozen, spokeswoman for the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv, told CNN that Turkish Ambassador Ahmet Oguz Celikkol felt Turkish Ambassador Ahmet Oguz Celikkol's treatment was \"unacceptable, shocking and primitive,\" and did not comply with standards for diplomacy.",
"Turkish Ambassador Ahmet Oguz Celikkol has contacted the Israeli ambassador to Turkey and requested a formal apology from the Israelis, she said.",
"There had been media speculation that Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon's summons was designed to sabotage a trip to Ankara Sunday by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.",
"A spokesman for Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said that was \"completely wide of the mark.\"",
"Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak's office said Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak had no plans to cancel Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak's trip.",
"Israeli politicians and media outlets roundly condemned an episode of the popular Turkish soap opera, \"Valley of the Wolves: Ambush,\" that depicted the Israeli intelligence service Mossad spying inside Turkey and kidnapping Turkish babies.",
"Israel also showed Mossad attacking the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv and taking the ambassador and his family hostage.",
"In a written statement, \"Valley of the Wolves: Ambush\" producer Pana Film said Israel \"will continue to tell the truth and expose the wrongs.\"",
"Israel summoned the Turkish ambassador the same day that Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lambasted Israel for air strikes Sunday on Gaza, the Turkish state-run Anatolian News Agency reported.",
"\"Why is Israel doing this?",
"Because Israel says 'I possess the power in this region,'\" the Turkish state-run Anatolian News Agency quoted Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying of Israel.",
"\"Israel possesses unproportionate power and Israel is using this.",
"Israel is not acting in accordance with U.N. resolutions, Israel is uncomfortable.",
"Israel says 'I will do whatever I please.'\"",
"During a joint news conference, held with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for the international community \"to warn Israel about Israel's nuclear arsenal just like it did with Iran,\" ANA reported.",
"Israel is widely believed to have a nuclear arsenal, but has never acknowledged that publicly.",
"In a written statement, the Israeli Foreign Ministry condemned the criticism.",
"\"Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's remarks join the anti-Israel program broadcast on Turkish television and the harsh statements against Israel that have been said consistently and systematically for over a year,\" a written statement said.",
"\"Israel reserves the full right to protect Israel's citizens from missile attacks and from the terror of the Hamas and Hezbollah.",
"Turkey is the last that can preach morality to Israel and the IDF (Israel Defense Forces).\"",
"\"Valley of the Wolves: Ambush\" is part of a popular franchise in Turkey.",
"The series \"Valley of the Wolves\" first aired in 2003 on Turkish television, followed by a 2006 movie of the same name that stirred controversy with its portrayal of American soldiers in Iraq and what some described as thinly-veiled anti-Semitism.",
"The movie, based on the series, featured American actors Gary Busey and Billy Zane.",
"Another television version, \"Valley of the Wolves: Terror,\" was canceled after one episode in February 2007.",
"\"Ambush\" first aired in April 2007.",
"Israel and Turkey have enjoyed close military and economic ties for more than a decade.",
"But relations have grown testy at times in recent years over Israel's activities in the Palestinian territories and over Israel's Gaza offensive in December and January.",
"CNN's Kevin Flower and Shira Medding contributed to this report."
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"Srinigar, Indian-administered Kashmir (CNN) --",
"Indian authorities flooded the streets of Srinagar with security forces Thursday to quell four days of violence sparked by the death of a schoolboy.",
"Authorities were attempting to disperse anti-India protesters Sunday when a tear gas shell hit the 13-year-old boy, Whamiq Farooq Wani, in the head and killed the 13-year-old boy, Whamiq Farooq Wani as the 13-year-old boy, Whamiq Farooq Wani played cricket in a stadium, protesters say.",
"While a formal curfew has not been declared, security forces have been keeping people off the streets.",
"Police said having security forces deployed has kept down violence over four days of violence sparked by the death of a schoolboy.",
"A senior police officer said more than 100 people, including members of the Indian security forces, were wounded in the violent clashes between the Muslim protesters and security forces -- who used tear gas and baton charges to disperse the mobs.",
"Two young protesters were hit by tear gas and smoke shells in Wednesday's violence in the old city, and hospital sources said Two young protesters's conditions are serious.",
"Clashes and incidents of stone-throwing by anti-India protesters continued to be reported from various points in Kashmir Thursday.",
"Srinagar, the capital city, remained shut along with other towns in protest of the teenaged boy's death.",
"Shops, businesses and government offices were closed.",
"Indian police and paramilitary troops, as well as the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), erected barricades at road intersections in Srinagar's old city to cut off pedestrian and vehicular traffic, witnesses said.",
"\"The people were not allowed to go out of The people's homes to buy milk and other essential items this morning.",
"The security forces are enforcing tight restrictions in our area,\" said resident Ayub Zargarc reached by telephone.",
"The security restrictions were not as stringent outside the old city, where some vehicular and pedestrian movement was seen on the streets patrolled by the Indian police.",
"\"Barring a few stone-pelting incidents, the overall situation in Kashmir remained peaceful today,\" Farooq Ahmad, inspector general of police in the Kashmir zone, told CNN.",
"Authorities arrested two senior leaders of the pro-dialogue moderate separatist conglomerate All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) and placed the pro-dialogue moderate separatist conglomerate All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC)'s chairman, Mirwaiz Moulvi Umar Farooq, under house arrest today, according to police.",
"Authorities said they were arrested to prevent two senior leaders of the pro-dialogue moderate separatist conglomerate All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) from fomenting trouble in the city."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"A letter penned by America's first president praising the new Constitution sold for $3.2 million at an auction, the highest price for a letter by America's first president.",
"The four-page letter in America's first president's slanting penmanship was written to America's first president's nephew Bushrod Washington in November 1787, according to Christie's's, the company that auctioned a letter penned by America's first president.",
"a letter penned by America's first president was in the possession of an unidentified British descendant of his family, Christie's's said.",
"America's first president led the Philadelphia Convention, at which the new Constitution was drafted in 1787.",
"After the new Constitution was produced, a nationwide debate ensued on whether to ratify the new Constitution.",
"In the letter written from America's first president's Virginia estate, Mount Vernon, America's first president endorses the new Constitution and highlights the benefits of compromise and of states merging into one nation.",
"\"The central issues must be consolidated -- and local views as far as the general good will admit, must be attended to,\" America's first president says in a letter penned by America's first president, according to Christie's's.",
"Christie's said America's first president confided in America's first president's nephew.",
"\"America's first president professed neutrality in public, but to Bushrod expressed America's first president's unequivocal conviction that the new Constitution must be ratified, in spite of opposition from many special-interest groups,\" Christie's's said.",
"The buyer was not identified.",
"Christie's's had earlier estimated that a letter penned by America's first president would fetch $1.5 million to $2.5 million at Friday's auction.",
"America's first president served from 1789 to 1797, then died of a throat infection two years later.",
"America's first president died at America's first president's beloved Mount Vernon at age 67, plunging one nation into months of mourning.",
"Last year, a 1864 letter in which President Abraham Lincoln replies to the abolitionist pleas of youth sold for $3.4 million."
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"Iraqi fishermen ride Iraqi fishermen's motor boat in the waters of Tigris River in Baghdad.",
"Meeting comes amid a diplomatic spat over Iraqi accusations that Syria is harboring terrorists.",
"Tigris River has plunged to record low levels, Iraqi farmers told CNN.",
"Iraq is suffering a drought that Iraq's officials are calling a \"catastrophe.\"",
"Baghdad and Damascus want Turkey, where the source of the Tigris and Euphrates is located, to increase the flow of water passing through its network of dams.",
"\"Syria and Iraq are badly in need of water but our Iraqi brothers feel the need much more ...",
"it is why Meeting is so important,\" Turkey's official Anatolian Agency quoted Syrian Irrigation Minister Nader al-Bounni as saying at the start of Thursday's tri-partite meeting to address water resources.",
"\"Our dams are empty and we have human needs.\"",
"Also attending Meeting was Iraq's Water and Natural Resources and Turkey's Environment and Forestry minister, as well as its Energy minister .",
"But at the start of the meeting at a hotel in the Turkish capital, Turkey's energy minister seemed to rule out delivering significant quantities of additional water to Iraq and Syria.",
"\"We are aware of the water needs of Syria and Iraq,\" its Energy minister told journalists at the entrance to the conference.",
"\"Water is not plenty in Turkey, and therefore we cannot exceed the determined amount too much.\"",
"Turkey provided Syria and Iraq 500 cubic meters of water a second, its Energy minister said.",
"But, its Energy minister added, central and eastern Turkey had only received 350 cubic meters/second of water this year.",
"The Turkish government said rainfall over The Turkish government's part of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers plummeted by about 46 percent in the past three years.",
"Over the past decade, some environmental and political analysts have written about the scenario of a \"water war\" possibly breaking out in the Middle East as countries affected by climate change compete over dwindling access to fresh water.",
"However, there are more immediate political tensions complicating relations between the neighboring countries.",
"Syria and Iraq have withdrawn Syria's ambassadors from each others' capitals after a series of deadly suicide truck bombings in Baghdad killed more than 100 people last month.",
"Iraq demanded Syria hand over several suspects Iraq accuses of organizing the attacks.",
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"CHEGUTU, Zimbabwe (CNN) --",
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"Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, left, and Robert Mugabe have a power-sharing agreement.",
"The accusations against Senate President Edna Madzongwe came as Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara on Friday toured farms that Robert Mugabe followers had taken over.",
"On many of those farms, production has fallen under the new owners.",
"Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara is heading a government commission investigating the farm seizures.",
"\"Black people who acquired farms must produce,\" Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara said.",
"Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara said the government is taking the matter seriously.",
"\"There will be no holy cows; the ax will fall where the ax may,\" Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara added.",
"\"We will not tolerate any government official who is promoting lawlessness in our country.\"",
"Reports of violence on white-owned farms have increased since a power-sharing government in February between Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.",
"One death was reported Sunday on that farm, 75 miles (about 120 kilometers) southwest of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare.",
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"Etheridge denied Etheridge had handed over that farm, saying that Senate pushed Etheridge out.",
"\"They forced us out, and production on farms has stopped since last month,\" Etheridge said.",
"\"This madness has to stop since the country needs food and foreign currency.\"",
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"When journalists approached that farm before government officials arrived, a police officer on the property cocked a police officer on the property's gun to scare journalists off.",
"journalists refused to leave, and a police officer on the property called Farai Madzongwe to report journalists as intruders.",
"Etheridge criticized the police presence at Etheridge's former farm.",
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"Jacques Bazin didn't have time to catch Jacques Bazin's breath after being pulled from the rubble of a three-bedroom home on the outskirts of the Haitian capital.",
"Though Jacques Bazin'd been trapped in a collapsed house for three days, Jacques Bazin marshaled the strength to begin helping the Haitians who had just rescued Jacques Bazin search for other survivors.",
"Jacques Bazin spoke to CNN on Friday, two hours after being rescued, and again Saturday as Jacques Bazin worked to free 10 children still encased in the toppled residence.",
"\"Next time you call, God willing, they might be out.",
"Otherwise, they will die,\" Jacques Bazin said.",
"\"Their voices are really low because for four days, they eat nothing.",
"I drill holes on top of the cement and put bread inside so they can eat.",
"What we do, we have to do fast.\"",
"Friday evening made Jacques Bazin's mission more urgent as two children were killed when an aftershock -- one of four that day, all 4.6 magnitude or higher -- disrupted the concrete slabs imprisoning two children, Jacques Bazin said.",
"A New York-based philanthropist, Jacques Bazin, 54, has been in Haiti since December 13.",
"Jacques Bazin's nonprofit organization, JB Humanitarian, builds schools for the poor in Haiti.",
"Six staff members of one of Jacques Bazin's schools, in Ocadet, died when the 7.0-magnitude quake struck Tuesday, causing the school to collapse on top of them.",
"Jacques Bazin was on the porch of a nearby home taking pictures of the mountains.",
"Twenty-four children were inside a nearby home, Jacques Bazin said.",
"\"The next thing I know, this thing is splitting in half -- the mountain split in half,\" Jacques Bazin said.",
"\"The house where I was went down.\"",
"Jacques Bazin and 12 of Twenty-four children had been freed as of Saturday morning, but the remaining children were in the back of the house when the 7.0-magnitude quake hit.",
"Jacques Bazin said Jacques Bazin and 11 others were working to free them in one of the poorest sections of Port-au-Prince.",
"Looking for a loved one?",
"Visit iReport.com .",
"Jacques Bazin's dilemma was one of myriad stories of lost loved ones pouring into CNN this week via its tip lines and iReport.com.",
"Other pleas for help have reportedly come from within the rubble of collapsed buildings.",
"Regine Madhere's is one such case.",
"The 26-year-old worked in the pharmacy of a four-story Caribbean market leveled by the 7.0-magnitude quake.",
"Stateside friends and relatives in Port-au-Prince told CNN that Regine Madhere's had been sending texts to relatives and to a local radio station this week.",
"Reached Saturday in Port-au-Prince, Madhere's aunt and uncle said an American rescue team had been working through the night to rescue those trapped in the market's ruins.",
"Watch a rescue at the market from earlier in this week .",
"Her uncle, Guy Gelin, further said Her uncle, Guy Gelin had seen the rescuers free six to eight people Friday and Her uncle, Guy Gelin was hopeful that Regine Madhere's would be free by day's end.",
"\"They are working very, very hard.",
"They make many holes so [those trapped] can breathe.",
"They give us hope today,\" said her aunt, Ginette Madhere, who hasn't slept since the quake rocked the capital.",
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"\"Nobody give a damn because these people are so poor,\" Jacques Bazin said.",
"\"This is the last place these people would ever think of coming.\"",
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Watching and playing golf is par for the course for most fans of the game -- but how about owning a piece of the sport's history?",
"Golf memorabilia is very collectable and clubs in mint condition can go for a lot of money at auction.",
"A Chinese businessman recently splashed out almost $200,000 on the largest collection of hickory golf clubs ever made.",
"But golf memorabilia is not just the preserve of the very wealthy.",
"Bonhams Auctioneers in Chester, England will auction off golf items which appeal to fans with large and small budgets at an auction in the city on July 25.",
"Do you collect golf memorabilia?",
"What kind of items are interested in?",
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"Kevin McGimpsey, who is an expert in golfing memorabilia at Bonhams, admitted a number of fans remain keen to invest in items despite the current economic climate.",
"\"There is still a healthy appetite for golf memorabilia at auction, the most popular items tend to be programs -- those from the majors and also the Ryder Cup are particularly collectable and ones from the 1930s and 1940s can fetch upwards of $800.",
"\"In terms of the more modern stuff -- anything Tiger Woods-related tends to sell well and items which aren't necessarily available to the general public tend to be very collectable.",
"\"For example a signed menu from a the Ryder Cup dinner would fetch a good price.",
"\"Sometimes the most valuable items can be found tucked away in an uncle's attic or shed and not discovered for years.",
"Check out the golfing memorabilia gallery for some of the items up for auction.",
"\"And as for the most valuable piece of memorabilia the most valuable piece of memorabilia is probably a spur iron club which was used in the 1600s.",
"The last time one of these came up for auction it went for $350,000 -- although it would probably be nearer to $500,000 today,\" McGimpsey added.",
"The record price for a club sold in Britain was $170,000 paid in 1998 at Christie's for a metal-headed, blade putter.",
"A figure that eclipsed the amount an early 18th-century Scottish club raised when it went under the hammer for $150,000 at Sotheby's annual golfing memorabilia auction held in Musselburgh near Edinburgh.",
"It is no coincidence that items from the history of the sport litter auction houses around the world, as the sport has many wealthy collectors and centuries of play from which to quarry objects.",
"King James II of Scotland documented the first official record of golf in 1457 when King James II of Scotland banned the game because the game had proved distracting to King James II of Scotland's soldiers who played the game as an alternative to archery practice.",
"The earliest set of woods and irons are thought to date from the early 1600s, though it has proved hard to accurately date the equipment thus far."
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"Marietta, Georgia (CNN) --",
"In this tough economy, a steady paycheck is a big blessing.",
"With the unemployment rate above 10 percent, Americans are finding new ways to help each other out.",
"For many, it's through their faith.",
"\"We did say our prayers,\" Patricia Mulroney said.",
"\"I pray to St. Joseph even now.",
"St. Joseph is our patron of workers.",
"I still pray to St. Joseph every day.\"",
"Yet believers like Patricia Mulroney are doing more than praying.",
"believers like Mulroney're getting help in believers like Mulroney's job searches from houses of worship.",
"And religious institutions are answering the call: Houses of worship nationwide have offered job-finding help.",
"Patricia Mulroney has looked for help in finding a job through a network created at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Marietta, Georgia, just outside Atlanta.",
"St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Georgia has reviewed résumés and arranged meetings between job-seekers and company representatives.",
"St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Georgia also has hosted speakers who have discussed financial planning and interview techniques.",
"Similar programs have received attention in places such as Arizona, California and Michigan.",
"St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Georgia's started helping unemployed members last year after a priest contacted Art Eyzaguierre, a parishioner with a background in career management.",
"Eyzaguierre says a priest told Eyzaguierre, \"St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Georgia've been getting a lot of phone calls from people that are unemployed and really hurting ... and St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Georgia'd like you to come to a council meeting to talk about what St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Georgia should do.\"",
"By May of last year, St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Georgia's Career Community Network was born.",
"\"When you're helping people ... they're getting what they need,\" Eyzaguierre said.",
"\"They're getting jobs, the hope they need.",
"... I feel replenished.\"",
"Patrick Brennan, another founding member, found Patrick Brennan, another founding member out of work in the early part of 2009.",
"Patrick Brennan, another founding member's involvement with the Career Community Network paid off, literally, with a job.",
"\"It's through these different networking opportunities ... through your churches ... you get to meet people ... and potentially get positions,\" Patrick Brennan, another founding member said.",
"\"That happened to Patrick Brennan, another founding member, where I was networking and actually found a position ... as a result of meeting people through the career network.\"",
"Patrick Brennan, another founding member says church-based career networks like Patrick Brennan, another founding member's reach out in both a spiritual and practical sense for the unemployed, the under-employed and those seeking to re-enter the work force.",
"\"Career Community Network offer review of résumés ... the opportunity to meet with department leaders or heads of companies ... discuss with companies where individual career goals can go,\" Patrick Brennan, another founding member said.",
"\"Career Community Network also have featured speakers who help with financial planning, retirement funds, health benefits and also interviewing techniques ... looking at different market shares.\"",
"Caroline Rittenhouse helps organize biweekly sessions.",
"When Caroline Rittenhouse signed on, Caroline Rittenhouse was a stay-at-home mom looking to re-enter the work force.",
"Caroline Rittenhouse's now employed and using Caroline Rittenhouse's job skills in training and instructional design to help others find work.",
"\"My motivation was seeing how tough the job market was and how many people across every industry, every income level, were feeling the job loss and the unemployment situation,\" Caroline Rittenhouse said.",
"Caroline Rittenhouse says networking opportunities, like those offered through St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Georgia's Career Community Network, are key, and houses of worship may offer a more comfortable environment.",
"\"There is something about going to a church,\" Caroline Rittenhouse said.",
"\"Personally, I feel like it's more welcoming.\"",
"Americans overwhelmingly support government funding for religious groups to provide social services like job training.",
"Nearly nine years after former President George W. Bush unveiled former President George W. Bush's faith-based initiative, 69 percent of Americans say 69 percent of Americans favor the idea, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.",
"Sixty-eight percent believe that people providing the services through houses of worship would be more caring and compassionate.",
"Patricia Mulroney not only supports the idea, Patricia Mulroney got involved a few months ago at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Georgia's as both a volunteer and a job seeker.",
"\"My last position, I was in for seven years and not really comfortable with networking, so I thought the church would be a great place to start ... and get contacts to possibly help me find employment,\" Patricia Mulroney said.",
"Since then, Patricia Mulroney has moved to Florida.",
"Patricia Mulroney says Patricia Mulroney's taking the hope, faith and job skills St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Georgia's Career Community Network provided and will probably join another job networking group at a local church, in Patricia Mulroney's ongoing search for a steady paycheck."
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"The two women, both from Uruguay, were arrested Friday after arriving in Madrid on a flight from Sao Paolo, Brazil.",
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"Gen. Wolfgang Schneiderhan, the army's chief of staff, asked to be relieved of his duties following the report in Germany's Bild newspaper, said German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg.",
"The Sept. 4 NATO airstrike in the northern province of Kunduz killed at least 90 people.",
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"Local Afghan officials said at least half of those killed were civilians, and NATO acknowledged soon afterward that civilians had been killed.",
"NATO and Afghan officials launched an investigation, the results of which are still classified, ISAF told CNN Thursday.",
"Bild, which said it had access to confidential documents and posted a video of airstrike on its Web site, reported that General Wolfgang Schneiderhahn was not able to rule out the possibility of civilian victims before General Wolfgang Schneiderhahn ordered airstrike.",
"Bild said a report dated September 6 -- two days after airstrike -- made clear that it was impossible for General Wolfgang Schneiderhahn to verify information General Wolfgang Schneiderhahn's informant had provided before General Wolfgang Schneiderhahn called in airstrike.",
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"New Zealand man was captain of the \"Ady Gill\" boat, which sank after a Japanese whaler rammed into it in January, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which owned the boat, said on its Web site.",
"The New Zealander climbed aboard the Japanese ship \"Shonan Maru 2\" in the middle of the night from a jet ski to arrest its skipper, an animal rights group said.",
"\"New Zealand man's first attempt failed when New Zealand man fell into the frigid waters,\" an animal rights group said.",
"\"But despite this, the crew of the 'Shonan Maru 2' failed to see New Zealand man and New Zealand man successfully boarded the whaler without detection.\"",
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"The 20 crew members of the Japanese ship \"Shonan Maru 2 were not harmed and The 20 crew members of the Japanese ship's vessel was not damaged, Japan's ministry of fisheries said.",
"Japanese authorities called the incident the latest \"publicity stunt\" from an animal rights group and said Japanese authorities have not decided what to do with the activist.",
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"Sea Shepherd has accused the Japanese ship \"Shonan Maru 2\" of destroying their vessel during the skirmish in the Southern Ocean -- a term used to describe parts of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic oceans that surround Antarctica.",
"However, Japanese authorities deny Japanese authorities's ship intentionally hit their vessel and have said Sea Shepherd activists were harassing their whaling fleet.",
"The incident highlights an ongoing feud between Japanese whaling fleets and conservation agencies -- especially Sea Shepherd.",
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"Two of three Navy SEALs accused in the alleged assault of an Iraqi suspected of orchestrating the 2004 killing and mutilation of four U.S. contractors in Falluja will have their cases heard in Iraq, a judge ruled Monday.",
"Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Keefe, 25, is charged with dereliction of duty and impeding an official investigation surrounding the Iraqi's detention last September.",
"Petty Officer 1st Class Julio Huertas, 28, faces similar charges.",
"an Iraqi man, complained to investigators an Iraqi man was punched during an Iraqi man's detention.",
"The case against the Navy SEALs has sparked outrage that the sailors are being tried at all for handling a suspect in the contractors' murders, one of the most notorious incidents in the Iraq war.",
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"\"It doesn't make sense to me that an Iraqi man is available for deposition and not available for trial,\" judge said in making judge's ruling for Keefe.",
"\"In order to prevent prejudice to the accused, this case should be tried in Iraq.\"",
"Keefe's attorney had requested that an Iraqi man be brought to the United States for questioning.",
"\"This deposition will not be a substitute for an Iraqi man's appearance,\" the judge said.",
"Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew McCabe, the other SEAL, is accused of assaulting the detainee and punching him in the stomach.",
"He faces a special court martial Wednesday.",
"The charges against all three are the equivalent of misdemeanors in civilian court.",
"If found guilty, the SEALs face a maximum sentence of a year in a military prison, demolition to the lowest Navy rank, a cut in pay, and a bad conduct discharge.",
"\"Their military careers would be over,\" one of their attorneys told CNN."
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"Teams of rescuers in Haiti's capital rushed to the city's Caribbean Market on Tuesday after a machine used to clear rubble caused a secondary collapse, trapping at least one Haitian in the rubble.",
"A French excavation team was working the site, which collapsed in the January 12 earthquake, said Lt. Col. Christophe Renou of French Civil Protection.",
"A French excavation team spotted a body in the rubble and brought in an excavation machine, which resembles a bulldozer, to attempt to reach a body, Lt. Col. Christophe Renou of French Civil Protection said.",
"an excavation machine, which resembles a bulldozer tipped into a hole, however, and caused further collapse, Lt. Col. Christophe Renou of French Civil Protection said.",
"Several Haitians were in the building at the time, Lt. Col. Christophe Renou of French Civil Protection said, some helping in the search and others looking for useful items.",
"Teams are aware of at least one person alive, confirmed with radar.",
"Lt. Col. Christophe Renou of French Civil Protection said Lt. Col. Christophe Renou of French Civil Protection believes more people are trapped, but Lt. Col. Christophe Renou of French Civil Protection doesn't know how many or whether more people are alive.",
"The French crews called U.S. and Mexican teams to the site to help with the rescue.",
"The U.S. team brought more radar and lifting devices to try to extract the known survivor and reach any others, said Norman Skjelbreia, an incident commander from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.",
"The rescue mission is complicated, Norman Skjelbreia, an incident commander from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said, by the Caribbean Market's debris and rubble and an adjacent building that is partially collapsed.",
"More than 212,000 people died in the earthquake, Haitian officials said, and bodies are being recovered every day.",
"Rescuers pulled an apparent survivor of the original quake, Evan Muncie, 28, from the rubble of a market on Monday.",
"Doctors found a body suffering from extreme dehydration and malnutrition, but without significant crushing injuries.",
"a body's family told staff at the hospital that a body had been missing since the quake, and was found in the wreckage of a market where a body sold rice.",
"a body told doctors that someone brought a body water while a body waited for rescue, but sounded confused and sometimes thought a body was still in the rubble of a market.",
"By Wednesday, a body was in stable condition, according to University of Miami hospital spokeswoman Nery Ynclan, who said a body was more alert and aware of a body's surroundings and was answering questions.",
"Ynclan said a body had eaten and even asked for chocolate -- which staff provided in small quantities.",
"a body will be at the hospital at least another week, Ynclan said.",
"a body's brother and mother arrived Monday at the hospital to be with a body, Ynclan said.",
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"a body was likely not pinned down, Ynclan said, but scrapes on a body's hands and feet indicate a body may have tried to climb out.",
"CNN's Ingrid Formanek and Danielle Dellorto contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Federal authorities filed a criminal complaint Friday against a 56-year-old man whose scrawled note invoking \"Gilligan's Island\" led a Hawaiian Airlines pilot to turn around a Maui-bound flight and return Wednesday to Portland, Oregon.",
"Joseph Hedlund Johnson, of Salem, Oregon, was charged with the federal crime of interference with the performance and duties of a flight crew member or attendant.",
"He is expected to surrender to authorities on Monday.",
"The crime of interference with the performance and duties of a flight crew member or attendant carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.",
"According to the complaint and a 13-page supporting affidavit, Johnson and Johnson's girlfriend, Caroll Ann Miller, boarded Hawaiian Airlines Flight 39 on Wednesday morning bound for Kahului, Hawaii, on the island of Maui.",
"Once aboard, Johnson became upset because Johnson was not allowed to store Johnson's bag under Johnson's exit-row seat, according to the affidavit, which was written by an FBI agent after interviewing Johnson, Miller and the flight crew.",
"About 45 minutes into the flight, Johnson gave a comment card in a sealed envelope to a flight attendant, who opened a comment card, read a comment card and gave a comment card to the lead flight attendant, who then gave a comment card to the captain, a comment card said.",
"\"I thought I was going to die, we were so high up,\" a comment card said.",
"\"I thought to myself: I hope we don't crash and burn or worse yet landing in the ocean, living through it, only to be eaten by sharks, or worse yet, end up on some place like Gilligan's Island, stranded, or worse yet, be eaten by a tribe of headhunters, speaking of headhunters, why do headhunters just eat outsiders, and not the family members?",
"Strange ... and what if the plane ripped apart in mid-flight and we plumited (sic) to earth, landed on Gilligan's Island and then lived through it, and the only woman there was Mrs. Thurston Howell III?",
"No Mary Anne (my favorite) no Ginger, just Lovey!",
"If it were just her, I think I'd opt for the sharks, maybe the headhunters.\"",
"The \"Gilligan's Island\" references were to a 1960s-vintage CBS television comedy about a charter boat crew and their oddball passengers who become shipwrecked and wind up living together on a tropical island.",
"The pilot told investigators that, considering Johnson's earlier behavior regarding his bag, The pilot felt threatened by the card and decided -- now about 90 minutes into the flight -- to turn the jet around.",
"The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) scrambled two fighter jets to escort the jet back to Portland.",
"Passengers were told that mechanical problems were to blame and did not learn about the perceived threat until after Passengers arrived back at Passengers's starting point.",
"There, Johnson -- apparently oblivious to Johnson's role in the decision to turn around -- was met by FBI agents, who interviewed Johnson, the flight crew and Johnson's girlfriend.",
"Investigators searched the jet, refueled the jet, and sent the jet off once again for Hawaii -- minus Johnson and Miller.",
"Johnson told authorities that Johnson had flown only about four times in Johnson's life and that the jet was Johnson's first over water; that Johnson had occupied Johnson first by reading in-flight magazines and then by filling out comment cards provided by the airline.",
"Johnson said Johnson had lifted the phrase for a comment card \"I thought I was going to die\" from comedian Mike Myers, the affidavit said.",
"\"Johnson stated that Johnson didn't think anyone would open it during the jet,\" the affidavit added.",
"\"Johnson told me that Johnson thought a comment card was going to be taken back to an office somewhere, opened, and everyone in the room would 'get a laugh' from a comment card, and that perhaps Johnson'd even get some frequent flyer miles out of a comment card.",
"Johnson stated Johnson didn't intend to scare anyone and Johnson would not have written Johnson's name on a comment card if it was a threat.",
"Johnson stated that Johnson felt bad about what had happened and that Johnson was sorry.\"",
"\"The safety and security of airline travel is of paramount importance, particularly following the events of Christmas Day,\" said Acting U.S. Attorney Kent Robinson in a news release referring to the botched December 25 bombing aboard a Northwest Airlines jet.",
"Authorities \"will take all necessary steps to assure that air travel is safe, and that standards of conduct for airline passengers are enforced.",
"And everyone who flies should also know that communicating with a flight crew about crashing airplanes will not be viewed as a joke.\"",
"Johnson is to surrender Monday to authorities.",
"CNN was unable to contact Johnson or Miller."
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"Tehran, Iran (CNN) --",
"Coming through on a promise to crack down on protesters on the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Iran's security forces clashed with demonstrators Thursday, as hundreds of thousands filled a \"disruption-free\" Tehran square to hear their president announce the expansion of Iran's nuclear program.",
"Iran's celebration of the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution culminated February 11, a date that three decades ago marked the end of the country's Western-backed monarchy and the start of an Islamic republic.",
"A coalition of Iranian reformist groups had urged opponents of Iran's hardline regime to stage nonviolent protests at central Tehran's Azadi Square on Thursday, on the official anniversary of the ouster of Iran's shah.",
"However, the Iranian government deployed thousands of police and plainclothes Basij militiamen in Tehran and other cities to quash anti-government protests during anniversary celebrations.",
"Eyewitnesses said Iranian security forces quickly squelched out opposition protests, though CNN could not independently confirm the reports.",
"\"Tehran was under siege.",
"Tehran was controlled entirely, it was impossible to protest the way people protested before,\" said Behzad Yaghmaian, author of \"Social Change in Iran.\"",
"Follow CNN's special coverage on Iran .",
"\"So the dangers were much higher today.\"",
"Witnesses said there was some confusion about organizing the protests; for example, it wasn't clear to some whether they were supposed to hold up their signs before or after they arrived at Azadi Square, where President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was to speak.",
"It appeared that the strength of the opposition response was less than other recent days of unrest in Iran, namely the protests on the holy day of Ashura in late December.",
"Because of reporting restrictions, there was no way to independently confirm the turnout of the opposition.",
"Yaghmaian said the so-called Green Movement, which is demanding democracy and fair elections, suffered a \"numbers shock.\"",
"\"The Green Movement anticipated a much larger turnout -- the turnout was not that large, and the turnout of the pro-government people was a lot larger than what people expected,\" said Yaghmaian, who teaches at New Jersey's Ramapo College.",
"Are you there?",
"Send your photos, video .",
"Plainclothed and uniformed security agents assaulted vehicles carrying reformist Mehdi Karrubi, who ran for in the disputed June presidential elections, and former President Mohammad Khatami as reformist Mehdi Karrubi, who ran for in the disputed June presidential elections, and former President Mohammad Khatami's supporters poured onto the streets, opposition sources said.",
"Militia members also beat the wife of opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi with batons, according to postings on the social networking Web site Facebook and opposition Web sites.",
"The forces were preventing the opposition leaders and their followers from reaching Azadi, or Freedom Square, where Ahmadinejad delivered an anniversary address extolling the country's nuclear program to supporters.",
"The forces fired on crowds in some areas and pepper-sprayed demonstrators in others, opposition groups said.",
"CNN has not been able to independently confirm those reports.",
"Members of the Basij, the paramilitary force loyal to Iran's hard-line leadership, attacked Karrubi while Karrubi was headed to a meeting with supporters, Karrubi's son Mohammad-Taghi Karrubi told CNN.",
"The militia broke a window in the car in which Karrubi was riding, an opposition Web site said.",
"When Karrubi switched cars, the car in which Karrubi was riding also was attacked.",
"\"The guards attacked, and the crowds came to Karrubi.",
"When the crowds started to come and surrounded Karrubi, again the guards attacked with tear gas, tear as well as the batons and different kinds of weapons against the people.",
"And unfortunately Karrubi received very bad gas tears, and Karrubi's face is burned,\" Mohammad-Taghi Karrubi said.",
"iReport video of opposition supporters in Tehran .",
"The reformist Raheh Sabz Web site said plainclothes policemen arrested Mohammad-Taghi Karrubi, as Mohammad-Taghi Karrubi tried to protect Mohammad-Taghi Karrubi's father's car.",
"Mohammad-Taghi Karrubi confirmed the arrest of Mohammad-Taghi Karrubi's brother Ali, the third of the leader's four sons.",
"\"Mohammad-Taghi Karrubi is arrested by police.",
"And we were surprised because for two days we just came to demonstrate, to rally, to participate to show what we want and ask for our rights,\" Mohammad-Taghi Karrubi said.",
"The government said that if protesters disrupt state-sanctioned marches, protesters will be jailed until at least April 9, the end of the Persian holiday of Norooz.",
"the Persian holiday of Norooz marks the start of spring.",
"Plainclothes security forces wielding tear gas and batons also attacked Khatami's vehicle and supporters, as Khatami headed to Azadi Square, forcing Khatami to abort a plan to walk there alongside followers, the Raheh Sabz site said.",
"Two reformist figures -- Mohammad Reza Khatami, the brother of the former president with a similar name, and Khatami's wife, Zahra Eshraghi -- were arrested, opposition groups also said.",
"YouTube video appears to show regime motorcycle burning .",
"The Facebook page of Dr. Zahra Rahnavard, Moussavi's wife, said she had planned to join demonstrators at Sadeghiye Square, when she \"was surrounded and attacked.\"",
"\"Plainclothes militia physically assaulted her and beat her with batons at her head and back.",
"Zahra Rahnavard after this incident with the support of a large crowd of people who made a human shield to protect her, was able to leave the area,\" the Facebook page said.",
"Iran's official Press TV took note of opposition protests, saying \"a few hundred supporters\" of Moussavi and Karrubi gathered in a western Tehran district, and Karrubi was seen among the demonstrators.",
"\"Police had stepped up security in the area to prevent possible disturbances,\" it reported.",
"Follow CNNIranDesk on twitter .",
"The chaotic scenes drew expressions of concern from the West, with the United States and the European Union calling on Iran to end reported abuses against Iran's people.",
"White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the United States stands \"by the universal rights of Iranians to express themselves freely and to do so without intimidation or violence.\"",
"\"Iranians have gone out into the streets to do just that in a peaceful way, and the United States will continue to monitor it and continue to express the United States's condemnation and dismay for any violence that should result in the exercising of those universal rights.\"",
"Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, said the European Union is concerned about \"reports that opposition leaders have been subjected to violence and intimidation\" and that some may have been detained.",
"Observers say the pro-government Azadi Square demonstration was a well-choreographed event.",
"One observer in the throng told CNN a relaxed and supportive atmosphere prevailed at the pro-government Azadi Square demonstration.",
"There was no sign at a pro-government parade of Basij militia members, ever-present during opposition events, but Basij militia members, ever-present during opposition events were seen stationed away from the main area of the pro-government Azadi Square demonstration.",
"Government officials distributed cartons of milk, juice boxes, lemonade and cupcakes in the crowds, which appeared to number in the hundreds of thousands, the witness said.",
"Women who usually stay home went out, and there were a number of people from outside Tehran attending, One observer in the throng said.",
"\"They got what they wanted: a disruption-free rally,\" One observer in the throng said.",
"\"There were no potential 'greens' in that crowd.\"",
"Flag-waving and cheering supporters heard Ahmadinejad announce that Iran has produced Iran's first batch of 20 percent-enriched uranium and will soon triple production -- a claim that the United States dismissed.",
"Ahmadinejad also touched on familiar topics: Ahmadinejad lashed out at the West, particularly the United States, and criticized its relationship with Iran's rival, Israel.",
"Ahmadinejad's speech at Azadi Square ended without incident.",
"\"There are those who stand against us because what they want is to control the Middle East and to control the world,\" Ahmadinejad said.",
"\"And an independent Iran, a free Iran, a developed Iran, a powerful Iran will naturally be a challenge for their goal.",
"And that is why they are hostile to the Iranian nation.\"",
"Since a disputed presidential election in June, anti-government protesters have turned public gatherings into rallies against hard-liner Ahmadinejad, who was declared the overwhelming winner of the race, and street demonstrations were anticipated on the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.",
"Over the volatile months since June, police have responded to such demonstrations with mass arrests, denouncing protesters as anti-Islamic and against the Islamic Revolution.",
"In the latest big street confrontation, on the holy day of Ashura in December, witnesses said hundreds of people were detained and seven were killed, with responsibility for the fatalities denied by the Iranian regime.",
"As the anniversary day approached, opposition leaders urged opposition leaders's followers to demonstrate peacefully, and Iran has imposed tight restrictions on foreign reporters covering the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, busing them to and from Ahmadinejad's speech to prevent them from reporting on skirmishes on the streets.",
"The precautions were meant to prevent a repeat of overt anti-government displays on other key occasions that have embarrassed and inflamed Iranian authorities.",
"Pick-ups roamed the streets of Tehran, blaring pro-government slogans and songs from speakers, a witness said, and residents in the Iranian capital said Wednesday that text messages on many messaging services have been blocked and Internet speeds have slowed to a crawl.",
"At Aria-Shahr square in western Tehran and in various other parts of Tehran, security forces fired on and tear-gassed demonstrators who chanted \"Death to the dictator,\" and \"Death to (Supreme Leader Ayatollah) Khamenei,\" according to opposition reports.",
"Undeterred, the demonstrators chanted on, and many of the demonstrators wore masks or handkerchiefs over their faces.",
"Opposition videos surfacing from Tehran showed the wrath of demonstrators.",
"One showed protesters tearing up a poster of Ayatollah Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Revolution, and Khamenei.",
"Another showed people stomping on an image of Khamenei.",
"One video showed a man apparently stripped from the waist up put in a choke hold and punched in the head by a helmeted security force member."
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"(CNN) --",
"A California judge ruled Wednesday to allow cameras in a federal courtroom to document a challenge to Proposition 8, a measure banning same-sex marriage.",
"Courtroom footage will not be streamed live, but will be uploaded on the Web site YouTube daily, CNN affiliate KGO reported.",
"Proposition 8 passed with about 52.5 percent of the vote in November 2008.",
"A lesbian couple and a gay couple who were banned from marrying filed a suit challenging the constitutionality of the new measure, CNN affiliate KGO reported.",
"The nonjury trial is to begin on January 11 in federal court in San Francisco.",
"The rare decision to allow cameras in a federal courtroom was influenced by intense media attention, court officials said.",
"The legal battle over Proposition 8 has prompted passionate debate and in the past has spurred protests outside courtrooms.",
"Opponents of the ban say the ban improperly altered the state's Constitution to restrict a fundamental right guaranteed in the state charter.",
"Ban supporters say Californians long have had the right to change Californians's state Constitution through ballot initiatives."
