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Atlanta, Georgia (CNN)  -- As Christmas season went into full swing this year, Glen Fullmer's 7-year-old son came home from school with an assignment: Make a poster illustrating his family holiday traditions.

The boy wasn't sure how to proceed because he and his family are Baha'is, not Christians, and they have no holidays during the Christmas season.

Thus, Fullmer encountered the "December Dilemma" -- the term used for the quandaries and anxieties non-Christians and interfaith couples face during Christmas season.

Fullmer, a Baha'i faith spokesman who lives in Evanston, Illinois, said he saw the poster assignment as a "teachable moment" for his 4-, 7- and 10-year-old sons who associated holiday traditions with Christmas.

He reminded his boys that Baha'is have a gift-giving and charity period in February called Ayyam-i-Ha, a stretch of time not unlike the Christmas season.

And he helped his son design the poster about that holiday, which precedes a fasting period and then the Baha'i New Year in March.

"His classmates asked him questions about the holiday, and one of his friends came up to him and wants to celebrate that holiday," Fullmer said, pleased that his son's peers helped him reaffirm his identity.

Navigating the Christmas season can be a challenge for the millions of people who don't celebrate the holiday. Many acknowledge and sometime embrace the season's customs, such as gift-giving and sending out greeting cards, while at the same time they are conscious of maintaining their own religious identities.

"They strongly try to maintain their own integrity, but they really want to find bridges across holidays," said the Rev. Dr. Paul Numrich, a professor at the Theological Consortium of Greater Columbus in Ohio. "I think that's the majority."

L.S. Narasimhan, chairman of the Georgia Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, is a Hindu and doesn't celebrate Christmas. But he said he admires the Christian celebrations of his friends and has attended Christmas Eve services at several churches.

"Hindus are typically more open-minded and tolerant. Hinduism is very comfortable in accommodating a diversity of ideas," he said.

"It is very common for Hindu families to have Christmas trees at their homes, purely as a fun thing to do for their children. When they visit shopping malls, Hindu parents in general are comfortable with a photo-op for their little kids with Santa."

But at the same time, there are pressures about the encroachment of Christianity on Hindu life.

"Television commercials, good selection of merchandise and great sale prices persuade Hindu-Americans to take advantage of the shopping spree," Narasimhan said. "Several Hindu temples have risen up to the challenge and added some special Hindu prayers and ceremonies to engage Hindus who are on winter holidays but not on overseas vacations."

Dr. Shefali Chheda, an Atlanta-area pediatrician, is a Jain -- practicing a religion with Indian roots. Growing up in Houston, Texas, she said her parents "felt comfortable letting us celebrate Christmas," perhaps to help fit into American society and maintain a sense of normalcy.

"The spirit and meaning of Christmas, of helping others and of giving, are nice messages. Therefore, it is hard to consciously object to it," Chheda said.

"Jains, as a whole, are a minority in India. Many Jains celebrate Hindu holidays, so celebrating Christmas with Santa and a tree and presents is no different. Since Jains wholeheartedly believe in 'ahimsa' -- peace toward all living beings in thought, word and action -- the Christmas spirit is a very Jain-like philosophy."

The religious aspect of Christmas -- believing Jesus is the savior and that December 25 is his birthday -- is not celebrated in Jainism, but the customs and symbols are interwoven into daily life, she said.

"Now that I have toddlers in the house, they come home with stories about Christmas. They sing songs about Rudolph and Santa, and Kwanzaa, and Hanukkah. But it's Santa that everyone talks about, so they talk about him as well," Chheda said.

"I use Santa as a behavioral modification tool. 'Santa's watching you, so you better be good' works infinitely better than timeout. My kids will be living in this country; they will have a hard enough time anyway with their names and food and other cultural traditions; Christmas -- and the Christmas spirit -- is not one tradition that I want to take away from them."

Jesus plays a role in the theology of other religions, such as the Baha'i faith and Islam, even though those faiths don't observe Christmas as a religious holiday.

The Christmas season presented a struggle for Haris Tarin, director of the Washington office of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee. He grew up in Los Angeles, California, area schools, where he sang the ever-present Christmas carols and made the gingerbread houses in schools but didn't have a tree in his home.

"We definitely had a little bit of anxiety in childhood," Tarin said. But that changed as he grew up and refined his American Muslim persona amid the American atmosphere of diversity and tolerance.

Now, where he and his family live in northern Virginia, "we don't celebrate Christmas. We celebrate our holidays" -- pointing, for example, to Eid al-Fitr after Ramadan and Eid al-Adha after the hajj pilgrimage. But he welcomes the goodwill of the season -- the gift-exchanges with non-Muslim neighbors and the requests from schoolteachers to talk about Muslim holidays.

"There's definitely going to be a level of discomfort, especially for those who aren't used to that diverse culture that we belong to," he said. But the unease spawns discussion, presenting a useful opportunity to help young people and newcomers, he said.

