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HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- Yue Minjun acknowledges that "Execution," inspired by the bloody Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, is the most politically sensitive of his work.

A section of Yue Minjun's "Execution," which the artist shows how human conflict is worth laughing at

But while Tiananmen served as the catalyst, the oil painting should not be seen as depicting what happened at Tiananmen, the Beijing-based artist said this week through a translator in a phone interview.

Billed by Sotheby's as "among the most historically important paintings of the Chinese avant-garde ever to appear at auction," "Execution" had been tucked away from sight until now. Its owner bought it from a gallery in Hong Kong a decade ago under condition that the painting not be shown in public because of its subject matter, according to Sotheby's.

On Friday, it went on auction in London, a highlight in a contemporary arts sale that also included Jean-Michel Basquiat's "Untitled (Head)," Mark Rothko's "Untitled (Blue Divided by Blue)", Andy Warhol's "Jackie," Francis Bacon's "Studies of Isabel Rawsthorne," and Damien Hirst's "Adenosine."

"Execution" would become the most expensive work of Chinese contemporary art at auction, selling for 2.9 million British pounds ($5.9 million). It eclipsed Yue's previous record, set in June when his "The Pope" sold for nearly 2.15 million British pounds ($4.37 million). The sale of "Execution" also comes on the same week another Yue piece, "The Massacre at Chios," sold for nearly $4.1 million at a Sotheby's auction of contemporary Chinese art in Hong Kong.

Stretching across "Execution" is a long red building, suggesting Tiananmen's gate outside the Forbidden City. Is the painting of Tiananmen?

"I want the audience not to think of one thing or one place or one event," he said from his Beijing home. "The whole world's the background." The red building, he explains, is simply something that's familiar to him as a Chinese artist. "As I said, the viewer should not link this painting to Tiananmen. But Tiananmen is the catalyst for conceiving of this painting."

The background may make people think of Tiananmen because he is a Chinese artist. "But it should not be," he said.

Yue painted "Execution" in a month -- in 1995. However, "it took me quite a long time for me to put the idea together."

The big picture, he said, "it's on the whole world's human conflict that is worth laughing about."

Drawing references to Francisco de Goya's "The Third of May, 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid" and Edouard Manet's "The Execution of the Emperor Maximilien of Mexico," the painting depicts a mock execution.

Manet, it must be pointed out, modeled his painting after Goya's; and Yue's "Execution" mirrors both of those -- but with his trademark grinning clones, all likenesses of Yue himself.

And the men in the position of being shot are shown in their underwear. "People feel freedom, most themselves, at home in their underpants," Yue said. And whereas in Goya's painting, the man's hands are up in resistance, the men's hands in "Execution" are down. "They are not fearing death," Yue said.

"The laughs illustrate my deep feelings," he said. The viewer will feel happiness but also fear toward the future and the unknown, a universal sentiment, he said. "One might be very happy now but always unsure of what's going to happen next.

"I think Chinese and the world have similar feelings in this respect," he said.

As for the main figures that dominate the right-half of the painting, they assume the position of holding the guns, but without the guns themselves. "In my painting, they're pretending to hold guns, as if playing a game." The man on the far right, holding one hand to his chest and another by his waist, is a direct reference to the man on the far right-hand side of Manet's painting: In that, he is cocking a gun.

Yue disagrees with the notion that his paintings are a veiled criticism of his government or of Chinese society, and he does not believe that this work will bring him trouble. "I think the painting expresses my feelings. It's not a criticism," he said, describing himself as not having strong political leanings. "I was trying to express my confusion over what I see."

The world has similar problems, he said.

Yue said he does not agree with being tagged a "Cynical Realist," a term coined by leading art critic Li Xianting to describe China's post-Tiananmen generation of disillusioned artists. At the same time, he doesn't concern himself about what people call him, he said.

That his painting has political undertones is inevitable, he said. "I cannot recall any event that has shaped my political views, but politics is everywhere in Chinese life, like the meal you eat every day," he said.

Of China, he said, "I think it is full of hope, but there are a lot of difficulties, too. China has a long cultural history and also faces a lot of problems right now. Right now, people are not satisfied, but we can find our way out."

