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(CNN) -- Jay Leno pulled no punches on his show Monday night, the first since NBC confirmed the TV host was being kicked out of his low-rated 10 p.m. slot after just three months.

"Welcome to 'The Jay Leno Show.' As you know, we're not just a show anymore, we are now a collector's item," he said to open the show, before launching into a string of scathing one-liners making not-so-light of the situation.

Jeff Gaspin, chairman of NBC Universal Television Entertainment, announced Sunday that the network was taking Leno -- formerly the host of "The Tonight Show" now helmed by Conan O'Brien -- out of the prime-time slot because the show "didn't meet affiliates' needs" despite performing at acceptable levels for the network. The last show will air February 11 to make way for the 2010 Winter Olympics, which airs starting February 12.

"NBC said the show performed exactly as they expected it would and then canceled us. Don't confuse this when we were on at late night and performed better than expected and they canceled us. That was totally different," Leno quipped.

Gaspin said the plan now is for Leno to host a new, half-hour show at 11:35 p.m. ET, followed by "Tonight" with O'Brien at 12:05 a.m. and Jimmy Fallon's "Late Night" show moving to 1 a.m.

O'Brien had his own zingers for NBC during his monologue Monday night.

Among them:

-- "Good evening, I'm Conan O'Brien, the new host of 'Last Call with Carson Daly.' "

-- "This weekend no one was seriously hurt, but a 6.5 earthquake hit California. The earthquake was so powerful that it knocked Jay Leno's show from 10:00 to 11:35."

-- "On the positive side, I have learned a valuable lesson from all this: never sign a contract that ends with the word 'NOT.' "

As of Sunday, NBC was still negotiating with the three hosts over the proposed line-up.

"Supposedly we're moving to 11:30. Even this is not for sure. My people are upset. Conan's people are upset. Hey, NBC said it wanted drama at 10:00 -- now they've got it! Everyone's mad," Leno said Monday night.

Before turning his monologue to other current events, Leno had one last piece of mud to sling:

"I take pride in one thing. I leave NBC prime time the same way I found it -- a complete disaster."

NBC moved Leno to the prime time slot in September with "The Jay Leno Show," a decision that raised eyebrows in the industry. In an unprecedented move, NBC was pitting a talk show up against the hourlong dramas that have typically done well at 10 p.m.

Although Leno's ratings were on target with NBC's expectations, the low average of nightly viewers left affiliates feeling the brunt of "the Leno effect," causing the ratings for nightly news to drop.

This announcement fueled rumors that O'Brien, who took Leno's spot on "The Tonight Show" in 2009, is considering making an exit.

Scott Grogin, a spokesman for Fox, had no comment on whether the network had reached out to offer O'Brien his own show. Fox reportedly went after him six years ago, which led to NBC offering him the "Tonight Show" chair after Leno's eventual departure.

"This is still being sorted out," said Ben Grossman, editor in chief of the industry trade publication Broadcasting and Cable, who added that he expects the network to reach a conclusion over the next few days.

"The bottom line is that NBC has decided -- correctly or incorrectly -- that they're going to try and keep all their late-night talent. That's very expensive and a very questionable strategy."

Grossman thinks it's very likely Leno will remain at 11:30 post-negotiations.

"I just don't know that you need to pay that much money in late-night. I think you pick two hosts, one at 11:30 and one at 12:30."

Out of the three hosts, O'Brien is the clear loser, Grossman says.

Even if O'Brien were to stick it out with NBC, getting bumped back to 12:05 is not optimal, said Christopher Naughton, a 20-year TV veteran and attorney who produces "The American Law Journal."

"Pushing it back half an hour is huge," Naughton said. "The later in the night you go, the fewer people that are watching. [That's] going back to a time slot where it's the 'Late Show' again."

The whole scenario recalls the precedent set by a similar NBC fiasco 17 years ago, Naughton said, when Leno and David Letterman were dueling over "The Tonight Show."

After failing to secure the "The Tonight Show" position succeeding Johnny Carson, "Letterman was able to break out of his contract [with NBC]," Naughton said. "It set legal precedence because they wanted to keep Letterman, but he jumped ship through an escape clause."

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The effect of that incident has been reverberating through NBC for years, he added.

"It's a karmic thing for them," Naughton said. "You would think that NBC would have learned."

Jerry Seinfeld, however, doesn't believe people should be shedding tears for O'Brien.

"Conan has a chance to destroy everybody," the comedian said while on a press tour for his new show, "The Marriage Ref." "I don't think anyone's done anything to Conan."

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Hamid Dabashi is the author of "Iran: A People Interrupted." He is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. His Web site is http://www.hamiddabashi.com/

Hamid Dabashi says it's wrong to view the conflict in Iran as a battle of the middle class vs. the poor.

