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Editor's note: Junot DÃaz's novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008.

(OPRAH.com) -- It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day.

I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 a.m., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could.

But none of it worked.

My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing I wrote past page 75 made any kind of sense. Nothing.

Which would have been fine if the first 75 pages hadn't been pretty damn cool. But they were cool, showed a lot of promise. Would also have been fine if I could have just jumped to something else.

But I couldn't. All the other novels I tried sucked worse than the stalled one, and even more disturbing, I seemed to have lost the ability to write short stories. It was like I had somehow slipped into a No-Writing Twilight Zone and I couldn't find an exit. Like I'd been chained to the sinking ship of those 75 pages and there was no key and no patching the hole in the hull. I wrote and I wrote and I wrote, but nothing I produced was worth a damn.

Want to talk about stubborn? I kept at it for five straight years. Five damn years. Every day failing for five years? I'm a pretty stubborn, pretty hard-hearted character, but those five years of fail did a number on my psyche. On me. Five years, 60 months? It just about wiped me out.

By the end of that fifth year, perhaps in an attempt to save myself, to escape my despair, I started becoming convinced that I had written all I had to write, that I was a minor league Ralph Ellison, a Pop Warner Edward Rivera, that maybe it was time, for the sake of my mental health, for me to move on to another profession, and if the inspiration struck again some time in the future...well, great.

But I knew I couldn't go on much more the way I was going. I just couldn't. I was living with my fiancÃ©e at the time (over now, another terrible story) and was so depressed and self-loathing I could barely function.

I finally broached the topic with her of, maybe, you know, doing something else. My fiancÃ©e was so desperate to see me happy (and perhaps more than a little convinced by my fear that maybe the thread had run out on my talent) that she told me to make a list of what else I could do besides writing.

I'm not a list person like she was, but I wrote one. It took a month to pencil down three things. (I really don't have many other skills.) I stared at that list for about another month. Waiting, hoping, praying for the book, for my writing, for my talent to catch fire. A last-second reprieve. But nada.

So I put the manuscript away. All the hundreds of failed pages, boxed and hidden in a closet. I think I cried as I did it. Five years of my life and the dream that I had of myself, all down the tubes because I couldn't pull off something other people seemed to pull off with relative ease: a novel. By then I wasn't even interested in a Great American Novel. I would have been elated with the eminently forgettable New Jersey novel.

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So I became a normal. A square. I didn't go to bookstores or read the Sunday book section of the Times. I stopped hanging out with my writer friends. The bouts of rage and despair, the fights with my fiancÃ©e ended.

I slipped into my new morose half-life. Started preparing for my next stage, back to school in September. (I won't even tell you what I was thinking of doing, too embarrassing.) While I waited for September to come around, I spent long hours in my writing room, sprawled on the floor, with the list on my chest, waiting for the promise of those words to leak through the paper into me.

Maybe I would have gone through with it. Hard to know. But if the world is what it is so are our hearts. One night in August, unable to sleep, sickened that I was giving up, but even more frightened by the thought of having to return to the writing, I dug out the manuscript. I figured if I could find one good thing in the pages I would go back to it.

Just one good thing. Like flipping a coin, I'd let the pages decide. Spent the whole night reading everything I had written, and guess what? It was still terrible. In fact with the new distance the lameness was even worse than I'd thought. That's when I should have put everything in the box. When I should have turned my back and trudged into my new life. I didn't have the heart to go on.

But I guess I did. While my fiancÃ©e slept, I separated the 75 pages that were worthy from the mountain of loss, sat at my desk, and despite every part of me shrieking no no no no, I jumped back down the rabbit hole again. There were no sudden miracles. It took two more years of heartbreak, of being utterly, dismayingly lost before the novel I had dreamed about for all those years finally started revealing itself.

And another three years after that before I could look up from my desk and say the word I'd wanted to say for more than a decade: done.

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That's my tale in a nutshell. Not the tale of how I came to write my novel but rather of how I became a writer. Because, in truth, I didn't become a writer the first time I put pen to paper or when I finished my first book (easy) or my second one (hard).

You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden.

In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. Wasn't until that night when I was faced with all those lousy pages that I realized, really realized, what it was exactly that I am.

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Editor's note: Robert J. Shiller is a professor of economics at Yale University. This op-ed is based on his book with George Akerlof, "Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism." Akerlof is a 2001 Nobel laureate in economics and professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley.

Robert Shiller says basic psychogical factors led to excesses which have devastated the economy.

(CNN) -- President Obama's National Economic Council head Lawrence Summers noted in his speech March 13 that the economic crisis has led to an "excess of fear" that must be reversed.

To understand the role fear plays in the current crisis, we must understand the role of human psychology.

John Maynard Keynes thought psychology was the major cause of economic booms as well as busts, though this aspect of his work is now largely forgotten. He said people's economic decisions, in both good times and bad times, are largely, ultimately, if indirectly, driven by animal spirits, primitive psychological tendencies.

In a recently published book, George Akerlof and I identified three animal spirits that played critical roles in the current economic meltdown. They are confidence, bad faith and storytelling.

Let's first consider confidence and its dictionary meaning. Confidence means complete and secure trust. But trust goes beyond the rational use of information that is usually considered in economic theory. Trust is largely an emotion. Indeed we saw the role of vivid emotions in the stock and housing market booms that brought on our current problems.

Trust is a state of mind that is the opposite of vigilance. People were purchasing and selling complex financial instruments without looking carefully at them. This trust is broken.

