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"sent": "The 61-year-old retired construction supervisor lives in Bogota, Tennessee, a farming community so small that when asked how to find the town, locals respond, \"Don't blink."
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"sent": "CNN's Sara Weisfeldt contributed to this report."
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"sent": "I'd say for the average person who grew up in towns, you'd be in a dangerous situation,\" Danny Hayes said."
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"sent": "I'd say a person who learned to live off the land and to survive, it's not a big thing."
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"sent": "Empty homes in the rural area could make for an inviting target for looters, Danny Hayes said."
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"sent": "But Danny Hayes and Danny Hayes neighbors' homes are safe, Danny Hayes said, while Danny Hayes patrols Danny Hayes small \"island."
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"sent": "Groves of pecan trees now stand half-covered in water."
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"sent": "To get to dry ground, Danny Hayes paddles a small boat about 50 yards to Highway 78."
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"sent": "Once on shore, Danny Hayes then walks the half-mile to town each day for a pack of cigarettes and a little conversation."
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"sent": "The homes around Danny Hayes trailer sit empty, but as Danny Hayes waits out the flood, Danny Hayes is hardly alone."
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"sent": "Since the waters began to rise, Danny Hayes said, all manner of animals have swum by Hayes' trailer, looking for higher ground."
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"sent": "As Danny Hayes waits for the waters to retreat, Danny Hayes family checks in with Danny Hayes regularly by cell phone."
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"sent": "But with some water slowly receding, some water appears that Danny Hayes will be spared from the flood's wet grasp."
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"sent": "It's illegal to kill snakes in Tennessee,\" Danny Hayes said with a serious look before breaking into a wide smile."
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"sent": "\" To make Danny Hayes point, Danny Hayes suddenly shoots the pistol three times in sudden succession into the waters."
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"sent": "Later, around midnight, as soldiers in the area conducted an investigation, \"suspicious people\" were identified and \"due to a threat, precise shots were fired at the suspects identified as Lebanese soldiers, and one suspect was hit,\" an Israel Defense Forces statement said."
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"sent": "I've reached the conclusion that the best way to support our troops is begin bringing our troops home,\" the New York senator and former first lady told CNN's \"Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.\""
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"sent": "Clinton said, if elected president, Clinton would end the conflict \"as quickly and responsibly as I can,\" but said some U.S. forces would likely remain as trainers, to protect Americans and to battle Islamic militants loyal to al Qaeda."
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"sent": "The two-term senator, who leads Clinton Democratic presidential rivals by a double-digit margin in national polls, made the rounds of all five Washington talk shows Sunday."
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"sent": "The answer for this is, let's elect more Democrats in 2008,\" Clinton said."
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"sent": "Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said Sunday Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton won't vote for any more money to support the four-year-old war in Iraq without a plan to start bringing U.S. troops home."
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"sent": "\"I don't believe we should continue to vote for funding that has an open-ended commitment, that has no pressure on the Iraqi government to make the tough political decisions the Iraqi government have to make, or which really gives any urgency to the Bush administration's diplomatic efforts."
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"sent": "Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton's declaration comes as the Senate debates the Defense Department's 2008 spending authorization bill."
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"sent": "Clinton's declaration follows Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton vote against a $120 billion war-spending bill in May, when Congress dropped a call for the withdrawal of American combat troops by March 2008 after President Bush vetoed a bill containing that provision."
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"sent": "President Bush has no intention of changing President Bush policy in Iraq,\" Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said."
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"sent": "Meanwhile, the Senate's Republican minority routinely filibusters Democratic proposals to wind down the war, which is costing the Treasury about $10 billion a month and has claimed the lives of nearly 3,800 American troops."
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"sent": "May's spending bill made continued U.S. support contingent on a set of benchmarks for Iraq's government."
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"sent": "Even those who are implementing this policy of President Bush's cannot tell us it will make America more safe, nor that it will lead to the kind of political decision-making that us have to expect from the Iraqis the Iraqis,\" Clinton said."
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"sent": "Nearly two-thirds of the American public now opposes the war, according to a CNN-Opinion Research poll conducted in early September."
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"sent": "Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2014 ranks countries based on a 100-point \"corruption perception\" scale, where zero equals a \"highly corrupt\" perception and 100 means China is perceived to be very clean."
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"sent": "The Corruption Perceptions Index highlights the problems that emerging economies have with public sector corruption, misappropriation of funds and bribery, said Jose Ugaz, the chair of Transparency International, in a press release."
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"sent": "The Corruption Perceptions Index's based on perceptions of public sector corruption, from the perspective of business people and country experts."
