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Editor's note: Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst, is a fellow at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank that promotes innovative thought from across the ideological spectrum, and at New York University's Center on Law and Security. He's the author of "The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader."

Peter Bergen says Osama bin Laden is still alive and still significant eight years after September 11.

HELMAND, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Eight years after September 11, the "war on terror" has gone the way of the dodo. And President Obama talks instead about a war against al Qaeda and its allies.

What, then, of al Qaeda's enigmatic leader, Osama bin Laden, who has vanished like a wisp of smoke? And does he even matter now?

The U.S. government hadn't had a solid lead on al Qaeda's leader since the battle of Tora Bora in winter 2001. Although there are informed hypotheses that today he is in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province on the Afghan border, perhaps in one of the more northerly areas such as Bajaur, these are essentially guesses, not "actionable" intelligence.

A longtime American counterterrorism analyst explained to me, "There is very limited collection on him personally."

That's intelligence community shorthand for the fact that the usual avenues of "collection" on a target such as bin Laden are yielding little or no information about him. Those avenues typically include signal intercepts of phone calls and e-mails, as well as human intelligence from spies.

Given the hundreds of billions of dollars that the "war on terror" has consumed, the failure to capture or kill al Qaeda's leader is one of its signal failures.

Does it even matter whether bin Laden is found? Yes, it does. First, there is the matter of justice for the almost 3,000 people who died in the September 11 attacks and for the thousands of other victims of al Qaeda's attacks around the world.

Second, every day that bin Laden remains at liberty is a propaganda victory for al Qaeda.

Third, although bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri aren't managing al Qaeda's operations on a daily basis they guide the overall direction of the jihadist movement around the world, even while they are in hiding.

Those messages from al Qaeda's leaders have reached untold millions worldwide via television, the Internet and newspapers. The tapes have not only instructed al Qaeda's followers to continue to kill Westerners and Jews, but some also carried specific instructions that militant cells then acted on.

In March 2008, for instance, the al Qaeda leader denounced the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper as a "catastrophe" for which punishment would soon be meted out. Three months later, an al Qaeda suicide attacker bombed the Danish Embassy in Islamabad, killing six.

Some reading this may think: But what's the proof that the al Qaeda leader is still alive? Plenty. Since September 11, bin Laden has released a slew of video and audiotapes, many of which discuss current events. After a nine-month silence, for instance, bin Laden released a 22-minute audiotape on March 14, sharply condemning the recent Israeli invasion of Gaza.

Are these tapes real? Not one of the dozens of tapes released by bin Laden after 9/11 has been a fake. Indeed the U.S. government has authenticated many of them using bin Laden's distinctive voiceprint.

And what about the persistent reports that he is ill? In 2002, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said bin Laden had kidney disease, for which he required a dialysis machine, and was therefore likely dead. But the stories of bin Laden's life-threatening kidney problems are false, judging by his appearance in videos that he released in 2004 and again in 2007, in which he showed no signs of illness.

On the 2007 tape, the al Qaeda leader had even dyed his white-flecked beard black, suggesting that as the Saudi militant entered his fifth decade, he was not immune to a measure of vanity about his personal appearance.

In fact, bin Laden looked much better in those videos than he did in the video he released shortly after the battle of Tora Bora in late 2001, where he had narrowly escaped being killed in a massive American attack.

The situation is further complicated by the fact that bin Laden and al-Zawahiri are almost certainly hiding out in the tribal areas of Pakistan, on the Afghan border.

Arthur Keller, a CIA officer who ran a spy network in Pakistan's tribal areas in 2006, told me the problems of working in the region: "It's an incredibly remote area. They're hiding in a sea of people that are very xenophobic of outsiders, so it's a very, very tough nut to crack."

An additional factor operating in bin Laden's favor is the personal popularity he has long enjoyed in Pakistan. Three years after the September 11 attacks, for instance, a Pew poll found that al Qaeda's leader had a 65 percent favorability rating among Pakistanis.

However, it is clear from the videos of bin Laden and al-Zawahiri that aired in the years since the attacks that they are not living in caves.

In those tapes, both men's clothes were clean and well-pressed. Caves generally don't have laundry facilities. And the videos that they have released are well-lit and well-shot productions, suggesting access either to electrical outlets or to generators to run lights. Al-Zawahiri is often filmed in a library setting, and on one of his videos from March 2006, there are curtains clearly visible behind him, suggesting that the tape was shot in a house.

