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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Department of Homeland Security will bypass environmental and land-management laws to build hundreds of miles of border fence between the United States and Mexico, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Tuesday.

A border fence stands at Juarez, Mexico. More than 360 miles of fence are supposed to be finished by year's end.

"Criminal activity at the border does not stop for endless debate or protracted litigation," Chertoff said.

"These waivers will enable important security projects to keep moving forward."

Chertoff cited a congressional requirement that 361 miles of fence be completed by the end of the year. He also pointed out that Congress had given him the authority to bypass laws.

But the executive director of the Sierra Club, an environmental group, said the move "threatens the livelihoods and ecology of the entire U.S.-Mexico border region."

"Secretary Chertoff chose to bypass stakeholders and push through this unpopular project on April Fools' Day. We don't think the destruction of the borderlands region is a laughing matter," said Carl Pope.

The Sierra Club says the waivers will affect a range of federally protected lands, including national parks, monuments, wildlife refuges, forests and wilderness areas.

The Sierra Club says the waivers themselves are unconstitutional and has asked the Supreme Court to rule on the question.

This is the fourth set of waivers issued by the department, and is the most sweeping.

Chertoff's orders Tuesday affect two areas. First, the department proposes to place fencing, towers, sensors, cameras, detection equipment and roads along a 470-mile stretch of the border in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

Second, it plans to integrate a concrete wall into proposed levee reinforcements along a 22-mile section of the Rio Grande in Hidalgo County, Texas.

The department said it is committed to working in an environmentally sensitive manner and cooperating with resource agencies so it does as little damage as possible. E-mail to a friend

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- In the days after Benazir Bhutto's assassination, it will be tempting to reach two hasty conclusions: that she was Pakistan's last great hope and that her geo-politically crucial country has revealed itself to be  inherently hopeless.

Irshad Manji is a controversial Muslim feminist and activist from Toronto, Canada.

On each front, I take a different view.

While far more liberal and democratic than Gen. Musharraf, Bhutto disappointed moderate, modern Pakistanis with her adherence to feudal politics.

Writing to me through my Web site, American feminists say they are "aching" over the loss of "our dear, sweet, brave Benazir."

I understand the sentiment. But "brave" is not the word used by Pakistani women from whom I've also heard. They're hurting more over Bhutto's "self-imposed" conformity.

"She never realized her potential," a woman from Karachi tells me. "And not because she was killed but because when she had the chance, she did not effectively challenge the backward mindset that has now led to her demise."

For example, during Bhutto's time in office, Pakistan didn't defy the anti-female rape and adultery laws. Those notorious ordinances, known as Hudood, took their inspiration from tribal politics masquerading as Islam.  Watch Manji argue on CNN why Bhutto's legacy is mixed Â»

Imagine the opportunity: Bhutto could have championed a purer faith by tackling corrupt cultural practices.

In so doing, she might have created allies among conservatives, who can be persuaded that although Islam is God-given, culture is man-made.

Last year, a media campaign to strike down the Hudood Ordinances achieved this fine balance. But not because of her. And that, say many progressive Pakistanis, amputates Bhutto's legacy.

The fact that cruel laws against women can be publicly debated at all should suggest that Pakistan has hope anyway. An exceptional leader can tap into it. History tells us so.

There was a time when Pakistan's democratic politicians stuck it to the feudal fanatics. Bhutto's father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was once heckled by a religious fundamentalist.

"You drink alcohol!" shouted the critic.

"Yes," retorted the elder Bhutto, "but I don't drink the blood of the people!"

His response captured the spirit of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's founder. In 1947, Jinnah exuded high hopes for his people: "You are free. You are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques, or to any other place of worship in the State of Pakistan.

"You may belong to any religion or caste or creed. That has nothing to do with the business of the state. We are starting with this fundamental principle that we are all citizens of one state... You will find that in due course of time, Hindus will cease to be Hindus and Muslims will cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense  ... but in the political sense as citizens of the state."

Jinnah meant every word of his unconventional vision because he, himself, lived as a maverick. He adored his non-Muslim wife, and his sister often appeared with him on the campaign trail. Her visibility attested to Islam's embrace of women as partners of men.

In the months ahead, the people of Pakistan will need to recall Jinnah's vision. It may be of comfort know that they're not alone.

Countless Americans are now asking about their founders' intentions, desperate to re-discover the better angels of their country after eight years of George W. Bush.