(CNN) --   In a short essay that Abbas Amanat, a scholar of 19th-century Iran at Yale University, was asked to write for The New York Times on the current crisis in Iran, he asserted that what we are witnessing is "the rise of a new middle class whose demands stand in contrast to the radicalism of the incumbent President [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad and the core conservative values of the clerical elite, which no doubt has the backing of a religiously conservative sector of the population."

This learned position of a leading scholar very much sums up the common wisdom that Iranian expatriate academics are offering an excited public mesmerized by the massive demonstrations they witness on their television sets or computer screens and eager to have someone make sense of them.

In part because of these hurried interpretations, the movement that is unfolding in front of our eyes is seen as basically a middle-class uprising against a retrograde theocracy that is banking on backward, conservative and uneducated masses who do not know any better. While the illiterate and "uncouth" masses provide the populist basis of Ahmadinejad's support, the middle class is demanding an open-market civil society.

Highly educated, pro-Western and progressive Iranians are thus placed on Mir Hossein Moussavi's side, while backward villagers and urban poor are on Ahmadinejad's. The fact that in North America and Western Europe, usually unveiled and fluently English-speaking women are brought to speak on behalf of the women demonstrators further intensifies the impression that if women are veiled or do not speak English fluently then they must be Ahmadinejad supporters.

This is a deeply false dichotomy that projects a flawed picture to the outside world. It is predicated on the spin that a very limited pool of expatriate academics are putting on a movement that is quite extraordinary in Iranian political culture, one whose full dimensions have yet to be unpacked.

The fact is that given the structural limitations of a nascent democracy that is being crushed and buried in Iran under a particular interpretation of a Shiite juridical citadel, opposition to Ahmadinejad is fractured into the followers of three candidates with deeply divided economic programs and political positions.

Moussavi is universally known as a hard-core socialist in his economic platform and a social reformist in his politics. Mehdi Karrubi is far to Moussavi's right in his economic neo-liberalism and social conservatism. Mohsen Rezaie, meanwhile, is even more to the right of Karrubi in his social conservatism but to his left in his economic platform.

What above all challenges the reading of this event as a middle-class revolt against "uncouth radicalism" is a crucial statistic that professor Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, one of the most reliable Iranian economists in the U.S., provides in the same set of responses that The New York Times solicited from experts. "Young people ages 15-29," Salehi-Isfahani reports, "make up 35 percent of the population but account for 70 percent of the unemployed."

The overwhelming majority of the people pouring into streets of Tehran and other major cities in support of Moussavi are precisely these 15- to 29-year-olds. How could this then be a middle-class uprising if the overwhelming majority of those who are supporting it and putting their lives on the line are in fact jobless 15- to 29-year-olds who still live with their parents -- who cannot even afford to rent an apartment, let alone marry and raise a family and join the middle class in a principally oil-based economy that is not labor-intensive to begin with?

Another crucial statistic that Salehi-Isfahani does not cite is the fact that more than 63 percent of university entrants in Iran are women, but only 12 percent are part of the labor force. That means that the remaining 51 percent are out of a job, and yet the most visible aspect of these anti-Ahmadinejad demonstrations is that women visibly outnumber men. How could jobless men and women be participating in a massive middle-class uprising against their "uncouth" leaders?

If we were to look closely at Moussavi's campaign commercials, his social and economic platforms since he entered the race, and the presidential debates with all the other candidates, we see that a sizable component of his supporters are indeed university students, young faculty and the urban intellectual elite --such as filmmakers, artists and the literati.

But the fact is that a major constituency of Moussavi is also the urban poor and particularly the war veterans who have no respect for Ahmadinejad, believing he had an inglorious war record, but are full of unsurpassed admiration for Moussavi because of his role as a fiercely dedicated prime minister during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988).

Conversely, there is a significant segment of the traditional middle class, the bazaaris, that is in fact the beneficiaries of Ahmadinejad's economic policies of governmentally subsidized commodities and services, and thus supports him.

As for the "uncouth" among the Iranian peasantry, Eric Hooglund, a senior scholar of Iran with decades of experience in rural areas, has recently said that when he hears reports that Ahmadinejad's support base is rural, he is left quite baffled.

"Is it possible that rural Iran," he asks pointedly, "where less than 35 percent of the country's population lives, provided Ahmadinejad the 63 percent of the vote he claims to have won? That would contradict my own research in Iran's villages over the past 30 years, including just recently."

The fact is that we really don't know how this uprising is going to pan out, and yet we seem to be in too much of a rush to assimilate it backward to inherited assumptions that may have lost their validity in face of this new reality.