The second animal spirit that came into play was bad faith. With so many trusting people, an uglier side of human nature became prominent. The temptation for smart promoters was overwhelming.

Questionable practices boomed, and regulators failed to step in, because of the view, taken from economists, that private markets would be self-policing. Investors would only put their money at increased risk if they were duly compensated by higher expected returns. Thus, there was little worry about laxity of regulation in securities and real estate markets.

But, this self-policing view did not consider that these investors might be overconfident.

There is a myth that capitalism produces what people really want, as long as firms can make a profit. But, instead, more generally, it produces what people think they want, as long as firms can make a profit.

True, unregulated capitalism will produce good medicines that cure our ills. But unregulated capitalism will also produce snake oil that people think they want, but does not cure our ills. (To guard against the production of such things, the federal government established the Food and Drug Administration in 1906.)

The problem of snake oil has special relevance for financial assets, which are only pieces of paper. Most investors can surmise their value only from what others, such as accountants and rating agencies, tell them. These accounting and rating agencies also have their own incentives. And those incentives have not been fully aligned with the public's interest. And so when people are overconfident, financial markets produce assets that take advantage of that overconfidence.

If unprotected by effective regulation, people will be sold snake oil assets. Just recently an industry arose, in Wall Street and beyond, to produce them.

A third animal spirit bolstered the previous two. People act and think and live according to stories, especially human interest stories, not usually abstract calculation. That goes for their personal decisions. But there is also always a story, usually with some grain of truth and human interest, about the economy.

These stories are often overly exuberant, on the one side, or overly pessimistic on the other. Ten years ago we had the story of the dot-com millionaires. Most recently we believed alchemists of financial engineering were packaging risky financial assets to make them safe.

People were overconfident. And markets took advantage of their beliefs to sell them what later proved to be snake oil assets.

These three animal spirits then explain how factors in human psychology play a key role in why the economy fluctuates as much as it does. The confidence comes and goes. The stories come and go. The snake oil comes and goes.

This explanation for economic fluctuations has implications for the role of government. The first role of government is, before the fact -- as with the Food and Drug Administration -- to protect the public from negative consequences of their animal spirits (and to let them prevail and even to encourage the positive consequences).

If, as now, the snake oil has been swallowed, it is the role of the government to restore our health. The government must aim to achieve full employment of the population by added spending to boost the economy and policies to make credit widely available.

It should fulfill the full-employment goals of the Employment Act of 1946. That means that producers who produce good products at a profit should have buyers who want to buy them; workers who have trained for productive jobs should be able to get them.

It also means that producers who can produce such products can get the credit to finance their production; and buyers who want to purchase these products can obtain the credit to purchase them. Why are such targets useful and necessary?

History tells us. In the Great Depression, both Hoover and Roosevelt had many pragmatic schemes to put people back to work and keep credit markets from falling apart. But for lack of a correct theory of the economy, and targets corresponding to that theory, their measures fell far short. Unemployment in the United States only fell below 10 percent after the start of World War II, in 1941.

Such targets are necessary for political reasons as well. Any effective plan to resolve our crisis will involve massive sticker shock. The two targets are necessary to justify and explain the tough and expensive measures that need to be taken.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Robert Shiller.

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- While the coroner's report on what killed Michael Jackson has been delayed indefinitely, new evidence emerged that the singer shopped for a doctor who would give him the drug investigators suspect led to his death.

A doctor of Michael Jackson says he prescribed drugs to the alias Omar Arnold.

Dr. Allan Metzger, whose name appeared on a search warrant served this week, refused Jackson's request in April for the anesthetic propofol -- commonly known by the brand name Diprivan, Metzger's attorney said.

Investigators suspect another physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, gave the drug to Jackson in the 24 hours before he died, according to a source, who asked not to be named because the individual was not authorized to speak to the news media.

Metzger, who practices in West Hollywood, California, told Jackson during a visit to his Holmby Hills home that the drug was "dangerous and potentially life-threatening and could not be used outside of a hospital," attorney Harland Braun said.

Metzger's medical records for Jackson, whom he treated until 2003, have been given to the coroner, Braun said.

He said Metzger prescribed drugs for Jackson under the alias Omar Arnold and Michael Jackson, which was not illegal since he used both names together. The doctor did that because he thought it was "his duty to protect the privacy" of his patient, Braun said.

Omar Arnold is one of 19 aliases listed in the warrant used by Los Angeles police and federal drug agents Tuesday to search the Las Vegas, Nevada, office and home of Murray, a Texas-based cardiologist.

The warrant also mentioned Cherilyn Lee, a nurse practitioner who treated Jackson earlier this year. Lee said Jackson begged her for propofol to help him get a good night's sleep. She said she refused, telling the pop star that if he took the medicine, he might never wake up.

The same warrant, signed by a Las Vegas judge, implied that investigators suspected Jackson was a drug addict.

Dr. Deepak Chopra said in a recent interview that when Jackson asked him for a narcotic, he told him absolutely no. "I said to him, 'Michael, you're going to die one day from this,' " Chopra said.

During a world tour in the mid-'90s, sources close to Jackson told CNN, the pop star suffered from insomnia and traveled with an anesthesiologist who would "take him down" at night and then "bring him back up." According to a report on a 2004 Santa Barbara, California, police investigation, security guards in Jackson's inner circle said he traveled the country getting prescriptions from doctors.