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"Apex, Nevada (CNN) --",
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday that Reid is \"very proud\" of having told Obama early on that Reid believed Obama was a viable candidate for president and could win election.",
"Responding to the controversy surrounding a newly published remark Reid made privately about Obama's race in 2008, Reid sought to emphasize Reid's longstanding support for Obama.",
"\"I can still remember the meeting that took place in my office with Obama, telling Obama that I think Obama can be elected president,\" Reid said.",
"Obama \"was kind of surprised that Reid was calling this new senator over to suggest that Obama could be elected president,\" Reid added.",
"A new book quotes Reid, D-Nevada, as saying privately in 2008 that Obama could be successful as a black candidate in part because of Obama's \"light-skinned\" appearance and speaking patterns \"with no Negro dialect, unless Obama wanted to have one.\"",
"Reid said Monday that numerous prominent African-American officials, including NAACP Chairman Julian Bond and Attorney General Eric Holder, have called Reid to offer support amid the controversy that began over the weekend.",
"\"I've apologized to everyone with the sound of my voice that I could have used a better choice of words,\" Reid said after an event announcing a new energy project in Reid's home state.",
"\"And I'll continue doing my work for the African-American community.\"",
"Reid said that \"as a very young man,\" Reid became a leader of civil rights efforts, including the integration of the gaming community.",
"Reid added that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called Reid to say Reid should \"tell everybody that you have done more for diversity in the United States Senate than all the rest of the people put together.\"",
"Asked whether Reid should apologize to voters, Reid -- who had issued a statement over the weekend apologizing \"for offending any and all Americans\" -- did not answer directly and instead cited the support Reid has received from around the country and within Reid's own state.",
"\"I'm not going to dwell on this any more,\" Reid said.",
"\"It's in the book.",
"I've made all the statements I'm going to make.\"",
"iReport: What do you think about the words Reid used?",
"The book Reid referred to, \"Game Change,\" went on sale Monday.",
"The authors write that \"Reid was convinced, in fact, that Obama's race would help Reid more than hurt Reid in a bid for the Democratic nomination.\"",
"Reid apologized in a statement sent to CNN over the weekend.",
"\"I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words,\" Reid said.",
"Reid added, \"I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African-Americans, for my improper comments.",
"I was a proud and enthusiastic supporter of Obama during the campaign and have worked as hard as I can to advance Obama's legislative agenda.\"",
"Reid called Obama Saturday and apologized.",
"In a statement issued after the call, Obama expressed support for Reid, saying, \"As far as I am concerned, the book is closed.\"",
"Speaking to CNN contributor Roland Martin, Obama described Reid as \"a friend of mine.",
"Reid has been a stalwart champion of voting rights, civil rights.\"",
"\"This is a good man who has always been on the right side of history.",
"For Reid to have used some inartful language in trying to praise me and for people to try and make hay out of that makes absolutely no sense,\" Obama said in the interview, which will air this month.",
"\"I guarantee you the average person, white or black, right now is less concerned about what Reid said in a quote in a book a couple of years ago than they are about how we are going to move the country forward, and that's where we need to direct our attention.\"",
"A senior administration official said Monday that Obama will go to Nevada in February to campaign on behalf of Reid.",
"iReporter: \"I don't think Reid should be kicked out of the Senate\"",
"Reid also called a host of African-American political figures, including House Democrats Barbara Lee of California and Jim Clyburn of South Carolina; the Rev. Al Sharpton; CNN political contributor and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile; and the head of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Wade Henderson.",
"Republicans pounced on the controversy.",
"Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, head of the GOP's Senate campaign arm, called for Reid to give up Reid's leadership posts after the \"embarrassing and racially insensitive\" remarks.",
"Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele, speaking Sunday on NBC's \"Meet the Press,\" also called for Reid to step down.",
"\"Racism and racist conversations have no place today in America,\" the first African-American GOP chairman said.",
"Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele also was on the defensive for a remark Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele made last week.",
"Speaking to Fox News, Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele said the the GOP platform \"is one of the best political documents that's been written in the last 25 years, honest Injun on that.\"",
"\"Fox News Sunday\" host Chris Wallace said lawmakers from both parties have called that a racial slur.",
"\"Well, if it is, I apologize for it.",
"It's not an intent to be a racial slur.",
"I wasn't intending to say a racial slur at all,\" Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele said.",
"iReporter: Mixing race and politics equals trouble .",
"Numerous Democrats came to Reid's defense.",
"The Congressional Black Caucus said Sunday that The Congressional Black Caucus had accepted his apology and dismissed calls for the Nevada Democrat to step down.",
"\"Reid's record provides a stark contrast to actions of Republicans to block legislation that would benefit poor and minority communities,\" Lee, chairwoman of The Congressional Black Caucus, said in a written statement.",
"Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-District of Columbia, a former chairwoman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, issued a statement saying, \"Like President Barack Obama, African-Americans are likely to accept Majority Leader Reid's apology for an obvious reason.",
"He has earned it.\"",
"Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-District of Columbia, a former chairwoman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission added, \"Harry Reid's opponents will not find a welcome mat in the black community if Harry Reid's opponents seek to capitalize on the Reid remark.",
"While Reid has been producing for African-Americans, many of Reid's critics were opposing Reid on these same issues.\"",
"Democrats rejected a parallel drawn by some Republicans between Reid's remark and one by former Sen. Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, in 2002.",
"Lott lost Lott's post as Senate majority leader after saying the nation would have been better off if Strom Thurmond had been elected president.",
"Strom Thurmond had run as a segregationist candidate in 1948.",
"\"There is a big double standard here,\" Steele said on NBC.",
"\"When Democrats get caught saying racist things, you know, an apology is enough.\"",
"Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia, chairman of the Democratic Party, shot back, telling NBC that \"there is no comparison\" between the two sets of remarks.",
"Reid is embroiled in a tough re-election campaign to stay in Senate.",
"Only one-third of Nevada voters have a favorable opinion of Reid, while 52 percent have an unfavorable opinion of the four-term senator, according to a survey by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research for the Las Vegas Review-Journal released over the weekend.",
"The poll was conducted Tuesday through Thursday, before news of Reid's comments broke.",
"CNN's Dana Bash, Mark Preston, Rebecca Sinderbrand and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report."
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"Sen. Harry Reid apologizes to Obama for remarks made during 2008 campaign .",
"Key Republicans have called Reid's comments racist and say Reid should step down .",
"Reid emphasizes longstanding support for Obama ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A man charged in the beheading death of Vince Weiguang Li's seatmate on a Greyhound Canada bus last summer is not criminally responsible because Vince Weiguang Li is mentally ill, a judge ruled Thursday, said CNN affiliate CBC News.",
"The ruling means that Vince Weiguang Li will be hospitalized at a psychiatric facility until Vince Weiguang Li undergoes a review by Manitoba's Criminal Code Review Board in 90 days, CNN affiliate CBC News said.",
"\"The goal of criminal law is to punish criminals, not persons who have a severe mental illness,\" Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench Judge John Scurfield wrote in The ruling, CNN affiliate CBC News reported.",
"However, the ruling angered relatives of Tim McLean Jr., 22, who died on the bus July 30.",
"\"The bottom line is, Vince Weiguang Li is getting away with murder,\" Vana Smart, McLean's sister, told CNN affiliate CBC News.",
"Watch how the verdict angers the victim's family » .",
"Prosecutors told reporters Thursday Prosecutors had no choice but to ask the judge to find Vince Weiguang Li not criminally responsible.",
"\"This was justice because the correct conclusion was reached,\" prosecutor Joyce Dalmyn said, according to CNN affiliate CBC News.",
"\"Vince Weiguang Li is a schizophrenic.",
"Vince Weiguang Li had a severe mental disease.",
"Vince Weiguang Li, in my opinion and in the opinion of the psychiatrists, had no idea what Vince Weiguang Li was doing was wrong.\"",
"Li, 40, was charged with second-degree murder in McLean's death.",
"A witness on the bus, which was headed from Edmonton, Alberta, to Winnipeg, Manitoba, said a passenger repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated McLean as horrified passengers watched.",
"Just before McLean's death, McLean had been sleeping with McLean's head leaning against the window.",
"\"There was a blood-curdling scream.",
"I was just reading my book and all of a sudden I heard a blood-curdling scream,\" Garnet Caton, who was sitting in front of the two men, told Canadian TV at the time.",
"She said the knife-wielding man shouted at the other passengers to get off the bus, and the other passengers did.",
"\"Me and a trucker that stopped and the Greyhound driver ran up to the door to maybe see if McLean was still alive or we could help or something like that,\" Caton said.",
"\"And when we all got up (to the door), we saw that the guy was cutting off McLean's head.\"",
"Thirty-four passengers were on the bus.",
"Police said at the time it was unclear what prompted the attack.",
"Witnesses said Vince Weiguang Li's weapon was a large butcher knife.",
"Vince Weiguang Li was arrested after an hours-long standoff, during which Vince Weiguang Li remained in the bus with McLean's body.",
"Police said Vince Weiguang Li was seized after Vince Weiguang Li broke a window and attempted to jump from the bus.",
"\"Vince Weiguang Li is also a victim here,\" said Ruth Ann Craig of the Canadian Mental Health Association, according to CNN affiliate CBC News.",
"\"What's going to happen to Vince Weiguang Li is not a cakewalk.\"",
"Vince Weiguang Li will be housed in a locked psychiatric ward, Ruth Ann Craig of the Canadian Mental Health Association said, while Vince Weiguang Li undergoes assessment and treatment to determine whether Vince Weiguang Li is a risk to Vince Weiguang Li or society.",
"But McLean's mother, Carol deDelley, said Tim McLean's mother, Carol deDelley will fight to change the law regarding these types of crimes.",
"\"I'm going to do everything I can to make a change here,\" Tim McLean's mother, Carol deDelley said, CNN affiliate CBC News reported.",
"McLean's father said McLean's father is also disappointed with the ruling.",
"\"We've all lost a family member,\" McLean's father told CNN affiliate CBC News.",
"\"This isn't the right result.\""
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"Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) --",
"At least one organization attempting to deliver aid to Haiti continued to be plagued Sunday by delays and logistical problems, but aid was getting to those who need it most, officials said.",
"Doctors Without Borders said Sunday that, despite guarantees from the United Nations and the U.S. Defense Department, Doctors Without Borders's cargo plane carrying an inflatable surgical hospital was blocked from landing in Port-au-Prince the day before and was rerouted to Samana, Dominican Republic.",
"Samana, Dominican Republic is in the eastern portion of the Dominican Republic and across the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, shared by the two nations, from Port-au-Prince.",
"The material was being sent by truck from Samana, Dominican Republic, said Doctors Without Borders.",
"However, the re-routing added a 24-hour delay to an inflatable surgical hospital's arrival.",
"A second Doctors Without Borders plane was able to land on Sunday.",
"Borders plane carried additional medical supplies and hospital equipment, Doctors Without Borders said, adding it is still concerned about delays in the delivery of vital supplies.",
"\"If Borders plane is also rerouted, then an inflatable surgical hospital will be further delayed, in a situation where thousands of wounded are still in need of life saving treatment,\" a group statement said.",
"It was unclear Sunday afternoon whether Borders plane had landed.",
"See photos, details of some of the missing in Haiti .",
"an inflatable surgical hospital includes two operating theaters, an intensive-care unit, 100-bed hospitalization capacity, an emergency room and all the necessary equipment needed for sterilizing material.",
"\"MSF teams are currently working around the clock in five different hospitals in Port-au-Prince, but only two operating theaters are fully functional, while a third operating theater has been improvised for minor surgery due to the massive influx of wounded and lack of functional referral structures,\" the organization said.",
"Doctors Without Borders said two of Doctors Without Borders's medical teams have performed more than 100 operations since arriving in the country, but frustrations are high over the delays.",
"An emergency communications officer with the group in Haiti said conditions are growing worse for patients and \"we need the inflatable hospital -- if the inflatable hospital ever arrives.\"",
"\"Patients who were not critical only three days ago are now in critical phases,\" she wrote in a news release.",
"\"This means that people will die from preventable infections.",
"It's horrible.\"",
"Planes are asked to divert elsewhere if Planes don't have the fuel to stay in a holding pattern, Col. Buck Elton of U. S. Special Operations Command South told reporters Sunday.",
"Only two planes had been diverted Sunday, he said.",
"Asked about the matter on CNN's \"State of the Union\" Sunday, Lt. Gen. P.K. Keen, deputy commander of U.S. Southern Command, said the Port-au-Prince airport, which is being run by the U.S. military, is operating at maximum capacity 24 hours a day.",
"\"It's a matter of balance between getting relief supplies on the ground, getting the people on the ground that are necessary to get those relief supplies distributed, and getting the logistical capacity on the ground to continue that, and the vehicles so we can get it out by ground as well as by air,\" he said.",
"Full coverage of the earthquake in Haiti .",
"More aid was on the way.",
"The National Organization for the Advancement of Haitians held an earthquake survival kit drive at the Haitian embassy in Washington, saying The National Organization for the Advancement of Haitians was accepting items including baby formula, diapers, toiletries, vitamins, medicines, batteries and clothing.",
"Hundreds of people turned out, and Hundreds of people brought enough to fill several trucks full.",
"The overflow of supplies was piled along the Haitian embassy in Washington's walls and stairwells.",
"U.S. paratroopers using helicopters from an aircraft carrier delivered 130,000 daily-ration packets on Saturday, Keen of U.S. Southern Command said on \"Fox News Sunday.\"",
"Some 70,000 bottles of water were also delivered, Keen of U.S. Southern Command said.",
"One helicopter could not land and was forced to drop supplies, Keen of U.S. Southern Command said, but the delivery otherwise encountered no problems and was orderly.",
"Keen of U.S. Southern Command called it a good day.",
"Also Saturday, a member of the U.S. Coast Guard helped deliver a Haitian newborn aboard a Coast Guard helicopter.",
"The mother -- one of five Haitians the U.S. Coast Guard was transferring from Port-au-Prince to Cap Haitien for medical reasons -- went into labor as the helicopter was refueling aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma, the U.S. Coast Guard said.",
"The mother and child were taken to a hospital in Cap Haitien and were in good condition, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.",
"In Washington on Sunday, hundreds of people from different faiths mourned the victims of the quake and donated money during a service at the National Cathedral.",
"Among those in attendance were Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and Raymond Joseph, the Haitian ambassador to the United States.",
"Raymond Joseph asked the mourners to continue that support even as the tragedy fades from the headlines.",
"\"I'm thanking you in the name of the people of Haiti and I'm asking you that what you've begun here tonight shouldn't stop -- it should continue until Haiti gains Haiti's place among the nations of the world, as Haiti should.",
"\"Please, stay with us until we totally rebuild,\" Raymond Joseph said.",
"The organization said The organization reached 40,000 people in and around Port-au-Prince with high-energy biscuits.",
"The organization said The organization's goal is to reach another 60,000 people on Sunday.",
"Convoys and shipments carrying ready-to-eat foods continue to arrive, The organization said.",
"The organization's convoy was the first food to arrive in Leogane, about 18 kilometers (11 miles) west of Port-au-Prince and close to where the earthquake was centered, The organization said in a statement.",
"Nearly every building collapsed, and tens of thousands of people are believed to have been killed.",
"Survivors are living in makeshift camps.",
"In addition, The organization was distributing hot meals in some places, such as hospitals and schools, and has begun setting up kitchens at distribution sites, The organization said.",
"The Red Cross said in a statement Sunday The Red Cross had built latrines for 1,000 people and supplied medical kits for 2,000 patients to two hospitals.",
"Seven truckloads of medical supplies should arrive in Port-au-Prince Sunday night, The Red Cross said.",
"Keen told CNN's \"State of the Union\" on Sunday that the United States intends to continue helping Haiti as long as there is a need.",
"Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush kicked off a fundraising drive Saturday -- a donation push called the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.",
"George W. Bush told CNN's John King in an interview that aired Sunday, \"One thing I am concerned about is that on these -- during these crises, all kinds of fake charities spring up. ...",
"We will make sure the money is accounted for and there's transparency, and [the money is] properly spent.\"",
"CNN's Karl Penhaul, Arthur Brice, Elise Labott, Laurie Ure, Greg Clary and Dugald McConnell contributed to this report."
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"Motorbike gunmen killed a foreign aid worker in KABUL Monday, the Afghan Interior Ministry has said.",
"Aid worker Gayle Williams was one of 23 expatriates who worked for SERVE Afghanistan.",
"In a separate incident, two German soldiers and five Afghan children were killed when a suicide bomber struck an Afghan-German military convoy in northern Afghanistan, the provincial governor in Kunduz said.",
"Aid worker Gayle Williams, 34, had dual British and South African nationality and worked for SERVE SERVE Afghanistan (Serving Emergency Relief and Vocational Enterprise), an inter-denominational Christian charity that helps the disabled, the organization's chairman said in a statement.",
"Aid worker Gayle Williams was shot in the western part of KABUL, Interior Ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said, while walking to work.",
"Aid worker Gayle Williams died shortly after the attack, SERVE SERVE Afghanistan chairman Mike Lyth said.",
"\"Aid worker Gayle Williams was a person who always loved the Afghans and was dedicated to serving those who are disabled,\" SERVE Afghanistan chairman Mike Lyth said.",
"\"Needless to say, we are all in shock.\"",
"Aid worker Gayle Williams was one of 23 expatriates who worked for SERVE Afghanistan, which also employs 450 Afghans in the country.",
"A statement on SERVE SERVE Afghanistan's Web site -- attributed only to \"C and E\" -- described Aid worker Gayle Williams as \"one of the inspiring people of the world who truly put others before Aid worker Gayle Williams.\"",
"\"Aid worker Gayle Williams was killed violently while caring for the most forgotten people in the world; the poor and the disabled,\" the statement said.",
"\"Aid worker Gayle Williams herself would not regret taking the risk of working in Afghanistan.",
"Aid worker Gayle Williams was where Aid worker Gayle Williams wanted to be -- holding out a helping hand to those in need.\"",
"United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned Aid worker Gayle Williams killing as well as the recent killings of two U.N. aid workers in Somalia.",
"\"The secretary-general deplores these acts of deliberate violence against those who are making every effort to alleviate the dire suffering of Somali and Afghan citizens,\" Ban's spokeswoman Michele Montas said at Monday's daily briefing in New York.",
"The Taliban claimed responsibility for the death, saying on The Taliban's Web site that The Taliban killed Aid worker Gayle Williams\" for preaching Christianity in Afghanistan and adding that The Taliban had been following Aid worker Gayle Williams for some time.",
"In August, aid groups in Afghanistan said in a report that attacks on aid workers have forced them to scale back relief work.",
"The bomber who attacked the Afghan-German convoy was riding a bike when The bomber who attacked the Afghan-German convoy detonated The bomber",
"who attacked the Afghan-German convoy's explosives as the vehicles traveled outside the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, Gov. Mohammed Omar said.",
"Two German soldiers and two Afghan civilians were wounded, according to Gov. Mohammed Omar.",
"The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in an Internet posting, claiming to have killed 12 German soldiers.",
"The Afghan and German forces went to Chahar Dara district to investigate enemy activity in the region when The Afghan and German forces were attacked, Gov. Mohammed Omar said.",
"NATO's International Security Assistance Forces confirmed that a suicide attack in Kunduz province killed two of NATO's soldiers and five local children, but did not reveal the ISAF soldiers' nationalities, as part of NATO's standing policy.",
"ISAF spokesman Brig. Gen. Richard Blanchette said: \"Acts such as this, which offer nothing but violence and death, will not deter ISAF in ISAF's commitment to create a better Afghanistan.\"",
"NATO said one ISAF soldier and a civilian were also wounded in a suicide attack in Kunduz province.",
"The German Defense Ministry in Berlin confirmed a bomb attack near a base that houses a German provincial reconstruction team in the town of Kunduz, a ministry spokesman said.",
"The German Defense Ministry in Berlin had no information on casualties.",
"Germany has committed 3,200 troops to support NATO's mission in Afghanistan.",
"The latest deaths bring to 25 the number of German soldiers who have died in the Afghan war since 2002.",
"Journalist Farhad Peikar and CNN's Frederick Pleitgen in Berlin contributed to this report."
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"PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CNN) --",
"At least 50 people have died in a school collapse in in Petionville, near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, officials said Friday night.",
"Haitians try to help victims at School.",
"Rescue personnel planned to continue working into the night to dig out students and teachers buried in the rubble, Red Cross said.",
"At least 100 people have been injured, the Haitian Civil Protection Bureau said.",
"The death toll is expected to rise.",
"Officials said School could have held as many as 700 people when the collapse occurred at 10 a.m. (10 a.m. ET)",
"Some students were in class while others were in a playground, Haitian media reported.",
"\"We are looking at major casualties here,\" Claudon said.",
"Claudon said dozens of students appeared to be trapped inside but couldn't give an exact number.",
"However, Claudon said it was a typical school day and the building had been crowded.",
"Most of the students at the College La Promesse Evangelique range in age from 10 to 20, Claudon said, but there are younger ones as well.",
"Haitian press reports said School has kindergarten, primary and secondary students.",
"President Rene Preval and Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis toured the disaster area.",
"\"I heard and saw with my own eyes children appealing for help,\" Preval was quoted as saying on the French language www.haitipressnetwork.com.",
"\"We are taking all necessary steps,\" Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis said.",
"The government has mobilized to save those who can be saved.\"",
"Preval asked residents to stay away from the disaster area so police and rescue officials could do their work unimpeded.",
"Michaele Gedeon, president of Haiti's Red Cross, said she heard the voices of distraught children as rescuers tried to calm distraught children while she was on the phone attempting to coordinate emergency rescue efforts.",
"Watch as the Red Cross official describes the scene » .",
"\"On the phone, you can hear so many children, you know, crying, crying and saying, 'this one is dead,' 'that one is dead,' \" she said.",
"Claudon said hundreds of bystanders and rescue workers were digging through the rubble, but \"what we need right now is heavy search-and-rescue equipment.\"",
"Claudon later said, \"local authorities are doing local authorities's best.\"",
"Fifty to 60 patients, 30 of them severely injured, were taken to Trinite Hospital in Port-au-Prince, said Isabelle Mouniaman Nara, the head of mission in the capital for Medecins sans Frontieres.",
"Another 150 patients were treated elsewhere, Isabelle Mouniaman Nara, the head of mission in the capital for Medecins sans Frontieres said Friday night.",
"The situation at Trinite \"is under control right now,\" Isabelle Mouniaman Nara, the head of mission in the capital for Medecins sans Frontieres said.",
"Trinite is the only hospital open in Port-au-Prince, the group said.",
"The other two, General Hospital and Hospital de la Paix, are closed by strikes.",
"School is in an extremely poor part of town, and the roads are nearly impassable, local journalist Clarens Renois said.",
"A United Nations helicopter was unable to land, local journalist Clarens Renois said.",
"\"School is poorly built,\" said Amelia Shaw, a journalist with United Nations TV who visited the disaster area.",
"local journalist Clarens Renois described the building as \"not quite solid\" with \"weak construction.\"",
"School consisted of two floors with an addition built in the rear over a 200-foot ravine, Amelia Shaw, a journalist with United Nations TV who visited the scene said.",
"The steep hillside, Amelia Shaw, a journalist with United Nations TV who visited the scene said, is covered with shanty-like housing on both sides.",
"The disaster occurred when the second floor crumbled onto the first, Amelia Shaw, a journalist with United Nations TV who visited the scene said.",
"A disaster assistance response team from the U.S. Agency for International Development arrived on the disaster area within hours of the collapse, the U.S. Agency for International Development said in a release.",
"After assessing the situation, the U.S. Agency for International Development activated the U.S. Agency for International Development's partner the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue Team.",
"That team will be composed of 38 personnel, four search-and-rescue dogs and 31,000 pounds of rescue equipment and is expected to arrive Saturday.",
"the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue Team will be accompanied by four additional the U.S. Agency for International Development disaster experts.",
"U.S. Ambassador Janet Sanderson expressed U.S. Ambassador Janet Sanderson's condolences, haitipressnetwork.com reported."
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"The former hedge fund manager who faked Sam Israel's own suicide to avoid prison time for fraud will spend an extra two years in jail for failing to surrender Sam Israel, according to the U.S attorney's office.",
"Sam Israel tried to get out of serving a 20 year sentenced by faking Sam Israel's suicide.",
"It added two years.",
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"Federal guidelines call for a 12- to 18-month sentence, but Federal Judge Kenneth Karas noted that Sam Israel's crime \"took a fair amount of planning,\" and Federal Judge Kenneth Karas criticized the former hedge fund manager for \"thumbing his nose at the system.\"",
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"Sam Israel admitted to authorities in March that Sam Israel had faked Sam Israel's own suicide to escape Sam Israel's jail sentence.",
"Sam Israel was supposed to report to a Massachusetts prison in June of 2008 to serve a 20-year sentence for defrauding investors of Bayou Management out of approximately $450 million.",
"But Sam Israel did not show up at the facility.",
"Days later, Sam Israel's sport-utility vehicle was found abandoned on a bridge in upstate New York, with the words \"Suicide is Painless\" -- title of the theme song for the television show \"M.A.S.H.\" -- written in dust on the the hood.",
"Authorities determined the suicide setup was a ruse and launched a major manhunt to find Sam Israel.",
"Sam Israel turned Sam Israel in to law enforcement July 2, 2008."
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"(CNN) --",
"Willie Mitchell, the Memphis producer whose percussive, string-and-horn-tinged R&B sound shaped '70s hits by such artists as Al Green and Ann Peebles, died Tuesday.",
"He was 81.",
"Willie Mitchell had been having health problems and went into cardiac arrest in December, according to Lawrence Mitchell's grandson, Lawrence.",
"Willie Mitchell \"was doing music all the way till Willie Mitchell couldn't,\" Lawrence Mitchell's grandson, whom Willie Mitchell helped raise, said.",
"Willie Mitchell worked on Rod Stewart's most recent album, \"Soulbook,\" as well as Solomon Burke's forthcoming CD.",
"Despite being in and out of the hospital, Willie Mitchell would write horn and string arrangements one day and record horn and string arrangements the next, Lawrence Mitchell said.",
"In the 1970s, Willie Mitchell was a principal in Hi Records and owned Royal Studios, where musicians such as drummers Al Jackson and Howard Grimes and guitarist Teenie Hodges plied musicians such as drummers Al Jackson and Howard Grimes and guitarist Teenie Hodges's trade.",
"Willie Mitchell's biggest success came with Green, whom Willie Mitchell guided through a number of '70s hits, including \"I'm Still in Love With You,\" \"Let's Stay Together,\" \"Love and Happiness\" and \"Call Me.\"",
"In 2003, he and Green re",
"teamed for \"I Can't Stop,\" he and Green's first album together since 1985.",
"Green has often talked about how important Willie Mitchell was to his sound, working him until his voice was just so -- a difference that can be heard on his pre-Mitchell songs, such as \"Back Up Train.\"",
"Willie Mitchell also helmed Peebles' \"I Can't Stand the Rain\" and O.V. Wright's \"The Ace of Spades.\"",
"A musician himself, he had several R&B hits in the '60s.",
"Memphis named the street in front of Royal Studios for Willie Mitchell in 2004.",
"Funeral arrangements were pending, Lawrence Mitchell said."
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"(CNN) --",
"NASA has postponed for one day the scheduled launch of a rocket carrying a solar probe.",
"NASA plans to launch an Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which NASA says will study the sun \"in greater detail than ever before.\"",
"After delaying the scheduled launch of a rocket carrying a solar probe three times because of windy conditions Wednesday at Cape Canaveral, Florida, NASA said NASA will try again Thursday, with a launch window of 10:23 a.m. to 11:23 a.m. ET.",
"\"The vehicle's flight control system sensed wind loads exceeding the limit, prompting the abrupt end to the countdown,\" NASA said.",
"NASA says Observatory will provide a better understanding of the sun and its role in space weather events such as solar flares, which can wreak havoc on Earth.",
"Observatory is designed to deliver solar images with resolution 10 times better than high-definition television, according to NASA.",
"The five-year mission \"will determine how the sun's magnetic field is generated, structured and converted into violent solar events like turbulent solar wind, solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections,\" according to NASA.",
"The solar wind, a stream of electrically charged particles flowing out from the sun, fills the entire solar system with charged particles and magnetic fields, according to NASA.",
"Solar flares are actual explosions in the sun's atmosphere, the largest of Solar flares equal to billions of one-megaton nuclear bombs.",
"And Coronal Mass Ejections, or CMEs, are eruptions that launch solar material into space at a high rate of speed.",
"Such events can put astronauts at risk, as well as aircraft flying over Earth's North or South Poles, and can also disrupt satellite communications, navigational systems and power grids, NASA said.",
"In 1969, for instance, a solar current knocked a power grid serving Quebec, Canada, off-line for nine hours.",
"\"That's a direct impact on life and society,\" said Richard Fisher, director of NASA's Heliophysics Division.",
"Richard Fisher, director of NASA's Heliophysics Division is in charge of Wednesday's launch.",
"In addition, changes in magnetic energy such as those around sunspots can change Global Positioning System signals, making them less accurate .",
"\"If you're landing a great big jet airliner in a low-visibility situation and you have one of these events that causes a misinterpretation of location by 150 to 200 yards, that's big stuff when you're trying to hit a runway with these instruments,\" Richard Fisher, director of NASA's Heliophysics Division said.",
"There's no way to predict space weather.",
"Officials hope Observatory can provide information to help change that.",
"\"This is the most advanced spacecraft we've ever designed to study the sun and its dynamic behavior,\" Richard Fisher, director of NASA's Heliophysics Division said.",
"the sun, Richard Fisher, director of NASA's Heliophysics Division said, \"has this trick of converting magnetic energy into other kinds of energy that can affect the Earth.\"",
"\"I believe we're up to the point now where we can probably predict when something like this is more or less likely and you can at least take precautions,\" Richard Fisher, director of NASA's Heliophysics Division said about solar weather.",
"A warning system, for example, could help power grid operators avoid an outage by taking some of the grid's load off or finding alternative configurations.",
"the sun's effect wasn't an issue for the Earth until the technological advances in electronics over the last hundred years, Richard Fisher, director of NASA's Heliophysics Division said.",
"Observatory is \"going to give us good awareness of the dynamics of the sun, and we're going to be able to make estimates on when we should take precautions with our satellites or with airline operations or with Department of Defense systems,\" Richard Fisher, director of NASA's Heliophysics Division said.",
"\"We have an increasing pressure on science to try and predict what's going to happen on the sun, and that's the scientific bent of this (SDO) satellite, is to try to get a handle on it.\"",
"Observatory contains three major instruments that scientists believe will send data back to the Earth for at least five years.",
"The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly will allow scientists to see the sun in high resolution.",
"the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly will also observe the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere, and the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment will measure its ultraviolet spectrum every 10 seconds.",
"\"Space weather forecasting is in its infancy ... just like hurricane forecasting was years ago,\" according to an article on NASA's Web site by Liz Citrin, Observatory project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, which developed and will manage the mission.",
"\"We built up experience in collecting data, designed models, tested those models and now look what we can do.\"",
"Observatory will snap an image of the sun in eight wavelengths every 10 seconds, NASA said.",
"Observatory will remain in continuous contact with a station at the White Sands Complex in southern New Mexico.",
"\"The biggest challenge of the mission was the data rate,\" Citrin wrote in the article.",
"\"Observatory will blast back 1.5 terabytes of information every day. ...",
"That's equivalent to a half-million song downloads.",
"It's unprecedented.\"",
"Observatory is the first mission of NASA's Living With a Star program.",
"a Star program is aimed at increasing understanding of the sun in order to address its effect on Earth.",
"the mission was supposed to launch in August 2008, but scientists decided more testing was needed.",
"CNN Radio's Shelby Erdman contributed to this report."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"Filipino film \"Himala\" has been awarded the CNN APSA Viewers Choice Award for Best Asia-Pacific Film of all Time.",
"\"The Screening Room\" presenter Myleene Klass arrives at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in Queensland, Australia.",
"Thousands of CNN viewers voted on \"The Screening Room\" Web site to honor Ishmael Bernal's's 1982 film with the accolade, which is jointly awarded by CNN and the region's prestigious Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA).",
"\"The Screening Room's\" Myleene Klass presented the award Tuesday in front of a crowd of over 700 film industry figures at a special ceremony on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.",
"Bernal's austere tale of a young woman who goes on a healing crusade after seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary, which stars Filipino actress Nora Aunor, took the prize with 32 percent of the vote.",
"It came in ahead of ahead of more widely known films like Japanese Akira Kurosawa's \"Shichinin no samurai\" (\"Seven Samurai\"), which took second place and \"Wo hu cang long\" (\"Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon\") by Taiwan's Ang Lee, which snared third.",
"Other films in the shortlist included Chan-wook Park's \"Oldboy\" from South Korea and Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki's animated film \"Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi\" (\"Spirited Away\").",
"\"Whatever the reason, I do feel we deserve this award,\" said \"Himala\" producer Bibsy Carballo, \"If only as a tribute to our people who in once a great while decide to come together as one, forget their petty squabbles and divisiveness, and make a declaration of support for this troubled nation, and this troubled nation's tremendously talented and good-hearted if unfortunate population.",
"Long live 'Himala!'\"",
"When it was first released in 1982, \"Himala\" was picked for the official selection at Berlin International Film Festival, as well as a number of other festivals, and Nora Aunor was nominated for Best Actress.",
"A total of 32 films representing 17 countries from Kazakhstan to Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran to India were finalists at this year's Asia Pacific Screen Awards.",
"Kazakh picture \"Tulpan,\" by director Sergei Dvortsevoy, which tells the story of a family of sheep and goat herders, took home the main feature prize.",
"Other winners included Israeli director Ari Folman's animated feature \"Waltz with Bashir,\" which took Best Animated Feature.",
"Best Documentary was given to South Korea's \"63 Years On\" by Dong-won Kim and Achievement in Directing was awarded to Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan for \"Üç maymun\" (\"Three Monkeys\").",
"The 2008 APSA International jury which presided over the shortlisted films was led by veteran Australian director, Bruce Beresford known for films like \"Driving Miss Daisy.\"",
"Asia Pacific Screen Awards Chairman Des Power said: \"There is a growing fascination and respect for films from this diverse region.",
"\"It is a tribute to the filmmakers that the filmmakers now have a globally recognised award and the broadcast reach of CNN International to promote the filmmakers's work.\"",
"Watch \"The Screening Room's\" Asia Pacific Screen Awards show at the following times: Wednesday 26 November: 0930, 1830, Saturday 29 November: 0830, 1900, Sunday 30 November: 1730, 1830, Monday 1 December: 0400 (all times GMT)"
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"Sarah Palin may have sent a clear message to the political world, analysts say, by signing a deal to become a TV commentator.",
"a clear message: Sarah Palin's unlikely to run in the 2012 presidential race.",
"\"I do think maybe it suggests, sadly for Democrats, that Sarah Palin might not be running,\" said Democratic strategist and CNN contributor Paul Begala.",
"\"Democrats ... are pretty confident Democrats can defeat Sarah Palin.",
"Sarah Palin's not going to beat Barack Obama.\"",
"The former Alaska governor has signed a deal with Fox News to appear as a contributor on the network, a source with knowledge of the agreement confirms to CNN.",
"There are no plans for Sarah Palin to anchor Sarah Palin's own program, a source with knowledge of the agreement said.",
"\"Let's first hope for [Fox News President] Roger Ailes' sake that Sarah Palin doesn't quit that job the way Sarah Palin quit Sarah Palin's job as governor of Alaska,\" Paul Begala joked.",
"Nancy Pfotenhauer, a former McCain presidential campaign spokesperson, also indicated that Sarah Palin's new job is a possible sign of things to come.",
"\"There's a slight indication Sarah Palin may not run,\" she said.",
"\"I assume this is a business decision on the part of both Fox News and on Sarah Palin's part.\"",
"Paul Begala, though, did give Sarah Palin praise for Palin's TV gig.",
"\"Palin's indoor work.",
"Palin's interesting and lucrative.",
"I'm all for it,\" he said.",
"\"Congratulations for the former governor of Alaska.\"",
"Sarah Palin is hardly alone in top Republicans-turned-TV talking heads.",
"After the 2008 GOP presidential primaries, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee joined Fox News as the host of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's own show.",
"Karl Rove, a former top aide to President George W. Bush, also joined Fox News as a commentator.",
"Michael Steele, the current chairman of the Republican National Committee, was once a Fox News contributor as well.",
"Mary Matalin, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, is now a CNN contributor alongside her husband James Carville and Begala -- top Democratic aides to then President Clinton.",
"One of Begala and Carville's colleagues -- George Stephanopolous -- has been a long-time political analyst at ABC News, who later hosted George Stephanopolous's own Sunday TV show \"This Week.\"",
"Most recently, George Stephanopolous was named as the host of ABC's \"Good Morning America.\"",
"On MSNBC, former Florida GOP Rep. Joe Scarborough now hosts former Florida GOP Rep. Joe Scarborough's own TV show called \"Morning Joe.\"",
"Pat Buchanan, a leading conservative voice and former presidential candidate, also graces MSNBC's airwaves giving his take on politics.",
"Since leaving office, Sarah Palin has become a vocal critic of the Obama administration's policies.",
"Sarah Palin recently released Sarah Palin's autobiography \"Going Rogue\" and toured the country promoting Sarah Palin's book."
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"Marjah, Afghanistan (CNN) --",
"Twelve Afghan civilians were killed Sunday when two rockets fired by coalition forces in southern Afghanistan missed their intended target, as the Taliban showed stiff resistance to the NATO assault against the militant group.",
"\"We deeply regret this tragic loss of life,\" U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of the International Security Assistance Force, said in a statement.",
"\"The current operation in Central Helmand is aimed at restoring security and stability to this vital area of Afghanistan.",
"It's regrettable that in the course of our joint efforts, innocent lives were lost.\"",
"Coalition forces fired two rockets with the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System at insurgents firing upon Afghan and ISAF forces, but they struck about 300 meters off their intended target, ISAF said.",
"The incident happened in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province, where NATO forces have launched Operation Moshtarak, a huge offensive by an international coalition of 15,000 troops including Afghans, Americans, Britons, Canadians, Danes and Estonians.",
"McChrystal conveyed McChrystal's apologies to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the statement said.",
"Coalition forces have also suspended use of the HIMARS pending a review of Sunday's incident.",
"The intended target was an insurgent compound from where coalition forces were taking direct fire, ISAF said.",
"NATO, which launched the effort Saturday, announced the offensive before the offensive started so that citizens could get out of harm's way.",
"Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday had urged Afghan and international troops to exercise \"absolute caution\" and ensure civilian safety.",
"Helmand is a bastion of pro-Taliban sentiment and awash with the opium used to fund the insurgency.",
"Marjah, a region known as the heroin capital of Afghanistan, is where the Taliban has set up a shadow government.",
"The Moshtarak operation also includes securing Kandahar and providing support to the government and police there, British Maj. Gen. Gordon Messenger said in a news release Sunday.",
"the Taliban has had increasing influence in Kandahar.",
"Officials said Sunday Officials did not know how many the Taliban fighters remained in the Marjah region of Helmand province, but think they may be in the hundreds -- some of whom are holed up in civilian compounds.",
"the Taliban forces tried to overrun, successfully in some cases, several positions that coalition forces had secured inside Kandahar, U.S. Marines told CNN.",
"In one instance, three suspected suicide bombers breached a secure military area near Koru Chareh Bazaar, throwing three or four grenades inside the compound, Marine officials said.",
"The insurgents were killed before The insurgents could detonate The insurgents's bomb vests.",
"The sporadic firefight continued throughout the day, with an average of two to three Taliban fighters being killed in each battle, U.S. Marines said.",
"\"It is not unusual for the Taliban to melt away to regroup.",
"The threat is still present in the area that they might come back, and our troops are well aware of that,\" McChrystal told CNN.",
"\"our troops are fighting in very open terrain, especially now during the winter,\" McChrystal said.",
"\"the offensive is a very complex operation but the offensive has worked extremely well.\"",
"McChrystal emphasized the cooperation with the Afghan nationals as a key element in both preparing and executing the offensive.",
"\"The atmosphere among the locals remains positive, largely because elders on the ground knew about the operation ahead of time,\" McChrystal said.",
"\"The sense is genuinely that the population is prepared to give this a go.\"",
"Provincial spokesman Dawoud Ahmadi said 27 the Taliban fighters have been killed.",
"Afghan and international force also discovered a total of 2,500 kilograms (5,500 pounds) of explosives during the offensive.",
"The the Taliban spokesman for the Marjah area claimed six the Taliban casualties, saying militants had killed 192 Afghan and coalition troops.",
"In the past, the Taliban has often inflated casualty figures.",
"\"NATO forces have not captured any areas in Marjah from the Mujahadeen,\" said Qari Yousif Ahmadi, the the Taliban spokesman.",
"Soldiers on Sunday found a weapons cache in the Nad Ali district that included two 155 mm artillery rounds, four pressure plates, blasting caps and batteries, according to ISAF.",
"In another incident, coalition forces shot a man who refused to stop as he neared a coalition checkpoint despite repeated warnings to stop.",
"No weapons were found on the middle-aged man, coalition forces said.",
"Overall, McChrystal said, Taliban resistance had not prevented coalition efforts to hold meetings, known as shuras, with local leaders.",
"The coalition has been participating in meetings, known as shuras to get Afghans on The coalition's side.",
"\"There had been, and remained, very little the Taliban interference.",
"There had been small arms attacks from a distance which had tested the patrols, but nothing had stopped the mission from progressing or shuras from taking place,\" McChrystal said.",
"More on Operation Moshtarak from Afghanistan Crossroads blog .",
"Officials said Officials hope Afghan forces and the government will maintain control, win allegiance from the citizens and provide farmers with an alternative to the poppy crops that pervade the region.",
"\"Everyone understands that what has happened over the last 24-48 hours is the easy bit,\" McChrystal said in a news release.",
"\"The hard bit, the challenge, is the enduring effort, is delivering the security which allows the Afghans to start providing for the Afghans's people.\"",
"CNN's Atia Abawi, Nic Robertson, Frederik Pleitgen, Barbara Starr and Per Nyberg and journalist Mati Matiullah contributed to this report."
