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(CNN) -- The health care bill's passage has struck such an emotional chord that more than 10,000 people have posted comments and sometimes deeply personal stories about it on CNN.com.

Under the bill, which President Obama is expected to sign Tuesday at the earliest, most Americans will now be required to have health insurance or pay a fine. Larger employers will be required to provide coverage or risk financial penalties. Total individual out-of-pocket expenses will be capped, and insurers will be barred from denying coverage based on gender or pre-existing conditions.

Democrat Alison Victoria, who was a financial manager at a hospital for 15 years, supported the bill. As it's written, the bill "isn't perfect, and it's not everything I wanted, but it will save lives," Victoria said in an iReport video.

"Doctors, nurses and financial officers see a part of our health care system that many Americans don't, if they're lucky," she said.

"We have seen benefits denied based on false allegations that the treatment is not medically necessary. We have seen families and whole small businesses dropped from insurance coverage because one person on the plan got sick. We have seen people unable to find insurance because of a pre-existing condition," she said, likening the bill to a form of "justice" promised in the Constitution.

See complete coverage of the health care bill

Another reader used sarcasm to suggest that people will find a way around paying premiums. "This is cool. I'm just going to drop my insurance now, pay the $700 yearly fine, and then pickup insurance when I get sick since insurance companies can't deny me," he wrote on the Sound Off section of a CNN.com news story published after the bill passed. "I'll save a bundle of money every year."

"I suspect this is what most 'smart' Americans will do," he continued. "And then guess what? Insurance companies will collapse because they'll have no pool of money to pay for the claims that start coming in, and we'll be in a world of hurt again."

What will health care reform mean to you?

Many people who responded to CNN's coverage said they were happy the bill passed simply because the current system was not working. Government-backed health care is "the best compromise possible," Egberto Willies said. He's relieved that his wife, who has lupus, and his daughter, a pre-med student, won't have to worry about health care as much under the new bill, he said. "America has joined the civilized world," he said in his iReport video.

iReporter Cameron Harrelson, however, said he is afraid that his generation will end up paying for the bill. "We're going to have to endure it the longest," the 15-year-old from Georgia said.

Cliff Olney's daughter was born premature, and he's had to spend more than two decades caring for her with Medicaid, the U.S. health program funded by state and federal governments available to low-income people or people with disabilities.

"After 22 years of fighting health insurance companies, me and my daughter have vindication," he told iReport. But he also thinks the fight is far from over. "You know what's going to happen now ... the insurance companies will begin to cut people who are sick as quickly as they can before the window of opportunity is over ... they'll also increase premiums as the banks did after legislation was passed for credit card reform."

Michael Ingram, of Milford, Pennsylvania, says he's in good health and feels like he doesn't need health insurance. As a Navy veteran, he goes to a Veterans Affairs hospital when he's ill, he said.

"Forcing me to take a health care package that I may not need is dictatorial and not in keeping with the spirit or a free nation," Ingram wrote in his iReport. He said he's written to his representatives about the bill and said both parties are a "sham." He plans to refuse to buy a health care plan.

"I hope that everyone can give this [health care bill] a chance," wrote one CNN.com reader who identified herself as a 27-year-old recent college graduate who is working full time for a law firm and has health insurance through her job. Two years ago, she was diagnosed with two debilitating diseases that require chemotherapy twice a week and 19 prescription drugs at a cost of $660 a month after insurance, she said. She and her husband, who doesn't have health insurance because it would cost $1,000 extra to add him to her plan, feel like they can barely keep their heads above water.

"The hardest thing for me, is that I know he has medical issues that go unattended because we simply can't afford it," she wrote. "We truly are a family that is one major illness away from financial disaster. So I hope this bill will help our situation, and the situations of people much less fortunate than ourselves."

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Michelle Rhee says she runs at 100 miles per hour. As the chancellor of one of the nation's lowest-performing school districts, she says she has no choice -- too much bureaucracy to cut through, too many problems to fix after decades of neglect.

Michelle Rhee says a sense of urgency has been missing for years in the District of Columbia's schools.