The Los Angeles County coroner, who must rule on the cause of Jackson's June 25 death, met Thursday with the Los Angeles District Attorney, who must decide if anyone will be prosecuted for his death.

During the meeting, it was decided that an announcement of the coroner's findings would be delayed indefinitely, according to a source close to the investigation. An official in the coroner's office had previously indicated to reporters that the findings would be made public within days.

Katherine Jackson goes to court Monday

Katherine Jackson's legal battle for some control of her son's estate returns to court Monday in front of the same judge who is expected to award her permanent guardianship of his children.

Jackson's lawyers filed a petition Tuesday accusing the men who now control the estate of being "intent on keeping her in the dark" about deals they've made or are negotiating.

Jackson lawyer Londell McMillan raised questions about "a suspicious circle of relationships" involving John Branca, the singer's longtime personal attorney, and John McClain, a music industry executive and longtime friend -- who were named executors in Jackson's will.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff gave Branca and McClain temporary control of the estate until Monday's hearing.

In the Jackson lawyers' petition, they asked the judge to order Branca, McClain and others to answer questions under oath about their business agreements to determine if they are "fit and able" to administer the estate. They also served the men with a 19-page demand for documents.

Branca has refused to let Katherine Jackson see Michael Jackson's contracts with AEG, the company that was organizing and promoting his planned concerts, unless she agrees to keep them confidential. Branca's lawyer argued in a court filing that he has no choice since the contracts have a provision requiring confidentiality.

Branca's lawyers also argued that Jackson's demand for documents was too broad and burdensome.

"Such measures will not be necessary if Mrs. Jackson is appointed a co-executor of the estate," McMillan said.

McMillan, in an interview with CBS on Thursday, estimated the Jackson estate was worth $2 billion, while the executors have estimated in court that its value is around $500 million.

The will written in 2002 places all of Jackson's assets into a family trust benefiting his mother, his three children and unnamed charities.

The judge is also expected Monday to finalize Katherine Jackson's guardianship of her son's three children. An agreement between Jackson and Debbie Rowe, the mother of the two eldest children, cleared the way for an uncontested custody hearing.

Rowe, who was briefly married to Michael Jackson, agreed not to fight for custody in exchange for visits with the children as recommended by a psychologist.

The agreement does not involve any financial payments to Rowe "apart from the continuation of spousal support payments" that Michael Jackson personally agreed to make to Rowe after their divorce, their lawyers said in a joint statement.

Jackson's children have been living with their paternal grandmother at her Encino, California, home since their father's death.

The eldest child, Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., was born in February 1997. A daughter, Paris Michael Katherine Jackson, was born the next year. Details of how the children were conceived -- and who was the biological father -- have been closely guarded amid much public speculation.

The couple divorced in 1999 with Rowe giving Jackson full custody while she got an $8.5 million settlement, according to court documents. Jackson later agreed to additional support.

Rowe gave up parental rights to Jackson in 2001, but she changed her mind more than two years later and sought temporary custody of the children. A California appeals court later ruled her rights were improperly terminated, opening the door to a possible custody battle.

CNN's Randi Kaye contributed to this report.

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text: refused

text: Jackson

text: 's

text: request

text: in

text: April

text: for

text: the

text: anesthetic

text: propofol

text: commonly

text: known

text: by

text: the

text: brand

text: name

text: Diprivan

text: Metzger

text: 's

text: attorney

text: said

text: Investigators

text: suspect

text: another

text: physician

text: Dr.