By early 2008, the Bush administration had tired of the Pakistani government's unwillingness or inability to take out al Qaeda's leaders, and in July, the president authorized Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults in the tribal regions without the permission of the Pakistani government.

But in the face of the intense Pakistani opposition to American boots on the ground, the Bush administration chose to rely instead on drones to target suspected al Qaeda and Taliban leaders. Bush ordered the CIA to expand its attacks with Predator and Reaper drones.

Between July 2008 and this month, U.S. drones have killed dozens of lower-ranking militants and at least 10 mid- and upper-level leaders within al Qaeda or the Taliban.

This strategy seems to have worked, at least in terms of combating the ability of al Qaeda to plan or carry out attacks in the West. Law-enforcement authorities have uncovered no serious plots against U.S. or European targets that were traceable to militants who had received training in Pakistan's tribal regions after the drone program had been dramatically ramped up there.

The increased pace of the American drone attacks in Pakistani's tribal areas was motivated in part by the hope that it would increase panicked communications among the militants, which might help pinpoint the locations of the top leaders in al Qaeda or the Taliban, but that approach has not paid off when it comes to bin Laden.

If killing bin Laden with a drone has proved difficult, so too will be capturing him alive.

His former bodyguard Abu Jandal told Al Quds al Arabi newspaper, "Sheikh Osama gave me a pistol. ... The pistol had only two bullets, for me to kill Sheikh Osama with in case we were surrounded or he was about to fall into the enemy's hands, so that he would not be caught alive "

Should bin Laden be captured or killed, that would probably trigger a succession battle within al Qaeda.

While al-Zawahiri is the deputy leader of the terror group and therefore technically bin Laden's successor, he is not regarded as a natural leader. Indeed, even among his fellow Egyptian militants, al-Zawahiri is seen as a divisive force, and so he is unlikely to be able to step into the role of leader of al Qaeda and of the world jihadist movement that is occupied by bin Laden.

By the law of averages, eventually, bin Laden will be captured or killed. Yet the ideological movement that he helped spawn -- "Binladenism" -- will live on long after he is gone. That is bin Laden's legacy.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Peter Bergen.

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Editor's note: Campbell Brown anchors CNN's "Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull" at 8 p.m. ET Mondays through Fridays. She delivered this commentary during the "Cutting through the Bull" segment of Tuesday night's broadcast.

CNN's Campbell Brown says "having no life" isn't a requirement for a man to get a job.

(CNN) -- How many times have politicians been warned about the dangers of an open microphone? And yet, on Tuesday, the lectern mic at the National Governors Conference picked up this little nugget from Pennsylvania's Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell.

He's having a conversation near the lectern about President-elect Barack Obama's choice for to lead the Homeland Security Department, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano. Here is what Rendell said about Napolitano:

Rendell: Janet's perfect for that job. Because for that job, you have to have no life. Janet has no family. Perfect. She can devote, literally, 19-20 hours a day to it

Wow. Now, I'm sure Gov. Napolitano has many qualifications for the job beyond having no family, and therefore the ability to devote 20 hours a day to the job.  Watch Campbell Brown's commentary ÃÂ»

But it is fascinating to me that that is the quality being highlighted here as so perfect. C'mon. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is married with two grown children. His predecessor, Tom Ridge, had a family. Anybody remember a debate about whether they would have trouble balancing the demands of work and family?

Now, I am a fan of Gov. Rendell. He has been on this show many times. I like him for his candor. In our attempts to cut through the bull, he delivers far less bull than most politicians. But it is his frankness here that raises so many questions.

1. If a man had been Obama's choice for the job, would having a family or not having a family ever even have been an issue? Would it have ever prompted a comment? Probably not. We all know the assumption tends to be that with a man, there is almost always a wife in the wings managing those family concerns.

2. As a woman, hearing this, it is hard not to wonder if we are counted out for certain jobs, certain opportunities, because we do have a family or because we are in our child-bearing years. Are we? It is a fair question.

3. If you are a childless, single woman with suspicions that you get stuck working holidays, weekends and the more burdensome shifts more often than your colleagues with families, are those suspicions well-founded? Probably so. Is there an assumption that if you're family-free then you have no life? By some, yes.

Again Gov. Rendell, I don't mean to rake you over the coals. I know what you meant to say. But your comments do perpetuate stereotypes that put us in boxes, both mothers and single women.

In government and beyond, men have been given the benefit of the doubt when it comes to striking the right work-life balance. Women are owed the same consideration.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Campbell Brown.