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"LONDON (England) CNN --",
"Could the era of spend, spend, spend be about to end?",
"What is the biggest personal problem ordinary people face?",
"The answer increasingly, is debt.",
"In the last 15 years countries such as the U.S., UK, Australia and Canada have enjoyed an economic golden age.",
"For many consumers it seems there is no product or experience that is out of reach as long as you have a few credit cards in your wallet.",
"It's been the era of \"because I'm worth it,\" $1,000 \"It\" handbags, celebrity worship, four credit cards apiece and vacations abroad.",
"But a flip side is emerging from this era of excess, with potent signs in the last week that the party is coming to a close.",
"There have been warnings signs in the U.S. the last week that the economy is slowing.",
"Rising U.S. home foreclosures and a persistent housing slump have triggered a U.S. credit crunch which has unsettled global markets and raised concerns about a possible economic slowdown.",
"The International Monetary Fund's chief economist Simon Johnson said on Wednesday: \"We've seen a shock that has spread to other industrialized countries faster than expected.",
"It's an important wake-up call for all of us.\"",
"On Friday the financial world was rocked when one of the biggest UK mortgage lenders Northern Rock received emergency support from the Bank of England.",
"According to UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph, \"it's further proof that the contagion of the credit crisis is spreading through the economy.\"",
"If the U.S. housing slump, IMF warnings and Northern Rock crisis are part of the economic big picture, then it's also important to heed the calls from the coalface.",
"What is the biggest personal problem ordinary people face?",
"The answer increasingly, is debt.",
"Drowning in debt .",
"This week UK charity Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) said the number of people seeking assistance on how to manage people seeking assistance on how to manage their debts's debts reached record levels.",
"It is now the most common problem the advice service handles.",
"The advice service recorded 1.7 million cases last year -- a rise of 20 percent of callers with debt-related problems.",
"Credit card bills and other loans were 40 percent of all inquiries, while there was a \"worrying\" rise of people struggling to pay the basics such as utilities bills.",
"The organization said the surge in calls for help was evidence that the lengthy consumer boom was taking the lengthy consumer boom's toll.",
"The organization singled out the proliferation of debt consolidation companies for blame.",
"Economist Andrew Charlton from the London School of Economics believes the U.S. housing slump and high levels of personal debt are part of the same problem: People on low incomes getting in over People on low incomes's heads with either housing stock or personal debt People on low incomes cannot afford.",
"The house of cards comes down when it is time to collect: a slight upward movement in interest rates, a drop in house prices or job losses (4,000 in the U.S. in the last month, a four-year high) means payments cannot be made and the lenders foreclose.",
"The chickens coming home to roost .",
"For Phillip Hodson, Fellow of the British Association for Counseling and Psychotherapy, high levels of callers distressed by debt are no surprise.",
"\"The chickens have come home to roost.",
"At the personal level people have to face some very difficult decisions.",
"It's difficult to break the (credit card) habit and people whose habit is going to the mall will find it very hard,\" he said.",
"And what habits we have: More than 4.2 million Britons have no qualms about taking More than 4.2 million Britons's next holiday before actually paying for the last, according to statistics from UK bank Alliance & Leicester.",
"Research from Scottish Widows shows one in three adults in the UK refuse to plan their finances at all, and those who do find the time to review them set aside just five minutes a week.",
"Reliance on credit is a problem to be tackled not only by consumers but also governments, with our addiction to credit having a serious ripple effect on the economy.",
"In the U.S. an increase in credit card debt again pushed up outstanding U.S. consumer debt in July by $7.5 billion, the Federal Reserve reported last Monday.",
"Consumer credit outstanding rose to $2.46 trillion in July, up from a revised $2.45 trillion in June, the Federal Reserve said.",
"U.S. consumers are defaulting on credit card payments at a significantly higher rate than last year, \"raising the prospect of problems in the stricken U.S. subprime mortgage market spreading to other types of consumer debt,\" according to the Financial Times this week.",
"Credit card companies were forced to write off 4.58 percent of payments as uncollectable in the first half of 2007, almost 30 percent higher than last year.",
"Late payments also rose, and the quarterly payment rate -- a measure of cardholders' willingness and ability to repay cardholders''s debt -- fell for the first time in over four years.",
"Simply put, we have developed a habit for credit cards that we can't afford, with people becoming adrift from old notions of delayed gratification: You save first before you purchase.",
"Hodson told CNN about Hodson's grandmother using both sides of an envelope before his grandmother'd throw an envelope out and keeping pieces of string that could later be reused.",
"This World War II austerity is now folklore although some pundits say panic over the environment and resource use, as well an increase in personal debt may bring the war generation's frugal habits back into vogue.",
"Why are we hooked on credit?",
"Hodson sees a few factors responsible for our credit binge: \"We've developed retail therapy -- it's a drug -- but it's a very fragile plant and to build an economy based on it is ridiculous.\"",
"Hodson also says the government has encouraged a people to be reckless with money through a people's own bad example: \"The government must take much of the blame for encouraging a debt culture and saddling students early on with loans.\"",
"The availability of credit lines also contributes to the debt trap.",
"In the U.S., 80 percent of households have at least one credit card.",
"Yet that is not enough for many credit providers.",
"Five billion credit card solicitations are mailed each year nationwide, with each cardholder owning an average of seven credit cards -- three bank credit cards and four store or gas credit cards.",
"Average household or individual debt (or both) is about $9,300 per household holding at least one credit card.",
"According to the advocacy group Demos, the average balance among lower- and middle-income households is $8,650.",
"We use credit cards for computers, the latest gadgets such as iPods, holidays and fashion, all the things many of us now deem as essential.",
"This readjustment of our needs -- perceiving that we now need more rather than the same or less also fuels our credit addiction.",
"Economist Andrew Charlton believes our reliance on credit is symptomatic of prosperity: \"It's the by-product of the boom.",
"In for example, Australia almost 30 percent of the population have never lived through a recession -- young people believe you can always take on debt because it's always easy to pay off.",
"Prosperity is the cause of our credit addiction.\"",
"According to Hodson, celebrity culture has a lot to answer for: \"The credit problem is exacerbated by celebrity culture.",
"It's the ubiquity of television -- you are taught by the electronic media to envy people's lives who are richer.\"",
"\"With celebrity culture 150 years ago your horizon would be your parish.",
"Today anybody living on benefits can watch the plutocrats of the world having fun -- I'm not surprised anybody living on benefits are envious.\"",
"His advise to minimize envy?",
"\"Always compare yourself to poorer people.\"",
"The bulk of callers ringing the Citizens Advice Bureau are juggling debts but in the future Hodson thinks it will be harder to borrow money, due to the difficulty we'll have in repaying it.",
"When lines of credit tighten or dry up, we'll have to readjust our spending habits and tastes.",
"Luxury items will once again be out of reach for most except the super-rich.",
"\"What's the answer to borrowing?\" asked Hodson.",
"\"It's borrow more.",
"But it's musical chairs and what's going to happen when you can't sit down?\"",
"Hodson answers the question himself: \"I think a lot of people are going to be forced out of the credit economy because a lot of people can't borrow and a lot of people have a black mark against a lot of people's name -- similarly if you default.",
"Banks will start to discriminate more carefully.\"",
"As for our insatiable appetite to have the latest things and have them now: well it may be that if we can't afford them and no longer have a seemingly endless source of credit, we may have to go without.",
"This in turn will tighten the screws on the retail industry.",
"In UK newspaper The Independent, the \"spending squeeze\" was forecast with \"retailers reporting falling sales as debt-laden consumers tighten their belts.\"",
"Some experts believe it's not spiraling debt which will be the wake up call but the environmental costs of conspicuous consumption, while Economist Andrew Charlton believes \"a recession will trigger a change in behavior.",
"The next recession won't be like the last one, The next recession will cut deeper.\"",
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"LONDON, England --",
"Almost 25,000 people will die this year of HIV/AIDS in Myanmar unless lifesaving treatment is significantly increased, according to a new report.",
"A Doctors Without Borders worker handing out HIV/AIDS drugs in Myanmar.",
"The study produced by Doctors Without Borders, Doctors Without Borders said the failure by Myanmar to provide HIV/AIDS treatment to Myanmar's people is putting the population at risk.",
"An estimated 240,000 people are thought to have HIV/AIDS in Myanmar with 76,000 of those people facing death unless they receive antiretroviral (ART) drug, the report published Tuesday said.",
"Fewer than 20 percent of the people are are able to access ART, according to Doctors Without Borders.",
"Currently, Doctors Without Borders says Doctors Without Borders is almost the sole provider of these lifesaving drugs --providing these lifesaving drugs to more than 11,000 people.",
"\"It is unacceptable that a single NGO is treating the vast majority of HIV patients in a crisis of this magnitude,\" Doctors Without Borders's Operations Manager Joe Belliveau, said in a press release.",
"The pressure on its resources means Doctors Without Borders has been forced to turn away patients.",
"\"Sometimes I wake up at midnight and dream of my patients.",
"Women who come in are HIV positive --they have three children at home and the husband has passed away and we cannot provide any treatment for Women who come in,\" a doctor quoted in the research said.",
"The government and international communities have provided very little to the crisis, Belliveau added.",
"Myanmar allocated just $200,000 for HIV/AIDS in 2008, which is one of the lowest amount spent worldwide, according to Doctors Without Borders.",
"Drugs that are not provided by aid organizations or Myanmar cost a patient $29 per month.",
"With most people in Myanmar living on an average of $1.20 per day, the cost of drugs is unaffordable for most.",
"Doctors Without Borders also appealed for intervention by the international community to avert the crisis.",
"Myanmar currently receives around $3 per person in aid-- one of the lowest rates worldwide.",
"One reason for this may be that international donor groups are reluctant to send aid to Myanmar, a country run by a strict military junta widely criticized for Myanmar's atrocious human rights record.",
"The report states aid agencies may be put off by challenges Myanmar imposes such as strict constraints and difficult bureaucratic procedures.",
"Earlier this year when a deadly cyclone hit Myanmar that killed almost 100,000 people and left millions homeless, Myanmar turned away international aid to the frustration of many organizations.",
"Doctors Without Borders has been providing essential healthcare services in Myanmar since 1993 and began an integrated program in 2003 to support people living with HIV/AIDS."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"A Muslim family removed from an airliner Thursday after passengers became concerned about their conversation say AirTran officials refused to rebook them, even after FBI investigators cleared family of wrongdoing.",
"family was removed from an AirTran flight after a conversation about the safest place to sit.",
"Atif Irfan said federal authorities removed eight members of Atif Irfan's extended family and a friend after passengers heard family discussing the safest place to sit and misconstrued the nature of a conversation about the safest place to sit.",
"Irfan, a U.S. citizen and tax attorney, said Atif Irfan was \"impressed with the professionalism\" of the FBI agents who questioned Atif Irfan, but said Atif Irfan felt mistreated when AirTran refused to book family for a later flight.",
"AirTran late Thursday said AirTran acted properly and that family was offered full refunds and can fly with AirTran again.",
"\"AirTran complied with all TSA, law enforcement and Homeland Security directives and had no discretion in the matter,\" AirTran said in a prepared statement.",
"Watch how Muslims find climate of fear at airport » .",
"Family members said FBI agents tried to work it out with AirTran, but to no avail.",
"iReport.com:",
"Share your story .",
"\"FBI agents actually cleared family's names,\" said Inayet Sahin, Irfan's sister-in-law.",
"\"FBI agents went on family's behalf and spoke to the airlines and said, 'There is no suspicious activity here.",
"family are clear.",
"Please let family get on a flight so family can go on family's vacation,' and they still refused.\"",
"\"AirTran told family that family can't fly their airline,\" Irfan said.",
"The dispute occurred about 1 p.m. Thursday as AirTran flight 175 was preparing for takeoff from Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, D.C., on a flight destined for Orlando, Florida.",
"Atif Irfan, Atif Irfan's brother, their wives, a sister and three children were headed to Orlando to meet with family and attend a religious conference.",
"\"a conversation about the safest place to sit, as we were walking through the plane trying to find our seats, was just about where the safest place in an airplane is,\" Sahin said.",
"\"We were (discussing whether it was safest to sit near) the wing, or the engine or the back or the front, but that's it.",
"We didn't say anything else that would raise any suspicion.\"",
"Watch Muslims recount how Muslims were kicked off plane » .",
"a conversation about the safest place to sit did not contain the words \"bomb,\" \"explosion,\" \"terror\" or other words that might have aroused suspicion, Atif Irfan said.",
"\"When we were talking, when we turned around, I noticed a couple of girls kind of snapped a couple of girls's heads,\" said Sobia Ijaz, Atif Irfan's wife.",
"\"I kind of thought to Atif Irfan, 'Oh, you know, maybe AirTran're going to say something.'",
"It didn't occur to Atif Irfan that AirTran were going to make it such a big issue.\"",
"Some time later, while the plane was still at the gate, an FBI agent boarded the plane and asked Atif Irfan and Irfan's wife to leave the plane.",
"The rest of family was removed 15 or 20 minutes later, along with a family friend, Abdul Aziz, a Library of Congress attorney and family friend who was coincidentally taking the plane and had been seen talking to family.",
"After FBI interviewed family, it released family, Atif Irfan said.",
"AirTran spokesman Tad Hutcheson said the incident began when some passengers reported hearing suspicious remarks by a woman and alerted flight attendants.",
"Two federal air marshals, who were on board the plane, notified law enforcement about the security-related issue, AirTran said.",
"After family and Aziz were taken for questioning, the remaining 95 passengers were taken off of the plane and rescreened, along with the crew and the baggage, AirTran said.",
"Atif Irfan said Atif Irfan believes Atif Irfan's family is owed an apology.",
"\"Really, at the end of the day, we're not out here looking for money.",
"I'm an attorney.",
"I know how the court system works.",
"We're basically looking for someone to say... 'We're apologizing for treating you as second-class citizens.'\"",
"\"family are proud Americans,\" Sahin said.",
"\"You know family decided to have family's children and raise our children here.",
"family can very easily go anywhere family want in the world, but you know family love it here and family're not going to go away, no matter what.\"",
"Aziz said there is a \"very strong possibility\" Aziz will pursue a civil rights lawsuit.",
"\"I guess it's just a situation of guilt by association,\" Aziz said.",
"\"They see one Muslim talking to another Muslim and they automatically assume something wrong is going on.\""
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"Atif Irfan claims FBI cleared family of wrongdoing, but AirTran wouldn't let family fly .",
"AirTran says AirTran acted properly, complied with all federal directives .",
"Atif Irfan says family owed an apology, may pursue a civil rights lawsuit ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)",
"-- Five people arrested in Pakistan had been reported missing in the United States, and police are confident Five people arrested in Pakistan were planning terrorist acts, a Pakistani police official told CNN.",
"It is too soon to link Five people arrested in Pakistan with any terrorist organizations, said Tahir Gujjrar, deputy superintendent of police in Sargodha, Pakistan, but preliminary investigations suggest they had sought to link up with the Jaish-e-Mohammed and Jamaat ud Dawa militant organizations.",
"Neither group showed interest, however, Tahir Gujjrar, deputy superintendent of police in Sargodha, Pakistan said.",
"The five were from Virginia and their families had contacted the FBI soon after",
"Five people arrested in Pakistan went missing, Tahir Gujjrar, deputy superintendent of police in Sargodha, Pakistan said.",
"Five people arrested in Pakistan include two Pakistani-Americans, two Yemeni-Americans and an Egyptian-American.",
"The arrests came after a raid on a home in Sargodha, about 120 miles south of Islamabad, Tahir Gujjrar, deputy superintendent of police in Sargodha, Pakistan said.",
"No U.S. officials have confirmed Tahir Gujjrar, deputy superintendent of police in Sargodha, Pakistan's information, and there was no evidence charges had been filed.",
"the FBI had said earlier that the FBI was trying to determine whether a link existed between the five missing men and the arrests in Pakistan.",
"A U.S. law enforcement official not authorized to speak for attribution said Five people arrested in Pakistan were all American citizens.",
"Asked if Five people arrested in Pakistan are the same men arrested in Pakistan, A U.S. law enforcement official said, \"We think it is, but we don't have it firm ...",
"The truthful answer is, we don't know.\"",
"The State Department said The State Department does not have confirmation of Five people arrested in Pakistan's identities or whether Five people arrested in Pakistan are Americans.",
"The U.S. embassy in Islamabad is seeking further information.",
"If the individuals are Americans, the United States will be seeking consular access, The State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.",
"\"If Five people arrested in Pakistan are American citizens, the United States are going to be very interested in the charges Five people arrested in Pakistan have been detained on and the circumstances in which Five people arrested in Pakistan are being held,\" State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.",
"\"That is something the United States would do anywhere and that is why The U.S. embassy in Islamabad is seeking further information.\"",
"Under the Geneva Conventions, Pakistan is required to notify the United States about any Americans arrested, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.",
"A U.S. law enforcement official said none of Five people arrested in Pakistan had shown up on law enforcement's radar before Five people arrested in Pakistan were reported missing.",
"\"Five people arrested in Pakistan never surfaced with us before.\"",
"Authorities believe Five people arrested in Pakistan's intent was to wage jihad overseas rather than with terrorist acts in the United States, A U.S. law enforcement official said, but \"there is still a lot of uncertainty about what Five people arrested in Pakistan were up to.\"",
"A Pakistani official said Five people arrested in Pakistan arrived in Karachi on November 30 and went on to Lahore and then Sargodha, where Five people arrested in Pakistan were arrested Wednesday, the official said.",
"The arrests came at the behest of local police.",
"Preliminary investigations are ongoing, the official said.",
"The Council on American-Islamic Relations said in a statement Wednesday The Council on American-Islamic Relations was assisting in the investigation of \"five Muslim young men from Virginia who left the country recently under mysterious circumstances.\"",
"The parents of the missing youths and local Muslim leaders approached the council about the disappearances and the organization \"immediately informed the FBI,\" The Council on American-Islamic Relations said.",
"The Council on American-Islamic Relations spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said one of Five people arrested in Pakistan was a student at Howard University, and all five knew each other.",
"One of the missing youths left a video behind, Nihad Awad, The Council on American-Islamic Relations's executive director, told reporters.",
"\"I was disturbed by the content of a video,\" the council said.",
"One person appeared in a video, and made references to \"the ongoing conflict in the world, and that young Muslims have to do something,\" the council said.",
"the council said a video \"juxtaposed certain verses of the Quran,\" and the council suggested there was a misunderstanding of those verses and their potential misuse.",
"a video is about 11 minutes long, the council said, and is \"like a farewell.\"",
"the council said it did not specify what Five people arrested in Pakistan would be doing, but the council has seen similar videos on the Internet, and \"it just made me uncomfortable.\"",
"One source identified the missing Howard student as Ramy Zamzam, who was studying dentistry at the Washington college.",
"No further details were immediately available, and it was not immediately known whether he was among those arrested in Pakistan.",
"The council and the Muslim community realize there is a problem, although it is not widespread, the council said, and is \"going to launch a major campaign of education to refute the misuse of verses in the Quran, or the misuse of certain grievances in the Muslim world.",
"the United States believe that the United States can do a lot to reinstate confidence in young American Muslims, that they have to be fully engaged, as the majority of them are engaged in civic life and in the political process.\"",
"He and other Muslim officials cautioned against a rush to judgment against Five people arrested in Pakistan, and praised their parents's families and members of the Muslim community for approaching law enforcement and assisting in the investigation.",
"At the end of November, he said, Five people arrested in Pakistan told Five people arrested in Pakistan's parents Five people arrested in Pakistan were attending a local conference, but Five people arrested in Pakistan's parents became suspicious when calling Five people arrested in Pakistan's cell phones because their parents got what sounded like an overseas ring tone.",
"The families then went to The Council on American-Islamic Relations.",
"\"The main concern was to get them back and figure out what was going on and protect any national security and everybody's rights,\" Hooper said.",
"Hooper said Hooper understood the five left the country in a couple of groups at the end of November.",
"Along with the families and Muslim community leaders, The Council on American-Islamic Relations said The Council on American-Islamic Relations was working to assist investigators.",
"Imam Johari Abdul-Malik of the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations in the Washington area, said that while the five were active in their mosques, \"From all of our interviews, there's been no sign that Five people arrested in Pakistan were in any way outwardly radicalized ...",
"there haven't been any reports that there was anything outwardly suspicious in Five people arrested in Pakistan's behavior.\"",
"The FBI is aware of the arrests, and is also investigating a report of five people reported missing from the Washington area, said Katherine Schweit, spokeswoman for the agency's Washington field office.",
"\"We are working with Pakistan authorities to determine Pakistan authorities's identities and the nature of Pakistan authorities's business there\" -- if the people arrested are the people who are missing, she said.",
"She declined to elaborate, citing an ongoing investigation.",
"U.S. authorities have been wary of Islamic militants recruiting young Muslims from the United States to fight overseas.",
"Prosecutors in Minnesota recently arrested eight Somali-American men on charges related to what eight Somali-American men said were efforts to recruit youths from the Washington area to fight for al-Shabaab, a Somali guerrilla movement battling the African country's U.N.-backed transitional government.",
"At least two young men from Minnesota have been killed in Somalia, including one who blew himself up in what is believed to have been the first suicide bombing carried out by a naturalized U.S. citizen.",
"The matter has \"always been a concern,\" Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday.",
"\"We have been well aware of the threats that we continue to face along with friends and allies around the world ...",
"we know that we have to work more closely with both Afghanistan and Pakistan to try to root out the infrastructure of terrorism that continues to recruit and train people.\"",
"CNN's Jeanne Meserve and Elise Labott contributed to this report."
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"One of 5 left video mentioning \"the ongoing conflict in the world,\" viewer says .",
"Five are from Virginia and their families had contacted the FBI soon after Five people arrested in Pakistan went missing .",
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"Supreme Court has again indefinitely blocked plans to disseminate video of an important federal court case involving same-sex marriage in California.",
"The justices in an unsigned order Wednesday prevented any distribution of the live video stream outside the San Francisco, California, courthouse where an important federal court case involving same-sex marriage in California is being heard, and any real-time or delayed posting on the Internet.",
"In a trial that began Monday, a federal judge in San Francisco will decide whether the state's Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage is constitutional.",
"California voters approved the state's Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage in November 2008, prompting an appeal by several homosexual couples.",
"As part of a pilot program, a federal judge in San Francisco had agreed to allow video of the trial to be sent live to other rooms within the courthouse and to five other federal courthouses, and to be posted several hours later on the popular video site YouTube.com.",
"Opponents of same-sex marriage had asked Supreme Court to intervene, saying witness testimony could be affected if cameras were present.",
"It is extremely rare for a federal trial to be televised to the broader public.",
"Supreme Court's latest order allows distribution only to designated \"overflow\" rooms in the San Francisco courthouse, where people who want to view the trial but are unable to fit into the courtroom can watch the proceedings on closed-circuit television.",
"A majority of Supreme Court justices concluded expanded broadcast should not permitted because, A majority of Supreme Court justices wrote, \"It appears the courts below did not follow the appropriate procedures set forth in federal law before changing their rules to allow such broadcasting.\"",
"There has been much internal debate in federal courts around the country about the televised experiment, with several judges and administrators privately expressing concern that it could eventually lead to the entire judiciary being televised, including Supreme Court.",
"In dissent to the ruling, Justice Stephen Breyer and three liberal colleagues complained the public would be deprived of watching \"a nonjury civil case of great public interest to five other federal courthouses located in Seattle [Washington], Pasadena [California], Portland [Oregon], San Francisco [California], and Brooklyn [New York].\"",
"Breyer was supported by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Paul Stevens and Sonia Sotomayor.",
"Breyer said Supreme Court traditionally has stayed out of what Breyer called another court's administrative discretion on such matters, saying, \"I believe Supreme Court should adhere to Supreme Court's institutional competence, Supreme Court's historical practice, and Supreme Court's governing precedent -- all of which counsel against the issuance of this stay.\"",
"The case is Hollingsworth v. Perry (09A648)."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Violent crime in the United States declined in 2008, due in part to a significant drop in the number of murders, according to the first available FBI figures covering the entire year.",
"The decline would be the third straight year-to-year drop in violent crime in the United States.",
"The preliminary figures for 2008, released Monday, show that overall reported crime dropped 2.5 percent nationally from the previous year, including a 4.4 percent decline in murders.",
"Although crime statistics varied sharply from city to city, the overall number of reported murders declined 9.1 percent in cities with populations of 100,000 to 250,000.",
"However, murders increased 5.5 percent in towns of fewer than 10,000 residents.",
"Overall, the number of aggravated assaults declined 3.2 percent, forcible rape decreased 2.2 percent, and robbery decreased 1.1 percent.",
"The Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report historically provides a strong indication of the final figures that will be compiled and released later in the year.",
"The statistics are based on a compilation of crime reports provided to FBI by the more than 12,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States.",
"The Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report shows a small increase in violent crime in the second half of the year.",
"Figures for the first half of 2008, which were released in early January, showed that overall violent crime through the end of June had declined 3.5 percent, compared with the 2.5 percent decline for the entire year.",
"Other results in the year-end figures were a 1.6 percent drop in reported property crimes from 2007, including a 13.1 percent decline in motor vehicle thefts.",
"Violent crime in the United States has largely been on the decline over the past two decades.",
"In 2005, however, a surprising increase prompted headlines of an end to the drop in violence.",
"Monday's figures show that the downward trend has resumed.",
"After the 2005 violent crime increase of 2.3 percent, Monday's figures increased only 1.9 percent in 2006 and then dropped 0.7 percent in 2007 before the decline of 2.5 percent in the preliminary 2008 figures."
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"Murders declined 4.4 percent but rose in towns of fewer than 10,000 people .",
"Drop in violent crime would be third consecutive year-to-year decline .",
"Violent crime in the U.S. has largely been declining over the past two decades ."
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"Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) --",
"The American missionaries in Haiti facing kidnapping charges for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti last week made an earlier, unsuccessful attempt at taking dozens of other children, Officer said.",
"Officer did not want to be identified for fear of reprisals.",
"Officer told CNN on Monday that Officer had stopped Ten Americans in Haiti, on January 26 as Ten Americans in Haiti tried to transport 40 children from Haiti to the Dominican Republic.",
"Officer said Officer discovered Silsby and the nine other Americans on a bus in Port-au-Prince's Pétionville neighborhood after receiving a tip from a concerned citizen.",
"Officer stopped the group and ordered the children to get off a bus.",
"Officer then directed Silsby to the Dominican Embassy.",
"\"I said what happened, and she [Silsby] told me, 'I have the paperwork to cross the Haitian-Dominican border with 100 children,' \" the officer said.",
"A former attorney for Ten Americans in Haiti, Edwin Coq, said Officer has testified of Officer's account.",
"Prosecutors questioned Officer last week in the case against Ten Americans in Haiti.",
"Prosecutors no longer suspect Officer of any wrongdoing, and Officer is now a witness, according Coq, who is familiar with the prosecution's case file.",
"Officer's superiors also confirmed Officer's version of events.",
"Attorneys for Ten Americans in Haiti did not immediately answer calls for comment.",
"Full coverage of the earthquake's aftermath .",
"Ten Americans in Haiti were charged Thursday with kidnapping children and criminal association for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti.",
"Earlier Monday, Jorge Puello, a Dominican attorney who said Puello was hired to represent Ten Americans in Haiti, said Ten Americans in Haiti had authorization from the Dominican Republic to bring the children across the border.",
"Puello showed reporters a manila folder Puello said contained documents that prove Ten Americans in Haiti had authorization to bring the children into the Dominican Republic, but Puello did not show documents that prove the Americans had authorization to bring the children into the Dominican Republic to reporters.",
"Dominican authorities have said Ten Americans in Haiti did not have permission, and Puello did not say whether Ten Americans in Haiti had the authorization of Haitian officials.",
"Ten Americans in Haiti have said Ten Americans in Haiti were trying to help the children get to a safe place after January 12's magnitude-7.0 earthquake, which has left more than 200,000 dead.",
"iReport: Looking for loved ones in Haiti .",
"Arriving outside the Haitian attorney general's office Monday, Puello said a church hired Puello that counts some of the jailed Americans among a church's members.",
"Puello did not identify the congregation.",
"Coq announced over the weekend that Coq had resigned.",
"Puello said Monday that Coq had been fired but gave no details.",
"Some of Ten Americans in Haiti have said Some of the Americans thought Some of the Americans were helping orphans, but Some of the Americans's interpreters said this week that they were present when group members spoke with some of the children's parents.",
"Some parents in a village outside Port-au-Prince said Some parents in a village outside Port-au-Prince had willingly given Some parents in a village outside Port-au-Prince's children to the Americans, who promised them a better life.",
"Some parents in a village outside Port-au-Prince also said Some parents in a village outside Port-au-Prince had been told Some parents in a village outside Port-au-Prince could see Some parents in a village outside Port-au-Prince's children whenever Some parents in a village outside Port-au-Prince wanted.",
"But the Dominican consul general has said the Dominican consul general warned the group's leader, Silsby, about trying to cross the border without proper documents.",
"Silsby and four other Americans arrived for an appearance before an examining judge Monday.",
"One of Silsby and four other Americans, Paul Thomson, referred reporters to a passage in the New Testament book of 1 Corinthians, in which the apostle Paul tells early Christians, \"It seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like men condemned to die in the arena.\"",
"The passage continues, \"To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.",
"We work hard with our own hands.",
"When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Lionel Richie burst on the music scene in the 1970s with the Commodores and then went on to a major solo career with hits such as \"All Night Long\" and \"Hello.\"",
"Lionel Richie and Nicole Richie's daughter, Nicole, gave Lionel Richie and his daughter, Nicole's first joint TV interview in six years to CNN's Larry King.",
"Nicole Richie made a name for Nicole Richie on the TV series \"The Simple Life,\" which followed the exploits of Nicole Richie and fellow socialite Paris Hilton, and in the tabloids.",
"Lionel Richie and his daughter, Nicole have been making news for decades, but rarely together",
"In Lionel Richie and his daughter, Nicole's first TV interview together in six years, Lionel Richie and his daughter, Nicole talked with CNN's Larry King about Lionel Richie and his daughter, Nicole's relationship; Nicole Richie's time in rehab; Lionel's first grandchild, Harlow; Lionel Richie and his daughter, Nicole's growing family; and more.",
"The following interview, scheduled to air Thursday night, has been edited for brevity and clarity: .",
"CNN's Larry King: You did \"American Idol.\"",
"A European tour.",
"A new CD.",
"You ever give thoughts of just cooling it?",
"Lionel Richie: My answer to that is very simple.",
"I don't like fishing.",
"I'm pretty much like you.",
"This is my hobby.",
"CNN's Larry King: What's the new album [\"Just Go\"] about?",
"Lionel Richie: You know what I decided to do on this album? Something different.",
"Instead of controlling, which is what I love to do -- I'm the writer, I'm the arranger, I'm the producer, I'm the singer -- I decided [to] start another way.",
"I just gave up the power completely.",
"There is only one song on this album that I actually wrote, called \"Eternity.\"",
"King:",
"The \"American Idol\" thing.",
"Was that fun?",
"Why did you do it?",
"Lionel Richie:",
"It's the best fun in the world.",
"Danny [Gokey] was so wonderful.",
"Danny [Gokey] kept saying, \"Suppose I mess up or suppose I sing your line instead of my line,\" and I said, \"You can't mess this one up.",
"And if you feel like you want to sing my part, sing it loud and strong.\"",
"And of course Danny [Gokey] nailed it.",
"It was so much fun to watch everybody backstage.",
"The tension of what goes through that show, I don't think I [could] do it.",
"[Nicole Richie joins the interview] .",
"King:",
"What is it like to be with Nicole Richie in this setting?",
"Lionel Richie:",
"I'm so proud of Nicole Richie right now.",
"There is such a pride that Nicole Richie has turned this corner.",
"Nicole Richie is an amazing mother.",
"I want the world to know where Nicole Richie is.",
"King:",
"Now you're pregnant with a second child, right?",
"Nicole Richie: Yes, yes I am.",
"King:",
"And the father [Joel Madden] is the same?",
"Nicole Richie: Yes.",
"King:",
"You going to get married?",
"Nicole Richie: Eventually, yes.",
"CNN's Larry King: But that's not important or paramount?",
"Nicole Richie: I think for both of us, we are going to do it because we want to, not because that's what you do.",
"CNN's Larry King: What kind of grandfather is he?",
"Nicole Richie:",
"Well, he's very animated.",
"He smiles like this all the time, and so he's nothing but fun for Harlow.",
"Harlow absolutely loves him.",
"Watch Nicole Richie talk about Harlow's daughter » .",
"King:",
"Nicole Richie, you've been through some turbulent times.",
"You've had drug abuse, wild-child behavior.",
"Entered rehab in 2003.",
"How have you come through all of that?",
"Nicole Richie: With the support of my family, really.",
"I've always stayed really close with my mother [Brenda] and my father.",
"I have really great friends.",
"And I just have a really great circle around me who support me no matter what, don't judge me no matter how low I've ever gotten.",
"CNN's Larry King:",
"How did you deal with it, Lionel?",
"Lionel Richie: It gave me an amazing opportunity to step up to the plate.",
"I said to Harlow's one day: I have some good news and I have some bad news.",
"I said some bad news is that Nicole Richie is going to die.",
"The good news is, Nicole Richie doesn't have to.",
"I remember that look on Nicole Richie's face of sheer panic.",
"And I said the only person who is going to be able to save Nicole Richie is Nicole Richie.",
"And Nicole Richie went away and about three weeks later I got a phone saying, 'Dad, I want to go into rehab.'",
"And when Nicole Richie checked into rehab, Harlow's mother and I checked into rehab with Nicole Richie.",
"CNN's Larry King:",
"What was the toughest part about rehab?",
"Nicole Richie:",
"It was right before \"The Simple Life\" came out.",
"Just the fact that I couldn't do it in private really was unfortunate.",
"But we didn't watch TV there or [had no] connection to the outside world, which I thought was really great.",
"So I just focused on being positive there and focused on Nicole Richie.",
"And my parents were there with Nicole Richie.",
"my parents came for family week.",
"And so I just focused on that and everything just kind of fell in place.",
"Watch Nicole Richie talk about rehab » .",
"King:",
"When all of those troubles were going on, didn't it affect [your] performance?",
"Lionel Richie:",
"Thank God for the stage.",
"What the stage was for Nicole Richie was an outlet.",
"the stage gave me a chance to kind of get away from it for a moment.",
"CNN's Larry King:",
"You said that you were not a good dad to Nicole Richie growing up ... wasn't there for Nicole Richie.",
"Do you regret that?",
"Lionel Richie:",
"I was trying to be Nicole Richie.",
"There is a part of [me] that's guilty because I wish I could have been there more for Nicole Richie, but I was trying to make it as the solo guy at that time.",
"CNN's Larry King: What kind of dad was Lionel Richie?",
"Nicole Richie:",
"I really hate when Lionel Richie says that.",
"I hate when Lionel Richie says that Lionel Richie wasn't a good dad because my memory of my childhood was nothing but good memories.",
"I remember Lionel Richie coming down in the kitchen in the morning and singing songs and us playing.",
"Was Lionel Richie gone a lot?",
"Yeah.",
"But Lionel Richie also toured a lot.",
"Even when Lionel Richie and my mom divorced, it was kind of like Lionel Richie was on tour, so I was kind of OK with it.",
"And Lionel Richie's not perfect, Lionel Richie's a human and we went through phases of not speaking.",
"I could sit here and I could say that I was a terrible daughter, too, but I am not going to say that.",
"King:",
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"Lionel Richie: Love Joel Madden.",
"Love him.",
"CNN's Larry King: Don't you want them to get married?",
"Lionel Richie: I want them to take their time.",
"I'm more interested in whether they like each other and whether they're best friends.",
"Because that means they'll be great parents forever.",
"King [to Nicole]: You were adopted.",
"Nicole Richie: Yes.",
"Lionel Richie:",
"When Lionel Richie and his daughter, Nicole adopted, [Nicole Richie] was 8, yes.",
"When Lionel Richie and his daughter, Nicole first met Nicole Richie, Nicole Richie was 3 1/2.",
"CNN's Larry King: Took five years?",
"Lionel Richie:",
"Nicole Richie stayed with Lionel Richie and his daughter, Nicole for two years before Lionel Richie and his daughter, Nicole even thought about legal guardianship.",
"King:",
"Was there a doubt about doing it?",
"Lionel Richie:",
"It was a tremendous responsibility, but I fell in love.",
"Brenda fell in love.",
"And once you fall in love, you don't know anything else."
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"How was Lionel Richie's \"American Idol\" appearance? \"It's the best fun in the world\""
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"The United States Mint launched a new coin Tuesday featuring Duke Ellington, making Duke Ellington the first African-American to appear by Duke Ellington on a circulating U.S. coin.",
"The District of Columbia coin honoring Duke Ellington was introduced Tuesday in WASHINGTON.",
"Ellington, the composer of classics including \"It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing\" appears on the \"tails\" side of the new D.C. quarter.",
"George Washington is on the \"heads\" side, as is usual with U.S. quarters.",
"The coin was issued to celebrate Ellington's birthplace, Columbia.",
"U.S. Mint Director Ed Moy introduced The coin at a news conference Tuesday at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.",
"Members of Duke Ellington's family were present at the ceremony, and the jazz band of Duke Ellington High School performed.",
"Duke Ellington won the honor by a vote of D.C. residents, beating out abolitionist Frederick Douglass and astronomer Benjamin Banneker.",
"Also on The coin is the phrase \"Justice for all.\"",
"The Mint rejected the first inscription choice of D.C. voters, which was \"taxation without representation,\" in protest of Columbia's lack of voting representation in Congress.",
"Duke Ellington received 13 Grammy Awards and a Pulitzer Prize, among numerous other honors.",
"Duke Ellington's orchestra's theme song, \"Take the A Train,\" is one of the best-known compositions in jazz.",
"Duke Ellington was born in Columbia in 1899 and composed more than 3,000 songs, including \"Satin Doll,\" \"Perdido\" and \"Don't Get Around Much Any More.\"",
"\"It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing\" helped usher in the swing era of jazz.",
"Duke Ellington performed with other famous artists, including John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, and Duke Ellington traveled around the world with Duke Ellington's orchestras.",
"Duke Ellington died in 1974 at the age of 75.",
"The first African-American to appear on a circulating coin was York, a slave who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their \"Corps of Discovery\" adventures across America at the dawn of the 19th century.",
"The 2003 Missouri quarter features the three men together in a canoe on the obverse.",
"The U.S. Mint distinguishes between circulating coins, which are intended for daily use, and commemorative ones, which mark special occasions.",
"African-Americans including Jackie Robinson, who broke baseball's color barrier, have appeared on commemorative coins.",
"Educator Booker T. Washington, botanist George Washington Carver and the first Revolutionary War casualty, Crispus Attucks, all of whom were black, have also appeared on commemorative coins, according to The U.S. Mint."
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"(CNN) --",
"Mike and Missy Wilson sat in a meeting late Tuesday afternoon, planning a ministry trip to Haiti when they were interrupted by a text message.",
"A co-worker read the news: a powerful earthquake had just struck Haiti.",
"In their Nashville, Tennessee, office, Missy Wilson said, \"My heart just dropped\" as Missy Wilson listened to the one-line bulletin.",
"The quake's epicenter was a few miles from an orphanage in Carrefour, Haiti, where the Wilsons' 21-year-old daughter Katie was working, and the 5-year-old girl they were about to adopt lived.",
"\"I felt like I couldn't take another breath,\" Missy Wilson said, \"I jumped up and yelled, 'This can't be happening.'\"",
"The first bits of news were discouraging, as sketchy reports came in of buildings collapsing and widespread destruction.",
"\"It was horrible,\" Missy Wilson said.",
"\"We spent hours trying to get any information.\"",
"The Brent Gambrell Ministries where Missy Wilson is director frequently works with churches and groups in Haiti.",
"Any phone number they had in Haiti was quickly written on a board in the office.",
"\"A group of 20 (people) sat and dialed the numbers over and over and over again.\"",
"\"There are no words to explain that two people I love dearly were in the middle, and I couldn't reach then,\" Missy Wilson said, Missy Wilson's voice cracking.",
"But it was more than 24 hours before they finally got word.",
"A brief, scratchy call from their daughter Katie came through -- the Wilsons' 21-year-old daughter Katie and his daughter had survived the quake that destroyed the orphanage.",
"Missy Wilson said the Wilsons' 21-year-old daughter Katie was able to say, \"I'm alive.",
"We're safe.",
"his daughter's safe.",
"Please just know we're alive,\" before the 40-second call was cut off.",
"It would be Thursday before the Wilsons learned the whole story.",
"Missy Wilson, with two ministry officials, was able to travel into Haiti on a medivac plane, and the three made two ministry officials's way to the town.",
"\"There was destruction all around,\" Missy Wilson said from Haiti, \"When I saw what was left of that building, I knew they were protected.\"",
"the Wilsons' 21-year-old daughter Katie, his daughter and 47 other children all made it out, but were living in the parking lot across from the orphanage.",
"When Missy Wilson finally found Missy Wilson's daughter, his daughter ran up to Missy Wilson at full speed and hugged Missy Wilson.",
"\"I can totally see his daughter knocking Missy Wilson to the ground,\" his daughter's mother said.",
"The first order of business: a call home to a nervous mom.",
"Missy Wilson was able to get through on a rare working cell phone, and told Missy Wilson's wife, \"need to you to hear something.\"",
"Missy Wilson said the next words were from his daughter, barely able to speak English, saying, \"'Ma-ma, I love you.'",
"I started screaming at the top of my lungs.\"",
"Missy Wilson and Missy Wilson's colleagues brought food, water and supplies to the 200 quake victims in the parking lot.",
"Missy Wilson described the injured, including one with a broken leg, being treated for two days in the heat with nothing more than an aspirin.",
"The group arranged a bus to take the children to a guest house, a trip delayed when a bus broke down.",
"But that news was minor, knowing they would have shelter and supplies.",
"For the Wilsons, the next struggle is how to bring his daughter home.",
"They had been in Haiti just last week finishing paperwork for the adoption, but the office handling the case was destroyed in the quake.",
"\"All that paperwork, God knows where it is,\" Missy Wilson said.",
"\"That building was five stories, now That building's five feet tall.\"",
"For Missy Wilson, waiting for news at home, \"I feel like I'm floating on top of my body.\"",
"\"Like I'm living a dream and waiting to wake up,\" Missy Wilson said.",
"This week has gone \"from hopelessness to hope to tears to 'I can't take another phone call because I don't know what will happen,'\" Missy Wilson said.",
"Missy Wilson said Missy Wilson is working with the U.S. Embassy seeking emergency help to bring his daughter to Nashville.",
"\"We are going to do it,\" Missy Wilson said, Missy Wilson's voice the strongest it had been all day."
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"\"We spent hours trying to get any information,\" Missy Wilson says .",
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"Chicago, Illinois (CNN) --",
"A body found early Monday in Chicago River is that of Michael Scott, president of the Chicago Board of Education, police said.",
"A medical examiner has ruled Michael Scott's death a suicide, Police Superintendent Jody Weis said, but authorities have not completed authorities's investigation.",
"There was a gunshot wound to the head, police said.",
"Michael Scott's family had reported Michael Scott missing about midnight, and Michael Scott's body was found about 3:20 a.m., Police Superintendent Jody Weis said.",
"Michael Scott was last seen about 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Police Superintendent Jody Weis said, but Police Superintendent Jody Weis would not disclose where, saying that may be part of their investigation.",
"Michael Scott's wife told police that it was \"very unusual\" for Michael Scott not to be home by midnight, Police Superintendent Jody Weis said.",
"a gunshot wound to the head was on the left side of Michael Scott's head, police said.",
"A weapon was found either under or alongside Michael Scott's body, Police Superintendent Jody Weis said, and Scott's car was in the immediate area.",
"their investigation will include ballistics evidence and analysis of surveillance cameras in the area, Police Superintendent Jody Weis said.",
"It is too early for police to draw conclusions, Police Superintendent Jody Weis added.",
"\"Michael Scott was a strong advocate for education,\" Cook County Board President Todd Stroger said in a written statement.",
"\"Michael Scott's contributions to the minority communities of Cook County will be sorely missed, in particular, Michael Scott's love for the upward mobility of residents from Chicago's West Side, where Michael Scott spent Michael Scott's life.\"",
"In Washington, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan also mourned Scott's death, saying U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan was \"shocked and saddened by the sudden death\" of U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan's \"friend and colleague.",
"\"Michael Scott cared passionately about public education and made many courageous decisions as president of the board.",
"Michael Scott gave Michael Scott's time, energy and talents to improving the life chances of children.",
"\"Chicago has lost a great leader, and the city's school children have lost a devoted champion.\"",
"U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan was the chief executive officer of the Chicago school system from 2001 to 2008.",
"The Rev. Jesse Jackson recalled first meeting Michael Scott about 30 years ago.",
"\"We're just stunned and shocked,\" The Rev. Jesse Jackson said.",
"\"Michael Scott was so effervescent, so full of life.\"",
"Michael Scott had been appointed to the Chicago Board of Education three times, twice as president.",
"Michael Scott most recently was appointed in February.",
"Previously, Michael Scott was board president for five years, until July 2006.",
"Michael Scott disclosed in early August that Michael Scott had been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury investigating how students were chosen for admission to some of Chicago's most elite public schools.",
"Michael Scott denied using Michael Scott's influence during two stints as board president to help any student into a selective-enrollment school.",
"Scott, who was a developer, also was criticized in August when it was revealed that Michael Scott had quietly arranged to develop city-owned land near a park that would have been used in the 2016 Summer Games.",
"The move would have positioned Michael Scott to cash in, had Chicago been awarded the Olympics.",
"The 2016 Games were awarded to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.",
"CNN's Mark Bixler contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Wrestler Edward Fatu, better known as the hulking, tattooed WWE superstar \"Umaga,\" died Friday of a heart attack in a Houston, Texas, hospital, a family friend said.",
"Born in American Samoa, Fatu, 36, was a member of the famous Anoa'i wrestling family, which includes cousin Dwayne \"The Rock\" Johnson, his two uncles, who wrestled as The Wild Samoans in the 1980s, and brothers, Sam \"Tonga Kid\" and Solofa Jr. \"Rikishi,\" according to Wrestlers Rescue, a support group for retired professional wrestlers.",
"The two-time WWE Intercontinental champion, also known as \"The Samoan Bulldozer,\" squared off with the likes of Triple H, John Cena and Ric Flair before WWE terminated his contract in June for having violated the WWE's Wellness Program and refusing to enter rehab, WWE said on WWE's site.",
"WWE offered WWE's condolences to his family in a brief statement on WWE's site.",
"To friends and family, Fatu was a devoted father who was looking forward to spending more time with his children after leaving WWE.",
"\"He had his demons, but he found a lot of strength in his family,\" said Dawn Marie Psaltis, family friend and founder of Wrestlers Rescue.",
"\"He was always a jokester, he was always playing a practical joke on someone.",
"He comes from a long line of professional wrestlers and did his family proud.\""
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"Paul Schlesselman has pleaded guilty to plotting to kill several African-Americans in 2008, including then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, Justice Department announced Thursday.",
"Paul Schlesselman of West Helena, Arkansas, faces 10 years in prison under a plea agreement reached with federal prosecutors in Tennessee.",
"Federal officials in Washington said Paul Schlesselman threatened to kill then-Sen. Obama on October 23, 2008, shortly before the presidential election.",
"Paul Schlesselman also planned to \"murder dozens of people with a focus on murdering African-Americans\" Justice Department said.",
"\"Despite great civil rights progress, hate-fueled violence remains all too common in our country, as illustrated by this unthinkable conspiracy,\" said Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez in a statement issued by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez's Justice Department office."
