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Istanbul (CNN) -- Turkey's judicial system faced an uproar this week after one of the country's highest courts upheld a decision to reduce sentences against 26 men convicted of having sex with a 13-year old girl. Public outrage stemmed from a court ruling that the 13-year old girl had willingly engaged in "consensual" sexual relations with the 26 men.

Among the growing chorus of critics was Turkey's President Abdullah Gul.

"I take particular care not to make any direct statements on issues that are in the judicial process," Gul wrote in a series of statements on his Twitter account on Friday. "[But] the decision about reducing the punishment related with what happened to a young child of ours made me deeply uncomfortable... there is still the possibility for an appeal. I am hoping for an outcome that will comfort the public conscience."

The case in question dates back to 2002, when 26 men from the southeastern Turkish town of Mardin were accused of repeatedly having sex with a 13-year old girl identified only by the initials "N.C." According to Turkish media reports, the men, who included village 'muhtars' [mayors] and a gendarme officer, were accused of paying money to two adult female intermediaries during a 7-month period for repeated access to the girl.

Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals has now found itself under fire from women's rights groups, lawyers' associations, and senior government officials.

In response, the head of the Supreme Court's 14th Criminal Office adopted a somewhat contradictory position.

"The evaluations of the court were correct. We made a decision. This decision is not definite, it is also not possible for this decision to be changed by making noise," said Fevzi Elmas of the Supreme Court of Appeals, in an interview with the semi-official Anatolian Agency on Friday.

The courts sentenced the 26 accused rapists' according to an earlier version of the country's penal code, which underwent significant revisions in 2005.

The older penal code entailed lesser punishments for defendants found guilty of sexually assaulting children.

"In the old penal code there was a very clear article which said it didn't matter if you were under 15 [years of age] or over 15... if any rape or sexual assault happened with the consent of the girl or the woman, then the sentence would be reduced," said Pinar Ilkkaracan of the group Women for Women's Human Rights, who lobbied for the 2005 revision of the Turkish criminal code.

"In the new Turkish penal code there is no question of consent, that is incredibly important for us," Ilkkaracan added. "In terms of girls and boys under 15 it says very clearly any violation of the body for sexual purposes is defined as sexual abuse in the new code. Which means that sexual assault or the violation of the body should have a higher sentence."

According to Turkish media reports, some of the 26 defendants were acquitted, while others received jail sentences of one to four years.

"This decision is an outright scandal," said Ilkkaracan, the women's rights advocate.

In his statement to Anatolian Agency, Elmas, the official from the Supreme Court of Appeals, argued that the court had no choice but to sentence the defendants according to the pre-2005 version of the penal code.

"We don't have any other option," Elmas said. "This is an undebatable rule of law."

But that decision was challenged by the Union of Turkish Bar Associations on Friday, which called the ruling "legally inappropriate."

Meanwhile, in a written statement released on her ministry's web-site, Family and Social Policies Minister Fatma Sahin argued the ruling violated not only the current criminal code, but also the older version which had been in force in 2002 at the time when the 26 men were accused of having sex with the 13 year old.

"I find the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeals 14th Criminal Office to approve the verdict of the local court that a 13-year old child 'got together with the defendants of her own free will' unacceptable and worrying," Sahin wrote.

"I would like to remind the judiciary that its primary task is to protect the victim and the rights of the one who was sexually abused," she added.

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(CNN) -- The number of people worldwide without access to a toilet -- no public restroom, no outhouse, no latrine, no smallest room -- is a whopping 2.6 billion. That's four out of ten people.

The bucket toilet is the only thing on offer for millions of black South Africans.

According to the World Toilet Organization, 2.2 million people, predominantly children, die every year from diarrhea -- more than from malaria, from AIDS, from TB. That number dwarfs any casualties related to violent conflict.

These figures are intrinsically related. The underestimation of fecal contamination is staggering, sobering -- and unfortunately, silencing.

Singaporean social-entrepreneur Jack Sim founded the non-profit World Toilet Organization ("the other WTO") in 2001, as a support network for all existing organizations.

It now includes 151 members from 53 countries, which meet once a year to network, discuss sanitation issues and work together toward "eliminating the toilet taboo and delivering sustainable sanitation."

Goal number one: Making sanitation speakable. "What we don't discuss, we can't improve," insists Sim.

This year, the World Toilet Summit & Expo 2008 was held from November 4-6 in Macau under the theme "Driving Sustainable Sanitation through Market-Based Initiatives."

Indeed, not only is sanitation a good idea, it's a good investment.

Biosolids can be composted into fertilizer, sewage can be processed into methane biogas, and even simple latrines in India are producing compost and fertilizer.

"Globally, if universal sanitation were achieved by 2015, it would cost $95 billion, but it would save $660 billion," writes Rose George in her newly released book "The Big Necessity."

Real-world examples follow: "When Peru had a cholera outbreak in 1991, it cost $1 billion to contain but could have been prevented with $100 million of better sanitation measures."