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Fort Hood, Texas (CNN) -- The suspect in last week's deadly shooting spree at Fort Hood urged in 2007 that Muslims in the U.S. Army be allowed to claim conscientious objector status when it comes to fighting other Muslims in war, a defense official said Tuesday.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan also discussed religious aspects of Islam during a presentation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as part of a final project for his residency tenure, said the official, who has knowledge of the investigation into Hasan.

"It's getting harder and harder for Muslims in the service to morally justify being in a military that seems constantly engaged against fellow Muslims," Hasan said, according to a slide show that The Washington Post said Hasan used in the June 2007 presentation.

"Muslims [sic] soldiers should not serve in any capacity that renders them at risk to hurting/killing believers unjustly," a Hasan slide said, though he added that individual feelings "will vary!"

Hasan is the only suspect in the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas on Thursday that left 13 people dead and 42 wounded. Twelve of the dead were soldiers.

Hasan remains in intensive care at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, after having been shot by a police officer.

Dr. Val Finnell, a former medical school classmate of Hasan's, described him as "a very outspoken opponent of the war" in the classroom and in public settings.

"He equated the war against terror with a war against Islam," Finnell said.

He added that he was shocked by Thursday's shooting.

"However, that said, given the things that Maj. Hasan has said to me in the past and to other people, I am not surprised."

Hasan's comments came in what was supposed to be a medical seminar, The Washington Post reported, but instead he spoke to senior Army doctors about Islam.

Hasan, a psychiatrist, aimed to describe "religious conflicts that Muslims may have with the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," according to the newspaper's report.

The report is based on a slideshow that The Washington Post said Hasan used in the June 2007 presentation.

See the presentation and the Post's report

In a statement issued Monday night, the FBI said its investigation "indicates that the alleged gunman acted alone and was not part of a broader terrorist plot."

Hasan came under investigation for a time last year when his communications with radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki were intercepted by terrorism investigators monitoring the cleric's communications, a federal law enforcement official said.

An employee of the Defense Department's Criminal Investigative Services, assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force, ultimately made the decision to drop the investigation after reviewing the intercepted communications and Hasan's personnel files.

However, a senior defense department official said late Tuesday that the agency was not aware of any such communication.

"Contrary to reports we have seen in some news outlets, based on what we know now, neither the United States Army nor any other organization within the Department of Defense knew of Major Hasan's contacts with any Muslim extremists," the official said. "Not until after the tragic shooting at Fort Hood last week were Major Hasan's e-mail communications first brought to our attention by federal investigators."

President Obama traveled to Fort Hood for a memorial service on Tuesday for the victims of the shooting. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and other dignitaries also attended the service.

Read profiles of the shooting victims

Hasan, 39, was wounded several times during the attack. His ventilator was removed over the weekend, and he began talking afterward, hospital spokesman Dewey Mitchell said.

Federal agents attempted to interview Hasan on Sunday, but he refused to cooperate and asked for an attorney, according to senior investigative officials, who insisted they not be identified by name because of the sensitive nature of the ongoing federal investigation.

Hasan has retained a lawyer, ex-military judge and retired Army Col. John Galligan, the attorney told CNN affiliate KXXV-TV.

"Like anybody that's facing criminal charges in the military arena, he's entitled to a defense counsel," Galligan told the station.

Galligan said he had a 25-minute conversation with Hasan, and the two did not talk much about the Fort Hood shooting.

"There's still a lot to be done on the medical side," Galligan said.

Hasan, a U.S.-born citizen of Palestinian descent, was a licensed psychiatrist who joined the Army in 1997. He was promoted to major in May and was scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan sometime soon but had been telling his family since 2001 that he wanted to get out of the military.

Hasan, a Muslim, also told his family that he had been taunted after the terrorist attacks of September 11. In August, he reported to police that his car was keyed and a bumper sticker that read "Allah is Love" was torn off. A neighbor was charged with criminal mischief after that complaint.

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(CNN) -- The international draw of its star players, the huge sums paid for rights to broadcast live action and the loyal nature of its consumers have long made the English Premier League an attractive home for investors.

In recent years this has included a number of American billionaires who, having made their money with sport franchises in the United States, saw ownership of teams including Manchester United (Malcolm Glazer), Liverpool (Hicks and Gillett) and Aston Villa (Randy Lerner) as the best way to expand a global portfolio.