Still, Pakistan must avoid America's enduring mistake. The United States lapsed into profound divisiveness following the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.

Many would argue that today's politics of polarization can be traced to the unresolved trauma of the King-Kennedy murders. For Pakistan, it's high time to transcend both trauma and tribalism.

I pray that in death, Benazir Bhutto will be the catalyst for a deeper democracy than she ever advocated in life.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer.  E-mail to a friend

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(CNN)  -- President-elect Barack Obama's victory speech Tuesday night  compares favorably with a number of historic orations, a linguist said Thursday.

Barack Obama speaks at a rally in Chicago, Illinois, after winning the presidency Tuesday night.

"His goal was to be understood by the widest possible audience during his victory speech, and he seems to have done a great job doing it," said Paul J.J. Payack, president of the Austin, Texas-based Global Language Monitor, which analyzed the speech for content, tone and length.

"He's at his best communicating directly and forthrightly with this audience and using different types of rhetorical devices," Payack said, noting that the speech was written to a seventh- or eighth-grade level.

That's lower than the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech (grade 8.8), President Reagan's 1987 "Tear Down This Wall" speech (grade 9.8) and even Obama's own 2004 Democratic Convention speech (grade 8.3), Payack said.

In the four years since then, "he has learned to speak more directly and more succinctly when he's giving a major address," the word aficionado said.

He spoke admiringly of Obama's repeated use of the phrase "Yes, we can," calling it "very effective."

"That's a very short, direct sentence," Payack said. "Almost like a drumbeat hammering into people's minds and hearts."

He added, "something like that comes across as a very effective rhetorical device."

That phrase compares with Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" and President Kennedy's "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country," delivered in his inaugural speech.

At about 2,000 words, the speech was short enough not to lose the audience's attention but long enough to cite specifics and cover the subject matter, Payack said.  Watch Obama's victory speech Â»

Twelve of those words were "hope" or variations of the word, which indicates optimism about the change (used nine times) he has promised to effect.

Another 23 of the words were "will," another way of making the speech forward-looking.

Though most of Obama's verbs were in the active voice, 11 percent of the sentences were in the passive voice, a dependable method of deflecting responsibility, Payack said. He cited Obama's "There will be setbacks and false starts" as an example.

"He's spreading the responsibility around," Payack said. "He didn't say, 'I will have setbacks. I will be wrong. I will make mistakes.' He used the passive voice for those types of constructions."

But the vast majority of the hopeful references were in the active voice, he said. "It's very personal and very active. 'I promise we, as a people, will get there.' "

The speech was notable for what it omitted, too, Payack said. In this case, the absence of a reference to the September 11 terrorist attacks indicates a change in tone, he said.

In his closing phrase, Obama repeats the mantra, "Yes, we can," which serves as a call to action, an acknowledgment that the country faces hard work, Payack said.

Obama is saying, "I'm asking you to do something big, but we can do it together," Payack said. "We are the change; we are the hope."

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- When stock markets are soaring, people think they're making money because they're geniuses. But when the market tanks -- which it always does, sooner or later -- people look for villains to blame for their losses.

Allan Sloan says the real lesson of the Madoff case is not to rely on others to protect your investments.

That brings us to Bernie Madoff, who has become the iconic symbol of the current horrible market and economic meltdown, even though he really had nothing to do with it.

Yes, Madoff sure seems to be a really, really bad guy who ruined lots and lots of lives and should probably be locked up for the rest of his natural days.

But Madoff's misdeeds -- or as our lawyers would prefer, his alleged misdeeds -- have nothing to do with the market meltdown that has sliced trillions of dollars from our collective net worth.

He's become the symbol of the current meltdown the same way that uber-tastemaker Martha Stewart became a face of the 2001-02 corporate crime wave, even though the misdeeds of which she was convicted -- misleading government investigators -- were less than penny-ante compared to the multi-billion dollar frauds that first built up and then destroyed giant companies such as Enron and WorldCom.

Along with Madoff, the Securities and Exchange Commission is being portrayed as the villain of the piece, having failed to catch him long ago when his alleged depredations must have been much smaller. Instead, it gave him a few wrist slaps until he confessed his misdeeds a month ago.

But, tips from Boston money manager Harry Markopoulos over the years notwithstanding, it's not at all surprising that the SEC missed Madoff. In fact, I'd have been amazed if the SEC had been the ones to catch him.

