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LONDON, England (CNN) -- They are some of the biggest names in Hollywood, but even Susan Sarandon, Ethan Hawke and Dustin Hoffman have had their fair share of casting calamities they would rather forget.

Mike Myers sabotaged some auditions for parts he didn't want. "Why not be nude even if it is a children's theatre?"

CNN's The Screening Room has managed to persuade the cream of Hollywood to confess their tales of audition woe.

The stars shudder at the memory of waiting in line, frantically trying to memorize lines handed to them moments before, all the while being assessed by critical strangers.

Benicio del Toro recounts attending 50 or 60 auditions before getting a part and Quentin Tarantino told Eli Roth he "blew it" when he first auditioned for "Inglourious Basterds." While Catherine Keener remembers a cutting personal assessment: "You're not pretty enough."

Here are some of their worst moments:

Bill Nighy "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest." "Love Actually"

"There was one that started out terrible, which was where I had to go to a disused tax office in Harrow [near London, England] very early in the morning and put on very tight velvet flared loon pants and a pair of crocodile four-inch- heeled platform shoes, and wear a sort of very small top that didn't meet my trousers, hair extensions and I had to karaoke to 'Smoke on the Water' by Deep Purple. It's a very lonely place. And I was 45 at the time..."

Ethan Hawke "Before Sunset," "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"

"I have had so many bad auditions. I have fallen on my ass. I have made a complete fool of myself. I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped to me and then I got kind of nervous and I paced in a circle and then took a step and tripped and fell on my face. You just have to forgive yourself and keep going on."

Mike Myers "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me," "Shrek"

"I've had some bad auditions for some TV movies that were shooting in England where I just didn't want to be in them and offered them more obtuse [performances] ... I like to think of it as performance art. I didn't sabotage it, I was just woefully inappropriate, you know? I just thought, 'Why not be nude even if it is a children's theatre?"

Catherine Keener "Being John Malkovich," "Synecdoche, New York"

"You wouldn't believe some of the comments, assessments. But, they're really not meant personally. Like for example, 'You're not pretty enough.' For them it's just a fact. But for you it's like, 'Oh my God! I have to live with this.' You get a thicker skin about it, which you should because it isn't meant personally, but it's such a personal profession that you kind of have to get used to getting critiqued on things that you shouldn't even care about."

Dustin Hoffman "Marathon Man," "Meet the Fockers"

"The most famous casting director from New York, I was lucky enough to get an audition with her in the '60s. She did all the plays, all the Broadway plays. She is sitting across the desk saying her lines, and I am saying mine, and she stops and says, 'Come here. Bring your chair here, right next to me.' And I say, 'Why?' And she says, 'Because I can't hear you, and you have never been on the stage or on Broadway, and you are going to have to reach the last row.'

I said, 'Yeah, I know. I have been studying acting for about seven years now, but I'm not on Broadway now, I'm just sitting in front of you.' So, she said, 'I know, but I couldn't hear you. That's why I asked you to sit next to me.' I said, 'Okay. Can you hear me now?' I was getting so angry. Well, at that point she said, 'Speak up,' and I screamed as loud as I could, every line after. She called my agent and said, 'If you ever send that maniac around here again I will never see another one of your clients.' I really lost it.

Eli Roth "Death Proof," "Inglourious Basterds"

"I left the casting of 'Hostel: Part II,' which Quentin [Tarantino] was a producer on to go and audition for his movie ['Inglourious Basterds'] and it was just a room with a camera. He wasn't even there and I was like, 'Where's Quentin?' They go 'He didn't leave his house today.' Anyways, I blew it. I did terribly and Quentin called me and starts making fun of me. He was like,'You were so bad in your audition, but I'll give you a callback. Come on.'

Demi Moore "A Few Good Men," "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle"

"I auditioned for 'A Few Good Men' with Tom Cruise and Rob Reiner and when I went into that audition I was eight months pregnant ,so there is always kind of a lasting impression that I was playing this military officer with this gigantic belly. Obviously, it turned out well because I got the role but there was something quite odd about it."

Roger Moore "Octopussy," "Curse of the Pink Panther"

"I remember auditioning for one play, and the girl was awfully short and we were holding the book in our hands and I almost couldn't see her. I knew I wasn't going to get that part, I tried to make myself smaller and smaller so I could be closer her size and that didn't happen."

Ramon Rodriguez  "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3"

"I met ['Transformers' director] Michael Bay in his office in Santa Monica for an hour and a half he had me running, jumping and diving all over his office and his furniture freaking out like I was reacting to robots, which is the strangest audition I have had by far. I left the room completely drenched in sweat and all I could say was, 'I better get this part.' It worked out and the stuff we did in the room was the stuff we did on set."

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question: Who confessed to falling on his ass?

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question: Who screamed at a casting agent?

answer: Dustin Hoffman

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question: What did Ethan Hawke confess to?

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question: Who "blew it" when he first auditioned for "Inglourious Basterds"?

answer: Eli Roth

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question: Who did Dustin Hoffman scream at?

answer: "The most famous casting director from New York,

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question: who screamed at a casting call

answer: Dustin Hoffman

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question: who fell on their casting

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(CNN) -- It's the most complex construction project in history.

NASA's funding of the international space station is scheduled to end in 2016.