Stan Kroenke -- owner of the Denver Nuggets basketball team, the National Hockey League's Colorado Avalanche and Major League Soccer's Colorado Rapids -- could be the next to join this elite group after a major shareholder at London-based Arsenal confirmed that she is looking to sell her stake.

Kroenke already owns 29 percent of the Champions League quarterfinalists, and needs only one more percent to trigger a complete takeover.

Blog: Should Stan Kroenke buy Arsenal?

But with the economic downturn compounding both Liverpool and Manchester United's struggles with debt and growing fan unrest -- coupled with Kroenke's recent confirmation of a takeover bid for the St Louis Rams -- would it be wise for the American to aim his sights on owning Arsenal now?

CNN's business correspondent Jim Boulden helps break down Kroenke's decision.

Why invest in the English Premier League?

The recent sale of their overseas television rights amounted to over $1.5 billion, while the domestic rights went for much more. This means the Premier League clubs can sign expensive players on big wages, according to Boulden. "A lot of the league's strength is to do with Sky and its multi-billion dollar deal to show the games around the world," he said. "Sky gives an enormous amount of money to Premier League clubs."

Could Kroenke expect much profit from Arsenal?

Boulden says the main way to maximize profit is to keep a club healthy, and deliver success on the pitch before selling it on down the line for a profit. He said: "I look upon Stan Kroenke like these other guys in America: the Glazers own a NFL team, the guys who own Liverpool own hockey clubs in America. They only make money if they hold onto them for a really long time and sell them."

Is Arsenal a financially healthy club?

Yes, according to Boulden. He says the club had to take out a big loan to build its new stadium -- the Emirates, which opened in 2006 -- but that is being chipped away. He explained: "There is a small section of seats at Arsenal's new ground that generates as much money on a match day as the entire former ground did. All other seats are gravy, so the amount of money they make per game is phenomenal." The site of the former ground has been turned into flats, which has also generated a considerable amount of money, Boulden said.

Boulden believes Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger's model of investing time and money into youth players is also a shrewd move. "Arsene Wenger's theory is to buy someone when they are young and other clubs haven't even noticed them. By the time they come good, and most of them do, he would have to pay $20 million to get these guys." He says these players can also be sold on for huge profit, like in the case of France striker Nicolas Anelka, who came through the Arsenal youth system before being sold to Real Madrid for $35 million.

Would Kroenke put the club in debt to buy it, as did the owners of Manchester United and Liverpool?

The Glazer family bought Manchester United by putting the debt onto the club, and their most recent accounts show they are over $1 billion in debt. Boulden says any similar move at Arsenal may not do the club any good. "Arsenal already has a debt from the building of the new stadium, so it would be hard to see how Kroenke would get a bank to agree to give them more debt," he said.

Does Kroenke's extra investment in the St Louis Rams limit his spending power?

Boulden says Kroenke's purchase of the Rams makes it very unlikely he would also fight to acquire Arsenal at the same time: "The fact that he has just ingested the Rams -- one of the worst teams in the NFL -- means he is going to have to spend his time and effort trying to rebuild that club. It's hard to see that he would do that and try to take over Arsenal -- that would be a lot for one person to take on."

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Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (CNN) -- For years, Jennifer Cervantes struggled to make ends meet.

She worked 30 hours a week at Wal-Mart, but her paycheck -- along with child support and disability payments -- never seemed to cover living expenses for her and her five kids. Despite her best efforts, she kept falling further behind.

"Paying the rent, electric and gas -- it takes everything I have," she said. "I don't like digging up change ... so I can buy the kids' food. I needed help somehow, somewhere."

Desperate, Cervantes decided to write a letter to Sal Dimiceli, whose newspaper column might be considered a "Dear Abby" for the down and out.

Within a few weeks, Dimiceli showed up on her doorstep. They talked for a while, and then he offered to pay one month's rent as well as her outstanding gas and electric bills. He also went to the local grocery store and stocked the family's empty refrigerator.

"I was shocked," Cervantes said. "I feel relieved. The kids are getting tired of macaroni cheese and Ramen soup every night."

It was just another day's work for Dimiceli, a 60-year-old real estate broker whose weekly column in the Lake Geneva Regional News focuses on people in dire straits. Through his column and his nonprofit, The Time Is Now To Help, Dimiceli has provided about 500 people a year with food, rent, utilities and other necessities.

"I'm just addicted to helping," he said. "I don't have time to go to the show or golf. ... My fondness in life is helping my fellow Americans."