Why? I don't want to seem cynical or jaded, but after almost 40 years of covering business news, I've seen the same thing happen over and over because of the way regulators are trained. If someone runs a little bit out of the baseline by chiseling on numbers or playing some other game, regulators are pretty good at catching him (or her).

But if -- like Madoff -- you make up numbers from scratch and deal with huge sums, you're so far out of the baseline that regulators aren't looking for you there.

It's very hard for an SEC regulator to wrap his head around the idea that an establishment guy like Madoff -- a Nasdaq market pioneer and an occasional consultant to the SEC -- is capable of just making things up out of whole cloth. But, it would appear, he was.

And as an aside, it's easy to blame George W. Bush's anti-regulation policies for the SEC not catching Madoff. But Markopoulos' original tips reached the SEC when Bill Clinton was president.

Like newspapers, where I used to work, regulators get all sorts of tips coming across the transom. As in newspapers, I suspect, many of the tips end up ignored.

Markopoulos was right about Madoff's operation being a fraud. But his magnum opus -- an 18-page 2005 letter listing 29 "red flags" -- is quite dense and confusing, probably because he'd gotten frustrated after years of not being taken very seriously.

Unfortunately, the letter didn't list what would have been (in hindsight, naturally) the simplest tip-off: that this supposedly multi-billion dollar operation was audited by an obscure three-person accounting firm.

As Jim Heatherington, a Tulsa, Oklahoma, certified public accountant, pointed out to me after reading a Madoff column I wrote for Fortune, a simple database search shows that the firm hadn't had a peer review since 1990. That would -- or should -- have set off all sorts of alarm bells.

Back to the main event. Ponzi schemes, in which you pay existing investors not by making a profit but by getting money from new investors, have been around forever.

Like Madoff, a Jew who preyed on fellow Jews and Jewish charities such as Elie Wiesel's foundation, Ponzi schemers often target their own religious or ethnic groups.

That way, they lure victims who feel flattered at having been asked to join an elite society, so much so that many of them fail to find out basic things, such as whether the securities or properties they're supposedly being put into actually exist.

Consider these: Tom Petters, a prominent Minnesota businessman is charged with running a multi-billion dollar scam that preyed on evangelical Christians. A New York City man was recently accused of preying on fellow members of a Hispanic church. A Haitian-American in Miami was accused on December. 30 of preying on other Haitian-Americans. Just yesterday, the SEC accused a Williamsville, N.Y., man of preying on fellow Catholics.

If someone, especially a member of your racial, religious or social group, offers you a deal not available to the general public, check it out. Very diligently. Don't rely on the SEC or any other regulator to do that for you. Never, never, never put all your eggs in one basket, no matter how good it looks.

And that, my friends, is the real bottom line. Pillory Madoff and mock him all you like, he has it coming. But learn from him, too.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Allan Sloan.