Or even more alarming: "Pakistan, for example, spends 47 times more on its military budget than on water and sanitation, though it loses 120,000 people to diarrhea a year."

So while 2.6 billion people have no toilet, how many millions of us simply "flush and forget"?

Eco-sanitation, or the problem of dealing efficiently and ecologically with sewer systems, wastewater, treatment and purification, is no less a serious one.

In the UK alone, the sewage system emits some 28.8 million tons of carbon dioxide a year.

As sewers become overloaded with urban development, drought strikes various regions of the earth, and potable water becomes increasingly scarce, even the flush toilet is now put into question.

Today, those who care are looking at innovative toilet and waste-disposal solutions from India, China and other parts of the developing world, where attitudes and habits are still evolving and open to change.

Don't forget, World Toilet Day is November 19.

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(CNN) -- "Gossip Girl" actor Chace Crawford was arrested on a marijuana charge in his hometown Plano, Texas, early Friday morning, police said.

The misdemeanor charge involves possession of less than two ounces of marijuana, according to the police report.

Crawford, 24, was riding in a 2003 Nissan 350Z when police stopped him, the arrest report said.

The charge carries a maximum of 180 days in jail and a $2,000 fine, although a first offender can usually expect a year or less probation, according to Texas criminal lawyer George Reul. Jail time is rare in such cases, he said.

Many defendants get "deferred adjudication," under which they are not technically convicted and it is removed from their criminal record if they successfully complete probation, Reul said.

Crawford has won two Teen Choice acting awards for his role as Nate Archibald in "Gossip Girl," which is in its fourth season on the CW network.

CNN's Jack Hannah contributed to this report.

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(WIRED) -- Two cable powerhouses have announced an ambitious pilot program that aims to convince their customers that, actually, TV on the web should not be free.

Jeffrey Bewkes, chairman and CEO of Time Warner, speaks at the NCTA conference in Washington.

With a service called TV Everywhere, Comcast and Time Warner will give cable subscribers access to "premium" television content via broadband, and later cellphone connections.

To begin with, 5,000 Comcast subscribers will begin testing the system next month, giving them access to Time Warner's TBS and TNT channels on their computers, and the same channels' video-on-demand catalogs on their cable boxes.

If you made peace long ago with the idea of paying a monthly cable bill, this probably sounds great. It means watching your existing subscription on new screens without paying additional fees or buying more hardware. (Of course, as consumers adopt TV Everywhere, they can probably expect price increases.)

But if you prefer to watch your television for free on ad-supported sites like Hulu while paying only for the internet connection that delivers it, you could be in for a rude awakening. TV Everywhere represents an alternative -- and possible threat -- to the popular Hulu model.

If the pilot program impresses the group -- and proves to other networks that its user-authentication system is secure -- Comcast and Time Warner expect the other television programmers, ISPs and mobile providers to join, giving all cable subscribers a way to watch the content they pay for on their televisions using any broadband-connected computer or authenticated cellphone.

Already "at least 92 percent of Americans qualify to watch this for free online," according to Jeff Bewkes, chairman and CEO of Time Warner.

For these subscribers, TV Everywhere represents a potential win. The only question is whether they will keep paying for the old cable subscription model as their viewing habits shift online.

There's nothing to stop television networks from putting their content on both Hulu and TV Everywhere, because TV Everywhere's contract will be non-exclusive, according to Bewkes. However, given the choice between Hulu and TV Everywhere, television programmers have an incentive to go with the latter.

Only the TV Everywhere model promises to port yesterday's lucrative business model onto today's platforms. And that, according to some critics, is exactly the problem.

"[TV Everywhere] raises substantial anti-competitive issues by restricting the availability of programming to the favored distribution methods," said Gigi B. Sohn, president and co-founder of the public interest group Public Knowledge. "Under the TV Everywhere plan, no other program distributors would be able to emerge, and no consumers will be able to 'cut the cord' because they find what they want online. As a result, consumers will be the losers.

"In addition, we are concerned that this program violates the open nature of the internet. By adding this additional toll lane, Comcast and Time Warner want to create their own 'managed channel' within the internet and turn the internet into their own private cable channel."

So, what about Hulu? Will its deals fall through given this new option?

"There will be some part [of Time Warner's content] that will be out there [on Hulu], said Bewkes."Short-form content, I think, will continue to be available -- promotional content will continue to be available."

However, only cable subscribers will be able to access other content online -- through officially licensed avenues, anyway.

Bewkes added that some other television programmers have avoided Hulu "for security concerns and because they didn't like the model," but that they will give TV Everywhere a chance.

"Consumers vote every single month with their pocketbook," he added. "They don't have to subscribe to cable. They don't have to pay for these services, yet they do. The number of people paying for subscription television has gone up and up and up every single quarter that we've been in the business."

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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- It was one of the greatest humanitarian acts in history.

Pondering an imaginary Yiddish-speaking place produced "The Yiddish Policemen's Union," says Michael Chabon.