Flying 250 miles overhead, the international space station can be seen with the naked eye, orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes, usually carrying a crew of six. Now, before construction of the station is even complete, there is already talk of when the lights will be turned off.

NASA is waiting for the Obama administration to decide how much longer the station will fly and exactly which direction the U.S. space agency will take next -- a return to the moon, or maybe a trip to Mars?

The initial phase of the international space station was launched in 1998, although the station is still being expanded. The U.S. is one of 16 countries that help build and operate the station, whose laboratory runs a number of science experiments, including measuring the effects of space conditions, such as weightlessness, on humans.

The U.S. contribution to the space station so far: $44 billion. (NASA says it does not keep track of contributions from the other 15 partners.) NASA's funding of the space station is currently scheduled to end in 2016.

"The general idea that we would spend approximately 11 years building the space station, get it to its full operational capability, and then kind of abandon it a few years later ... doesn't make a lot of sense," said Robert Braun, a former NASA chief engineer. Braun currently is the director of Georgia Tech's Space Systems Design Laboratory.

An independent committee reviewing the future of U.S. human spaceflight recently recommended to the White House that the station's life be extended to 2020.  Watch more on the future of the space station Â»

"You've got all of these different countries working together on this common project in space. And if we go ahead and stop ... it's going to break up that framework," said Leroy Chiao, a former space station commander and shuttle astronaut who sits on the advisory panel.

"The different countries around the world will lose confidence in the U.S. as a leader in space exploration," he said.

But the committee also found that the U.S. space program appears to be pursuing goals that exceed current funding levels. So it will be up to the Obama administration to chart a new course.

NASA has been planning on retiring the aging space shuttle fleet upon completion of the space station in 2011. That shuttle funding was to be used instead for NASA's next great endeavor -- the Constellation Program, which would take astronauts back to the moon.

But that means NASA would no longer have its own spacecraft to ferry astronauts to the space station. Until a new space vehicle is ready to fly, the U.S. will have to hitch a ride on Russia's Soyuz capsule.

One of the options the advisory committee has recommended is that NASA fly shuttles on a reduced schedule through 2015 to help close that gap, Chiao told CNN.

"That gap is real," he said. "It's going to be there, and the only access we're going to have [to the space station] is to buy seats on the Russian Soyuz."

Part of the problem with the U.S. space agency's funding gap, according to some experts, is that NASA's culture is to build.

"We're always looking for that next engineering or construction project," said Marco Caceres, a senior analyst on aerospace at the Teal Group.

"But the big thing is the science, and you can't sell that to the public. It's not sexy," he said. "So NASA keeps moving on to other things, without putting the really hard work into doing what will benefit the people the most -- doing the things that station was designed to do in the first place."

Until now, the majority of the science done in space involves human experiments with microgravity. Such research is considered essential for long-duration missions on the space station, or for future trips to the moon or Mars. Biomedical challenges such as bone loss, cardiovascular issues, psychosocial issues and exposure to radiation must be resolved before humans can venture too far from Earth for too long.

While promised space research on diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's hasn't happened yet, some space science has brought encouragement.

Astrogenetix, a private company, has used the zero-gravity environment aboard space shuttle flights to develop a salmonella vaccine, which is moving through the Food and Drug Administration's approval process. Growing the bacteria in space is much easier than it is on Earth.

"That process on Earth ... can take up to 10 years. And we send it up to space, for really three trips, and we found that we already had a vaccine for salmonella," said company Chairman Thomas Pickens.

Astrogenetix also conducted an experiment on the last shuttle flight aimed at producing a vaccine for MRSA, a highly resistant staph infection.

Pickens said that up until now, the space station hasn't been a viable location for long-term, commercialized experiments.

"They've been under construction, and you wouldn't do heart surgery in the middle of a construction site for a skyscraper," he said.

Now all NASA needs is direction from the White House -- and, of course, money. The station's backers say you don't spend a fortune constructing a customized house only to knock it down. But NASA also may need to conserve funds for a possible mission to Mars.

Observers should find out soon whether the hope of groundbreaking science is enough for Obama to keep the space station aloft.

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question: Who decides how long to fund the space station?

answer: Obama administration

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question: When will funding end?

answer: 2016.

question: what person must decide how long to fund the international space station?

answer: Obama administration

text: Obama administration

question: Who will decide how long the funding will continue?

answer: the Obama administration

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question: When is NASA's funding of the international space station ending?

answer: 2016.


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(CNN)  -- Launch of the space shuttle Discovery has been delayed at least a week, NASA has announced.

Discovery moves atop the crawler transporter in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 14.

The shuttle will now lift off no earlier than February 19 because of concern over a valve in the main engine. A decision on the launch date will be made February 12, after more analysis and testing of the part.

NASA said Tuesday night: "The valve is one of three that channels gaseous hydrogen from the engines to the external fuel tank. One of these valves in shuttle Endeavour was found to be damaged after its mission in November. As a precaution, Discovery's valves were removed, inspected and reinstalled."

This will be the shuttle's 28th mission to the international space station.

The mission will deliver the final set of solar arrays needed to complete the station's complement of electricity-generating solar panels. They will help support the station's expanded crew of six in 2009.

"More crew means that we'll have to run more life support equipment, more crew support equipment -- toilet facilities, water processing equipment and all of that stuff," Kwatsi Alibaruho, the lead space station flight director for the mission, said on NASA's Web site. "We'll have to run more of all of that, so we need additional power."