text: NEW

text: YORK

text: CNN

text: When

text: stock

text: markets

text: are

text: soaring

text: people

text: think

text: they

text: 're

text: making

text: money

text: because

text: they

text: 're

text: geniuses

text: But

text: when

text: the

text: market

text: tanks

text: which

text: it

text: always

text: does

text: sooner

text: or

text: later

text: people

text: look

text: for

text: villains

text: to

text: blame

text: for

text: their

text: losses

text: Allan

text: Sloan

text: says

text: the

text: real

text: lesson

text: of

text: the

text: Madoff

text: case

text: is

text: not

text: to

text: rely

text: on

text: others

text: to

text: protect

text: your

text: investments

text: That

text: brings

text: us

text: to

text: Bernie

text: Madoff

text: who

text: has

text: become

text: the

text: iconic

text: symbol

text: of

text: the

text: current

text: horrible

text: market

text: and

text: economic

text: meltdown

text: even

text: though

text: he

text: really

text: had

text: nothing

text: to

text: do

text: with

text: it

text: Yes

text: Madoff

text: sure

text: seems

text: to

text: be

text: a

text: really

text: really

text: bad

text: guy

text: who

text: ruined

text: lots

text: and

text: lots

text: of

text: lives

text: and

text: should

text: probably

text: be

text: locked

text: up

text: for

text: the

text: rest

text: of

text: his

text: natural

text: days

text: But

text: Madoff

text: 's

text: misdeeds

text: or

text: as

text: our

text: lawyers

text: would

text: prefer

text: his

text: alleged

text: misdeeds

text: have

text: nothing

text: to

text: do

text: with

text: the

text: market

text: meltdown

text: that

text: has

text: sliced

text: trillions

text: of

text: dollars

text: from

text: our

text: collective

text: net

text: worth

text: He

text: 's

text: become

text: the

text: symbol

text: of

text: the

text: current

text: meltdown

text: the

text: same

text: way

text: that

text: uber

text: tastemaker

text: Martha

text: Stewart

text: became

text: a

text: face

text: of

text: the

text: corporate

text: crime

text: wave

text: even

text: though

text: the

text: misdeeds

text: of

text: which

text: she

text: was

text: convicted

text: misleading

text: government

text: investigators

text: were

text: less

text: than

text: penny

text: ante

text: compared

text: to

text: the

text: multi

text: billion

text: dollar

text: frauds

text: that

text: first

text: built

text: up

text: and

text: then

text: destroyed

text: giant

text: companies

text: such

text: as

text: Enron

text: and

text: WorldCom

text: Along

text: with

text: Madoff

text: the

text: Securities

text: and

text: Exchange

text: Commission

text: is

text: being

text: portrayed

text: as

text: the

text: villain

text: of

text: the

text: piece

text: having

text: failed

text: to

text: catch

text: him

text: long

text: ago

text: when

text: his

text: alleged

text: depredations

text: must

text: have

text: been

text: much

text: smaller

text: Instead

text: it

text: gave

text: him

text: a

text: few

text: wrist

text: slaps

text: until

text: he

text: confessed

text: his

text: misdeeds

text: a

text: month

text: ago

text: But

text: tips

text: from

text: Boston

text: money

text: manager

text: Harry

text: Markopoulos

text: over

text: the

text: years

text: notwithstanding

text: it

text: 's

text: not

text: at

text: all

text: surprising

text: that

text: the

text: SEC

text: missed

text: Madoff

text: In

text: fact

text: I

text: 'd

text: have

text: been

text: amazed

text: if

text: the

text: SEC

text: had

text: been

text: the

text: ones

text: to

text: catch

text: him

text: Why

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: want

text: to

text: seem

text: cynical

text: or

text: jaded

text: but

text: after

text: almost

text: years

text: of

text: covering

text: business

text: news

text: I

text: 've

text: seen

text: the

text: same

text: thing

text: happen

text: over

text: and

text: over

text: because

text: of

text: the

text: way

text: regulators

text: are

text: trained

text: If

text: someone

text: runs

text: a

text: little

text: bit

text: out

text: of

text: the

text: baseline

text: by

text: chiseling

text: on

text: numbers

text: or

text: playing

text: some

text: other

text: game

text: regulators

text: are

text: pretty

text: good

text: at

text: catching

text: him

text: or

text: her

text: But

text: if

text: like

text: Madoff

text: you

text: make

text: up

text: numbers

text: from

text: scratch

text: and

text: deal

text: with

text: huge

text: sums

text: you

text: 're

text: so

text: far

text: out

text: of

text: the

text: baseline

text: that

text: regulators

text: are

text: n't

text: looking

text: for

text: you

text: there

text: It

text: 's

text: very

text: hard

text: for

text: an

text: SEC

text: regulator

text: to

text: wrap

text: his

text: head

text: around

text: the

text: idea

text: that

text: an

text: establishment

text: guy

text: like

text: Madoff

text: a

text: Nasdaq

text: market

text: pioneer

text: and

text: an

text: occasional

text: consultant

text: to

text: the

text: SEC

text: is

text: capable

text: of

text: just

text: making

text: things

text: up

text: out

text: of

text: whole

text: cloth

text: But

text: it

text: would

text: appear

text: he

text: was

text: And

text: as

text: an

text: aside

text: it

text: 's

text: easy

text: to

text: blame

text: George

text: W.