At the beginning of World War II, as the Nazis tightened their grip on Europe, the U.S. government allowed millions of Jews to resettle from their homes in Poland and Russia to southeastern Alaska, along the panhandle.   Two million Jews had died at the hands of the Nazi scourge, but millions more were saved as the Federal District of Sitka, Alaska, became the new Jewish homeland -- all the more important when the fledgling State of Israel went down to defeat in 1948.

However, 60 years later, Sitka is about to be returned to local jurisdiction, and the island's Jews -- including a noted detective, Meyer Landsman -- are wondering where to go next. The Jewish people, forever rootless, will have to wander some more.

Landsman's got other problems, too. He's rootless himself, biding his time in a seedy hotel. There's the body that turned up in a nearby room, a onetime chess prodigy who appears to have major connections with some big shots -- machers, in the local Yiddish lingo. There's his ex-wife, now his boss -- at least until the department is disbanded -- and his partner, a half-Jewish, half-Tlingit named Berko who's far more responsible than Landsman.

And there are a host of old enemies with long memories, particularly when Landsman decides to root around the dead chess player's case.

Landsman's world is fiction, of course, a product of Michael Chabon's imagination. Chabon's new book, "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" (HarperCollins), combines Landsman's hard-boiled detective's terrain with the landscape of alternate history, one in which world events take a startling turn.

The story is rooted in fact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Chabon ("The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay") observes.

Chabon had written an article about the decline of Yiddish, and the reaction to the piece -- some of it very negative -- "got me thinking about ... a possible, but nonexistent, imaginary Yiddish-speaking place in the modern world," he says in an interview at CNN Center.

In the article, he noted an actual plan by Franklin Roosevelt's Interior secretary, Harold Ickes, to create a refuge for European Jews in Alaska, still 20 years from statehood. In reality, the plan was squelched thanks to the opposition of Alaska delegate Anthony Dimond, but in the "Yiddish Policemen's" world, Dimond is conveniently killed off and the plan goes forward.

Chabon's Federal District of Sitka is a land of tall apartment blocks and grimy streets, as if "Hong Kong had moved to the other side of the Pacific Ocean," he says.

The novel is peppered with clever conceits. The book's black hats, as in villains, are actual "black hats," a slang term for ultra-Orthodox Jews. The characters are fond of Filipino doughnuts, a twist on the Jewish taste for Chinese food. The place names of Russian Alaska are an apt companion to the Eastern European surnames of Chabon's Jews, and then there are throwaway bits -- such as in the Sitka of 2001, Orson Welles did release a version of "Heart of Darkness."

Doing a genre novel -- or several at once, as "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" is part detective story, part alt-history, part modern Jewish folktale -- isn't considered the natural turf for a so-called literary writer like Chabon, but the author -- who has been vocal in support of genre fiction -- makes no apologies for the work.

"I only ever try to write in genres that I love ... I love hard-boiled detective novels, I love fantasy, I love science fiction," he says. "It feels like a natural impulse to want to integrate that passion that I have as a reader into my writing. I didn't see a good reason not to. ... And to say that there's something inherently inferior about the mystery genre is just silly."

In writing "The Yiddish Policeman's Union," Chabon says, the key was re-reading Raymond Chandler, creator of L.A. detective Philip Marlowe and a distinctive tough-guy style, as well as the Russian-Jewish short story writer Isaac Babel, "whose use of simile and metaphor strangely echoed Chandler," he says.

Babel also had a "clear-eyed view of violence. ... There's a kinship there between Chandler and Babel, and that's what helped me kind-of forge the voice for this novel," Chabon says.

But, he adds, "the whole novel is itself a simile. It's setting up a series of semblances and mirrorings of the world we live in, so it seemed almost necessary, not just from a stylistic point of view but from a thematic point of view." Chabon's layered themes include reason's conflict with religious extremism, an idea that comes to the fore as the novel progresses.

Holding a mirror to our world is a common theme of alternate histories, and Chabon says he is fond of the type in general. The noted comic-book fan -- he co-wrote "Spider-Man 2" -- cites two favorites: the "what-if" scenarios often proposed in the Superman comics, and an issue of National Lampoon that celebrated John F. Kennedy's fifth inaugural with the cover line, "JFK's First 6,000 Days."

"I read and re-read that a dozen times," he says. "It had an undertone of poignance. ... It was like a perpetual November 21, 1963. America never went through any of the turbulence of the '60s. ... It was the opposite of most counterfactual fiction, which tends to present the catastrophic -- what if the bad things happened. ... This was presenting an 'if only,' not a 'what if.' "

Which is not to say "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" is presenting a better -- or worse -- future. There is a darkness in the book, Chabon observes. But there's also the idea that millions of people were saved from the death camps.

"I'm certainly not presenting the world of this novel as 'it would have been better this way.' It's a dark world, and the Jews of Sitka are on the brink of the abyss," he says. "But there is a certain 'if only' quality."

"The Yiddish Policeman's Union" has earned mostly admiring reviews. " 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union' builds upon the achievement of 'Kavalier & Clay,' " wrote the notoriously hard-to-please Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times.