For Jews, the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah happens to fall during the Christmas season. Hanukkah is wildly popular and observed, with its special foods, gift-giving and candle lighting, and with its symbols such as the menorah -- a candelabrum -- and the dreidel, a toy that spins like a top.

Compared with other non-Christians, many Jews have drawn a sharper line in the sand when it comes to observing Christmas, a stance informed by historic, theological and self-preservation reasons. That attitude emerged recently during a young professionals' get-together at an Indian restaurant outside Atlanta sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and Young Indian Professionals.

People there indicated that attending Christmas-themed holiday parties, exchanging greeting cards and wishing Christian friends "Merry Christmas" are surely not uncommon or unacceptable among Jews. But some practices are widely shunned -- such as plunking one's child on Santa's lap at the mall, and deplored -- such as assigning kids in public schools to write a letter to Santa Claus.

"It's a beautiful season. It brings out a joy," said Hannah Vahaba, who organized the Jewish-Indian event. "But I'm not going to celebrate it."

Interfaith couples celebrate their diversity during the Christmas season. Jeff Silver, a certified public accountant who is Jewish, and Shweta Gupta, a dentist who is Hindu, are planning their marriage next year. They will have an interfaith household and said they hope to raise children to understand both of their traditions. At their home in Atlanta, they've set up a holiday tree decorated with Hindu and Jewish ornaments.

Non-religious Americans embrace a December "secular holiday" called HumanLight.

Patrick Colucci, vice chair of the HumanLight Committee and member of the New Jersey Humanist Network, said the holiday can uplift "atheist, humanist and nonreligious" people who feel left out and isolated during Christmas.

It was a perfect fit for him when it came along, he said, because "it corresponds with my humanity-based ethics and values, without any supernatural or theistic beliefs. My 'holiday season' is HumanLight and New Year's Eve -- that's what I celebrate."

"The only dilemma, in my experience is, if Christmas is part of the larger family tradition, and then some family members reject us for not believing in it anymore. We're not out to take Christmas away from anyone who wants to celebrate it -- there is no 'war on Christmas,' " Colucci said.

How do Christians themselves see the presence and practices of non-Christians during Christmas? While many would like to see non-Christians convert to Christianity, they also recognize that the United States is a "diverse society" and that conversion "is not even on their radar screen," said Numrich, the theology professor.

"There's a deep American virtue in respecting religious differences," he said.

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(CNN) -- The surgeon who operated Wednesday on cyclist Lance Armstrong after he fractured his collarbone declared the procedure a success, but one that will require two to three months of healing.

Lance Armstrong's doctor says he used a plate and 12 inch-long screws to stabilize the fractured bone.

"Surgery was tough, but went well," said Dr. Douglas Elenz, an orthopedic surgeon in Austin, Texas, who performed the three-hour procedure two days after Armstrong fractured his collarbone into four pieces during a race in Spain.

The multiple breaks "made treatment more challenging, but we're confident that the treatment performed today is going to be successful," he said.

Elenz said he used a 4- to 5-inch plate that he attached with 12 inch-long screws to stabilize the fractured bone.

Armstrong, 37, was to be released later in the day.

On a scale of one to 10 rating the difficulty of the operation,  Elenz said he would pin it down at eight.

Elenz was noncommittal regarding when Armstrong can return to racing.  Watch more about the crash Â»

"We are just taking it day by day, week by week, month by month. Every fracture is unique. Each time I go to treat one, something is different."

During the next week, Armstrong "will need to take it easy" to ensure the wound does not become infected, the doctor said.

After his wound has healed, Armstrong will begin using an exercise bike to train his lower body, "but we won't let him do a whole lot with his upper extremities," Elenz said.

"After several weeks, we can take his training to the street, but we will need to take that day by day and week by week."

Over the longer term, Elenz will be looking for evidence that Armstrong is laying down new bone, that the plate is stable, that the athlete's arm is strong and that his motion is fluid, he said.

"His pain will give us insight on how well he is healing," the sports specialist said. "It will take eight to 12 weeks to heal completely. But we are going to have to push the envelope a bit to have him train before he is completely healed."

Armstrong was riding for Team Astana when he crashed about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the end of the first stage of the five-day Vuelta Ciclista a Castilla y Leon race.  Watch how Armstrong 'tweets' about his crash Â»

He has never before broken a collarbone in his 17 years as a professional.

The crash took down several riders, but only Armstrong was hurt.

As they came within a few miles of the finish, Armstrong said, racers started picking up speed and jockeying for position.

"It happens quick when it happens," he said. "It could have been worse."

Armstrong announced last year that he was returning to competitive biking and would use the Spanish race as a warm-up for the Tour de France, which he won seven times before announcing his retirement in 2005.

He also had planned to race May 9-31 in the Giro d'Italia, one of Europe's most prestigious and grueling stage races.