text: Bush

text: 's

text: anti

text: regulation

text: policies

text: for

text: the

text: SEC

text: not

text: catching

text: Madoff

text: But

text: Markopoulos

text: original

text: tips

text: reached

text: the

text: SEC

text: when

text: Bill

text: Clinton

text: was

text: president

text: Like

text: newspapers

text: where

text: I

text: used

text: to

text: work

text: regulators

text: get

text: all

text: sorts

text: of

text: tips

text: coming

text: across

text: the

text: transom

text: As

text: in

text: newspapers

text: I

text: suspect

text: many

text: of

text: the

text: tips

text: end

text: up

text: ignored

text: Markopoulos

text: was

text: right

text: about

text: Madoff

text: 's

text: operation

text: being

text: a

text: fraud

text: But

text: his

text: magnum

text: opus

text: an

text: letter

text: listing

text: red

text: flags

text: is

text: quite

text: dense

text: and

text: confusing

text: probably

text: because

text: he

text: 'd

text: gotten

text: frustrated

text: after

text: years

text: of

text: not

text: being

text: taken

text: very

text: seriously

text: Unfortunately

text: the

text: letter

text: did

text: n't

text: list

text: what

text: would

text: have

text: been

text: in

text: hindsight

text: naturally

text: the

text: simplest

text: tip

text: off

text: that

text: this

text: supposedly

text: multi

text: billion

text: dollar

text: operation

text: was

text: audited

text: by

text: an

text: obscure

text: three

text: person

text: accounting

text: firm

text: As

text: Jim

text: Heatherington

text: a

text: Tulsa

text: Oklahoma

text: certified

text: public

text: accountant

text: pointed

text: out

text: to

text: me

text: after

text: reading

text: a

text: Madoff

text: column

text: I

text: wrote

text: for

text: Fortune

text: a

text: simple

text: database

text: search

text: shows

text: that

text: the

text: firm

text: had

text: n't

text: had

text: a

text: peer

text: review

text: since

text: That

text: would

text: or

text: should

text: have

text: set

text: off

text: all

text: sorts

text: of

text: alarm

text: bells

text: Back

text: to

text: the

text: main

text: event

text: Ponzi

text: schemes

text: in

text: which

text: you

text: pay

text: existing

text: investors

text: not

text: by

text: making

text: a

text: profit

text: but

text: by

text: getting

text: money

text: from

text: new

text: investors

text: have

text: been

text: around

text: forever

text: Like

text: Madoff

text: a

text: Jew

text: who

text: preyed

text: on

text: fellow

text: Jews

text: and

text: Jewish

text: charities

text: such

text: as

text: Elie

text: Wiesel

text: 's

text: foundation

text: Ponzi

text: schemers

text: often

text: target

text: their

text: own

text: religious

text: or

text: ethnic

text: groups

text: That

text: way

text: they

text: lure

text: victims

text: who

text: feel

text: flattered

text: at

text: having

text: been

text: asked

text: to

text: join

text: an

text: elite

text: society

text: so

text: much

text: so

text: that

text: many

text: of

text: them

text: fail

text: to

text: find

text: out

text: basic

text: things

text: such

text: as

text: whether

text: the

text: securities

text: or

text: properties

text: they

text: 're

text: supposedly

text: being

text: put

text: into

text: actually

text: exist

text: Consider

text: these

text: Tom

text: Petters

text: a

text: prominent

text: Minnesota

text: businessman

text: is

text: charged

text: with

text: running

text: a

text: multi

text: billion

text: dollar

text: scam

text: that

text: preyed

text: on

text: evangelical

text: Christians

text: A

text: New

text: York

text: City

text: man

text: was

text: recently

text: accused

text: of

text: preying

text: on

text: fellow

text: members

text: of

text: a

text: Hispanic

text: church

text: A

text: Haitian

text: American

text: in

text: Miami

text: was

text: accused

text: on

text: December

text: of

text: preying

text: on

text: other

text: Haitian

text: Americans

text: Just

text: yesterday

text: the

text: SEC

text: accused

text: a

text: Williamsville

text: N.Y.

text: man

text: of

text: preying

text: on

text: fellow

text: Catholics

text: If

text: someone

text: especially

text: a

text: member

text: of

text: your

text: racial

text: religious

text: or

text: social

text: group

text: offers

text: you

text: a

text: deal

text: not

text: available

text: to

text: the

text: general

text: public

text: check

text: it

text: out

text: Very

text: diligently

text: Do

text: n't

text: rely

text: on

text: the

text: SEC

text: or

text: any

text: other

text: regulator

text: to

text: do

text: that

text: for

text: you

text: Never

text: never

text: never

text: put

text: all

text: your

text: eggs

text: in

text: one

text: basket

text: no

text: matter

text: how

text: good

text: it

text: looks

text: And

text: that

text: my

text: friends

text: is

text: the

text: real

text: bottom

text: line

text: Pillory

text: Madoff

text: and

text: mock

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(CNN)  -- Murder and rape charges will be filed against a North Carolina man in the death of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis, police said Thursday.

