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(CNN) -- When the series "ER" airs its finale on Thursday, the event will not only mark the completion of one of NBC's most successful shows, but it can also be viewed as the end of an era for the network.

NBC's "ER," which ends on April 2, helped launch the careers of several actors, including George Clooney.

"What's so symbolic about 'ER' leaving is that that 10 o'clock Thursday night slot started out what I always called the beginning of the second golden age of television with 'Hill Street Blues'," said Robert Thompson, a professor and founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University.

"In almost a quarter of a century it went from 'Hill Street Blues' Thursday at 10 to 'L.A. Law' Thursday at 10 to 'ER' Thursday at 10. 'ER' is kind of occupying sacred space."

Beginning this fall, such prime time real estate, which also previously housed another acclaimed hospital drama, "St. Elsewhere." will be occupied by a new talk show helmed by "The Tonight Show" host Jay Leno.  It's a significant move for NBC in an age where sitcoms and dramas have increasingly given way to the less-expensive-to-produce reality TV shows.   "ER," which at one point was paying millions of dollars per episode just in actor salaries, definitely fit into the realm of costly productions.

Despite the price tag, the show ran for 15 seasons and is the most Emmy-nominated series in television history with 122 nominations, 22 of which resulted in wins.  Check out a timeline of the show's actors Â»

It almost never made it out of a pile of scripts.

Created by the late author Michael Crichton and steered by the creative team at Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, the concept didn't immediately tickle the fancy of television honchos.

"Every network had passed on it, twice," the show's longtime executive producer, John Wells, told The New York Times. "It had all these characters and medical dialogue, and they found it utterly impossible to follow."

Once it did get the green light, it caught on like a house afire.

"ER" quickly attracted legions of fans and catapulted many members of the ever-changing ensemble cast to superstar status -- most notably George Clooney, who played hunky Dr. Doug Ross.

Baltimore Sun television critic David Zurawik, who writes about the industry in the paper's "Z on TV" blog, said there may never be another collection of such talent in an ensemble drama on network television.

"There's just no way in the business model of network television for a producer out in Hollywood to say 'Here's the concept, and I've got this star, this star and this star,' " Zurawik said.

"By the time they got two sentences out, the production studio head they are pitching would say 'Who's going to be paying for that.' The economics for that are just not there, and neither is the audience."

Zurawik noted that audiences and actors alike now have gravitated to cable television, where dramatic hits such as "Mad Men" and "Rescue Me" are being produced by the likes of AMC and FX.

"Cable is growing whereas network TV isn't," Zurawik said. "The better actors, the ones who work in film and theater, really like doing cable because cable has been flexible. It's not, if you sign on to this series you are going to do 22 episodes a year and you have to sign away five or six years of your life. Nobody wants to do that anymore."

Former Dallas Morning News TV critic Ed Bark, who now runs the site Uncle Barky's Bytes, said he believes in the coming years most of the Emmy-caliber shows will be on cable.

Cable television benefits, he said, from the double revenue stream of both money from advertisers and subscribers, so there is not the ratings pressure network television has. Moreover, high-quality dramas are valuable calling cards, he added. Cable stations have been successful at branding themselves based on some of the shows they are producing.

"A lot of times, it takes one show to get people to look at your network as a place where you can see quality drama," Bark said. "For FX, it was 'The Shield.' For TNT it was 'The Closer.' For AMC, it was 'Mad Men.' I think once you get an audience over there, you build on that."

However, at least some of cable's audience gains come at the expense of network TV's audience, which has shrunk substantially in the 15 years since "ER" went on the air. Indeed, the drama's demise is symbolic of long-term programming trends, said Thompson.

The TV and pop culture professor, who has written several books on television, said NBC choosing to cede 10 o'clock to a talk show rather than another great drama speaks volumes, though he wouldn't count out the genre entirely.

"This is not a good time to buy television drama futures, but I don't think they are going to die," Thompson said. "The TV drama is going to be like the American bison. There used to be herds and herds of them roaming the country. They're not dead, but there are just not as many."

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answer: April 2,

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question: ER ran for how many seasons?