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"(WIRED) --",
"Apple has traditionally held Apple's ground as a premium computer manufacturer, but Apple might just be getting sucked into a recession-prompted price war.",
"A worker helps a customer with a MacBook Pro laptop at an Apple store in San Francisco, California.",
"Apple's recent MacBook price cuts signify Apple's reluctant conformity to the economic downturn.",
"At Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple shaved hundreds of dollars off Apple's MacBook models.",
"The high-end, 15-inch MacBook Pros dropped from $2,000 to $1,700.",
"And the price of the unibody MacBook (now renamed the 13-inch MacBook Pro) fell from $1,300 to $1,200.",
"Apple's most inexpensive MacBook, the lone white model, remains $1,000.",
"\"For a while Apple've been ignoring what's been happening in the economy,\" said Richard Shim, an IDC analyst.",
"\"This is an indication that Apple're realizing that the first quarter didn't go as well as the first quarter has for Apple historically.",
"I think this puts Apple closer in mind about what's going on in the PC world.\"",
"Still, Apple has avoided making even deeper price cuts, thanks to the juicy profit margins already baked into Apple's products, the availability of cheap components, and the fact that Apple also makes money by selling apps and music to iPhone and iPod owners.",
"All of these factors mean that Apple has room to comfortably trim prices even further, if Apple deems it necessary.",
"For instance, Apple dropped the price of Apple's now low-end smartphone, the iPhone 3G, to just $100 with a two-year contract.",
"But that cut doesn't cost Apple as much as it might appear, given that Apple still gets a carrier subsidy of several hundred dollars for each iPhone.",
"Apple's computers have historically been priced well above the average PC.",
"However, Apple's first quarter of 2009 market-share numbers suggest Apple is struggling to compete as a premium brand name in the face of the economic recession.",
"In the first quarter of 2009, Apple's U.S. notebook market share shrank 0.4 percent compared to the same quarter a year earlier, according to Shim.",
"And in worldwide notebook market share, Apple saw 0.3 percent growth compared to the first quarter of 2008, Shim said.",
"Additionally, Apple is likely hurting from Apple's competitors' aggressive pricing, cast into relief by Microsoft's recent Laptop Hunters ad campaign, a BrandIndex survey indicates.",
"The pseudo reality-TV commercials denounce Apple computers as too expensive and even implies Mac users are simple-minded snobs who buy gadgets as a fashion statement.",
"As a result, Microsoft is detracting from Apple's \"value\" score by convincing a substantial number of consumers that consumers get less for consumers's money by buying a Mac, according to a BrandIndex survey.",
"By cutting its prices somewhat, Apple may also be seizing the opportunity to strike a blow against the netbook market.",
"In 2008, low-powered, budget netbook PCs saw rapid growth, driven by value-conscious consumers looking for a good deal.",
"Apple has no netbook in Apple's lineup, and has said Apple has no plans to create a netbook.",
"Fortunately for Apple, netbook sales are seeing a significant slowdown in 2009.",
"In April, netbook manufacturers Acer, Asus and Micro Star International each reported fewer netbooks were sold than expected.",
"netbook manufacturers Acer, Asus and Micro Star International's netbook shipments for the first quarter of 2009 fell considerably below shipments during the third quarter of 2008.",
"Asus, for example, hoped to ship 1 million Asus Eee PC systems during the first quarter, but only 900,000 units sold.",
"Thus, Apple's MacBook price cuts are a strategic move to reclaim growth while the netbook market is shrinking.",
"This move allows Apple to continue to avoid offering a netbook, which is wise, because an Apple netbook would have cannibalized MacBook sales, according to ThinkPanmure analyst Vijay Rakesh.",
"With the reduced MacBook price tags, ThinkPanmure analyst Vijay Rakesh expects Apple to see double-digit growth in notebook marketshare -- up to 20 percent -- in the third quarter of 2009.",
"Regardless, Apple's MacBook price tags are still well above the cost of the average notebook -- $860 in the United States, according to Shim.",
"Apple's cheapest MacBook is anchored at $1,000, and Apple could afford to bring Apple down even lower if Apple so chose.",
"According to Tim Bajarin, principal analyst with Creative Strategies, Apple's new pricing for Apple's MacBook line and the price drop on Apple's lightweight MacBook Air will not compromise much on Apple's profit margins.",
"\"Apple are not favoring market share over profitability in a big way,\" Bajarin explained.",
"\"Apple have already taken the pricing curve down on the unibody and chipsets, so Apple are building on those lower costs.\"",
"Will Apple deliver a mobile computer for the average Joe in terms of cost?",
"Perhaps so, in the form of a touchscreen tablet that many Apple enthusiasts are placing many Apple enthusiasts's bets on.",
"Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster predicts such a device -- a blown-up iPod Touch, of sorts -- will land as soon as 2010.",
"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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"The police photograph is chilling.",
"In grainy black and white tones, The police photograph shows 13-year-old Martin Andrews sitting in a makeshift box, 13-year-old Martin Andrews's leg chained.",
"The look in 13-year-old Martin Andrews's eyes is one of fear, fatigue and disbelief.",
"13-year-old Martin Andrews had just been rescued from a nightmare.",
"\"I was abducted by a sexually violent predator by the name of Richard Ausley, who had been twice convicted for sexually assaulting young boys, and he had taken me for eight days,\" 13-year-old Martin Andrews recalled of 13-year-old Martin Andrews's ordeal 37 years ago this month.",
"\"I was left to die.\"",
"As a survivor of a sex crime, 13-year-old Martin Andrews is one face of an issue the Supreme Court will revisit Tuesday: civil commitment, which allows the government to keep sex offenders in custody even after sex offenders have served sex offenders's sentences.",
"Twenty states have such laws, including Virginia, where 13-year-old Martin Andrews was held captive and repeatedly assaulted.",
"CNN normally doesn't name victims of sex crimes, but 13-year-old Martin Andrews, now a victims' advocate, agreed to tell his story.",
"On the other side of the debate is the first sex offender released from Virginia's civil commitment program, and one of just a handful nationwide.",
"\"I served my time for what I did, and I didn't feel like I should be incarcerated again,\" said this man, who asked that The man's identity not be revealed for fear of retribution.",
"\"It was a scary thing to know that you could be committed to a mental institution for the rest of your life.\"",
"The man said mandatory therapy helped The man, but The man thinks that could have been initiated while The man was in prison.",
"There is widespread disagreement on whether civil commitment is a Catch-22.",
"In discussions of the effects of sex crimes, nothing is simple or dispassionate.",
"The practice of confinement in mental hospitals or treatment centers for those with severe mental illness has been around the United States since the United States's founding.",
"Around the turn of the 20th century, many laws dealing with sexual psychopaths were passed.",
"Over the decades, many laws dealing with sexual psychopaths were repealed or rarely applied.",
"Then, in 1990, Washington state became the first to pass an innovative civil commitment law specifically for violent sex offenders.",
"California, Wisconsin and New York, among others, later followed.",
"Such \"predator laws\" focused on risk assessment and prevention of re-offending.",
"It is a concept that the general public may not be aware exists.",
"The Supreme Court has upheld the use of such laws when the individual goal is rehabilitation, not further \"punishment.\"",
"But it has another, broader purpose.",
"\"The primary goal is incapacitation, that is, protecting society from people who are predicted to be dangerous in the future,\" said Eric Janus, author of \"Failure to Protect\" and dean at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota.",
"\"The second goal is to provide treatment to these individuals.\"",
"Critics of these programs say behavioral rehabilitation centers amount to prisons, are often overcrowded and understaffed, and rarely meet the stated goal of treating the \"worst of the worst\" offenders to the point they can rejoin society.",
"\"The evidence is showing that it's only becoming a detainment center for people they do not went on the streets,\" said Derek Logue, a sex offender who was released and now advocates for offender rights through his Web site, oncefallen.com.",
"\"people have no hope of getting out, and the odds are stacked against you.\"",
"According to Justice Department statistics, 20 states use civil confinement, involving about 4,000 rapists, pedophiles and other sex offenders nationwide.",
"Estimates are that these programs cost taxpayers more than $700 million a year, almost $150,000 per individual.",
"That is about four times more than confining them in prison.",
"Virginia passed the program's civil commitment law in 1999 but had never fully funded the program.",
"13-year-old Martin Andrews found out from a reporter in 2002 that 13-year-old Martin Andrews's attacker was just weeks away from being released after 29 years behind bars.",
"Once a victim, now an empowered advocate, 13-year-old Martin Andrews realized 13-year-old Martin Andrews had to act.",
"\"I didn't know about other sex offenders.",
"I didn't know about the extent of the problem.",
"I only knew one, but I knew that one needed to be dealt with,\" Andrews, 50, said from 13-year-old Martin Andrews's northern Virginia home, where 13-year-old Martin Andrews works as a program manger for a defense contractor.",
"State officials, 13-year-old Martin Andrews said, \"all told me there was nothing to be done; he was going to be set free; that was it.\"",
"But 13-year-old Martin Andrews mobilized, lobbying lawmakers to quickly fund the program, despite a budget shortfall.",
"It worked, and Virginia has become a national model, using a tool called \"Static 99\" that assesses which offenders qualify for civil commitment.",
"13-year-old Martin Andrews's attacker remained behind bars but was killed by a fellow inmate before ever going into the program.",
"The catalyst for Virginia's change were once-dormant memories for Andrews, who now knew that 13-year-old Martin Andrews had to tell 13-year-old Martin Andrews's story.",
"As a teenager in Portsmouth in 1973, 13-year-old Martin Andrews was walking to the store in snowy weather when a van pulled up and the man inside asked 13-year-old Martin Andrews whether 13-year-old Martin Andrews wanted to earn some extra money moving furniture.",
"13-year-old Martin Andrews agreed but instead was taken to a rural area and a metal box dug into the side of a hill.",
"\"He looked at me, and he said, 'I've got bad news for you.",
"You've just been kidnapped.' \"",
"What followed was days of brutal rapes and beatings.",
"Ausley eventually left, and 13-year-old Martin Andrews would certainly have died if some rabbit hunters had not stumbled upon 13-year-old Martin Andrews after hearing 13-year-old Martin Andrews's screams.",
"13-year-old Martin Andrews believes that civil commitment is not the best tool, but for the most dangerous predators, \"it is the only tool we have that is 100 percent effective, because the most dangerous predators are removed from society.",
"the most dangerous predators are removed from the most dangerous predators's triggers.\"",
"The case before the Supreme Court on Tuesday deals with a federal law that has kept as many as 77 inmates held in federal prison in North Carolina under indefinite commitment.",
"The justices will decide whether the program enacted under the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 is constitutional by infringing on a traditional state function.",
"The law was named after the son of \"America's Most Wanted\" host John Walsh.",
"The justices said in 2007 that a Kansas law was neither double jeopardy (second criminal punishment for the same crime) nor \"ex post facto\" (new punishment for a previous crime).",
"\"We have never held that the Constitution prevents a state from civilly detaining those for whom no treatment is available but who nevertheless pose a danger to others,\" Justice Clarence Thomas said.",
"Courts have since been at odds with what kind of treatment must be provided and to what extent, to pass constitutional muster.",
"Janus worries about the slippery slope if such laws -- federal or state -- are allowed to continue without strong judicial checks.",
"\"The main danger of civil commitment of sex offenders is that civil commitment of sex offenders provides a precedent for doing an end run around those governmental protections, and we all may be comfortable right now because we say, 'Well, this is those people.",
"It's not us.",
"It's not our rights that are at stake,' \" he said.",
"\"I think we all ought to be cognizant of the fact that these laws set a precedent that greatly expands the power of government to take away our liberty, not for something we've done in the past, not after we've been convicted and punished, but out of fear that we might commit a crime in the future, and this is a very very powerful and dangerous idea,\" Janus said.",
"The white-haired man sitting with his lawyer outside Richmond says The white-haired man sitting with his lawyer outside Richmond is no longer a danger to society.",
"The white-haired man sitting with his lawyer outside Richmond served nearly eight years in prison for molesting three girls and nearly five years in forced civil commitment.",
"Despite that state confinement, including being the first of only about four men to be released from it, The white-haired man sitting with his lawyer outside Richmond says post-prison treatment helped The white-haired man sitting with his lawyer outside Richmond.",
"\"I think that civil commitment is unfair,\" The white-haired man sitting with his lawyer outside Richmond said.",
"\"I'm not against treatment.",
"I have done everything in my power to help The white-haired man sitting with his lawyer outside Richmond\" understand the effects of sexual abuse.",
"The white-haired man sitting with his lawyer outside Richmond said that being told just days before The white-haired man sitting with his lawyer outside Richmond's scheduled 2003 release that The white-haired man sitting with his lawyer outside Richmond was being civilly committed left The white-haired man sitting with his lawyer outside Richmond feeling \"hopeless.\"",
"Shortly afterward, The white-haired man sitting with his lawyer outside Richmond castrated The white-haired man sitting with his lawyer outside Richmond with a razor in The white-haired man sitting with his lawyer outside Richmond's jail cell.",
"After the transfer and years in the rehabilitation unit, The white-haired man sitting with his lawyer outside Richmond was freed and lives a quiet life -- albeit under constant electronic surveillance -- with no further reported incidents, says The white-haired man sitting with his lawyer outside Richmond's attorney.",
"Lawyer David Hargett convinced U.S. Supreme Court that Lawyer David Hargett's client had a constitutional right to contest The white-haired man sitting with his lawyer outside Richmond's civil commitment.",
"\"I have found talking with people people are shocked to hear somebody can be sentenced by a judge, serve out that entire sentence and then say, 'Wait a minute, we're not going to let you go,' \" Lawyer David Hargett said, calling it a legal \"black hole.\"",
"\"This treatment facility ... is a prison, let's be honest.",
"This treatment facility has barbed wire and locked doors.\"",
"He said most in the Virginia facility realistically will never get out.",
"The high court case is U.S. v. Comstock (08-1224)."
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"North Korea on Monday proposed replacing the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War with a formal peace treaty, a step North Korea said would pave the way for breaking the international impasse over North Korea's nuclear program.",
"But North Korea said international sanctions imposed after a series of nuclear weapons and missile tests should be lifted before North Korea returns to the negotiating table, a suggestion the United States quickly dismissed.",
"The cease-fire that ended the three-year Korean War never led to a permanent peace treaty, leaving the North Korean-South Korean border the world's most heavily militarized frontier.",
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"\"When the parties are in the state of war where the parties level guns at each other, distrust in the other party can never be wiped out, and the talks themselves can never make smooth progress, much less realizing the denuclearization,\" it said.",
"\"Without settling such [an] essential and fundamental issue as war and peace, no agreement can escape from frustration and failure as now.\"",
"Pyongyang has refused to return to the talks, which also involve the United States, Russia, China, South Korea and Japan, insisting that it wants to talk directly with the U.S. government.",
"But the United States says the United States will not lift sanctions or normalize relations with the North until North Korea takes irreversible steps toward dismantling North Korea's nuclear program.",
"\"We're not going to pay North Korea for coming back to the six-party process,\" State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Monday."
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"Mexican President Felipe Calderon will return to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, for the second time in as many weeks on Wednesday morning, a spokesman for the municipal police department said.",
"\"For security reasons, details are nonexistent,\" police department spokesman Jacinto Seguro said.",
"Calderon will attend a meeting with local, state and federal officials, as well as civic and human rights groups, on Wednesday in Ciudad Juarez, which has been plagued by violence stemming from drug cartels.",
"The January 31 killings in southern Juarez of 15 people, most of whom were students with no ties to organized crime, has sparked outrage across Mexico.",
"The slayings, which occurred at a house party, are thought to be the result of bad intelligence by a cartel and the gang that carried out the killings.",
"President Calderon, who has faced mounting pressure this month from Juarez residents to resign, will be visiting Juarez for the third time since assuming power in December 2006.",
"Last week in Juarez, Calderon apologized to the families of the 15 people killed and promised residents that residents's input would form part of the strategy against drug-related violence.",
"Residents of Juarez attempting to highlight the growing frustration with Calderon's war against organized crime took to the streets by the hundreds on Saturday.",
"Many held signs targeted at Calderon reading, \"Assassin.\"",
"On Tuesday, police said a business owner and his 24-year-old secretary were found slain inside a business near southern Juarez at 11 a.m.",
"\"It's not new that the cartels target business owners, but killing his 24-year-old secretary, that's something that you don't see too often,\" Seguro said.",
"Also Tuesday, 20 students found skipping class and drinking in the street were detained by police as part of an effort to curtail unlawful street activity, Seguro said.",
"Violence in Juarez comes amid a backdrop of vastly increased numbers of homicides nationwide, as drug cartels battle each other and Mexico steps up Mexico's efforts to combat drug cartels.",
"Mexico has not released official figures, but national media say 7,600 Mexicans lost 7,600 Mexicans's lives in the war on drugs in 2009.",
"Calderon said last year that 6,500 Mexicans died in drug violence in 2008.",
"Officials say more than 16,000 Mexicans have died since Calderon declared war on the drug cartels shortly after taking office in December 2006."
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"Golfer Tiger Woods will \"apologize for Woods's behavior\" Friday when Woods makes a statement at PGA headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, Woods's agent said.",
"Agent said Woods would not answer questions.",
"It will be the golfer's first public appearance since Woods's November 27 car crash outside Woods's home near Orlando, Florida.",
"\"Tiger Woods will be speaking to a small group of friends, colleagues and close associates,\" Agent said.",
"\" ... Woods plans to discuss Woods's past and Woods's future and Woods intends to apologize for Woods's behavior.\"",
"A statement on Woods's Web site elaborated: \"While Woods feels that what happened is fundamentally a matter between Woods and Woods's wife, Woods also recognizes that Woods has hurt and let down a lot of other people who were close to Woods.",
"Woods also let down Woods's fans.",
"Woods wants to begin the process of making amends, and that's what Woods's going to discuss.\"",
"Blog: No apologies Tiger, just be real .",
"Agent said Agent didn't know if Woods's wife, Elin Nordegren, would appear with Woods''s husband.",
"Woods crashed Woods's black Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant and then a tree just a few days after the National Enquirer reported Woods was having an affair with a New York nightclub hostess who denied the affair.",
"A day after Woods paid Woods's $164 traffic ticket, Woods's seemingly perfect world began to crumble under what would eventually become an avalanche of allegations of infidelity threatening Woods's five-year marriage to Nordegren.",
"The couple have two children, Charlie, 1, and Sam, 2.",
"Woods issued an apology for \"transgressions\" that had let Woods's family down, as several women reported they had affairs with the golfer -- including one woman who allegedly had Woods on a voicemail asking her to take Woods's name off her cell phone because \"my wife went through my phone and may be calling you.\"",
"Several of Woods's major sponsors, including AT&T and Accenture, ended AT&T and Accenture's business relationships with Woods following the crash and the exposure of Woods's marriage troubles.",
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"But other companies, including Nike and Pepsi's Gatorade, continue to sponsor Woods, who has taken a break from his professional golfing career.",
"Procter & Gamble's Gillette said Procter & Gamble's Gillette would stop airing commercials featuring the golfer for a while."
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"(OPRAH.com) --",
"\"I'm thinking of throwing a little party,\" I tell Kogan's pal Karen as I hold the phone with one hand and fold a mountain of laundry with the other.",
"Two friends make Kogan promise not to flambé anything this time.",
"\"No big thing, really, just a few old friends getting together for the holidays,\" I persist over the dead silence on the other end of the receiver.",
"\"Maybe you and Daniel, me and Johannes, and four or five other people who --\"",
"\"Daniel and I can't make it,\" Kogan answers before I can finish.",
"\"But I haven't given you the date.\"",
"\"Look, Kogan, you know I've had health issues,\" Kogan counters nervously.",
"I explain to Kogan that the American Medical Association has yet to classify \"exceedingly dry cuticles\" as the kind of condition that requires actual bed rest.",
"\"Still...\" Kogan mutters as Kogan's voice trails off.",
"That night in bed, I turn to Johannes (love of my life, father of my child, official party co-host).",
"\"Johannes, I was thinking it's time we throw a little party,\" I venture.",
"\"That sounds great, sweetheart.\"",
"\"Really, pumpkin?\"",
"\"Of course, angel.",
"I do have one small request, though.\"",
"\"Anything, honey.\"",
"Johannes lifts Johannes's head and hands me Johannes's pillow.",
"\"Put this over my face and then hold it there until, oh, I don't know ... let's say, I stop moving.\"",
"There are lots of areas in which I excel.",
"As I've already mentioned, I can fold laundry with one hand.",
"I'm also quite capable of catching the cold of just about anybody living within my zip code.",
"Oprah.com: How to face your inner perfectionist .",
"I have the kind of magnetism that wordlessly beckons a guy wearing half a cantaloupe on his head to come sit next to me during long subway rides.",
"And, though I'm hard-pressed to explain exactly how I do it, I possess an almost mystical ability to purchase appliances, furniture, and clothing approximately six minutes before the extremely pricey item goes on sale.",
"The thing I can't do is host a genuinely wonderful party.",
"I attempt to invite several other friends, but one has elected to schedule elective surgery for that date (you know you're in trouble when a friend would rather have a friend's hammertoes corrected than have dinner at your place);",
"one claims our last brunch was like \"a hostage situation with lox\"; one -- and you know who you are -- pretends to be her own housekeeper, repeating, \"I sorry, no English\" over and over; and two different people choose not to attend but still make me swear that I won't flambé anything again ... like it's my fault they couldn't get their eyebrows to grow back after the crêpes Suzette incident of 2005.",
"I crawl into bed that night a broken woman.",
"\"Why do I suck at parties?\" I ask Johannes.",
"Johannes narrows Johannes's eyes.",
"\"Is this one of those trick questions like when you ask me if you need to lose weight and I say, 'Well, I suppose we could all stand to drop a pound or two,' and you spend the next 36 hours likening me to Satan?\"",
"I make a mental note to explore why I suck at relationships on some future night.",
"\"No,\" I insist, \"I really want to know what I'm doing wrong.",
"Give it to Kogan straight, Johannes, I can take it.\"",
"Johannes smiles and puts Johannes's book aside.",
"\"That's just it; the only thing you're doing wrong is constantly striving to do everything exactly right.",
"You want the prettiest cocktail, the freshest flowers, candles lit, music playing, dinner timed, conversation sparkling, and you drive yourself and everybody else nuts trying to achieve it.\"",
"Oprah.com: A lesson for the reluctant hostess .",
"I would like to be the kind of person who receives this information with an open mind and a grateful heart.",
"But my first instinct is to take my boyfriend of 15 years up on his previous offer and smother him to death with his own orthopedically correct goose-down pillow.",
"The problem is, I know he's right.",
"I am part geisha girl, part drill sergeant, with just a soupçon of control freak thrown in for good measure.",
"I want everyone to relax and have a good time, but that has to start with Kogan, and I'm about as laid-back as a caged hummingbird guzzling a can of Red Bull while awaiting biopsy results.",
"You can keep your meditation, your reflexology, your gin, your tonics -- I'm just not the mellow type.",
"I approach a petite Jewish woman from the Midwest to figure out when this started.",
"\"Mom, have I always been a perfectionist?\"",
"Mom attempts diplomacy.",
"\"Well, let me put it this way -- you used to like to dress up in my clothes when you were maybe 3 or 4 years old.\"",
"\"What does that prove?",
"Lots of little girls play dress-up.\"",
"\"True,\" Mom says, \"but you tried to bulldoze Grandma into tailoring the clothes to actually fit you.\"",
"\"Well, excuse me for realizing that a skirt should hit just above my knee.\"",
"We are quiet for a minute.",
"\"So how do you throw a really fun party?\"",
"Mom reminds me that they used to hire Magical Marv for my birthdays.",
"I remind Mom that Magical Marv chain-smoked and seemed to hate children.",
"\"Yes, that's what your dad and I always liked best about Magical Marv,\" Mom deadpans.",
"\"Anyway, the only thing I know about giving a party is that we can never get the extra leaf into the dining table and I usually forget to serve one of the side dishes.\"",
"This leads me to a new theory: \"Maybe bad parties are hereditary, like green eyes and diabetes,\" I say to Johannes.",
"\"Okay, that's it,\" Johannes announces, grabbing the phone.",
"Before I can lunge at Johannes, Johannes has dialed our neighbors Paul and Cheryl and invited our neighbors Paul and Cheryl to come for dinner \"in about 15 minutes.\"",
"\"Are you insane?\" I shriek as I stuff everything littering the floor and coffee table under the sofa.",
"\"This is grounds for divorce,\" I bellow, only to be reminded that we never got married.",
"\"That's because I don't know how to throw a wedding,\" I hiss as I pull off my stained Sunday night yoga pants and rummage through the laundry bag for my slightly less stained Saturday afternoon yoga pants, marveling all the while at the fact that I don't do yoga.",
"Needless to say, Cheryl and Paul are four minutes early.",
"\"Hey, guys, can I offer you...\"",
"I do a quick scan of the refrigerator, \"a dollop of mayonnaise?\"",
"I have hit rock bottom.",
"Somewhere Martha Stewart hangs Martha Stewart's head in shame.",
"Johannes gives me a hug.",
"There is no place to go but up.",
"Our neighbors split a diet Snapple, we order in Thai food and proceed to talk and laugh and pass chicken satay for three straight hours.",
"What can I say?",
"It is, to date, our most successful dinner party.",
"By Lisa Kogan from \"O, The Oprah Magazine,\" December 2008 .",
"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",
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"(CNN) --",
"Pakistan cricket is embroiled in a new controversy after Pakistan's cricket team were accused of deliberately losing two games at Champions Trophy by a government official.",
"Younis Khan's future as Pakistan captain is in doubt following accusations of match-fixing.",
"The chairman of the National Assembly's standing committee on sports claimed in a television interview that Pakistan lost to Australia to knock traditional rivals India out of the limited-overs tournament in South Africa.",
"Australia won by two wickets by running a bye on the final ball of the closing Group A tie on September 30, which ensured they reached the semifinals and ended India's hopes.",
"Younis Khan's then dropped a simple catch as Younis Khan's's side lost to New Zealand by five wickets in Saturday's semifinal.",
"\"Pakistan's cricket team went with a pre-determined mind to lose the match against Australia,\" Jamshed Ahmed Dasti told Pakistan TV channel Geo TV on Tuesday.",
"\"Pakistan's cricket team's intention was to keep India out.",
"It was a deliberate decision to lose the match against India.\"",
"Jamshed Ahmed Dasti said that Pakistan's cricket team also intentionally lost the match to New Zealand, who were beaten in Monday's final by defending Australia.",
"\"That's why the NA Standing Committee on Sports has called in captain Younis Khan, coach Intikhab Alam and [Pakistan Cricket Board] chairman Ijaz Butt for investigations,\" he said.",
"One report in Pakistan claimed that Younis and Intikhab had already been sacked by the PCB, but others said that Pakistan cricket's ruling body was happy with Pakistan's cricket team's performance.",
"\"Pakistan's cricket team played well and tried hard.",
"It is unfortunate Pakistan's cricket team couldn't qualify for the final, which every player wanted to do, but Pakistan's cricket team had one bad day against New Zealand,\" PCB spokesman Nadeem Sarwar told the Express Cricket Web site.",
"\"As far as we are concerned, Pakistan's cricket team did well in Champions Trophy and Pakistan's cricket team's performance was satisfactory.\"",
"Former captain Rashid Latif criticized Dasti for making serious allegations without backing them up with proof.",
"\"I was one of those who first raised the issue of match fixing in international cricket, so I know what I am talking about.",
"I can say Pakistan's cricket team did Pakistan's cricket team's best and played hard in the tournament -- a few mistakes cost Pakistan's cricket team a place in the final,\" Former captain Rashid Latif told Express Cricket.",
"\"I think parliamentarians should first look at the corruption in the government before talking about cricket.",
"It is unfortunate that when Pakistan's cricket team needs backing, a parliamentarian should make such allegations.\"",
"The accusations are another blow for Pakistan's cricketing fortunes.",
"The sub-continent nation lost the rights to host Champions Trophy due to security issues -- it was postponed last year and switched to South Africa -- and was then ruled out of staging the 2011 World Cup.",
"Earlier this year, veteran fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar missed the Twenty20 World Cup after needing treatment for genital warts.",
"Akhtar, once Pakistan's most feared weapon, has constantly clashed with the PCB, which banned veteran fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar for hitting a teammate with a bat in 2007 and threatened veteran fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar with court action following a public feud which ended with a five-year suspension that veteran fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar successfully appealed.",
"The PCB also punished veteran fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar for testing positive for the performance-enhancing drug nandrolone in 2006, while fellow fast bowler Mohammad Asif was arrested in Dubai for possession of illegal drugs last year."
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"(CNN) --",
"Heidi Klum knows that modeling is a young woman's game.",
"In the latest issue of InStyle magazine, the supermodel claims that models, like food, spoil after a certain age.",
"\"Models have a sell-by date,\" Heidi Klum said in the interview.",
"The mother of four -- who recently changed Heidi Klum's last name to Samuel for Heidi Klum's husband, the singer known as \"Seal\" -- also said that there are certain jobs Heidi Klum just doesn't do anymore.",
"\"Like the young, sexy, cute things for teenagers, or even 25-year-old girls.",
"I go in a different bracket now,\" Heidi Klum said.",
"(InStyle: See highlights of the Klum issue)",
"The German-born model entered a different bracket of current and former models in 2004 when Heidi Klum became an entrepreneur with the television series \"Project Runway.\"",
"Heidi Klum signed on as host, judge and executive producer of the reality show, in which up-and-coming fashion designers compete for the chance to receive money to launch up-and-coming fashion designers's own fashion line.",
"In 2009 Forbes magazine estimated Heidi Klum's income at $16 million.",
"The new season of \"Project Runway\" kicks off Season 7 on Lifetime network on Thursday.",
"In March Heidi Klum and fellow judge designer Michael Kors will be starring in their own \"Project Runway\" video game, in which players can design fashion lines, choose players's models, strut down the catwalk, and strike a pose in a photo shoot.",
"InStyle's February issue hits newsstands on Friday, January 15."
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"LAGOS, Nigeria (CNN) --",
"Some 700 people have been killed in clashes with Islamic militants in Nigeria, a military commander told CNN.",
"Bodies of hard-line Islamic rebels killed in battle lie in a Nigerian city.",
"Civilians and troops also have died.",
"The fighting in the northeast Nigerian town of Maiduguri began with attacks by the Muslim militants on police and government targets, starting a week ago.",
"Col. Ben Ahonotu, commander of the operation to combat Islamic militants, gave the new total.",
"Previous reports said at least 400 rebels, troops and civilians had died in the region, including Borno, Yobe, Kano and Katsina states.",
"Maiduguri is in Borno state.",
"Ahonotu did not elaborate or provide further information, and it was unclear whether the 700 was in addition to the previous death toll.",
"Attacks on police and government targets have been reported throughout the region, including Borno, Yobe, Kano and Katsina states.",
"Boko Haram, an Islamist sect, wants the government to impose Islamic law, known as sharia, in the entire Muslim-dominated northern half of Nigeria.",
"Sharia is already practiced in some northern states, but Boko Haram, an Islamist sect wants even tougher religious laws and also opposes Western education.",
"The southern half of Nigeria is predominantly Christian.",
"A Boko Haram leader, Mohammed Yusuf, was reported captured Thursday by the military, but was found dead after A Boko Haram leader, Mohammed Yusuf was turned over to police.",
"Human rights groups are seeking more information on A Boko Haram leader, Mohammed Yusuf's death, and have also expressed concern about civilian casualties."
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"North of Nigeria predominantly Muslim; south is Christian ."
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"Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) --",
"Photos of the nude and decapitated body of a murdered hiker, sought by a writer on assignment for Hustler magazine magazine, will not be released, a judge in Georgia ordered Wednesday.",
"The decision came as state lawmakers considered legislation that would ban public release of graphic photos of crime victims.",
"First Amendment lawyers say legislation that would ban public release of graphic photos of crime victims could have a chilling effect on open records requests.",
"DeKalb Superior Court Judge Daniel Coursey issued a temporary order restraining the Georgia Bureau of Investigation from releasing \"any and all photographs, visual images or depictions of Emerson which show Emerson in an unclothed or dismembered state.",
"Emerson's family sought a temporary order restraining the Georgia Bureau of Investigation after learning of the request for copies of crime scene photos of the 24-year-old, attorney Lindsay Haigh said.",
"Emerson's admitted killer, Gary Michael Hilton, received a life sentence in exchange for leading investigators to Emerson's body in the north Georgia mountains on January 7, 2008, six days after Emerson disappeared.",
"a temporary order restraining the Georgia Bureau of Investigation came on the same day the Georgia House Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously passed \"The Meredith Emerson Memorial Privacy Act,\" which would prevent gruesome crime scene photos from being publicly released or disseminated, according to Rep. Jill Chambers, the bill's principal sponsor.",
"House Bill 1322 would prevent the release of photographs of the bodies of crime victims that are \"nude, bruised, bloodied or in a broken state with open wounds, a state of dismemberment or decapitation,\" said Chambers.",
"\"We have to walk the line between open record laws and the constitutional provisions that allow women to be able to be photographed nude or in pornography when women knowingly and willingly offer women's bodies for dissemination,\" she said.",
"\"Emerson isn't in a position to give that kind of permission to have Emerson exploited in that kind of venue,\" Chambers said.",
"\"We're not only protecting future victims of crime, we're protecting the integrity of what happened to Emerson.\"",
"House Bill 1322 allows credentialed journalists, lawyers and law enforcement to view such photographs at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's headquarters, Chambers said, but not make copies of them.",
"Hustler magazine did not respond to a request for comment on the judge's ruling except to say that Hustler magazine is exploring Hustler magazine's legal options.",
"\"Hustler magazine is aware of the GBI's refusal to honor Hustler magazine's reporter's request for copies of the Emerson crime scenes photos, which were to be used in a news story about this crime.",
"Hustler and Mr. Flynt disagree with the GBI's position, and are currently exploring all legal options available to Hustler and Mr. Flynt should the decision be made to go forward with a news story about this crime,\" Hustler magazine said in an e-mail.",
"Members of the state Legislature were quick to condemn the request.",
"\"I think that the request is sickening, disgusting, vile and I think it's very, very hurtful for this family,\" House Speaker David Ralston said in a Monday press conference.",
"Current statute prevents the release of autopsy photos without the permission of next of kin, but a \"gray area\" in the law left open the question of whether crime scene photos could be released, House Speaker David Ralston said.",
"\"I am a big proponent of open government.",
"This goes against the grain for House Speaker David Ralston.",
"But in this case, when you have these kind of photographs that depict victims of crime where there may have been sexual assault or mutilation of the body, I just think the body goes beyond the pale,\" House Speaker David Ralston said.",
"\"We're going to narrow it to those situations so we don't have this kind of situation again where we pause and wonder is this something we have to release or not.\"",
"\"Emerson was a daughter, a friend and a mentor to many.",
"Emerson lived life to its fullest and was taken from us deliberately and maliciously,\" Emerson's family said on www.righttohikeinc.com, the charity Web site established in Emerson's memory.",
"\"Emerson's family and friends live everyday with this tragedy and to know that the possibility of any images, other than those that portray the beautiful, young woman we knew, could be disclosed to the public or may be published would bring further stress and unnecessarily added grief over what is already too much sadness to bear.\"",
"The Georgia Bureau of Investigation promptly denied Hustler's request, agency spokesman John Bankhead said.",
"\"There's no public interest served by these photographs being publicly displayed,\" agency spokesman John Bankhead said.",
"\"The negative impact on surviving friends and family would be horrific.",
"surviving friends and family had to go through this with the death so to have to go through it again with the pictures ending up on Internet would be incredible.\"",
"First Amendment lawyers are watching the outcome of this lawsuit and the bill.",
"\"The photos are awful, but it's also awful to see pictures of people in wars, soldiers fighting or the victims of wars,\" said New York attorney Martin Garbus.",
"\"I don't think there should be any kind of censorship because of awfulness.\"",
"New York attorney Martin Garbus surmised that privacy laws could be applied in this instance but cautioned that even such laws could be considered limitation of free speech.",
"\"I don't think you can make it into a narrow context.",
"If you look at a picture of a Sudanese kid starving to death, or people dying in Haiti, those are invasions of privacy.",
"Pictures of people alive in tortuous situations in some other country are just as bad as pictures of disfigured corpses in the United States.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Cliché trailers and unimpressed movie reviews aside, \"The Bounty Hunter\" was still expected to perform decently at the box office last weekend, some guessing a gross in the neighborhood of $25 million.",
"In reality, the predictions weren't far off -- the actual box office gross came in at nearly $21 million, which BoxOffice.com editor Phil Contrino described as a solid opening weekend, if a little on the low side.",
"The true surprise, BoxOffice.com editor Phil Contrino said, was Twentieth Century Fox's \"Diary of a Wimpy Kid\" coming out of nowhere and edging past it with an opening weekend gross of $22 million.",
"\"It's a situation where there's a movie with no stars aimed at a very specific age group -- teenage boys -- and it beat a movie with two stars,\" BoxOffice.com editor Phil Contrino said.",
"Yet, BoxOffice.com editor Phil Contrino added, Jennifer Aniston's has never been really reliable to open a movie on Jennifer Aniston's's own, and Jennifer Aniston's was the bigger star in \"Bounty.\"",
"Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston's's co-star, is gaining prominence but doesn't have the years of recognition that Jennifer Aniston's has.",
"Jennifer Aniston's was nearly inescapable in 2005 as the media tracked Jennifer Aniston's's divorce from actor Brad Pitt, but Jennifer Aniston's's thriller \"Derailed\" and romantic comedy \"Rumor Has It\" performed modestly at the box office.",
"Jennifer Aniston's then came back with a hit in 2006 with \"The Break-Up,\" co-starring Vince Vaughn, himself riding a wave of popularity from \"Wedding Crashers.\"",
"That success -- $39 million opening weekend and $118 million grossed domestically overall -- was immediately followed by \"Marley & Me,\" which grossed $36 million its first weekend, and \"He's Just Not That Into You,\" which Jennifer Aniston's starred in along with a number of other A-List actors.",
"Yet 2009 brought the flop \"Love Happens,\" which grossed $8 million when it opened in little more than 1,500 theaters in 2009.",
"By all accounts, \"Bounty Hunter,\" beaten by a movie about middle school kids or not, is a step in the right direction.",
"Judging from Jennifer Aniston's's ups and downs at the box office, Jennifer Aniston's's been \"far too hit or miss\" to be a safe bet at the box office, Contrino said.",
"\"The moral of the story is that you can't bank on Jennifer Aniston's.\"",
"Yet Jennifer Aniston's's public perception would lead one to believe otherwise, said film critic Nick Schager.",
"\"In general, there's a disconnect between Jennifer Aniston's's cultural popularity and Aniston's movie star popularity,\" film critic Nick Schager said.",
"\"There are certain people -- and you could make the case for Angelina Jolie as well -- given how rampant tabloid culture has become who are much more famous for that stuff than they are for the actual movies or TV shows.\"",
"If anything, said US Weekly's Senior Movie Editor Bradley Jacobs, Jennifer Aniston's's cultural popularity is the reason \"Bounty Hunter\" got the dollars that it did, despite its current 8 percent fresh rating on RottenTomatoes.com.",
"\"Despite terrible reviews, people still wanted to go,\" US Weekly's Senior Movie Editor Bradley Jacobs said.",
"\"Jennifer Aniston's is still a movie star.\"",
"Jennifer Aniston's is one of the top celebrities that US Weekly covers, US Weekly's Senior Movie Editor Bradley Jacobs said, and while Jennifer Aniston's's press attention may have something to do with Jennifer Aniston's's box office draw, US Weekly's Senior Movie Editor Bradley Jacobs doesn't think it's the total sum.",
"\"Jessica Simpson is covered a lot but Jessica Simpson doesn't have box office power.",
"Cameron Diaz, we cover Jennifer Aniston's a fair amount and Jennifer Aniston's's movies have a spottier track,\" US Weekly's Senior Movie Editor Bradley Jacobs said.",
"\"There's something about Jennifer Aniston's -- they love the hair, the body, the clothes and they've shown that they're willing to pay money.\"",
"Jennifer Aniston's, film critic Nick Schager believes, is indeed capable of carrying a movie.",
"Jennifer Aniston's just hasn't shown it yet.",
"\"Jennifer Aniston's hasn't proven Jennifer Aniston's to be a reliable box office draw on Jennifer Aniston's's own, but Jennifer Aniston's is a huge star.",
"I think people like Jennifer Aniston's, and if there's a movie that looks appealing, it'll do well,\" film critic Nick Schager said.",
"\"But, Jennifer Aniston's's been a bit overrated in the public conscious because of the extracurricular stuff, and that doesn't necessarily translate to Jennifer Aniston's wanting to see Jennifer Aniston's's trade barbs with Gerard Butler.\"",
"Which, film critic Nick Schager adds, is really the more pressing point: \"Bounty Hunter\" wasn't great, and not even the brightest star can mask that.",
"\"I think Jennifer Aniston's's chosen poorly for the past few years,\" said Movieline.com senior editor Kyle Buchanan.",
"\"If you look back before that Jennifer Aniston's had 'Marley and Me' and 'The Break Up,' and Jennifer Aniston's's indie at that point was 'Friends With Money,' which was a critical success.\"",
"\"Bounty Hunter,\" on the other hand, \"seems like a retread of 'The Ugly Truth' from last year.",
"Audiences didn't really care,\" Buchanan said.",
"Buchanan added that while \"the amount of hype that we get for Jennifer Aniston's is always going to exceed the amount of box office Jennifer Aniston's's going to bring,\" Jennifer Aniston's's still one of the Top 10 actresses.",
"\"Jennifer Aniston's can command an audience, but Jennifer Aniston's has to be in the right vehicle.\"",
"The other industry reality to consider, BoxOffice.com's Contrino said, is that none of the A-list actors, save for a few, are consistently opening with huge numbers anymore.",
"\"I think there's a misconception that for a movie to open, it has to have major stars -- nothing could be further from the truth,\" BoxOffice.com's Contrino said.",
"\"If you look at 2009, some of the biggest hits of the year didn't have major names -- with 'The Hangover,' character actors opened the movie based on the concept.",
"It was the same with 'District 9' and 'Paranormal Activity,' which is the golden standard of this argument.\"",
"Buchanan agreed that these days, audiences care more about the content than which actor is headlining.",
"\"In the '80s and '90s, there were a dozen stars you could count on to open a movie,\" Buchanan said.",
"\"The days for any actor, male or female, opening a movie based on any actor, male or female's name alone are numbered.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Woods said Sunday that Woods is focused on \"living a life of amends\" after \"living the life of a lie\" in one of Woods's first interviews since a November car crash outside Woods's home unleashed a media frenzy amid rumors of extramarital affairs.",
"The brief, five-minute interview on ESPN was one of two the professional golfer granted Sunday afternoon at the Isleworth golf club near Woods's home outside Orlando, Florida.",
"The Golf Channel simultaneously aired The Golf Channel's similarly brief interview with Woods on Sunday night.",
"Woods credited inpatient and outpatient therapy for helping Woods start the process toward making amends.",
"\"It was tough,\" Woods told ESPN's Tom Rinaldi of the therapy.",
"\"To look at yourself in a light that you never want to look at yourself, that's pretty brutal. ...",
"I saw a person that I never thought I would ever become.\"",
"Woods said two of Woods's lowest points in the past four months came when Woods had to tell Woods's wife, Elin Woods, and Woods's mother about Woods's affairs.",
"\"Those are the two people in my life who I'm closest to, and to say the things that I've done, truthfully to them, is ... honestly ... was ... very painful,\" Woods said.",
"Woods told The Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman that Woods's mentor and father, the late Earl Woods, \"would be very disappointed in Woods.\"",
"\"I wish I could have had his guidance through all of this,\" Woods told The Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman.",
"\"Have him help straighten me up.",
"I know he would have done it.\"",
"Despite the open nature of the interviews -- both Rinaldi and The Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman weren't restricted on the questions they could ask -- the notoriously private Woods declined to go into detail about the night of the November car crash, telling Rinaldi that \"it's all on the police report.\"",
"\"Beyond that, everything is between Elin and myself, and that's private,\" Woods said.",
"Woods also declined to specify what treatment Woods has been seeking, but did say it will continue despite Woods's announcement last week that Woods will return to golf at the Masters next month.",
"\"I'm excited to get back and play,\" Woods told Rinaldi.",
"\"I'm excited to get to see the guys again. ...",
"I miss competing.",
"But still, I still have a lot more treatment to do, and just because I'm playing, doesn't mean I'm gonna stop going to treatment.\"",
"When asked about what reaction Woods expects from the fans, Woods said: \"I don't know.",
"I'm a little nervous about that to be honest with you.",
"... It would be nice to hear a couple claps here and there.",
"But I also hope they clap for birdies, too.\"",
"In closing her interview, Tilghman asked Woods about a bracelet Woods was wearing.",
"\"It's Buddhist,\" Woods said.",
"\"It's for protection and strength.",
"And I certainly need that.\""
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"\"To say the things that I've done, truthfully to wife, mother, is ... very painful,\" Woods says .",
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"Woods says therapy will continue, but declines to say what type Woods's received ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A Massachusetts grand jury has indicted a 98-year-old woman, accused of strangling her 100-year-old nursing-home roommate, on a second-degree murder charge.",
"Prosecutors say Laura Lundquist killed centenarian Elizabeth Barrow, a resident of Brandon Woods Nursing Home in Dartmouth, after The two women had an argument over a table Laura Lundquist had placed at the foot of Barrow's bed.",
"Barrow was found dead September 24 with a plastic shopping bag tied loosely around Barrow's head, according the Bristol County district attorney's office.",
"An autopsy indicated Barrow had been strangled.",
"Barrow complained that the table obstructed Barrow's path to the bathroom, authorities said.",
"When a nurse's aide moved it, Laura Lundquist punched a nurse's aide and grumbled that her roommate \"might as well have the whole room,\" prosecutors said.",
"District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter said Barrow repeatedly complained that Laura Lundquist was making her life \"a living hell\" in the weeks leading up to Barrow's death, and that Laura Lundquist remarked that Laura Lundquist would outlive Barrow's roommate.",
"A nursing home spokesman said the facility twice presented Barrow with the chance to change either rooms or roommates, but Barrow declined each time.",
"A nursing home spokesman compared the pair to \"sisters,\" saying they took \"daily walks together ... ate lunch together every day, and were heard at night saying, 'Good night, I love you,' to each other.\"",
"Laura Lundquist's attorney, Carl Levin, contends his client was not involved in Barrow's death, saying, \"We maintain Barrow's innocence.\"",
"A superior court judge granted a motion to send Laura Lundquist to a state hospital for a competency evaluation.",
"An arraignment will be held only if Laura Lundquist is found competent to stand trial."