Mario Andrette McNeill had already been charged with kidnapping the Fayetteville, North Carolina, girl. She was reported missing last week, and her body was found Monday beside a road near Sanford, about 30 miles northwest of Fayetteville.

Preliminary autopsy results indicate the child was asphyxiated, Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine told reporters Thursday, but testing is still being completed and a final report has not been issued.

McNeill will be charged with first-degree murder and rape of a child, Bergamine said. The new arrest warrants were being served Thursday night.

The girl's mother, Antoinette Nicole Davis, has been charged with human trafficking and other offenses. Police have said they believe Davis was prostituting the child.

According to police, surveillance video taken November 10 from a hotel in Sanford, North Carolina, shows Shaniya in the company of McNeill.

Authorities had said Wednesday they would need to determine where Shaniya was killed before filing additional charges. Fayetteville is in Cumberland County, while Sanford is in Lee County. Bergamine said Thursday jurisdiction in the case would remain in Cumberland County. "We started it from the beginning and wanted to finish it out," he said.

Police still are not sure exactly where Shaniya was killed, Bergamine said. Police earlier had said they believe the child was alive when she left the hotel.

"Current charges on Ms. Davis are standing as they are right now," Bergamine said. But he told reporters the investigation was ongoing.

He and other officers spoke about the emotional toll the investigation has taken on them. Grief counseling has been under way for officers at the department, he said.

"It's been a tough case," said Fayetteville Police Capt. Charles Kimball, the toughest in his 14 years, he said. "Our mission was to find Shaniya and we did it."

"This case here has reached out and touched all of us," Bergamine said.

Shaniya's father, Bradley Lockhart, made a tearful appeal before reporters Tuesday afternoon, asking that "everybody makes it a point not to ignore, to look past a situation where a person, a child, or anybody might be in danger ... so that we don't have another tragedy like Shaniya."

The girl went to her mother's last month, he said.

CNN's Gabriel Falcon contributed to this report.

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Another Hollywood marriage is ending -- but this one was no flash in the pan.

Robin Wright Penn and Sean Penn had been married 11 years.

Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn are divorcing, according to their representative, Mara Buxbaum. People magazine first reported the split Thursday night.

The actors began dating after they met making the 1990 movie "State of Grace." They married in 1996, and have two children, Dylan Frances, 16, and Hopper Jack, 14.

Previously, Penn was married to Madonna for four years, while Wright was married to actor Dane Witherspoon for two years.

In addition to "State of Grace," Penn and Wright appeared together in 1997's "She's So Lovely" and 1998's "Hurlyburly," and both are set to appear in Barry Levinson's next film, "What Just Happened?," due out in 2008.

Penn, 47, won a best actor Oscar for 2003's "Mystic River," and was nominated for best actor for "Dead Man Walking," "Sweet and Lowdown," and "I Am Sam." His latest directorial effort, "Into The Wild," has received four SAG Award nominations and two Golden Globe nominations.

Wright, 41, is best known for her title role in "The Princess Bride" and for starring opposite Tom Hanks in "Forrest Gump." E-mail to a friend

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(CNN) -- Barack Obama's daughters are moving into a house with a swimming pool, a bowling alley and its own movie theater.

Sasha Obama, left, and Malia Obama will make the White House home come January 20.

When their father is inaugurated on January 20, Malia Obama, 10, and Sasha Obama, 7, will also be moving into a place where they'll not only be under the watchful eye of the Secret Service but also under the eye of the media.

"One of the negatives of the White House is that its very much a fishbowl," presidential historian Doug Wead said.

"There's something that Sasha or Malia will say or do and they'll be remembered for it for the rest of their lives," said Wead, who wrote "All the Presidents' Children," a book on the lives of kids at the White House.  Watch what life's like for White House kids Â»

Theodore Roosevelt's children used to like to drop water balloons on foreign dignitaries, Wead said. They also let their pet snake slither around the White House dining room.

John F. Kennedy Jr. was known for hiding under his father's Oval Office desk. His older sister, Caroline, had a pony who romped untethered around the White House grounds.

President Abraham Lincoln's youngest son, Thomas, used to startle everyone in the building by making all the White House bells ring at one time.

But with the mischief and pranks comes a lifetime of pressure, said Noah McCollough, who wrote the book "First Kids."