Yue sold "Execution" to Hong Kong art dealer Manfred Schoeni shortly after painting it. "It sold for about $5,000," Yue said. "Probably not any cent would come back to me," he said of the millions his paintings now garner at auctions.

Now 45, Yue said he learned about other artists through reading books after 1978, when China had begun to open itself up under new leader Deng Xiaoping's "Open Door policy." The decade-long Cultural Revolution that had preceded made reading books an impossibility.

And what is the meaning behind the cloned figures that bear his likeness in all his paintings?

"Because I want to be famous."

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Libya will pay hundreds of millions of dollars to victims of terrorist attacks involving Americans in an agreement signed and finalized Thursday, the U.S. State Department said.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State David Welch, left, and Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Ahmad Fitouri sign the deal.

Assistant Secretary of State David Welch signed the deal in Tripoli, Libya, on Thursday. If implemented, the deal will end Libya's legal liability in numerous lawsuits from families of victims of what the United States considers Libyan terrorist acts. It also paves the way for stronger ties between the two nations and increased U.S. involvement in the oil-rich nation.

"This resolves the last major historical issue that has stood in the way of a more normal relationship between our two countries," Welch said.

The deal had hinged on congressional approval. Last month, just before leaving for summer recess, Congress unanimously adopted the Libyan Claims Resolution Act, sponsored by Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg, D-New Jersey. The legislation cleared the way to end the feud with Libya over terrorist attacks and creates a fund for victim payments.

"The Libyans didn't believe that Congress would ever be helpful, and Congress didn't think Libya would ever do it," Welch said Thursday. "We found a diplomatic way to accommodate both sides by turning suspicion into an asset."

Under the new law, Congress gives the Bush administration the authority to restore sovereign immunity for Libya only when the United States receives the agreed-upon money to pay American claimants in the fund and the secretary of state certifies it.  See a timeline of events following the Pan Am attack Â»

Once the money is received into the fund, Libya would be exempted from legislation passed this year enabling terrorism victims to be compensated from frozen assets of governments blamed for attacks.

The 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killed 270 people, including 189 Americans. The 1986 La Belle disco bombing in Berlin, Germany, killed two American servicemen and injured 79 Americans.

Libya has paid 268 families involved in the Pan Am bombing $8 million each of a $10 million settlement. It was withholding the remaining $2 million owed to each family over a dispute regarding U.S. obligations to Tripoli.

Under the deal, Libya would pay more than $500 million to settle remaining claims from the Lockerbie case and more than $280 million for victims of the La Belle disco, according to Jim Kreindler, the lead attorney for the Pan Am families.

It would also set aside funds to compensate victims of several other incidents blamed on Libya but for which Libya hasn't accepted responsibility. The total settlement could exceed $1 billion.

The pact, supported by the victims' families, closes the book on a contentious period in U.S.-Libyan relations. Ties between the two countries began to improve in 2003, when Libya gave up its weapons of mass destruction program and began compensating Lockerbie victims.

But lingering lawsuits prevented the two countries from fully normalizing ties. A joint U.S.-Libya statement issued Thursday in Tripoli said "both parties welcomed the establishment of a process to provide fair compensation for their respective nationals, and thereby turn their focus to the future of their bilateral relationship."

This spring, Libya made a proposal to the Bush administration that held some promise in settling the dispute, Welch said. Over the next several months, he and State Department lawyers held closed-door negotiating sessions with the Libyan delegation in London, England; Paris, France; Berlin; and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where he finally secured a tentative agreement in late July.

The afternoon he came back from Abu Dhabi, Welch met with Lautenberg and urged passage of the legislation.

Welch said Libya would expect an end to the claims and put the longstanding dispute with Libya to rest, despite the lingering mistrust of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

"This could not have worked without a great deal of honesty on everyone's part," Welch said.

On Thursday, Lautenberg issued a statement expressing satisfaction with the agreement.

"For too many years, Libya has refused to accept responsibility for its horrific acts of terror against American victims," he said.

"The signing of this agreement means these victims and their families can get the long overdue justice they deserve. Today's agreement is a critical development in moving Libya forward on its path toward diplomatic respect," he said.