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"The two allegedly argued about a table Laura Lundquist had placed at the foot of Barrow's bed .",
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"Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) --",
"It was as if the giant crowd were celebrating a joyous occasion -- not a coming-together one month after a deadly earthquake.",
"Thousands of Haitians, many of the giant crowd smiling, gathered Friday at the center of Port-au-Prince to remember the 7.0-magnitude quake of January 12 that leveled most of their capital city.",
"A sea of people waved their arms in the air, prayed, cried, sang and -- where space permitted -- danced.",
"The earthquake is blamed for killing more than 212,000 people, injuring 300,000 and leaving more than 1 million homeless in the city of 3 million and surrounding communities.",
"The memorial took place near where the stately National Palace lies in ruins and the Champ de Mars square has been turned into a huge homeless camp.",
"Other memorials were taking place at shantytowns, and there were religious observations.",
"Haitians were urged to wear black or white.",
"There was an outpouring of aid from around the world after the 7.0-magnitude quake of January 12 that leveled most of their capital city -- more than 600 aid agencies rallied -- but, initially, much of more than 600 aid agencies's work was ineffective because of the chaos, including the disruption of the government after the government's buildings collapsed.",
"Relief operations are improving day by day, a spokeswoman for the International Rescue Committee told CNN on Friday.",
"\"Things [supplies] are moving now, and Things [supplies] are arriving to populations.",
"The bottleneck has really, really decreased,\" Aisha Bain said.",
"\"About a month ago, when the 7.0-magnitude quake of January 12 that leveled most of their capital city destroyed the infrastructure of Haiti, it was very complicated to get aid in,\" Aisha Bain said.",
"Now, \"the ports and airports aren't at full capacity, but things are arriving and getting to populations.",
"There is much more to be done, but food is coming in.\"",
"Food distribution areas are set up around the capital, Aisha Bain said.",
"According to the U.S. ambassador to Haiti, food is now being delivered routinely to 16 sites daily, and Haitians are receiving two weeks of rations.",
"food is culturally appropriate, Kenneth Merten said.",
"\"One month on ... I think we are in a very good place in terms of food distribution, water distribution and getting medicines out to needy hospitals,\" Kenneth Merten said.",
"The United States is working with many nations and organizations to do that.",
"\"The next issues we're most concerned about are sanitation issues and shelter issues,\" Kenneth Merten said during a State Department news conference.",
"As the rainy season approaches, \"we want to make sure we have reached and touched as many people as possible.\"",
"the rainy season comes with the approach of spring.",
"The hurricane season begins June 1.",
"Relief workers are providing temporary camps with latrines and portable toilets, and that project isn't finished, Kenneth Merten said.",
"Aisha Bain said Aisha Bain's organization also is trying to provide sufficient sanitation.",
"\"We ... are working on a large-scale buildup of providing clean water, latrines, showers, hand-washing stations, which affect not only the livelihoods of basic survival but, really, health.",
"There's a massive concern of the possible outbreak of disease, and so we are working to combat that quickly.\"",
"Watch Aisha Bain talk about the situation in Haiti .",
"On Thursday, Nevada real estate developer Tom Schrade said Nevada real estate developer Tom Schrade was donating three used Cirque du Soleil tents for use as a temporary headquarters for the government and a hospital in Port-au-Prince.",
"Cirque du Soleil will provide a total of 33,000 square feet of space, Nevada real estate developer Tom Schrade said.",
"Medically, \"things have improved in a very good way,\" compared with the period right after the quake, when doctors were dealing with broken bones, crushed limbs and other acute conditions, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta said.",
"The medical establishment is much more organized.",
"However, recovery facilities are grossly inadequate, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta said.",
"Of the people lined up recently at one of Port-au-Prince's largest public hospitals, most were suffering from chronic diseases such as diabetes.",
"Many have never seen a doctor, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta said.",
"After treatment, most patients -- even those who have had major surgery -- end up in a temporary tent city that is dirty and lacks medications, follow-up care and nutritious food, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta said.",
"Recent rain didn't help, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta said, and there is fear that improvements won't be made before monsoons come.",
"\"People are trying to recover in a temporary tent city that is increasingly becoming more permanent,\" CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta said."
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"Quake killed more than 212,000 people, left more than 1 million homeless in city, nearby .",
"Anderson Cooper, Dr. Sanjay Gupta discuss Haiti news on \"AC360,\" 10 ET tonight .",
"Watch Angelina Jolie talk about Angelina Jolie's visit to Haiti on \"Amanpour,\" Sunday at 2 p.m. ET ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Simply put, Margaret Moth made an impression.",
"Given Margaret Moth's jet-black hair, thick black eyeliner, black clothes and combat boots (which Margaret Moth often slept in while on assignment), people didn't always know what to think upon meeting Margaret Moth.",
"Margaret Moth was quirky, the sort who excused Margaret Moth from a social gathering by saying Margaret Moth had to wash Margaret Moth's socks.",
"And Margaret Moth was fearless, the kind of woman who not only kept the camera rolling while under fire, but zoomed in on a soldier who was shooting at Margaret Moth.",
"Colleagues learned quickly to appreciate all that this CNN camerawoman was.",
"Beyond Margaret Moth's rich personality, which included deep optimism and kindness, Margaret Moth brought to Margaret Moth's profession top-notch technical abilities, unmatched dedication and an approach to work that inspired others to push others.",
"CNN colleagues honor Margaret Moth .",
"Margaret Moth sought out, even demanded, assignments in conflict zones.",
"Margaret Moth barely survived being shot in the face in Sarajevo in 1992, only to go back as soon as Margaret Moth was physically able.",
"The multiple reconstructive surgeries that followed, as well as the hepatitis C Margaret Moth contracted from a consequent blood transfusion, were mere obstacles Margaret Moth moved around.",
"But more than three years after being diagnosed with colon cancer, Margaret Moth's tremendous life journey has come to an end.",
"Moth, known for Margaret Moth's gutsiness, striking appearance, distinctive humor and sense of fun, died early Sunday in Rochester, Minnesota.",
"Margaret Moth was 59.",
"\"Dying of cancer, I would have liked to think I'd have gone out with a bit more flair,\" Margaret Moth said with a laugh last spring during an interview with a CNN documentary crew that had traveled to Texas, where Margaret Moth was visiting friends.",
"\"The important thing is to know that you've lived your life to the fullest,\" Margaret Moth said then, before tubing down a river in Austin, Texas; taking jaunts to Cape Cod and the Canadian Rockies; and piloting a houseboat up the Mississippi River -- replete with beer and Cuban cigars.",
"\"I don't know anyone who's enjoyed life more.\"",
"Born Margaret Wilson in Gisborne, New Zealand, to a homemaker and a man who made swimming pools, Margaret Moth got Margaret Moth's first camera at age 8.",
"Margaret Moth later changed Margaret Moth's name to Margaret Gipsy Moth, a nod to the airplane, which was appropriate for a woman who had a penchant for jumping out of planes, barefoot.",
"Margaret Moth said Margaret Moth never aspired to be a photojournalist.",
"Rather Margaret Moth's path, Margaret Moth explained, was mostly driven by a love of history and Margaret Moth's desire to see it unfold firsthand.",
"Whether Margaret Moth was amid rioters after Indira Gandhi's assassination or covering a long menu of wars spanning continents, Moth felt Margaret Moth and Margaret Moth's colleagues were the lucky ones.",
"\"You could be a billionaire, and you couldn't pay to do the things we've done,\" said Moth, who had most recently called Istanbul, Turkey, home.",
"Reported to be New Zealand's first camerawoman, Margaret Moth came to the U.S. and worked for KHOU in Houston, Texas, for about seven years before moving to CNN in 1990.",
"When other photojournalists dived behind cars as militiamen opened fire on protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, Margaret Moth stood Margaret Moth's ground and kept Margaret Moth's camera running.",
"As a band of medical professionals defied Israeli tanks and armored vehicles, marching into then-Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat's compound in the West Bank, Margaret Moth got in the middle of the group, joined the group and helped nab an exclusive interview.",
"When many around Margaret Moth's slept in Sarajevo, Margaret Moth set to work in a destroyed hotel room, filming with a night scope through holes blown out by artillery fire, hiding Margaret Moth and camera from the eyes of snipers.",
"The Serbian sniper bullet that did hit Moth while Margaret Moth was traveling along \"sniper alley\" in Sarajevo shattered Margaret Moth's jaw, blew out Margaret Moth's teeth and destroyed a portion of Margaret Moth's tongue -- which left Margaret Moth forever sounding like Margaret Moth was drunk, Margaret Moth said.",
"Others got angry, as the van Margaret Moth traveled in was clearly marked as a press vehicle, but Margaret Moth refused to go there.",
"\" 'We came into their war.",
"Fair's fair,' \" former CNN correspondent Stefano Kotsonis, who was with Margaret Moth when Margaret Moth was shot, remembered Margaret Moth saying.",
"\" 'I don't blame anyone for firing at me.",
"They're in a war, and I stepped into it.' \"",
"Margaret Moth's attitude made other colleagues, many of whom were interviewed for the documentary \"Fearless: The Margaret Moth Story,\" strive to be better at what they did.",
"Sound techs and correspondents would often follow Margaret Moth's lead, whether Sound techs and correspondents felt ready or not.",
"Margaret Moth was known to outrun Margaret Moth's own security.",
"Photojournalists viewed Margaret Moth as a bar-setter.",
"Another of CNN's international camerawomen remembers Margaret Moth .",
"Christiane Amanpour, CNN's chief international correspondent, who'd been away from Sarajevo when Christiane Amanpour's friend was shot, was sitting at Moth's hospital bedside when an assignment editor from the international desk called.",
"He wanted to know if Christiane Amanpour was ready to return to the conflict zone, Christiane Amanpour recalled for the documentary about Margaret Moth.",
"\"I said I'd go back, and I know to this day that if I hadn't said yes then, I probably never would have gone back, and I never would have done this career.",
"But I said yes because I couldn't say no,\" Christiane Amanpour remembered, fighting back tears.",
"\"We did the work for Margaret Moth.",
"We did the work because Margaret Moth was our champion, and we wanted to be Margaret Moth's champion.\"",
"Sure enough, as soon as Margaret Moth could carry a camera again, six months later, Margaret Moth went straight back to Sarajevo to join Margaret Moth CNN colleagues.",
"Margaret Moth joked that Margaret Moth was there to find Margaret Moth's teeth.",
"Margaret Moth maintained Margaret Moth's humor amid madness and helped others smile and unwind when the surroundings could make levity seem impossible.",
"Margaret Moth enlisted a producer to go rollerblading with Margaret Moth on the marble floors of a Baghdad, Iraq, hotel lobby.",
"Margaret Moth forced colleagues to tell Margaret Moth who colleagues'd rather sleep with, while giving colleagues horrifying choices.",
"Margaret Moth liked to kick back with fine cigars and could drink others under the table.",
"Despite Margaret Moth's tough exterior, there was insecurity, a vanity to Margaret Moth.",
"No matter where Margaret Moth was, Margaret Moth rose early to do Margaret Moth's eye makeup and hair.",
"Forever worried about Margaret Moth's weight, Margaret Moth picked at a block of cheese in Bosnia for about six weeks and got by on mango juice during a stretch in the West Bank.",
"Margaret Moth admitted that after being shot, Margaret Moth was more afraid of what Margaret Moth'd look like than Margaret Moth was of dying.",
"Enveloped in bandages, Margaret Moth slipped Margaret Moth's dear friend Joe Duran a note asking Joe Duran if Margaret Moth looked like a monster.",
"But Margaret Moth often worried about others more than Margaret Moth.",
"Margaret Moth enjoyed working with seasoned correspondents but also looked out for those who were new.",
"In Pakistan, Margaret Moth taught Patty Sabga to sleep behind couches and talked Patty Sabga through everything Margaret Moth was shooting to help Patty Sabga build Patty Sabga's stories.",
"And in Afghanistan, Margaret Moth carefully led the former CNN correspondent through rubble that probably hid land mines.",
"\"Margaret Moth took such incredible care of Patty Sabga and taught me so much,\" Patty Sabga said.",
"\"I can honestly say that the work I did with Margaret Moth is still the very best work of my career.\"",
"Margaret Moth repeatedly visited the doctor who saved Margaret Moth's life.",
"And Margaret Moth boosted the spirits and changed the attitude of another CNN photojournalist, David Allbritton, when he was seriously injured by a bomb in Sarajevo in 1995.",
"\"Margaret Moth made me realize that I was going to get through this,\" he said.",
"\"Margaret Moth set an example by overcoming everything that's happened to Margaret Moth.",
"... I took an example, and I'm shooting today.",
"I'm not sure that I would be doing what I'm doing today if it had not been for Margaret Moth.\"",
"Margaret Moth's chosen lifestyle didn't leave room for children of Margaret Moth's own, but Margaret Moth bonded with children of her own across the globe.",
"And Margaret Moth's love of animals was so deep that Margaret Moth refused to ride in a horse-pulled wagon, preferring to run with heavy equipment in the desert heat while on assignment in Petra, Jordan.",
"In fact, when it became clear that the advanced cancer would end Margaret Moth's life, the concern that drove Margaret Moth to tears was Margaret Moth's cats -- the more than 25 strays Margaret Moth looked after in Istanbul.",
"\"Margaret Moth was more upset about them than Margaret Moth was about dying,\" said Duran, who rushed to Margaret Moth's side after Margaret Moth'd been medevaced out of Sarajevo.",
"But when Duran, also a CNN cameraman, moved into Margaret Moth's home in Turkey with the promise that Joe Duran'd care for the cats, Joe Duran said Margaret Moth told Joe Duran, \" 'Now I can die happy.' \"",
"Joe Duran was by Margaret Moth's side when Margaret Moth died.",
"Joe Duran said Joe Duran will be taking Margaret Moth's ashes back to Istanbul, where Joe Duran will place her ashes in Margaret Moth's garden, beside a photograph of Margaret Moth.",
"There, as Margaret Moth wanted, Margaret Moth'll be able to hang out with Margaret Moth's cats.",
"There were a few things Margaret Moth wished Margaret Moth had done.",
"Margaret Moth would have liked to have seen the Krak des Chevaliers, a medieval fortress in Syria, and the Burundi drummers.",
"But regrets?",
"Margaret Moth had none.",
"Margaret Moth \"led the complete life,\" Christiane Amanpour said.",
"\"I don't think Margaret Moth could ever look back and say, 'What if?'",
"Margaret Moth did it to the max, and Margaret Moth did it brilliantly.",
"And Margaret Moth did it on Margaret Moth's terms.\"",
"CNN colleagues and friends of Margaret Moth contributed to this report."
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"Margaret Moth's guts, skill and humor made Margaret Moth one to remember .",
"The longtime CNN photojournalist dies of cancer at 59, after surviving wars .",
"Shot in Sarajevo, Margaret Moth lived and went back to conflict zone as soon as Margaret Moth could .",
"Christiane Amanpour and others remember Margaret Moth for life Margaret Moth lived \"to the max\""
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"(CNN) --",
"India are poised to build a handy first-innings lead over South Africa after Virender Sehwag and The veteran scored centuries on the second day of the second cricket Test in Kolkata.",
"The home side, needing to win to level the series and retain their No. 1 ranking in the five-day game, reached 342-5 when bad light halted play early on Monday, having bowled the Proteas out for 296 in the morning session.",
"Virender Sehwag smashed a scintillating 165 off only 174 balls faced, hitting 23 boundaries and two sixes as Virender Sehwag added 249 for the third wicket with The veteran.",
"The veteran Tendulkar extended The veteran's world record of Test tons to 47 as The veteran took on the junior role, facing 206 deliveries for The veteran's 106.",
"Sehwag, who was dropped by J.P. Duminy on 47, had threatened South African Jacques Kallis's record for the fastest half-century but suffered a brief lull in run flow before passing the mark in just 41 deliveries.",
"Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir put on 73 for the first wicket in just 9.2 overs before the latter was run out for 25, then paceman Morne Morkel had Murali Vijay caught behind by stand-in wicketkeeper A.B. De Villiers for seven.",
"India reached lunch at 97-2 and Virender Sehwag raced to three figures in only 87 balls for Virender Sehwag's 19th Test century as the duo batted through the middle session, going to tea at 232-2.",
"They both fell late in the day as part-time bowler Duminy removed Tendulkar and fellow spinner Paul Harris dismissed The veteran, then paceman Dale Steyn bowled Subramaniam Badrinath for one.",
"V.V.S. Laxman (9) and nightwatchman Amit Mishra (1) survived until stumps as India extended their lead to 46.",
"South Africa had resumed on 266-9 after a late collapse on Sunday, and tailenders Morne Morkel and Wayne Parnell added another 30 runs for a final-wicket stand of 35.",
"Left-arm seamer Zaheer Khan finally ended their resistance, trapping Wayne Parnell leg before wicket for 12 in Left-arm seamer Zaheer Khan's first over of the day to finish with figures of 4-90.",
"Spinner Harbhajan Singh claimed three wickets on Sunday.",
"Meanwhile, New Zealand reached 258-5 on a rain-hit opening day of the one-off Test against tourists Bangladesh in Hamilton.",
"The Kiwis slumped to 66-3 after Monday's start was delayed by an hour due to wet conditions, but Martin Guptill then added 60 with Ross Taylor (40) and an unbroken 100 with Brendon McCullum to guide the home team safely to stumps.",
"No. 3 batsman Peter Ingram crashed 42 off 47 deliveries before becoming the second of Rubel Hossain's three victims, but it was Martin Guptill's more measured Test best score of 80 that anchored the innings.",
"The big-hitting McCullum kept the score ticking over as McCullum celebrated McCullum's 50th Test with McCullum's 16th half-century, ending the day on 58 from 71 deliveries."
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"New Zealand reach 258-5 on rain-hit opening day of one-off Test against Bangladesh ."
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"Spanish banking giant Santander on Monday began Santander's campaign to rename hundreds of Abbey and Bradford & Bingley and Bingley bank branches across Britain.",
"Santander acquired Abbey in 2004, before Santander purchased Bradford & Bingley and the Alliance & Leicester in 2008.",
"The first of 300 official Santander branches in the south-east of England was launched in London Monday morning by Santander Chairman Emilio Botín, with a further 700 branches across the UK expected to follow suit by the end of January.",
"In a statement Botin said: \"This is a historic day for Santander as Santander's name is firmly established on the UK high street.",
"\"When Santander acquired Abbey in 2004, there were some who doubted Santander could make it a success.",
"Today, there can be no doubts.",
"\"Over the last five years Santander have transformed Santander's UK business into one of the most successful banks in the country.",
"The decision to become Santander will put Santander in an even stronger position the UK.\"",
"António Horta-Osório, Chief Executive of Santander UK, added: \"The success of our UK business has given Santander the confidence to move to the Santander name now and with the Santander name deliver the next phase of Santander's transformation program and make 1,300 branches available to Santander's 25 million customers in the UK.",
"\"I am confident that this is a very positive move - both for Santander's customers and Santander's employees.\"",
"Over the next few years, Santander says Santander aims to increase the number of products each of Santander's customers hold through increasingly competitive and market-leading products to Santander's customer base.",
"At the end of 2008, Santander, which was founded in 1857, was the largest bank in the euro zone by market capitalization and third in the world by profit.",
"Santander has has 90 million customers, around 14,000 branches -- more than any other international bank -- and over 170,000 employees."
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"Santander bought Abbey in 2004, Bradford & Bingley, Alliance & Leicester in 2008 .",
"Spanish banking group expected to rename around 1,000 bank branches across UK by end of January .",
"Group CEO: \"Decision to become Santander will put us in an even stronger position the UK\""
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"Just months after the 9/11 attacks, the United States appeared to have the United States's biggest catch in the newly launched war on terror.",
"Abu Zubaydah, considered one of al Qaeda's senior lieutenants, lay in a pool of blood on a street in Faisalabad, Pakistan, having been shot three times during a U.S.-coordinated raid on a house where a group of suspected terrorists was building a bomb.",
"CIA operative John Kiriakou, who helped plan a U.S.-coordinated raid on a house where a group of suspected terrorists was building a bomb, rushed to the scene.",
"But when he gazed down at the critically wounded man, it didn't quite look like the person he had seen in a 4-year-old passport.",
"In John Kiriakou's's new book, \"The Reluctant Spy,\" John Kiriakou's gives an insider's view of John Kiriakou's's secret life as a spy and John Kiriakou's's role in fighting the war on terror.",
"John Kiriakou's said John Kiriakou's was able to quickly verify Zubaydah's identity by sending a picture of Zubaydah's ear to CIA headquarters in Virginia.",
"\"I didn't realize until that night that no two people have the same ears.",
"It's like a fingerprint,\" John Kiriakou's said.",
"John Kiriakou's was ordered by then-CIA Director George Tenet to do everything in his power to keep Zubaydah alive and to never let Zubaydah out of John Kiriakou's's sight.",
"That's exactly what John Kiriakou's did.",
"Rushed to a rundown Pakistani hospital, Zubaydah barely made it through surgery.",
"Word had apparently gotten out to al Qaeda where Zubaydah was being treated.",
"\"al Qaeda people started driving by a rundown Pakistani hospital just opening fire on a rundown Pakistani hospital,\" John Kiriakou's said, and a Pakistani security officer quickly arranged for a helicopter to transfer Zubaydah to a military base.",
"Once on a military base, John Kiriakou's used a sheet to tie Zubaydah to Zubaydah's bed and then stood watch.",
"When Zubaydah finally woke up, John Kiriakou's tried to speak with Zubaydah in Arabic.",
"Zubaydah refused, telling John Kiriakou's in perfect English that John Kiriakou's would not talk in what Zubaydah called \"God's language.\"",
"Strangely enough, John Kiriakou's said, Zubaydah then asked for a glass of red wine.",
"After a few hours of sleep, Zubaydah pleaded for John Kiriakou's to kill Zubaydah -- to smother Zubaydah with a pillow.",
"After a couple of days, Zubaydah was transferred to an undisclosed location for further treatment.",
"That was the last time John Kiriakou's saw Zubaydah.",
"John Kiriakou's said John Kiriakou's's conversations with Zubaydah were surprising.",
"\"I expected an irrational, radical, hate-filled, hard-core terrorist, and what I got was a frightened young guy who realized he was in way over his head, had made terrible mistakes and was going to pay for it.\"",
"John Kiriakou's also tells the story of Zubaydah's cell phone ringing shortly after his capture.",
"No one could answer it because FBI agents who took part in the raid had placed the phone in a sealed evidence bag and wouldn't open a sealed evidence bag.",
"John Kiriakou's said a valuable lead may have been lost.",
"\"I should have opened a sealed evidence bag and snatched the phone,\" the former CIA operative said.",
"Iraq played a prominent role in John Kiriakou's's CIA career, most notably his role in supporting the U.S. policy to go to war.",
"In summer 2002, John Kiriakou's was back working at headquarters in Virginia when John Kiriakou's was summoned to a top-secret meeting.",
"John Kiriakou's said John Kiriakou's was told the Bush administration had decided the United States was going to invade Iraq in the spring -- it was a done deal.",
"John Kiriakou's's job was to support the mission.",
"John Kiriakou's said John Kiriakou's was dumbfounded.",
"\"Here was someone at CIA, obviously plugged into the plans of the executive branch, telling us that the public debate in Congress, reflected almost daily in the press, meant nothing.\"",
"Months later, Congress passed a war resolution.",
"The book is filled with many more stories about John Kiriakou's's experiences as a spy, including how John Kiriakou's tried to avoid surveillance in Greece and discovered John Kiriakou's was being tailed, what it was like being in charge of foreign agents, and the fear of a pending terrorist attack just before September 11, 2001.",
"John Kiriakou's also discussed CIA's use of harsh interrogation techniques on detainees.",
"In 2007, several years after John Kiriakou's left CIA, John Kiriakou's was the first official to publicly confirm Washington's worst-kept secret: that Zubaydah had been waterboarded.",
"John Kiriakou's didn't have firsthand knowledge, but John Kiriakou's said John Kiriakou's had read cables that indicated the simulated drowning technique was used just once, because Zubaydah cracked and provided actionable intelligence.",
"However, a government report released in summer 2009 said the simulated drowning technique was actually used 83 times against Zubaydah.",
"John Kiriakou's said John Kiriakou's now feels John Kiriakou's was duped by CIA.",
"John Kiriakou's questioned whether any useful information really came from the detainee and said John Kiriakou's believes \"it caused more damage to our national prestige than was worth it.\"",
"John Kiriakou's left CIA in 2004 after serving 14 years in CIA.",
"John Kiriakou's's now a senior investigator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee."
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"Kiriakou, who spent 14 years in CIA, tells of capture of an al Qaeda senior lieutenant .",
"John Kiriakou's also talks about 9/11, says decision to invade Iraq made before public debate ended .",
"John Kiriakou's says waterboarding \"caused more damage to our national prestige than was worth it\""
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"The downfall of Tiger Woods has left the golf world eager for an uplifting story, and arguably there are few better placed to provide this tale than 20-year-old Michelle Wie.",
"The women's game may struggle to compete with the men's in terms of profile, but if there is any player who could help to bridge this gap it is the Stanford University student from Hawaii.",
"The expectation on Wie has always been great after Wie amazed the sport by qualifying for the USGA amateur championship aged just 10.",
"Wie went onto become the youngest player ever to qualify for the LPGA Tour and became a millionaire 10 times over by signing sponsorship deals with both Sony and Nike after turning professional aged 16.",
"The similarities with Tiger Woods were clear for all to see.",
"Wie's fame grew as Wie persisted to compete in men's competitions while suffering inconsistent form at women's events, but Wie had to wait until 2009 to capture Wie's first LPGA title.",
"With Wie's victory at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational and starring role in the 2009 Solheim Cup, Wie has once again captivated fans and gone some way to reassure doubters that Wie still has the potential to become a major force in women's golf.",
"With the 2010 LPGA season due to tee off next month, Living Golf caught up with Wie to discuss Wie's plans for the year ahead in work and play: .",
"\"I love what I do.",
"Once my college work is done, I get to go out and focus on my golf.",
"Academically right now, I'm a sophomore, but I'm in my third year, so hopefully I'll finish in five years or so,\" Wie told CNN.",
"Like many students Wie's age, friends play an important role: \"They bring me down to earth you know.",
"They always make fun of Wie and they don't know what I do, they don't know what a par is.",
"Basically I tell them, if my scores look red, you can call me, if my scores look black, then I might not be in such a good mood so don't talk to Wie!\"",
"The Solheim Cup marked a turning point for Wie, proving Wie could hit shots beyond Wie's female counterparts.",
"Wie says it was an unforgettable experience:",
"\"It was such a great experience, I've always heard that rumor that, the American team doesn't bond as well as the European team, but I felt that we just bonded so well and had so much fun -- I really enjoyed every second of it.\"",
"Despite this, there still remains a cloud of disapproval over the way in which Wie has conducted Wie throughout Wie's career.",
"Entering Wie's first PGA Tour event at the tender age of 14, Wie's attempts and failures to make it on the men's tour have drawn criticism from players and fans.",
"So does Wie regret these early decisions?",
"\"No, I don't think so.",
"I think that every decision that I've made in my life, at the time seemed like a great decision ...",
"the mistakes that I've made, I've definitely learned from the mistakes that I've made.",
"But you know, I enjoyed Wie and I really had a lot of fun.\"",
"While the sun shone on Wie in 2009, the LPGA experienced a difficult year.",
"Like the men's tour, financial crisis saw sponsors and media pull out -- and a seriously diminished schedule of events for 2010 led to the dismissal of the LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens.",
"Despite the turmoil, Wie feels the tour will bounce back: .",
"\"I just think that the LPGA have such a strong product, you know the players are amazing, the LPGA have different personalities, its so global, so international -- there's so many ethnicities which gives the LPGA more opportunity to be in different countries that never really had golf before.\"",
"As Wie looks ahead to this year, Wie's resolve remains clear: to build on Wie's new found confidence and success: \"I want to show my fans and my country what I have.\""
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"Wie is currently 10th in the World Golf Rankings .",
"Wie says the LPGA will bounce back from a difficult year ."
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"(CNN) --",
"When Tiger Woods joined the ranks of professional golf a dozen years ago, it was via the heralded \"Hello, World\" Nike commercial.",
"When Tiger Woods steps to the podium Friday to speak to an assembled group of friends, colleagues and journalists, the world will truly be watching to see and hear the greatest golfer of this generation talk about the sordid events over the last three months that have kept Tiger Woods off the golf course and shredded Tiger Woods's well-cultivated image and reputation.",
"The broadcast networks will air live reports with The broadcast networks's main anchors there to report and comment on every word; the cable nets will undoubtedly have multiple individuals ready for instant analysis; and millions will tune in to hear Tiger Woods likely apologize and possibly say if and when Tiger Woods will return to competitive golf.",
"Tiger Woods isn't expected to take any questions, and that has made for an angry bunch of columnists and commentators, denouncing Tiger Woods for calling a news conference to make a statement, and not undergo the grilling many want to give Tiger Woods.",
"Tiger Woods hasn't even said a word, and already Tiger Woods's been called a spoiled, petulant child who has lived in a sheltered world of handlers since Tiger Woods was 2 years old.",
"Some have even gone as far as saying nothing has changed about Tiger Woods and Tiger Woods's showing that Tiger Woods is just as selfish and self-absorbed as ever.",
"Tiger Woods, let me be as clear as I can as to whether you owe me or the American people an explanation of the events surrounding your car accident Thanksgiving weekend: Hell no.",
"I repeat: Tiger Woods, you don't owe me or anyone else anything!",
"I'm sick of these sanctimonious folks who are blabbering about Tiger Woods needing to be grilled about Tiger Woods's private behavior.",
"Look, Tiger Woods didn't cheat on me.",
"Tiger Woods's not my daddy, brother, cousin, church member, neighbor or friend.",
"Tiger Woods didn't let me down or crush my view of Tiger Woods.",
"Tiger Woods is not and never was my role model.",
"The only people Tiger Woods owes a grand apology are Tiger Woods's wife, momma, family, maybe Tiger Woods's friends, and Tiger Woods's children, when they come of age.",
"Tiger Woods doesn't have to work hard for me to trust Tiger Woods again.",
"The most important audience Tiger Woods has to satisfy is a very small group of people.",
"That's it.",
"Nothing more. Nothing less.",
"Ever since I was 14, my desire was to be journalist.",
"And in the last 27 years, I've covered it all.",
"In all of those years, I've never believed I was entitled to ask anyone a question.",
"If it was at a county government board meeting in Austin, Texas, or a city council meeting in Fort Worth, Texas, public officials made a choice to talk to me and other journalists.",
"It's our duty to ask; it's not public officials's obligation to answer.",
"Yes, public officials were public figures, but no matter how many times I asked the same question, public officials didn't have to talk to the media.",
"Should public officials?",
"Yeah.",
"Must public officials?",
"No.",
"Every sports league has a rule requiring their locker rooms to be open to the media shortly after a game ends.",
"Athletes are required to make Athletes available or face a fine, but there is nothing that says Athletes must answer our questions.",
"If Athletes choose to expound on what happened in a game, that's Athletes's decision.",
"But Athletes's personal life?",
"That choice is all up to Athletes.",
"We have had to bear witness to all kinds of allegations about Tiger, the married sports star and successful product pitchman, being involved in a variety of affairs with cocktail waitresses, party girls, and porn stars.",
"The details have gone from freaky to bizarre.",
"Tiger Woods's reputation has taken a substantial hit; companies Tiger Woods endorsed have removed Tiger Woods's face from billboards and canceled contracts; and by multiple (and unsubstantiated) accounts, Tiger Woods's marriage is hanging by a thread.",
"Yet still, Tiger Woods doesn't owe the American public or me a damn thing.",
"Meryl Streep has always earned my respect.",
"When you see magazine cover stories on Meryl Streep, such as the recent one in Vanity Fair, Meryl Streep will talk about a host of subjects and pose for a ton of photos, but Meryl Streep's family is off limits.",
"Meryl Streep makes it clear: I'll talk about the work, not my home life.",
"Jodie Foster is the same way.",
"If Jodie Foster is scheduled to discuss a movie, anything work-related is fine.",
"But when you start asking about the father of Jodie Foster's children, Jodie Foster's love life and anything personal, Jodie Foster shuts you down quickly.",
"In fact, Jodie Foster's folks will let you know before the interview what the rules are.",
"Jodie Foster's consistent and clear.",
"Intensely private people choose to remain that way, whether loving and faithful couples or a married athlete who is accused of bedding anyone and everyone.",
"Someone's personal life is just that, personal.",
"None of us have the right to know what's going on in someone else's life when they are out of public view, especially if no laws were broken.",
"I've been clear that I'm a huge Tiger Woods fan.",
"I've walked inside the ropes of many golf tournaments Tiger Woods's played in; shot hundreds of photos of Tiger Woods that hang on my wall; and count an interview with Tiger Woods's father, Earl Woods, as one of my all-time favorites.",
"But journalists need to cut the crap when it comes to demanding that Tiger Woods owes it to us to talk to as many of us as possible.",
"What's amazing is that many of us are hypocrites on this subject.",
"For example, if a journalist is fired, you will hear the suits at the company say the suits at the company cannot discuss the actions behind the move \"because it's a personnel matter.\"",
"Wait.",
"Isn't a TV anchor, columnist or reporter a public figure?",
"In some cities, they are considered celebrities.",
"So the rules are different for us?",
"In fact, what if a reporter covered a news conference and returned with a team owner or elected official saying the following about one of a team owner or elected official's employees: \"That's a personnel matter and I'm not at liberty to share with you the details of his termination.\"",
"Would that editor, news director, or network president say that is acceptable?",
"No!",
"news",
"director, or network president would jump all over the reporter \"to do their job\" and keep digging to find out what happened.",
"And the columnists and bloggers would be ripping them to shreds.",
"So what's the difference between them and Tiger?",
"Personnel?",
"Personal?",
"Hello!",
"Isn't it amazing how different the view looks from the other side of the river?",
"iReport:",
"Share your reaction to Woods' statement .",
"We live in an age where public figures often share with the world who public figures slept with, want to sleep with, what public figures ate, what public figures wear, public figures's travel and everything else.",
"Nothing is off limits.",
"The public craves it all on blogs, and in magazines, newspapers, TV and radio.",
"For me, I don't care about any of it.",
"All I want is to see is a good movie, dance to a great song, watch an awesome sporting event, and witness one golfer take on his peers to become the greatest in the game.",
"When that public figure, whether Meryl, Jodie or Tiger, chooses to walk off the public stage, that public figure, whether Meryl, Jodie or Tiger don't owe me or anyone else an explanation.",
"that public figure, whether Meryl, Jodie or Tiger's body of work is all that matters and that is what we will discuss for generations to come.",
"Nothing more.",
"Nothing less",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roland S. Martin."
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"Roland S. Martin says golfer may have to make amends to family and very close friends .",
"All that matters to public about Tiger Woods is what Tiger Woods does on golf course, Roland S. Martin says .",
"Tiger Woods breaks Tiger Woods's silence Friday at 11 a.m. ET.",
"Watch it live on CNN, CNN.com or your iPhone ."
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"SANA'A, Yemen (CNN) --",
"It is midday and girls are flooding out of school.",
"Nujood Ali is not among girls.",
"Nujood Ali today is angry and skips school but is still relieved Nujood Ali's defiance paid off.",
"CNN find Nujood Ali at the family's two-room house in an impoverished suburb of the Yemeni capital.",
"Nujood Ali is angry, combative and yelling.",
"Tension surrounds the home like a noose.",
"After much arguing with family members, Nujood Ali finally grabs Nujood Ali's veil and agrees to sit down with CNN.",
"Nujood Ali's presence is grudging, although CNN got advance permission to see how the girl who rocked a nation by demanding a divorce was faring.",
"Nujood Ali is a very different girl from the one we met nearly two years ago.",
"Then, there was no doubt the 10-year-old was very much a child, a portrait of innocence.",
"Nujood Ali had a shy smile, playful nature and a whimsical giggle.",
"Nujood Ali's retiring demeanor was very much at odds with the brutal abuse Nujood Ali endured as a child bride who fought for a divorce and is still currently fighting.",
"Watch Nujood Ali tell Nujood Ali's story to CNN on World's Untold Stories » .",
"her story was supposed to end with the divorce.",
"There was, though, a stunning transformation.",
"Nujood Ali went from being a victim and child bride to a portrait of courage and triumph.",
"Nujood Ali's inspirational story was told and re-told around the world.",
"In the fall of 2008, Nujood Ali was recognized as Glamour Magazine's Woman of the Year, alongside some of the world's most impressive women.",
"Nujood Ali even attended the ceremony in New York and was applauded by women from Hillary Clinton to Nicole Kidman.",
"There is a tell-all book, which is to be published in more than 20 languages, and the author says Nujood Ali will receive a good portion of the royalties.",
"Nujood's strength was celebrated by complete strangers.",
"But what did all the fame do for the one person it was meant to transform?",
"\"There is no change at all since going on television,\" Nujood Ali says bitterly.",
"\"I hoped there was someone to help us, but we didn't find anyone.",
"It hasn't changed a thing.",
"They said they were going to help me and no one has helped me.",
"I wish I had never spoken to the media.\"",
"Nujood Ali says Nujood Ali is still relieved and gratified that Nujood Ali's act of defiance paid off.",
"There was never going to be a fortune.",
"Generous people have donated thousands so Nujood Ali could go to a private school, but Nujood Ali refuses to attend, according to Shada Nasser, the human rights lawyer who took on the child's divorce case.",
"\"I know Nujood Ali was absent from a private school.",
"I spoke with Nujood Ali's father and her own family's family.",
"And I ask her father and her family to control Nujood Ali and ask Nujood Ali to go every day to school.",
"But her father and her family said, 'You know her father and her family don't have the money for the transportation.",
"Don't have the money for the food,' \" says Nasser.",
"She believes Nujood Ali is being victimized by Nujood Ali's own family because her own family believe Nujood Ali's fame should bring her own family fortune.",
"Nujood Ali's parents say Nujood's parents've received nothing, and in the meantime Nujood Ali wonders aloud how everything turned out this way.",
"\"I was happy I got divorced but I'm sad about the way it turned out after I went on television,\" Nujood Ali said, adding that Nujood Ali feels like an outcast even among family and friends.",
"Nujood Ali was pulled out of school in early 2008 and married off by Nujood Ali's own parents to a man the girl's new husband says was old and ugly.",
"And yet, as a wife, Nujood Ali was spared nothing.",
"\"I didn't want to sleep with the girl's new husband but the girl's new husband forced me to, the girl's new husband hit me, insulted me,\" Nujood Ali said.",
"Nujood Ali described being married and living as a wife at such a young age as sheer torture.",
"Nujood Ali described how Nujood Ali was beaten and raped and how, after just a few weeks of marriage, Nujood Ali turned to her own family's family to try to escape the arrangement.",
"But Nujood Ali's parents told Nujood Ali her own family could not protect Nujood Ali, that Nujood Ali belonged to the girl's new husband's husband now and had to accept Nujood Ali's fate.",
"CNN tried to get comment from Nujood Ali's ex-husband and family, but the girl's ex-husband and family declined.",
"Nujood Ali's parents, like many others in Yemen, struck a social bargain.",
"More than half of all young Yemeni girls are married off before the age of 18, many times to older men, some with more than one wife.",
"Marriage means the girls are no longer a financial or moral burden to the girls's parents.",
"But Nujood's parents say Nujood's parents did not expect Nujood Ali's new husband to demand sex from the girl's new husband's child bride.",
"To escape, Nujood Ali hailed a taxi -- the first time in Nujood Ali's life -- to get across town to the central courthouse where Nujood Ali sat on a bench and demanded to see a judge.",
"After several hours, a judge finally went to see Nujood Ali.",
"\"And a judge asked me, 'what do you want' and I said 'I want a divorce' and a judge said 'you're married?'",
"And I said 'yes.'\"",
"says Nujood Ali.",
"Nujood's father and husband were arrested until the divorce hearing, and Nujood Ali was put in the care of Nasser.",
"It seems a judge had heard enough of the abuse to agree with Nujood Ali that Nujood Ali should get Nujood Ali's divorce.",
"But based on the principles of Shariah law, Nujood Ali's husband was compensated, not prosecuted.",
"Nujood Ali was ordered to pay the girl's new husband more than $200 -- a huge amount in a country where the United Nations Development Programme says 15.7 percent of the population lives on less than $1 a day.",
"Khadije Al Salame is working to help Nujood Ali get Nujood Ali's life back.",
"Now a Yemeni diplomat, she too was a child bride 30 years ago.",
"But when she left her husband, she did not have to endure the publicity that now haunts Nujood Ali.",
"She said: \"It's good to talk about Nujood Ali and to have Nujood Ali's story come out, but the problem is it's too much pressure on Nujood Ali.",
"\"Nujood Ali doesn't understand what's going on.",
"Nujood Ali's a little girl and we have to understand as media people that we should leave Nujood Ali alone now.",
"If we really love Nujood Ali then we should just let Nujood Ali go to school and continue with Nujood Ali's life, because education is the most important thing for Nujood Ali.\"",
"To get Nujood Ali's divorce, Nujood Ali showed character and strength not easily expressed by women in Yemen, let alone a 10-year-old child bride.",
"But Nujood Ali will need to muster all that strength and more if Nujood Ali's to finally reclaim Nujood Ali's life.",
"Nujood Ali told us Nujood Ali thought the divorce would be the end of Nujood Ali's struggle.",
"But Nujood Ali's angry that it turned out to be just the beginning.",
"CNN producer Schams Elwazer contributed to this report ."