This would have been the second comeback of his career. His first came in 1998, two years after he was diagnosed with advanced testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs and brain. Doctors gave him a less than 50 percent chance of survival.

CNN's Danielle Dellorto contributed to this story.

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- At 80, Maya Angelou says her "knees are not all that swift and my lungs need some extra help but other than that, my desire to learn and to share, that has not abated."

Maya Angelou urges politicians to "aim for the high ground" in her new book, "Letter to My Daughter."

She shares what she's learned in an eventful life in her best-selling new book, "Letter to My Daughter." Angelou achieved fame for her autobiographical writing, including "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and her poetry.

She read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Clinton's first inauguration. She was only the second poet invited to read at the swearing in of a new president.

But her career has had many facets -- Angelou has been a singer, dancer, playwright, director and teacher.

In 166 pages, "Letter to My Daughter" distills stories from Angelou's life into universal lessons. She writes about birth, life and death, about the ways people misunderstand each other and then transcend their conflict. She calls on national leaders to raise the country's spirit and on Americans to remember that this is the nation that defeated the Nazis and expanded people's freedom through the civil rights movement.

"Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow," she writes. "Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone."

In an interview last week in her 1881 brownstone in Harlem, decorated in vibrant, bright colors, Angelou sat at the round table in her dining room, sipping coffee, as she talked about the election and her work.

She supported Sen. Hillary Clinton's bid for the Democratic nomination and then backed Sen. Barack Obama once the primaries were over.

CNN: In the chapter called "National Spirit," you call on political leaders to raise the level of discussion. Could you elaborate on that?

Maya Angelou: What I've encouraged voters to do is to vote for the person I am extolling, and also don't expect that if your man or woman gets in, that all things will be rectified immediately. It's taken us a long time to come to this place of weariness and almost hopelessness.

So because Obama gets in or McCain gets in, it's not going to be repaired overnight. The economy is not going to be repaired, the schools -- the disaster in our schools -- will not be repaired overnight. Nor will the social conversation be repaired overnight.

However, I would encourage every voter to say to his or her candidate, go in and do it, and you will not do it alone. I will help. You have to get up off that sofa or off that couch and give something to the country -- even if it's one hour every other week to an old people's home -- I will read, go into the children's ward and read, or give to your church or your synagogue or your mosque. ... Offer something to the country. So you don't just sit there.

CNN: What does it say about the country that Barack Obama is a candidate to be president?

Angelou: The country is growing up and confessing to something we've known all along. What prevented us from admitting that we knew that? And I was taken back to slavery.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

Well, such a job has been done on all of us that people found it very difficult to admit that human beings are more alike than we are unalike. We've known it. But to admit it, you have to stop saying because this guy speaks another language, because their eyes are shaped differently from mine, because they're first-generation Americans from Eastern Europe, then they don't count, I don't have to consider them. With this, the country is finally able to see through complexion and see community.

CNN: You've known and worked with people like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Could you imagine what their reaction would be to this?

Angelou: I think everybody would be weeping tears of joy really.

I think of my grandmother who raised me. She was a daughter of a former slave. She knew this was going to happen. You know that when I was young, I was physically abused and so I stopped talking. I thought that my voice had killed the criminal. ... The man had been found dead. Police said he had been beaten to death. So I knew, because I told [people] that he did it, that my voice could just go out and kill people.

So after a few months, my mother's people sent me and my brother back to this little village in Arkansas to my grandmother, my father's mother who was raising me, and she used to braid my hair.

My hair was huge and very curly, black. And my grandmother put her hand behind my neck and held it so she wouldn't break my neck by accident. And she would start to brush my hair and she would say, "Sister, Mama don't care what these people say about you, that you must be an idiot, you must be a moron because you can't talk. Mama know when you and the good Lord get ready, you're going to teach all over this world. You're going to be a mighty teacher."

I didn't speak for six years. She said that to me all the time, in this little village in Arkansas. [Now] I teach all over the world, I teach in French and Spanish, so when I stand up on a stage or see a book of mine gets accolades or a piece of music I've written, I think about my Mama, and she died before I really came of age, and I just think she knew it.

CNN: She was prophetic about you, but beyond that?

Angelou: Yes, [she believed] it will get better. And you have to continue to prepare yourself, continue to build yourself, continue to elevate yourself and be a benefit, be a blessing rather than a curse, and things will get better. And they have, so when I think of Dr. King and Malcolm, Fannie Lou Hamer, Medgar Evers, I also think of Chief Albert Luthuli, one of the first Africans to earn the Nobel Prize.

I mean that after Chief Luthuli, apartheid was so rigid, unbreakable that men had to carry their IDs on plastic cards that were too large for any suit, so they flapped, reminding them constantly who they were. It was my blessing to meet Nelson Mandela before he went into prison and I've seen him many times since. He knew this day would come, and to be able to stay in prison for 27 years, knowing that the day would come.