Dimiceli gets about 20 to 30 letters a week from people in the Lake Geneva area, and he investigates nearly all of them himself. He'll often visit people's homes to verify their circumstances. If someone appears to have a drug or alcohol problem, he refers them to other programs. And to make sure people are being honest about their situation, he'll open their cupboards to see how much food is in the house.

"I do not want to give a hard-earned dollar to someone who is taking advantage," he said. "But once I verify that their need is genuine, my heart opens right up."

At that point, Dimiceli springs into action with his unique safety net. He'll start by meeting immediate needs, perhaps providing a hot meal or moving someone without heat into a warm motel room. Within a day or two, he'll take care of other basics, like paying overdue rent or turning on utilities. His rapid response is a point of personal pride.

"There's not any bureaucratic red tape, " he said. "I want to help people now."

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But Dimiceli doesn't stop there. He also goes over each recipient's budget and finds ways to stabilize their long-term situation -- maybe negotiating lower rent with their landlords, repairing their car or tapping his network of supporters to help find them a job.

"It's not just a Band-Aid to feed them for that day," Dimiceli said. "We get them back on a track (so) that ... their pride is given back to them. They can catch up."

It's a level of personalized assistance that's almost hard to believe, but there are countless stories of Dimiceli's good works throughout Wisconsin and Illinois. The vast majority of people he helps are never even mentioned in his column.

For nearly a year, Val and Al Hyner had been unemployed, using their savings to pay for a small motel room. With almost no money left, Val pawned her jewelry, including her wedding ring.

Dimiceli showed up and helped the couple with gas cards and rent. And when he heard about Val's sacrifice, he dipped into his own pocket and made arrangements to get the ring back.

"Those that are in dire need, they'll sell all their personal belongings to survive," he said. "I want to give them their self-esteem back. ... They need to hang onto parts of their life, and sentimental things are very important."

Such stories have become commonplace during the hard economic times of the past few years, and Dimiceli has been flooded with requests for help, even as his real estate business has taken a huge hit. He still gives away at least 20% of his income -- he estimates that he has given away a few million dollars of his own money over the years -- but in the last decade he has begun to rely more on donations to his nonprofit, which he started in 1989. He has also built a strong network of supporters to help him, along with his wife and four children.

"The movement has grown," he said. "As fellow Americans, we're all together, helping each other. That's what it's all about."

Dimiceli is passionate about helping others because he knows what it's like to be poor. Born on the West Side of Chicago to a beautician and a tool-and-die maker, he said his family struggled because of his father's gambling habit.

"We moved like gypsies, being evicted a lot," he said. "I know how it feels to watch your mother cry when the electricity is turned off and you have no food. ... It was hard."

When Dimiceli was 12, he got a job as a dishwasher so he could help out at home. Grateful, he promised God that if he ever became successful, he'd always help others in need. He has spent nearly all of his adult life making good on that vow.

After he first found success as a rock concert promoter in the 1970s, Dimiceli began to give money to various charities. But when he realized that much of their money was spent on overhead, he decided he could do a better job himself and started helping people on his own around the Chicago area. He eventually started his nonprofit, vowing that every penny would go to help others.

Dimiceli's philanthropy has gone through various phases. In the 1990s, he took an entire community in Illinois under his wing. But for the last decade or so, he has concentrated most of his work in the Wisconsin area where he now lives.

Eight years ago, he was approached by a neighbor who knew about his work and asked him to write a column in the local paper. He agreed do it anonymously, adopting a pen name, W.C., to stand for With Christ. In recent years, he was persuaded to reveal his identity so that people would be encouraged to donate to his foundation. His column has become so popular that it now appears in a number of area papers.

Dimiceli says that when he sees a pile of new letters, he gets anxious thinking about all of the people who need his help. He'll often work late into the night doing "marathons of helping" that leave him physically and emotionally exhausted. But every morning, he can't wait to start again.

"When people are in need, they often feel alone," he said. "I want them to know someone cares about them. I want to (say): 'Come on, I have a little extra strength I want to share with you. Let's get you back on your feet.' "

Want to get involved? Check out The Time Is Now To Help website at www.timeisnowtohelp.org.