I am convinced that we are witness to something quite extraordinary, perhaps even a social revolution that is overriding its economic roots. Although there are many similarities, this is a much different event than the 1977-1979 Islamic Revolution. I am not sure that this movement either sees itself as a revolution or will actually transmute into one.

Given the brutality it faces, it has no choice but opt for a nonviolent civil disobedience route. The age of ideological warfare is over in Iran. If anything, this momentum is the closest event in Iran to the civil rights movement of the 1960s in the United States, and precisely like that movement, its economic dimensions are couched in social demands.

We need to adjust our lenses and languages in order to see better, and there is no better adjustment than just cautiously, hopefully and responsibly watching what is unfolding in front of us and reading it accordingly.

This movement is ahead of our inherited politics, floating ideologies or mismatched theories. We need to sit back, hope for the best and let this inspirational movement of a whole new generation of hope teach us courage and humility.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Hamid Dabashi.

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text: core

text: conservative

text: values

text: of

text: the

text: clerical

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text: which

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text: of

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text: of

text: a

text: leading

text: scholar

text: very

text: much

text: sums

text: up

text: the

text: common

text: wisdom

text: that

text: Iranian

text: expatriate

text: academics

text: are

text: offering

text: an

text: excited

text: public

text: mesmerized

text: by

text: the

text: massive

text: demonstrations

text: they

text: witness

text: on

text: their

text: television

text: sets

text: or

text: computer

text: screens

text: and

text: eager

text: to

text: have

text: someone

text: make

text: sense

text: of

text: them

text: In

text: part

text: because

text: of

text: these

text: hurried

text: interpretations

text: the

text: movement

text: that

text: is

text: unfolding

text: in

text: front

text: of

text: our

text: eyes

text: is

text: seen

text: as

text: basically

text: a

text: middle

text: class

text: uprising

text: against

text: a

text: retrograde

text: theocracy

text: that

text: is

text: banking

text: on

text: backward

text: conservative

text: and

text: uneducated

text: masses

text: who

text: do

text: not

text: know

text: any

text: better

text: While

text: the

text: illiterate

text: and

text: uncouth

text: masses

text: provide

text: the

text: populist

text: basis

text: of

text: Ahmadinejad

text: 's

text: support

text: the

text: middle

text: class

text: is

text: demanding

text: an

text: open

text: market

text: civil

text: society

text: Highly

text: educated

text: pro

text: Western

text: and

text: progressive

text: Iranians

text: are

text: thus

text: placed

text: on

text: Mir

text: Hossein

text: Moussavi

text: 's

text: side

text: while

text: backward

text: villagers

text: and

text: urban

text: poor

text: are

text: on

text: Ahmadinejad

text: 's

text: The

text: fact

text: that

text: in

text: North

text: America

text: and

text: Western

text: Europe

text: usually

text: unveiled

text: and

text: fluently

text: English

text: speaking

text: women

text: are

text: brought

text: to

text: speak

text: on

text: behalf

text: of

text: the

text: women

text: demonstrators

text: further

text: intensifies

text: the

text: impression

text: that

text: if

text: women

text: are

text: veiled

text: or

text: do

text: not

text: speak

text: English

text: fluently

text: then

text: they

text: must

text: be

text: Ahmadinejad

text: supporters

text: This

text: is

text: a

text: deeply

text: false

text: dichotomy

text: that

text: projects

text: a

text: flawed

text: picture

text: to

text: the

text: outside

text: world

text: It

text: is

text: predicated

text: on

text: the

text: spin

text: that

text: a

text: very

text: limited

text: pool

text: of

text: expatriate

text: academics

text: are

text: putting

text: on

text: a

text: movement

text: that

text: is

text: quite

text: extraordinary

text: in

text: Iranian

text: political

text: culture

text: one

text: whose

text: full

text: dimensions

text: have

text: yet

text: to

text: be

text: unpacked

text: The

text: fact

text: is

text: that

text: given

text: the

text: structural

text: limitations

text: of

text: a

text: nascent

text: democracy

text: that

text: is

text: being

text: crushed

text: and

text: buried

text: in

text: Iran

text: under

text: a

text: particular

text: interpretation

text: of

text: a

text: Shiite

text: juridical

text: citadel

text: opposition

text: to

text: Ahmadinejad

text: is

text: fractured

text: into

text: the

text: followers

text: of

text: three

text: candidates

text: with

text: deeply

text: divided

text: economic

text: programs

text: and

text: political

text: positions

text: Moussavi

text: is

text: universally

text: known

text: as

text: a

text: hard

text: core

text: socialist

text: in

text: his

text: economic

text: platform

text: and

text: a

text: social

text: reformist

text: in

text: his

text: politics

text: Mehdi

text: Karrubi

text: is

text: far

text: to

text: Moussavi

text: 's

text: right

text: in

text: his

text: economic

text: neo

text: liberalism

text: and

text: social

text: conservatism

text: Mohsen

text: Rezaie

text: meanwhile

text: is

text: even

text: more

text: to

text: the

text: right

text: of

text: Karrubi

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text: conservatism

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text: his

text: left

text: in

text: his

text: economic

text: platform

text: What

text: above

text: all

text: challenges

text: the

text: reading

text: of

text: this

text: event

text: as

text: a

text: middle

text: class

text: revolt

text: against

text: uncouth

text: radicalism

text: is

text: a

text: crucial

text: statistic

text: that

text: professor

text: Djavad

text: Salehi

text: Isfahani

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: most

text: reliable

text: Iranian

text: economists

text: in

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text: U.S.