Rhee closed 23 schools in her first year as the head of the District of Columbia's public schools, fired 36 principals and cut 15 percent -- about 121 jobs -- from the central office staff. And she's making no apologies.

"I think it's that sense of urgency that has been lacking for far too long in our public schools," Rhee told CNN as she began her second year on the job in late August.

"We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults."  Watch fighting for "radical changes" Â»

Rhee said "radical" changes are needed because only 12 percent of the District's eighth graders are proficient in reading and just 8 percent are proficient in math, but was quick to add that they're already seeing improvement. She highlighted gains in elementary reading and secondary level math and reading in the past year that outstripped all of the four prior years put together.

An annual report card by Education Week, a newspaper that follows the nation's education system, earlier this year ranked the District's school system last, giving it a D+ overall and an F for student achievement in kindergarten through 12th grade. Those grades were based on data prior to Rhee's arrival.

"We need to see radical changes because the outcomes for kids that are happening right now are robbing them of their futures," said Rhee, a Democrat who supports President Bush's landmark education law known as No Child Left Behind.  Watch Rhee describe telling employee: "You need to find another job" Â»

"We have scores of kids in this city who don't have the advocates that they need in their lives who are able to maneuver and jockey through the public school system. And we can't allow those children to languish in classrooms where teachers are not performing."

Her plan is ambitious: To completely transform the District's system within eight years for its 50,000 children. The plan focuses on top-down accountability, quantitative results like standardized test scores and, ultimately, working to close what she describes as "the achievement gap between wealthy white kids and poor minority kids."

"I think it's absolutely possible within an eight-year period," she said.  Watch D.C. schools need "urgency" Â»

Rhee, who is Korean-American, is operating in a largely African-American district. It is a district where 57 percent of the students qualify for the free or reduced lunch program. Rhee said when she first arrived on the job in 2007 she first heard whispers of: "She's not from D.C., she's not African-American: Is she going to be able to relate to students and their families?"

"I think that all dissipated quite quickly after I started getting out into the community and talking to people," said Rhee, a 38-year-old mother of two children attending local public schools. "I think one of the things that comes across very clearly is the fact that I'm very passionate about this work. I'm very focused on it."

But her plan to turn the failing school district on its head has met protest every step of the way, even from teachers.

"I think the people who view her aggressive actions as a positive thing, I think they are missing the boat because if it results in more chaos and more dysfunction, it's not the solution that we need," said Kerry Sylvia, a teacher at Cardozo Senior High School in her ninth year.

Sylvia says the District has seen far too many superintendents over the years and fears Rhee is just another in the long list of those who come in touting their reforms and then leave.

She does offer praise for Rhee holding teachers and administrators accountable for their lack of performance. However, she doesn't always care for Rhee's style, saying Rhee makes it seem like "there's a lot of lazy teachers."

"She's pitting adults against children. She couches things in terms of 'I'm not here to keep jobs for adults. I'm not here to keep people's paychecks. I am here for the children,' " Sylvia said. "Well, guess what? I'm here for the children too."

Before taking on her current role, Rhee founded The New Teacher Project, a non-profit organization that recruits quality teachers to high-poverty schools. Rhee holds a master's degree in public policy from Harvard University.

One of the most controversial programs Rhee has introduced is a joint venture between D.C. schools and Harvard that pays middle school students cash -- up to $100 a month -- for good behavior and attendance.

Rhee says such pilot programs have worked in other cities. She says the District's students have far too many bad incentives on the streets, from hustling to drug dealing, and need something to keep them focused.

"We're preparing them to understand that if you do the right thing, then good things will happen to you," Rhee said.

Some in the District are skeptical, including Clarence Cherry, a fourth-generation Washingtonian and father of five. He calls the cash and Rhee's overall direction misguided and reckless.

"It's a very dangerous game that she's playing with," he said.

But Cherry added, "I want to give her an opportunity to prove to me as a parent that she genuinely ... is here for the kids."

Others are fervent supporters of the new superintendent. Dr. Waheedah Shakoor, another teacher at Cardozo, has been in the District since 1979. He says he's been stunned at the amount of change that's happened in just one year under Rhee, from freshly painted walls to improved athletic facilities.