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text: For

text: years

text: Jennifer

text: Cervantes

text: struggled

text: to

text: make

text: ends

text: meet

text: She

text: worked

text: hours

text: a

text: week

text: at

text: Wal

text: Mart

text: but

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text: n't

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text: so

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text: can

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text: the

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text: a

text: letter

text: to

text: Sal

text: Dimiceli

text: whose

text: newspaper

text: column

text: might

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text: considered

text: a

text: Dear

text: Abby

text: for

text: the

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text: and

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text: Within

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text: weeks

text: Dimiceli

text: showed

text: up

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text: her

text: doorstep

text: They

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text: for

text: a

text: while

text: and

text: then

text: he

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text: rent

text: as

text: well

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text: her

text: outstanding

text: gas

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text: The

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text: tired

text: of

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text: every

text: night

text: It

text: was

text: just

text: another

text: day

text: 's

text: work

text: for

text: Dimiceli

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text: old

text: real

text: estate

text: broker

text: whose

text: weekly

text: column

text: in

text: the

text: Lake

text: Geneva

text: Regional

text: News

text: focuses

text: on

text: people

text: in

text: dire

text: straits

text: Through

text: his

text: column

text: and

text: his

text: nonprofit

text: The

text: Time

text: Is

text: Now

text: To

text: Help

text: Dimiceli

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text: people

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text: with

text: food

text: rent

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text: and

text: other

text: necessities

text: I

text: 'm

text: just

text: addicted

text: to

text: helping

text: he

text: said

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: have

text: time

text: to

text: go

text: to

text: the

text: show

text: or

text: golf

text: My

text: fondness

text: in

text: life

text: is

text: helping

text: my

text: fellow

text: Americans

text: Dimiceli

text: gets

text: about

text: to

text: letters

text: a

text: week

text: from

text: people

text: in

text: the

text: Lake

text: Geneva

text: area

text: and

text: he

text: investigates

text: nearly

text: all

text: of

text: them

text: himself

text: He

text: 'll

text: often

text: visit

text: people

text: 's

text: homes

text: to

text: verify

text: their

text: circumstances

text: If

text: someone

text: appears

text: to

text: have

text: a

text: drug

text: or

text: alcohol

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text: he

text: refers

text: them

text: to

text: other

text: programs

text: And

text: to

text: make

text: sure

text: people

text: are

text: being

text: honest

text: about

text: their

text: situation

text: he

text: 'll

text: open

text: their

text: cupboards

text: to

text: see

text: how

text: much

text: food

text: is

text: in

text: the

text: house

text: I

text: do

text: not

text: want

text: to

text: give

text: a

text: hard

text: earned

text: dollar

text: to

text: someone

text: who

text: is

text: taking

text: advantage

text: he

text: said

text: But

text: once

text: I

text: verify

text: that

text: their

text: need

text: is

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text: my

text: heart

text: opens

text: right

text: up

text: At

text: that

text: point

text: Dimiceli

text: springs

text: into

text: action

text: with

text: his

text: unique

text: safety

text: net

text: He

text: 'll

text: start

text: by

text: meeting

text: immediate

text: needs

text: perhaps

text: providing

text: a

text: hot

text: meal

text: or

text: moving

text: someone

text: without

text: heat

text: into

text: a

text: warm

text: motel

text: room

text: Within

text: a

text: day

text: or

text: two

text: he

text: 'll

text: take

text: care

text: of

text: other

text: basics

text: like

text: paying

text: overdue

text: rent

text: or

text: turning

text: on

text: utilities

text: His

text: rapid

text: response

text: is

text: a

text: point

text: of

text: personal

text: pride

text: There

text: 's

text: not

text: any

text: bureaucratic

text: red

text: tape

text: he

text: said

text: I

text: want

text: to

text: help

text: people

text: now

text: Do

text: you

text: know

text: a

text: hero

text: Nominations

text: are

text: open

text: for