Reaction from the public has been positive and even put him on The New York Times' hardcover bestseller list, a rarified place for any author. "I feel like the book has been embraced," says Chabon.

Perhaps the only people concerned about the book's subject matter are some Jews, who have asked Chabon if the book isn't, well, "too Jewish."

"It reminds me of when my first novel, 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh,' came out ... and everybody in Pittsburgh said, 'Are you crazy? Why would you set a novel in Pittsburgh? Who's going to want to read a novel about Pittsburgh?' " he laughs. "The reason we read fiction is know what it would be like to really be someone else. ... That kind of transport across time and place is the magic of fiction." E-mail to a friend

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text: least

text: until

text: the

text: department

text: is

text: disbanded

text: and

text: his

text: partner

text: a

text: half

text: Jewish

text: half

text: Tlingit

text: named

text: Berko

text: who

text: 's

text: far

text: more

text: responsible

text: than

text: Landsman

text: And

text: there

text: are

text: a

text: host

text: of

text: old

text: enemies

text: with

text: long

text: memories

text: particularly

text: when

text: Landsman

text: decides

text: to

text: root

text: around

text: the

text: dead

text: chess

text: player

text: 's

text: case

text: Landsman

text: 's

text: world

text: is

text: fiction

text: of

text: course

text: a

text: product

text: of

text: Michael

text: Chabon

text: 's

text: imagination

text: Chabon

text: 's

text: new

text: book

text: The

text: Yiddish

text: Policeman

text: 's

text: Union

text: HarperCollins

text: combines

text: Landsman

text: 's

text: hard

text: boiled

text: detective

text: 's

text: terrain

text: with

text: the

text: landscape

text: of

text: alternate

text: history

text: one

text: in

text: which

text: world

text: events

text: take

text: a

text: startling

text: turn

text: The

text: story

text: is

text: rooted

text: in

text: fact

text: the

text: Pulitzer

text: Prize

text: winning

text: author

text: Chabon

text: The

text: Amazing

text: Adventures

text: of

text: Kavalier

text: Clay

text: observes

text: Chabon

text: had

text: written

text: an

text: article

text: about

text: the

text: decline

text: of

text: Yiddish

text: and

text: the

text: reaction

text: to

text: the

text: piece

text: some

text: of

text: it

text: very

text: negative

text: got

text: me

text: thinking

text: about

text: a

text: possible

text: but

text: nonexistent

text: imaginary

text: Yiddish

text: speaking

text: place

text: in

text: the

text: modern

text: world

text: he

text: says

text: in

text: an

text: interview

text: at

text: CNN

text: Center

text: In

text: the

text: article

text: he

text: noted

text: an

text: actual

text: plan

text: by

text: Franklin

text: Roosevelt

text: 's

text: Interior

text: secretary

text: Harold

text: Ickes

text: to

text: create

text: a

text: refuge

text: for

text: European

text: Jews

text: in

text: Alaska

text: still

text: years

text: from

text: statehood

text: In

text: reality

text: the

text: plan

text: was

text: squelched

text: thanks

text: to

text: the

text: opposition

text: of

text: Alaska

text: delegate

text: Anthony

text: Dimond

text: but

text: in

text: the

text: Yiddish

text: Policemen

text: 's

text: world

text: Dimond

text: is

text: conveniently

text: killed

text: off

text: and

text: the

text: plan

text: goes

text: forward

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text: 's

text: Federal

text: District

text: of

text: Sitka

text: is

text: a

text: land

text: of

text: tall

text: apartment

text: blocks

text: and

text: grimy

text: streets

text: as

text: if

text: Hong

text: Kong

text: had

text: moved

text: to

text: the

text: other

text: side

text: of

text: the

text: Pacific

text: Ocean

text: he

text: says

text: The

text: novel

text: is

text: peppered

text: with

text: clever

text: conceits

text: The

text: book

text: 's

text: black

text: hats

text: as

text: in

text: villains

text: are

text: actual

text: black

text: hats

text: a

text: slang

text: term

text: for

text: ultra

text: Orthodox

text: Jews

text: The

text: characters

text: are

text: fond

text: of

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text: doughnuts

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text: twist

text: on

text: the

text: Jewish

text: taste

text: for

text: Chinese

text: food