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"sent": "Corruption is the disease of human society which harms the justice and development of the entire society."
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"sent": "Transparency International says the extent of corruption within countries has an impact on the extent of corruption within countries own economic growth, and there's a risk of problems being exported with trade and investment."
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"sent": "The 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index shows that economic growth is undermined and efforts to stop corruption fade when leaders and high level officials abuse power to appropriate public funds for personal gain,\" Ugaz said in a statement."
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"sent": "Countries at the bottom need to adopt radical anti-corruption measures in favor of Countries at the bottom people."
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"sent": "Despite a highly-publicized anti-corruption drive spearheaded by President Xi Jinping, China's position on an international corruption perceptions index has deteriorated in the past 12 months."
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"sent": "In the past, Xi has said that corruption could lead to \"the collapse of the Party and the downfall of the state."
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"sent": "In the report, released Wednesday, China scored 36, falling to 100th place from 80th last year, putting China on a par with Algeria and Suriname."
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"sent": "North Korea and Somalia Somalia rank equal-worst of 174 countries with a score of just eight."
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"sent": "Xi's much-vaunted drive against the \"tigers\" -- high-ranking public officials -- and \"flies\" -- lowly apparatchiks -- has been touted as a \"life or death\" priority for the leader, who announced the initiative shortly after taking office in 2012."
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"sent": "The deaths that occurred at Dozier School for Boys in Marianna are cloaked in mystery, and the surviving family members deserve a thorough examination of the site,\" stated Attorney General Pam Bondi, who filed a petition on Tuesday asking a state court to approve the exhumation of an unknown number of bodies believed to be buried at the now-defunct school in the Florida panhandle town of Marianna."
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"sent": "The mystery surrounding the 50 graves that forensic investigators have recently found on school grounds first made headlines in 2008 when Florida's then-governor, Charlie Crist, ordered an investigation after a group of men, known as \"the White House Boys,\" came forward with stories of how a group of men, known as \"the White House Boys were beaten with leather straps by school administrators inside a small, white building on school property."
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"sent": "The Florida Department of Law Enforcement's 2009 report said most of the 31 boys buried in boys' reform school's cemetery were killed in a 1914 fire at the facility, while others died in a 1918 flu outbreak."
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"sent": "At the time, the law enforcement agency said the law enforcement agency could not determine where another 50 boys -- who the law enforcement agency said died at boys' reform school as a result of illnesses or accidents -- were buried, blaming poorly kept school records."
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"sent": "the 31 boys buried in the school's cemetery were considered \"young offenders\" of state law and were placed in boys' reform school in order to be \"separated from older more vicious associates,\" according to the 2009 report citing the Florida Children's Commission of 1953."
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"sent": "In the wake of those findings, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, asked the Department of Justice to investigate."
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"sent": "Robert Straley, who spent about 10 months at boys' reform school in the 1960s for allegedly stealing a car, said Robert Straley, who spent about 10 months at the school in the 1960s for allegedly stealing a car was taken to the \"white house\" on Robert Straley, who spent about 10 months at the school in the 1960s for allegedly stealing a car very first day."
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"sent": "If you can just help the people of Afghanistan in this way, the fighting will go away,\" said Abdul Qadir, a farmer in Lashkar Gah."
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"ord": 20,
"sent": "The Taliban and other enemies of Afghanistan will also disappear."
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"sent": "-- Films have altered the course of human history before."
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"ord": 1,
"sent": "The rise of Nazism would not have been as rapid and absolute had The rise of Nazism not been for the Reich's potent command of propaganda, including Leni Riefenstahl's monumental glorification of the fascist regime, \"Triumph of the Will."
},
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"ord": 2,
"sent": "And D.W. Griffith's celebration of white supremacy, \"The Birth of a Nation,\" helped to resurrect the Ku Klux Klan."
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"ord": 3,
"sent": "Both Films are repellent, yet are judged to be masterpieces of world cinema, and Films directors among the greatest of all time."
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"ord": 0,
"sent": "Films have often helped shape course of history .\n"
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"ord": 13,
"sent": "Sony was quick to assign blame to North Korea, based on the conclusions of federal investigators."
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"ord": 16,
"sent": "Since then, other researchers have raised serious questions about North Korea real role in the hacks, pointing to the fact that while North Korea might have had a clear motive -- suppressing the release of a work that might embarrass North Korea supreme leader -- early messages to Sony reportedly did not focus on \"The Interview,\" and instead sought vague \"monetary compensation."