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text: same

text: set

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text: middle

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text: putting

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text: line

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text: who

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text: parents

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text: middle

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text: crucial

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text: the

text: fact

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text: more

text: than

text: percent

text: of

text: university

text: entrants

text: in

text: Iran

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text: women

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text: labor

text: force

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text: means

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text: the

text: remaining

text: percent

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text: a

text: job

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text: yet

text: the

text: most

text: visible

text: aspect

text: of

text: these

text: anti

text: Ahmadinejad

text: demonstrations

text: is

text: that

text: women

text: visibly

text: outnumber

text: men

text: How

text: could

text: jobless

text: men

text: and

text: women

text: be

text: participating

text: in

text: a

text: massive

text: middle

text: class

text: uprising

text: against

text: their

text: uncouth

text: leaders

text: If

text: we

text: were

text: to

text: look

text: closely

text: at

text: Moussavi

text: 's

text: campaign

text: commercials

text: his

text: social

text: and

text: economic

text: platforms

text: since

text: he

text: entered

text: the

text: race

text: and

text: the

text: presidential

text: debates

text: with

text: all

text: the

text: other

text: candidates

text: we

text: see

text: that

text: a

text: sizable

text: component

text: of

text: his

text: supporters

text: are

text: indeed

text: university

text: students

text: young

text: faculty

text: and

text: the

text: urban

text: intellectual

text: elite

text: --such

text: as

text: filmmakers

text: artists

text: and

text: the

text: literati

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text: the

text: fact

text: is

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text: a

text: major

text: constituency

text: of

text: Moussavi

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text: also

text: the

text: urban

text: poor

text: and

text: particularly

text: the

text: war

text: veterans

text: who

text: have

text: no

text: respect

text: for

text: Ahmadinejad

text: believing

text: he

text: had

text: an

text: inglorious

text: war

text: record

text: but

text: are

text: full

text: of

text: unsurpassed

text: admiration

text: for

text: Moussavi

text: because

text: of

text: his

text: role

text: as

text: a

text: fiercely

text: dedicated

text: prime

text: minister

text: during

text: the

text: Iran

text: Iraq

text: war

text: Conversely

text: there

text: is

text: a

text: significant

text: segment

text: of

text: the

text: traditional

text: middle

text: class

text: the

text: bazaaris

text: that

text: is

text: in

text: fact

text: the

text: beneficiaries

text: of

text: Ahmadinejad

text: 's

text: economic

text: policies

text: of

text: governmentally

text: subsidized

text: commodities

text: and

text: services

text: and

text: thus

text: supports

text: him

text: As

text: for

text: the

text: uncouth

text: among

text: the

text: Iranian

text: peasantry

text: Eric

text: Hooglund

text: a

text: senior

text: scholar

text: of

text: Iran

text: with

text: decades

text: of

text: experience

text: in

text: rural

text: areas

text: has

text: recently

text: said

text: that

text: when

text: he

text: hears

text: reports

text: that

text: Ahmadinejad

text: 's

text: support

text: base

text: is

text: rural

text: he

text: is

text: left

text: quite

text: baffled

text: Is

text: it

text: possible

text: that

text: rural

text: Iran

text: he

text: asks

text: pointedly

text: where

text: less

text: than

text: percent

text: of

text: the

text: country

text: 's

text: population

text: lives

text: provided

text: Ahmadinejad

text: the

text: percent

text: of

text: the

text: vote

text: he

text: claims

text: to

text: have

text: won

text: That

text: would

text: contradict

text: my

text: own

text: research

text: in

text: Iran

text: 's

text: villages

text: over

text: the

text: past

text: years

text: including

text: just

text: recently

text: The

text: fact

text: is

text: that

text: we

text: really

text: do

text: n't

text: know

text: how

text: this

text: uprising

text: is

text: going

text: to

text: pan

text: out

text: and

text: yet

text: we

text: seem

text: to

text: be

text: in

text: too

text: much

text: of

text: a

text: rush

text: to

text: assimilate

text: it

text: backward

text: to

text: inherited

text: assumptions

text: that

text: may

text: have

text: lost

text: their

text: validity

text: in

text: face

text: of

text: this

text: new

text: reality

text: I