"Things that we've been asking for for many, many years have come to fruition within just the last 12 months," Shakoor said.

Rhee is an appointee of Mayor Adrian Fenty, who has backed her every move.

"I had the highest expectations of Michelle Rhee when she came into the job. She has exceeded every expectation," Fenty said. "When you have a system that's been as underperforming as the District of Columbia public schools, you need to shake things up."

Rhee says she'll continue to shake things, working at break-neck speed to improve the education and opportunity for her students and urban students across the country as fast as she can.

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text: way

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text: need

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text: teacher

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text: High

text: School

text: in

text: her

text: ninth

text: year

text: Sylvia

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text: District

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text: seen

text: far

text: too

text: many

text: superintendents

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text: years

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text: fears

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text: list

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text: 's

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text: lot

text: of

text: lazy

text: teachers

text: She

text: 's

text: pitting

text: adults

text: against

text: children

text: She

text: couches

text: things

text: in

text: terms

text: of

text: I

text: 'm

text: not

text: here

text: to

text: keep

text: jobs

text: for

text: adults

text: I

text: 'm

text: not

text: here

text: to

text: keep

text: people

text: 's

text: paychecks

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text: am

text: here

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text: I

text: 'm

text: here

text: for

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text: children

text: too

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text: her

text: current

text: role

text: Rhee

text: founded

text: The

text: New

text: Teacher

text: Project

text: a

text: non

text: profit

text: organization

text: that

text: recruits

text: quality

text: teachers

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text: poverty

text: schools

text: Rhee

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text: a

text: master

text: 's

text: degree

text: in

text: public

text: policy

text: from

text: Harvard

text: University

text: One

text: of

text: the

text: most

text: controversial

text: programs

text: Rhee

text: has

text: introduced

text: is

text: a

text: joint

text: venture

text: between

text: D.C.

