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(CNN) -- When rehab and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings didn't work for Eddie Freas, he sought another way to kick his 20-year drug and alcohol addiction.

Eddie Freas fights drug addiction by putting all his energy into training for triathlons.

He swam 2.4 miles. He biked 112 miles. He ran 26.2 miles. The Pennsville, New Jersey, resident found relief in triathlons.

"I feel better when I'm working out," said Freas, 33. "It does wonders for the mind. The reason I started running -- it was a switch that went off in my head. I started feeling positive and feeling great about myself."

Freas spent his youth in pursuit of drugs. At the age of 13, he snuck bottles of Amaretto and rum from his mother's liquor cabinet. He also developed a taste for marijuana and cocaine. By his senior year of high school, Freas was kicked off the wrestling and football teams after failing a drug test.

Then in 2007, after a three-day binge, "I came home and was crying," Freas said. "I was so depressed. I turned on the TV." The set was tuned to ESPN, which was airing a story about a former drug addict who competed in triathlons.

The program's subject was Todd Crandell, who had lost a college hockey scholarship because of a drug addiction. After 13 years of using drugs, Crandell started competing in Ironman races and championed finding positive ways to fight addiction through his program called Racing for Recovery.

"Having an athletic background, I was drawn to getting back in shape," Crandell said. "It makes you turn intellectually and spiritually fit. Exercise is essential. It decreases addiction, depression and you use it as part of the recovery."

Freas was entranced by the parallels.

"His whole story seemed like mine," Freas said. "That's why it hit me so much. It was my story but it happened to somebody else. I knew I had to get back into fitness."

He took a bus to Racing for Recovery's office in Sylvania, Ohio. There, Freas said he learned to "stay clean and use other things -- fitness, instead of drugs." On his first day, Freas pushed himself to run 10 miles.

"It killed me," Freas said. "I was just motivated. I was sore for a week and I gradually got into it. As soon as I started including fitness into my everyday lifestyle, it made it so much easier. It kept me busy and because of the physical fitness, it was making me feel better about myself."

He pushed himself to run farther and raced in his first Ironman competition in 2008.

"It's different when you use drugs, you temporarily feel good and afterwards, you feel like doing more drugs," Freas said. "When you go for a long run and do physical fitness, you feel good doing it."

Research in animals and humans show that exercise can be a mild antidepressant.

"It isn't a huge surprise when you consider many positive effects exercise can have with regards to the brain chemistry: dopamine, serotonin, endorphin, epinephrine -- these are all associated with mood altering effects," said Dr. Cedric Bryant, the chief science officer for the American Council on Exercise. "If they're able to get this natural high, through a natural endeavor such as exercise, it allows them to replace the means to achieve that high with a more positive approach."

One study showed that women trying to quit smoking were more successful when they exercised. And the National Institute on Drug Abuse held a conference last year to explore the possible role of physical activity in substance abuse prevention.

"The thought centers around the release of mood-altering brain chemical, mainly endorphins," Bryant said. "It gives you euphoria or what you call 'runner's high.' "

Crandell said some people who battle drug addiction "want something more than sitting in support groups filled with smoke, complaining about drinking."

"I've had some of my naysayers from other programs who say you've taken one addiction and replaced it for another," Crandell said. "I've taken addiction and put into a new focus that includes exercise. Exercise for me is essential to my recovery and well-being."

The purpose of Racing for Recovery is not to turn everyone into an athlete, but to focus on positive pursuits in a person's life.

"Whatever you lost during your addiction, that should be your Ironman, not just running," Crandell said. "If your goal is to become a teacher, let that be your Ironman."

After Freas spent six months in Ohio, he returned to his hometown.

"I didn't want to come back home, because this was where I did all the dirt, all the partying and stuff," Freas said. "As time went on, I had to come back here. My life is turned around. I got to help people in my hometown."

Back in New Jersey, Freas helped train Dustin Deckard, 19, a former high school star wrestler, who is recovering from a four-year heroin addiction. Deckard wanted to get clean after a near-fatal overdose.

"I have to be clean the rest of my life," Deckard said. "Sometimes that overwhelms me. I just feel that sometimes it's not fair that other people can go out and have fun and drink and do whatever at a party. But me -- if I do anything -- it's off. I can't stop. I definitely have troubles with that."

Freas and Deckard have developed a brotherhood.

"I know how he was feeling, being down, not wanting to use drugs," Deckard said. "I just relate to him in every way. We both used. He's also into sports and into wrestling like I was. That's what's cool."

This Sunday, Freas and Deckard head to Racing for Recovery's half triathlon at Monroe, Michigan where the teen will race for the first time.

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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- You are about to meet Mr. Brown.

David Mann and Tamela Mann -- a real-life couple -- star in "Meet the Browns" as father and daughter.

He's David Mann, star of the TBS sitcom "Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns."

To borrow a phrase from the network's marketing -- he's very funny.

Mann's character -- "Downtown" Leroy Brown -- is a lovable, sometimes outrageous and always off-the-wall senior citizen who has stolen every scene he's entered in Tyler Perry's plays, movies and TV shows.

Mr. Brown no longer has to steal scenes, because TBS -- owned by CNN parent company Time Warner -- has ordered 80 episodes of half-hour comedy, based on the success of 10 pilot episodes.

"Just in case I'm dreaming, don't pinch me," said Mann. "I'm living the dream."