The expanded capacity will mean more hands to perform science experiments. The mission also will include four spacewalks.

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question: What is NASA worried about?

answer: a valve in the main engine.

text: a valve in the main engine.

question: When will Discovery lift off?

answer: February 19

text: February 19

question: What is the space agency concerned about?

answer: a valve in the main engine.

text: a valve in the main engine.

question: How many missions have been to the space station?

answer: 28th

question: What is the name of the US Space Agency?

answer: NASA

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question: What will lift off no earlier than February 19th?

answer: space shuttle Discovery

text: space shuttle Discovery

question: How soon could Discovery launch?

answer: no earlier than February

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question: What was the agency concerned about?

answer: a valve in the main engine.

text: a valve in the main engine.

question: How many trips has Discovery made to the International Space Station?

answer: 28th

question: What is Discovery delivering this time?

answer: final set of solar arrays

text: final set of solar arrays

question: What will the mission deliver?

answer: the final set of solar arrays needed to complete the station's complement of electricity-generating solar panels.

text: the final set of solar arrays needed to complete the station's complement of electricity-generating solar panels.


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(CNN) -- A woman who was beheaded near Buffalo, New York -- allegedly by her husband -- may have been on the phone with her sister when she was killed.

Muzzammil Hassan has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of his wife, Aasiya Zubair Hassan.

Asma Firfirey of suburban Cape Town, South Africa, told the Afrikaans newspaper Die Burger that she was on the phone with her sister, Aasiya Zubair Hassan, last week when she heard Hassan tell her husband to calm down. She said she heard Hassan say the two could talk about their impending divorce the following day.

Then she heard something that sounded like her sister struggling to breathe, she said.

"I can only imagine how scared and emotional she must have been before she died," Firfirey said in the interview, reported in English by South Africa's News 24.

Police have charged Hassan's husband, Muzzammil Hassan, with second-degree, or intentional, murder in the death of his wife, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office.

Her decapitated body was found at the offices of Bridges TV, the television network where Muzzammil Hassan was chief executive officer and Aasiya Hassan was general manager.

Hassan told Orchard Park police his wife was dead, led officers to her body and was arrested Thursday, said Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita III. He is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday.

Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz on Tuesday contradicted a CNN report that quoted him as saying Hassan confessed to the crime.

A Buffalo attorney told CNN on Tuesday that he expects to represent Hassan but declined further comment, saying details had not yet been worked out.

Hassan came to America from Pakistan 25 years ago and became a successful banker, but he and his wife were troubled by the negative perception of Muslims, Voice of America reported in 2004.

Speaking in December 2004, Hassan said his wife, then pregnant, was worried about that perception and "felt there should be an American Muslim media where her kids could grow up feeling really strong about their identity as an American Muslim."

"So she came up with the idea and turned to me and said, 'Why don't you do it?' " he said. "And I was like, I have no clue about television. I'm a banker. ... And her comment was, 'You have an MBA. Why don't you write a business plan?' "

Bridges TV began as a television network for Muslim-Americans, aimed at overcoming the negative stereotypes associated with the religion.

"There should be a Muslim media," Muzzammil Hassan told VOA, "so that Muslim children growing up in America grow up with the self-confidence and high self-esteem about their identity both as Americans and as Muslims."

In the past few years, according to a former employee who asked not to be named for fear of retribution, Bridges TV transformed itself into more of a cross-cultural network seeking to bridge the gap between all cultures. Most of their employees were not Muslim, the former employee said, and Muzzammil Hassan himself was not devout.

Aasiya Hassan filed for divorce February 6, police said, and Muzzammil Hassan was served with divorce papers at the station. That night, he showed up at the couple's home, she notified authorities and he was served with a restraining order.

Police are not commenting on details of the crime, except to say the woman's body did not appear to have been moved. They also would not divulge what Muzzammil Hassan told police or the suspected motive. The law firm representing Aasiya Hassan refused to comment, only confirming that she had filed for divorce.

Benz told CNN on Tuesday that police had responded to several domestic violence calls at the couple's address, but no one was arrested.

Firfirey, as well as a Pakistani woman identifying herself as another of Aasiya Hassan's sisters, characterized her as living in fear.

Firfirey said the last time she saw her sister was in May 2008, when she visited South Africa. When she arrived, she was badly injured, and Firfirey's family paid the equivalent of about $3,000 for her to be treated, she said.

Aasiya Hassan returned to America, she said, because she wanted to complete her MBA degree and "didn't want to leave her children with that monster." She said she calls Muzzammil Hassan "the fat man with evil eyes."

Aasiya Hassan would have graduated March 6, Firfirey said.

A woman in Pakistan using the name Salma Zubair posted on a blog that she is the sister of "this brutally murdered woman."

"She lived her 8 years of married life with fear in heart," Zubair wrote. "He had already frightened her enough that she couldn't muster up her guts and leave him, and when she finally did gather that much strength he killed her so brutally. She lived to protect her children from this man and his family and she died doing so."

She said Aasiya Hassan "had always been a very loving person, not even one person in this world can say a small wrong word about her ... she had always dreamed a life of a happily married family, which she did her best to achieve."