The State Department said the "agreement is being pursued on a purely humanitarian basis and does not constitute an admission of fault by either party."

Senior State Department officials said the formula was designed to respect Libyan sensitivities about compensating victims for incidents for which it hasn't taken responsibility

But it also allows Libya to settle outstanding claims for U.S. air strikes on Tripoli in 1986, in which Libya claims more than 40 of its citizens were killed, including Gadhafi's adopted daughter.

Donations to settle Libyan claims would be placed in the "voluntary" fund, from which each country involved in the claims draws the money to pay its citizens.

Welch said no U.S. taxpayer money would be used to compensate Libya but said he was "optimistic" donations to settle Libyan claims would be made. Other senior U.S. officials said American companies eager to do business in Libya could possibly make a contribution.

The deal is to be followed by a U.S. upgrading of relations with Libya, including the confirmation of a U.S. ambassador and possible American aid. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected to visit Libya before the end of the year.

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text: legal

text: liability

text: in

text: numerous

text: lawsuits

text: from

text: families

text: of

text: victims

text: of

text: what

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: considers

text: Libyan

text: terrorist

text: acts

text: It

text: also

text: paves

text: the

text: way

text: for

text: stronger

text: ties

text: between

text: the

text: two

text: nations

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text: increased

text: U.S.

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text: in

text: the

text: way

text: of

text: a

text: more

text: normal

text: relationship

text: between

text: our

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text: The

text: deal

text: had

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text: approval

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text: month

text: just

text: before

text: leaving

text: for

text: summer

text: recess

text: Congress

text: unanimously

text: adopted

text: the

text: Libyan

text: Claims

text: Resolution

text: Act

text: sponsored

text: by

text: Sen.

text: Frank

text: R.

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text: Jersey

text: The

text: legislation

text: cleared

text: the

text: way

text: to

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text: sovereign

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text: the

text: United

text: States

text: receives

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text: agreed

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text: to

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text: year

text: enabling

text: terrorism

text: victims

text: to

text: be

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text: Berlin

text: Germany

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text: injured

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text: a

text: million

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text: remaining

text: million

text: owed

text: to

text: each

text: family

text: over

text: a

text: dispute

text: regarding

text: U.S.