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"ord": 17,
"sent": "Meanwhile, publicly released evidence of North Korean involvement seems flimsy, North Korean has hotly denied North Korean is behind the hacks, and more recent theories have pointed instead to a possible inside job, or to hackers from other countries with greater resources and more ambiguous aims."
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"ord": 18,
"sent": "The results of independent linguistic analyses performed on the messages sent by hackers make hackers North Korean origin questionable, and even suggest hackers were translated from Russian."
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"ord": 19,
"sent": "(It's also worth noting that Russia's Foreign Ministry this week held a press conference slamming \"The Interview\" as \"aggressively scandalous,\" while also denouncing the U.S. accusations against North Korea as being without \"direct evidence."
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"sent": "But the fact that the film instantly leapt to the top of the popularity charts on both platforms has led some conspiracy minded people to wonder whether the entire episode wasn't a PR stunt (albeit one that got out of hand -- the revelations from the email leaks were far too damaging to have been released intentionally)."
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"sent": "Uncertainty still surrounds Sony hack, Jeff Yang says .\n"
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"sent": "And these struggles will play out in the dark, with far-reaching and unpredictable consequences."
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"ord": 20,
"sent": "As these theories and allegations have circulated, the playing field has continued to shift."
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"ord": 31,
"sent": "\"It was the beginning of a revolution."
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"ord": 33,
"sent": "They continue by noting that this \"revolution\" was not one waged with ordinary weapons, but with the power of the media -- and with what can only be defined as trollery."
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"ord": 34,
"sent": "This was a revolution,\" he continues, \"ignited with nothing more than a camera and some questions."
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"ord": 36,
"sent": "It's a concise summary of the new era in which we live, where the ability to manipulate media and technology has increasingly become a critical strategic resource, where combat is conducted not just on battlefields but on servers and screens and social networks, and where it's increasingly impossible to tell the difference between pranks, crimes and acts of war."
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"sent": "So it's hard to imagine that a movie as slight and crude as \"The Interview\" could serve as a similar kind of historical watershed."
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"ord": 5,
"sent": "And yet, future generations may well look to a movie as slight and crude as \"The Interview\" could serve as a similar kind of historical watershed as marking the emergence of a new chapter in geopolitics, dominated by a fresh set of actors and wildly different forms of conflict."
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"ord": 15,
"sent": "And, in a gesture of profound corporate cowardice, Sony yanked \"The Interview\" after a number of movie theater chains said a number of movie theater chains would not screen the movie."
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"ord": 23,
"sent": "As all this occurred, Sony changed Sony mind about releasing \"The Interview,\" allowing 300 theaters to screen the film despite warnings of physical attacks on moviegoers, while putting the film on Google's Play store and YouTube."
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"ord": 26,
"sent": "I mentioned that \"The Interview\" comes off as a trivial work of frat-boy comedy, full of the toilet humor, misogyny, gay-panic japery and racial stereotypes that have marked other Franco/Rogen collaborations."
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"ord": 27,
"sent": "(However, unlike others who've criticized it, I don't think it is any worse than, say, \"Pineapple Express.\")"
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"sent": "But the movie's last scene (spoiler alert!), consciously or not, turns the movie's last scene (spoiler alert!) into something with a darker kind of self-awareness."
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"sent": "If the attacks of September 11 taught us to fear insurgent groups using improvised weapons against civilians -- al Qaeda, the Taliban, ISIS -- what we've learned from the \"Interview\" fiasco is that even nation states and \"traditional\" terror organizations can now find even nation states and \"traditional\" terror organizations to be nothing more than blindsided bystanders in strange battles between entities with hidden (or purposely misleading) agendas."
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"ord": 10,
"sent": "Was the hacker attack that crippled media titan Sony insider sabotage, an attempt at extortion, a terrorist strike or, as more hawkish types have suggested, the overture to formal war?"
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"ord": 11,
"sent": "Were the hacker attack that crippled media titan Sony insider sabotage, an attempt at extortion, a terrorist strike perpetrators disgruntled employees, Internet pranksters, black hat mercenaries or the shadowy digital armies of rival nations?"
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"ord": 12,
"sent": "Perhaps the most frightening thing is that, months after the assaults, we still don't know exactly when black hat mercenaries or the shadowy digital armies of rival nations began, what black hat mercenaries or the shadowy digital armies of rival nations true objective was and, of course, who was actually behind black hat mercenaries or the shadowy digital armies of rival nations."
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"sent": "Mysterious ad hoc hacker networks."
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"ord": 14,
"sent": "President Barack Obama issued a condemnation of the hermit kingdom's \"cybervandalism\" and promised to \"respond proportionately."