text: am

text: convinced

text: that

text: we

text: are

text: witness

text: to

text: something

text: quite

text: extraordinary

text: perhaps

text: even

text: a

text: social

text: revolution

text: that

text: is

text: overriding

text: its

text: economic

text: roots

text: Although

text: there

text: are

text: many

text: similarities

text: this

text: is

text: a

text: much

text: different

text: event

text: than

text: the

text: Islamic

text: Revolution

text: I

text: am

text: not

text: sure

text: that

text: this

text: movement

text: either

text: sees

text: itself

text: as

text: a

text: revolution

text: or

text: will

text: actually

text: transmute

text: into

text: one

text: Given

text: the

text: brutality

text: it

text: faces

text: it

text: has

text: no

text: choice

text: but

text: opt

text: for

text: a

text: nonviolent

text: civil

text: disobedience

text: route

text: The

text: age

text: of

text: ideological

text: warfare

text: is

text: over

text: in

text: Iran

text: If

text: anything

text: this

text: momentum

text: is

text: the

text: closest

text: event

text: in

text: Iran

text: to

text: the

text: civil

text: rights

text: movement

text: of

text: the

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: and

text: precisely

text: like

text: that

text: movement

text: its

text: economic

text: dimensions

text: are

text: couched

text: in

text: social

text: demands

text: We

text: need

text: to

text: adjust

text: our

text: lenses

text: and

text: languages

text: in

text: order

text: to

text: see

text: better

text: and

text: there

text: is

text: no

text: better

text: adjustment

text: than

text: just

text: cautiously

text: hopefully

text: and

text: responsibly

text: watching

text: what

text: is

text: unfolding

text: in

text: front

text: of

text: us

text: and

text: reading

text: it

text: accordingly

text: This

text: movement

text: is

text: ahead

text: of

text: our

text: inherited

text: politics

text: floating

text: ideologies

text: or

text: mismatched

text: theories

text: We

text: need

text: to

text: sit

text: back

text: hope

text: for

text: the

text: best

text: and

text: let

text: this

text: inspirational

text: movement

text: of

text: a

text: whole

text: new

text: generation

text: of

text: hope

text: teach

text: us

text: courage

text: and

text: humility

text: The

text: opinions

text: expressed

text: in

text: this

text: commentary

text: are

text: solely

text: those

text: of

text: Hamid

text: Dabashi

question: What does Dabashi say about Ahmadinejad supporters being called poor, rural Iranians?

answer: it's wrong to view the conflict in Iran as a battle of the middle class vs. the

text: it's wrong to view the conflict in Iran as a battle of the middle class vs. the

question: What U.S. event is Dabashi comparing the Iranian conflict to?

answer: civil rights movement

text: civil rights movement


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(CNN) -- Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps will not face criminal charges in connection with a November party at which he was photographed using a bong, a South Carolina sheriff said Monday.

Michael Phelps admitted "regrettable behavior" after a  photo of him using a bong was published.

"We do not believe we have enough evidence to prosecute anyone" who was at the party in Columbia, South Carolina, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott told reporters, adding that authorities are ending their investigation into Phelps.

"We had a photo, and we had him saying he was sorry for his inappropriate behavior," Lott said. "That behavior could have been going to a party. ... He never said, 'I smoked marijuana.' He never confessed to that. We didn't have physical evidence. We didn't have enough where we could go arrest him."

Phelps, 23, who won a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, admitted "regrettable behavior" after a British newspaper published the photograph about two weeks ago. The tabloid News of the World showed Phelps using the bong during what it said was a November party at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.  Watch the sheriff say he won't prosecute Phelps ÃÂ»

A bong is a device commonly used to smoke marijuana. University police and Columbia police both said they would not pursue charges against Phelps.

Lott said he has not spoken to Phelps, but hopes the swimming champion has learned from his mistakes and is willing to share an anti-drug message with children.

Phelps said Monday he had learned some "important lessons" from the incident.

"I'm glad this matter is put to rest," he said in a written statement. "But there are also some important lessons that I've learned. For me, it's all about recognizing that I used bad judgment and it's a mistake I won't make again. For young people especially -- be careful about the decisions you make. One bad decision can really hurt you and the people you care about.

"I really appreciate the support my family and fans have shown me, and now I will move forward and dive back into the pool, having put this whole thing behind me."  Watch Phelps acknowledge making 'a mistake' ÃÂ»

Phelps told CNN affiliate WBAL in Baltimore, Maryland, "This is something that I need to learn from, will learn from and have learned from."

