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            <title>Activists thwart Japan whale hunt</title>
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            <description>Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo admits he is the father of a child who was conceived when he was still a Roman Catholic bishop.</description>
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            <title> Iraq Sues To Shut Down Newspaper, TV Station In Baghdad</title>
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            <title>David Ormsby: Quinn Is Both Frugal and Generous</title>
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            <description>Governor Pat Quinn continues to outshine his predecessor Rod Blagojevich. Admittedly, that bar is pretty low. A 7 watt bulb could outshine Blagojevich.</description>
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            <description>Barack Obama is a man of faith, but not in a conventional sense of that notion. For Obama, spirituality has less to do with fixed belief than the good works that result from those beliefs.</description>
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            <description>Last month, Arlen Specter and Dick Durban in the Senate, and John Larson and Walter Jones in the House of Representatives introduced the Bi-Partisan Fair...</description>
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            <title>Carolita Johnson: The Bailout Slide Game!</title>
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            <title>Crossover Dreams: Why Immigrant Workers Will Fill the Streets This May Day</title>
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            <description>By David Bacon Oakland, CA -- In a little less than a month, hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of people will fill the streets...</description>
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            <title>Alan Schram: Digging Out</title>
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            <description>I believe the US economy will continue to experience distress, and may take a long time to recover. It will probably take years for the...</description>
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            <description>In this response to The National Organization for Marriage, we spent about 150 bucks on a green screen, some lights, a honey baked ham and some beer.</description>
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            <title>Obama Lifting Cuba Travel Restrictions</title>
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            <description>WASHINGTON &amp;mdash; President Barack Obama directed his administration Monday to allow unlimited travel and money transfers by Cuban Americans to family in Cuba, and to...</description>
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            <description>Be prepared, be very prepared. After all, paying taxes is just the price of our freedom to work and pay taxes. Remember this when you're drinking your next cup of tea.</description>
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            <description>Prosecutors have power. They have been given that power in part to effectively ensure public safety. Yet, everyday in courtrooms across the country, prosecutors are abusing their powers.</description>
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            <title> Manufacturing, Retail Reports May Disappoint</title>
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            <description>As economy-watchers everywhere continue their desperate search for green shoots -- little signs that the recession won't last too much longer -- this week could bring some sobering news.</description>
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            <title>Ethisphere Institute’s “Most Ethical Companies” List Has Ethical Issues</title>
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            <description>The list&amp;#8211;two years ago. 
The Ethisphere Institute, which publishes Ethisphere Magazine, has released its 2009 list of the 99 most ethical companies in the world.</description>
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            <title>Obama to allow travel, money transfers to Cuba (AP)</title>
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            <description>AP - A passenger landed a twin-engine plane in Florida after the pilot died in flight with a total of six people on board.</description>
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            <title>Madonna still hopes to adopt Malawian child (AP)</title>
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            <description>AP - Madonna has told a newspaper in Malawi that she still wants to adopt a girl from the poor African nation despite legal obstacles, to educate her and empower her to help people in her country.</description>
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            <title>Express Scripts to buy WellPoint prescription unit (Reuters)</title>
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            <title>Obama to ease limits on US-Cuba family ties-official (Reuters)</title>
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            <title>Obama says stimulus projects under budget (Reuters)</title>
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            <description>Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday that thousands of major infrastructure projects being undertaken as part of his economic stimulus plan were ahead of schedule and under budget.</description>
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            <title>Afghan villagers say NATO strike killed civilians (Reuters)</title>
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            <description>Reuters - An overnight NATO-led airstrike on a remote Afghan village killed six civilians, including two children, Afghan officials said on Monday, but Western forces said they had targeted armed...</description>
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            <title>Stanford U.S. receiver asks for release of more funds (Reuters)</title>
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            <description>Reuters - The court-appointed lawyer overseeing the operations and assets of billionaire Texan Allen Stanford's companies has asked a judge to release another $137 million held in customer accounts,...</description>
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            <description>AFP - US President Barack Obama plans Monday to lift restrictions on some travel and remittances to Cuba by Cuban-Americans with family on the island, a White House official told AFP.</description>
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            <description>Thai soldiers sprayed automatic weapons fire and threw tear gas to clear anti-government protesters from a major intersection in the capital yesterday, with at least 70 people reported injured.</description>
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            <description>Fiji is deteriorating into the Burma of the South Pacific, say regional experts who warn the troubled nation is now staring at years of stifling military rule and financial destitution.</description>
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            <title>Millions get ready to cast their ballots</title>
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            <description>From the mountain heights of Kashmir to the palm-fringed beaches of Kerala, from Nagaland in the remote northeast to the Maharashtra heartland, India will on Thursday throw itself headlong into the...</description>
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            <description>Ships from Japan's whaling fleet returned to port yesterday after violent clashes with conservationists in the Antarctic Ocean damaged its ships and left the season's catch well short of its target.</description>
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            <description>They lost everything when Saddam Hussein was overthrown, but found their way back to a position of strength when the United States wooed them as mercenary troops to fight against al Qaeda.</description>
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            <description>It took only three precision shots to end the five-day ocean standoff between the world's most powerful navy and pirates holding an American hostage in a lifeboat.</description>