text: obligations

text: to

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text: Under

text: the

text: deal

text: Libya

text: would

text: pay

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text: than

text: million

text: to

text: settle

text: remaining

text: claims

text: from

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text: case

text: and

text: more

text: than

text: million

text: for

text: victims

text: of

text: the

text: La

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text: according

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text: Kreindler

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text: lead

text: attorney

text: for

text: the

text: Pan

text: Am

text: families

text: It

text: would

text: also

text: set

text: aside

text: funds

text: to

text: compensate

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text: of

text: several

text: other

text: incidents

text: blamed

text: on

text: Libya

text: but

text: for

text: which

text: Libya

text: has

text: n't

text: accepted

text: responsibility

text: The

text: total

text: settlement

text: could

text: exceed

text: billion

text: The

text: pact

text: supported

text: by

text: the

text: victims

text: families

text: closes

text: the

text: book

text: on

text: a

text: contentious

text: period

text: in

text: U.S

text: Libyan

text: relations

text: Ties

text: between

text: the

text: two

text: countries

text: began

text: to

text: improve

text: in

text: when

text: Libya

text: gave

text: up

text: its

text: weapons

text: of

text: mass

text: destruction

text: program

text: and

text: began

text: compensating

text: Lockerbie

text: victims

text: But

text: lingering

text: lawsuits

text: prevented

text: the

text: two

text: countries

text: from

text: fully

text: normalizing

text: ties

text: A

text: joint

text: U.S

text: Libya

text: statement

text: issued

text: Thursday

text: in

text: Tripoli

text: said

text: both

text: parties

text: welcomed

text: the

text: establishment

text: of

text: a

text: process

text: to

text: provide

text: fair

text: compensation

text: for

text: their

text: respective

text: nationals

text: and

text: thereby

text: turn

text: their

text: focus

text: to

text: the

text: future

text: of

text: their

text: bilateral

text: relationship

text: This

text: spring

text: Libya

text: made

text: a

text: proposal

text: to

text: the

text: Bush

text: administration

text: that

text: held

text: some

text: promise

text: in

text: settling

text: the

text: dispute

text: Welch

text: said

text: Over

text: the

text: next

text: several

text: months

text: he

text: and

text: State

text: Department

text: lawyers

text: held

text: closed

text: door

text: negotiating

text: sessions

text: with

text: the

text: Libyan

text: delegation

text: in

text: London

text: England

text: Paris

text: France

text: Berlin

text: and

text: Abu

text: Dhabi

text: United

text: Arab

text: Emirates

text: where

text: he

text: finally

text: secured

text: a

text: tentative

text: agreement

text: in

text: late

text: July

text: The

text: afternoon

text: he

text: came

text: back

text: from

text: Abu

text: Dhabi

text: Welch

text: met

text: with

text: Lautenberg

text: and

text: urged

text: passage

text: of

text: the

text: legislation

text: Welch

text: said

text: Libya

text: would

text: expect

text: an

text: end

text: to

text: the

text: claims

text: and

text: put

text: the

text: longstanding

text: dispute

text: with

text: Libya

text: to

text: rest

text: despite

text: the

text: lingering

text: mistrust

text: of

text: Libyan

text: leader

text: Moammar

text: Gadhafi

text: This

text: could

text: not

text: have

text: worked

text: without

text: a

text: great

text: deal

text: of

text: honesty

text: on

text: everyone

text: 's

text: part

text: Welch

text: said

text: On

text: Thursday

text: Lautenberg

text: issued

text: a

text: statement

text: expressing

text: satisfaction

text: with

text: the

text: agreement

text: For

text: too

text: many

text: years

text: Libya

text: has

text: refused

text: to

text: accept

text: responsibility

text: for

text: its

text: horrific

text: acts

text: of

text: terror

text: against

text: American

text: victims

text: he

text: said

text: The

text: signing

text: of

text: this

text: agreement

text: means

text: these

text: victims

text: and

text: their

text: families

text: can

text: get

text: the

text: long

text: overdue

text: justice

text: they

text: deserve

text: Today

text: 's

text: agreement

text: is

text: a

text: critical

text: development

text: in

text: moving

text: Libya

text: forward

text: on

text: its

text: path

text: toward

text: diplomatic

text: respect

text: he

text: said

text: The

text: State

text: Department

text: said

text: the

text: agreement

text: is

text: being

text: pursued

text: on

text: a

text: purely

text: humanitarian

text: basis

text: and

text: does

text: not

text: constitute

text: an

text: admission

text: of

text: fault

text: by

text: either

text: party

text: Senior

text: State

text: Department

text: officials

text: said

text: the

text: formula

text: was

text: designed

text: to

text: respect

text: Libyan

text: sensitivities

text: about

text: compensating

text: victims

text: for

text: incidents

text: for

text: which

text: it

text: has

text: n't

text: taken

text: responsibility

text: But

text: it

text: also

text: allows

text: Libya

text: to

text: settle

text: outstanding

text: claims

text: for

text: U.S.

text: air

text: strikes

text: on

text: Tripoli

text: in

text: in

text: which

text: Libya

text: claims

text: more

text: than

text: of

text: its

text: citizens

text: were

text: killed

text: including

text: Gadhafi

text: 's

text: adopted

text: daughter

text: Donations

text: to

text: settle

text: Libyan

text: claims

text: would

text: be

text: placed

text: in

text: the

text: voluntary

text: fund

text: from

text: which

text: each

text: country

text: involved

text: in

text: the

text: claims

text: draws

text: the

text: money

text: to

text: pay

text: its

text: citizens

text: Welch

text: said

text: no

text: U.S.

text: taxpayer

text: money

text: would

text: be

text: used

text: to

text: compensate

text: Libya

text: but

text: said

text: he

text: was

text: optimistic

text: donations

text: to

text: settle

text: Libyan

text: claims

text: would

text: be

text: made

text: Other

text: senior

text: U.S.