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"ord": 21,
"sent": "A group claiming to be members of the enigmatic hacker coalition Anonymous vowed vague reprisal against North Korea."
},
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"ord": 22,
"sent": "A few days later, North Korea Internet access was shut down by a denial of service attack."
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"ord": 38,
"sent": "Buckle your seat belts -- and change your passwords."
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"sent": "Even motivated individuals."
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"ord": 25,
"sent": "And this is where things get oddly meta."
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{
"ord": 37,
"sent": "Welcome to the Troll Age."
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"sent": "Franco's character, celebrity talk show host Dave Skylark, is shown reading the last page of Franco best-selling book about Franco's character, celebrity talk show host Dave Skylark madcap assassination adventure in North Korea to a huge and rapt crowd."
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"ord": 30,
"sent": "Franco begins as follows:"
},
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"ord": 32,
"sent": "A revolution Aaron [Rappaport, Skylark's producer, played by Rogen]"
},
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"ord": 35,
"sent": "Questions that led a man once revered as a god among mortals to cry and sh*t a man once revered as a god pants."
}
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"sent": "-- Palin has called plans to build a community center and mosque near the site of the 9/11 terror attack in New York City an \"unnecessary provocation."
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"ord": 1,
"sent": "\" \"Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation;"
},
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"ord": 2,
"sent": "Ground Zero mosque stabs hearts,\" Palin wrote in a Twitter post Sunday."
},
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"ord": 4,
"sent": "The former Republican vice presidential nominee also posted a plea asking \"peaceful New Yorkers\" to \"pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @"
}
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"ord": 0,
"sent": "Palin appeals to \"peace-seeking Muslims\" to stop center near Ground Zero .\n"
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"ord": 7,
"sent": "The developer, Sharif El-Gamal, describes the project as an \"Islamic community center\" that will include a 500-seat performing arts center, a lecture hall, an exhibition space, a swimming pool, a gym, a culinary school, a restaurant and a prayer space for Muslims."
},
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"ord": 8,
"sent": "The developer, Sharif El-Gamal said the project \"is not a mosque."
},
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"ord": 9,
"sent": "Plans for the project have called for a prayer space where an imam would lead services."
},
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"ord": 10,
"sent": "A \"mosque\" is generally considered a space where Muslims worship."
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"ord": 18,
"sent": "Some Muslim community leaders say the project could provide an opportunity for improving interfaith relations."
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"ord": 1,
"sent": "Palin says the project \"stabs hearts\" at a time when pain is \"too raw\" and \"too real\"\nBackers of the project say the project would help improve interfaith relations .\n"
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"ord": 6,
"sent": "Plans to build a $100 million, 13-story center have sparked an emotional debate."
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"ord": 11,
"sent": "New York's Landmarks Preservation Commission is scheduled to vote in August on whether an 1850s structure on the site of the proposed center should be granted landmark status."
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"ord": 12,
"sent": "Even if New York's Landmarks Preservation Commission approves landmark status, though, that may not necessarily halt construction of the proposed center."
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"ord": 3,
"sent": "Pls reject it in interest of healing."
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"ord": 17,
"sent": "I want to prove to this hall that I am a citizen,\" Gathwari said, holding up Gathwari passport."
}
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"ord": 5,
"sent": "Twin Towers site is too raw, too real."
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"ord": 13,
"sent": "Voices opposing the proposed center dominated a hearing on the subject last week."
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{
"ord": 14,
"sent": "It would be a terrible mistake to destroy a 154-year-old building in order to build a monument to terrorism,\" one woman said."
},
{
"ord": 15,
"sent": "The heckling and intense nature of the hearing got to be too much for some participants."
},
{
"ord": 16,
"sent": "I'm ashamed to be an American today,\" said Rakif Gathwari, a Muslim-American who reminded the crowd that people from many countries and religions died in the attack on the proposed center on September 11, 2001."
},
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"ord": 19,
"sent": "CNN's Deb Feyerick, Julian Cummings, Ed Payne and Alan Silverleib contributed to this report ."
}
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"sent": "Peggy Shannon, 67, who works at the Senior Citizens Service Desk in San Diego City Hall, allegedly faced \"continuous inappropriate sexual advances by the mayor while trying to do the mayor job,\" according to the office of the mayor attorney, Gloria Allred."
},
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"ord": 2,
"sent": "Peggy Shannon said the mayor kissed Peggy Shannon and once asked \"me if I thought the mayor could go eight hours in one night."