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answer: April 2,

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question: who is now drawing audiences for popular dramas?

answer: AMC

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question: how long was it on air for

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(CNN) -- The LPGA have confirmed that 25-year-old golfer Erica Blasberg has been found dead.

Blasberg has played on the LPGA Tour since 2004, and had recently participated in her first event of 2010 in Mexico where she tied for 44th in the Tres Marias Championship.

A native of California, Blasberg turned professional in 2004 and claimed one victory on the Duramed Futures Tour before qualifying for the LPGA Tour in 2005.

Blasberg's best performance was in 2008 when she recorded a joint eighth position at the SBS Open in Hawaii -- a career-best -- and claimed over $113,000 prize money.

The details of her death are not yet known, according to the LPGA.

Blasberg's agent, Chase Callahan of REP 1 Sports Group told the LPGA's official Web site: "We are devastated to learn of the passing of Erica Blasberg.

"To most of the world, Erica was known as a professional golfer, but she was more than that. She was a loving daughter to her parents and a compassionate and loyal friend.

"Erica had a good heart, was extremely kind and very thankful for what she had in her life. She lived out her dream of playing professional golf on the highest level on the LPGA Tour, allowing her to help inspire others.

"We are proud of Erica for everything she accomplished. This is a painful loss, we feel it in our hearts and we will miss her. Erica would want those close to her to celebrate the life she lived. We ask that you keep Erica and her family in your prayers."

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answer: "We are devastated to learn of the passing of Erica

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question: What year did Blasberg join the LPGA tour

answer: 2004,

question: What did the agent say?

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London, England (CNN) -- Lady Gaga has paid tribute to pop icon Cyndi Lauper as they join forces to raise HIV and AIDS awareness among women.

Gaga and Lauper told CNN's "Connect The World" women "need to put their foot down" in the bedroom.

"Cyndi is a lot of my inspiration," Gaga said, before relating how she and Lauper had met playing gay clubs in gay neighborhoods.

Lauper replied: "That's very sweet. You know I get inspired by her. I get inspired to remember myself."

Pop icon Gaga, who has enjoyed worldwide success thanks to songs such as "Poker Face," "Just Dance" and "Telephone" is known as much for her distinctive fashion sense and extravagant performances as she is for her music.

But she told CNN's Becky Anderson that she was surprised a viewer had asked her whether she wrote her own songs.

"People are asking that question?" queried Gaga. "I have written every single song I have ever sang and also produced a lot of the music."

Gaga and Lauper are on a mission, along with cosmetics giant MAC, to ensure women are tested for HIV and AIDS.

"This is not a gay disease, this is a disease plaguing women," said Gaga. "And I just want to clarify that. Because I think that's the very sort of pre-assumption, that women aren't getting tested and allowing negotiations to go on in the bedroom and are not putting their foot down."  Lauper added: "I lost a lot of friends in the eighties and nineties and it was a big heartbreak and I can't just stand by."

Gaga said that she had been a fan of MAC since she was young. "MAC is a lifestyle, it is sort of this place and Mecca near my house where I could be who I wanted to be and find myself as an individual."

She described being a role model to girls and young women as being not a burden but a privilege.

"I'm so blessed that I'm here," she said. "I'm absolutely not one of those people who's a self-obsessed, masturbatory artist who doesn't care about my fans or my effect on my fans. I have a very keen understanding of my effect or what I can do.

"And when you're in the public eye you're a role model whether you want to be or not. And I want to be."  But both women were evasive on a possible collaboration with another blonde icon -- Madonna.

"I don't know," said Lauper. "Who knows? You always keep it open."

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(CNN) -- Thousands of mourners filled a Tracy, California, high school gym Thursday to remember slain 8-year-old Sandra Renee Cantu.

Sandra Cantu, 8, had been missing almost two weeks before her body was found.

The little girl made national headlines after she went missing March 27 from a mobile home park in Tracy where she lived with her family.

She was on her way to a friend's home and her playful skipping down an alley was caught by a surveillance camera. Police later found her body stuffed into a suitcase and submerged in a pond at a nearby dairy farm.

Photos of Sandra, flowers and stuffed animals covered the front of the stage. Family members, friends and state dignitaries memorialized the child during a ceremony that lasted just over an hour.