text: officials

text: said

text: American

text: companies

text: eager

text: to

text: do

text: business

text: in

text: Libya

text: could

text: possibly

text: make

text: a

text: contribution

text: The

text: deal

text: is

text: to

text: be

text: followed

text: by

text: a

text: U.S.

text: upgrading

text: of

text: relations

text: with

text: Libya

text: including

text: the

text: confirmation

text: of

text: a

text: U.S.

text: ambassador

text: and

text: possible

text: American

text: aid

text: Secretary

text: of

text: State

text: Condoleezza

text: Rice

text: is

text: expected

text: to

text: visit

text: Libya

text: before

text: the

text: end

text: of

text: the

text: year

question: Who will be exempt from law allowing terror victims to be paid with frozen assets?

answer: Libya

text: Libya

question: What does the deal end?

answer: Libya's legal liability in numerous lawsuits

text: Libya's legal liability in numerous lawsuits

question: What did the deal end?

answer: Libya's legal liability in numerous lawsuits

text: Libya's legal liability in numerous lawsuits

question: How much does Libya have to pay to settle?

answer: hundreds of millions of dollars

text: hundreds of millions of dollars

question: How much will libya pay?

answer: hundreds of millions of dollars

text: hundreds of millions of dollars


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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Singer Chris Brown has recorded a song with his girlfriend, Rihanna, after charges were filed against him for allegedly assaulting her, a source close to the record's producer, Polow Da Don, said Thursday.

A music producer says Rihanna recorded a duet with Chris Brown, who is accused of assaulting her.

The source, who did not wish to be named because she was not authorized to speak on the matter, did not have any further details

"My heart goes out to both Chris and Rihanna for what has happened in the past," Da Don said in a statement. "They are both great artists to work with, and I wish them well."

The Los Angeles, California, district attorney filed two felony counts against Brown, 19, last week relating to a February 8 incident in which police said he assaulted Rihanna, 21.

A police statement said the incident began when Rihanna, whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, found a text message on Brown's cell phone from "a woman who Brown had a previous sexual relationship with," according to court documents released last week.

Brown issued a public apology to his fans last month.

"Words cannot begin to express how sorry and saddened I am over what transpired," he said in a statement released by his spokesman. "I am seeking the counseling of my pastor, my mother and other loved ones, and I am committed, with God's help, to emerging a better person."

When Brown made his first appearance in court last Thursday, Rihanna's lawyer asked the judge not to prohibit him from having contact with her while he faces the charges.

Media reports have said the couple has reunited since the alleged incident; spokespersons for both have neither confirmed nor denied it.  Watch some tough love for Rihanna Â»

Brown is due back in court on April 6 for his formal arraignment. If he is convicted, he could face as much as four years and eight months in prison, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said.

The case has been moved to L.A. County Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg who signed the search warrant in the case.

Brown's attorney, Mark Geragos, requested a prearraignment hearing which is scheduled for March 23 in Schnegg's chambers. Brown is not required to be at the hearing. iReport.com: Chris Brown fans: Share your reaction

On Wednesday he withdrew his nominations for two Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, a spokesman said. Brown, 19, had been nominated for "Favorite Song" and "Favorite Male Singer."

"Unfortunately, the controversy surrounding the incident last month has shifted the focus from the music to whether he should be allowed to be among those nominated," the spokesman said in a written statement. "While Chris would like to speak to his fans directly about this and other issues, pending legal proceedings preclude his doing so at this time. Once the matter before him has been resolved, he intends to do so."

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text: song

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text: charges

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text: alleged

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text: is

text: convicted

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text: could

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text: years

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text: eight

text: months

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text: required

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text: hearing

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text: Chris

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text: your

text: reaction

text: On

text: Wednesday

text: he

text: withdrew

text: his

text: nominations

text: for

text: two

text: Nickelodeon

text: Kids

text: Choice

text: Awards

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text: spokesman

text: said

text: Brown

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text: Song

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text: Favorite

text: Male

text: Singer

text: Unfortunately

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text: controversy

text: surrounding

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text: incident

text: last

text: month

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text: focus

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text: music

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text: allowed

text: to

text: be

text: among

text: those

text: nominated

text: the

text: spokesman

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: written

text: statement

text: While

text: Chris

text: would

text: like

text: to

text: speak

text: to

text: his

text: fans

text: directly

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text: this

text: and

text: other

text: issues

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text: legal

text: proceedings

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question: what is going to happen to him

answer: district attorney filed two felony counts against Brown,

text: district attorney filed two felony counts against Brown,

question: is she still together with him

answer: Media reports have said the couple has reunited since the alleged incident;

text: Media reports have said the couple has reunited since the alleged incident;

question: Who did Brown assault?