text: schools

text: and

text: Harvard

text: that

text: pays

text: middle

text: school

text: students

text: cash

text: up

text: to

text: a

text: month

text: for

text: good

text: behavior

text: and

text: attendance

text: Rhee

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text: such

text: pilot

text: programs

text: have

text: worked

text: in

text: other

text: cities

text: She

text: says

text: the

text: District

text: 's

text: students

text: have

text: far

text: too

text: many

text: bad

text: incentives

text: on

text: the

text: streets

text: from

text: hustling

text: to

text: drug

text: dealing

text: and

text: need

text: something

text: to

text: keep

text: them

text: focused

text: We

text: 're

text: preparing

text: them

text: to

text: understand

text: that

text: if

text: you

text: do

text: the

text: right

text: thing

text: then

text: good

text: things

text: will

text: happen

text: to

text: you

text: Rhee

text: said

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text: in

text: the

text: District

text: are

text: skeptical

text: including

text: Clarence

text: Cherry

text: a

text: fourth

text: generation

text: Washingtonian

text: and

text: father

text: of

text: five

text: He

text: calls

text: the

text: cash

text: and

text: Rhee

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text: overall

text: direction

text: misguided

text: and

text: reckless

text: It

text: 's

text: a

text: very

text: dangerous

text: game

text: that

text: she

text: 's

text: playing

text: with

text: he

text: said

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text: added

text: I

text: want

text: to

text: give

text: her

text: an

text: opportunity

text: to

text: prove

text: to

text: me

text: as

text: a

text: parent

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text: she

text: genuinely

text: is

text: here

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text: the

text: kids

text: Others

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text: supporters

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text: the

text: new

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text: teacher

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text: District

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text: says

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text: 's

text: been

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text: at

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text: of

text: change

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text: year

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text: Rhee

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text: improved

text: athletic

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text: 've

text: been

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text: for

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text: many

text: years

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text: last

text: months

text: Shakoor

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text: Rhee

text: is

text: an

text: appointee

text: of

text: Mayor

text: Adrian

text: Fenty

text: who

text: has

text: backed

text: her

text: every

text: move

text: I

text: had

text: the

text: highest

text: expectations

text: of

text: Michelle

text: Rhee

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text: she

text: came

text: into

text: the

text: job

text: She

text: has

text: exceeded

text: every

text: expectation

text: Fenty

text: said

text: When

text: you

text: have

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text: system

text: that

text: 's

text: been

text: as

text: underperforming

text: as

text: the

text: District

text: of

text: Columbia

text: public

text: schools

text: you

text: need

text: to

text: shake

text: things

text: up

text: Rhee

text: says

text: she

text: 'll

text: continue

text: to

text: shake

text: things

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text: at

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text: neck

text: speed

text: to

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text: the

text: education

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text: opportunity

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question: Who closed the schools?

answer: Michelle Rhee

text: Michelle Rhee

question: Who is the mayor?

answer: or Adrian Fent

text: or Adrian Fent

question: Whose best interests are placed above others?

answer: of kids

text: of kids

question: Who closed schools?

answer: Rhee

text: Rhee

question: what schools were closed?

answer: District of Columbia's

text: District of Columbia's

question: Who appointed the schools chief?

answer: of Mayor Adrian Fent

text: of Mayor Adrian Fent

question: Who backs his appointees?

answer: of Mayor Adrian Fent

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(CNN) -- At 51 years of age, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has come a long way. As part of the Kashubian minority living in the Gdansk Region, he was born to working-class parents -- his father a carpenter and his mother a nurse.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was elected in November 2007.

As a student of History at the University of Gdansk in the late 1970s, a period of growing discontent with the Communist regime in Poland, he became actively involved in the creation of the opposition Students' Solidarity Committee. This was founded in reaction to the murder of student activist Stanislaw Pyjas by the State Security Service.

Despite his anti-communist activities, he successfully finished his studies in 1980 and joined the Independent Solidarity Trade Union movement.

When the Communists imposed martial law in 1981 he continued with his underground activities, writing pamphlets about the ideas of liberal economist Friedrich Hayek and the concept of private property. His heroes became former U.S. president Ronald Reagan and British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

With the fall of Communism in 1989, the Solidarity Movement splintered. Lech Walesa, the former Solidarity Leader was elected President, while Tusk went on to co-found the KLD (Liberal and Democratic Congress Party) with other well-known figures. The Party stood for among other things: free market economy, privatization, individual freedom of Polish citizens and Polish accession to the EU.

The following year, during the 1991 Parliamentary elections, the KLD won 37 seats in the lower house of the Polish Parliament. Not being able to follow up on their success in the 1993 elections, the KLD merged with the larger Democratic Union Party (UD) to form a new party called Freedom Union (UW).

Tusk soon became Deputy Chairman and in the 1997 elections, he was voted into the Senate.

In 2001, Tusk formed the Civic Platform Party (PO), winning seats in that year's parliamentary elections and becoming Deputy Speaker in parliament.

But the Civic Platform was not able to sustain its success in the 2005 elections. Tusk and his party lost both the presidential and parliamentary elections to Lech Kacczynski's PiS (Law and Justice Party). This setback was not to last as Tusk triumphed over Jaroslaw Kaczynsky's PiS in the October 2007 elections and became prime minister of Poland.

Tusk's economic policies are pro-business: less bureaucratic hurdles and state interference making it easier for entrepreneurs to start businesses. He is also trying to woo back more than a million Poles who left the country to work in other European Union countries after it joined the EU in 2004.

Tusk is a keen footballer, viewed in his youth as a promising striker. He is married to historian Malgorzata and has two children, Kasia and Michal.