Both women said they were worried about the couple's children, ages 4 and 6. Firfirey said they were being cared for by a colleague of the couple. Muzzammil Hassan also has two older children from a previous marriage.

Members of Muzzammil Hassan's family did not return calls from CNN on Monday.

The former employee told CNN that Aasiya Hassan was popular at the station and was very kind. Muzzammil Hassan was known among employees for having a temper -- he sometimes would yell at and demean his wife, but at other times appeared to be a loving husband and father, the former employee said.

Bridges TV released a statement Monday saying its staff was "deeply shocked and saddened by the murder of Aasiya Hassan and the subsequent arrest of Muzzammil Hassan. Our deepest condolences and prayers go out to the families of the victim."

Imam Mohamed Hagmagid Ali, vice president of the Islamic Society of North America, said Aasiya Hassan's death serves "as a wake-up call to call of us, that violence against women is real and cannot be ignored ... the Muslim community is not exempt from this issue. We, the Muslim community, need to take a strong stand against domestic violence."

CNN's Mary Snow contributed to this report.

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text: CNN

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question: Where was the body found?

answer: at the offices of Bridges TV,

text: at the offices of Bridges TV,

question: Who was charged with second-degree murder?

answer: Muzzammil Hassan

text: Muzzammil Hassan

question: What says police?

answer: Police are not commenting on details of the crime, except to say the woman's body did not appear to have been moved.

text: Police are not commenting on details of the crime, except to say the woman's body did not appear to have been moved.

question: Who filed for divorce from Hassan?

answer: Aasiya Zubair

text: Aasiya Zubair

question: where was the woman's body found

answer: Buffalo, New York

text: Buffalo, New York

question: what did the sister say about the incident

answer: can only imagine how scared and emotional she must have been before she died,"

text: can only imagine how scared and emotional she must have been before she died,"

question: what was the NY man charged with

answer: second-degree murder

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(CNN) -- Mauricio Funes, a member of a political party that waged guerrilla war against the government 17 years ago, claimed the presidency of El Salvador on Sunday night.

FMLN's Mauricio Funes shows his ballot before voting Sunday in Antiguo Cuscatlan, El Salvador.

"This is the happiest night of my life," Funes told a jubilant crowd at his election headquarters. "It's also the night of greatest hope for El Salvador."

With 90.68 percent of the votes counted, the FMLN party's Funes had 51.27 percent, while the ARENA party's Rodrigo Avila had 48.73 percent, the country's Supreme Electoral Tribunal said.

The final tally will be certified within 48 hours, the electoral council's Walter Araujo said in a nationally televised news conference.

Funes' victory ended a 20-year hold on the presidency by the right-leaning ARENA.

"Now the ARENA party passes into opposition," Funes said. "ARENA ... can be assured that it will be listened to and respected."

Although polls had indicated the race had tightened considerably in the past few weeks, most analysts had predicted that Funes would win.

"It's a sign that there's democracy in that country, which is something the United States tried to foster," said Bernard Aronson, who as President George H.W. Bush's assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs from 1989-93 was heavily involved in ending El Salvador's 12-year civil war.

The FMLN, which is the Spanish acronym for the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, was formed in late 1980 as an umbrella group for five leftist guerilla organizations fighting a U.S.-backed military dictatorship. The guerrillas and the government signed a peace pact in 1992 and the FMLN became a legitimate political party.

By some estimates, 75,000 Salvadorans died during the war.

The new president will find "a country that still retains a lot of bitterness, a lot of division," said Peter Hakim, president of the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue policy institute.

"This country is completely divided," ARENA party official Adolfo Torres said on CNN affiliate TCS TV station Sunday night.

The election, Hakim said, was "an important test of how far El Salvador has come."

The result also will be an important test of how far El Salvador will go.

With an economy in deep trouble and neither party having enough seats to control the national Legislative Assembly, much will depend on the party that lost.

"Conflict occurs when one person wants to force a conflict," Hakim said. "Compromise requires both sides."

No one is certain how ARENA will handle the loss.

"That's a big unknown," said Heather Berkman, a Latin America analyst with the consulting firm Eurasia Group. "I still think they'll play ball. They have an incentive to get along with the new administration. They certainly don't want to be shut out of the process."

Otto Reich, who served in high-level Latin American posts for Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, sees the possibility of a spirited fight from ARENA.

"If I had to guess, I'd say ARENA will try to put democratic obstacles in the way of an FMLN consolidation of power," Reich said.

Although ARENA, which are the Spanish initials for the Nationalist Republican Alliance, has come back from a 14-point deficit in some polls two months ago, Reich said winning a fifth consecutive term was "swimming against the tide."

"People in El Salvador are weighing risks and opportunities," Reich said. "They have an opportunity to replace a party with which they have gotten tired."

Hakim also saw voter fatigue with ARENA, saying, "One party has managed the country forever and ever."

Many of the 2.4 million Salvadorans who voted weighed competing doubts.

"The uncertainty is that the FMLN has never been in power," Berkman said.

But voters also asked themselves, she said, whether they were "better off than they were five years ago, 10 years ago."

Avila, she said, could not run on a message of change. Funes' message of change and putting new people in power was more effective.

Since the war ended, Salvadorans have mostly supported ARENA because of concerns over the FMLN's left-wing agenda and the group's guerrilla background. There also have been outside influences.