CNN: What gave you the inspiration to call the book, "Letter to My Daughter," even though you don't have a daughter? [Angelou has a son, the writer Guy Johnson.]

Angelou: There was an African-American poet, her name was Anne Spencer; she wrote a poem called "Letter to My Sister," around the turn of the 20th Century. ... I started making notes to Oprah [Winfrey] about 20 years ago. She really became a daughter to me.

So there were things I wanted to talk to her about; I made notes, copious notes, and about a year and a half ago, I got out that box called WIP, works in progress, and I started going through two or three lines and I said, "Hmmm, there's an essay in here."

So it is a letter to all my daughters, to those who don't know they are. It is my intent to say you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. You will be changed, events will change you, but you have to decide not to be reduced.

CNN: Have you been in touch with Oprah lately about the election?

Angelou: I spoke to her about a week ago ... [During the primaries], a newspaper reporter said this proves that Oprah Winfrey doesn't listen to everything Maya Angelou says, because she was supporting Sen. Obama and I was supporting Sen. Clinton.

And when I was asked by the reporter, "What do you say to Oprah?" my answer was, "I say nothing, she's a woman who thinks carefully and profoundly and she has courage. So she's chosen the person she thinks would be the best person for our country. I do the same."

The primaries proved that Oprah had selected the one that most people wanted, so I went to Sen. Obama right after that. Hillary Clinton ... telephoned me and thanked me for my unwavering support, and then asked me to please put that same energy behind Mr. Obama.

CNN: Another theme in the book is to believe in yourself, to have faith in yourself. Why is that important?

Angelou: You need to know that you can go somewhere. You're not just like grass growing on the street. You're like trees, you have roots, and they've done wonderful things, and you need to know that, and by knowing that, you see how outfitted you are for these times. And that you really owe it to those who went before so that you can add to them for those who are yet to come.

You need to know that you are in a continuum, and if you understand that, you realize that you are worthwhile. This continuum would be broken without me.

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text: movement

text: Politicians

text: must

text: set

text: their

text: aims

text: for

text: the

text: high

text: ground

text: and

text: according

text: to

text: our

text: various

text: leanings

text: Democratic

text: Republican

text: Independent

text: we

text: will

text: follow

text: she

text: writes

text: Politicians

text: must

text: be

text: told

text: if

text: they

text: continue

text: to

text: sink

text: into

text: the

text: mud

text: of

text: obscenity

text: they

text: will

text: proceed

text: alone

text: In

text: an

text: interview

text: last

text: week

text: in

text: her

text: brownstone

text: in

text: Harlem

text: decorated

text: in

text: vibrant

text: bright

text: colors

text: Angelou

text: sat

text: at

text: the

text: round

text: table

text: in

text: her

text: dining

text: room

text: sipping

text: coffee

text: as

text: she

text: talked

text: about

text: the

text: election

text: and

text: her

text: work

text: She

text: supported

text: Sen.

text: Hillary

text: Clinton

text: 's

text: bid

text: for

text: the

text: Democratic

text: nomination

text: and

text: then

text: backed

text: Sen.