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text: EU

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text: larger

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text: Union

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text: Senate

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text: Party

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text: Speaker

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text: Civic

text: Platform

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text: success

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text: elections

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text: party

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text: presidential

text: and

text: parliamentary

text: elections

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text: Kacczynski

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text: PiS

text: Law

text: and

text: Justice

text: Party

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text: setback

text: was

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text: to

text: last

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text: Tusk

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text: over

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text: October

text: elections

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text: became

text: prime

text: minister

text: of

text: Poland

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text: business

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text: hurdles

text: and

text: state

text: interference

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text: it

text: easier

text: for

text: entrepreneurs

text: to

text: start

text: businesses

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text: also

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text: to

text: woo

text: back

text: more

text: than

text: a

text: million

text: Poles

text: who

text: left

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text: country

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text: work

text: in

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text: European

text: Union

text: countries

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text: joined

text: the

text: EU

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text: promising

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text: married

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text: children

text: Kasia

text: and

text: Michal

question: Who was voted to the Polish senate in 1997?

answer: Donald Tusk

text: Donald Tusk

question: When did Tusk co-found the KLD?

answer: 1989,

question: What continent is Poland on?

answer: European

text: European

question: Who became Prime Minister of Poland after 1997 election?

answer: Donald Tusk

text: Donald Tusk

question: who co-founded the KLD?

answer: Tusk

text: Tusk

question: What does KLD stand for?

answer: (Liberal and Democratic Congress Party)

text: (Liberal and Democratic Congress Party)

question: who was involved in anti-communist activities?

answer: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk

text: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk

question: who was voted into the polish senate?

answer: Donald Tusk

text: Donald Tusk


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(CNN) -- An interview with a choreographer for the Miss Universe pageant spurred controversy Wednesday over alleged claims that Donald Trump personally selects some of the finalists.

Donald Trump is at the center of a brewing controversy over the Miss Universe finalists.

The Q&A with Michael Schwandt, which appeared on Guanabee.com, quotes him as saying that "it's just kind of common knowledge that [Trump] picks six of the top 15 single-handedly."

"And, his reason for doing so, as he told me and he's told the girls before, is that he left it all up to preliminary judging in the past, and some of the most beautiful women, in his opinion, were not in the top 15, and he was kind of upset about that," the story quotes Schwandt as saying. "And he decided that he would pick a certain number and let the judges pick a certain number."

Via e-mail, Schwandt said that he "was speaking in hypothetical jest" when he said Trump picks some of the finalists and said the mogul has never spoken to either him, or any of his team, about the selection process.

"The story posted on that site contains many misquotes and [is] highly inaccurate," Schwandt wrote. "I would like to disassociate myself from it completely and anything negative in regards to Miss Universe or even suggesting that Donald Trump 'rigs' his event. I'm perplexed as to why Guanabee.com would run a story such as this when they are aware that it is inaccurate."

Daniel Mauser, publisher of Guanabee, said his site stands by the story, which resulted after Schwandt was contacted about his role choreographing both the pageant and a much talked-about performance by reality-star-turned-singer Heidi Montag.

"Whatever you see quoted in the article is verbatim what he said," Mauser said. "So I can understand why he would want to retract those words, but unfortunately that was what was said."

A statement from Miss Universe Organization President Paula M. Shugart, released Wednesday, said that "to suggest the pageant is somehow orchestrated or 'rigged' is utterly false and misleading."

However, the statement also observed that Trump does play a role in selecting the finalists.

"In the 2009 Miss Universe competition, a preliminary panel of judges selected nine of the Top 15 and members of the Miss Universe Organization, including owner Donald J. Trump, selected the remaining six," the statement began.

The statement went on to say that "a separate panel of judges, introduced live at the Finals telecast, is solely responsible for the selection of the Top 10, Top 5 and the ultimate winner of the pageant."

"This system has been in place since 2005 and has always been fully disclosed to the contestants, their directors, the judges and the viewing audience," the statement said. "The procedure is overseen by the accounting firm of Ernst & Young and NBC Program Standards and Compliance. To in any way call into question the integrity of the judging process or suggest the pageant is somehow orchestrated or 'rigged' is utterly false and misleading."

Mauser describes Guanabee as an "entertainment Web site for the Hispanic community that covers the interests and portrayals of acculturated Hispanics in this country."

The Miss Universe pageant is very popular in the Hispanic community, Mauser said, and the story took a different turn after the alleged comments were published.

Schwandt, who has choreographed the pageant for the past few years, said in an e-mail to CNN that although Trump does meet with the contestants before the televised pageant, as far as he knows, it is just a gesture on Trump's part in his role as producer of the pageant.