"The country has been afraid to vote for the left because of fears from Washington," Larry Birns, director of the nonprofit Council on Hemispheric Affairs, said recently.

With the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States, Salvadorans may expect a different attitude from Washington.

El Salvador, Colombia and Peru have been the United States' closest allies in Latin America. Birns calls the three nations "Washington's street-corner guys."

With an FMLN victory, El Salvador joins other Latin American countries that have elected leftist leaders in recent years -- Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Argentina, Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador and Brazil.

But Berkman and others warn that the United States must not lump everyone together.

"People tend to look at the left in Latin America and oversimplify it," Berkman said. "There's the good left and the bad left."

Or as Aronson put it, "There's leftists, and there's leftists."

Aronson sees two types of leftist governments in Latin America: "institutional" governments like Brazil's that "have made peace with the free market" while still championing social programs, and populist, more-radical governments like Venezuela's.

Analysts are not sure what to make of Funes, a former freelance journalist for CNN en EspaÃ±ol who is projecting a moderate image.

"The FMLN did something very clever," Reich said. "They put somebody at the head of the party who is not a guerrilla, not a terrorist."

Even the FMLN may not know what to expect from Funes. Berkman calls it "an issue of uncertainty" between the former journalist and the former guerrilla group.

"There's a lot of unknowns about how the relationship between Funes and the FMLN will proceed," she said, adding that she will watch his Cabinet picks and whether he brings in people from other parties.

Funes' victory was a defining moment for the FMLN.

"It's an important transformation," Hakim said. "The ex-guerrillas have to make a decision: Are they going to try to bring about revolutionary, radical change or manage the whole country and have step-by-step reform?"

Aronson sees it as "a test of whether they will be pragmatic or ideological."

The FMLN may not have a choice but to be pragmatic. The party holds 35 seats in the 84-member National Assembly. ARENA has 32 seats. Forty-three votes are needed to pass most legislation and some measures require "supermajority" approval of 56 votes.

That means that, if ARENA and the FMLN cannot agree on a measure, they have to look to one of the minor parties for support. The PCN, which is the National Conciliation Party, has 11 seats and could emerge as a power broker. Two others parties hold six seats.

"It is in the PCN's interest to play ball as well," Berkman said. "The PCN will act as a moderating force."

Berkman also said the FMLN will likely take a moderate approach because the nation relies too much on outside investments and remittances from Salvadorans living abroad for the former guerrillas to adopt too much of a radical approach.

But Hakim worries about something else.

"I think ARENA may be prepared for this [loss]," he said. "I'm concerned that the FMLN may not be prepared to govern."

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text: Funes

text: shows

text: his

text: ballot

text: before

text: voting

text: Sunday

text: in

text: Antiguo

text: Cuscatlan

text: El

text: Salvador

text: This

text: is

text: the

text: happiest

text: night

text: of

text: my

text: life

text: Funes

text: told

text: a

text: jubilant

text: crowd

text: at

text: his

text: election

text: headquarters

text: It

text: 's

text: also

text: the

text: night

text: of

text: greatest

text: hope

text: for

text: El

text: Salvador

text: With

text: percent

text: of

text: the

text: votes

text: counted

text: the

text: FMLN

text: party

text: 's

text: Funes

text: had

text: percent

text: while

text: the

text: ARENA

text: party

text: 's

text: Rodrigo

text: Avila

text: had

text: percent

text: the

text: country

text: 's

text: Supreme

text: Electoral

text: Tribunal

text: said

text: The

text: final

text: tally

text: will

text: be

text: certified

text: within

text: hours

text: the

text: electoral

text: council

text: 's

text: Walter

text: Araujo

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: nationally

text: televised

text: news

text: conference

text: Funes

text: victory

text: ended

text: a

text: hold

text: on

text: the

text: presidency

text: by

text: the

text: right

text: leaning

text: ARENA

text: Now

text: the

text: ARENA

text: party

text: passes

text: into

text: opposition

text: Funes

text: said

text: ARENA

text: can

text: be

text: assured

text: that

text: it

text: will

text: be

text: listened

text: to

text: and

text: respected

text: Although

text: polls

text: had

text: indicated

text: the

text: race

text: had

text: tightened

text: considerably

text: in

text: the

text: past

text: few

text: weeks

text: most

text: analysts

text: had

text: predicted

text: that

text: Funes

text: would

text: win

text: It

text: 's

text: a

text: sign

text: that

text: there

text: 's

text: democracy

text: in

text: that

text: country

text: which

text: is

text: something

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: tried

text: to

text: foster

text: said

text: Bernard

text: Aronson

text: who

text: as

text: President

text: George

text: H.W.