The printed program called the memorial service "A Celebration of Life," and organizers said they hoped the service would help ease the pain the community has suffered since Sandra's disappearance.

"We are left with the haunting image of her skipping on the streets of Tracy. But today she is skipping on the streets of gold, into the arms of a loving God", said Brent Ives, mayor of Tracy.

Cindy Sasser, principal at Jacobsen Elementary School told mourners, "We should all strive to be like Sandra -- always smiling, wanting to help, to look out for others and to be caring."

The service included a video that showcased some of the family's favorite photos.

People from across California attended, filling the gymnasium, cafeteria and the football stadium at West High School.

Melissa Huckaby, 28, a Sunday school teacher who lived in the same mobile home park as Sandra's family, has been charged with murder, kidnapping, the performance of a lewd and lascivious act on a child under 14, and rape by instrument.

If convicted, she would face the death penalty or life in prison without parole, San Joaquin County District Attorney James Willett said this week.

A private memorial service for Sandra was held Wednesday. Her casket, signed by classmates, was taken to a nearby burial site by a horse-drawn carriage.

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BROOKLYN, New York (CNN) -- Every Friday evening, the Nunez family sits down to a traditional religious dinner.

Moshe Nunez and his family moved to Crown Heights, a New York neighborhood with thousands of Hasidic Jews.

Like most families in their Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, their Jewish Sabbath meal includes blessings over the wine and bread, the company of family and friends and excellent food.

But for the Nunez family, the Sabbath table would not be complete without salsa picada and jalapeno dip.

Moshe Nunez, an information technology consultant and motivational speaker, was born to a Mexican father and American mother and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico.

His wife, ChanaLeah, grew up in Panama, the daughter of a Salvadoran mother and American-born father.

"Our home is a Latin American home," Nunez says.

"We bring into our home a mixture of the American and Latin culture, and that's reflected in the way we eat. We also enjoy hosting guests, so it's a very Hispanic thing, and a Jewish thing."

The couple and their two children moved to Brooklyn's Crown Heights area about five years ago so their son, Michael, 17, and daughter, Simcha, 18, could have "the best Jewish education available," Nunez says.

Crown Heights is the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, a branch of Hasidism that is itself a form of Orthodox Judaism. Among the thousands of Hasidic families in the neighborhood, a significant number are also Latinos, Nunez says.

"There are a lot of Latin American Jews here," Nunez says. "Some of them have moved from countries like Venezuela, Colombia and Argentina, where there's political unrest. We make a life here, settle down and become part of the fabric of American society, but we still don't lose our roots." Join the conversation: How has America changed Latinos?

Many non-Jewish Latinos are surprised to see Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn who speak Spanish, carry on their Hispanic traditions and even keep up with soccer scores from their home countries, Nunez says.

Although Moshe and ChanaLeah Nunez were raised in Christian homes, they believe that Moshe's family name is proof that his ancestors are Marranos -- Jews who were forced to denounce or abandon their faith centuries ago in Europe.

Moshe Nunez began studying his family genealogy about 13 years ago, while the family was living in Atlanta, Georgia.

He met Lorraine Nunez, a woman raised as a Christian who believed she was a direct descendant of Samuel Nunez, a Portuguese physician who fled Europe in the early 1700s to help start one of the oldest Jewish synagogues in the United States, Congregation Mikve Israel in Savannah, Georgia.

Like other Marranos living in Europe, Samuel Nunez pretended to be Catholic and practiced Judaism in secret, according to Chabad.org, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement's Web site.

Meeting Lorraine Nunez inspired Moshe Nunez -- who was still going by his Christian name, Marco -- to further explore his own genealogy.

ChanaLeah -- who was going by her Christian name, Jacqueline -- had already known that her grandfather, a well-known army colonel in El Salvador, was Jewish. Like many Jews of his time, he hid his Judaism and married a non-Jewish woman.

Marco and Jacqueline believed that their descendants were also Marranos from Spain and Portugal who had to hide their Judaism for fear of persecution.

"The Nunez family started as a Jewish name," Moshe Nunez says. "During the Inquisition they were forced to convert or practice their faith in secret. Most of the Nunez family... like mine assimilated and lost their Judaism."  Watch Nunez talk about his life in Crown Heights Â»

While researching his genealogy, Moshe Nunez also began to study the Bible more closely, including the Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament.