text: CNN

text: Heroes

text: But

text: Dimiceli

text: does

text: n't

text: stop

text: there

text: He

text: also

text: goes

text: over

text: each

text: recipient

text: 's

text: budget

text: and

text: finds

text: ways

text: to

text: stabilize

text: their

text: long

text: term

text: situation

text: maybe

text: negotiating

text: lower

text: rent

text: with

text: their

text: landlords

text: repairing

text: their

text: car

text: or

text: tapping

text: his

text: network

text: of

text: supporters

text: to

text: help

text: find

text: them

text: a

text: job

text: It

text: 's

text: not

text: just

text: a

text: Band

text: Aid

text: to

text: feed

text: them

text: for

text: that

text: day

text: Dimiceli

text: said

text: We

text: get

text: them

text: back

text: on

text: a

text: track

text: so

text: that

text: their

text: pride

text: is

text: given

text: back

text: to

text: them

text: They

text: can

text: catch

text: up

text: It

text: 's

text: a

text: level

text: of

text: personalized

text: assistance

text: that

text: 's

text: almost

text: hard

text: to

text: believe

text: but

text: there

text: are

text: countless

text: stories

text: of

text: Dimiceli

text: 's

text: good

text: works

text: throughout

text: Wisconsin

text: and

text: Illinois

text: The

text: vast

text: majority

text: of

text: people

text: he

text: helps

text: are

text: never

text: even

text: mentioned

text: in

text: his

text: column

text: For

text: nearly

text: a

text: year

text: Val

text: and

text: Al

text: Hyner

text: had

text: been

text: unemployed

text: using

text: their

text: savings

text: to

text: pay

text: for

text: a

text: small

text: motel

text: room

text: With

text: almost

text: no

text: money

text: left

text: Val

text: pawned

text: her

text: jewelry

text: including

text: her

text: wedding

text: ring

text: Dimiceli

text: showed

text: up

text: and

text: helped

text: the

text: couple

text: with

text: gas

text: cards

text: and

text: rent

text: And

text: when

text: he

text: heard

text: about

text: Val

text: 's

text: sacrifice

text: he

text: dipped

text: into

text: his

text: own

text: pocket

text: and

text: made

text: arrangements

text: to

text: get

text: the

text: ring

text: back

text: Those

text: that

text: are

text: in

text: dire

text: need

text: they

text: 'll

text: sell

text: all

text: their

text: personal

text: belongings

text: to

text: survive

text: he

text: said

text: I

text: want

text: to

text: give

text: them

text: their

text: self

text: esteem

text: back

text: They

text: need

text: to

text: hang

text: onto

text: parts

text: of

text: their

text: life

text: and

text: sentimental

text: things

text: are

text: very

text: important

text: Such

text: stories

text: have

text: become

text: commonplace

text: during

text: the

text: hard

text: economic

text: times

text: of

text: the

text: past

text: few

text: years

text: and

text: Dimiceli

text: has

text: been

text: flooded

text: with

text: requests

text: for

text: help

text: even

text: as

text: his

text: real

text: estate

text: business

text: has

text: taken

text: a

text: huge

text: hit

text: He

text: still

text: gives

text: away

text: at

text: least

text: of

text: his

text: income

text: he

text: estimates

text: that

text: he

text: has

text: given

text: away

text: a

text: few

text: million

text: dollars

text: of

text: his

text: own

text: money

text: over

text: the

text: years

text: but

text: in

text: the

text: last

text: decade

text: he

text: has

text: begun

text: to

text: rely

text: more

text: on

text: donations

text: to

text: his

text: nonprofit

text: which

text: he

text: started

text: in

text: He

text: has

text: also

text: built

text: a

text: strong

text: network

text: of

text: supporters

text: to

text: help

text: him

text: along

text: with

text: his

text: wife

text: and

text: four

text: children

text: The

text: movement

text: has

text: grown

text: he

text: said

text: As

text: fellow

text: Americans

text: we

text: 're

text: all

text: together

text: helping

text: each

text: other

text: That

text: 's

text: what

text: it

text: 's

text: all

text: about

text: Dimiceli

text: is

text: passionate

text: about

text: helping

text: others

text: because

text: he

text: knows

text: what

text: it

text: 's

text: like

text: to

text: be

text: poor

text: Born

text: on

text: the

text: West

text: Side

text: of

text: Chicago

text: to

text: a

text: beautician

text: and

text: a

text: tool

text: and

text: die

text: maker

text: he

text: said

text: his

text: family

text: struggled

text: because

text: of

text: his

text: father

text: 's

text: gambling

text: habit

text: We

text: moved

text: like

text: gypsies

text: being

text: evicted

text: a

text: lot

text: he

text: said

text: I

text: know

text: how

text: it

text: feels

text: to

text: watch

text: your

text: mother

text: cry

text: when

text: the

text: electricity

text: is

text: turned

text: off

text: and

text: you

text: have

text: no

text: food

text: It