text: Conrad

text: Murray

text: gave

text: the

text: drug

text: to

text: Jackson

text: in

text: the

text: hours

text: before

text: he

text: died

text: according

text: to

text: a

text: source

text: who

text: asked

text: not

text: to

text: be

text: named

text: because

text: the

text: individual

text: was

text: not

text: authorized

text: to

text: speak

text: to

text: the

text: news

text: media

text: Metzger

text: who

text: practices

text: in

text: West

text: Hollywood

text: California

text: told

text: Jackson

text: during

text: a

text: visit

text: to

text: his

text: Holmby

text: Hills

text: home

text: that

text: the

text: drug

text: was

text: dangerous

text: and

text: potentially

text: life

text: threatening

text: and

text: could

text: not

text: be

text: used

text: outside

text: of

text: a

text: hospital

text: attorney

text: Harland

text: Braun

text: said

text: Metzger

text: 's

text: medical

text: records

text: for

text: Jackson

text: whom

text: he

text: treated

text: until

text: have

text: been

text: given

text: to

text: the

text: coroner

text: Braun

text: said

text: He

text: said

text: Metzger

text: prescribed

text: drugs

text: for

text: Jackson

text: under

text: the

text: alias

text: Omar

text: Arnold

text: and

text: Michael

text: Jackson

text: which

text: was

text: not

text: illegal

text: since

text: he

text: used

text: both

text: names

text: together

text: The

text: doctor

text: did

text: that

text: because

text: he

text: thought

text: it

text: was

text: his

text: duty

text: to

text: protect

text: the

text: privacy

text: of

text: his

text: patient

text: Braun

text: said

text: Omar

text: Arnold

text: is

text: one

text: of

text: aliases

text: listed

text: in

text: the

text: warrant

text: used

text: by

text: Los

text: Angeles

text: police

text: and

text: federal

text: drug

text: agents

text: Tuesday

text: to

text: search

text: the

text: Las

text: Vegas

text: Nevada

text: office

text: and

text: home

text: of

text: Murray

text: a

text: Texas

text: based

text: cardiologist

text: The

text: warrant

text: also

text: mentioned

text: Cherilyn

text: Lee

text: a

text: nurse

text: practitioner

text: who

text: treated

text: Jackson

text: earlier

text: this

text: year

text: Lee

text: said

text: Jackson

text: begged

text: her

text: for

text: propofol

text: to

text: help

text: him

text: get

text: a

text: good

text: night

text: 's

text: sleep

text: She

text: said

text: she

text: refused

text: telling

text: the

text: pop

text: star

text: that

text: if

text: he

text: took

text: the

text: medicine

text: he

text: might

text: never

text: wake

text: up

text: The

text: same

text: warrant

text: signed

text: by

text: a

text: Las

text: Vegas

text: judge

text: implied

text: that

text: investigators

text: suspected

text: Jackson

text: was

text: a

text: drug

text: addict

text: Dr.

text: Deepak

text: Chopra

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: recent

text: interview

text: that

text: when

text: Jackson

text: asked

text: him

text: for

text: a

text: narcotic

text: he

text: told

text: him

text: absolutely

text: no

text: I

text: said

text: to

text: him

text: Michael

text: you

text: 're

text: going

text: to

text: die

text: one

text: day

text: from

text: this

text: Chopra

text: said

text: During

text: a

text: world

text: tour

text: in

text: the

text: sources

text: close

text: to

text: Jackson

text: told

text: CNN

text: the

text: pop

text: star

text: suffered

text: from

text: insomnia

text: and

text: traveled

text: with

text: an

text: anesthesiologist

text: who

text: would

text: take

text: him

text: down

text: at

text: night

text: and

text: then

text: bring

text: him

text: back

text: up

text: According

text: to

text: a

text: report

text: on

text: a

text: Santa

text: Barbara

text: California

text: police

text: investigation

text: security

text: guards

text: in

text: Jackson

text: 's

text: inner

text: circle

text: said

text: he

text: traveled

text: the

text: country

text: getting

text: prescriptions

text: from

text: doctors

text: The

text: Los

text: Angeles

text: County

text: coroner

text: who

text: must

text: rule

text: on

text: the

text: cause

text: of

text: Jackson

text: 's

text: June

text: death

text: met

text: Thursday

text: with

text: the

text: Los

text: Angeles

text: District

text: Attorney

text: who

text: must

text: decide

text: if

text: anyone

text: will

text: be

text: prosecuted

text: for

text: his

text: death

text: During

text: the

text: meeting

text: it

text: was

text: decided

text: that

text: an

text: announcement

text: of

text: the

text: coroner

text: 's

text: findings

text: would

text: be

text: delayed

text: indefinitely

text: according

text: to

text: a

text: source

text: close

text: to

text: the

text: investigation

text: An

text: official

text: in

text: the

text: coroner

text: 's

text: office

text: had

text: previously

text: indicated

text: to

text: reporters

text: that

text: the

text: findings

text: would

text: be

text: made

text: public

text: within

text: days

text: Katherine

text: Jackson

text: goes

text: to

text: court

text: Monday

text: Katherine

text: Jackson

text: 's

text: legal

text: battle

text: for

text: some

text: control

text: of

text: her

text: son

text: 's

text: estate

text: returns

text: to

text: court

text: Monday

text: in

text: front

text: of

text: the

text: same

text: judge

text: who

text: is

text: expected

text: to

text: award

text: her

text: permanent

text: guardianship

text: of

text: his

text: children

text: Jackson

text: 's

text: lawyers

text: filed

text: a

text: petition

text: Tuesday

text: accusing

text: the

text: men

text: who

text: now

text: control

text: the

text: estate

text: of

text: being

text: intent

text: on

text: keeping

text: her

text: in

text: the

text: dark

text: about

text: deals

text: they

text: 've

text: made

text: or

text: are

text: negotiating

text: Jackson

text: lawyer

text: Londell

text: McMillan

text: raised

text: questions

text: about

text: a

text: suspicious

text: circle

text: of

text: relationships

text: involving

text: John

text: Branca

text: the

text: singer

text: 's

text: longtime

text: personal

text: attorney

text: and

text: John

text: McClain

text: a

text: music

text: industry

text: executive

text: and

text: longtime

text: friend

text: who

text: were

text: named

text: executors

text: in

text: Jackson

text: 's

text: will

text: Los

text: Angeles

text: Superior

text: Court

text: Judge

text: Mitchell

text: Beckloff

text: gave

text: Branca

text: and

text: McClain

text: temporary

text: control

text: of

text: the

text: estate

text: until

text: Monday

text: 's

text: hearing

text: In

text: the

text: Jackson

text: lawyers

text: petition

text: they

text: asked

text: the

text: judge

text: to

text: order

text: Branca

text: McClain

text: and

text: others

text: to

text: answer

text: questions

text: under

text: oath

text: about

text: their

text: business

text: agreements

text: to

text: determine

text: if

text: they

text: are

text: fit

text: and

text: able

text: to

text: administer

text: the

text: estate

text: They

text: also

text: served

text: the

text: men

text: with

text: a

text: demand

text: for

text: documents

text: Branca

text: has

text: refused

text: to

text: let

text: Katherine

text: Jackson

text: see

text: Michael

text: Jackson

text: 's

text: contracts

text: with

text: AEG

text: the

text: company

text: that

text: was

text: organizing

text: and

text: promoting

text: his

text: planned

text: concerts

text: unless

text: she

text: agrees

text: to

text: keep

text: them

text: confidential

text: Branca

text: 's

text: lawyer

text: argued

text: in

text: a

text: court

text: filing

text: that

text: he

text: has

text: no

text: choice

text: since

text: the

text: contracts

text: have

text: a

text: provision

text: requiring

text: confidentiality

text: Branca

text: 's

text: lawyers

text: also

text: argued

text: that

text: Jackson

text: 's

text: demand

text: for

text: documents

text: was

text: too

text: broad

text: and

text: burdensome

text: Such

text: measures

text: will

text: not

text: be

text: necessary

text: if

text: Mrs.