"I know the Miss Universe Organization goes to great lengths to establish a preliminary and final panel of judges as well as different factors on which contestants are judged," Schwandt wrote. "However, I'm the last person to be quoted as saying anything in regard to the judging or selecting process, I'm the choreographer, I deal with that."

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(CNN) -- Frozen winter conditions are helping slow the spread of a pipeline leak on Alaska's North Slope, an environmental official said.

An estimated 46,000 gallons of a water-and-oil mixture was spilled before the source of the leak -- a pipe rupture -- was identified Monday, according to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC).

The ruptured 18-inch line, owned by oil company BP and which usually carries a mixture of 75 percent water and 25 percent oil, has been repaired.

The frozen conditions make the spill less mobile, Matthew Carr of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said late Wednesday.

"Any spill is regrettable," Steve Reinhart, a BP spokesman in Anchorage, told CNN. "We will clean this up thoroughly and our investigation will find out what happened so that we can ensure this doesn't happen again."

Reinhart said the spill, which occurred entirely on land, has had no impact on production or wildlife in the area, and is contained to a small fraction of the much larger Prudhoe Bay oil field.

"It is not a pool of oil spreading out across the ground," Reinhart said, comparing its consistency to that of a snow cone. "It's a partially solidified mass that's piled up in one area, and as we speak, truckloads of this material is being moved off this site and to a collection depot."

According to officials, the rupture was approximately 24 inches lengthwise, running along the bottom of the pipeline.

In an incident report on its Web site Wednesday, ADEC described the rupture as being "consistent with an overpressure scenario," caused by ice inside the pipe.

The leak was discovered early November 29 by a BP worker conducting a routine inspection.

The North Slope's biggest spill to date happened in 2006 when a corroded pipeline dumped 200,000 gallons of crude oil.

CNN's Nick Valencia contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- All-time major record holder Jack Nicklaus believes that Tiger Woods will return to the golf course in time to appear in next month's Masters.

Woods, 34, has been out of the game since revelations about his private life were made public late last year but Nicklaus is of the opinion that his fellow- American will want to play at Augusta as he aims to add to his tally of 14 major victories.

Speaking to the media before this week's Honda Classic PGA tournament, Nicklaus, who is four ahead of Woods with 18 major wins, said: "It would surprise me if he didn't play at Augusta. My guess, as a golfer, is that he will want to.

"His personal life is his personal life. He is a professional golfer and he is a sensational golfer. He is a great athlete, and he'll figure out his own problems."

Meanwhile, Woods' caddie Steve Williams has told New Zealand's 60 Minutes program that he would have spoken out about the world number one's alleged affairs if he had known about them.

"In some people's perception, I'm involved in it and I've committed a crime or I've done wrong," Williams said. "The truth is I knew nothing of what was happening."

"It's been the most difficult time of my life because every single person believed that I should know, or did know, or had something to do with it. "If I had known something was going on, the whistle would have been blown.

"Of course I'm mad at him. I'm close with his wife  -- he's got two lovely children and he's let them down. But when a guy's having a tough time, it's not up to me to beat him with a stick.

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(CNN) -- Barack Obama's two daughters had another reason to high-five their dad's election to the presidency Tuesday night: they're getting a puppy.

President Bush's dog  Barney walks in the White House Rose Garden in 2007.

"Sasha and Malia," Obama said in his victory speech at Chicago's Grant Park, "I love you both so much, and you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the White House."

The new White House pet will follow in the paw-steps of a menagerie of animals that have had the run of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue over the years.

The Bush family shared their eight years at the White House with a cat, a feisty English springer spaniel and two Scottish terriers -- all of whom have their own pages on the president's Web site.

The Clintons' Washington stay included a cat, Socks, who did not get along with their chocolate Labrador retriever, Buddy.

And Millie the springer spaniel's canine view of life in the White House -- as "told to" then-first lady Barbara Bush -- became a best-seller that outsold the memoirs of President George H.W. Bush.

While many presidents took to heart President Harry Truman's admonishment -- "If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog" -- first pets have come in all shapes, sizes and species.