"When I began studying the Torah, I saw that the Sabbath was on Saturday and not Sunday," he says.

"That opened [a] Pandora's Box," he says, figuring that "if the Jews had the Sabbath right, maybe they have other stuff right, too."

Around that time, the Nunez family relocated to Milan, Italy, for Nunez' work as a consultant. Marco and Jacqueline -- who changed their names to the Hebrew Moshe and ChanaLeah while in Italy -- continued their Judaic studies under the tutelage of Orthodox rabbis and decided to undergo an Orthodox conversion to Judaism.

"When I got to Italy and continued to research our family name and studied the Torah, I decided we were going to live a Jewish life," Nunez says.

The Jewish community in Milan welcomed the family "with open arms," Moshe said. "The rabbi said to me, 'Moshe, you are Jewish, you were always Jewish.'"

Moshe says he and ChanaLeah "took every step together," going through a formal conversion process. As part of the process Moshe and his son had ritual circumcisions. (They had both been circumcised at birth.)

The final step was for the family to appear before a Beit Din, or religious council, to approve the conversion.

"We decided we had to make our full return to Judaism, and we had such good mazal (luck) because the rabbis made it relatively easy. They saw that we were serious people that had studied the religion," Nunez says.

The Nunez family's story is not out of the ordinary, says Rabbi Shea Rubenstein, an Argentine rabbi who leads the Jewish Latin American Connection at The Shul in Surfside, Florida.

"We have a very vibrant synagogue, and a very large percentage happen to be from Spanish background from countries such as Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Mexico and Cuba," the rabbi says.

Rubenstein says that quite a few non-Jewish Hispanics come to The Shul to learn more about Judaism, and while they may not be able to prove they are Jewish, they believe they are descendants of Jews and seek to reconnect with their Jewish roots.

If a person wants to practice Judaism but cannot verify their Jewish roots, Rubenstein recommends they go through a formal conversion as the Nunez family did.

"It's difficult to verify because there's some 400 or 500 years of history that people cannot trace, especially since Judaism is passed through the mother and the last name reflects that of the father," Rubenstein says.

Inspired by their experiences, Moshe and ChanaLeah -- both songwriters and musicians -- wrote a song called "Jews of Spain," with lyrics in Spanish, English and Hebrew. Nunez recorded the song, part of the album "Kol Haneshema (Every Soul)."

Aside from his work as a consultant and musician, Nunez leads seminars, conducts a weekly program called Quality Life Now at the Empire State Building and teaches weekly Webinars from his Brooklyn home. His seminars, taught in both Spanish and English, focus on seven core values found in the Old Testament.

The seven values are often referred to as the Noahide Laws. According to the Bible, the laws were given from God to Noah to serve as a moral code for all humankind.

"I've taken the seven Noahide Laws and I teach them as universal core values, so everyday people can apply them to their lifestyle," Nunez says.

He says he hopes to share his teachings with all of mankind, regardless of religion, to help them lead a more meaningful life.

"Sharing the knowledge of Torah to the world through education, songs and acts of kindness will help ensure that what happened to the Marranos during the Inquisition will never happen again."

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text: ChanaLeah

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text: musicians

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text: song

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text: album

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text: Inquisition

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question: What religion did Nunez and his wife convert to?

answer: Hasidic Jews.

text: Hasidic Jews.

question: Once the Nunez couple converted to Judaism, where in New York did they move to?

answer: Brooklyn's Crown Heights

text: Brooklyn's Crown Heights

question: What cultures do the couple and their children blend in their lives?

answer: American

text: American

question: Which two cultures does the family blend in their lives?

answer: American and Latin

text: American and Latin

question: In what sort of homes were Moshe and ChanaLeah Nunez raised?

answer: Crown Heights,

text: Crown Heights,

question: What two cultures do the Nunez family blend into their lives?

answer: American and Latin

text: American and Latin

question: What type of Jews are Moshe and ChanaLeah Nunez?

answer: Hasidic

text: Hasidic

question: Where did Nunez and his wife move after converting?

answer: Crown Heights,

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(CNN) -- At least 20 people were killed and 200 more were injured Friday in the northern Mediterranean city of Benghazi, Libya's second-largest, said a medical source in Benghazi who was not identified for security reasons.