},
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"ord": 3,
"sent": "Every day that I went to work, I had butterflies in my stomach because I did not know what was going to happen the next time the mayor came by the Senior Citizens Service Desk at City Hall,\" Peggy Shannon told reporters Thursday."
},
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"ord": 6,
"sent": "Later, Peggy Shannon spoke to CNN's \"Piers Morgan Live,\" and called for the mayor's resignation."
},
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"ord": 7,
"sent": "I can forgive anybody but anybody needs to step down,\" the mayor said."
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"ord": 0,
"sent": "NEW: \"I can forgive anybody but he needs to step down,\" Peggy Shannon says .\n"
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"ord": 1,
"sent": "Peggy Shannon works at the Senior Citizens Service Desk at City Hall .\n"
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"ord": 9,
"sent": "Peggy Shannon is the 16th woman to come forward with such allegations, according to CNN affiliate KFMB."
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"ord": 2,
"sent": "15 other women have previously come forward .\n"
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"ord": 0,
"sent": "The latest person to accuse San Diego Mayor Bob Filner of sexual harassment is a great-grandmother."
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"ord": 10,
"sent": "Filner's office has not responded to multiple CNN requests for comment on the allegations."
},
{
"ord": 13,
"sent": "Inappropriate movement on my body' A local attorney became the 15th accuser against Filner, speaking to CNN affiliate KFMB this week."
},
{
"ord": 14,
"sent": "Kathryn Vaughn told the station that after Kathryn Vaughn husband walked away at a public event 10 years ago, Filner \"made an inappropriate movement on my body'."
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"ord": 15,
"sent": "Filner, 70, was elected mayor of the eighth-largest American city in 2012, after 10 terms in Congress."
},
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"ord": 19,
"sent": "In July, Filner acknowledged that Filner \"failed to fully respect the women who work for me and with me\" and that Filner was \"embarrassed\" by Filner actions."
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"ord": 20,
"sent": "But Filner also said Filner would be vindicated by \"a full presentation of the facts\" and Filner would not resign."
},
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"ord": 23,
"sent": "Now, investigators are also looking into possible financial impropriety -- including questionable charges at the Westgate Hotel, where Filner allegedly took women."
},
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"ord": 25,
"sent": "Filner's attorney and the mayor's office did not respond to CNN's requests for comment Thursday."
},
{
"ord": 29,
"sent": "Did Mayor Filner target victims of military sexual assault?"
},
{
"ord": 30,
"sent": "Kevin Faulconer, a Republican who sits on The city council's audit committee, raised questions about other charges as well."
},
{
"ord": 31,
"sent": "Kevin Faulconer, a Republican who sits on the council's audit committee alleged that Filner charged hundreds of dollars in personal expenses and threatened the City's credit by failing to pay the bill."
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"ord": 3,
"sent": "Filner has acknowledged failure \"to fully respect\" some women, but says Filner'll be vindicated ."
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"ord": 4,
"sent": "I have three sons, four grandsons and two great grandsons."
},
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"ord": 5,
"sent": "As the mayor, you should be -- but are not -- a role model for any of three sons, four grandsons and two great grandsons,\" the mayor said."
},
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"ord": 8,
"sent": "People are surprised that as a great-grandmother that this happened to the mayor -- so this could happen to anybody else."
}
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"ord": 11,
"sent": "As the list grows, city officials said Thursday that Filner might be booted from office later this month over a different, but related issue: money."
},
{
"ord": 22,
"sent": "Mayor could be booted over money ."
},
{
"ord": 26,
"sent": "the mayor's office said a rarely used section of the city charter, Section 108, dating back to 1931, would allow for Filner to be removed from office -- without a recall -- over unauthorized payments from the city treasury."
},
{
"ord": 27,
"sent": "The city council plans to vote August 28 on whether to invoke a rarely used section of the city charter, Section 108, dating back to 1931."
},
{
"ord": 28,
"sent": "If The city council plans to vote August 28 on whether to invoke that section does, The city council plans to vote August 28 on whether to invoke that section would then ask a court to boot Filner from office."
},
{
"ord": 32,
"sent": "The mayor's city credit card was stopped in July, Faulconer's office said."
},
{
"ord": 33,
"sent": "Mayor Filner's continued abuse of power knows no bounds,\" the councilman said in a statement."
},
{
"ord": 34,
"sent": "Based on this new evidence, I am broadening the scope of my Audit Committee hearing to investigate how Mayor Filner was able to circumvent credit card rules and how to prevent negative effects on the City's credit rating as a result of one person's misuse of taxpayer dollars."
}
] | [] |
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