text: Bush

text: 's

text: assistant

text: secretary

text: of

text: state

text: for

text: inter

text: American

text: affairs

text: from

text: was

text: heavily

text: involved

text: in

text: ending

text: El

text: Salvador

text: 's

text: civil

text: war

text: The

text: FMLN

text: which

text: is

text: the

text: Spanish

text: acronym

text: for

text: the

text: Farabundo

text: Marti

text: National

text: Liberation

text: Front

text: was

text: formed

text: in

text: late

text: as

text: an

text: umbrella

text: group

text: for

text: five

text: leftist

text: guerilla

text: organizations

text: fighting

text: a

text: U.S

text: backed

text: military

text: dictatorship

text: The

text: guerrillas

text: and

text: the

text: government

text: signed

text: a

text: peace

text: pact

text: in

text: and

text: the

text: FMLN

text: became

text: a

text: legitimate

text: political

text: party

text: By

text: some

text: estimates

text: Salvadorans

text: died

text: during

text: the

text: war

text: The

text: new

text: president

text: will

text: find

text: a

text: country

text: that

text: still

text: retains

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: bitterness

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: division

text: said

text: Peter

text: Hakim

text: president

text: of

text: the

text: Washington

text: based

text: Inter

text: American

text: Dialogue

text: policy

text: institute

text: This

text: country

text: is

text: completely

text: divided

text: ARENA

text: party

text: official

text: Adolfo

text: Torres

text: said

text: on

text: CNN

text: affiliate

text: TCS

text: TV

text: station

text: Sunday

text: night

text: The

text: election

text: Hakim

text: said

text: was

text: an

text: important

text: test

text: of

text: how

text: far

text: El

text: Salvador

text: has

text: come

text: The

text: result

text: also

text: will

text: be

text: an

text: important

text: test

text: of

text: how

text: far

text: El

text: Salvador

text: will

text: go

text: With

text: an

text: economy

text: in

text: deep

text: trouble

text: and

text: neither

text: party

text: having

text: enough

text: seats

text: to

text: control

text: the

text: national

text: Legislative

text: Assembly

text: much

text: will

text: depend

text: on

text: the

text: party

text: that

text: lost

text: Conflict

text: occurs

text: when

text: one

text: person

text: wants

text: to

text: force

text: a

text: conflict

text: Hakim

text: said

text: Compromise

text: requires

text: both

text: sides

text: No

text: one

text: is

text: certain

text: how

text: ARENA

text: will

text: handle

text: the

text: loss

text: That

text: 's

text: a

text: big

text: unknown

text: said

text: Heather

text: Berkman

text: a

text: Latin

text: America

text: analyst

text: with

text: the

text: consulting

text: firm

text: Eurasia

text: Group

text: I

text: still

text: think

text: they

text: 'll

text: play

text: ball

text: They

text: have

text: an

text: incentive

text: to

text: get

text: along

text: with

text: the

text: new

text: administration

text: They

text: certainly

text: do

text: n't

text: want

text: to

text: be

text: shut

text: out

text: of

text: the

text: process

text: Otto

text: Reich

text: who

text: served

text: in

text: high

text: level

text: Latin

text: American

text: posts

text: for

text: Presidents

text: Reagan

text: George

text: H.W.

text: Bush

text: and

text: George

text: W.