text: Barack

text: Obama

text: once

text: the

text: primaries

text: were

text: over

text: CNN

text: In

text: the

text: chapter

text: called

text: National

text: Spirit

text: you

text: call

text: on

text: political

text: leaders

text: to

text: raise

text: the

text: level

text: of

text: discussion

text: Could

text: you

text: elaborate

text: on

text: that

text: Maya

text: Angelou

text: What

text: I

text: 've

text: encouraged

text: voters

text: to

text: do

text: is

text: to

text: vote

text: for

text: the

text: person

text: I

text: am

text: extolling

text: and

text: also

text: do

text: n't

text: expect

text: that

text: if

text: your

text: man

text: or

text: woman

text: gets

text: in

text: that

text: all

text: things

text: will

text: be

text: rectified

text: immediately

text: It

text: 's

text: taken

text: us

text: a

text: long

text: time

text: to

text: come

text: to

text: this

text: place

text: of

text: weariness

text: and

text: almost

text: hopelessness

text: So

text: because

text: Obama

text: gets

text: in

text: or

text: McCain

text: gets

text: in

text: it

text: 's

text: not

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: repaired

text: overnight

text: The

text: economy

text: is

text: not

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: repaired

text: the

text: schools

text: the

text: disaster

text: in

text: our

text: schools

text: will

text: not

text: be

text: repaired

text: overnight

text: Nor

text: will

text: the

text: social

text: conversation

text: be

text: repaired

text: overnight

text: However

text: I

text: would

text: encourage

text: every

text: voter

text: to

text: say

text: to

text: his

text: or

text: her

text: candidate

text: go

text: in

text: and

text: do

text: it

text: and

text: you

text: will

text: not

text: do

text: it

text: alone

text: I

text: will

text: help

text: You

text: have

text: to

text: get

text: up

text: off

text: that

text: sofa

text: or

text: off

text: that

text: couch

text: and

text: give

text: something

text: to

text: the

text: country

text: even

text: if

text: it

text: 's

text: one

text: hour

text: every

text: other

text: week

text: to

text: an

text: old

text: people

text: 's

text: home

text: I

text: will

text: read

text: go

text: into

text: the

text: children

text: 's

text: ward

text: and

text: read

text: or

text: give

text: to

text: your

text: church

text: or

text: your

text: synagogue

text: or

text: your

text: mosque

text: Offer

text: something

text: to

text: the

text: country

text: So

text: you

text: do

text: n't

text: just

text: sit

text: there

text: CNN

text: What

text: does

text: it

text: say

text: about

text: the

text: country

text: that

text: Barack

text: Obama

text: is

text: a

text: candidate

text: to

text: be

text: president

text: Angelou

text: The

text: country

text: is

text: growing

text: up

text: and

text: confessing

text: to

text: something

text: we

text: 've

text: known

text: all

text: along

text: What

text: prevented

text: us

text: from

text: admitting

text: that

text: we

text: knew

text: that

text: And

text: I

text: was

text: taken

text: back

text: to

text: slavery

text: If

text: you

text: will

text: have

text: a

text: person

text: enslaved

text: the

text: first

text: thing

text: you

text: must

text: do

text: is

text: convince

text: yourself

text: that

text: the

text: person

text: is

text: subhuman

text: The

text: second

text: thing

text: you

text: have

text: to

text: do

text: is

text: convince

text: your

text: allies

text: so

text: you

text: 'll

text: have

text: some

text: help

text: and

text: the

text: third

text: and

text: probably

text: unkindest

text: cut

text: of

text: all

text: is

text: to

text: convince

text: that

text: person

text: that

text: he

text: or

text: she

text: is

text: subhuman

text: and

text: deserves

text: it

text: Well

text: such

text: a

text: job

text: has

text: been

text: done

text: on

text: all

text: of

text: us

text: that

text: people

text: found

text: it

text: very

text: difficult

text: to

text: admit

text: that

text: human

text: beings

text: are

text: more

text: alike

text: than

text: we

text: are

text: unalike

text: We

text: 've

text: known

text: it

text: But

text: to

text: admit

text: it

text: you

text: have

text: to

text: stop

text: saying

text: because

text: this

text: guy

text: speaks

text: another

text: language

text: because

text: their

text: eyes

text: are

text: shaped

text: differently

text: from

text: mine

text: because

text: they

text: 're

text: first

text: generation

text: Americans

text: from

text: Eastern

text: Europe

text: then

text: they

text: do

text: n't

text: count

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: have

text: to

text: consider

text: them

text: With

text: this

text: the

text: country

text: is

text: finally

text: able

text: to

text: see

text: through

text: complexion

text: and

text: see

text: community

text: CNN

text: You

text: 've

text: known

text: and

text: worked

text: with

text: people

text: like

text: Malcolm

text: X

text: and

text: Martin

text: Luther

text: King

text: Jr.