text: Jackson

text: is

text: appointed

text: a

text: co

text: executor

text: of

text: the

text: estate

text: McMillan

text: said

text: McMillan

text: in

text: an

text: interview

text: with

text: CBS

text: on

text: Thursday

text: estimated

text: the

text: Jackson

text: estate

text: was

text: worth

text: billion

text: while

text: the

text: executors

text: have

text: estimated

text: in

text: court

text: that

text: its

text: value

text: is

text: around

text: million

text: The

text: will

text: written

text: in

text: places

text: all

text: of

text: Jackson

text: 's

text: assets

text: into

text: a

text: family

text: trust

text: benefiting

text: his

text: mother

text: his

text: three

text: children

text: and

text: unnamed

text: charities

text: The

text: judge

text: is

text: also

text: expected

text: Monday

text: to

text: finalize

text: Katherine

text: Jackson

text: 's

text: guardianship

text: of

text: her

text: son

text: 's

text: three

text: children

text: An

text: agreement

text: between

text: Jackson

text: and

text: Debbie

text: Rowe

text: the

text: mother

text: of

text: the

text: two

text: eldest

text: children

text: cleared

text: the

text: way

text: for

text: an

text: uncontested

text: custody

text: hearing

text: Rowe

text: who

text: was

text: briefly

text: married

text: to

text: Michael

text: Jackson

text: agreed

text: not

text: to

text: fight

text: for

text: custody

text: in

text: exchange

text: for

text: visits

text: with

text: the

text: children

text: as

text: recommended

text: by

text: a

text: psychologist

text: The

text: agreement

text: does

text: not

text: involve

text: any

text: financial

text: payments

text: to

text: Rowe

text: apart

text: from

text: the

text: continuation

text: of

text: spousal

text: support

text: payments

text: that

text: Michael

text: Jackson

text: personally

text: agreed

text: to

text: make

text: to

text: Rowe

text: after

text: their

text: divorce

text: their

text: lawyers

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: joint

text: statement

text: Jackson

text: 's

text: children

text: have

text: been

text: living

text: with

text: their

text: paternal

text: grandmother

text: at

text: her

text: Encino

text: California

text: home

text: since

text: their

text: father

text: 's

text: death

text: The

text: eldest

text: child

text: Michael

text: Joseph

text: Jackson

text: Jr.

text: was

text: born

text: in

text: February

text: A

text: daughter

text: Paris

text: Michael

text: Katherine

text: Jackson

text: was

text: born

text: the

text: next

text: year

text: Details

text: of

text: how

text: the

text: children

text: were

text: conceived

text: and

text: who

text: was

text: the

text: biological

text: father

text: have

text: been

text: closely

text: guarded

text: amid

text: much

text: public

text: speculation

text: The

text: couple

text: divorced

text: in

text: with

text: Rowe

text: giving

text: Jackson

text: full

text: custody

text: while

text: she

text: got

text: an

text: million

text: settlement

text: according

text: to

text: court

text: documents

text: Jackson

text: later

text: agreed

text: to

text: additional

text: support

text: Rowe

text: gave

text: up

text: parental

text: rights

text: to

text: Jackson

text: in

text: but

text: she

text: changed

text: her

text: mind

text: more

text: than

text: two

text: years

text: later

text: and

text: sought

text: temporary

text: custody

text: of

text: the

text: children

text: A

text: California

text: appeals

text: court

text: later

text: ruled

text: her

text: rights

text: were

text: improperly

text: terminated

text: opening

text: the

text: door

text: to

text: a

text: possible

text: custody

text: battle

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Randi

text: Kaye

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: What did the district attorney not release?

answer: coroner's report

text: coroner's report

question: When is the hearing about control of estate and custody of children?

answer: Monday

text: Monday

question: What was delayed indefinatly?

answer: coroner's report

text: coroner's report

question: Who decided not to release the coroner's findings?

answer: Los Angeles District Attorney,

text: Los Angeles District Attorney,

question: What drug is suspected in Michael Jacksin's death?

answer: propofol

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(CNN) -- A Los Angeles, California, art dealer, federal authorities say, thought she'd done the math: Pay an art restorer $1,000 to create a knock-off of Pablo Picasso's 1902 pastel, "The Woman in the Blue Hat."

Then sell the fake as an original for $2 million.

She may have not counted on the feds getting involved.

That woman, 70-year-old Tatiana Khan, agreed to plead guilty to federal charges related to the sale of the phony Picasso, authorities said Tuesday.

The woman is scheduled to appear in federal court next month to plead guilty to felony counts of making false statements to the FBI and witness tampering, federal authorities said.

"Khan falsely told an FBI agent who was investigating the sale that Khan had obtained the drawing from an acquaintance," a Department of Justice statement said. "Khan also admitted that she told the art restorer to lie to the FBI by saying that she only did restoration work for Khan and did not do any copying work."