text: Bush

text: sees

text: the

text: possibility

text: of

text: a

text: spirited

text: fight

text: from

text: ARENA

text: If

text: I

text: had

text: to

text: guess

text: I

text: 'd

text: say

text: ARENA

text: will

text: try

text: to

text: put

text: democratic

text: obstacles

text: in

text: the

text: way

text: of

text: an

text: FMLN

text: consolidation

text: of

text: power

text: Reich

text: said

text: Although

text: ARENA

text: which

text: are

text: the

text: Spanish

text: initials

text: for

text: the

text: Nationalist

text: Republican

text: Alliance

text: has

text: come

text: back

text: from

text: a

text: deficit

text: in

text: some

text: polls

text: two

text: months

text: ago

text: Reich

text: said

text: winning

text: a

text: fifth

text: consecutive

text: term

text: was

text: swimming

text: against

text: the

text: tide

text: People

text: in

text: El

text: Salvador

text: are

text: weighing

text: risks

text: and

text: opportunities

text: Reich

text: said

text: They

text: have

text: an

text: opportunity

text: to

text: replace

text: a

text: party

text: with

text: which

text: they

text: have

text: gotten

text: tired

text: Hakim

text: also

text: saw

text: voter

text: fatigue

text: with

text: ARENA

text: saying

text: One

text: party

text: has

text: managed

text: the

text: country

text: forever

text: and

text: ever

text: Many

text: of

text: the

text: million

text: Salvadorans

text: who

text: voted

text: weighed

text: competing

text: doubts

text: The

text: uncertainty

text: is

text: that

text: the

text: FMLN

text: has

text: never

text: been

text: in

text: power

text: Berkman

text: said

text: But

text: voters

text: also

text: asked

text: themselves

text: she

text: said

text: whether

text: they

text: were

text: better

text: off

text: than

text: they

text: were

text: five

text: years

text: ago

text: years

text: ago

text: Avila

text: she

text: said

text: could

text: not

text: run

text: on

text: a

text: message

text: of

text: change

text: Funes

text: message

text: of

text: change

text: and

text: putting

text: new

text: people

text: in

text: power

text: was

text: more

text: effective

text: Since

text: the

text: war

text: ended

text: Salvadorans

text: have

text: mostly

text: supported

text: ARENA

text: because

text: of

text: concerns

text: over

text: the

text: FMLN

text: 's

text: left

text: wing

text: agenda

text: and

text: the

text: group

text: 's

text: guerrilla

text: background

text: There

text: also

text: have

text: been

text: outside

text: influences

text: The

text: country

text: has

text: been

text: afraid

text: to

text: vote

text: for

text: the

text: left

text: because

text: of

text: fears

text: from

text: Washington

text: Larry

text: Birns

text: director

text: of

text: the

text: nonprofit

text: Council

text: on

text: Hemispheric

text: Affairs

text: said

text: recently

text: With

text: the

text: election

text: of

text: Barack

text: Obama

text: as

text: president

text: of

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: Salvadorans

text: may

text: expect

text: a

text: different

text: attitude

text: from

text: Washington

text: El

text: Salvador

text: Colombia

text: and

text: Peru

text: have

text: been

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: closest

text: allies

text: in

text: Latin

text: America

text: Birns

text: calls

text: the

text: three

text: nations

text: Washington

text: 's

text: street

text: corner

text: guys

text: With

text: an

text: FMLN

text: victory

text: El

text: Salvador

text: joins

text: other

text: Latin

text: American

text: countries

text: that

text: have

text: elected

text: leftist

text: leaders

text: in

text: recent

text: years

text: Venezuela

text: Bolivia

text: Nicaragua

text: Argentina

text: Honduras

text: Guatemala

text: Ecuador

text: and

text: Brazil

text: But

text: Berkman

text: and

text: others

text: warn

text: that

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: must

text: not

text: lump

text: everyone

text: together

text: People

text: tend

text: to

text: look

text: at

text: the

text: left

text: in

text: Latin

text: America

text: and

text: oversimplify

text: it

text: Berkman

text: said

text: There

text: 's

text: the

text: good

text: left

text: and

text: the

text: bad

text: left

text: Or

text: as

text: Aronson

text: put

text: it

text: There

text: 's

text: leftists

text: and

text: there

text: 's

text: leftists

text: Aronson

text: sees

text: two

text: types

text: of

text: leftist

text: governments

text: in

text: Latin

text: America

text: institutional

text: governments

text: like

text: Brazil

text: 's

text: that

text: have

text: made

text: peace

text: with

text: the

text: free

text: market

text: while

text: still

text: championing

text: social

text: programs

text: and

text: populist

text: more

text: radical

text: governments

text: like

text: Venezuela

text: 's

text: Analysts

text: are

text: not

text: sure

text: what

text: to

text: make

text: of

text: Funes

text: a

text: former

text: freelance

text: journalist

text: for

text: CNN

text: en

text: EspaÃ±ol

text: who

text: is

text: projecting

text: a

text: moderate

text: image

text: The

text: FMLN

text: did

text: something

text: very

text: clever

text: Reich

text: said

text: They

text: put

text: somebody

text: at

text: the

text: head

text: of

text: the

text: party

text: who

text: is

text: not

text: a

text: guerrilla

text: not

text: a

text: terrorist

text: Even

text: the

text: FMLN

text: may

text: not

text: know

text: what

text: to

text: expect

text: from

text: Funes

text: Berkman

text: calls

text: it

text: an

text: issue

text: of

text: uncertainty

text: between

text: the

text: former

text: journalist

text: and

text: the

text: former

text: guerrilla

text: group

text: There

text: 's

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: unknowns

text: about

text: how

text: the

text: relationship

text: between

text: Funes

text: and

text: the

text: FMLN

text: will

text: proceed

text: she

text: said

text: adding

text: that

text: she

text: will

text: watch

text: his

text: Cabinet

text: picks

text: and

text: whether

text: he

text: brings

text: in

text: people

text: from

text: other

text: parties

text: Funes

text: victory

text: was

text: a

text: defining

text: moment

text: for

text: the

text: FMLN

text: It

text: 's

text: an

text: important

text: transformation

text: Hakim

text: said

text: The

text: ex

text: guerrillas

text: have

text: to

text: make

text: a

text: decision

text: Are

text: they

text: going

text: to

text: try

text: to

text: bring

text: about

text: revolutionary

text: radical

text: change

text: or

text: manage

text: the

text: whole

text: country

text: and

text: have

text: step

text: by

text: step

text: reform

text: Aronson

text: sees

text: it

text: as

text: a

text: test

text: of

text: whether

text: they

text: will

text: be

text: pragmatic

text: or

text: ideological

text: The

text: FMLN

text: may

text: not

text: have

text: a

text: choice

text: but

text: to

text: be

text: pragmatic

text: The

text: party

text: holds

text: seats

text: in

text: the

text: National

text: Assembly

text: ARENA

text: has

text: seats

text: Forty

text: three

text: votes

text: are

text: needed

text: to

text: pass

text: most

text: legislation

text: and

text: some

text: measures

text: require

text: supermajority

text: approval

text: of

text: votes

text: That

text: means

text: that

text: if

text: ARENA

text: and

text: the

text: FMLN

text: can

text: not

text: agree

text: on

text: a

text: measure

text: they

text: have

text: to

text: look

text: to

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: minor

text: parties

text: for

text: support

text: The

text: PCN

text: which

text: is

text: the

text: National

text: Conciliation

text: Party

text: has

text: seats

text: and

text: could

text: emerge

text: as

text: a

text: power

text: broker

text: Two

text: others

text: parties

text: hold

text: six

text: seats

text: It

text: is

text: in

text: the

text: PCN

text: 's

text: interest

text: to

text: play

text: ball

text: as

text: well

text: Berkman

text: said

text: The

text: PCN

text: will

text: act

text: as

text: a

text: moderating

text: force

text: Berkman

text: also

text: said

text: the

text: FMLN

text: will

text: likely

text: take

text: a

text: moderate

text: approach

text: because

text: the

text: nation

text: relies

text: too

text: much

text: on

text: outside

text: investments

text: and

text: remittances

text: from

text: Salvadorans

text: living

text: abroad

text: for

text: the

text: former

text: guerrillas

text: to

text: adopt

text: too

text: much

text: of

text: a

text: radical

text: approach

text: But

text: Hakim

text: worries

text: about

text: something

text: else

text: I

text: think

text: ARENA

text: may

text: be

text: prepared

text: for

text: this

text: loss

text: he

text: said

text: I

text: 'm

text: concerned

text: that

text: the

text: FMLN

text: may

text: not

text: be

text: prepared

text: to

text: govern

question: What would end 20-year hold by the right-leaning ARENA?