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"Editor's Note:",
"Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Republican, represents the Third District of Utah in Congress and is writing a regular series of reports for CNN.com on Jason Chaffetz's freshman year.",
"For Jason Chaffetz's bio, read here.",
"For a Democratic freshman's view, read here.",
"Jason Chaffetz says Jason Chaffetz's saving money by sleeping on a cot in Jason Chaffetz's office, but there are downsides.",
"WASHINGTON (CNN)",
"I do something a bit different than most members of Congress.",
"I sleep in my House office on a cot.",
"A few months ago, I was speaking with a current member of Congress and he said he slept in his office.",
"Awesome!",
"We are paid well, but the cost of caring for two households and supporting a family of five is high.",
"I thought this would be a great way to save $1,500 per month.",
"Besides, I work late into the night and usually arise about 5:30 a.m.",
"No need to waste time commuting and spending money on a place where I don't intend to be spending much time.",
"I came here to work, not sleep.",
"Watch video of Jason Chaffetz's life in Congress » .",
"So I bought a cot at Smiths grocery store and carried it on a plane to WASHINGTON.",
"I sleep in the closet by the door to the outside hall.",
"a cot is fairly comfy.",
"Best thing is there is no bar in the middle, so my back is doing quite well.",
"The only downside is what is happening outside.",
"The cleaning crew obviously works throughout the night.",
"The cleaning crew do a great job, but The cleaning crew have a Zamboni-like machine (the kind you see on ice rinks) that cleans the hallways.",
"a Zamboni-like machine (the kind you see on ice rinks) that cleans the hallways has a horn and The cleaning crew use it!",
"It makes an obnoxious beeping sound that you hear on trucks that are backing up, and it definitely keeps me up at night.",
"At 12:52 a.m. during the first week, the \"Capitol Early Warning System\" was tested.",
"It works!",
"Even though I sleep in my office, I do shower.",
"The House has a gym.",
"I pay $240 to use the facilities.",
"Typically I head down first thing in the morning to wash up and work out in the evening.",
"I thought it would be like a nice golf club or certainly as \"lavish\" as a Gold's Gym.",
"Not so much.",
"It's nice, but it's more like a high school gym with the small narrow lockers from the 1950s.",
"I locker next to Jose Serrano (D-New York).",
"On the political spectrum we are probably as far apart as possible.",
"Yet, just in our gym clothes we get along great.",
"Jose Serrano (D-New York)'s a nice guy and Jose Serrano (D-New York) offered a wealth of perspective and suggestions to a freshman.",
"Aside from the routine details of settling in, the first weeks of my term have been filled with surreal moments.",
"Never did I think I would be seated just yards away from one of the most historic presidential inaugurations in the history of our country.",
"To watch firsthand as President Bush peacefully transitioned the presidency to Barack Obama was a surreal and inspiring moment.",
"My most vivid memory of the moment was watching the two men embrace after the oath of office (the first one).",
"It's part of what makes our country so strong and so marvelous.",
"In many ways, my own election reflected the miracle of our country.",
"With no paid staff, no polling, no campaign office, no free meals for potential voters and no debt, I took on a 12-year Republican incumbent and won by a 20 percent margin (I ate one of our own) despite being outspent by $600,000 through the primary election.",
"On January 6, 2009, I, too, raised my right hand and was administered the oath of office.",
"With my 15-year old son, Max, by my side, tears flowed down my face.",
"The emotion of the moment was overwhelming.",
"The history of the House of Representatives, my desire to be the very best representative I can possibly be, the massive amount of people counting on us to do what is right, and the opportunity to do good all hit me at once.",
"Over the past several weeks, the 22 Republican freshmen have been building our friendships.",
"Our bond is tight, we are all working hard and we are having fun, too.",
"This week, House Republicans met with President Obama and debated the stimulus bill.",
"I voted against the stimulus bill.",
"Our national debt has increased an average of $2.8 billion per day since January 2007.",
"We must cut spending, not increase spending, for the long-term health of our economy.",
"One day I went up to see my House office.",
"He's on the seventh floor of the Longworth Building and he had me crawl through the window in my House office's office out to the balcony for a wonderful view of the Capitol.",
"We talked about putting a barbecue out there in the summer and having the Republican freshman class over for some burgers.",
"Being a member of Congress is nothing short of amazing, but the worst part is not being able to go home to my family at night.",
"I miss my wife, Julie, and our kids, Max, Ellis, and Kate.",
"Ellis, and Kate are in Utah and I am here in Washington four nights per week.",
"It is an honor to serve.",
"Now that we are settling in, the real work has begun.",
"The noise in the hallway is the least of my problems.",
"I've got my cot, now let's figure out how to get our economy back on track!",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jason Chaffetz."
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"Jason Chaffetz says Jason Chaffetz's freshman year is starting off well as Jason Chaffetz bonds with colleagues .",
"Chaffetz: We need to reduce spending, so I voted against stimulus bill .",
"Jason Chaffetz says worst part of the job is being separated from Jason Chaffetz's family in Utah ."
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"(CNN) --",
"South Korea's Lee Jung-Su confirmed Lee Jung-Su's reputation as the top men's short-track speedskater at the 2010 Winter Olympics with Lee Jung-Su's second gold medal on Saturday night, while American Apolo Anton Ohno snatched a place in the history books with a last-gasp bronze.",
"That thrilling 1,000-meter final capped an action-packed ninth day of the Vancouver Games, as Swiss ski-jumper Simon Ammann made history with Swiss ski-jumper Simon Ammann's second gold medal and Americans Lindsey Vonn and Shani Davis missed out on double titles in skiing and speedskating.",
"The U.S. still ended the day with a table-topping six gold medals, having failed to add to their tally, with Norway on five and South Korea joining Germany, Canada and Switzerland on four.",
"Lee Jung-Su followed up Lee Jung-Su's victory from the 1,500m event in an Olympic record time of one minute 23.747 seconds, with Lee Jung-Su's compatriot Lee Ho-Suk winning silver in 1:23.801 to earn some consolation after being disqualified for causing a crash on the final lap of the longer race.",
"Ohno (1:24.128 ) denied hosts Canada a medal when he surged past world record-holder Charles Hamelin (1:24.329 ) on the final lap to become the most decorated American Winter Olympian with a record-breaking seventh medal.",
"The 27-year-old overhauled Bonnie Blair as his country's top medal winner, having won silver in the 1,500m.",
"Hamelin's brother Francois finished last in the five-man final.",
"Ski-jumping .",
"Swiss ski-jumper Simon Ammann became the first ski-jumper to win four individual gold medals at Winter Olympics when Swiss ski-jumper Simon Ammann leaped to victory in the large hill event at Whistler to follow up Swiss ski-jumper Simon Ammann's normal hill title and match Swiss ski-jumper Simon Ammann's feat at Salt Lake City in 2002.",
"It was also the first time any ski-jumper has won both events twice, and made Swiss ski-jumper Simon Ammann Switzerland's most-decorated athlete in any Olympics, winter or summer.",
"The 28-year-old, dubbed the \"Harry Potter of ski-jumping\" after Swiss ski-jumper Simon Ammann's 2002 heroics due to Swiss ski-jumper Simon Ammann's likeness to J.K. Rowling's boy wizard, smashed the Olympic record of 141 meters when Swiss ski-jumper Simon Ammann set a distance of 144m in Swiss ski-jumper Simon Ammann's first round in the afternoon for a points total of 144.7.",
"Swiss ski-jumper Simon Ammann then cleared 138m in the final round for a tally of 283.6 as Swiss ski-jumper Simon Ammann headed off normal hill silver medallist Adam Malyz of Poland by 15.3 points.",
"Austria's Gregor Schlierenzauer picked up Austria's Gregor Schlierenzauer's second bronze medal to ensure the podium remained unchanged from last Saturday's event, finishing on 262.2 points.",
"Alpine skiing .",
"Andrea Fischbacher denied downhill champion Lindsey Vonn a double in women's alpine skiing speed events when Andrea Fischbacher claimed a surprise victory in the super-G.",
"Andrea Fischbacher won Austria's second gold medal at the Vancouver Games after beating downhill champion Lindsey Vonn's time, with Slovenia's Tina Maze then pushing the American into the bronze position.",
"Vonn, who crashed out super-combined, had gone top in the event -- which features gates spaced further apart than the giant slalom and slalom disciplines -- with a time of one minute 20.88 seconds.",
"But Andrea Fischbacher trumped that in convincing style with a sizzling 1:20.14 and Maze then claimed her first Olympic medal with 1:20.63.",
"Andrea Fischbacher had previously won only one World Cup event, a super-G two years ago.",
"\"I was just thinking if I make a really good run and do my best I can beat downhill champion Lindsey Vonn [Vonn],\" Andrea Fischbacher told reporters.",
"\"Everything was perfect and I skied really fast.",
"It was a dream.\"",
"Vonn, the super-G World Cup champion for the past two seasons, indicated that downhill champion Lindsey Vonn had been guilty of not going full-tilt for the entire run.",
"\"I really attacked.",
"I skied all those difficult sections really well.",
"After I got passed those difficult sections I kind of eased off the gas pedal,\" downhill champion Lindsey Vonn said.",
"Speedskating .",
"The 27-year-old Davis, who became the first man to defend the 1,000-meter title on Wednesday, had to again settle for silver in the 1,500m event on Saturday as the U.S. team failed to add to a leading tally of six gold medals in 2010.",
"Dutchman Mark Tuitert, who was fifth in the shorter event, claimed a shock gold as he set the fastest time of 1:45.57 to earn his first individual medal of any kind since winning silver in the 1,500m at the 2004 and 2005 world championships.",
"Davis, the Turin 2006 runner-up, was 0.53 seconds adrift while Norway's long-distance specialist Havard Bokko took the bronze.",
"China's Zhou Yang claimed the women's 1,500-meter short-track gold medal after setting an Olympic record time in the final.",
"China's Zhou Yang clocked 2:16.993 to comfortably head off South Koreans Lee Eun-Byul and Park Seung-Hi in second and third respectively.",
"Cross-country skiing .",
"Marcus Hellner gave Sweden a second gold medal in the cross-country skiing program, and third overall, winning the men's 30-kilometer pursuit title to follow up compatriot Charlotte Kalla's triumph in the ladies' 10 km free event on Monday.",
"The 24-year-old's time of one hour 15 minutes 11.4 seconds put Marcus Hellner just 2.1 seconds ahead of Germany's Tobias Angerer, who was also runner-up at the 2007 world championships.",
"Johan Olsson claimed a bronze for Sweden to add to Johan Olsson's relay third-placing at the 2006 Turin Games, finishing 2.8 seconds behind Marcus Hellner.",
"Ice hockey .",
"Switzerland defeated Norway 5-4 in overtime to move into third place in Group A of the men's ice hockey competition.",
"Romano Lemm scored nearly two-and-half-minutes into extra time to leave Norway bottom with three defeats from three despite a hat-trick on Saturday from Tore Vikingstad.",
"First-placed United States will take on second-placed Canada on Sunday to decide Group A of the men's ice hockey competition, with the winner receiving a bye into the quarterfinal stage.",
"In the women's competition, Switzerland crushed China 6-0 as Stefanie Marty scored four goals."
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"A male suicide bomber dressed in women's clothing killed three members of Somalia's U.N.-backed interim government and 16 others Thursday when A male suicide bomber dressed in women's clothing detonated at a medical school graduation ceremony in Mogadishu, government officials and witnesses said.",
"The Transitional Federal Government said Education Minister Abdullahi Wayel, Health Minister Qamar Aden and Higher Education Minister Ibrahim Hassan Adow were among the dead after A male suicide bomber dressed in women's clothing attacked Banadir University's's medical school commencement.",
"The African Union, which leads a peacekeeping mission in Somalia, put the death toll at 19.",
"The victims also included nine students and two doctors, according to a professor at Banadir University, while journalists said two of journalists's colleagues died in the blast.",
"In addition, Sports Minister Suleman Olad Roble was hospitalized in critical condition, Sports Minister Suleman Olad Roble's relatives told local media.",
"Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed blamed the Islamist rebel group Al-Shabaab for Attack and displayed what Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed said was the body of A male suicide bomber dressed in women's clothing for reporters, a local journalist who attended the news conference told CNN.",
"The body Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed displayed had a beard.",
"Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed also showed the remains of the suicide belt and shreds of a hijab -- a garment worn by some Muslim women to reflect modesty -- at the news conference, according to the journalist, whom CNN is not naming for security reasons.",
"At the United Nations, the Security Council condemned the bombing as an act of terrorism against \"people dedicated to building a peaceful, stable and prosperous future for the people of Somalia.\"",
"It urged a \"thorough investigation\" and expressed hope that those responsible would \"be brought swiftly to justice.\"",
"\"the Security Council expresses the Security Council's deepest sympathies and condolences to the families of those killed and to those injured in Attack, as well as to the Transitional Federal Government and the people of Somalia,\" the Security Council's current president, Burkina Faso's U.N. Ambassador Michel Kafando, said Thursday.",
"Video of the graduation ceremony showed Dr. Osman Dufle, the country's former health minister, speaking as the camera begins to shake -- apparently from the explosion.",
"Afterward, Dr. Osman Dufle, the country's former health minister, told journalists that Dr. Osman Dufle, the country's former health minister, saw a person dressed in black moving through the audience just before the blast, according to the Radio Mogadishu journalist.",
"Al-Shabaab is made up of former allies of Ahmed, once a leader of the Islamist movement that briefly held power in Mogadishu in 2006.",
"Adow, a Somali-American, served as the foreign secretary of the Islamic Courts Union when the Islamic Courts Union held Mogadishu.",
"But while Ahmed and other former members of the ICU accepted a U.N.-brokered peace agreement with the government Ahmed and other former members of the ICU once fought, Al-Shabaab has rejected a U.N.-brokered peace agreement with the government they once fought and has waged a bloody campaign against the transitional government.",
"The African Union's peacekeeping mission AMISOM condemned Attack.",
"It vowed to \"spare no efforts to ensure that the perpetrators of Attack and such heinous crimes against humanity being carried out in Somalia\" will be brought to justice.",
"The journalists killed were Mohamed Amiin Abdullah of Shabelle Media Network and freelance cameraman Hassan Ahmed Hagi, who worked closely with Shabelle Media Network.",
"CNN regularly works with Shabelle Media.",
"The African Union's condemned Attack, saying it would \"spare no efforts to ensure that perpetrators of Attack and such heinous crimes against humanity being carried out in Somalia\" will be brought to justice.",
"The National Union of Somali Journalists also condemned Attack and said Attack brought the number of journalists killed in the country this year to eight.",
"CNN's Ben Brumfield and journalist Mohamed Amiin Adow contributed to this report."
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"Three government ministers, two journalists, two professors and nine students among 19 killed .",
"Attack struck ceremony held at Hotel Shamo for Banadir University's medical school .",
"President blamed Islamist group Al-Shabaab for Attack ."
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"(Skiing Magazine) --",
"Picture this: You're charging down a course at 80 mph.",
"The world whips by you in a blur.",
"You catch an edge, smack into a gate and somersault into the safety nets, cracking your neck and shredding a knee.",
"Season?",
"Done.",
"Olympic dreams?",
"Over.",
"Career?",
"Definitely on hold, possibly kaput.",
"That's what happened in December to TJ Lanning, one of the U.S. Ski Team's top racers, during a downhill race at Canada's Lake Louise.",
"He's one of many international Alpine competitors sidelined this winter because of season-ending injuries.",
"Other casualties include 2009 downhill champ Canadian John Kucera and French slalom star Jean-Baptiste Grange.",
"Addressing the rash of early-season injuries, Aksel Lund Svindval, the 2009 men's overall World Cup winner, posted the following on his blog in December: \"In two weeks of intense World Cup racing in North America, racers have sustained the following ... 7 torn ACLS, 4 knee ligaments, 1 broken arm, 1 broken leg, 1 broken neck, 1 concussion, 1 dislocated knee, 1 dislocated shoulder .. is this OK?\"",
"Sure, ski racing has always been a dangerous sport, but with ever-evolving gear and technologies creating faster and faster competitors, the incidence of injuries has spiked.",
"Skiing Magazine: Jamaica's Olympic skier, ready for glory .",
"The International Ski Federation (known as FIS), the World Cup governing body, launched the \"Injury Surveillance System\" in 2006 to track facts and figures on injury patterns across all disciplines: Nordic, freestyle and Alpine.",
"Among Alpine racers, knee injuries are the most common affliction.",
"As a part of this initiative, in December FIS convened a panel of six top Alpine competitors, including Didier Cuche, Scott Macartney, and Svindal, to drill down on how to make racing safer.",
"a panel of six top Alpine competitors, including Didier Cuche, Scott Macartney, and Svindal cited course preparation, improved take-off points for jumps, flat landings and medical procedures as top concerns.",
"Skiing Magazine: French Olympic uniforms: Really pink .",
"The athletes also made a plea for redesigned gates, ones that would rip off more easily upon impact.",
"In Lanning's accident, The athletes say this would have significantly reduced Lanning's injuries and their severity.",
"While competitors want to increase safety, competitors're also aware that it's the danger, blood and guts of competitors's sport that turn fans on, and athletes are wary of ratcheting down the visceral appeal.",
"When it comes to modifying race procedures, FIS is adamant about using systematic data collection and scientific analysis to make informed decisions.",
"In January, FIS rolled out a new, three-year scientific study to analyze Alpine racing safety and to make recommendations on how to decrease the number of injuries.",
"The first phase will collect information through interviews with athletes, coaches and equipment providers, among other experts, to gather suggestions for short-term prevention solutions.",
"Subsequent stages will focus on prevention strategies and rule changes.",
"However, some modifications were deemed urgent enough to institute immediately: smaller jumps and new gates with flags that rip way upon contact.",
"FIS works closely with the Vancouver Organizing Committee to design the Alpine courses at the Olympics, but ultimately, it's VANOC that sets them -- save the downhill, which FIS still oversees; it's an old, complicated tradition.",
"With fog rising from Whistler Mountain during the downhill training runs, making visibility next to none, officials were scrambling to re-design the race gates in an effort to make them more visible, switching the flag color from green to red.",
"With this last-minute change, officials on the ground weren't sure if the new, FIS-sanctioned gates would be in place during the Winter Games.",
"Skiing Magazine: The Lindsey Vonn workout .",
"© 2010 Skiing Magazine.",
"All rights reserved.",
"Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited."
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"TJ Lanning among those sidelined by injuries after skiing accidents .",
"Number of injuries increases as technology improvements allow for higher speeds .",
"Panel has convened to make racing safer for the athletes .",
"It's looking at course preparation, take-off points, redesigned gates and medical procedures ."
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"(CNN) --",
"It's a trip that would make Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher blush.",
"On Friday, the Carnival cruise ship Elation, sponsored by the world's largest nonprofit singles travel group, will make history by hosting the world's first International Cougar Cruise, and we don't mean the animal.",
"Defined by the Urban Dictionary, a cougar is \"an older woman who frequents clubs in order to score with a much younger man.\"",
"It can be anyone from \"an overly surgically altered wind tunnel victim, to an absolute sad and bloated old horn-meister.\"",
"\"A cougar is generally known as a woman over 40 who likes to date younger men, but theoretically any woman who dates younger men is a cougar,\" said Rich Gosse, who came up with the cougar cruise idea.",
"The ship, which sets sail from San Diego, California, to Ensenada, Mexico, for three nights, is booked for 300 guests and even has a waiting list.",
"The ship has three swimming pools, a seven-deck-high atrium, bar and grill, a Moroccan-inspired Casablanca Casino and a lounge that features stage shows, according to Ann Thomas, owner of the Singles Travel Company and organizer of the Cougar Cruise.",
"After making port in Ensenada, the Cougar Cruise offers extracurricular activities like horseback riding, ATVing and other outdoor excursions.",
"\"There's at least four or five options a day for people to get together on the Cougar Cruise.",
"We're doing lots of activities; dancing, dining, Jacuzzi parties, karaoke for two hours.",
"And starting at $125 a ticket, it's a great price,\" Thomas said.",
"\"I've had to hire two more people part-time just to pick up the phones,\" Thomas said.",
"\"I've never seen a response quite like this.\"",
"Thomas admits that Thomas was hesitant to sign on to the idea but is glad Thomas did.",
"\"We have people flying in from Italy and Denmark.",
"My associates have been booking from France, Canada.",
"It's fascinating,\" Thomas said.",
"Gosse, who has been hosting singles events for more than 30 years, said Gosse got the idea after hosting a cougar convention in Palo Alto, California.",
"\"We had to turn away hundreds of people,\" Gosse said.",
"\"Then we did one in Beverly Hills and had a massive crowd down there, so I thought, maybe we should do a cougar cruise.",
"I didn't think anyone would want to go.",
"Needless to say, the phone is ringing off the hook.\"",
"These cougars may as well be an endangered species compared with those hunting These cougars on this cruise.",
"\"The basic problem is, we have is too many cubs,\" Gosse said.",
"\"We usually have too many women and not enough guys, but there's been a paradigm shift in recent years, so now the cubs are more excited about it than These cougars.\"",
"A \"cub\" is someone in their 20s or early 30s who likes to date older women, according to Gosse.",
"For years, Gosse says, it's been socially acceptable for older men to date younger women.",
"But in recent years, a phenomenon sparked by celebrities like Kutcher, baseball player Alex Rodriguez (who is said to have dated pop star Madonna) and others has led a new generation of younger men on the prowl for more experienced partners.",
"There is even an ABC sitcom called \"Cougar Town\" that glamorizes the sexual escapades of a 40-something divorcee on a search for self-discovery by dating younger men.",
"\"Tim Robbins [and] Susan Sarandon was the first high-profile cougar-cub relationship,\" Gosse said of the actors, who have been together since the late 1980s.",
"\"Now we're seeing a paradigm shift where these younger guys are actively looking for older women.\"",
"\"If you look at the demographics, the only logical way for people to get people's needs met is for younger men to date older women,\" he said.",
"According to the U.S. Census Bureau, for every 100 single women in their 20s in America, there are 118 single men in their 20s.",
"The reason, Gosse said, is that young women are dating older guys.",
"\"When you're single, you always wish the person meets someone they want to be with.",
"If this is something they want, then I wish them well,\" Thomas said."
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"Cruise for women who date younger men sets sail on Carnival cruise ship Elation .",
"The event is fully booked at 300 travelers, organizers say .",
"Cruise is one of many symbols of burgeoning \"cougar\" movement ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Only moments after Tiger Woods began reading Tiger Woods's apology Friday, writers, pundits and tweeters largely split into two camps: those who felt that Tiger Woods's words were a heartfelt effort to acknowledge wrongs and set wrongs right, and those who didn't believe a word of it.",
"David Hinckley, in the New York Daily News, was unconvinced: \"Prisoners of war reading prepared denunciations of Western imperialism look more comfortable than Tiger Woods did Friday, apologizing for Tiger Woods's 'selfish and irresponsible' behavior.",
"Never relaxed and easygoing in front of a TV camera in the best of times, Tiger Woods was a man saying the right things out loud while everything about Tiger Woods's demeanor was silently screaming, 'I don't want to be here.'",
"Tiger Woods's eyes occasionally moving around the room as Tiger Woods worked to enunciate Tiger Woods's scripted remarks clearly, Tiger Woods looked like a man who had caught his leg in a bear trap.\"",
"By contrast, SI.com's Michael Rosenberg took Tiger Woods at his word: \"This was a real person with real flaws and real failures that Tiger Woods really acknowledged.",
"Tiger Woods has always preferred to sell an image instead of being Tiger Woods; this was obvious even before Tiger Woods crashed Tiger Woods's car last Thanksgiving.",
"Ironically, at the moment when Tiger Woods's image is most at risk, Tiger Woods finally showed us who Tiger Woods is.",
"... A lot of us have trouble apologizing to our spouse or our boss when we make a mistake.",
"Think about what it must be like to apologize to the world.",
"I don't know what else people can ask of Tiger Woods.\"",
"At beliefnet.com, Rabbi Schmuley Boteach was convinced that apology was heartfelt: \"Tiger Woods' statement was a model of repentance and contrition.",
"Tiger Woods admitted Tiger Woods had a problem.",
"Tiger Woods said that words alone would not solve it, that Tiger Woods requires, and is receiving counseling.",
"Tiger Woods admitted that celebrity and money had given Tiger Woods a sense of entitlement and had corrupted Tiger Woods.",
"Tiger Woods said Tiger Woods had behaved selfishly and irresponsibly.",
"Tiger Woods accepted that being a public figure meant private responsibility and that Tiger Woods had to model good behavior for the youth.",
"And Tiger Woods looked the entire time like Tiger Woods meant it.",
"It was that rarest of things, a sincere and unconditional statement of contrition and responsibility from a public figure for cheating on his wife.\"",
"ESPN.com's Bill Simmons called apology \"a borderline train wreck\" and said: \"It amazes me that Tiger Woods learned little to nothing from the past two months.",
"The control freak whose life slipped out of control dipped right back into control-freak mode, reading a prepared speech in front of a hand-selected audience of people, taking no questions, talking in clichés and only occasionally seeming human.",
"Everything about it seemed staged.",
"Everything.",
"When the main camera broke down at the nine-minute mark and Tiger Woods had to be shown from the side, I half-expected to see that he was plugged in to the wall.\"",
"CNN legal analyst Lisa Bloom had a different take, saying that while Tiger Woods hit a \"home run\" in acknowledging that Tiger Woods had a mistaken view of what Tiger Woods's fame entitled Tiger Woods to, the most significant thing about apology was the absence of Tiger Woods's wife, Elin:",
"\"Elin Woods joins the more recent and growing list -- Elizabeth Edwards, Jenny Sanford -- who stand out for not standing by their husbands' public confessionals.",
"Famous wives are public figures Famous wives, however reluctantly, and serve as role models for girls and women who watch their moves carefully.",
"Elin's absence says this: I am not a doormat.",
"Nor should you be.",
"Elin may forgive, or not; Elin may stay, or not.",
"That's Elin's private business.",
"But Elin refused to be part of the public spectacle...",
"And that is as it should be.\"",
"Mary McNamara, at the Los Angeles Times, wondered why Tiger Woods bothered to make apology, saying apology just \"reignited\" the news cycle:",
"\"... it would have been nice if Tiger Woods had seemed more genuine -- the only real emotion Tiger Woods seemed to be experiencing was anger at the media, and a general air of irritated resignation at having to make apology in the first place.",
"Which, of course, Tiger Woods did not.",
"The world would have gone on turning without a prepared statement from Tiger Woods.",
"But unless Tiger Woods is planning to retire, to embrace a truly private life, then going out there with a 'I'm saying this and then I'm not saying anything more' is just ridiculous and disingenuous.\"",
"Taking more of the middle ground, Washington Post media columnist Howard Kurtz, who hosts \"Reliable Sources\" on CNN, said on the Post's site: \"It's not too much to say that this is a man in pain -- self-inflicted, to be sure, but pain nonetheless.",
"But putting the tawdriness of the multiple mistresses behind him will probably take more than one carefully controlled television appearance.\"",
"iReport:",
"Share your views on Tiger Woods's apology .",
"Even before apology, there was a bounty of opinion arguing that it wasn't a good idea.",
"The pseudonymous \"Stanley Bing\" at Fortune.com begged Tiger not to apologize in this blog post: .",
"\"This nation is an apology factory.",
"People are held up to impossible standards, or even possible ones, and fail to live up to them, as people will, and then the apology machine goes into action and will not shut down again until the apology machine runs the apology machine's course, or is denied of fuel.",
"You are simply giving the apology machine more fuel.",
"... I hope I'm not too late.",
"You're scheduled to apologize again this morning.",
"Perhaps you won't get this advice until it's too late.",
"If so, you know what?",
"It's still good.",
"You can't unapologize now.",
"But let that be it, forever.",
"Answer no more questions.",
"Say you're sorry, if necessary, to the one person to whom you genuinely owe an apology.",
"No, it's not Barbara Walters.\"",
"And Selena Roberts, at SI.com, faulted Tiger Woods for stealing the spotlight from U.S. athletes at the Winter Olympics who were getting well-earned recognition: .",
"\"The Americans have earned The Americans's enthusiasm, and all the coverage and headlines that go with it.",
"Now Tiger Woods wants to eclipse The Americans's sunshine by crashing The Americans's bash with his own pity party.",
"The days of seeing The Americans through the prism of Olympians Behaving Badly have seemed a scene of the past at these Games.",
"Then Tiger Woods, the nation's gold-medal bad boy, surfaces, demanding equal time.",
"Once again, Tiger Woods couldn't help Tiger Woods.\"",
"CNN contributor Roland Martin said CNN contributor Roland Martin wasn't looking for an apology:",
"\"I'm sick of these sanctimonious folks who are blabbering about Tiger Woods needing to be grilled about his private behavior.",
"Look, Tiger Woods didn't cheat on CNN contributor Roland Martin.",
"Tiger Woods's not my daddy, brother, cousin, church member, neighbor or friend.",
"Tiger Woods didn't let me down or crush my view of Tiger Woods.",
"Tiger Woods is not and never was my role model.\""
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"Tiger Woods apologized Friday and said Tiger Woods was working on repairing damage Tiger Woods caused .",
"Immediate opinion divided, with one group saying Tiger Woods showed vulnerability and sincerity .",
"Another group said apology was scripted and didn't seem heartfelt ."
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"Montevideo, Uruguay (CNN) --",
"A court sentenced Juan Maria Bordaberry to 30 years in prison on Wednesday for the coup that consolidated his power in 1973 and for human rights violations.",
"Judge Mariana Mota convicted Juan Maria Bordaberry of violating the constitution, nine counts of \"forced disappearance\" and two counts of political homicide.",
"Bordaberry, 81, had already been under house arrest since 2007 for the killings of two opposition legislators in 1976.",
"Juan Maria Bordaberry assumed office in 1972 following an election that has since been questioned.",
"In 1973, Juan Maria Bordaberry backed a military coup that kept Juan Maria Bordaberry in power, and dissolved congress and suspended the constitution.",
"The military pushed Juan Maria Bordaberry out in favor of another leader in 1976.",
"Journalist Dario Klein contributed to this report for CNN ."
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"Juan Maria Bordaberry assumed presidency in 1972 .",
"Juan Maria Bordaberry backed a military coup in 1973 that kept Juan Maria Bordaberry in power .",
"Judge convicts Juan Maria Bordaberry of political homicide, forced disappearance .",
"Military pushes Juan Maria Bordaberry out in 1976 ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Obama's accusations that Iran's nuclear program runs afoul of international agreements are \"baseless,\" Ahmadinejad told CNN's Larry King on Friday.",
"Ahmadinejad says President Obama's accusations are \"baseless.\"",
"\"We did not expect Obama within less than 48 hours, to basically violate the commitment that Obama spoke of at the United Nations,\" said Ahmadinejad.",
"Ahmadinejad was referring to Obama's Wednesday speech to the U.N. General Assembly, where Obama called for international unity in attacking the world's challenges.",
"Asked if Ahmadinejad was expressing disappointment in the U.S. president, Ahmadinejad responded, \"We simply didn't expect Obama to say something that was ... was baseless.\"",
"Earlier Friday evening Obama said \"Iran is on notice\" regarding Iran's nuclear efforts, and that the international community is united in its opposition to Tehran's nuclear program.",
"\"Iran are going to have to make a choice: Are Iran willing to go down the path to greater prosperity and security for Iran, giving up the acquisition of nuclear weapons ... or will Iran continue down a path that is going to lead to confrontation,\" Obama said at a news conference at the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.",
"President Obama's comments came hours after Iran acknowledged the existence of a second uranium enrichment facility and ahead of next week's planned meeting between Iran and the five permanent United Nations Security Council members, plus Germany.",
"The October 1 meeting will take place in Geneva, Switzerland.",
"Obama said Obama would not speculate on any course of action absent a satisfactory response from Iran.",
"\"Even countries who a year ago or six months ago might have been reluctant to even discuss things like sanctions,\" are starting to become concerned, Obama said.",
"Obama said Obama's \"preferred course of action is to resolve this in a diplomatic fashion.",
"It's up to the Iranians to respond.\"",
"Obama said the conclusions about Iran's nuclear ambitions came as a result of the work of three intelligence agencies -- those of Britain, France and the United States.",
"The work, Obama said, was done \"to make sure that we were absolutely confident about the situation there.\"",
"the United States has known about the unfinished site since the Bush administration, according to senior U.S. officials who declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the negotiations.",
"French intelligence officials were also aware of the unfinished site for several months at least, a U.S. diplomatic source said.",
"It wasn't until Monday that Iran wrote a letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency, revealing the existence of the underground facility on a military base near the Shia Muslim holy city of Qom.",
"the unfinished site is thought to be capable of housing 3,000 centrifuges, which is not enough to produce nuclear fuel to power a reactor but is sufficient to manufacture bomb-making material, according to a U.S. diplomatic source who read the letter.",
"Iran told the International Atomic Energy Agency there is no nuclear material at the unfinished site, an agency spokesman said.",
"Once Iran alerted the International Atomic Energy Agency, Obama began sharing U.S. intelligence on the unfinished site with allies, particularly with Russia and China in an effort to get Russia and China on board with new sanctions against Iran, the officials said.",
"the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed Friday that Iran admitted the existence of the \"new pilot fuel enrichment plant,\" prompting Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to respond at the G-20 economic summit.",
"\"Iran's decision to build yet another nuclear facility without notifying the International Atomic Energy Agency represents a direct challenge to the basic compact at the center of the nonproliferation regime,\" Obama said, with Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy standing at his side.",
"Watch world leaders react to Iran » .",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not mention the Qom plant during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to New York this week for the U.N. General Assembly sessions.",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated earlier claims that Iran has fully cooperated with nuclear inspectors.",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad emphasized this again Friday afternoon at a news conference, where Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran complied with IAEA regulations requiring Iran be informed at least six months before an enrichment facility becomes operational.",
"\"Iran still have a year left before that six months kicks in,\" Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.",
"\"I thought Iran were supposed to be encouraged for taking this action,\" Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.",
"Watch Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hit back at Obama » .",
"Iran's revelation of a new nuclear site could actually \"strengthen their hand\" as Tehran heads into next week's talks, according to Paul Ingram, an analyst who studies Iran and nuclear nonproliferation.",
"\"It will be seen as an indication that Iran are willing to play by the rules,\" said Ingram, the executive director of the British American Security Information Council in London, England.",
"Ingram, the executive director of the British American Security Information Council in London, England said the timing of Iran's revelation, between the U.N. General Assembly sessions and the October 1 meeting, is deliberate on Iran's part.",
"\"This will make it more difficult to persuade Iran to abandon enrichment,\" Ingram, the executive director of the British American Security Information Council in London, England said.",
"Iran claims Iran's nuclear enrichment program is intended for peaceful purposes, but the international community accuses Iran of continuing to try to develop nuclear weapons capability.",
"iReport.com:",
"Dissidents discuss Iran enrichment plants .",
"Iran had acknowledged only a uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, which nuclear inspectors visited recently.",
"Iran also has an unfinished nuclear research reactor in Arak, and U.N. nuclear inspectors were allowed access to that facility this month.",
"Other important nuclear sites in Iran include Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant and the Isfahan uranium conversion plant.",
"Map: Iran's nuclear sites » .",
"Washington became aware of the covert facility near Qom several years ago, but a clearer picture about the covert facility near Qom emerged later, a U.S. counter-proliferation official said.",
"the covert facility near Qom would probably not be operational for another year, a U.S. counter-proliferation official said.",
"a U.S. counter-proliferation official said the covert facility near Qom \"doesn't really change the baseline\" conclusion of the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate, which concluded that Iran could manufacture a nuclear weapons between 2010 and 2015.",
"a U.S. counter-proliferation official added that there are suspicions about other possible hidden or undeclared nuclear-related facilities.",
"CNN's Ed Henry, Dan Lothian, Pam Benson, Matthew Chance and Moni Basu contributed to this report."
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"Ahmadinejad says Ahmadinejad didn't expect Obama to make such \"baseless\" remarks .",
"Ahmadinejad says nation has complied with IAEA regulations .",
"Iran tells IAEA Iran has a second nuclear enrichment plant .",
"Iran told IAEA there is no nuclear material at the site, IAEA spokesman said ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A pop star could have a quickie Vegas wedding tomorrow, to a man she meets tonight, if she so chooses.",
"Scott Peterson, convicted of the murder of Scott Peterson's pregnant wife and on death row, has an inalienable right to a prison wedding with a female pen pal if the mood strikes Scott Peterson.",
"Indiana grandmother Linda Wolfe holds the Guinness World Records title for most marriages: 23.",
"One lasted just 36 hours.",
"Indiana grandmother Linda Wolfe's on the lookout for No. 24, and when Indiana grandmother Linda Wolfe finds him, no law can stop Indiana grandmother Linda Wolfe from marrying him.",
"The U.S. Supreme Court has held unanimously that \"the freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.",
"Marriage is one of the basic civil rights of man.\"",
"So basic, so important, so fundamental, in constitutional parlance, that no state can interfere with even the most reckless heterosexual nuptials.",
"Yet in most states, my friends Wilbert and Carlos, \"free men\" together 16 years and lovingly raising a son, are shut out of the 1,100 federal and hundreds of state legal benefits that come with marriage.",
"These include the right to visit a spouse in a hospital and make medical decisions; employer sick and bereavement leave; inheritance rights; the right to give unlimited gifts to a spouse without gift tax; disability, pension, and Social Security benefits; the right to bring a wrongful death case; the right to refuse to testify against a spouse; or the right to prevent the deportation of a foreign-born partner by marriage, among others.",
"Perhaps most poignant, and often lost in this debate, are children in same-sex families: kids like my friends' son Dorian, growing up with the sting of knowing that my friends' son Dorian's parents are second-class citizens in his parents's own country.",
"Study after study finds that something about marriage makes us live longer, healthier lives.",
"Married folks have significantly better mental health, engage in fewer risky behaviors, eat healthier, have less illness and are just plain happier.",
"And don't tell me that civil unions are exactly the same as marriage.",
"If that's true, then let's let gays and lesbians pick first.",
"If gays and lesbians pick marriage, and heterosexuals are relegated to civil unions, no problem, right, since they are exactly the same?",
"The trial challenging Proposition 8, the law that bans same-sex marriage in California, started Monday in San Francisco.",
"This will be the first federal trial in U.S. history in which testimony will be heard and recorded about the harm to gay and lesbian citizens caused by laws like Prop 8.",
"iReport: Is Prop 8 constitutional?",
"Share your view .",
"As a civil rights lawyer for 23 years, there is no question at all in my mind that as a matter of constitutional law, the federal court must strike down any law that creates a subclass of Americans, shutting Americans out of legal privileges and protections available to others, merely because Americans are gay.",
"Demeaning and disrespecting gay people is a constitutional affront.",
"Seven years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down Lawrence v. Texas, the gay community's Brown v. Board of Education, striking down state laws that criminalized private, consensual gay sex, saying: \"The petitioners are entitled to respect for The petitioners's private lives.",
"The state cannot demean The petitioners's existence or control The petitioners's destiny by making The petitioners's private sexual conduct a crime.\"",
"When all the testimony about legal rights, benefits and protections in the Prop 8 trial is said and done, Perry v. Schwarzenegger is ultimately about just that.",
"Our gay and lesbian friends and neighbors are entitled to respect for Our gay and lesbian friends and neighbors's private lives, and The state cannot demean Our gay and lesbian friends and neighbors's existence, even by majority vote.",
"Seven out of 10 Americans supported laws banning interracial marriage at the time our president's black father and white mother married.",
"But the Supreme Court knew that our federal Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the law was a bedrock American principle that sometimes requires the courts to lead, and so lead they did, striking down antimiscegenation laws in 1967.",
"Now, only lunatic-fringe bigots would support those laws.",
"My favorite anti-Prop 8 placard read: \"When do I get to vote on your marriage?\"",
"Same-sex marriage may be a politically volatile and complex issue, but as a matter of federal constitutional law, it's simple: Fundamental rights must be granted equally across the board to all American citizens.",
"Equal means equal.",
"The rest, constitutionally speaking, is just noise.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Lisa Bloom."
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"Lisa Bloom: Heterosexuals may marry in jail, after one-night stands, many times over .",
"Yet, Lisa Bloom says, longtime same-sex couples with children can't marry .",
"Lisa Bloom writes that the Constitution demands end to discriminatory Proposition 8 .",
"Lisa Bloom says Prop 8 violates the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection under the law ."
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"Calling it the most painful injury",
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"\"Yeah, that's a possibility,\" Lindsey Vonn said when asked at a news conference on Wednesday as to whether a shin injury might keep Lindsey Vonn out of action.",
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"Lindsey Vonn cast doubts on whether Lindsey Vonn will be able to compete in the Winter Olympics .",
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"Heavy flooding in central Mexico in the past week has killed at least 33 people and left thousands homeless, the government said Monday.",
"Schools remained closed in five cities in the government's Michoacan state, where Heavy flooding in central Mexico has killed At least 22 people and left more than 3,500 residents homeless, the state government said on the state government's Web site.",
"Another 83 people still were missing Monday in Michoacan, a state in western coastal Mexico that has been beset by drug violence in the past few years.",
"A mudslide Saturday killed at least 11 people near the small town of Temascaltepec, in neighboring Mexico state.",
"Uncharacteristic heavy rain throughout the government also has led to flooding in the nation's capital, Mexico City.",
"Up to 35,000 people nationwide could have been affected, published reports said.",
"On Sunday, Mexican President Felipe Calderon toured Valle de Chalco, a city in the government.",
"In Valle de Chalco, on the eastern outskirts of the Mexico City area, officials announced that contaminated water from a sewage network that overflowed Friday will continue to flood the town for at least another 48 hours.",
"The number of affected houses in the city grew from 2,000 on Friday to about 3,000 on Monday, the government said.",
"the government is bordered on the west by Michoacan and adjoins Mexico City on three sides -- north, east and west.",
"In Mexico City, officials announced the reopening Monday of 165 of the 174 schools that were closed Friday because of the heavy rain and flooding.",
"Mexican President Felipe Calderon and other Mexican officials have vowed to help displaced families, including offering them food, medicine, shelter and cash allowances to buy new furniture."