text: was

text: hard

text: When

text: Dimiceli

text: was

text: he

text: got

text: a

text: job

text: as

text: a

text: dishwasher

text: so

text: he

text: could

text: help

text: out

text: at

text: home

text: Grateful

text: he

text: promised

text: God

text: that

text: if

text: he

text: ever

text: became

text: successful

text: he

text: 'd

text: always

text: help

text: others

text: in

text: need

text: He

text: has

text: spent

text: nearly

text: all

text: of

text: his

text: adult

text: life

text: making

text: good

text: on

text: that

text: vow

text: After

text: he

text: first

text: found

text: success

text: as

text: a

text: rock

text: concert

text: promoter

text: in

text: the

text: Dimiceli

text: began

text: to

text: give

text: money

text: to

text: various

text: charities

text: But

text: when

text: he

text: realized

text: that

text: much

text: of

text: their

text: money

text: was

text: spent

text: on

text: overhead

text: he

text: decided

text: he

text: could

text: do

text: a

text: better

text: job

text: himself

text: and

text: started

text: helping

text: people

text: on

text: his

text: own

text: around

text: the

text: Chicago

text: area

text: He

text: eventually

text: started

text: his

text: nonprofit

text: vowing

text: that

text: every

text: penny

text: would

text: go

text: to

text: help

text: others

text: Dimiceli

text: 's

text: philanthropy

text: has

text: gone

text: through

text: various

text: phases

text: In

text: the

text: he

text: took

text: an

text: entire

text: community

text: in

text: Illinois

text: under

text: his

text: wing

text: But

text: for

text: the

text: last

text: decade

text: or

text: so

text: he

text: has

text: concentrated

text: most

text: of

text: his

text: work

text: in

text: the

text: Wisconsin

text: area

text: where

text: he

text: now

text: lives

text: Eight

text: years

text: ago

text: he

text: was

text: approached

text: by

text: a

text: neighbor

text: who

text: knew

text: about

text: his

text: work

text: and

text: asked

text: him

text: to

text: write

text: a

text: column

text: in

text: the

text: local

text: paper

text: He

text: agreed

text: do

text: it

text: anonymously

text: adopting

text: a

text: pen

text: name

text: W.C.

text: to

text: stand

text: for

text: With

text: Christ

text: In

text: recent

text: years

text: he

text: was

text: persuaded

text: to

text: reveal

text: his

text: identity

text: so

text: that

text: people

text: would

text: be

text: encouraged

text: to

text: donate

text: to

text: his

text: foundation

text: His

text: column

text: has

text: become

text: so

text: popular

text: that

text: it

text: now

text: appears

text: in

text: a

text: number

text: of

text: area

text: papers

text: Dimiceli

text: says

text: that

text: when

text: he

text: sees

text: a

text: pile

text: of

text: new

text: letters

text: he

text: gets

text: anxious

text: thinking

text: about

text: all

text: of

text: the

text: people

text: who

text: need

text: his

text: help

text: He

text: 'll

text: often

text: work

text: late

text: into

text: the

text: night

text: doing

text: marathons

text: of

text: helping

text: that

text: leave

text: him

text: physically

text: and

text: emotionally

text: exhausted

text: But

text: every

text: morning

text: he

text: ca

text: n't

text: wait

text: to

text: start

text: again

text: When

text: people

text: are

text: in

text: need

text: they

text: often

text: feel

text: alone

text: he

text: said

text: I

text: want

text: them

text: to

text: know

text: someone

text: cares

text: about

text: them

text: I

text: want

text: to

text: say

text: Come

text: on

text: I

text: have

text: a

text: little

text: extra

text: strength

text: I

text: want

text: to

text: share

text: with

text: you

text: Let

text: 's

text: get

text: you

text: back

text: on

text: your

text: feet

text: Want

text: to

text: get

text: involved

text: Check

text: out

text: The

text: Time

text: Is

text: Now

text: To

text: Help

text: website

text: at

question: Who grew up in poverty?

answer: Jennifer Cervantes

text: Jennifer Cervantes

question: Who was helping people get back on their feet?

answer: Sal Dimiceli,

text: Sal Dimiceli,

question: Who has been helping people get back on their feet?

answer: Sal Dimiceli,

text: Sal Dimiceli,

question: What did Dimiceli vow to do?

answer: he'd always help others in need.

text: he'd always help others in need.

question: What are nominations open for?

answer: 2011 CNN Heroes

text: 2011 CNN Heroes

question: Who has written to Dimiceli?

answer: people in the Lake Geneva area,

text: people in the Lake Geneva area,

question: For what year Nominations of CNN Heroes are open?

answer: 2011

question: Where did Dimiceli grow up in?

answer: the West Side of Chicago

text: the West Side of Chicago

question: What Sal Dimiceli has personally done?

answer: provided about 500 people a year with food, rent, utilities and other necessities.

text: provided about 500 people a year with food, rent, utilities and other necessities.