text: The

text: place

text: names

text: of

text: Russian

text: Alaska

text: are

text: an

text: apt

text: companion

text: to

text: the

text: Eastern

text: European

text: surnames

text: of

text: Chabon

text: 's

text: Jews

text: and

text: then

text: there

text: are

text: throwaway

text: bits

text: such

text: as

text: in

text: the

text: Sitka

text: of

text: Orson

text: Welles

text: did

text: release

text: a

text: version

text: of

text: Heart

text: of

text: Darkness

text: Doing

text: a

text: genre

text: novel

text: or

text: several

text: at

text: once

text: as

text: The

text: Yiddish

text: Policeman

text: 's

text: Union

text: is

text: part

text: detective

text: story

text: part

text: alt

text: history

text: part

text: modern

text: Jewish

text: folktale

text: is

text: n't

text: considered

text: the

text: natural

text: turf

text: for

text: a

text: so

text: called

text: literary

text: writer

text: like

text: Chabon

text: but

text: the

text: author

text: who

text: has

text: been

text: vocal

text: in

text: support

text: of

text: genre

text: fiction

text: makes

text: no

text: apologies

text: for

text: the

text: work

text: I

text: only

text: ever

text: try

text: to

text: write

text: in

text: genres

text: that

text: I

text: love

text: I

text: love

text: hard

text: boiled

text: detective

text: novels

text: I

text: love

text: fantasy

text: I

text: love

text: science

text: fiction

text: he

text: says

text: It

text: feels

text: like

text: a

text: natural

text: impulse

text: to

text: want

text: to

text: integrate

text: that

text: passion

text: that

text: I

text: have

text: as

text: a

text: reader

text: into

text: my

text: writing

text: I

text: did

text: n't

text: see

text: a

text: good

text: reason

text: not

text: to

text: And

text: to

text: say

text: that

text: there

text: 's

text: something

text: inherently

text: inferior

text: about

text: the

text: mystery

text: genre

text: is

text: just

text: silly

text: In

text: writing

text: The

text: Yiddish

text: Policeman

text: 's

text: Union

text: Chabon

text: says

text: the

text: key

text: was

text: re

text: reading

text: Raymond

text: Chandler

text: creator

text: of

text: L.A.

text: detective

text: Philip

text: Marlowe

text: and

text: a

text: distinctive

text: tough

text: guy

text: style

text: as

text: well

text: as

text: the

text: Russian

text: Jewish

text: short

text: story

text: writer

text: Isaac

text: Babel

text: whose

text: use

text: of

text: simile

text: and

text: metaphor

text: strangely

text: echoed

text: Chandler

text: he

text: says

text: Babel

text: also

text: had

text: a

text: clear

text: eyed

text: view

text: of

text: violence

text: There

text: 's

text: a

text: kinship

text: there

text: between

text: Chandler

text: and

text: Babel

text: and

text: that

text: 's

text: what

text: helped

text: me

text: kind

text: of

text: forge

text: the

text: voice

text: for

text: this

text: novel

text: Chabon

text: says

text: But

text: he

text: adds

text: the

text: whole

text: novel

text: is

text: itself

text: a

text: simile

text: It

text: 's

text: setting

text: up

text: a

text: series

text: of

text: semblances

text: and

text: mirrorings

text: of

text: the

text: world

text: we

text: live

text: in

text: so

text: it

text: seemed

text: almost

text: necessary

text: not

text: just

text: from

text: a

text: stylistic

text: point

text: of

text: view

text: but

text: from

text: a

text: thematic

text: point

text: of

text: view

text: Chabon

text: 's

text: layered

text: themes

text: include

text: reason

text: 's

text: conflict

text: with

text: religious

text: extremism

text: an

text: idea

text: that

text: comes

text: to

text: the

text: fore

text: as

text: the

text: novel

text: progresses

text: Holding

text: a

text: mirror

text: to

text: our

text: world

text: is

text: a

text: common

text: theme

text: of

text: alternate

text: histories

text: and

text: Chabon

text: says

text: he

text: is

text: fond

text: of

text: the

text: type

text: in

text: general

text: The

text: noted

text: comic

text: book

text: fan

text: he

text: co

text: wrote

text: Spider

text: Man

text: cites

text: two

text: favorites

text: the

text: what

text: if

text: scenarios

text: often

text: proposed

text: in

text: the

text: Superman

text: comics

text: and

text: an

text: issue

text: of

text: National

text: Lampoon

text: that

text: celebrated

text: John

text: F.