answer: Funes' victory

text: Funes' victory

question: What percentage of vote did he have?

answer: 51.27

question: Who had 51.27 percent of the vote

answer: Funes

text: Funes

question: how many ballots were counted

answer: 90.68 percent

text: 90.68 percent

question: When did he last win?

answer: Sunday

text: Sunday

question: what would the victory end

answer: a 20-year hold on the presidency by the right-leaning ARENA.

text: a 20-year hold on the presidency by the right-leaning ARENA.

question: Who died during the civil war?

answer: 75,000 Salvadorans

text: 75,000 Salvadorans


text:
LONDON, England (CNN) -- A visit to the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty and the Pyramids is on the itinerary of most jet-setting travelers.

Visiting the Eiffel Tower was voted the most overrated experience by tourists.

But some of the most famous and iconic tourist attractions in the world are the most disappointing to actually visit, according to a survey of British tourists.

And those questioned didn't think too highly of their own country's best-known landmarks either, with Big Ben, Buckingham Palace and the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain also turning people cold.

Travel expert Felice Hardy explained why many tourists, often after spending inflated amounts on reaching and then viewing the most famous places, are left with a feeling of anti-climax.

"It's easy to be swayed by brochures that opt for the mainstream and focus on clichÃ©d tourist sights around the world," she said. "But many of them are overcrowded and disappointing.

"Pick carefully and don't always go for the obvious. Natural phenomena are usually more exciting than the man-made, and can be wonderfully free of tourists."

The Eiffel Tower -- described by Hardy as "frustratingly overcrowded and overpriced" -- was dubbed the most disappointing international sight.

Britain's biggest letdown was Stonehenge, a sacred Druid sight in the rural south of England, which was dismissed as "an isolated pile of rocks in a usually muddy field" by Hardy.

The Diana fountain resembled "a colorless wet skateboard park" while as far as Big Ben was concerned: "Once you've seen it, you'll know what time it is -- time to go somewhere else."

Three of America's most famous sights -- New York's Times Square and Statue of Liberty plus The White House in Washington also made the list of shame.

But the 1,267 adults questioned by Virgin Travel Insurance also nominated the best places to visit in the world, with the Treasury in the ancient city of Petra in Jordan topping the list.

Other unmissables included the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya and Australia's Sydney Harbor Bridge. Alnwick Castle in Northumberland was voted Britain's top tourist sight.

TOP TEN MOST DISAPPOINTING GLOBAL SIGHTS

1. The Eiffel Tower, Paris; 2. The Louvre, Paris; 3. Times Square, New York; 4. Las Ramblas, Barcelona; 5. Statue of Liberty, New York; 6. Spanish Steps, Rome; 7. The White House, Washington DC; 8. The Pyramids, Egypt; 9. The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin; 10.The Leaning Tower of Pisa.

TOP TEN MOST DISAPPOINTING UK SIGHTS

1. Stonehenge; 2. Angel of the North. Gateshead; 3. Blackpool Tower; 4. Land's End, Cornwall; 5. Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain, London; 6. The London Eye; 7. Brighton Pier; 8. Buckingham Palace; 9. White Cliffs of Dover; 10. Big Ben.

TOP TEN BEST GLOBAL SIGHTS

1. The Treasury at Petra, Jordan; 2. The Grand Canal, Venice; 3. The Masai Mara, Kenya; 4. Sydney Harbour Bridge; 5. Taroko Gorge, Taiwan; 6. Kings Canyon, Northern Territory, Australia; 7. Cappadoccia caves, Turkey; 8. Lake Titicaca, Peru and Bolivia; 9. Cable Beach, Broome, Western Australia; 10. Jungfraujoch railway, Switzerland.

TOP TEN BEST UK SIGHTS

1. Alnwick Castle, Northumberland; 2. Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge, County Antrim; 3. The Royal Crescent, Bath; 4. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Southwark, south London; 5. The Backs, Cambridge; 6. Holkham Bay, Norfolk; 7. Lyme Regis and the Jurassic Coast, Devon and Dorset; 8. Tate St Ives gallery, Cornwall; 9. Isle of Skye, Scotland; 10. The Eden Project, Cornwall  E-mail to a friend

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question: What is on the list?

answer: A visit to the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty and the Pyramids is

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question: Where is the best place to visit

answer: The Treasury at Petra, Jordan;

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question: What is most disappointing to visit?

answer: The Eiffel Tower

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question: What city was voted the best place to visit?

answer: Petra in Jordan

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question: What are the most disappointing to visit

answer: Big Ben, Buckingham Palace and the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain

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