answer: Rihanna,

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question: Who was nominated for two awards?

answer: Chris Brown

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LONDON, England -- In his autobiography, Eric Clapton admits that he enjoys nothing more than sitting in a deck chair on a white sandy beach watching his children playing in the sea.

Private getaway: Eric Clapton enjoys spending time relaxing on his superyacht Va Bene.

It's the perfect antidote to a punishing tour schedule, and with gigs in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Scandinavia and Europe so far this year, getting away from it all is an experience he values.

He found that he was particularly at ease aboard the 157 ft (47.8m) motor yacht Va Bene, which he chartered in 2005 and cruised with friends around the Mediterranean. The sheltered port of Bonifacio at the southern end of Corsica became one of his favorite haunts.

In fact, Clapton enjoyed Va Bene so much that he bought her. It was the first time he'd ever had to borrow money to buy something, but he had fallen for the yacht, despite her 13 years and slightly dated looks. Besides there was always the possibility of updating her to give her a new lease of life.

Va Bene came with an interesting pedigree. She had originally been commissioned by a Greek ship owner in 1992 to a design by Richard Hein (of Oceanco fame) and built by Kees Cornelissen in Holland. She was then purchased by F1 motor racing supremo Bernie Ecclestone before being sold to an American. A steel-hulled displacement yacht with a cruising speed of about 14 knots, Va Bene can accommodate 12 guests in six separate sleeping cabins and has a crew complement of 13.

Having lived with Va Bene for a couple of years, Eric Clapton finally felt the time was right for a refit. Clapton was particularly keen for the work to be carried out in the UK, partly because he wanted to buy British but also because he could keep a close eye on proceedings. Pendennis Shipyard in Falmouth, Cornwall, was an obvious choice. Roger Taylor, the drummer with Queen has his yacht Tiger Lilly refitted regularly in Falmouth and Pete Townsend of the Who is another famous client.

Pendennis Shipyard representative Alastair Heane was first introduced to the yacht during the charter show in Antigua in December 2006. Eric Clapton has a house on the island and Va Bene is based here during the winter season. Heane quickly established a detailed proposal of work. The plan was to get Va Bene to Falmouth after Clapton had finished his 2007 summer holiday so that the work could be carried out during the winter.

The initial time frame was three months but like most complex refits this quickly extended to six as the work list grew. The target was to have Va Bene ready and waiting in Porto Cervo Sardinia on July 1 this year in time for Eric Clapton's month-long family holiday -- a date that was set in stone to fit around his tour schedule.

We caught up with Va Bene during a photo shoot at the end of June 2008 on the very day she was setting sail from Palma, Mallorca, to meet up with the boss in Sardinia. With the final last-minute touches still being applied and the crew busily unpacking everything from the owner's precious guitar to his children's cuddly toys, it was a close run thing but Pendennis had met the deadline in style.

The first thing that strikes you on boarding Va Bene is the calm, informal atmosphere of what is clearly a much-loved family yacht rather than a glitzy monument to success.

Eric Clapton may be one of the world's greatest living rock stars but he is also an unpretentious family man who wants a yacht that he can relax on. The saloon encapsulates this perfectly.

Rather than a single formal space with designer furniture that look so immaculate you hardly dare sit down, Va Bene's saloon is divided into four separate areas with clusters of contrasting chairs, sofas, tables and cabinets. One group of guests can be relaxing round the card table and matching leather chairs, while others stretch out on the big taupe corduroy sofa to watch a movie. That still leaves room for him to sneak off into another corner and perch on one of the special armless low-level chairs to play his guitar.

The adjacent dining room is a little more formal but even here the overriding feeling is of a wonderfully light room centered around what looks like a huge limed-oak table inlaid with Italian marble.