text: Kennedy

text: 's

text: fifth

text: inaugural

text: with

text: the

text: cover

text: line

text: JFK

text: 's

text: First

text: Days

text: I

text: read

text: and

text: re

text: read

text: that

text: a

text: dozen

text: times

text: he

text: says

text: It

text: had

text: an

text: undertone

text: of

text: poignance

text: It

text: was

text: like

text: a

text: perpetual

text: November

text: America

text: never

text: went

text: through

text: any

text: of

text: the

text: turbulence

text: of

text: the

text: It

text: was

text: the

text: opposite

text: of

text: most

text: counterfactual

text: fiction

text: which

text: tends

text: to

text: present

text: the

text: catastrophic

text: what

text: if

text: the

text: bad

text: things

text: happened

text: This

text: was

text: presenting

text: an

text: if

text: only

text: not

text: a

text: what

text: if

text: Which

text: is

text: not

text: to

text: say

text: The

text: Yiddish

text: Policeman

text: 's

text: Union

text: is

text: presenting

text: a

text: better

text: or

text: worse

text: future

text: There

text: is

text: a

text: darkness

text: in

text: the

text: book

text: Chabon

text: observes

text: But

text: there

text: 's

text: also

text: the

text: idea

text: that

text: millions

text: of

text: people

text: were

text: saved

text: from

text: the

text: death

text: camps

text: I

text: 'm

text: certainly

text: not

text: presenting

text: the

text: world

text: of

text: this

text: novel

text: as

text: it

text: would

text: have

text: been

text: better

text: this

text: way

text: It

text: 's

text: a

text: dark

text: world

text: and

text: the

text: Jews

text: of

text: Sitka

text: are

text: on

text: the

text: brink

text: of

text: the

text: abyss

text: he

text: says

text: But

text: there

text: is

text: a

text: certain

text: if

text: only

text: quality

text: The

text: Yiddish

text: Policeman

text: 's

text: Union

text: has

text: earned

text: mostly

text: admiring

text: reviews

text: The

text: Yiddish

text: Policemen

text: 's

text: Union

text: builds

text: upon

text: the

text: achievement

text: of

text: Kavalier

text: Clay

text: wrote

text: the

text: notoriously

text: hard

text: to

text: please

text: Michiko

text: Kakutani

text: in

text: The

text: New

text: York

text: Times

text: Reaction

text: from

text: the

text: public

text: has

text: been

text: positive

text: and

text: even

text: put

text: him

text: on

text: The

text: New

text: York

text: Times

text: hardcover

text: bestseller

text: list

text: a

text: rarified

text: place

text: for

text: any

text: author

text: I

text: feel

text: like

text: the

text: book

text: has

text: been

text: embraced

text: says

text: Chabon

text: Perhaps

text: the

text: only

text: people

text: concerned

text: about

text: the

text: book

text: 's

text: subject

text: matter

text: are

text: some

text: Jews

text: who

text: have

text: asked

text: Chabon

text: if

text: the

text: book

text: is

text: n't

text: well

text: too

text: Jewish

text: It

text: reminds

text: me

text: of

text: when

text: my

text: first

text: novel

text: The

text: Mysteries

text: of

text: Pittsburgh

text: came

text: out

text: and

text: everybody

text: in

text: Pittsburgh

text: said

text: Are

text: you

text: crazy

text: Why

text: would

text: you

text: set

text: a

text: novel

text: in

text: Pittsburgh

text: Who

text: 's

text: going

text: to

text: want

text: to

text: read

text: a

text: novel

text: about

text: Pittsburgh

text: he

text: laughs

text: The

text: reason

text: we

text: read

text: fiction

text: is

text: know

text: what

text: it

text: would

text: be

text: like

text: to

text: really

text: be

text: someone

text: else

text: That

text: kind

text: of

text: transport

text: across

text: time

text: and

text: place

text: is

text: the

text: magic

text: of

text: fiction

text: E

text: mail

text: to

text: a

text: friend

question: Which author won a pulitzer prize for an earlier novel

answer: Chabon

text: Chabon

question: Who won Pulitzer prize?

answer: Chabon

text: Chabon

question: what was the earlier novel

answer: ("The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay")

text: ("The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay")

question: What posits Alaskan Jewish homeland?

answer: Federal District of Sitka, Alaska,

text: Federal District of Sitka, Alaska,

question: what is the alaskan jewish homelan

answer: Federal District of Sitka, Alaska,

text: Federal District of Sitka, Alaska,


text:
(CNN)  -- Tennis ace Roger Federer has given his unfailing support to his "good friend" Tiger Woods as the embattled golfer attempts to restore his reputation.

Federer believes the "worst has passed" for Tiger after his very public apology to a world wide television audience.

Woods fought back the tears as he admitted he had cheated on his wife Elin, but surprised observers by not setting any date for his return to golf ahead of major tournaments later this year, although he subsequently announced he would return for the U.S. masters in April.

It's time to give Tiger some peace

But Federer told The Gulf News that whatever the future held, Woods would remain his friend.

"What's happened to him has been hard to watch over the last three months right down to when he made his apology. I am sure he's headed in a better direction now," he added.

Federer, who has appeared in a well-known advertisement for Gillette with Woods and football star Thierry Henry, went on:

"The worst has passed. I hope that he can also work things out with his wife Elin because they are very nice people - obviously for the sake of their kids as well."

But Federer admitted he had not spoken to Woods since the November car crash which set in chain a stream of revelations about the American's private life.

"I have supported him, but I haven't had any contact with him," added the Swiss maestro, who was forced to withdraw from the Dubai Open with a lung infection which is set to sideline him for several weeks.

"It's been hard to watch from far away but I would love to see him back on the golf course. It is what he does best," added the 16-time grand slam winner.