text: Could

text: you

text: imagine

text: what

text: their

text: reaction

text: would

text: be

text: to

text: this

text: Angelou

text: I

text: think

text: everybody

text: would

text: be

text: weeping

text: tears

text: of

text: joy

text: really

text: I

text: think

text: of

text: my

text: grandmother

text: who

text: raised

text: me

text: She

text: was

text: a

text: daughter

text: of

text: a

text: former

text: slave

text: She

text: knew

text: this

text: was

text: going

text: to

text: happen

text: You

text: know

text: that

text: when

text: I

text: was

text: young

text: I

text: was

text: physically

text: abused

text: and

text: so

text: I

text: stopped

text: talking

text: I

text: thought

text: that

text: my

text: voice

text: had

text: killed

text: the

text: criminal

text: The

text: man

text: had

text: been

text: found

text: dead

text: Police

text: said

text: he

text: had

text: been

text: beaten

text: to

text: death

text: So

text: I

text: knew

text: because

text: I

text: told

text: people

text: that

text: he

text: did

text: it

text: that

text: my

text: voice

text: could

text: just

text: go

text: out

text: and

text: kill

text: people

text: So

text: after

text: a

text: few

text: months

text: my

text: mother

text: 's

text: people

text: sent

text: me

text: and

text: my

text: brother

text: back

text: to

text: this

text: little

text: village

text: in

text: Arkansas

text: to

text: my

text: grandmother

text: my

text: father

text: 's

text: mother

text: who

text: was

text: raising

text: me

text: and

text: she

text: used

text: to

text: braid

text: my

text: hair

text: My

text: hair

text: was

text: huge

text: and

text: very

text: curly

text: black

text: And

text: my

text: grandmother

text: put

text: her

text: hand

text: behind

text: my

text: neck

text: and

text: held

text: it

text: so

text: she

text: would

text: n't

text: break

text: my

text: neck

text: by

text: accident

text: And

text: she

text: would

text: start

text: to

text: brush

text: my

text: hair

text: and

text: she

text: would

text: say

text: Sister

text: Mama

text: do

text: n't

text: care

text: what

text: these

text: people

text: say

text: about

text: you

text: that

text: you

text: must

text: be

text: an

text: idiot

text: you

text: must

text: be

text: a

text: moron

text: because

text: you

text: ca

text: n't

text: talk

text: Mama

text: know

text: when

text: you

text: and

text: the

text: good

text: Lord

text: get

text: ready

text: you

text: 're

text: going

text: to

text: teach

text: all

text: over

text: this

text: world

text: You

text: 're

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: a

text: mighty

text: teacher

text: I

text: did

text: n't

text: speak

text: for

text: six

text: years

text: She

text: said

text: that

text: to

text: me

text: all

text: the

text: time

text: in

text: this

text: little

text: village

text: in

text: Arkansas

text: Now

text: I

text: teach

text: all

text: over

text: the

text: world

text: I

text: teach

text: in

text: French

text: and

text: Spanish

text: so

text: when

text: I

text: stand

text: up

text: on

text: a

text: stage

text: or

text: see

text: a

text: book

text: of

text: mine

text: gets

text: accolades

text: or

text: a

text: piece

text: of

text: music

text: I

text: 've

text: written

text: I

text: think

text: about

text: my

text: Mama

text: and

text: she

text: died

text: before

text: I

text: really

text: came

text: of

text: age

text: and

text: I

text: just

text: think

text: she

text: knew

text: it

text: CNN

text: She

text: was

text: prophetic

text: about

text: you

text: but

text: beyond

text: that

text: Angelou

text: Yes

text: she

text: believed

text: it

text: will

text: get

text: better

text: And

text: you

text: have

text: to

text: continue

text: to

text: prepare

text: yourself

text: continue

text: to

text: build

text: yourself

text: continue

text: to

text: elevate

text: yourself

text: and

text: be

text: a

text: benefit

text: be

text: a

text: blessing

text: rather

text: than

text: a

text: curse

text: and

text: things

text: will

text: get

text: better

text: And

text: they

text: have

text: so

text: when

text: I

text: think

text: of

text: Dr.