Khan faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison but the plea agreement recommends a maximum prison sentence of 21 months, according to the Justice Department.

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question: What dollar amount paid Khan?

answer: $1,000

question: What is Tatiana Khan guilty?

answer: federal charges related to the sale of the phony Picasso,

text: federal charges related to the sale of the phony Picasso,

question: What painting was faked?

answer: Pablo Picasso's 1902 pastel, "The Woman in the Blue Hat."

text: Pablo Picasso's 1902 pastel, "The Woman in the Blue Hat."

question: What was Tatiana Khan charged with?

answer: felony counts of making false statements to the FBI and witness tampering,

text: felony counts of making false statements to the FBI and witness tampering,

question: How much did Khan plan to sell the painting for?

answer: $2 million.

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Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a bestselling author whose forthcoming book is "Late Edition: A Love Story."

Bob Greene says Navy SEALs demonstrate an extraordinary devotion to duty.

(CNN) -- There is a beach in Coronado, California, just across the bridge from San Diego. It offers a beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean, which is why it attracts tourists who are drawn to the sun.

I thought about that beach yesterday, when the news from the Indian Ocean near the Horn of Africa was flashed around the world -- the news that the captain of the cargo ship Maersk Alabama had been rescued from Somali pirates by U.S. forces operating off the USS Bainbridge.

That beach in California seems quite placid, even sedate. The historic, red-gabled Hotel del Coronado sits upon it -- the place where the Marilyn Monroe-Jack Lemmon-Tony Curtis movie "Some Like It Hot" was filmed. The feeling of the place is one of genteel manners, of delicate tradition. You almost expect to see guests carrying parasols and making reservations to play croquet.

But down the beach there is another kind of tradition. That's what I was thinking about on Sunday.

When I have stayed on Coronado, I walk down that beach toward the Naval Amphibious Base. I remember a makeshift fence separating the beach from the far reaches of the base. But it was easy to walk around, and no one appeared to take it especially seriously. I haven't been back since September 11, 2001; I would be very surprised if the barriers aren't more formidable now.

On that part of the beach, on the outskirts of Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, I saw Navy SEALs in training. Here, the Navy winnows the men who would be SEALs from the ones who fall short. It was a humbling thing to witness.

As the Navy itself puts it, SEAL training is like few other competitions:

"Prospective SEALs go through what is considered by many military experts to be the toughest training in the world. ... The most important trait that distinguishes Navy SEALs from all other military forces is that SEALs are Maritime Special Forces, as they strike from and return to the sea. SEALs (Sea, Air, Land) take their name from the elements in and from which they operate. Their stealth and clandestine methods of operation allow them to conduct multiple missions against targets that larger forces cannot approach undetected."

They looked so young, those prospective SEALs on Coronado beach. The maximum age to apply to be a SEAL is 28. They all know what they're getting into when they sign up, but to see their faces -- including the faces of the ones who were falling behind, who probably weren't going to make the cut, who were gasping for air on the arduous runs along the beach and having trouble during the maneuvers in the ocean -- was to see a devotion to the concept of duty on a level few of the rest of us will ever know.

Maybe you, during the recent days when Capt. Richard Phillips was held captive on that lifeboat off the coast of Africa, were asking yourself who in the world could come to his rescue. Who had the training, and the courage, to carry out such a mission.

We probably don't ask ourselves that kind of question often enough. Usually, military operations are talked about in the abstract, as if they're lines on a chalkboard, or brightly glowing diagrams on a computer screen.

But once in a while, like now, we stop to focus on what we ask of the people who serve in our stead when the task seems all but impossible. Ronald Reagan would sometimes quote a line that summed up our wonder at those who make the choice to serve our country in this way: "Where do we find such men?"

We find them among us, although we usually don't know it when we see it. On Coronado, on Orange Avenue, there was a bar called McP's, owned by an ex-SEAL named Greg McPartlin. Whenever I would stop in there, groups of guys from the naval base would be having a cheeseburger, maybe listening to a local acoustic band play a guitars-only version of The Beatles' "We Can Work It Out." You'd sit among them, and it was easy to forget what brought them to this strip of sand. It wasn't for vacation, or relaxation. Where do we find such men? Sometimes at the next table over, listening to the music.

From the Navy SEALs' creed:

"My loyalty to country and team is beyond reproach. I humbly serve as a guardian to my fellow Americans, always ready to defend those who are unable to defend themselves. I do not advertise the nature of my work, nor seek recognition for my actions. I voluntarily accept the inherent hazards of my profession, placing the welfare and security of others before my own. I serve with honor on and off the battlefield. The ability to control my emotions and my actions, regardless of circumstance, sets me apart from other men. ... In the absence of orders I will take charge, lead my teammates and accomplish the mission. ... I will never quit. I persevere and thrive on adversity. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down, I will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my teammates and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight."

Where do we find such men?

Over the weekend, we learned the answer anew.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene.