The casualties occurred as thousands of Libyans took to the streets to voice their discontent over leader Moammar Gadhafi, witnesses said.

Friday's killings brought to 50 the number of people killed since Tuesday, when the protests began, the medical source said.

Amnesty International said security forces had killed at least 46 during the past three days, with sources at al-Jala Hospital in Benghazi saying that the most common injuries were bullet wounds to the head, chest and neck.

"The alarming rise in the death toll, and the reported nature of victims' injuries, strongly suggests that security forces are permitted to use lethal force against unarmed protesters calling for political change," said Malcolm Smart, the Amnesty's director for the Middle East and North Africa.

CNN was unable to independently verify the information.

In front of the main courthouse in a square in Benghazi, thousands of demonstrators filled the streets demanding a change of government, a protester said. He said people were chanting for Gadhafi and his children to get out of Libya. He called Gadhafi's authoritarian rule "the biggest dictatorship in history."

Late Friday, a witness said more people were still streaming into the already crowded plaza, with some erecting tents, apparently planning to spend the night.

There was no sign in the square of police or military forces except for the presence of three tanks, which were not moving, he said.

Another source said that he saw three Libyan army tanks in the square and that young demonstrators were engaging the tank crews in conversation. He said government forces were not visible in or around Benghazi.

He added that he visited Al-Jala hospital and that it was "full of dead and wounded."

Electricity was lost in parts of the city but had been restored by late Friday, when the city was quiet, he said.

Farther east, in al-Baida, thousands of people showed up to bury 13 protesters killed in clashes in recent days, said Mohamed Abdallah of the opposition National Front for the Salvation of Libya, who has been receiving information about Libya from sources there.

Plainclothes members of the Revolutionary Committee had reportedly fired at the protesters, Abdallah said.

Demonstrations unfolded Friday in other cities as well, he said.

CNN has not been permitted to report from Libya and cannot confirm information about the demonstrations.

The government maintains tight control of the news media and telephone services, and many people expressed fear of talking openly amid what they described as a climate of fear. CNN has been relying on information from protesters, human rights groups and foreign-based Libyan organizations assessing the situation through their sources on the ground.

Libyan state-run television was airing taped images of Gadhafi surrounded by adoring crowds.

The demonstrations erupted Tuesday after the detention of a human rights lawyer and spread across the country.

U.S. President Barack Obama condemned the government crackdowns in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen, which are all embroiled in unrest.

"Wherever they are, people have certain universal rights, including the right to peaceful assembly," Obama said. "The United States urges the governments of Bahrain, Libya and Yemen to show restraint in responding to peaceful protests, and to respect the rights of their people."

"The security forces' vicious attacks on peaceful demonstrators lay bare the reality of Moammar Gadhafi's brutal rule when faced with any internal dissent," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director for Human Rights Watch.

Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, also condemned the crackdown in Libya and other countries "as illegal and excessively heavy-handed."

Abdallah, the spokesman for the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, reported that protesters in Benghazi had freed people who had been detained during the first two days of the unrest. He said protesters also set afire a police station and the Revolutionary Committee headquarters in Benghazi, al-Baida and Darna.

Gadhafi's regime, however, has sought to portray a different picture of events and sent out tacit warnings via mobile phone texts to Libyans planning to make their voices known.

"The inappropriate use of telecommunications services contradicts our religion ... our customs ... and our traditions," said a text from the General Communications Body.

Another said: "We commend the conscious youth who have realized that sedition destroys his family, his city, his country. And we commend our cities who have realized that touching national unity destroys the prospects of future generations. Together for the sake of the Libya of Tomorrow."

A screen grab of the messages was sent to CNN by Abdulla Darrat, spokesman of Enough Gadhafi, a U.S.-based organization that has been in close touch with people on the streets of Libya.

State-run television countered the anti-government protests with coverage of pro-Gadhafi demonstrations.

It showed men chanting pro-Gadhafi slogans, waving flags and singing around the Libyan leader's limousine as it crept through Tripoli. Scores of supportive demonstrators packed the roadway and held up pictures of their leader as fireworks burst into the night sky.