Thomas Jefferson kept two grizzly bears in a cage on the White House lawn, while John Quincy Adams is said to have let his alligator use a bathtub inside.

Calvin Coolidge walked his raccoons on a leash. Theodore Roosevelt's sons escorted their pet pony onto the White House elevator to cheer up a sick sibling. And perhaps the strangest of all: Martin Van Buren briefly owned two tiger cubs, a gift from the Sultan of Oman.

Pets have sometimes been a boon to a president's image. But some have also taken a bite out of their popularity.

Animal lovers howled in protest when Lyndon B. Johnson picked up his beagles, Him and Her, by the ears to provide photographers a better view.

On the other hand, Richard Nixon -- running for vice president and accused of accepting illegal campaign contributions -- successfully defended himself in his famous "Checkers Speech."

The only gift he ever accepted was "a little cocker spaniel dog" that his daughter named Checkers, Nixon said.

"And I just want to say this, right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we are going to keep it," he added.

Come January, the Obamas will make history by becoming the first African-American family to move into the White House.

But if Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, get what they've been promised, the new tenants will keep one long-standing tradition alive ... and wagging.

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(CNN)  -- Buy a $175,000 package to attend the Oscars and you might buy yourself trouble, lawyers for the Academy Awards warn.

The 81st annual Academy Awards will be held on February 22 from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.

The advertising of such packages -- including four tickets to the upcoming 81st annual Academy Awards and a hotel stay in Los Angeles, California -- has prompted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to sue an Arizona-based company.

The Academy accused the company Experience 6 of selling "black-market" tickets, because tickets to the lavish movie awards show cannot be transferred or sold.

Selling tickets could become a security issue that could bring celebrity stalkers or terrorists to the star-studded event, says the lawsuit, which was filed Monday in federal court in the Central District of California.

"Security experts have advised the Academy that it must not offer tickets to members of the public and must know identities of the event attendees," the lawsuit says.

"In offering such black-market tickets, defendants are misleading the public and the ticket buyers into thinking that purchasers will be welcomed guests, rather than as trespassers, when they arrive for the ceremony."

Experience 6 did not return calls from CNN for comment. On Tuesday morning, tickets to the event were still being advertised on the company's Web site.

The Oscars will be presented February 22 from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.

The Academy Awards broadcast will air on ABC. Hugh Jackman is scheduled to host.

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(CNN) -- Singer Natalie Cole told CNN's Larry King she is searching for a kidney after an illness caused both of her kidneys to fail.

Singer Natalie Cole continues to tour, despite being on dialysis three times a week.

Before she finished telling King Tuesday night about her battles with drugs, illnesses and her search for a kidney, dozens of e-mails flooded the CNN studio.

They were all offers from people saying they would get tested to see whether their kidney could be donated.

King handed a thick stack of paper to Cole.

"These are all e-mails from dozens -- dozens of people offering to be tested to see if they can match, who want to give you a kidney," King said.

Cole stared at the papers for a moment.

"There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say," Cole said.  Watch Natalie Cole's interview  with Larry King Â»

"I'm on a very long list, which is why we are looking to donors," said Cole, the daughter of legendary crooner Nat King Cole.

Cole said her kidney troubles date back to February 2008 when she was diagnosed with hepatitis C. Cole said she attributes the hepatitis C from her well-publicized struggles to stop using cocaine and heroin. Cole said she has been sober for some time now after two stints in a rehabilitation clinic.

Cole said she underwent chemotherapy in an aggressive way to fight the virus. Within four months of getting chemotherapy, both of Cole's kidneys failed.

"I couldn't breathe. I -- I went into -- literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body."

Since then, Cole has been on dialysis three days a week and has been searching for a kidney, she told King in one of the first public interviews about the issue.

Cole won six Grammy awards for her 1991 critically acclaimed album "Unforgettable ... With Love ," a jazzy tribute to her father. She won a Grammy this year for her new album "Still Unforgettable" and another Grammy for her work on another album.

Cole said that she has still been able to tour this year even with her kidney ailment.

"I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's -- it's amazing," Cole said.

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