"I know that a lot of people make mistakes, and the best way to learn from them is changing things," Phelps told WBAL.

Lott said the photo that surfaced of Phelps put him and his department in a "no-win situation." If he had ignored it, he said, he would have faced criticism, but he also was criticized for investigating.

However, he said, the photo did initiate an investigation into goings-on at the home where the party took place, and some people were arrested on suspicion of drug possession. The home has been the focus of previous drug-related investigations, he said.

He defended his investigation, saying, "As a cop, my responsibility is to enforce the law, not to create it or ignore it. Marijuana in the state of South Carolina is illegal."

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(AOL Autos)  -- Collecting cars is an expensive hobby. Here's a twist: Buy a new car today that will be worth a fortune as a collectible years from now.

The Audi S5 is a slick coupe with solid credentials.

Best of all, you don't need to break the bank to buy a hot and value-appreciating ride. But you do have to be patient, since waiting is key.

"Many consumers could be driving a future collector car right now," McKeel Hagerty, CEO of Hagerty, a specialty insurer of collector cars in the United States, and himself a respected collector car valuation expert.

"Our goal was to find cars that are currently on the road but may be considered nostalgic in 15 to 20 years. Each car on Hagerty's Hot List possesses a 'buzz,' a wow factor that resonates with consumers of all ages, many cars being daily drivers that turn heads already."

Why do some vehicles become tomorrow's collector car? Hagerty says it's a combination of pop culture popularity, limited production numbers and the style of the next generation of collectors.

Hagerty's Hot List, the top 10 collector cars of the future:

1. Cadillac XLR-V Roadster

Under the hood sits a hand-built 4.4-liter V8 that's been supercharged and puts out 443 horsepower. This is a serious domestic roadster that competes with the Mercedes SL-Class, Porsche 911 Cabriolet and Jaguar XKR, as well as the four-seat BMW M6 convertible. AOL Autos: Cadillac XLR Roadster

2. Lotus Exige S

Most practical people will find the Lotus Exige is a miserable little car -- that is if you are shopping for a grocery getter! Research uncovered one anonymous review stating "Bottom Line ... my heart beats faster when I think about this car ... it is that rewarding." AOL Autos: Lotus Exige S

3. Audi S5

A slick coupe with solid credentials. It provides good looks, impressive all-wheel-drive handling and an affordable price tag for this segment. AOL Autos: Audi S5

4. Mustang Shelby GT 500 KR

The new GT500 KR (King of the Road) takes the bare bones of a GT500 and turns it into a 540 horsepower muscle car that pays tribute to the legendary Carroll Shelby. Production is expected to be around 1,000. AOL Autos: Mustang Shelby GT 500 KR

5. Chevrolet Corvette Z06

The ferocious Z06 is a fixed-roof coupe with a 7.0-liter V8 that produces 505 horsepower. The last 50 years have proven that most Corvettes eventually become collectible. AOL Autos: Chevrolet Corvette Z06

6. Smart

At first look, the Smart seems too small to be practical. It's not. Rather, it is a marvel of packaging efficiency. This is the first year they will be available en masse in the United States.

7. Subaru Impreza WRX STi

Some Subaru enthusiasts may not like the idea of being spotted in a hatchback, but this will make it more collectible down the road.

8. Honda S2000 CR

Less than 2,000 of the CR editions will be built. This is a high-performance version of the stock S2000 that is regarded as Honda's only true sports car.

9. Pontiac Solstice/Saturn Sky

This pair of roadsters from GM have all the necessary ingredients: rear-wheel drive, a powerful engine, independent suspension and an impressive weight balance.

10. Dodge Charger Super Bee

It has a 6.1 liter HEMI V8 with 425 horsepower and 420 ft.-lbs. of torque. Need we say more for a family sedan?

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(Mental Floss) -- President-Elect Obama's mother-in-law will be moving to Washington with the first family, at least temporarily, his transition team has confirmed. Marian Robinson will be the latest in a line of presidential in-laws who, for good or ill, lived under the same roof as the president.

President Dwight Eisenhower and his mother-in-law, Elivera  Doud, pose for pictures with some of the grandchildren.

Here are four stories that confirm the old truism: While America can choose its president, the president can't choose his in-laws.

1. Ulysses S. Grant and 'The Colonel'

You would think that the Civil War was settled at Appomattox, and no question of its outcome would have been raised in the White House of Ulysses S. Grant, who, after all, was the general who won the war.

But you would be wrong, because living with Ulysses and Julia Grant was the president's father-in-law. Colonel Frederick Dent (his rank seems to have been self-selected) was an unreconstructed Confederate, a St. Louis businessman and slaveholder who, when his daughter Julia went to the Executive Mansion early in 1869, decided to relocate there as well.