"John Quincy Adams' kids went through alcoholism and addiction because they couldn't live up to their parents expectation" in their later years, McCollough said.  Read up on the blessed and star-crossed lives of some other White House kids Â»

Much of Malia and Sasha's White House experience will be monitored by their mother, Michelle Obama, who seems determined to be active in their lives.

Even as her husband campaigned for the presidency, Michelle Obama was a soccer mom, cheering from the sidelines of her daughters' games.

"I'm a mother first. And I'm going to be at parent-teacher conferences, and ... I'm going to be at the things that they want me to attend. I'm not going to miss a ballet recital," Michelle Obama said.

Together with the president-elect, she'll have to decide where the girls will attend school.

"If they send their child to a private school they'll be called elitist for betraying the public school system," Wead said.

Jacqueline Kennedy, not wanting Caroline being hounded by the media as she went to school, set up a first-grade classroom on the third floor of the White House. Ten of Caroline's friends also attended, each bringing their own lunch pail.

President Jimmy Carter sent daughter Amy, age 9 when she moved to Washington, to the public Hardy Middle School.

President Bill Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, attended the private Sidwell Friends School.

No matter the choice, even their grades will come under public scrutiny.

"If you flunk that huge math test, it's on the front page of the newspaper the next day," McCollough said.

But assuming no one gets grounded for bad grades, imagine the possibilities for sleepovers or parties. President Gerald Ford's daughter Susan, for example, held her senior prom at the White House.

Whatever the educational choice, the Obamas have made clear their kids won't be an afterthought now that Barack Obama is about to become the world's most powerful person.

On Friday morning, before the president-elect met with his advisers on the troubled economy and before his first news conference since the election scheduled for the afternoon, Barack and Michelle Obama went to a parent-teacher conference at the University of Chicago Lab School.

And the girls will have company at the house on Pennsylvania Avenue.

"You have earned that puppy that is coming with us to the White House," their father told them in his acceptance speech.

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(CNN) -- World No. 2 Novak Djokovic suffered a shock defeat by sixth seed Mikhail Youzhny in the semifinals of the World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam on Saturday.

The Serbian, who had not played since Thursday after being handed a walkover in his quarterfinal, lost 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (8-6) to the Russian despite saving two match-points.

Youzhny, who won the Dutch indoor tournament in 2007, will play second seed Robin Soderling in Sunday's final after the world No. 8 edged out sixth-ranked Nikolay Davydenko 7-6 (7-3) 6-4.

Youzhny will have the chance to avenge his compatriot's defeat as he seeks to improve his 1-1 career record against Soderling.

The signs are good for the world No. 20, who also defeated Djokovic in the semifinals three years ago.

The Muscovite will bid to win his sixth ATP Tour title, having won one in each of the past three seasons.

Soderling has bounced back from a poor start to the season that saw the Swede lose in the first round of his first two tournaments in 2010, including the Australian Open.

"This is a really tough tournament and it's not easy to reach the final here," last year's French Open finalist told the ATP Web site.

"I'm playing better with every match, so I'm very happy. I've had a lot of tough matches with Nikolay in the past few years. He's one of the best players in the world, so it means I am playing great tennis to beat him. My confidence is up and I'm looking forward to the final."

Meanwhile, second seed Fernando Verdasco reached the final of the SAP Open in San Jose in the United States after beating Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin on Saturday.

The Spaniard won 6-3 2-6 6-4 to set up a clash with the top seed Andy Roddick who overcame a first set loss and two tiebreakers to defeat fellow American Sam Querrey 2-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4).

Top seed Elena Dementieva will play Lucie Safarova in Sunday's Paris Indoor Open final on the women's WTA Tour circuit.

Russian world No. 7 Dementieva came from behind to beat young American Melanie Oudin 4-6 6-3 6-3 in the semifinals of the French hardcourt event, where she lost in the final last year to Amelie Mauresmo.

Unseeded Czech Safarova upset Italy's Flavia Pennetta, the second-ranked player in the field, as she also rallied from a set down to win 4-6 6-3 6-4.

World No. 46 Safarova lost to Nadia Petrova in the 2007 final.

In Thailand, top seed Vera Zvonareva will seek home hope Tamarine Tanasugarn from winning her first Pattaya Open title on Sunday.

The Russian is on course to defend her title following a 6-2 4-6 6-3 victory against fourth seed Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan, reaching her 21st career title.