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text: a

text: beautiful

text: view

text: of

text: the

text: Pacific

text: Ocean

text: which

text: is

text: why

text: it

text: attracts

text: tourists

text: who

text: are

text: drawn

text: to

text: the

text: sun

text: I

text: thought

text: about

text: that

text: beach

text: yesterday

text: when

text: the

text: news

text: from

text: the

text: Indian

text: Ocean

text: near

text: the

text: Horn

text: of

text: Africa

text: was

text: flashed

text: around

text: the

text: world

text: the

text: news

text: that

text: the

text: captain

text: of

text: the

text: cargo

text: ship

text: Maersk

text: Alabama

text: had

text: been

text: rescued

text: from

text: Somali

text: pirates

text: by

text: U.S.

text: forces

text: operating

text: off

text: the

text: USS

text: Bainbridge

text: That

text: beach

text: in

text: California

text: seems

text: quite

text: placid

text: even

text: sedate

text: The

text: historic

text: red

text: gabled

text: Hotel

text: del

text: Coronado

text: sits

text: upon

text: it

text: the

text: place

text: where

text: the

text: Marilyn

text: Monroe

text: Jack

text: Lemmon

text: Tony

text: Curtis

text: movie

text: Some

text: Like

text: It

text: Hot

text: was

text: filmed

text: The

text: feeling

text: of

text: the

text: place

text: is

text: one

text: of

text: genteel

text: manners

text: of

text: delicate

text: tradition

text: You

text: almost

text: expect

text: to

text: see

text: guests

text: carrying

text: parasols

text: and

text: making

text: reservations

text: to

text: play

text: croquet

text: But

text: down

text: the

text: beach

text: there

text: is

text: another

text: kind

text: of

text: tradition

text: That

text: 's

text: what

text: I

text: was

text: thinking

text: about

text: on

text: Sunday

text: When

text: I

text: have

text: stayed

text: on

text: Coronado

text: I

text: walk

text: down

text: that

text: beach

text: toward

text: the

text: Naval

text: Amphibious

text: Base

text: I

text: remember

text: a

text: makeshift

text: fence

text: separating

text: the

text: beach

text: from

text: the

text: far

text: reaches

text: of

text: the

text: base

text: But

text: it

text: was

text: easy

text: to

text: walk

text: around

text: and

text: no

text: one

text: appeared

text: to

text: take

text: it

text: especially

text: seriously

text: I

text: have

text: n't

text: been

text: back

text: since

text: September

text: I

text: would

text: be

text: very

text: surprised

text: if

text: the

text: barriers

text: are

text: n't

text: more

text: formidable

text: now

text: On

text: that

text: part

text: of

text: the

text: beach

text: on

text: the

text: outskirts

text: of

text: Naval

text: Amphibious

text: Base

text: Coronado

text: I

text: saw

text: Navy

text: SEALs

text: in

text: training

text: Here

text: the

text: Navy

text: winnows

text: the

text: men

text: who

text: would

text: be

text: SEALs

text: from

text: the

text: ones

text: who

text: fall

text: short

text: It

text: was

text: a

text: humbling

text: thing

text: to

text: witness

text: As

text: the

text: Navy

text: itself

text: puts

text: it

text: SEAL

text: training

text: is

text: like

text: few

text: other

text: competitions

text: Prospective

text: SEALs

text: go

text: through

text: what

text: is

text: considered

text: by

text: many

text: military

text: experts

text: to

text: be

text: the

text: toughest

text: training

text: in

text: the

text: world

text: The

text: most

text: important

text: trait

text: that

text: distinguishes

text: Navy

text: SEALs

text: from

text: all

text: other

text: military

text: forces

text: is

text: that

text: SEALs

text: are

text: Maritime

text: Special

text: Forces

text: as

text: they

text: strike

text: from

text: and

text: return

text: to

text: the

text: sea

text: SEALs

text: Sea

text: Air

text: Land

text: take

text: their

text: name

text: from

text: the

text: elements

text: in

text: and

text: from

text: which

text: they

text: operate

text: Their

text: stealth

text: and

text: clandestine

text: methods

text: of

text: operation

text: allow

text: them

text: to

text: conduct

text: multiple

text: missions

text: against

text: targets

text: that

text: larger

text: forces

text: can

text: not

text: approach

text: undetected

text: They

text: looked

text: so

text: young

text: those

text: prospective

text: SEALs

text: on

text: Coronado

text: beach

text: The

text: maximum

text: age

text: to

text: apply

text: to

text: be

text: a

text: SEAL

text: is

text: They

text: all

text: know

text: what

text: they

text: 're

text: getting

text: into

text: when

text: they

text: sign

text: up

text: but

text: to

text: see

text: their

text: faces

text: including

text: the

text: faces

text: of

text: the

text: ones

text: who

text: were

text: falling

text: behind

text: who

text: probably

text: were

text: n't

text: going

text: to

text: make

text: the

text: cut

text: who

text: were

text: gasping

text: for

text: air

text: on

text: the

text: arduous

text: runs

text: along

text: the

text: beach

text: and

text: having

text: trouble

text: during

text: the

text: maneuvers

text: in

text: the

text: ocean

text: was

text: to

text: see

text: a

text: devotion

text: to

text: the

text: concept

text: of

text: duty

text: on

text: a

text: level

text: few

text: of

text: the

text: rest

text: of

text: us

text: will

text: ever

text: know

text: Maybe

text: you

text: during

text: the

text: recent

text: days

text: when

text: Capt

text: Richard

text: Phillips

text: was

text: held

text: captive

text: on

text: that

text: lifeboat

text: off

text: the

text: coast

text: of

text: Africa

text: were

text: asking

text: yourself

text: who

text: in

text: the

text: world

text: could

text: come

text: to

text: his

text: rescue

text: Who