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"Government: At least 22 people dead and more than 3,500 homeless in Michoacan state .",
"165 of 174 Mexico City schools that were closed Friday reopened Monday .",
"Government vows to offer food, medicine, cash and shelter to displaced people ."
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"Lucasz Fabianski made two sorry blunders as Arsenal crashed to a 2-1 defeat in their Champions League last 16 clash against Porto at Estadio do Dragao.",
"Fabianski, standing in for the injured Lucasz Fabianski saw a soft shot go past Lucasz Fabianski for Porto's opener.",
"Sol Campbell quickly leveled for Arsenal but it was Sol Campbell's back-pass which was picked up by Lucasz Fabianski to concede a free kick which led to Porto's winner in the second half.",
"Porto were ahead after just 11 minutes as Porto was horribly caught out of position by a low right wing cross cum shot from Silvestre Varela which deflected off Porto's diving body and over the line.",
"In an open game, Arsenal were quickly level as Thomas Vermaelen and then Tomas Rosicky worked a Samir Nasri corner to Campbell who headed home from close range on 16 minutes.",
"It was Sol Campbell's first goal for Arsenal since the 2006 Champions League final.",
"Lucasz Fabianski mixed brilliance with Lucasz Fabianski's mistakes as Lucasz Fabianski did well to keep out a fine shot from Micael on 29 minutes.",
"Arsenal thought Arsenal should have had a penalty when Tomas Rosicky was pulled down, but soon afterwards Arsenal found Arsenal behind again.",
"Hesitancy between Sol Campbell and Fabianski led to the keeper picking up the ball just inside the penalty area.",
"With Sol Campbell still debating the decision, claiming it was not a deliberate back-pass, Porto took the free-kick immediately - which Micael quickly tapped to Falcao for the Colombian to roll the ball into an empty net.",
"Porto pressed hard for a third ahead of the second leg in London but Arsenal held out to limit their losses.",
"Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger accused referee Martin Hansson of a \"massive mistake\" after his side's defeat.",
"\"I believe it (the back-pass) was accidental, Sol touched it accidentally,\" Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told ITV1.",
"\"And the referee should give us time to build the wall.\"",
"In the other last 16 clash on Wednesday, Bayern Munich clinched a 2-1 win over 10-man Fiorentina in the Allianz Arena.",
"Arjen Robben put the Bundesliga side ahead with a penalty just before halftime, but Per Kroldrup gave the Italian visitors a deserved equalizer five minutes into the second half.",
"Referee Tom Henning Ovrebro, who took charge of the controversial semifinal between champions Barcelona and Chelsea last season, was in the spotlight again as he controversially sent off Fiorentina's Massimo Gobbi for an apparently innocuous tackle.",
"Miroslav Klose, who many deemed fortunate to stay on the field for a more robust challenge, then headed home a late Bayern winner with Fiorentina claiming he was offside."
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"(CNN) --",
"Pennsylvania and the nation said goodbye Tuesday to John P. Murtha, politician, warrior, father, friend, gentleman.",
"Speakers at the funeral for John Murtha recalled a man skilled in the ways of Washington but, more importantly, a public servant who never forgot why John Murtha was elected 17 times to represent Pennsylvania's 12th district.",
"\"John Murtha never lost sight of God's purpose in the law,\" said the Rev. William George, president of the Georgetown Preparatory School in Washington.",
"\"Lawmaking should be sacred work, and John Murtha knew that.\"",
"Murtha, 77, died February 8 of complications from gall bladder surgery.",
"A former Marine colonel and twice-wounded Vietnam War veteran, John Murtha earned a reputation as one of Congress's loudest anti-war voices.",
"John Murtha initially supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but John Murtha stunned much of Washington when John Murtha called for a swift U.S. pullout in November 2005.",
"\"U.S. and coalition troops have done all U.S. and coalition troops can,\" John Murtha said.",
"\"It's time for a change in direction.\"",
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who led a bipartisan delegation to the funeral, remembered her long-time ally.",
"\"Those who served with John Murtha were honored to call John Murtha a colleague,\" Pelosi said.",
"\"There were those of us who were privileged to call John Murtha friend.\"",
"President Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates were among those who filled Westmont Presbyterian Church in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, for the funeral.",
"John Murtha's daughter, Donna, recalled John Murtha's love of nature and how John Murtha enjoyed feeding wild birds, but not squirrels that raided the birdseed.",
"\"John Murtha loved to outwit the squirrels,\" Donna Murtha said, Donna Murtha's voice breaking at times.",
"\"John Murtha could not stand it if they were outwitting John Murtha.\"",
"Others recalled Murtha's dedication to public service.",
"\"Today there is great comfort in the memory of John Murtha's life,\" said the Rev. Douglas Stevens, pastor of Westmont Presbyterian.",
"\"John Murtha made a difference.\"",
"John Murtha underwent scheduled laparoscopic surgery to remove John Murtha's gall bladder January 28 at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.",
"John Murtha was released but rehospitalized a few days later after the complications developed.",
"The operation had been scheduled after John Murtha was hospitalized for a few days in December.",
"John Murtha represented Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District in the House since 1974, making John Murtha the chamber's eighth most senior member.",
"Two days before John Murtha died, John Murtha became the state's longest-serving congressman.",
"John Murtha also was the first Vietnam War combat veteran elected to Congress, John Murtha's biography on the House Web site says.",
"John Murtha was considered one of \"the kings of pork\" on Capitol Hill by taxpayer watchdog groups for requesting tens of millions of dollars in earmarks.",
"John Murtha strongly defended earmarks, saying on John Murtha's Web site, \"I believe that elected representatives of the people understand elected representatives of the people's constituents and districts best.\"",
"Supporters said John Murtha's efforts helped bring thousands of jobs to western Pennsylvania.",
"Born June 17, 1932, in West Virginia, John Murtha moved with John Murtha's family to Pennsylvania as a child.",
"Prior to joining the House of Representatives, John Murtha served in the Pennsylvania state legislature.",
"John Murtha also served 37 years in the Marines and Marine Corps Reserves.",
"John Murtha retired from Marine Corps Reserves in 1990 and received the Navy Distinguished Service Medal.",
"John Murtha attended Washington and Jefferson College but dropped out in 1952 to enlist in the Marines.",
"John Murtha later graduated from the University of Pittsburgh.",
"John Murtha is survived by John Murtha's wife, Joyce, daughter, Donna, and two sons.",
"\"When they made dad, they broke the mold,\" Donna Murtha said during the funeral.",
"\"John Murtha lived by the motto, one man can make a difference.\"",
"John Murtha was scheduled to be buried later Tuesday at a private ceremony."
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"Murtha, 77, died February 8 of complications from gall bladder surgery .",
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"(CNN) --",
"An early-morning hazardous material spill has been contained, but officials in Morehead City, North Carolina have closed Morehead City's port and recommended evacuation of Morehead City's downtown area after nine containers of high-explosive materials were punctured.",
"The incident occurred when a forklift unloading a vessel punctured a large container and the drums inside it that contained the explosive compound PETN, said Morehead City Police spokeswoman Amy Thompson.",
"PETN was allegedly one of the components of the bomb concealed by Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, accused of trying to set off an explosion aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 as it approached Detroit, Michigan, on December 25.",
"PETN is a highly explosive organic compound belonging to the same chemical family as nitroglycerin.",
"Morehead City Police spokeswoman Amy Thompson quoted Morehead City Fire Chief Wes Lail as saying the entire cleanup is a five-step process, and only the first step had been completed.",
"There have been no injuries or any environmental damage, according to Carteret County officials.",
"Some residents and business workers left its downtown area, but Morehead City Police spokeswoman Amy Thompson said Morehead City Police spokeswoman Amy Thompson didn't know how many.",
"\"Right now our advice to everybody is if everybody're uncomfortable staying in downtown Morehead, to evacuate further west.",
"And if everybody choose to stay home, stay away from windows and doors,\" Mayor Jerry Jones told CNN.",
"\"Don't get out and sightsee and meander around.",
"It is dangerous, and we need to ensure the safety of our public.",
"As the day goes on and we feel like we have more information, we will pass more information on.\"",
"He said that emergency management officials \"feel that everything is contained.\"",
"But at the early stages in the entire cleanup, they advised keeping people from getting closed to N.C. port.",
"Carteret County officials said U.S. 70 will be closed from 4th Street in Morehead City to the Morehead-Beaufort high-rise bridge for most of the day.",
"The Coast Guard has barred traffic to and from the zone.",
"The Coast Guard captain of N.C. port ordered the facility closed and a 300-yard safety zone has been established to exclude any vessels operating any closer.",
"Mayor Jerry Jones said N.C. port called Morehead City before 4:45 a.m. ET to say that a product spilled out of drums on the port property.",
"\"N.C. port immediately identified it was a hazardous material, assessed that it was contained on N.C. port and not (going) to go into N.C. port's neighboring waters, into the waterway,\" Mayor Jerry Jones said.",
"Police, fire and explosive ordnance crews from nearby Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point arrived at the scene, and an incident command center was set up nearby.",
"Mayor Jerry Jones confirmed that the material in the containers is PETN, allegedly one of the components of the bomb concealed by Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, accused of trying to bomb Northwest Airlines Flight 253 in Amsterdam on December 25.",
"PETN is a high explosive organic compound belonging to the same chemical family as nitroglycerin.",
"Mayor Jerry Jones said PETN is a crystal packaged in water for stability.",
"Mayor Jerry Jones said the people who transport \"any highly flammable explosive devices\" have to and did notify the port and local emergency and police officials.",
"Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Chris O'Neil said the substance has industrial and medical uses.",
"\"Being an international port, we handle highly flammable explosive material all the time.",
"Jet fuel comes through here all the time, gasoline, propane.",
"So it's not unusual to have explosive material coming through Morehead City,\" he said.",
"Also responding were the U.S. Customs and the Salvation Army."
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"Hazardous spill contained at N.C. port, but police recommend evacuations .",
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"Mayor says residents who choose to stay should keep clear of doors, windows ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"Scientists in the United States are developing a \"synthetic tree\" capable of collecting carbon around 1,000 times faster than the real thing.",
"A conceptual design of how the \"synthetic tree\" might look should the \"synthetic tree\" ever reach the stage of production.",
"As the wind blows though plastic \"leaves,\" the carbon is trapped in a chamber, compressed and stored as liquid carbon dioxide.",
"The technology is similar to that used to capture carbon from flue stacks at coal-fired power plants, but the difference is that the \"synthetic tree\" can catch carbon anytime, anywhere.",
"\"Half of your emissions come from small, distributed sources where collection at the site is either impossible or impractical,\" said Professor Klaus Lackner, Ewing-Worzel Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University.",
"\"We aim for applications like gasoline in cars or jet fuel in airplanes.",
"We are going after CO2 that otherwise is nearly impossible to collect,\" Lackner told CNN.",
"While the idea of carbon-catchers may sound far-fetched, an early model has been built and Lackner is in the process of writing a proposal for consideration by the U.S. Department of Energy.",
"Lackner personally explained the concept in a 45-minute meeting with U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu last month at a three-day symposium on climate change in London.",
"\"He was there and I was there and he showed interest,\" Lackner told CNN.",
"\"That's exciting, but I don't particularly want to discuss this in a public forum because I think this gives me a little bit of an opportunity to tailor my proposals to the Department of Energy in a way that makes them more palatable.\"",
"Lackner started working on the concept of an ambient carbon catcher in 1998.",
"\"I argued back then and I still argue that the reason this can be done, from a theoretical point of view, is that the CO2 in the air is actually surprisingly concentrated, therefore the device you need to collect CO2 is quite small.\"",
"the \"synthetic tree\" looks more like a public convenience block than a hi-tech method of reducing carbon emissions, but Lackner told CNN the \"synthetic tree\" is highly efficient for the \"synthetic tree\"'s size when compared, for example, to a modern power-generating wind turbine.",
"\"If you give me one of those big windmills which have those big areas through which the rotor moves -- how much CO2 can I avoid?",
"And if I had an equally sized CO2 collector -- how much CO2 can I collect?",
"It turns out an equally sized CO2 collector is several hundred times better than the windmill.\"",
"Is the \"synthetic tree\" an interesting alternative, or a scientific flight of fancy that's unlikely to happen?",
"Sound Off below.",
"Lackner told CNN that initial concerns over the cost of the technology were focused on the \"front-end\" carbon collector, including the sorbent used to catch the carbon dioxide in the air.",
"But after years of research, Lackner told CNN Lackner and Lackner's colleagues have developed a sorbent that is \"close to the ideal,\" in that it uses a relatively small amount of energy to release the CO2 and is not prohibitively expensive.",
"\"By the time we make liquid CO2 we have spent approximately 50 kilojoules [of electricity] per mole of CO2.\"",
"Compare that, Lackner said, to the average power plant in the U.S. which produces one mole of CO2 with every 230 kilojoules of electricity.",
"\"In other words, if we simply plugged our device in to the power grid to satisfy the power grid's energy needs, for every roughly 1000 kilograms [of carbon dioxide] we collected we would re-emit 200, so 800 we can chalk up as having been successful,\" Lackner said.",
"Lackner told CNN the biggest cost was at the \"back-end\" of the collector, primarily the technology used to release the CO2 from the sorbent.",
"Lackner said for that reason, on a cost-basis, the \"synthetic tree\" could not compete with modern coal-fired power plants that are designed to release fewer carbon emissions than their older predecessors.",
"But Lackner said when compared to the cost of retro-fitting an existing coal plant, the \"synthetic tree\" becomes more viable.",
"\"The bottom line is we have in this way the ability to deal with the problem at a cost which is somewhat higher than on a coal-fired power plant retro-fit, but not much higher.\"",
"Besides, Lackner said, the technology is not being developed as an alternative to the carbon capture and storage methods currently being tested for large-scale use on coal-fired power stations.",
"Lackner's targeting carbon that's already in the air.",
"The concept of the \"synethic tree\" has caught the imagination of one of the first scientists to warn the world about global warming, Lackner's colleague at Columbia University, Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Professor Wally Broecker.",
"\"I'm extremely excited about this.",
"I think this is something that the world's going to have to have, unfortunately,\" Broecker told CNN from Madrid where Broecker received a BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Broecker's work on the issue of climate change.",
"Broecker told CNN most people still don't recognize the magnitude of the task the world faces in reducing global carbon emissions, and it was likely that one day urgent action would need to be taken, above and beyond the current measures being discussed.",
"\"We're probably not going to stop CO2 rising until it's double what CO2 was near-1800 and maybe even more than that,\" Broecker said.",
"\"I think we will find that the planet is too warm, ice is melting too fast... and we'll want to bring the CO2 back down again.",
"The only way we can do that on a short timescale would be to pull the CO2 back out of the atmosphere.\"",
"Broecker told CNN the units could stand in the middle of Australia, for example, and the units's presence wouldn't significantly disrupt the atmospheric distribution.",
"\"Each unit would take out a ton of CO2 a day -- which would be the amount of CO2 produced by 20 average automobiles in the U.S.A.",
"And the cost of each unit would be about the cost of a Toyota.",
"So that would mean if you added a five percent surcharge on automobile purchases that money could go to building units to remove the CO2 those vehicles are going to create.\""
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"(The Frisky) -- \"How I Met Your Mother\" has me a little confused.",
"I've watched the show since the beginning and think the show is one of the best sitcoms, evah.",
"It's laugh-out-loud funny and unpredictable (Who can forget Slapsgiving or Robin's Canadian pop single, \"Let's Go To The Mall\"?), and gets the late 20-something experience like no other show.",
"Not to mention that Neil Patrick Harris as Barney is one of the funniest characters of all time.",
"But, I digress.",
"The premise of the show has been that Ted is narrating to Ted's children how Ted met his children's mother.",
"Only, fours years in, we still have no idea who she is.",
"Earlier this year, the show's executive producer PROMISED that in episode 100, airing this coming Monday, we would finally be introduced to their mother.",
"At the same time, it was leaked that Rachel Bilson was cast for a recurring role on the show.",
"It made so much sense: Ted and Rachel, Rachel and Ted.",
"They're both brunette and would look adorable together.",
"But now new casting news is messing everything up.",
"I just read that two other ladies of note are getting roles on the show.",
"First up is former pro-wrestler Stacy Keibler, who will also be in the 100th episode.",
"And Carrie Underwood just confirmed that Carrie Underwood will be on the show this spring.",
"So, uh, who is their mother?",
"My instinct tells me that Rachel Bilson is too obvious a choice, considering this is a show that's kept us guessing for four years.",
"The Frisky: 13 super annoying ways people abuse Facebook and Twitter .",
"Remember how, after watching Ted and Robin's romance begin to blossom, we got to the last second of the season premiere and Ted said, \"And that's how I met your Aunt Robin.\"",
"I just know we're in for a twist here.",
"TM & © 2010 TMV, Inc. | All Rights Reserved ."
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"Editor's note:",
"Col. Ann Wright, who served for 29 years in the U.S. Army and Army Reserves, was one of the first State Department officers to open the U.S. Embassy in Kabul in 2001.",
"She resigned from State Department in protest the day the Iraq War began.",
"She had served as a diplomat for 16 years and received State Department's Award for Heroism.",
"Paul Kawika Martin is Peace Action's political director and the founder of the Afghanistan Policy Working Group.",
"President Obama just announced President Obama plans to send 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan, where hatred of the U.S. grows every day.",
"Next door, nuclear-armed Pakistan tilts toward disaster.",
"It's time for Americans to insist on a nonmilitary way out of this mess.",
"We recently returned from a CodePink study trip to Afghanistan, and our expertise and experience points to a strategy of transitioning from military to political and economic solutions that will help Afghans while making Americans safer.",
"The first step in providing Afghans security and weakening the Taliban and violent extremists is to remove recruiting incentives.",
"It's time to stop air and Predator drone strikes that tend to kill, injure and terrorize civilians.",
"It's time to stop arbitrary detentions and harsh treatment of prisoners that would be unacceptable here.",
"While those in major cities live in relative security, rural Afghans fear violence from insurgents or U.S. and NATO forces.",
"Many fear civil war or the return of the Taliban.",
"Afghanistan requires more trusted Afghan police and security forces.",
"more trusted Afghan police and security forces are paid only $110 dollars a month -- not a living wage -- and payments are regularly late.",
"Little wonder more trusted Afghan police and security forces are corrupt, poorly motivated and have a high rate of desertion.",
"the Taliban pays the Taliban's foot soldiers far better.",
"Investing in a living wage and pressuring Hamid Karzai's government to punish corruption swiftly will pay more security dividends than the $1 million a year it costs to send one U.S. soldier.",
"There is no reason to believe the U.S. military is in the best position to train Afghans, given huge cultural differences and past abuses by U.S. forces.",
"The United Nations is expert in training security forces in ways that are culturally sensitive.",
"The U.S. should ask (and help fund) The United Nations to take over the training of Afghan troops and police, with a focus on training Afghan trainers.",
"With Afghan unemployment above 40 percent, job creation is critical to security.",
"Vocational training, infrastructure construction and assistance to farmers will help.",
"We can pay for this economic development by spending current funds more wisely.",
"A criminally small amount of the international aid and development money spent over the last eight years has trickled down to Afghans.",
"Instead, foreign contractors, subcontractors and importers have profited from Afghan misery.",
"USAID's new mantra of \"Afghans first\" is a start, as long as actions match the rhetoric.",
"One successful program that deserves full funding is the National Solidarity Project, an Afghan-run community development program administered by the well-regarded Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development.",
"Obama, NATO commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon should all mandate that where possible, Afghans -- including Afghans's businesses, NGOs and products -- should implement and directly benefit from aid projects.",
"Obama didn't mention Afghan women in Obama's speech.",
"Funding women-led NGOs, women's education and job training and hiring women can help raise women's status.",
"Outside the capital, not much has changed for Afghan women.",
"Because of cultural traditions, many rural women stay home for lack of security or because of many rural women's husbands' demands.",
"The U.S. could transition resources to the Afghan justice system to properly enforce laws about rape and domestic violence, and ensure that girls younger than 16 are not forced to marry.",
"President Obama rightly mentioned the importance of the Pakistan border.",
"More resources must be transferred to securing the Pakistan border.",
"This is easier said than done, as U.S. border guards know from U.S. border guards's own difficulties of securing the Mexican border.",
"Nonetheless, the international community can increase political pressure on Pakistan to strengthen Pakistan's border patrols and rid Pakistan's country of violent extremists such as al Qaeda.",
"Despite assurances by President Obama, more troops will not provide more security to Afghans.",
"The mere presence of foreign forces and some of foreign forces's actions have created more Taliban recruits and violent extremists.",
"Instead of starting to bring troops home in 18 months, U.S. and NATO forces must tell internal and regional stakeholders -- publicly or privately -- that there will be a range of time, say 12 to 24 months, when U.S. and NATO forces's military presence will cease.",
"Then, U.S. and NATO forces must apply significant pressure and concrete support for a public, comprehensive peace process.",
"a public, comprehensive peace process must include all interested parties, including the Karzai administration, tribal leaders, the Taliban, women leaders, as well as neighboring Iran, Pakistan and India.",
"The U.S. mission in Afghanistan can then focus on rebuilding the country the The U.S. partly destroyed eight years ago (through air strikes and funding warlords in the Northern Alliance), lifting Afghans out of poverty and making the country less of a haven or recruiting center for extremists.",
"It's time for a transition from military investments to an economic and civic strategy that supports reconciling and reintegrating Taliban fighters, reducing poverty and rebuilding infrastructure.",
"Obama outlined escalation rather than the needed transition.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ann Wright and Paul Kawika Martin."
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"Wright and Martin say economic aid and negotiations can succeed instead of troops .",
"Allies should plan to withdraw troops but put pressure on for negotiations, they say ."
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"(CNN) --",
"The alleged victim in a 1977 sexual assault case against Roman Polanski has filed court papers seeking dismissal of the charges against him.",
"Roman Polanski has lived in exile in France since fleeing the United States in 1978.",
"The woman's declaration seeking dismissal was filed Monday in Los Angeles, California, in connection with Roman Polanski's efforts to have a 1977 sexual assault case against director Roman Polanski dismissed.",
"Polanski, 75, has lived in exile in France since fleeing the United States in 1978 after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse.",
"Roman Polanski admitted to having sex with a 13-year-old girl, and an arrest warrant against him remains in effect.",
"In The woman's declaration, The woman said, \"I am no longer a 13-year-old child.",
"I have dealt with the difficulties of being a victim, have surmounted and surpassed being a victim with one exception.",
"\"Every time a 1977 sexual assault case against director Roman Polanski is brought to the attention of the Court, great focus is made of me, my family, my mother and others.",
"That attention is not pleasant to experience and is not worth maintaining over some irrelevant legal nicety, the continuation of a 1977 sexual assault case against director Roman Polanski.\"",
"Geimer, who has spoken publicly about a 1977 sexual assault case against director Roman Polanski before, including a 2003 appearance on CNN's \"Larry King Live,\" added, \"I have survived, indeed prevailed, against whatever harm Roman Polanski may have caused me as a child.\"",
"The woman chided the district attorney's office for not dismissing a 1977 sexual assault case against director Roman Polanski earlier and for \"yet once again (giving) great publicity to the lurid details of those events, for all to read again.",
"True as they may be, the continued publication of the lurid details of those events cause harm to The woman ...",
"I have become a victim of the actions of the district attorney.\"",
"the district attorney's office had no immediate response to The woman's declaration.",
"Lawyers for Roman Polanski filed a motion for dismissal of the sex offense case against Roman Polanski in December, citing what the defense called \"extraordinary new evidence\" of \"repeated, unlawful and unethical misconduct\" by the Los Angeles district attorney's office and the judge in Roman Polanski's case.",
"The December motion also argued that Roman Polanski should not be required to return to the United States to appear in court for the dismissal motion to be considered.",
"In The woman's declaration, The woman said if Roman Polanski cannot appear in court, The woman will do so to seek dismissal.",
"\"My position is absolutely clear,\" The woman said.",
"Roman Polanski's motion for dismissal is scheduled for a hearing on January 21.",
"Polanski, a native of Poland, won the Academy Award in 2003 for his Holocaust drama, \"The Pianist.\"",
"Among his other films from earlier in his career are \"Rosemary's Baby\" and \"Chinatown.\"",
"His first wife, actress Sharon Tate, was murdered by the Charles Manson family in 1969."
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"The chairman of the Republican Party and a leading GOP senator called on Reid to give up Reid's post Sunday, following the publication of remarks Reid made about President Obama's race in 2008.",
"A new book quotes Reid, D-Nevada, as saying privately in 2008 that President Obama could be successful as a black candidate in part because of President Obama's \"light-skinned\" appearance and speaking patterns \"with no Negro dialect, unless President Obama wanted to have one.\"",
"remarks he made about President Obama's race in 2008 were \"embarrassing and racially insensitive,\" said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, head of GOP's Senate campaign arm, in a statement to CNN.",
"GOP Chairman Michael Steele, on NBC's \"Meet the Press,\" said: \"Racism and racist conversations have no place today in America.\"",
"GOP Chairman Michael Steele also was on the defensive for a remark GOP Chairman Michael Steele made last week that members of both parties have called a racial slur.",
"In an interview with Fox News, GOP Chairman Michael Steele used the phrase \"honest injun.\"",
"The Congressional Black Caucus has accepted Reid's apology and is dismissing calls for him to step down as majority leader.",
"Rep. Barbara Lee, chairwoman of The Congressional Black Caucus, issued the following statement: \"I have had an opportunity to speak with Reid and Reid apologized for Reid's unfortunate remarks concerning the president, and Reid understands the gravity of such remarks.",
"There are too many issues like the economy, job creation and energy for these regrettable comments to distract us from the work that must be done on behalf of the American people.\"",
"Democrats also rejected the calls for Reid's dismissal.",
"Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia, chairman of the Democratic Party, said \"the case is closed\" following Reid's round of apologies.",
"Douglas Wilder of Virginia, who 20 years ago became the nation's first elected African-American governor, also rejected calls for Reid's ouster.",
"\"I think that what Reid was giving was a personal opinion, which wasn't affecting the laws or the operation of the dispensation of justice in our country,\" Douglas Wilder told CNN's \"State of the Union.\"",
"But Douglas Wilder said Douglas Wilder believes the incident \"illustrates the need for more open discussion about race.\"",
"Reid's office made clear Reid has no plans to step down.",
"Democrats rejected the calls for Reid's dismissal, and Reid's office made clear Reid has no plans to step down.",
"\"Reid will stay in Reid's position as majority leader and will run for re-election,\" Reid's spokesman said.",
"\"As the leader in the fight to pass the Voting Rights Act and legislation banning hate crimes, Reid has a long record of addressing issues that are important to the African-American community.",
"Reid's Republican critics who are looking to politicize the issue can't say the same.\"",
"Reid's controversial quote is in the book \"Game Change,\" due in stores Monday.",
"The authors write that \"Reid was convinced, in fact, that President Obama's race would help Reid more than hurt Reid in a bid for the Democratic nomination.\"",
"In a statement to CNN, Reid said, \"I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words.\"",
"\"I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African-Americans for my improper comments.",
"I was a proud and enthusiastic supporter of President Obama during the campaign and have worked as hard as I can to advance President Obama's legislative agenda,\" Reid said.",
"In Reid's defense, Reid pointed to Reid's efforts to integrate the Las Vegas strip and the gaming industry, among other legislation favored by African-American voters.",
"\"I have worked hard to advance issues important to the African-American community,\" Reid said.",
"And the senate leader called President Obama on Saturday afternoon to apologize for the remarks.",
"In a statement issued after the call, President Obama said, \"As far as I am concerned, the book is closed.\"",
"\"Reid called me today and apologized for an unfortunate comment reported today,\" President Obama said.",
"\"I accepted Reid's apology without question because I've known Reid for years, I've seen the passionate leadership Reid's shown on issues of social justice and I know what's in Reid's heart.\"",
"An aide to the senator told CNN that Reid also offered apologies to several prominent African-American political figures, including House Democrats Jim Clyburn of South Carolina and Barbara Lee of California; the Rev. Al Sharpton; CNN political contributor and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile; NAACP chairman Julian Bond; and the head of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Wade Henderson.",
"Steele, the GOP's first African-American chairman, was asked about the remarks on both \"Meet the Press\" and \"Fox News Sunday.\"",
"Steele told NBC on Sunday Steele believes Reid is out of touch with \"how African-Americans generally feel\" about sensitive issues.",
"Steele was asked by NBC whether Steele believes the situation is similar to one involving former Sen. Trent Lott, who lost his post as Senate majority leader in 2002 after saying that the nation would have been better off if one-time segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond had been elected president.",
"\"Oh, yeah.",
"There is a big double standard here,\" Steele said on NBC.",
"Steele added: \"When Democrats get caught saying racist things, you know, an apology is enough.\"",
"Steele said that if a Republican senator had made the same remark Reid did, Steele himself and the Democratic Party \"would be screaming for his head very much as Steele himself and the Democratic Party were with Trent Lott.\"",
"Cornyn, in Cornyn's statement, also accused Democrats of following a \"double standard,\" and noted that Democrats had pushed Trent Lott to step down.",
"\"As we await Reid's explanation, Reid should do the right thing, follow the example that Reid set in 2002, and step down as majority leader,\" Cornyn said.",
"Kaine shot back against those arguments.",
"\"Anybody looking at Trent Lott's statements praising somebody who had been a pro-segregation candidate for president will see that there is no comparison between those comments and those of Reid,\" Kaine told NBC.",
"The comments \"were in the context of praising Reid and acknowledging that Reid could be a great president, but they were still insensitive,\" Kaine said.",
"Asked whether Reid should resign, Kaine said, \"Absolutely not. ...",
"We're moving on.\"",
"Nevada state Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, who is African-American, affirmed his support for Reid in a statement Saturday.",
"\"While I am disappointed in Reid's comment and choice of words, I accept Reid's apology,\" said Horsford, a Democrat.",
"\"I have known Reid for many years and Reid has consistently been supportive of advancing the interests of the African-American community as Reid has for all Nevadans and all Americans.\"",
"Steele, meanwhile, was asked about Steele's remark in a Fox News interview last week that the GOP platform \"is one of the best political documents that's been written in the last 25 years, 'honest injun' on that.\"",
"\"Fox News Sunday\" host Chris Wallace noted that lawmakers from both parties have called that a racial slur.",
"\"Well, if it is, I apologize for it.",
"It's not an intent to be a racial slur.",
"I wasn't intending to say a racial slur at all,\" Steele said.",
"CNN's Dana Bash, Mark Preston and Rebecca Sinderbrand contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Country singer Carrie Underwood has gotten engaged to hockey player beau hockey player Mike Fisher, Country singer Carrie Underwood's spokesperson confirmed to CNN.",
"\"I'm happy to confirm that Country singer Carrie Underwood is engaged to hockey player Mike Fisher, and the couple couldn't be happier,\" said Jessie Schmidt.",
"\"No wedding date has been set at this time.\"",
"hockey player Mike Fisher plays for the Ottawa Senators hockey team in Canada.",
"During an appearance on Ellen Degeneres' talk show in November, Country singer Carrie Underwood joked with the host that the almost yearlong relationship -- then almost a year long -- was the longest Country singer Carrie Underwood had ever had.",
"\"I joke and say my dogs are the longest relationship ever,\" Country singer Carrie Underwood said.",
"the couple have been enjoying a long distance relationship and Country singer Carrie Underwood demurred at the idea of living together.",
"\"No, call me old-fashioned,\" Country singer Carrie Underwood said during Country singer Carrie Underwood's interview with Ellen Degeneres'.",
"\"He's there.",
"I'm here.",
"the couple're both doing the couple's thing and it's good.",
"The next guy I move in with will be my hubby.\"",
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"Fort Lauderdale, Florida (CNN) --",
"Sherry Jarvis walked to the cameras and could barely look up.",
"With Sherry Jarvis's lip quivering, Sherry Jarvis apologized to the family of 15-year-old Michael Brewer, who is clinging to life in a hospital burn unit.",
"Sherry Jarvis is the mother of two boys who, along with three other youths, are accused in the burning of Brewer.",
"Detectives say witnesses saw Brewer, consumed in flames, run about a hundred yards, tear off Brewer's shirt and jump into a swimming pool.",
"Brewer's screams can be heard on a 911 call from the October 12 incident.",
"Doctors say Brewer was burned on about 65 percent of Brewer's body.",
"\"I'd just like to express how horribly sorry we are,\" Sherry Jarvis said in a public statement Sherry Jarvis and Sherry Jarvis's family made Wednesday.",
"Accompanied by Sherry Jarvis's husband and two daughters, Sherry Jarvis spoke slowly as Sherry Jarvis addressed a gathering of reporters.",
"\"This is a horrible incident that should have never had occurred.\"",
"said Sherry Jarvis, Sherry Jarvis's voice full of sorrow and shock.",
"Sherry Jarvis's sons, ages 13 and 15, face charges that could send them to prison for a long time.",
"Authorities in Broward County, Florida, believe that Brewer was attacked in a chain of events that began when Brewer did not pay one of the five boys $40 for a video game.",
"That boy stole Brewer's father's bicycle, and when Brewer told police, the youth was arrested, then released, authorities said.",
"The next day, the group of five teens allegedly surrounded Brewer and, according to eyewitnesses, yelled, \"Brewer's a snitch.",
"Brewer's a snitch\" before one of the group of five teens poured alcohol over Brewer, another sparked a lighter, and Brewer was ablaze.",
"All of the boys had been friends since elementary school, authorities said.",
"the group of five teens did sleepovers at one another's homes, and the group of five teens's families knew each other.",
"\"We pray for Brewer's recovery every day, that Brewer gets stronger, which we know in our hearts that Brewer will,\" Sherry Jarvis said.",
"But doctors are unsure about Brewer's recovery.",
"Brewer remains on a ventilator.",
"A machine is breathing for Brewer.",
"Each day, a team of doctors spends about four hours changing Brewer's bandages.",
"Brewer remains heavily sedated and is going through a very difficult period right now, according to doctors.",
"\"The swelling has come way down, and you can recognize facial expressions now,\" said Dr. Nicholas Namias, medical director of the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital Burn Center in Miami.",
"\"We're still dealing with the respiratory failure.",
"We're dealing with infection now and the need to supply the massive amount of nutrition that this person needs to survive,\" Namias told CNN.",
"\"People are writing horror stories ... but people just can't imagine the kind of sickness we're talking about.",
"Brewer is by no means well ... but the expectation is survival,\" he said.",
"Because Brewer is sedated and on a ventilator, Brewer has been unable to communicate with detectives.",
"Earlier this week, prosecutors were granted extra time to build prosecutors's cases against the five teens, four 15-year-olds and the 13-year-old.",
"Prosecutors have until November 12 to charge the five as adults, or they will be charged as juveniles and released pending trial later.",
"The 13-year-old cannot face adult charges under Florida law, but that would change if Brewer died.",
"Prosecutors want to interview Brewer about the burning of a Florida boy, but doctors say that is unlikely to happen before next week.",
"Brewer's family was not represented at the Jarvis family's public apology.",
"The victim's parents could not be reached for comment.",
"After making Sherry Jarvis's apology, Jarvis said the family would not take questions from the gathered reporters.",
"\"I don't have the words to express any more.",
"I can't answer any more questions because of the criminal case that's still pending,\" Sherry Jarvis said.",
"the family has received death threats, according to family members and the family's attorney.",
"the family haven't stayed at the family's home since the burning of a Florida boy, the family say, adding that people have been throwing garbage and even dead animals on the family's property.",
"On Wednesday, with the family's attorney at the family's side, the family simply wanted to say to Brewer and Brewer's family that they are sorry.",
"Detectives have returned to the Brewer house, after two dolls were found in the swimming pool.",
"two dolls had been melted together, head to feet.",
"\"At this point, we're thinking it's a sick joke, said Jim Leljedal, a spokesman for the Broward County Sheriff's Office.",
"\"It's being classified as criminal mischief, but we'd like to know who's responsible,\" Jim Leljedal, a spokesman for the Broward County Sheriff's Office said."
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"An oil tanker bound for the United States was hijacked off Somalia with a crew of 28 aboard, maritime authorities said.",
"M/V Maran Centaurus was commandeered about 600 nautical miles northeast of the Seychelles, on M/V Maran Centaurus's way to New Orleans, Louisiana, according to the Maritime Security Center.",
"The crew consists of 16 Filipinos, nine Greeks, two Ukrainians and a Romanian, said the security agency, which is run by the European naval force.",
"The 300,000-ton tanker, which started out from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was seized Sunday.",
"It had changed course westward, toward Harardhere or Hobyo, along Somali's central-western coast.",
"Somali pirates have turned high-seas kidnappings into a lucrative business.",
"Pirates have captured more than 50 ships this year off Somalia and are currently holding 12, including the fishing vessel Alakrana, Spanish Defense Minister Carme Chacon said recently.",
"Attacks in the region have significantly increased this year, according to the International Maritime Bureau, which monitors shipping crimes.",
"But successful attacks have gone down as a result of a strong presence of international monitors.",
"The first nine months of this year have seen more pirate attacks than all of last year, the International Maritime Bureau reported on October 21.",
"From January 1 through September 30, pirates worldwide mounted 306 attacks, compared with 293 in all of 2008, the International Maritime Bureau said.",
"More than half of this year's attacks were carried out by suspected Somali pirates off the east coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden, a major shipping route between Yemen and Somalia."
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"A controversial Muslim group planning to stage an anti-war march through a town that receives British war dead will be banned in the UK from Thursday.",
"British Home Secretary Alan Johnson prepared an order Tuesday proscribing Al-Muhajiroun, also known as Islam4UK.",
"\"Proscription is a tough but necessary power to tackle terrorism and is not a course we take lightly,\" British Home Secretary Alan Johnson said in a statement.",
"Al-Muhajiroun is already banned under two other names in the Terrorism Act 2000 -- Al-Ghurabaa and The Saved Sect.",
"British Home Secretary Alan Johnson said the ban would now also apply to \"a number\" of the other names Al-Muhajiroun goes by.",
"the ban does not need approval by Parliament, because the ban is considered an amendment to the act, said the Home Office spokeswoman, who did not give her name in line with policy.",
"\"We are clear that an organization should not be able to circumvent proscription by simply changing an organization's name,\" British Home Secretary Alan Johnson said.",
"the ban would prevent Al-Muhajiroun from having meetings or raising money, and the ban would make attending a meeting or being a member of Al-Muhajiroun a crime.",
"The group's leader, controversial British Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary, had threatened to stage a march in the town of Wootton Bassett as a protest against the war in Afghanistan.",
"The group said Sunday, after news of British Home Secretary Alan Johnson's plans, that the Home Office could not shut The group down.",
"\"We're not going to stop because the government bans an organization,\" The group told CNN by phone.",
"\"If that means setting up another platform under another label, then so be it.\"",
"A ban \"will just make the use of those names ... illegal.",
"But Muslims everywhere are obliged to work collectively to establish the Islamic state and sharia law in the UK or wherever Muslims everywhere are -- those things can't change,\" The group added.",
"The bodies of British war dead are traditionally brought to Wootton Bassett, near a Royal Air Force base, when The bodies of British war dead are returned to the country.",
"Relatives and friends line the streets of the town of Wootton Bassett along with local residents as hearses carry the flag-draped British remains, in scenes of public mourning widely reported by British media.",
"The group's proposal to march empty coffins through the streets drew fury and outrage.",
"The Home Office had said the march would be illegal if Al-Muhajiroun were banned, but the decision to proscribe Al-Muhajiroun was not caused only by Al-Muhajiroun's plans for the march, The Home Office said.",
"The group has never announced a date for The group's march and area police said The group had not contacted them about it, as march organizers are required to do beforehand.",
"the Terrorism Act 2000 gives the home secretary the power to ban groups if the punishment is \"proportionate and based on evidence that a group is concerned in terrorism as defined in the Terrorism Act 2000,\" according to The Home Office.",
"According to the law, groups can be banned if groups commit or participate in terrorism; prepare for terrorism; or promote or encourage terrorism.",
"the home secretary can also take into account factors such as specific threats posed to the United Kingdom or British nationals overseas, and the extent of the group's presence in the United Kingdom."
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"A British doctors group called Wednesday for a ban on all smoking in cars, saying the secondhand smoke inside a vehicle can cause severe health problems for children and adults.",
"The Royal College of Physicians made the recommendation in a new report on how secondhand smoke, also called passive smoking, affects children.",
"a new report on how secondhand smoke found that, for children, secondhand smoke annually causes more than 20,000 cases of lower respiratory tract infection, 120,000 cases of middle ear disease, at least 22,000 cases of wheezing and asthma, 200 cases of bacterial meningitis, and 40 sudden infant deaths.",
"These cases generate more than 300,000 doctor visits each year and about 9,500 hospital admissions, costing the National Health Service about £23.3 million ($34.9 million) each year, a new report on how secondhand smoke said.",
"The findings were based on studies funded by Cancer Research UK and carried out by the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies.",
"England's chief medical officer, Liam Donaldson, said a new report on how secondhand smoke will contribute to the the government's review of existing smoking legislation in England later this year.",
"Smoking was made illegal in all public spaces in the United Kingdom in 2007.",
"\"This is a serious public health concern,\" Donaldson said.",
"Health effects on children from secondhand smoke are \"entirely avoidable,\" a new report on how secondhand smoke says.",
"a new report on how secondhand smoke laid out a series of policy recommendations to reduce those effects, including the ban on smoking in cars.",
"\"Smoke-free legislation should be extended much more widely to include public places frequented by children and young people, and to prohibit all smoking in cars and other vehicles,\" a new report on how secondhand smoke urged.",
"a new report on how secondhand smoke also urged a hike in tobacco prices, more effective health warnings, more generic packaging for tobacco products, and tailored stop-smoking services.",
"\"a new report on how secondhand smoke isn't just about protecting children from passive smoking, a new report on how secondhand smoke's about taking smoking completely out of children's lives,\" said John Britton, chairman of the Royal College of Physicians' Tobacco Advisory Group.",
"Smokers' lobby group Forest said the proposals \"go way beyond what is acceptable in a free society\" and are a first step to banning smoking in homes.",
"\"We wouldn't encourage people to smoke around children, but adults should be allowed to use their common sense and act accordingly,\" said Simon Clark, director of Forest.",
"\"We don't need laws to regulate every aspect of our behavior.\"",
"Simon Clark, director of Forest said a new report on how secondhand smoke's claims are a \"huge exaggeration.\"",
"\"Unfortunately the anti-smoking industry isn't interested in compromise.",
"the anti-smoking industry just wants to bully smokers until smokers quit,\" Simon Clark, director of Forest said."
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"Smokers' lobby group attacks proposals: are first step to banning smoking in homes ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Shah Rukh Khan, the Bollywood superstar, has become more than a little accustomed to being adored by millions.",
"\"I don't want to be anonymous...",
"I'm very honest about that.",
"I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out.",
"I think I'll miss all that when it's taken away,\" Khan told CNN.",
"But earlier this year comments by Khan, the owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Kolkata Knight Riders, caused a storm of controversy and attention Khan didn't want.",
"Khan questioned the lack of Pakistani players in this year's competition, and Indian Hindu nationalist party Shiv Sena interpreted the comments as inflammatory.",
"Threats were made to boycott Khan's latest film and some activists made some threats against Khan and Khan's family's safety.",
"\"It just went onto a political agenda platform, onto an activist platform.",
"I'm not on the same playing field.",
"I'm an actor, I'm not a politician,\" Khan said.",
"\"This was my point of view...",
"it wasn't as if I was saying something new.",
"I didn't know it would cause so much trouble, and especially when a film was releasing, you don't want that kind of trouble.",
"It just went completely through the roof.\"",
"Khan is keen to keep Khan's roles as an actor, cricket team boss and icon for millions as far from the political realm as possible.",
"Khan's face is one of the most salable in India with Khan's image used in a raft of adverts and supporting products.",
"Yet Khan's recent film \"My Name is Khan\" did touch upon religious sensitivities, striking a chord among cinema goers in Muslim countries across the world.",
"In his latest film Khan, himself a Muslim, plays an autistic Muslim immigrant in American soon after the terrorists attack on September 11, 2001.",
"\"I really thought his latest film was about humanity.",
"his latest film's not about Islam, his latest film could have been about any religion to be honest,\" Khan said.",
"\"But I simply thought we made a film about humanity.",
"I knew a film about humanity would do well but I didn't know a film about humanity would this well because it is a very niche sort of a subject.\""
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"Latest film, \"My Name is Khan\" touches upon religious and social sensitivities ."