The Colonel didn't hesitate to make himself at home. When his daughter received guests, he sat in a chair just behind her, offering anyone within earshot unsolicited advice. Political and business figures alike got a dose of the Colonel's mind as they waited to meet with President Grant.

When the president's father, Jesse Grant, came from Kentucky on one of his regular visits to Washington, the White House turned into a Civil War reenactment. According to "First Families: The Impact of the White House on Their Lives", by Bonnie Angelo, Jesse Grant preferred to stay in a hotel rather than sleep under the same roof as the Colonel.

And when the two old partisans found themselves unavoidably sitting around the same table in the White House, they avoided direct negotiations by using Julia and her young son, named for the president's father, as intermediaries, Betty Boyd Caroli writes in "First Ladies": "In the presence of the elder Grant, Frederick Dent would instruct Julia to 'take better care of that old gentleman [Jesse Grant]. He is feeble and deaf as a post and yet you permit him to wander all over Washington alone.' And Grant replied [to his grandson and namesake], 'Did you hear him? I hope I shall not live to become as old and infirm as your Grandfather Dent.'" Mental Floss: 5 feisty first daughters

The Colonel remained in the White House -- irascible and unrepentant -- until his death, at age 88, in 1873.

2. Harry S Truman and the Mother-in-Law from Heck

Harry Truman and Bess Wallace met as children. He was a farm boy; she was the well-heeled granddaughter of Independence, Missouri's Flour King. When they married in 1919, Truman was a struggling haberdasher, and Bess's mother, Madge Wallace, thought Bess had made a colossal social faux pas. Until she died in 1952, Madge Wallace never changed her mind about Harry Truman. Her Bess had married way below her station.

Madge had plenty of opportunities to let her son-in-law know it. The newlyweds moved into the Wallace mansion in Independence, and the three lived together under the same roof until the end of Madge's life.

When Harry Truman was elected senator, "Mother Wallace," as Truman judiciously called her, moved with her daughter and son-in-law to Washington. In the family's apartment, she shared a bedroom with the Trumans' daughter, Margaret. And when Truman became president, she moved with them into the White House, where she cast her cold eye on the new commander-in-chief.

"Why would Harry run against that nice Mr. Dewey?" she wondered aloud, as Truman was fighting for his political life in the 1948 presidential race, according to "First Mothers" by Bonnie Angelo. And when Truman fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur for insubordination, Mother Wallace was scandalized. "Imagine a captain from the National Guard [Truman] telling off a West Point general!"

In December 1952, shortly before Truman's term ended, Madge Wallace died, at age 90. For the 33 years they lived together, she never called her son-in-law anything but "Mr. Truman" to his face. Mental Floss: Presidential siblings and the headaches they caused

3. Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Mother-in-Law of the Year

If Truman's story sounds like the set-up for a film noir, his successor's relationship with his mother-in-law might have been a Technicolor musical.

Elivera Mathilda Carlson Doud, Mamie Eisenhower's mother, was "a witty woman with a tart tongue," Time magazine wrote, and Dwight Eisenhower thought she was a hoot. "She refuted every mother-in-law joke ever made," Time wrote. There was no question that she would join her daughter and son-in-law in the White House.

Ike called her "Min," the name of a character in the Andy Gump comic strip. Ike and Min "constituted a mutual admiration society, and each took the other's part whenever a family disagreement would arise," said Eisenhower's son, John. The New York Times observed, "The president frequently looks around him sharply, and inquires, 'Where's Min?'"

Widowed shortly before Eisenhower became president, Min spent the winters in the White House and summers at her home in Denver. It was while visiting his mother-in-law's home that Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in 1955. Two years later, in failing health, Min returned permanently to Denver. She died in 1960, at age 82.

4. Benjamin Harrison and the Reverend Doctor

Benjamin Harrison's father-in-law, John Witherspoon Scott, bore a double title: "reverend doctor."

Scott was born in Pennsylvania in 1800, did post-graduate work at Yale and took a professorship in mathematics and science at Miami University, in Ohio. He was also a Presbyterian minister and an outspoken abolitionist. The reverend doctor was rumored to have shielded runaway slaves in his home as a stop on the Underground Railroad. Whatever the truth, Miami University dismissed him for his anti-slavery beliefs.

He accepted a post at Farmer's College, a prep school in Cincinnati, where he became a mentor of a student named Benjamin Harrison. During his visits to the Scott home, Harrison became friendly with the reverend doctor's daughter, Caroline.

Young Harrison spent so many evenings at the Scotts' home that he got the nickname "the pious moonlight dude," according to "The Complete Book of the Presidents" by William A. DeGregorio. He and Caroline were married in 1853 at the bride's house. The reverend doctor officiated.