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            <description>A British adventurer given 200,000 pounds ($504,000) by sponsors, including Google and Virgin, to build a state-of-the-art rowboat plans to land in New Zealand, abandoning his bid to row round...</description>
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            <description>Bouncers and former military personnel are being hired by schools as &quot;crowd control&quot; to cover classes for teachers.</description>
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            <description>BAGHDAD - Iraqi leaders are accused of turning a blind eye to a spate of murders of homosexuals after 25 young men and boys were killed in recent weeks.</description>
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            <description>Gordon Brown has written personal letters to those mentioned in controversial e-mails sent by an ex-adviser.</description>
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            <description>A US congressman has a narrow escape as Somali insurgents fire mortars towards his plane as he takes off from Mogadishu.</description>
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            <title>The same old song? What is the most-played hit of all time?</title>
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            <description>Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade of Pale is the most played song in public places in the last 75 years, according to a chart compiled for BBC Radio 2.</description>
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            <title>Giving it the hard shell? Rivals compete in egg-bashing contest</title>
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            <description>Fans of a bizarre Easter tradition gather in County Durham for the world egg-jarping championship.</description>
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            <description>Luton's relegation from the Football League is confirmed after they are held to a 0-0 draw by Chesterfield.</description>
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            <description>Shares in US carmaker General Motors fall sharply after reports that the US government wants it to start bankruptcy proceedings.</description>
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            <description>Thousands of opposition supporters in Georgia hold a fifth day of protests, calling on the president to step down.</description>
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            <description>The price of oil falls sharply after the International Energy Agency predicts that the global recession will cut demand for crude.</description>
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            <description>Miley Cyrus sings her way to the top of the North American box office chart with Hannah Montana: The Movie.</description>
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            <description>The filing by several investors was made to ensure that all of the personal assets of Bernard L. Madoff are used to pay his defrauded customers.</description>
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            <description>Shares were moderately lower as investors prepared for earnings season to begin in earnest and awaited economic data due out this week.</description>
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            <description>Jubilation from his crew, relief from his family and vows of bitter revenge from Somali pirates have followed the rescue of an American cargo-ship captain.</description>
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            <description>In an informal setting, Justice Clarence Thomas admitted to an uneasy relationship with the whole idea of rights.</description>
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            <description>At least 20 people die in fighting at a cattle market in the Central African Republic.</description>
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            <description>Newcastle manager Alan Shearer will not take disciplinary action against Obafemi Martins, who missed Saturday's game against Stoke due to injury.</description>
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            <description>Is dependence on house helps making people lazy and causing them to forget how to look after themselves?</description>
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            <description>Bernard Madoff's niece and another relative -- worried they'll wind up behind bars -- have contacted a consultant who teaches white-collar criminals how to survive...</description>
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            <description>Anti-tax organizers of &quot;tea parties&quot; around the country have tried to keep out fringe elements like birth certificate conspiracy theorists and potentially embarrassing national politicians...</description>
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            <description>Gov. Bobby Jindal said he has a book deal with a conservative publishing house, with a co-author for &quot;a lot of the heavy lifting.&quot; The...</description>
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            <description>More than 100 people are arrested by police in Nottingham over a suspected plan to target a power station.</description>
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            <description>Steve Howard's towering injury-time header sinks play-off chasing Leeds United and takes Leicester to the brink of automatic promotion from League One.</description>
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            <description>Turkish police detain at least 12 people, including a university president, in connection with an alleged coup plot.</description>
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            <description>AP - A fast-moving fire tore through a three-story building housing homeless families in northwestern Poland early Monday, killing at least 21 people and injuring 20 more, including an infant,...</description>
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            <description>AP - Most people say they plan to use this year's tax refund to pay bills, deciding in this sour economy to be more frugal with their annual windfall.</description>
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            <description>AP - Thousands of children will play on the White House's south lawn during one of Washington's most anticipated annual events: the Easter Egg Roll.</description>
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            <description>AP - Wall Street was poised for a moderately lower opening Monday as investors prepare for earnings season to begin in earnest and await new economic data that will provide more details on the...</description>
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            <description>Reuters - Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili told EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana that Tehran would welcome dialogue on &quot;constructive cooperation&quot; with six world powers, state...</description>
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            <description>A man who murdered a Welsh couple in the Canary Islands is jailed for 39 years and ordered to pay their son £270,000 compensation.</description>
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            <description>A Brazilian woman is turned away from Newcastle Airport after arriving with a case containing lingerie and not much more.</description>
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            <description>Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard is winning his battle to be fit for the Champions League clash with Chelsea as he recovers from a groin injury.</description>
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            <description>Argentina's Angel Cabrera says his experience of winning the US Open in 2007 proved an invaluable aid to his triumph in this year's Masters.</description>
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            <description>Tech Mahindra, a venture between the BT Group and the conglomerate Mahindra &amp; Mahindra, is poised to become an outsourcing giant after submitting the top bid for Satyam.</description>