In fact, it is all the handiwork of a talented local artisan who painted the surface of the original table to match the materials found elsewhere on the yacht right down to the fake wooden joints and natural marble flaws. This solution appealed both to Clapton's desire to refresh rather than replace where possible and his appreciation of skilled craftsmanship.

He is a keen collector of modern art himself and every spare wall and surface reflects this passion. From intricate postcard-sized oil paintings of Venice to large, sprawling canvases and some beautiful marble sculptures and ceramic vases, it is a collection that reflects the singer's own ability to transcend the confines of any one genre.

Perhaps that also explains the relatively neutral tones of the dÃ©cor. There is an Art Deco theme running through the main guest areas, which the refit has refreshed and modernized rather dispensed with. The limed-oak paneling is original but all the garish gold door handles, light fittings and switches have either been replaced or replated in chrome to give it a much more contemporary feel.

The high gloss white painted ceiling panels and moldings have all been meticulously flatted back to leave a softer matt finish while all the ceiling lights, some 400 of them in total, have been replaced with modern recessed spots.

As you'd expect aboard a musician's yacht, the AV system was another major beneficiary of the refit. Every cabin and guest space now has a discreet Arcam iPod dock so that he can plug in his iPhone wherever he is and enjoy instant access to his personal music library. All bar one of the existing Bang & Olufsen CRT televisions have also been swapped for high-definition Panasonic Viera flat screens.

The highlight of the refit is the new owner's suite on the main deck -- a space that Clapton and his wife rarely used before the refit, because it is at the opposite end of the yacht to his children's cabins. (They preferred the smaller but more family-friendly location of the VIP guest suite next to the main run of cabins on the lower deck.) But it's a much more enticing space these days. Reconfigured by interior designers H2 in Putney, London, it now enjoys a much bigger family bathroom complete with walk-in rain shower, dramatic stone basins, a large tub and a natural teak floor.

The key to the success of the refit, which cost in excess of US$4 million, lay in the planning. Pendennis's Tyrone Harvey and a small team started with a technical visit to the yacht in Palma, Mallorca, in the early summer of last year. Within days of arriving in Falmouth Va Bene had undergone sea trials with Duncan Propellers to try and improve an ongoing issue with her performance and economy. It eventually transpired that one of the gearboxes had been incorrectly fitted. She was then moored alongside at Pendennis while her crew started the long job of removing her entire inventory. She also had her teak deck stripped off before she was floated into the 150m long dry dock.

Despite all the changes, Va Bene left Falmouth on time, arriving in Sardinia on July 1. Indeed, it was during this holiday that Eric Clapton took time out to talk to SuperYacht World about his born-again Va Bene (see p74). Now that he has had a chance to enjoy the fruits of his and Pendennis's labor, Va Bene is available for charter through Burgess Yachts in the Mediterranean and Caribbean.

It's not often you get to walk in the shadow of a genuine rock legend but on Va Bene you can also swim, sunbathe and sleep in Eric Clapton's personal holiday home. Chartering just doesn't get any better than that.

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text: Falmouth

text: Va

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text: Duncan

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text: and

text: improve

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text: economy

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WASHINGTON (CNN)  -- Interrogation tactics such as waterboarding, sleep deprivation and slapping did not violate laws against torture when there was no intent to cause severe pain, according to a Bush-era memo on the tactics released Thursday.

Attorney General Eric Holder says government workers who followed protocol won't be prosecuted.

"To violate the statute, an individual must have the specific intent to inflict severe pain or suffering," said an August 2002 memo from then-Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee to John Rizzo, who was acting general counsel for the CIA.

"Because specific intent is an element of the offense, the absence of specific intent negates the charge of torture. ... We have further found that if a defendant acts with the good faith belief that his actions will not cause such suffering, he has not acted with specific intent," Bybee wrote.

The Bybee opinion was sought on 10 interrogation tactics in the case of suspected al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah.

The memo authorized keeping Zubaydah in a dark, confined space small enough to restrict the individual's movement for no more than two hours at a time. In addition, putting a harmless insect into the box with Zubaydah, who "appears to have a fear of insects," and telling him it is a stinging insect would be allowed, as long as Zubaydah was informed the insect's sting would not be fatal or cause severe pain.