text: King

text: and

text: Malcolm

text: Fannie

text: Lou

text: Hamer

text: Medgar

text: Evers

text: I

text: also

text: think

text: of

text: Chief

text: Albert

text: Luthuli

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: first

text: Africans

text: to

text: earn

text: the

text: Nobel

text: Prize

text: I

text: mean

text: that

text: after

text: Chief

text: Luthuli

text: apartheid

text: was

text: so

text: rigid

text: unbreakable

text: that

text: men

text: had

text: to

text: carry

text: their

text: IDs

text: on

text: plastic

text: cards

text: that

text: were

text: too

text: large

text: for

text: any

text: suit

text: so

text: they

text: flapped

text: reminding

text: them

text: constantly

text: who

text: they

text: were

text: It

text: was

text: my

text: blessing

text: to

text: meet

text: Nelson

text: Mandela

text: before

text: he

text: went

text: into

text: prison

text: and

text: I

text: 've

text: seen

text: him

text: many

text: times

text: since

text: He

text: knew

text: this

text: day

text: would

text: come

text: and

text: to

text: be

text: able

text: to

text: stay

text: in

text: prison

text: for

text: years

text: knowing

text: that

text: the

text: day

text: would

text: come

text: CNN

text: What

text: gave

text: you

text: the

text: inspiration

text: to

text: call

text: the

text: book

text: Letter

text: to

text: My

text: Daughter

text: even

text: though

text: you

text: do

text: n't

text: have

text: a

text: daughter

text: Angelou

text: has

text: a

text: son

text: the

text: writer

text: Guy

text: Johnson

text: Angelou

text: There

text: was

text: an

text: African

text: American

text: poet

text: her

text: name

text: was

text: Anne

text: Spencer

text: she

text: wrote

text: a

text: poem

text: called

text: Letter

text: to

text: My

text: Sister

text: around

text: the

text: turn

text: of

text: the

text: Century

text: I

text: started

text: making

text: notes

text: to

text: Oprah

text: Winfrey

text: about

text: years

text: ago

text: She

text: really

text: became

text: a

text: daughter

text: to

text: me

text: So

text: there

text: were

text: things

text: I

text: wanted

text: to

text: talk

text: to

text: her

text: about

text: I

text: made

text: notes

text: copious

text: notes

text: and

text: about

text: a

text: year

text: and

text: a

text: half

text: ago

text: I

text: got

text: out

text: that

text: box

text: called

text: WIP

text: works

text: in

text: progress

text: and

text: I

text: started

text: going

text: through

text: two

text: or

text: three

text: lines

text: and

text: I

text: said

text: Hmmm

text: there

text: 's

text: an

text: essay

text: in

text: here

text: So

text: it

text: is

text: a

text: letter

text: to

text: all

text: my

text: daughters

text: to

text: those

text: who

text: do

text: n't

text: know

text: they

text: are

text: It

text: is

text: my

text: intent

text: to

text: say

text: you

text: may

text: encounter

text: many

text: defeats

text: but

text: you

text: must

text: not

text: be

text: defeated

text: You

text: will

text: be

text: changed

text: events

text: will

text: change

text: you

text: but

text: you

text: have

text: to

text: decide

text: not

text: to

text: be

text: reduced

text: CNN

text: Have

text: you

text: been

text: in

text: touch

text: with

text: Oprah

text: lately

text: about

text: the

text: election

text: Angelou

text: I

text: spoke

text: to

text: her

text: about

text: a

text: week

text: ago

text: During

text: the

text: primaries

text: a

text: newspaper

text: reporter

text: said

text: this

text: proves

text: that

text: Oprah

text: Winfrey

text: does

text: n't

text: listen

text: to

text: everything

text: Maya

text: Angelou

text: says

text: because

text: she

text: was

text: supporting

text: Sen.

text: Obama

text: and

text: I

text: was

text: supporting

text: Sen.

text: Clinton

text: And

text: when

text: I

text: was

text: asked

text: by

text: the

text: reporter

text: What

text: do

text: you

text: say

text: to

text: Oprah

text: my

text: answer

text: was

text: I

text: say

text: nothing

text: she

text: 's

text: a

text: woman

text: who

text: thinks

text: carefully

text: and

text: profoundly

text: and

text: she

text: has

text: courage

text: So

text: she

text: 's

text: chosen

text: the

text: person

text: she

text: thinks

text: would

text: be

text: the

text: best

text: person

text: for

text: our

text: country

text: I

text: do

text: the

text: same

text: The

text: primaries

text: proved

text: that

text: Oprah

text: had

text: selected

text: the

text: one

text: that

text: most

text: people

text: wanted

text: so

text: I

text: went

text: to

text: Sen.

text: Obama

text: right

text: after

text: that

text: Hillary

text: Clinton

text: telephoned

text: me

text: and

text: thanked

text: me

text: for

text: my

text: unwavering

text: support

text: and

text: then

text: asked

text: me

text: to

text: please

text: put

text: that

text: same

text: energy

text: behind

text: Mr.

text: Obama

text: CNN

text: Another

text: theme

text: in

text: the

text: book

text: is

text: to

text: believe

text: in

text: yourself

text: to

text: have

text: faith

text: in

text: yourself

text: Why

text: is

text: that

text: important

text: Angelou

text: You

text: need

text: to

text: know

text: that

text: you

text: can

text: go

text: somewhere

text: You

text: 're

text: not

text: just

text: like

text: grass

text: growing

text: on

text: the

text: street

text: You

text: 're

text: like

text: trees

text: you

text: have

text: roots

text: and

text: they

text: 've

text: done

text: wonderful

text: things

text: and

text: you

text: need

text: to

text: know

text: that

text: and

text: by

text: knowing

text: that

text: you

text: see

text: how

text: outfitted

text: you

text: are

text: for

text: these

text: times

text: And

text: that

text: you

text: really

text: owe

text: it

text: to

text: those

text: who

text: went

text: before

text: so

text: that

text: you

text: can

text: add

text: to

text: them

text: for

text: those

text: who

text: are

text: yet

text: to

text: come

text: You

text: need

text: to

text: know

text: that

text: you

text: are

text: in

text: a

text: continuum

text: and

text: if

text: you

text: understand

text: that

text: you

text: realize

text: that

text: you

text: are

text: worthwhile

text: This

text: continuum

text: would

text: be

text: broken

text: without

text: me

question: What should not be expected?

answer: rectified immediately.

text: rectified immediately.

question: What did Maya Angelou say you should not be when you encounter defeats?

answer: defeated.

text: defeated.

question: Who says that politicians should raise the level of discussion?

answer: Maya Angelou

text: Maya Angelou

question: What did Maya Angelou says?

answer: "knees are not all that swift and my lungs need some

text: "knees are not all that swift and my lungs need some


text:
CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- An Egyptian real estate mogul and a former police officer pleaded not guilty Saturday to the murder of a rising Lebanese pop singer who was found slain in her United Arab Emirates apartment.

Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim was found slain in her apartment in Dubai in July.

Prosecutors allege that Hisham Talaat Moustafa, a Parliament member for the ruling National Democratic Party, paid Muhsen el Sukkari $2 million to kill Suzanne Tamim.

Both have denied the charges.

Tamim, 30, was found in her Dubai apartment in July with her throat slit.