The images followed reports from protesters, witnesses and human rights activists who described brutality by internal security forces, sometimes dressed in plain clothes.

One of the protesters likened the situation in Libya to that which occurred early this month in Egypt, telling Human Rights Watch that "they are sending baltaqiyyas (thugs) to beat us."

Libya, like many of its Arab neighbors, is suffering from economic hardship and a lack of political reform. Youth unemployment is high.

Gadhafi is acutely aware of popular grievances and has spoken with groups of students, lawyers and journalists in the past few weeks, a source told CNN this week.

CNN's Yousuf Basil, Fionnuala Sweeney, Ben Wedeman and Salma Abdelaziz contributed to this report.

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text: demonstrators

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text: reality

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text: Moammar

text: Gadhafi

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text: brutal

text: rule

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text: faced

text: with

text: any

text: internal

text: dissent

text: said

text: Sarah

text: Leah

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text: Middle

text: East

text: and

text: North

text: Africa

text: director

text: for

text: Human

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text: Watch

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text: Pillay

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text: U.N.

text: High

text: Commissioner

text: for

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text: crackdown

text: in

text: Libya

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text: other

text: countries

text: as

text: illegal

text: and

text: excessively

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text: handed

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text: spokesman

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text: the

text: National

text: Front

text: for

text: the

text: Salvation

text: of

text: Libya

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text: that

text: protesters

text: in

text: Benghazi

text: had

text: freed

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text: first

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text: days

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text: phone

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text: to

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text: voices

text: known

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text: inappropriate

text: use

text: of

text: telecommunications

text: services

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text: General

text: Communications

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text: Darrat

text: spokesman

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text: Enough

text: Gadhafi

text: a

text: U.S

text: based

text: organization

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text: has

text: been

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text: close

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text: streets

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text: Libya

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text: Gadhafi

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text: singing

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text: the

text: Libyan

text: leader

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text: supportive

text: demonstrators

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text: roadway

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text: their

text: leader

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text: fireworks

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text: into

text: the

text: night

text: sky

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text: images

text: followed

text: reports

text: from

text: protesters

text: witnesses

text: and

text: human

text: rights

text: activists

text: who

text: described

text: brutality

text: by

text: internal

text: security

text: forces

text: sometimes

text: dressed

text: in

text: plain

text: clothes

text: One

text: of

text: the

text: protesters

text: likened

text: the

text: situation

text: in

text: Libya

text: to

text: that

text: which

text: occurred

text: early

text: this

text: month

text: in

text: Egypt

text: telling

text: Human

text: Rights

text: Watch

text: that

text: they

text: are

text: sending

text: baltaqiyyas

text: thugs

text: to

text: beat

text: us

text: Libya

text: like

text: many

text: of

text: its

text: Arab

text: neighbors

text: is

text: suffering

text: from

text: economic

text: hardship

text: and

text: a

text: lack

text: of

text: political

text: reform

text: Youth

text: unemployment

text: is

text: high

text: Gadhafi

text: is

text: acutely

text: aware

text: of

text: popular

text: grievances

text: and

text: has

text: spoken

text: with

text: groups

text: of

text: students

text: lawyers

text: and

text: journalists

text: in

text: the

text: past

text: few

text: weeks

text: a

text: source

text: told

text: CNN

text: this

text: week

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Yousuf

text: Basil

text: Fionnuala

text: Sweeney

text: Ben

text: Wedeman

text: and

text: Salma

text: Abdelaziz

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: What is the square in Benghazi full of?

answer: thousands of demonstrators

text: thousands of demonstrators

question: How many have been killed since Tuesday?

answer: 50

question: Who condemns the crackdowns in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen?

answer: U.S. President Barack Obama

text: U.S. President Barack Obama

question: What number of people were killed since tuesday?

answer: 20

question: Where are government crackdowns occuring?

answer: Libya, Bahrain and Yemen,

text: Libya, Bahrain and Yemen,

question: What is the reported number of people killed since Tuesday?

answer: 20

question: What did the witness say?

answer: more people were still streaming into the already crowded plaza,

text: more people were still streaming into the already crowded plaza,