"If, however, you were to place the insect in the box without informing him that you are doing so ... you should not affirmatively lead him to believe that any insect is present which has a sting that could produce severe pain or suffering or even cause his death," the memo said.

Other memos allowed the use of such tactics as keeping a detainee naked and in some cases in a diaper, and putting detainees on a liquid diet.

On waterboarding, in which a person gets the sensation of drowning, the memo said, "although the waterboard constitutes a threat of imminent death, prolonged mental harm must nonetheless result" to violate the law.

Authorities also were allowed to slap a detainee's face "to induce shock, surprise or humiliation" and strike his abdomen with the back of the hand in order to disabuse a detainee's notion that he will not be touched, the memos said.

Bybee noted in the memo that the CIA agreed all tactics should be used under expert supervision. Other memos said waterboarding can be used only if the CIA has "credible intelligence that a terrorist attack is imminent" and if a detainee is believed to have information that could prevent, disrupt or delay an attack, and other methods fail to elicit the information.

Another memo to Rizzo, from Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Steven G. Bradbury on May 10, 2005, noted that nudity could be used as an interrogation technique.

"Detainees subject to sleep deprivation who are also subject to nudity as a separate interrogation technique will at times be nude and wearing a diaper," it said, noting that the diaper is "for sanitary and health purposes of the detainee; it is not used for the purpose of humiliating the detainee and it is not considered to be an interrogation technique."

"The detainee's skin condition is monitored, and diapers are changed as needed so that the detainee does not remain in a soiled diaper," the memo said.

Another Bradbury memo laid out techniques and when they should be used in a "prototypical interrogation."

"Several of the techniques used by the CIA may involve a degree of physical pain, as we have previously noted, including facial and abdominal slaps, walling, stress positions and water dousing," it said. "Nevertheless, none of these techniques would cause anything approaching severe physical pain."

All of the CIA techniques were adapted from military "survival evasion resistance escape" training, according to a May 30, 2005, memo from Bradbury to Rizzo.

"Although there are obvious differences between training exercises and actual interrogations, the fact that the United States uses similar techniques on its own troops for training purposes strongly suggests that these techniques are not categorically beyond the pale," the memo said.

The memo said waterboarding and other techniques were used on Zubaydah; Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, believed to be the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and identified as "KSM" in the memo; and another suspected al Qaeda leader, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.

"The CIA believes that it would have been unable to obtain critical information from numerous detainees, including KSM and Abu Zubaydah, without these enhanced techniques," the memo said.

"These legal legal memoranda demonstrate in alarming detail exactly what the Bush administration authorized for 'high value detainees' in U.S. custody," said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in a statement. "The techniques are chilling. This was not an 'abstract legal theory,' as some former Bush administration officials have characterized it. These were specific techniques authorized to be used on real people."

In releasing the memos in response to a public records request from the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups, the Obama administration informed CIA officials they will not be prosecuted for past waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics.

Attorney General Eric Holder promised in a separate statement that officials who used the controversial interrogation tactics were in the clear if their actions were consistent with the legal advice from the Justice Department under which they were operating at the time.

"My judgment on the content of these memos is a matter of record," President Obama said in a statement released from the White House.

Obama prohibited the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding shortly after taking office in January. Such techniques "undermine our moral authority and do not make us safer," he said Thursday.

The president said that while United States must sometimes "protect information that is classified for purposes of national security," he decided to release the memos because he believes "strongly in transparency and accountability" and "exceptional circumstances surround these memos and require their release."

Obama argued that "withholding these memos would only serve to deny facts that have been in the public domain for some time."

"This could contribute to an inaccurate accounting of the past, and fuel erroneous and inflammatory assumptions about actions taken by the United States," he said.

He added that the officials involved in the questionable interrogations would not be subject to prosecution because the intelligence community must be provided "with the confidence" it needs to do its job.

The president pledged to work to ensure the actions described in the memos "never take place again."

CNN's Kate Bolduan and Terry Frieden contributed to this report.

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answer: "My judgment on the content of these memos is a matter of record,"

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