John Witherspoon Scott later became a clerk in the pension office of the interior department. He gave up the position when Harrison was elected president in 1888. A widower since 1876, Scott moved into the White House with his daughter and their family.

It was the president's custom to lead the family in a half-hour of Bible reading and prayer after breakfast, Anne Chieko Moore and Hester Anne Hale wrote in "Benjamin Harrison: Centennial President." When the president was absent, his father-in-law took his place.

Caroline Harrison died in October 1892, two weeks before her husband lost the presidential election. Her father died the next month, at age 92. An obituary described John Witherspoon Scott as "a man of wonderful physical vigor, tall, broad chested and well preserved mentally." Mental Floss: The bizarre history of White House pets

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text: tart

text: tongue

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text: magazine

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text: Dwight

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text: hoot

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text: other

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text: family

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text: in

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text: evenings

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text: Scotts

text: home

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text: he

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text: nickname

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text: pious

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text: The

text: Complete

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text: Presidents

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text: A.

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text: He

text: and

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text: interior

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text: position

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text: elected

text: president

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text: A

text: widower

text: since

text: Scott

text: moved

text: into

text: the

text: White

text: House

text: with

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text: their

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text: custom

text: to

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text: the

text: family

text: in

text: a

text: half

text: hour

text: of

text: Bible

text: reading

text: and

text: prayer

text: after

text: breakfast

text: Anne

text: Chieko

text: Moore

text: and

text: Hester

text: Anne

text: Hale

text: wrote

text: in

text: Benjamin

text: Harrison

text: Centennial

text: President

text: When

text: the

text: president

text: was

text: absent

text: his

text: father

text: in

text: law

text: took

text: his

text: place

text: Caroline

text: Harrison

text: died

text: in

text: October

text: two

text: weeks

text: before

text: her

text: husband

text: lost

text: the

text: presidential

text: election

text: Her

text: father

text: died

text: the

text: next

text: month

text: at

text: age

text: An

text: obituary

text: described

text: John

text: Witherspoon

text: Scott

text: as

text: a

text: man

text: of

text: wonderful

text: physical

text: vigor

text: tall

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text: and

text: well

text: preserved

text: mentally

text: Mental

text: Floss

text: The

text: bizarre

text: history

text: of

text: White

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text: For

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question: Whose mother-in-law  scandalized by his firing of Gen. Douglas MacArthur?

answer: Madge Wallace,

text: Madge Wallace,

question: Who had "mutual admiration society"?

answer: Ike and Min

text: Ike and Min

question: Where did the in-laws move into?

answer: Washington

text: Washington

question: What did Truman's mother-in-law do?

answer: pose for pictures with some of the grandchildren.

text: pose for pictures with some of the grandchildren.

question: What was his mother in-law  scandalized by?

answer: when Truman fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur for insubordination,

text: when Truman fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur for insubordination,

question: What did Eisenhower and his mother in law have?

answer: pictures with some of the grandchildren.

text: pictures with some of the grandchildren.


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Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Felony fraud charges against actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, were dropped Wednesday after she accepted a deal on a misdemeanor offense, a California prosecutor said.

The Quaids were facing felony charges of defrauding an innkeeper and skipping out on a $10,000 hotel bill in Santa Barbara, California, in September 2009.

The couple have paid the bill in full, according to Santa Barbara County Deputy District Attorney Arnie Tolks.

After Evi Quaid entered a plea of no contest to one misdemeanor count of defrauding an innkeeper, she was sentenced to three years probation and 240 hours of community service, Tolks said.

The Quaids were first arrested in Texas in September on a warrant issued by a Santa Barbara judge. They missed several court dates since then, prompting the judge to order them to jail on Monday unless they posted $100,000 bail each, which they did.

After the couple showed up for a court hearing on Monday, their lawyer negotiated a plea deal.

While investigators had circumstantial evidence against Randy Quaid, they could not prove his direct involvement in dealing with the hotel or the credit card transaction, Tolks said.

Evidence showed it was Evi Quaid who handled the business with the hotel, he said.

Quaid, 56, is known for his roles in several films, including the "National Lampoon's Vacation" movies, "Kingpin" and "Brokeback Mountain." His younger brother is actor Dennis Quaid.

CNN's Brittany Kaplan contributed to this report.

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text: this

text: report

question: What charges did it drop against them?

answer: Felony fraud

text: Felony fraud

question: were they accused of skipping out on $10,000 hotel bill?

answer: facing felony charges

text: facing felony charges

question: what were they accused of

answer: felony charges of defrauding an innkeeper and skipping out on a $10,000 hotel bill

text: felony charges of defrauding an innkeeper and skipping out on a $10,000 hotel bill

question: what was dropped

answer: Felony fraud charges

text: Felony fraud charges

question: how much was the bill

answer: $10,000