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text: Tennis

text: ace

text: Roger

text: Federer

text: has

text: given

text: his

text: unfailing

text: support

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text: his

text: good

text: friend

text: Tiger

text: Woods

text: as

text: the

text: embattled

text: golfer

text: attempts

text: to

text: restore

text: his

text: reputation

text: Federer

text: believes

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text: worst

text: has

text: passed

text: for

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text: after

text: his

text: very

text: public

text: apology

text: to

text: a

text: world

text: wide

text: television

text: audience

text: Woods

text: fought

text: back

text: the

text: tears

text: as

text: he

text: admitted

text: he

text: had

text: cheated

text: on

text: his

text: wife

text: Elin

text: but

text: surprised

text: observers

text: by

text: not

text: setting

text: any

text: date

text: for

text: his

text: return

text: to

text: golf

text: ahead

text: of

text: major

text: tournaments

text: later

text: this

text: year

text: although

text: he

text: subsequently

text: announced

text: he

text: would

text: return

text: for

text: the

text: U.S.

text: masters

text: in

text: April

text: It

text: 's

text: time

text: to

text: give

text: Tiger

text: some

text: peace

text: But

text: Federer

text: told

text: The

text: Gulf

text: News

text: that

text: whatever

text: the

text: future

text: held

text: Woods

text: would

text: remain

text: his

text: friend

text: What

text: 's

text: happened

text: to

text: him

text: has

text: been

text: hard

text: to

text: watch

text: over

text: the

text: last

text: three

text: months

text: right

text: down

text: to

text: when

text: he

text: made

text: his

text: apology

text: I

text: am

text: sure

text: he

text: 's

text: headed

text: in

text: a

text: better

text: direction

text: now

text: he

text: added

text: Federer

text: who

text: has

text: appeared

text: in

text: a

text: well

text: known

text: advertisement

text: for

text: Gillette

text: with

text: Woods

text: and

text: football

text: star

text: Thierry

text: Henry

text: went

text: on

text: The

text: worst

text: has

text: passed

text: I

text: hope

text: that

text: he

text: can

text: also

text: work

text: things

text: out

text: with

text: his

text: wife

text: Elin

text: because

text: they

text: are

text: very

text: nice

text: people

text: obviously

text: for

text: the

text: sake

text: of

text: their

text: kids

text: as

text: well

text: But

text: Federer

text: admitted

text: he

text: had

text: not

text: spoken

text: to

text: Woods

text: since

text: the

text: November

text: car

text: crash

text: which

text: set

text: in

text: chain

text: a

text: stream

text: of

text: revelations

text: about

text: the

text: American

text: 's

text: private

text: life

text: I

text: have

text: supported

text: him

text: but

text: I

text: have

text: n't

text: had

text: any

text: contact

text: with

text: him

text: added

text: the

text: Swiss

text: maestro

text: who

text: was

text: forced

text: to

text: withdraw

text: from

text: the

text: Dubai

text: Open

text: with

text: a

text: lung

text: infection

text: which

text: is

text: set

text: to

text: sideline

text: him

text: for

text: several

text: weeks

text: It

text: 's

text: been

text: hard

text: to

text: watch

text: from

text: far

text: away

text: but

text: I

text: would

text: love

text: to

text: see

text: him

text: back

text: on

text: the

text: golf

text: course

text: It

text: is

text: what

text: he

text: does

text: best

text: added

text: the

text: grand

text: slam

text: winner

question: What commercials have they appeared in?

answer: Gillette

text: Gillette

question: Who is Federer's friend?

answer: Tiger Woods

text: Tiger Woods

question: Who publically apologized?

answer: Tiger Woods

text: Tiger Woods

question: What company did the player appear in ads for?

answer: Gillette

text: Gillette

question: Which friend is backing up the golfer?

answer: Roger Federer

text: Roger Federer

question: What company does Federer advertise for?

answer: Gillette

text: Gillette

question: Roger Federer and Tiger woods are what?

answer: "good friend"

text: "good friend"

question: What did the golfer admit to?

answer: he had cheated on his wife Elin,

text: he had cheated on his wife Elin,


text:
MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- A Spanish judge has indicted three suspected former Nazi concentration camp guards Thursday on charges of genocide and ordered their arrests.

Visitors mark 60th anniversary of liberation Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 2005.

Two of the suspects, Johann Leprich and Anton Tittjung, each 84, are thought to live in the United States, while the third, Josias Kumpf, also 84, is believed to live in Austria, according to a copy of the court order viewed by CNN.

They are accused of serving in the Nazi SS. Leprich and Tittjung were armed guards at the Mauthausen concentration camp and Gross Raming subcamp, while Kumpf served at the Sachsenhausen camp, the court order said.

In addition to Jews and other types of prisoners, the Spanish judge said there more than 7,000 Spaniards held prisoner at Mauthausen, of whom 4,300 died.

Some Spaniards arrived at the Sachsenhausen camp, in convoys from France, the document said.

The order, including international arrest warrants, was issued by Judge Ismael Moreno of Spain's National Court, which investigates genocide and crimes against humanity involving Spaniards.

The 18-page document cited prior judicial investigative work from other countries regarding the backgrounds of the three alleged ex-Nazi guards and their suspected roles in the notorious Nazi death camps during World War II.

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text: United

text: States

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text: believed

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistani authorities have arrested four men in connection with the suicide truck bombing of a Marriott Hotel last month in Islamabad that killed more than 50 people, officials said Friday.

More than 50 people died in last month's attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.

The men appeared Friday before a magistrate in an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi, police and Pakistan Federal Investigation Agency investigators said.

Although they have not been charged, the magistrate is allowing police to hold them for a week while the investigation continues.