Moustafa's lawyer told CNN his client loved the singer, but could not take Tamim as a second wife because his family objected.

Polygamy is legal in Egypt, and it not unusual for men -- such as Moustafa, a married father of three -- to take on additional wives.

The prosecutors say the murder was a "means of taking revenge" but have not elaborated.  Watch report on murder trial Â»

"It did not happen and I have presented all the evidence that I am not guilty," Moustafa said in the courtroom Saturday, according to Reuters.

"It did not happen," Sukkari said, according to Reuters. "By Almighty God, my blood is innocent of her."

Although Tamim was killed in the United Arab Emirates, the Egyptian judiciary is trying the case in Cairo because Egyptian law does not allow its citizens to be extradited for trials in other countries.

The defendants appeared Saturday in cages -- as is typical in Egypt -- before three judges in a crowded downtown courtroom.

Heavy security surrounded the building, amid a crush of reporters and onlookers.

The case, with its high-profile victim and defendant, has captivated Egypt and the region.

After his arrest in September, Egyptian authorities indicted Moustafa, stripped him of his parliamentary immunity and jailed him pending trial.

He also resigned as chairman of Talaat Moustafa Group -- a conglomerate with construction and real estate arms that was founded by his father, Talaat Moustafa.

Moustafa's brother, Tarek Talaat Moustafa, now chairs the company.

The case will resume on November 15. The defendants will remain jailed until then.

text: CAIRO

text: Egypt

text: CNN

text: An

text: Egyptian

text: real

text: estate

text: mogul

text: and

text: a

text: former

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Ready for your Super Bowl party? Sure, you have drinks, hot wings, maybe even a favorite jersey. But do you have an M-16, a Kevlar helmet and body armor?

Pittsburgh Steelers fan Sheresa Coleman will watch the Super Bowl from the USS Mahan in the Gulf of Aden.

Not everybody is watching the game from the comfort of the family den.

Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops will be deployed in remote war zones, on lonely oceans and at overseas bases -- all far away from an NBC affiliate. So the military is going out of its way to make sure that many soldiers, Marines, airmen and sailors can watch Super Bowl XLIII live.

"Super Bowl day has really become a holiday, military-wise, over the last couple years," said Petty Officer 1st Class Grant Shannon.

Shannon is from a town about an hour north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but is on board the USS Mahan, a destroyer deployed to stop pirates working off the coast of Somalia.

When they finish their duties, sailors like Shannon can head to the ship's mess to watch the Pittsburgh Steelers take on the Arizona Cardinals. The same is true for soldiers, Marines and airmen in combat zones.

"We can broadcast to every forward operating base in Iraq and Afghanistan," said Andreas Friedrich, the deputy director of Armed Forces Radio and Television Services, which has been sending the Super Bowl to troops overseas since the first Super Bowl, broadcasting it live since 1981.  Watch how troops will be able to watch big game Â»

All told, about 1 million American military personnel and civilians overseas will be able to watch the big game.

Some of those watching will be benefiting from the same technology that makes Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle missions possible.

A global broadcast system will beam the game to ships and submarines far out in the Pacific Ocean. GBS is how pilots in the United States can watch and fly an unmanned vehicle over a battlefield halfway around the world, and then feed what they see to the battlefield commanders on the ground below.

Raytheon, the company that runs the system, will use one of its video channels to feed the game to several U.S. Navy submarines and ships in the Pacific. Tens of thousands of sailors will be able to see the game via GBS, which first broadcast a Super Bowl in 2003, according to Guy DuBois of Raytheon.

"It's a pretty amazing feeling, when you get to do that, to watch it on the ship and knowing that everybody else is back home having a good time, just like we will be," said Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan Wright, a Cardinals fan from Arizona. Wright is on board the USS San Antonio, an amphibious transport dock that is part of the anti-piracy task force.

A Steelers fan on board the USS Mahan agrees.

"It would be nice to be home and watch the game in my hometown," said Seaman Sheresa Coleman of Pittsburgh. "But it's a great honor to support and defend the Constitution of the United States."

One thing Wright and the other overseas Super Bowl viewers will miss is the legendary Super Bowl commercials. Friedrich said the Armed Forces Radio and Television Services would have had to pay high fees for the rights to broadcast the Super Bowl commercials to an international audience.

Instead, the multimillion-dollar ads that some people consider the best part of the game will be pre-empted in favor of Department of Defense-produced ads and public service messages.

Still, even without seeing football-playing Clydesdales or movie-shilling monsters, those in uniform appreciate being part of America's unofficial midwinter holiday.

"We have lots of sailors and Marines on board who have followed the season," said Cmdr. Eric Cash, the commander of the USS San Antonio. "Any time we can enjoy some traditional American sports like the Super Bowl, it's always a great time for us, a good mental break and also a good time for people to get together and socialize."

Just like home. But you have to wonder -- does the ship's galley have nachos or pigs in a blanket?

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