text: had

text: the

text: training

text: and

text: the

text: courage

text: to

text: carry

text: out

text: such

text: a

text: mission

text: We

text: probably

text: do

text: n't

text: ask

text: ourselves

text: that

text: kind

text: of

text: question

text: often

text: enough

text: Usually

text: military

text: operations

text: are

text: talked

text: about

text: in

text: the

text: abstract

text: as

text: if

text: they

text: 're

text: lines

text: on

text: a

text: chalkboard

text: or

text: brightly

text: glowing

text: diagrams

text: on

text: a

text: computer

text: screen

text: But

text: once

text: in

text: a

text: while

text: like

text: now

text: we

text: stop

text: to

text: focus

text: on

text: what

text: we

text: ask

text: of

text: the

text: people

text: who

text: serve

text: in

text: our

text: stead

text: when

text: the

text: task

text: seems

text: all

text: but

text: impossible

text: Ronald

text: Reagan

text: would

text: sometimes

text: quote

text: a

text: line

text: that

text: summed

text: up

text: our

text: wonder

text: at

text: those

text: who

text: make

text: the

text: choice

text: to

text: serve

text: our

text: country

text: in

text: this

text: way

text: Where

text: do

text: we

text: find

text: such

text: men

text: We

text: find

text: them

text: among

text: us

text: although

text: we

text: usually

text: do

text: n't

text: know

text: it

text: when

text: we

text: see

text: it

text: On

text: Coronado

text: on

text: Orange

text: Avenue

text: there

text: was

text: a

text: bar

text: called

text: McP

text: 's

text: owned

text: by

text: an

text: ex

text: SEAL

text: named

text: Greg

text: McPartlin

text: Whenever

text: I

text: would

text: stop

text: in

text: there

text: groups

text: of

text: guys

text: from

text: the

text: naval

text: base

text: would

text: be

text: having

text: a

text: cheeseburger

text: maybe

text: listening

text: to

text: a

text: local

text: acoustic

text: band

text: play

text: a

text: guitars

text: only

text: version

text: of

text: The

text: Beatles

text: We

text: Can

text: Work

text: It

text: Out

text: You

text: 'd

text: sit

text: among

text: them

text: and

text: it

text: was

text: easy

text: to

text: forget

text: what

text: brought

text: them

text: to

text: this

text: strip

text: of

text: sand

text: It

text: was

text: n't

text: for

text: vacation

text: or

text: relaxation

text: Where

text: do

text: we

text: find

text: such

text: men

text: Sometimes

text: at

text: the

text: next

text: table

text: over

text: listening

text: to

text: the

text: music

text: From

text: the

text: Navy

text: SEALs

text: creed

text: My

text: loyalty

text: to

text: country

text: and

text: team

text: is

text: beyond

text: reproach

text: I

text: humbly

text: serve

text: as

text: a

text: guardian

text: to

text: my

text: fellow

text: Americans

text: always

text: ready

text: to

text: defend

text: those

text: who

text: are

text: unable

text: to

text: defend

text: themselves

text: I

text: do

text: not

text: advertise

text: the

text: nature

text: of

text: my

text: work

text: nor

text: seek

text: recognition

text: for

text: my

text: actions

text: I

text: voluntarily

text: accept

text: the

text: inherent

text: hazards

text: of

text: my

text: profession

text: placing

text: the

text: welfare

text: and

text: security

text: of

text: others

text: before

text: my

text: own

text: I

text: serve

text: with

text: honor

text: on

text: and

text: off

text: the

text: battlefield

text: The

text: ability

text: to

text: control

text: my

text: emotions

text: and

text: my

text: actions

text: regardless

text: of

text: circumstance

text: sets

text: me

text: apart

text: from

text: other

text: men

text: In

text: the

text: absence

text: of

text: orders

text: I

text: will

text: take

text: charge

text: lead

text: my

text: teammates

text: and

text: accomplish

text: the

text: mission

text: I

text: will

text: never

text: quit

text: I

text: persevere

text: and

text: thrive

text: on

text: adversity

text: My

text: nation

text: expects

text: me

text: to

text: be

text: physically

text: harder

text: and

text: mentally

text: stronger

text: than

text: my

text: enemies

text: If

text: knocked

text: down

text: I

text: will

text: get

text: back

text: up

text: every

text: time

text: I

text: will

text: draw

text: on

text: every

text: remaining

text: ounce

text: of

text: strength

text: to

text: protect

text: my

text: teammates

text: and

text: to

text: accomplish

text: our

text: mission

text: I

text: am

text: never

text: out

text: of

text: the

text: fight

text: Where

text: do

text: we

text: find

text: such

text: men

text: Over

text: the

text: weekend

text: we

text: learned

text: the

text: answer

text: anew

text: The

text: opinions

text: expressed

text: in

text: this

text: commentary

text: are

text: solely

text: those

text: of

text: Bob

text: Greene

question: what was said reagrding seals

answer: demonstrate an extraordinary devotion to duty.

text: demonstrate an extraordinary devotion to duty.

question: Where do Navy SEALS have their training?

answer: on the outskirts of Naval Amphibious Base Coronado,

text: on the outskirts of Naval Amphibious Base Coronado,

question: Who has the toughest military training in the world?

answer: "Prospective SEALs

text: "Prospective SEALs

question: what did Bob Greene say

answer: Navy SEALs demonstrate an extraordinary devotion to duty.

text: Navy SEALs demonstrate an extraordinary devotion to duty.

question: did the navy say anything

answer: "Prospective SEALs go through what is considered by many military experts to be the toughest training in the world.

text: "Prospective SEALs go through what is considered by many military experts to be the toughest training in the world.

question: what He says SEALs show a devotion?

answer: to duty.

text: to duty.