The 32-year-old Tanasugarn will have her 10th tilt at a WTA title after crushing Shvedova's compatriot Sesil Karatantcheva, ranked 185th in the world, 6-2 6-0 in the other semifinal on Saturday.

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question: Who reached the finale?

answer: Mikhail Youzhny

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(CNN) -- A rabbi walks into St. Peter's Square, meets the pope, and tells the Holy Father that one way to defuse the sex abuse scandal plaguing the church is for the Vatican to begin promoting a secular version of Shabbat dinner, the traditional Jewish Friday meal.

It's no joke.

A prominent American rabbi, Shmuley Boteach, spoke briefly to Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday about encouraging parents to eat dinner with their children as a way for the Vatican to re-establish its pro-family image, which has been battered by the priest sex abuse scandal, Boteach said.

The brief exchange came after the pope's regular Wednesday address at the Vatican, during which Boteach was seated on a dais along with other Vatican guests. When he met Benedict on a receiving line afterward, Boteach pitched him on his family dinner initiative, called "Turn Friday Night into Family Night."

"I said ... 'If the church embraces an initiative like this, which is positive, it could put a lot of the scandal behind it,'" Boteach said, recounting his chat with the pope. "People will see the church doesn't just speak about opposition to gay marriage and abortion.'"

The pope appeared to be receptive to the idea, Boteach said. " 'We have to work together on this, we have to work together on this,' " Boteach quoted the pope as saying. But, Benedict did not make a firm commitment to the family dinner initiative, the rabbi said.

The Vatican was not immediately available for comment.

"The church is now perceived as not being a champion of families because the scandal has hit with so much force," Boteach said. "I came (to the Vatican) as a friend and as someone who is critical as well. Because my criticism is real, the church knows my friendship is real."

Following his talk with the pope, Boteach said he was invited to meet with Cardinal Walter Kasper, who spearheads the Vatican's Jewish outreach, with whom Boteach fleshed out his criticism of the church's response to priestly sex abuse.

Boteach was invited to the Vatican to look over documents related to Pope Pius XII, the Holocaust-era church leader who Benedict has signaled he would like to move closer to sainthood.

The rabbi has been a spiritual adviser to Michael Jackson, who died last year, and a frequent guest on Oprah Winfrey's talk show.

A number of recent Vatican actions have caused tensions between the church and the Jewish world. Last year, Benedict lifted the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying bishop, Richard Williamson.

Earlier this month, the pope's personal preacher compared the fury over sexual abuse within the church to anti-Semitism, though the priest, the Rev. Raniero Cantalamessa, later apologized.

But Boteach has been impressed by the Vatican's overtures to him and to other Jewish leaders. "I thinks he's a friend to the Jews -- a very close friend," Boteach said of the pope.

Boteach said that the Vatican had shown him documents from its private archive showing that Pius XII, a controversial figure among Jews, rescued Italian Jews during the Holocaust. But Boteach remains critical of Pius, saying he displayed "absolute silence in condemning the Nazi Holocaust outright, which might have gone to great lengths to prevent it."

The church has said that Pius would have put more Jews in danger by publicly condemning the Holocaust because it would have provoked the Nazis.

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text: Jews

text: in

text: danger

text: by

text: publicly

text: condemning

text: the

text: Holocaust

text: because

text: it

text: would

text: have

text: provoked

text: the

text: Nazis

question: Who spoke to Shmuley Boteach?

answer: Pope Benedict XVI

text: Pope Benedict XVI

question: What was the name of Boteach's proposal?

answer: "Turn Friday Night into Family Night."

text: "Turn Friday Night into Family Night."

question: Who did Shmuley Boteach speak to?

answer: Pope Benedict XVI

text: Pope Benedict XVI

question: Who spoke to Pope Benedict XVI about dinner idea?

answer: Shmuley Boteach,

text: Shmuley Boteach,

question: what was his proposal called

answer: "Turn Friday Night into Family Night."

text: "Turn Friday Night into Family Night."

question: who did boteach speak to

answer: Pope Benedict XVI

text: Pope Benedict XVI

question: What did Boteach call his idea?

answer: "Turn Friday Night into Family Night."

text: "Turn Friday Night into Family Night."

question: What did the Pope say to the idea?

answer: 'We have to work together on this, we have to work together on this,'

text: 'We have to work together on this, we have to work together on this,'