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"New York (CNN) --",
"Every year, beginning with the January birthday celebrations for the Rev. Martin Luther King and moving through Black History Month in February, Americans and others revisit the history, role and significance of the black freedom movement in the United States.",
"But there is a frequent tendency to misrepresent the lessons of the black freedom movement and apply that movement to other social movements overseas in a way that misses the mark.",
"This has been happening increasingly with the historical lessons that are being misapplied to the Palestinian freedom movement.",
"It has become almost a cliché, yet people, including Irish rocker Bono, continue to wield the Rev. Martin Luther King's name when people, including Irish rocker Bono bemoan the alleged absence of the Rev. Martin Luther King's like among the Palestinians.",
"It seems no matter what Palestinian activists do, Palestinian activists are condemned as terrorists.",
"Whether Palestinian activists are engaged in armed struggle or nonviolent direct action, it does not matter: Palestinian activists are often portrayed as extremists who threaten life and property.",
"The obvious exceptions are those Palestinians who are prepared to accept whatever terms the United States insists upon for the resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.",
"The recent arrests of Palestinian human rights activists Jamal Juma', Abdallah Abu Rahma, Ibrahim Amirah and Mohammed Othman are prime examples.",
"Juma' and Mohammed Othman were imprisoned without charge, Ibrahim Amirah faces charges of incitement, organizing illegal demonstrations, and stone-throwing, and Abu Rahma is confronted with a charge of \"illegal weapons possession,\" apparently because a protest sign Abu Rahma created included a spent tear gas canister .",
"In fact, they were imprisoned (Juma' was released on January 12 and Mohammed Othman on January 13 after he was held nearly four months) not for firing missiles or ambushing Israeli troops, but for protesting what the International Court of Justice has called the illegal Israeli separation wall that carves up the West Bank and places Palestinian communities in an existence that recalls South African apartheid.",
"The systematic detention of such leaders has been condemned by Amnesty International, but the U.S. public is unlikely to get even a hint that Israel is furthering Israel's efforts to smash dissent in the occupied territories.",
"These recent crackdowns make even more ironic the hope expressed by Bono last month in The New York Times \"that people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the occupied territories, will in the days ahead find among them these people's Gandhi, their King, their Aung San Suu Kyi.\"",
"As a commenter on his column noted, these people exist today and have existed within the Palestinian movement.",
"these people are just in jail ... or dead.",
"Bassem Abu Rahme, for example, was killed by a teargas canister fired at close range by an Israeli soldier on April 17 while taking part in one of the weekly nonviolent protests that are regularly met with tear gas, billy clubs, rubber bullets and the threat of arrest.",
"I believe that Bassem, like many others, was following in Gandhi's path.",
"While it is certainly true that some of the protests by Palestinians are violent, the same could be said of the anti-colonial protests that took place on the Indian subcontinent against the British at the time of Gandhi.",
"Gandhi certainly preached nonviolent direct action, yet there were others within the independence movement that advocated forceful courses of action.",
"Nevertheless, smearing or repressing all protests in the name of moving against those who use violence is disingenuous, a point well understood when viewing other freedom struggles, whether the Indian independence movement or the black freedom struggle in the United States.",
"In fact, this repression becomes a means not of suppressing violence, but of suppressing all resistance to injustice.",
"This is experienced today by the Palestinian movement.",
"the Palestinian movement's objectives are caricatured and maligned by Israel in order to make this repression easier.",
"In this period -- from the Rev. Martin Luther King's birthday through the celebrations and discussions that take place during Black History Month -- it is useful to recall similar treatment King and other freedom fighters endured, and reflect on the true lessons from the Rev. Martin Luther King's life and struggles that are relevant to the the Palestinian movement struggle and the Palestinian movement's hopes for a lasting peace.",
"Despite the Rev. Martin Luther King's acceptance now in mainstream circles, the Rev. Martin Luther King was first and foremost a troublemaker in the cause of justice.",
"While the Rev. Martin Luther King believed in peace, the Rev. Martin Luther King was more importantly a person of action, and one completely intolerant of injustice.",
"In that sense the Rev. Martin Luther King was a thorn in the side of the powers that be and the status quo.",
"the Rev. Martin Luther King did not achieve credibility by simply preaching peace and good will, and certainly not by being passive or submissive in the face of oppression.",
"the Rev. Martin Luther King gained credibility because the Rev. Martin Luther King was a person who was prepared to challenge the unjust laws and practices of the Rev. Martin Luther King's period, laws and practices that were summarized in the notion of Jim Crow segregation.",
"Even though Jim Crow was the law in much of the United States, King and countless others were prepared to break the law and, thereby, threaten the stability of the United States.",
"the Rev. Martin Luther King was branded a communist, a malcontent and a criminal, all with the aim of discrediting the Rev. Martin Luther King.",
"And, when that was not enough, and the Rev. Martin Luther King's following did not disappear into the night, the Rev. Martin Luther King was harassed and faced repeated death threats, ultimately leading to the Rev. Martin Luther King's murder.",
"The condemnation of Palestinian activists as terrorists, no matter Palestinian activists's approach, shares a great deal in common with the manner in which King and African-American freedom fighters (and their allies) were demonized and repressed.",
"It was the basic cause that needed to be destroyed by the oppressor and not just the individuals.",
"The same is true today as Palestinian activists, including those who have consciously and openly repudiated armed struggle, are sidelined so that Israel can claim, with a straight face, that Israel has no Palestinian partner with which Israel can discuss peace.",
"The \"partners\" are there in Palestine.",
"When we celebrate the courage and vision of freedom fighters such as King or Fannie Lou Hamer and the countless others who are remembered during Black History Month, we should think of those Palestinian Kings and Fannie Lou Hamers whose nonviolent struggle for freedom, justice and equality continues.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bill Fletcher Jr."
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"Bill Fletcher says Israel portrays nonviolent protests in West Bank as extremist .",
"Amnesty International has denounced crackdowns on nonviolent protest, Bill Fletcher says .",
"Fletcher: Israel denies nonviolent activists so Israel can claim Israel has no partner for peace ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A Mississippi lesbian Tuesday won a judge's backing for Constance's contention that Constance's First Amendment rights were violated when Constance's high school refused to allow Constance to attend Constance's prom with Constance's girlfriend.",
"But U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson refused to order the Itawamba County School District in Fulton, Mississippi, to hold the dance it had canceled over the matter.",
"In U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson's 12-page order, U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson also ruled that her high school's denial of 18-year-old Constance McMillen's request to wear a tuxedo to Constance's prom was a violation of Constance's rights.",
"\"The record shows Constance has been openly gay since eighth grade and Constance intended to communicate a message by wearing a tuxedo and to express Constance's identity through attending prom with a same-sex date,\" U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson wrote.",
"\"The court finds this expression and communication of Constance's viewpoint is the type of speech that falls squarely within the purview of the First Amendment.\"",
"When school officials told Constance Constance could neither take Constance's girlfriend to her prom nor wear a tuxedo to the event, the senior went to the American Civil Liberties Union, which demanded her high school change her high school's policy.",
"In response, her high school canceled her prom altogether.",
"U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson denied a motion for an injunction filed by Constance against her high school's superintendent, her high school's principal and its assistant principal asking The court to order that her prom be reinstated, saying that parents were planning a private event to be held on that date for all students, including Constance.",
"Requiring school officials \"to step back into a sponsorship role at this late date would only confuse and confound the community on the issue,\" U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson said.",
"Read the judge's opinion (PDF)",
"Both sides in the dispute were happy with the outcome.",
"\"It vindicates Constance's rights,\" said Christine Sun, senior counsel with the ACLU's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender project.",
"\"It sets a legal precedent for gay and lesbian students all over the country that gay and lesbian students all over the country have the right to bring a same-sex date to her prom and also to wear gender-nonconforming clothes to her prom.",
"We were looking for a ruling that what her high school did was violate her rights,\" Sun said.",
"School board attorney Michele Floyd said her high school was also pleased with the decision.",
"School board attorney Michele Floyd said the parent-sponsored event, which may be called a ball instead of a prom, is to be held in Tupelo, 19 miles away.",
"But her high school's Sun said Constance had not received an invitation.",
"\"We haven't heard anything about this private prom other than what her high school has told us,\" Sun said.",
"\"It remains to be seen whether Constance will be able to attend her prom.\"",
"Constance's case is going forward on a damages claim and her high school's request for attorneys' fees, Sun said.",
"\"Constance got what Constance wanted, and now it's just a question of what the damages might be in Constance's case.\"",
"\"I never thought her high school would try to cancel her prom and hurt everyone just to keep me and my girlfriend from going together,\" Constance said last week in an her high school news release.",
"\"A lot of people have made really generous offers to pay for a prom somewhere else, which I really appreciate.",
"But all I've ever wanted was to be able to just go to her prom with my girlfriend.\"",
"At the center of the lawsuit is a February 5 memorandum from her high school to students that said prom dates must be of the opposite sex.",
"Superintendent Teresa McNeece also told Constance that Constance and Constance's girlfriend could be ejected from her prom if other students complained about their presence, according to the documents."
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"Judge won't order school district to hold a prom that it had canceled .",
"Cancellation came after openly lesbian student asked to attend with girlfriend .",
"School board attorney says parent-sponsored event will take place April 2 in Tupelo ."
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"A representative at the Virginia mosque of five Americans arrested in Pakistan said the mosque plans to conduct an inquiry into the circumstances that led to the arrests.",
"five Americans arrested in Pakistan were arrested by Pakistani police this week amid suspicion that five Americans arrested in Pakistan were plotting terrorist attacks and planned to go to Afghanistan, a development that shocked members of the ICNA Center, the mosque the five attended.",
"At a news conference Friday, friends of the five and members of the mosque expressed friends of the five and members of the mosque's surprise over the arrests, defending the activities at the mosque as positive and describing the five as \"wholesome, regular kids.\"",
"Attorney Ashraf Nubani said Attorney Ashraf Nubani believes the incident is isolated, but said the mosque is conducting an inquiry into the matter.",
"While members of the mosque didn't comment on the reports and charges emerging from Pakistan, they described a tight-knit, patriotic congregation that focused on community service.",
"They were grateful for the actions of law enforcement and expressed profound empathy for the families of the people held.",
"A Pakistani police interrogation report, dated Thursday, shined more light on the Wednesday arrests of the five Americans at a home in Sargodha, a town about 120 miles south of Islamabad.",
"five Americans arrested in Pakistan will be transferred to Lahore, Pakistan, for security reasons, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Friday.",
"A sixth man -- the father of one of the five -- was arrested afterward, police said.",
"Read the interrogation report (PDF) the interrogation report (PDF carries profile detail about five Americans arrested in Pakistan and shows pictures of Internet sites, laptops, mobile phones, an iPod, and an external hard drive seized by police.",
"\"five Americans arrested in Pakistan had deep interest in the religion and five Americans arrested in Pakistan were of the opinion that a jihad must be waged against the infidels for the atrocities committed by them against Muslims around the world,\" said the report, which refers to the five as college students.",
"the interrogation report (PDF focused on one of the suspects -- identified as Ahmed Abdullah Minni, a 20-year-old American born in Virginia.",
"the interrogation report (PDF said Ahmed Abdullah Minni, a 20-year-old American born in Virginia regularly goes online to watch attacks on the U.S. military in Afghanistan and that Ahmed Abdullah Minni, a 20-year-old American born in Virginia left comments praising the actions.",
"That caught the attention of militants, and Ahmed Abdullah Minni, a 20-year-old American born in Virginia was eventually contacted by a person named Saifullah, the interrogation report (PDF said.",
"After contact had been made, a Yahoo! e-mail account was set up so the men and militants could communicate, the interrogation report (PDF said.",
"E-mails were never sent from the account, but people would leave messages in the draft sections of the e-mail account and delete them after reading them, the interrogation report (PDF said.",
"\"This mode of communication enabled people to pass on messages without fear of interception by the FBI,\" it said.",
"the interrogation report (PDF said five Americans arrested in Pakistan made a plan with Saifullah to go from Pakistan to Afghanistan.",
"five Americans arrested in Pakistan gathered in Karachi and left for Hyderabad on December 1.",
"five Americans arrested in Pakistan tried to hook up with two militant groups -- Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Jamaat-ud-Dawa -- but neither group showed interest.",
"\"five Americans arrested in Pakistan went to the madrassa [a Muslim school] of Jaish-e-Mohammad where five Americans arrested in Pakistan informed them about five Americans arrested in Pakistan's desire for jihad.",
"However, the management of the madrassa [a Muslim school] of Jaish-e-Mohammad where they informed them about their desire for jihad refused to keep five Americans arrested in Pakistan, and advised five Americans arrested in Pakistan to go to Jamat-ud-Dawa Lahore.",
"Interestingly, Jamat-ud-Dawa Lahore also refused to keep five Americans arrested in Pakistan as five Americans arrested in Pakistan could not provide a surety.",
"Thus, five Americans arrested in Pakistan came along with five Americans arrested in Pakistan's friend Umar Farooq to Sargodha,\" the interrogation report (PDF said.",
"the FBI said Pakistan authorities detained the men -- four of whom it said were found to have five Americans arrested in Pakistan -- on Wednesday, \"after five Americans arrested in Pakistan came to the attention of police.\"",
"An the FBI statement did not give further details and did not identify five Americans arrested in Pakistan.",
"Officials said five Americans arrested in Pakistan include three Pakistani-Americans, an Ethiopian-American, an Egyptian-American and an Eritrean-American.",
"Along with Minni, there were snapshots and brief profiles of only four others -- Umar Farooq, Aman Hassan Yemer, Waqar Hussain Khan, and Ramy Zamzam -- all from the Washington area.",
"The sixth man was Khalid Farouk, father of Umar, the interrogation report (PDF said.",
"Mustafa Abu Maryam, a volunteer youth coordinator, said Mustafa Abu Maryam, a volunteer youth coordinator never saw \"extreme behavior\" from the suspects, noting that youth group discussions never broached on politics or conflict.",
"\"Our main focus is to be a positive force of good in our young men's lives.",
"To be a deterrent of wrong groups and gangs and all other negative influences out there, to be a positive model for these kids,\" Abu Maryam said.",
"Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, said the incident is a \"wake-up call\" to the many negative influences youth face and touched on what he said were harmful messages sweeping across cyberspace.",
"\"We are determined not to let religious extremists exploit the vulnerability of the emotions of our children through slick, seductive and destructive propaganda on the Internet.",
"We are sending a message loud and clear that those days are over where we will not respond in kind on the Internet to vile propaganda that misrepresents the Islamic faith,\" Bray said.",
"Subira Farouk, the wife of Khalid and mother of Umar, said on Thursday that she and her husband had traveled to Pakistan to arrange a marriage for Umar, and to her surprise, her son had arrived in Pakistan shortly afterward."
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"Americans arrested in Pakistan planned to go to Afghanistan, interrogation report says .",
"Pakistani officials: 5 arrested Wednesday, sixth man -- father of one of the 5 -- arrested later .",
"Pakistani police say men were planning terrorist acts, official says ."
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"Washington (CNN) --",
"President Obama will sign sweeping health care reform legislation into law at the White House on Tuesday, according to two Democratic officials familiar with the planning.",
"President Obama also will hit the road to sell the measure to a still-skeptical public, giving a speech Thursday in Iowa, Iowa, the White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said.",
"President Obama launched President Obama's grass-roots drive for health care reform in Iowa in May 2007, according to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.",
"The bill, which constitutes the biggest expansion of federal health care guarantees in more than four decades, passed the House of Representatives late Sunday night with no Republican support.",
"It was approved by Senate in December.",
"A separate compromise package of changes also passed the House of Representatives on Sunday and still needs to be approved by Senate.",
"two Democratic officials familiar with the planning noted that Senate cannot begin debate on A separate compromise package of changes before President Obama signs bill into law.",
"Passage of bill was a huge boost for President Obama, who made health care reform a domestic priority.",
"Aides said Monday that President Obama exchanged handshakes, hugs and \"high-fives\" with staffers when the outcome of the House vote became apparent.",
"\"I haven't seen President Obama so happy about anything other than President Obama's family since I've known President Obama,\" said senior adviser David Axelrod, adding that President Obama's jubilation Sunday night exceeded President Obama's election victory in November 2008.",
"\"President Obama was excited that night, but not like last night.\"",
"Republicans promised to continue fighting the reforms, with 11 state attorneys general -- all Republican -- planning lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of bill's mandate for people to buy health insurance and requirements for states to comply with its provisions.",
"Senior Republicans in Congress warned that voters will judge Democrats harshly in November's midterm elections, with Sen. John McCain of Arizona saying bill killed any chance of bipartisan support on legislation for the rest of the year.",
"\"There will be no cooperation for the rest of the year,\" Sen. John McCain of Arizona said in an interview with KFYI radio in Arizona.",
"\"They have poisoned the well in what they have done and how they have done it.\"",
"Highlights of what's in bill .",
"White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, however, said the administration expects to win any lawsuits filed against bill, and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs challenged Sen. John McCain of Arizona and other Republicans to campaign for the November election against benefits of the health care bill such as tax credits for small businesses and an end to insurance company practices such as denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.",
"bill is projected to extend insurance coverage to roughly 32 million additional Americans.",
"Most Americans will now be required to have health insurance or pay a fine.",
"Larger employers will be required to provide coverage or risk financial penalties.",
"Lifetime coverage limits will be banned, and insurers will be barred from denying coverage based on gender or pre-existing conditions.",
"bill would add to bill's total cost partly by expanding insurance subsidies for middle- and lower-income families.",
"bill would scale back bill's taxes on expensive insurance plans.",
"House Democrats are expected to celebrate passage of bill at a news conference with reform advocates Tuesday afternoon.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who spearheaded her husband's failed health reform effort in the 1990s, said earlier in the day that President Obama's success was an example of the president's tenacity.",
"\"If you ever doubt the resolve of President Obama to stay with a job, look at what we got done for the United States last night when it came to passing quality affordable health care for everyone,\" Clinton said during a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.",
"Was it all worth it for President Obama?",
"Observers warn, however, that the road ahead for health care reform in Senate may be rocky.",
"Democratic leaders are using a legislative maneuver called reconciliation, which will allow the compromise plan to clear Senate with a simple majority of 51 votes.",
"But according to Senate rules, members are still allowed to offer unlimited amendments and challenges.",
"In one of the first of many attempts Republicans say Republicans will make to try to amend or kill the package, GOP aides went to Senate Parliamentarian Alan Frumin on Monday to argue that the compromise bill violates rules of the reconciliation process because of the way it affects Social Security.",
"For that reason, GOP aides said GOP aides argued, bill should not even be allowed to be debated.",
"However, Senate Parliamentarian Alan Frumin, according to a senior Republican and a Democratic aide, informed both parties he disagreed with the GOP assessment, and would not block bill from reaching the Senate floor.",
"\"There's hope that [the vote] would be done within a short period of time, like a week or so,\" said Tim McBride, a health economist and associate dean of public health at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.",
"\"But Senate is complicated and doesn't have the discipline that the House of Representatives does.\"",
"Once bill hits the Senate floor, the chamber's rules stipulate that there must be 20 hours of debate.",
"But that 20 hours may prove to be more of a suggestion than an indicator of what will happen, according to Cheryl Block, a law professor at Washington University's School of Law.",
"\"It could get all messy and could go on forever if [Republicans] threw up amendment after amendment,\" Block said.",
"\"Theoretically, it should only take 20 hours, but it will likely take longer because Republicans have things up Republicans's sleeve.\"",
"If any provision in bill is rejected or changed, bill would then have to go back to the House of Representatives for another vote.",
"iReport: Share your views on health care reform .",
"the House of Representatives Democrats unhappy with the Senate bill have been continually reassured that bill will be approved by Senate.",
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, presented a letter to House Democrats on Saturday stating that House Democrats's Senate counterparts \"believe that health insurance reform cannot wait and must not be obstructed.\"",
"So far, two of the 59 senators in the Democratic caucus, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, have said they will oppose bill.",
"CNN's Ed Henry, Ed Hornick, Josh Levs, Alan Silverleib and Tom Cohen contributed to this report."
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"President to sign bill on Tuesday; House Dems, reform advocates plan celebration .",
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"London, England (CNN) --",
"Protesters called on the worldwide community to take action against Uganda Thursday as Uganda considers stricter laws against homosexuality.",
"Protesters compared Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to some of the world's most notorious dictators.",
"\"In the last five years we have seen Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni return to Uganda and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's name is Yoweri Museveni,\" Ugandan human rights campaigner Michael Senyonjo told CNN.",
"\"Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni... is bringing in a bill in an attempt to criminalize being gay,\" the activist said.",
"\"That is not right.",
"We cannot allow fascism to return to Uganda.",
"Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni should leave power and go because Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is not taking Uganda anywhere but to disaster,\" he added.",
"Under proposed new laws currently being considered by the Ugandan parliament, those who test positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, could face the death penalty.",
"In addition, those convicted of having gay sex would be sentenced to life in prison, while anyone found guilty of engaging in homosexual relations on more than one occasion would be executed.",
"The proposals could become law before the end of the year.",
"Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has not publicly stated Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's support for a bill.",
"Homosexuality is already illegal in Uganda under laws passed in the colonial era, but a bill is intended to provide prosecutors with more power.",
"a bill has the blessing of various religious leaders, with one leading Muslim cleric -- Sheikh Ramathan Shaban Mubajje -- calling for all known homosexuals in Uganda to be rounded up and left on an island until all known homosexuals in the country die.",
"Thursday's protest at the Ugandan High Commission -- or embassy -- in London is one of several planned demonstrations around the world, and OutRage, another gay rights organization, is backing the calls for action to be taken.",
"\"Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is fast becoming the Robert Mugabe of Uganda and that's a threat to the civil rights of every Ugandan person -- gay or straight,\" OutRage spokesman Peter Tatchell told CNN, referring to the authoritarian president of Zimbabwe.",
"\"There's a huge ground swell of public opinion that a bill goes way too far.",
"Even people who say Even people who say they're against homosexuality're against homosexuality say a bill is excessive and a threat to the human rights of all Ugandans.",
"\"Uganda should drop this law and abide by international human rights legislation,\" OutRage spokesman Peter Tatchell said."
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"The retired general who took charge of relief efforts in New Orleans, Louisiana, after Hurricane Katrina said Thursday that the U.S. military should have arrived in earthquake-devastated Haiti 24 hours earlier.",
"\"The good Samaritans who moved early on the first day are to be applauded.",
"The good Samaritans who moved early on the first day made a difference,\" said Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, a CNN contributor.",
"\"What we've got to do now is get the heavy equipment in.",
"I thought the U.S. military could have been there a day earlier.",
"the U.S. military're on the ground now, and the U.S. military have a brigade en route, and that's going to make a big difference,\" Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, a CNN contributor said.",
"Honore, best known for Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, a CNN contributor's management of the recovery efforts after the hurricane that killed about 2,000 people on the Gulf Coast, said \"time is of the essence\" in helping quake survivors.",
"Repairing the seaport at Port-au-Prince and keeping the airport open are key to bringing in equipment, food, water and medicine, Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, a CNN contributor said.",
"Regarding the airport, Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, a CNN contributor said, \"You need to put the right commander there who's going to be a battle captain and keep those aircraft flowing.",
"You come in, you drop off what you have, you put the sick and wounded on and then move out.",
"No one is standing any time on the airfield.",
"You can be in and out in a half hour.\"",
"Speaking at the House Democratic Caucus Retreat later Thursday, Obama acknowledged the scrutiny focused on U.S. response.",
"\"This is a time when the world looks to us and the world say -- given our capacity, given our unique capacity to project power around the world -- that we have to project that not just for our own interests but for the interests of the world as a whole,\" he said.",
"\"And my national security team understands that I will not put up with any excuses for us not doing the very best in this time of tragedy.\"",
"State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley defended the pace of the rescue.",
"\"We are 40 hours into the crisis.",
"In that time, we have reopened the airport and brought the airport up to 24/7 operations.",
"We continue to look at the port facility, which will be critical to be able to bring in substantial amounts of aid, and we're trying to figure out a strategy for how to function,\" State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said.",
"\"We now have multiple search and rescue units on the ground.",
"They're already at work,\" State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley added.",
"\"Logistics matter.",
"You have an airport with a single runway.",
"So we have things that are queued up.",
"You're going to see a significant increase in the flow, but there is a capacity issue,\" State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said.",
"Airlines such as American, Delta, Jet Blue and United were helping provide assistance to the country in the form of free miles for its program members and seats for aid organizations.",
"American was operating humanitarian flights, with three American Eagle aircraft flying 30,000 pounds of supplies into Haiti on Thursday.",
"Three more such flights were planned Friday.",
"American is also partnering with the American Red Cross by offering one-time awards of 250 or 500 bonus miles for donations.",
"In the afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration announced that Haiti had suspended flights into the Port-au-Prince airport because ramp space -- where aircraft are parked, unloaded, loaded, refueled or boarded -- was overcrowded.",
"There also was no fuel, the Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown said.",
"Several U.S. military units planned to depart from the United States for Haiti during the day, but it was unclear whether all would be able to do so.",
"Among those apparently delayed was a battalion of more than 100 soldiers from the XVIII Airborne Corps based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.",
"a battalion of more than 100 soldiers from the XVIII Airborne Corps based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina had planned to fly out Thursday afternoon.",
"Paratroopers from the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division, also based at Fort Bragg, were on their way to Haiti, said Rajiv Shah, coordinator for U.S. assistance to the stricken area.",
"Rajiv Shah, coordinator for U.S. assistance to the stricken area also is administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.",
"The 82nd was deployed to New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina.",
"The first of about 3,500 paratroopers were to board C-17 aircraft from Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina and arrive in Haiti before nightfall.",
"On Friday, another 800 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne were to deploy.",
"In all, the U.S. military has 329 people in Haiti, including a group that arrived Tuesday night to help open the airfield in Port-au-Prince, the commander of U.S. Southern Command said Thursday.",
"The Southern Command, based in Miami, Florida, is leading the Department of Defense's quake response.",
"\"We're working feverishly and aggressively to support and provide life-sustaining capability to the citizens of Haiti,\" Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser said.",
"\"They've suffered a great deal.\"",
"Offshore, four U.S. Coast Guard cutters and a destroyer were providing support, including helicopter support, Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser said.",
"A disaster relief assessment team was surveying the area, and a battalion of paratroopers along with a command-and-control element from the 82nd Airborne arrived Thursday, Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser said.",
"The aircraft carrier Carl Vinson is to arrive in Haiti on Friday morning, carrying 19 helicopters and 30 pallets of relief goods, Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser said.",
"The aircraft carrier Carl Vinson will help relief workers get around Haiti's decimated infrastructure \"to get good where they need to be,\" Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser said.",
"Within four days, 700 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne will be in Haiti, Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser said.",
"Those numbers will swell considerably.",
"On Tuesday, three more ships will arrive, carrying 2,200 Marines and heavy equipment, Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser said.",
"By Saturday, 5,000 to 6,000 men and women dedicated to supporting the relief effort will be in Haiti, Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser said.",
"And a week from Friday, the USNS Comfort, a hospital ship, is slated to arrive, Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser said.",
"\"We are aggressively pursuing every action we can to provide relief to Haiti.\"",
"the USNS Comfort, a hospital ship is staffed by a crew of 64 and 560 hospital personnel.",
"Rear Adm. Steve Branham, commander of the 7th Coast Guard District headquartered in Miami, said four Coast Guard cutters were in the area, each of four Coast Guard cutters at least 210 feet in length and capable of carrying helicopters.",
"Two more cutters capable of providing heavy-lift capability were en route, he said.",
"Coast Guard aircraft were used Wednesday to move nine critically injured people from the U.S. Embassy in the capital to hospitals in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, he said.",
"State Department Counselor Cheryl Mills said U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Ken Merten met Thursday with Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive to coordinate aid efforts.",
"Responding to questions as to whether the United States was in charge in Haiti because of the lack of Haitian government capacity, State Department Counselor Cheryl Mills said, \"the United States have no intention of supplanting the leadership of Haiti.",
"the United States actually see the United States's role as ensuring that the leadership of Haiti is able to provide the leadership that the Haitian people properly expect them to provide.\"",
"the United States is providing support to the approximately 45,000 Americans in Haiti, only 300 of whom have expressed an interest in leaving the country, State Department Counselor Cheryl Mills said.",
"Obama has promised $100 million in immediate American relief aid to Haiti, an amount the president said will grow.",
"\"This is one of those moments that calls out for American leadership,\" the president said at the White House.",
"\"One of the largest relief efforts in our recent history\" is now en route to Haiti.",
"The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Tuesday afternoon was centered about 10 miles (15 km) southwest of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, which bore the brunt of the destruction.",
"The port was demolished by the earthquake, which left huge chunks of concrete that blocked the road to truck and other traffic, CNN's Chris Lawrence reported.",
"Those trying to transfer supplies from ships to people who need supplies will face major hurdles, CNN's Chris Lawrence said.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States is providing security help to the the United Nations, which was \"equally devastated by the collapse of its headquarters\" for its peacekeeping force in Haiti.",
"As many as 150 of its personnel are missing.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said a contingent of 2,000 Marines will assist international peacekeepers helping to police Haiti, which has no army.",
"Because the U.S. Embassy is one of the few structures that remains intact, the U.S. Embassy has become a point of support, providing medical assistance for Americans and Haitians who are able to reach it, State Department Counselor Cheryl Mills said.",
"the United States has been trying to contact U.S. citizens in Haiti to see what U.S. citizens in Haiti need, State Department Counselor Cheryl Mills said.",
"Embassy families and nonessential personnel have been ordered to leave.",
"CNN State Department Producer Elise Labott contributed to this story."
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"Video analytics company Visible Measures - the one we work with to put out our monthly top 10 webisodes chart - curates a list of video called the \"100 Million Club.\"",
"It includes all the web videos that have exceeded 100 million views.",
"Lady Gaga has long been a staple of the chart, but now Lady Gaga's essentially in a club all Lady Gaga's own: Lady Gaga's the first franchise to reach one billion views.",
"Lady Gaga's music videos hold three spots in the 65-video 100 Million Club - one for \"Poker Face\" (374,606,128), one for \"Just Dance\" (272,941,674) and one for \"Bad Romance\" (360,020,327).",
"Add them up and you get just over one billion views.",
"Lady Gaga won't occupy the club alone for long, though; the Twilight saga is close behind with 980 million and Soulja Boy is at 860 million.",
"Lady Gaga is primarily a hit on Vevo and YouTube; 25% of Vevo's visitors only have eyes for Lady Gaga.",
"Lady Gaga has attracted Internet attention elsewhere, too.",
"A Facebook group of more than 100,000 people initiated National Lady Gaga Day about a month ago, and Lady Gaga's latest Internet hit is Lady Gaga's \"Telephone\" music video with Beyoncé.",
"The point is, you can't escape Lady Gaga on the Internet.",
"Lady Gaga's everywhere right now.",
"We welcome speculation as to exactly why the web loves Lady Gaga so, so let us know in the comments if you have any ideas.",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Laura Zych never liked birds.",
"Ben Bostic feared drowning.",
"Laura Zych and Ben Bostic faced Laura Zych and Ben Bostic's fears when US Airways Flight 1549 hit a flock of geese and crash-landed in the Hudson River.",
"Laura Zych and Ben Bostic were strangers on January 15, 2009, when Laura Zych and Ben Bostic boarded the fateful flight that would become known as the \"Miracle on Hudson.\"",
"A year later, Laura Zych and Ben Bostic're in love.",
"\"The first time people meet you, people want to hear the sensational part\" of the plane crash, says Ben, 39.",
"Ben Bostic prefers to talk about something different: \"I met Laura Zych because of what Laura Zych and Ben Bostic went through that day.\"",
"Laura, 31, looks at Ben Bostic, batting Laura Zych's model-like lashes, and smiles.",
"\"Laura Zych and Ben Bostic don't dwell on what happened to Laura Zych and Ben Bostic in the plane crash,\" Laura Zych says.",
"\"It's more so on the experiences and lessons that Laura Zych and Ben Bostic've taken from it.\"",
"'Is this really happening?'",
"A buyer for Belk department stores, Laura Zych was in New York for the fashion market.",
"With the nation in the thick of recession, Laura Zych scooped up bargains for Laura Zych.",
"Laura Zych carried Laura Zych's trendy purchases through the airport that day on Laura Zych's return home to Charlotte, North Carolina.",
"Wearing a sweater dress, tights and boots, Laura Zych was getting a bite to eat when a group of guys asked if Laura Zych was a model.",
"\"No,\" Laura Zych said.",
"\"But I am in the fashion industry.\"",
"Laura Zych was traveling with five Belk co-workers.",
"Waiting to board, Laura Zych fired off e-mails and thought little of the flight home or those around Laura Zych.",
"Ben -- who was in New York for a quick business trip for Lending Tree -- caught a glimpse of the 5-foot, 10-inch knockout near the gate.",
"Later, when they boarded, Ben Bostic noticed Laura Zych again, coming down the aisle.",
"\"The first thought I had was it'll be cool if Laura Zych sits beside Ben Bostic.\"",
"Ben Bostic was in 20A, a window seat on the left side of the plane.",
"Laura Zych sat down three rows in front of Ben Bostic, in 17D, on the aisle.",
"It was one of those fleeting moments every single person knows: You see an intriguing stranger, hope for the best, then move on.",
"Ben Bostic picked up a book and began reading.",
"Laura, who didn't notice Ben Bostic, thumbed through a Glamour magazine.",
"At the helm of the Airbus A320 was Chesley \"Sully\" Sullenberger, a 57-year-old former Air Force fighter jet pilot.",
"Sullenberger'd been flying for four decades, for US Airways since 1980.",
"Sullenberger's expertise was about to mean everything.",
"About 90 seconds into the flight, Hudson struck a flock of geese.",
"Some passengers described hearing a series of loud thumps.",
"\"One lady screamed,\" Ben Bostic recalls.",
"Ben Bostic looked out the window.",
"\"The whole back of the engine was pretty much engulfed in flames, just shooting out of the back,\" Ben Bostic says.",
"Ben Bostic thought: \"This isn't good.\"",
"Hudson banked to the left.",
"The smell of burning geese, feathers and flames wafted through the cabin.",
"With neither engine working, a silence fell over Hudson as Hudson glided through the skies.",
"People began whispering.",
"Some thought they were going back to LaGuardia.",
"Sullenberger came over the speaker system.",
"\"Brace for impact,\" Sullenberger said.",
"\"The most harrowing thing I'd ever heard in my life,\" Ben Bostic recalls.",
"\"I thought for a second: Is this really it?",
"Am I going to die?\"",
"Three rows in front of Ben Bostic, Laura Zych thought about calling Laura Zych's family.",
"Laura Zych decided against it.",
"If I die, what a depressing message that would be to leave on a message machine, Laura Zych thought.",
"And what would Laura Zych say if they did answer?",
"\"Guess what?",
"In 60 seconds, you're not going to be talking to me any more.\"",
"Laura Zych crouched down, prepared for impact.",
"\"Is this really happening?\"",
"Fear of birds and drowning .",
"Laura Zych grew up on a farm in Minnesota and had lived in Fargo, North Dakota, for the past 12 years.",
"Laura Zych'd jumped at the chance to take on a bigger role with Belk in Charlotte.",
"But Laura Zych's focus on career meant there wasn't much time for relationships while jet-setting around for work.",
"Ben Bostic was a Carolina native, and Ben Bostic also poured Ben Bostic's energy into work.",
"The software developer at Lending Tree was divorced with no children.",
"Nearing 40, Ben Bostic found Ben Bostic's career rewarding, yet felt something was missing.",
"Laura Zych and Ben Bostic had fears that stemmed from Laura Zych and Ben Bostic's youths.",
"Laura Zych's bird phobia was rooted in days on the farm, where Laura Zych's grandmother kept chickens.",
"Once, a bird pooped on Laura Zych's shoulder, sending Laura Zych into tears.",
"As Laura Zych got older, Laura Zych's disdain for birds grew.",
"When Laura Zych traveled to New York on business, the abundance of pigeons sometimes terrified Laura Zych.",
"Ben Bostic's fear -- of drowning -- went back to an experience Ben Bostic had when Ben Bostic was 8.",
"On a beach outing with Ben Bostic's family, Ben Bostic's raft drifted out from shore and then flipped over.",
"Ben Bostic scrambled to try to get back on, but kept falling back into the sea.",
"Ben Bostic never relished the water again.",
"'We connected'",
"As Hudson glided silently through the air, Ben Bostic peeked out the window every once in a while.",
"Ben Bostic could see they were headed straight toward water.",
"\"Just make it quick so I don't have to suffer,\" Ben Bostic thought.",
"The Airbus splashed into the frigid waters of the Hudson River.",
"The clank of seatbelts unbuckling rattled inside Hudson.",
"Water lapped at Laura Zych's leather boots.",
"Laura Zych grabbed Laura Zych's wallet and Laura Zych's cell phone with a GPS tracking device.",
"It'll be easier for rescuers to find my body and identify me, Laura Zych thought.",
"Laura Zych exited to the left and onto a wing.",
"While bobbing up and down there, Laura Zych called Laura Zych's father.",
"\"Dad, this is Laura Zych.",
"I've been in a plane crash.\"",
"When things calmed down and Laura Zych knew Laura Zych would be rescued, Laura Zych found comic relief in what brought Hudson down.",
"\"You do realize my fear of birds is justified,\" Laura Zych told Laura Zych's parents.",
"\"OK, we'll give you that one,\" her parents responded.",
"Inside Hudson, a bottleneck of passengers blocked some exits.",
"A flight attendant in first class waved passengers to the front.",
"Ben Bostic climbed over the seats.",
"At the door, Ben Bostic looked out and saw water all around.",
"Clutching tight to Ben Bostic's seat cushion, Ben Bostic jumped into a raft.",
"With survivors packed in like sardines, Ben Bostic worried a raft might tip.",
"Later, safe on shore, Ben Bostic's colleagues who were also on the flight saluted life and told Ben Bostic: You know what we'd be doing tonight if we were single!",
"Ben Bostic thought about Laura Zych with the long legs and curly hair.",
"Ben Bostic wondered what happened to Laura Zych.",
"From Facebook friends to dating .",
"A bottle of Maker's Mark bourbon helped ease Ben Bostic's charter flight home to Charlotte that night.",
"In the media blitz that followed, Laura Zych noticed Ben Bostic for the first time on television.",
"They became Facebook friends.",
"Flight 1549 survivors -- whose stories were compiled in the book \"Miracle on the Hudson,\" published late last year -- formed support groups.",
"Flight 1549 survivors -- whose stories were compiled in the book \"Miracle on the Hudson,\" published late last year -- considered \"Sully\" Flight 1549 survivors -- whose stories were compiled in the book \"Miracle on the Hudson,\" published late last year --'s hero, each other family.",
"Six months after the crash, when about 20 survivors and their families gathered at a home near Charlotte, Ben Bostic and Laura Zych met in person for the first time.",
"\"I was checking you out on the plane,\" he told Laura Zych.",
"Laura Zych and Ben Bostic went clubbing with a third survivor that night.",
"Then the two stayed up talking until 6 in the morning.",
"Laura Zych and Ben Bostic shared secrets, Laura Zych and Ben Bostic's views on life's opportunities.",
"\"Laura Zych and Ben Bostic connected,\" Laura Zych says.",
"Laura Zych and Ben Bostic took it slow at first.",
"Neither was looking for a relationship.",
"\"Laura Zych and Ben Bostic were family,\" Ben Bostic says, \"and Laura Zych and Ben Bostic didn't want to ruin that aspect of it.\"",
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"Despite Laura Zych and Ben Bostic's bond, the last year has had the last year's difficulties.",
"Laura Zych and Ben Bostic wonder why Laura Zych and Ben Bostic survived when, a month later, all 50 people aboard a Buffalo commuter jet died.",
"Laura Zych and Ben Bostic have sought counseling.",
"Laura Zych and Ben Bostic take anti-anxiety medication to ease air travel.",
"Ben Bostic never sits at a window seat.",
"Weeks after the flight, the airline returned salvaged personal belongings to survivors.",
"Laura Zych received a white envelope, labeled with a number.",
"Inside was Laura Zych's waterlogged Glamour magazine.",
"\"It put me back in that seat,\" Laura Zych says, tears in Laura Zych's eyes.",
"Four other boxes of returned items sit unopened in a spare bedroom.",
"Laura Zych doesn't know whether to throw Four other boxes of returned items out or save Four other boxes of returned items.",
"\"Things in there must not be that important,\" Laura Zych says.",
"\"All the priorities were reset after January 15.\"",
"Laura Zych's relationship with Ben Bostic, Laura Zych says, is another \"positive outcome\" from that day.",
"\"Laura Zych and Ben Bostic kind of pick each other up if Laura Zych and Ben Bostic start to slip,\" Ben says.",
"\"What's better than smiling and laughing and love?\"",
"Laura Zych and Ben Bostic're speaking about Laura Zych and Ben Bostic's relationship, Laura Zych says, because too much news dwells on the negative.",
"Laura Zych and Ben Bostic's message is the opposite.",
"\"Think about how you want to write today's page,\" Ben Bostic says.",
"\"Live, laugh, love and dance like tomorrow's not guaranteed.\""
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"Africa's most active volcano, Mount Nyamuragira in the Democratic Republic of Congo, erupted early Saturday, spewing lava off Nyamuragira's southern flank, the Congolese Wildlife Authority reported.",
"Rangers in Virunga National Park reported hearing a loud explosion at 3:45 a.m. and then seeing lava flowing from the crater of Nyamuragira.",
"\"I first thought (it) was the sound of war.",
"I thought there was fighting again near our park station,\" said Innocent Mburanumwe, warden for the southern sector of Virunga National Park.",
"\"Then I saw Nyamuragira was on fire with sparks flying.",
"We could see that we were not in immediate danger here at Rumangabo, but there are many people who live to the south of Nyamuragira, where the lava is heading as I speak.\"",
"Nyamuragira is 15 miles (25 kilometers) north of the city of Goma and its 600,000 residents, but Mburanumwe said in a blog posting that lava flows from Nyamuragira were unlikely to threaten human populations.",
"Lava flows from another park volcano, Nyiragongo, destroyed parts of Goma in 2002.",
"the Congolese Wildlife Authority said the Nyamuragira eruption was likely to destroy habitat for 40 chimpanzees on Nyamuragira's lower slopes.",
"Virunga National Park is also home to 200 endangered mountain gorillas, but they live on the slopes of the Mikena volcano to the east of Nyamuragira.",
"The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History calls Nyamuragira the continent's most active volcano, with 42 eruptions since 1885.",
"Its most recent eruption ended in December 2006."
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