The magistrate ordered them back to court on October 31.

Authorities have not said how they believe these men are connected to the September 20 bombing.

The men -- one of whom is a doctor -- were arrested at different times in different places, authorities said, but gave no additional details.

They identified them as: Dr. Muhammad Usman and Tehseen Ulla Jaan, both from Peshawar; Ilyas Rana Muhammad, from a village near Faiselabad in Pakistan's Punjab province; and Hameed Afzal Muhammad, from Toba Taik Singh district, also in Punjab province.

In addition to the dozens killed, some 250 people were wounded in the suicide truck attack, which sparked a fire that left the hotel in ruins.

The hotel, located near the diplomatic section of Islamabad, had been popular among tourists visiting Pakistan. It was crowded the night of the bombing.

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(CNN) -- The leading edge of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was still several miles off the beaches of the Florida Panhandle on Thursday morning, but the slick was already hitting the area's wallets.

"The phones just basically stopped ringing in the past couple of weeks for new bookings this summer," said Laura Lee, a spokeswoman for the Pensacola Bay Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Florida's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spotted oil sheen about six miles off Navarre Beach, east of Pensacola, on Thursday morning, according to the state Division of Emergency Management. Any oil that hits shore is likely to have been weathered into balls or mats of tar, or mixed with seawater in a pudding-like "mousse," the agency reported.

As of late Thursday morning, no oil or tar balls had washed up, said Buck Lee, executive director of the Santa Rosa Island Authority in Pensacola Beach. Lee, who is not related to Laura Lee, said the area had just had a "super" Memorial Day weekend -- but now, "We're just waiting anxiously to see what happens," he added.

Laura Lee said a wave of hotel cancellations hit the island in late April, after the sinking of the offshore drill rig Deepwater Horizon uncapped an undersea oil well off Louisiana. Those tapered off soon afterward, she said -- "But this week, there's been another wave of cancellations," Laura Lee said.

Hotels have responded to the threat by easing cancellation policies. "Some had guarantees that they would get their money back if there was oil," she said.

Families weigh Gulf Coast vacations

In addition, charter fishing -- another big business in the area -- has been hurt. Some skippers have gone to work for oil company BP, which has hired boats to help lay protective booms and skim oil off the surface of the Gulf.

Tourism pumped about $1.2 billion into the Escambia County economy in 2009, employing roughly 20,000 people and bringing about 3.5 million overnight visitors a year, according to tourism officials. Early July brings two of its biggest annual events -- the Independence Day holiday and the following weekend's Pensacola Beach air show, which features the locally based Navy aerobatic team, the Blue Angels. Faced with those concerns, the locals are trying to harness the power of technology and social media to offset the threat.

"We're encouraging our visitors who are currently here to post their vacation pictures on Facebook, and a lot of them have done that just so that visitors can see with their own eyes the oil hasn't hit," Laura Lee said.

And Buck Lee said the island authority hopes to put cameras on the beach and video streaming on the internet within about two weeks, "so they can see for themselves whether there's oil on the beach or not."

"And there may be," he said. "But we've got to get them the facts."

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question: What are hotels asking guests to post?

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question: How much did tourism contribute?

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question: What are hotels easing?

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SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- A 69-year-old who was previously convicted of torching a palace has been arrested in connection with a fire that destroyed Namdaemun, South Korea's oldest wooden structure and a national treasure, authorities said on Tuesday.

People on Monday look at the debris of the Namdaemun gate in central Seoul after the fire.

Similarities between the Sunday night fire and the 2006 blaze led to the investigation of a man identified only as Mr. Chae, said Kim Young-Su, chief of police of the Namdaemun police station. Chae had served time in prison for the palace fire.

Police searched the home of Chae's ex-wife and found a can of paint thinner and a pair of leather gloves they believe were used in the fire, Kim said.

Chae confessed to starting the fire, saying he was upset by a land grievance that led him to start the 2006 fire and by the sentence he was handed in that case, Kim said.

Chae was free on a suspended sentence, Kim added.

Chae said he chose Namdaemun because it was easily accessible by public transportation and yet situated in a lightly populated area where the fire was unlikely to hurt people, according to police.

The fire burned for hours, and more than a hundred firefighters tried to save it.  Watch the reaction to the Namdaemun's destruction Â»

Namdaemun was more than 600 years old and stood at the center of Seoul, having served as a main gate into the capital for centuries. The gate was considered a national symbol to Koreans around the world. E-mail to a friend

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question: What was Mr Chae convicted of?

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question: What Korean palace?

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question: What was the history of Namdaeumun?

answer: more than 600 years old and stood at the center of Seoul, having served as a main gate into the capital for centuries.

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question: What did Chae start the Namdaemun fire with?

answer: a can of paint thinner

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question: What was Mr. Chae convicted of in 2006?

answer: torching a palace

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question: What did the police say about Mr. Chae?

answer: Similarities between the Sunday night fire and the 2006 blaze led to the investigation of a man identified only as

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question: Where is Mr. Chae from?

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