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            <title>HSBC Confirms Possible Sale of 3 Office Buildings</title>
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            <description>The bank said that it might sell, and lease back, office buildings in New York, Paris and London, including its headquarters at Canary Wharf.</description>
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            <description>Trading was thin, with many Asian and European centers still out for the Easter holiday weekend and many investors waiting for U.S. bank results this week.</description>
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            <description>A fast-moving fire tore through a three-story building housing homeless people in northwestern Poland early Monday.</description>
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            <description>Express Scripts said Monday that it was acquiring the pharmacy benefit management business of WellPoint in a deal that will include cash and up to $1.4 billion in stock.</description>
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            <description>NEW DELHI -- Days after the Obama administration unveiled a push to combat climate change, Indian officials said it was unlikely to prompt them to agree to binding emission cuts, a position among...</description>
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            <description>A pensioner dies in hospital after being rescued from a fire at a house in south Belfast on Easter Sunday evening.</description>
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            <description>Ethiopia says it has destroyed its stocks of anti-personnel mines, in line with an international treaty.</description>
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            <description>Three Lebanese soldiers are killed in an attack on an army patrol, according to media reports.</description>
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            <description>The Age of the UnthinkableWhy the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About ItBy: Joshua Cooper RamoPublished: March 23, 2009Format: Hardcover, 288 pagesISBN:...</description>
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            <description>The bishop battling ruling ANC in South Africa's...</description>
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            <description>Not all children in secure units are serious...</description>
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            <description>Travellers are braced for delays across the country as millions return home following the Easter Bank Holiday weekend.</description>
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            <description>Officers appeal again for information on a 'vicious' sexually-motivated attack on a 16-year-old girl four years ago.</description>
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            <description>Two teenagers questioned over a burglary at a pensioner's house in Omagh are rearrested in connection with his murder.</description>
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            <description>Asian stocks rose on Monday on hopes for the global economy, while oil prices slipped below $52 after a dramatic oil demand downgrade.</description>
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            <description>Thefts of luxury furnishings in unoccupied homes on the market in Piedmont, Calif., are testing the forced cheerfulness of real estate agents who are already reeling.</description>
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            <description>Fiji's military chief, restored as prime minister in recent days, pursues a crackdown on the media.</description>
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            <description>CORNWALL, N.Y. -- It pulled nicely up Mountain Brook Road in second gear, which was no small feat. Mountain Brook is steep.</description>
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            <description>The army clashed with anti-government protesters early Monday after thousands defied a state of emergency, massing in the streets.</description>
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            <description>AP - Five people were killed and seven seriously injured when a 22-foot pleasure boat crashed into the rear of a docked tug boat near St. Augustine Sunday evening, authorities said.</description>
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            <description>AP - Texas continues to blow away the competition, but Iowa can now generate more wind power than California, according to a new industry report to be released Monday.</description>
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            <description>AP - The cheers came from every corner of Augusta National, the kind of mayhem that had been missing at the Masters. The last one was for Angel Cabrera, a most unlikely champion.</description>
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            <description>Reuters - The Ethisphere Institute on Monday named 99 companies it says are the world's most ethical, its third annual listing designed to encourage ethical practices within the global business...</description>
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            <description>An Australian journalist has been asked to leave Fiji by government officials who are unhappy at his coverage of political upheaval in the troubled island nation.</description>
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            <description>Gordon Brown is facing pressure to distance himself further from e-mails which discussed smearing senior Conservatives.</description>
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            <description>The film-maker Sir David Attenborough becomes a patron of a group seeking to cut the growth in human population.</description>
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            <description>China offers a package of investment funds and credit for infrastructure and trade projects to south-east Asia.</description>
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            <description>Japan’s wholesale prices fell 2.2 percent compared with a year ago, the steepest drop since 2002.</description>
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            <description>Junk bonds are exposing the excesses of the credit boom — or so it seems.</description>
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            <description>Private student lenders are moving against President Obama’s plan to end a subsidized loan program and redirect billions in bank profits to needy students.</description>
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            <description>A law firm offered some employees a third of their base pay to take a year off from their regular jobs.</description>
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            <description>Community standards confront claims of free expression in a town’s ban on sagging pants.</description>
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            <description>Ángel Cabrera became the first Argentine to win the Masters, withstanding a playoff with Kenny Perry and Chad Campbell for his second major championship.</description>
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            <description>Gov. David A. Paterson of New York, whose ascension last year set off joy in black communities, now faces growing doubts from black leaders and voters.</description>
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            <description>The deal could still collapse, people briefed on the talks said, but if it goes through it would be valued at nearly $5 billion.</description>
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            <description>The Social Security commissioner said that “governors are hurting their own states, their own citizens” and increasing backlog by furloughing workers who make disability decisions.</description>
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            <description>Mexico's ambassador to the US urges America to stop a flow of guns and cash which he says is fuelling the country's drug wars.</description>
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