"Meet the Browns" is a spinoff of Perry's "House of Payne," a sitcom that has yielded strong cable ratings for TBS, and it employs some of the same characters seen in Perry's movies and stage plays -- including a play and film named "Meet the Browns," which is only mildly related to the TV series.

The show focuses on Mr. Brown and his daughter Cora, played by Mann's real-life wife, Tamela Mann, as Mr. Brown tries to turn his house into a home for the elderly.

Those who have followed Perry's productions know that Cora was the conceived during a brief fling between Brown and Madea, Perry's female alter ego.

"If it hadn't been for Cora, Mr. Brown and Madea probably would have killed each other by now," Mann said. "Cora is the glue to this whole thing. Cora keeps everybody grounded."

Mann said Mr. Brown's speech and mannerisms are from a combination of people.

"Grandfathers, uncles, relatives, you know, different friends you see." he said. "I use to go to a nursing home and just look at people, watch -- 'OK, that's how they're doing this.' "

His biggest laughs come from his use -- or abuse -- of the English language which Mann refers to as "Mr. Brownisms."

Manipulate becomes "manipudip," while hypnotize transforms to "hepatitis."

"You hear them as I spit them out, and it's just like, 'What was I thinking?' " Mann said.

Mr. Brown's wardrobe, which is always two sizes too small for his protruding belly, is a bright-colored mix of thrift store specials.

"The clothes just kind of happened," he said. "Because, you know, you have that uncle or that relative in your family who just can't let the clothes go?"

Since Mr. Brown originated on the stage -- in Perry productions -- Mann had to adjust to the small screen.

"I'm very animated and so I just had to make sure I toned that down for the screen because I'm so used to making sure that the person in the front row can see as well as the person in the balcony," he said. "To bring that and condense it down for television was a transition for me."

Camera operators are challenged to keep up with Mann as he moves around the set, sometimes re-writing the script.

"One word can trigger a whole different thing with us, and that's what I love about working with Tyler Perry," Mann said. "He gives you the freedom to go in there and create. If you see something that can make it funnier, he gives you the liberty to go ahead and do it, create it and make it funny."

Perry directs every episode at his new Atlanta studio on a sound stage next to where he also tapes "House of Payne."

Mr. Brown never seems too far from Mr. Mann.

In mid-interview, he emerges.

"Oh, he can come out any time," Mann, speaking as Brown, said. "All you got tuh do is say it, and he'll come. Yeap, Mr. Brown is always 'round somewhere. You jes' got tuh belieeeeeve."

The character is played about 30 years older than Mann, which causes some confusion out of costume and in public, he said.

"What's funny is when people see me out they're like, 'Are you Mr. Brown's son?' No, I'm Mr. Brown," he said. "But that's good for the makeup team."

Perhaps the most awkward time is when he is on the set, dressed as Mr. Brown, and he wants to show his wife, Tamela Mann, some husbandly affection.

"She is like, 'When you put that makeup on, you are Mr. Brown, you're not my husband.' " he said. "So, she doesn't want me kissing on her and stuff. She says 'it's like a dirty old man kissing and hugging on me.' "

You can also see Mr. Brown in "Tyler Perry's Madea Goes To Jail," which hit theaters last month and has been a rousing success at the box office.

"They finally got Madea," Mann said. "She's been to jail a few times, but this time Madea goes to prison -- or as Mr. Brown would say, 'prisnuh.' "

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text: life

text: wife

text: Tamela

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text: speech

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text: mannerisms

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text: uncles

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text: know

text: different

text: friends

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text: use

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text: how

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text: abuse

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text: Brownisms

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text: while

text: hypnotize

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text: You

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text: clothes

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text: a

text: transition

text: for

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text: Camera

text: operators

text: are

text: challenged

text: to

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text: set

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text: what

text: I

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text: Perry

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text: Tamela

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text: man

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text: You

text: can

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text: Mr.

text: Brown

text: in

text: Tyler

text: Perry

text: 's

text: Madea

text: Goes

text: To

text: Jail

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text: theaters

text: last

text: month

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text: rousing

text: success

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text: box

text: office

text: They

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text: Madea

text: Mann

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text: 's

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text: times

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text: Madea

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text: as

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text: Brown

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text: say

text: prisnuh

question: What role does his wife play on the show?

answer: daughter Cora,

text: daughter Cora,

question: Who is Mann married to?

answer: Tamela

text: Tamela

question: Who plays Mr. Brown in Meet The Browns?

answer: David Mann

text: David Mann

question: What network airs "Meet the Browns"?

answer: TBS

text: TBS

question: What actress is Mann's wife?

answer: Tamela

text: Tamela

question: Who plays Mr. Brown?

answer: David Mann

text: David Mann


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(CNN) -- The leadership of San Francisco's airport fired back Saturday at critics who had rallied around a commercial pilot who had posted videos online showing what he described as shortcomings in security.

The series of videos featured scenes from inside the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and were narrated by the pilot, who pointed out the contrast between the passengers, who were heavily scrutinized, and airport employees who just passed through a single door.

The footage was posted, and later removed, from the popular video-sharing website YouTube.

"A recent YouTube video, posted by a U.S. airline pilot, presents false and misleading information on SFO's security program," the airport said in a statement. "The video shows a door with a card swipe and suggests that access is gained to the airfield area through this door. In fact, the door shown in the video provides access only to an employee lunchroom."

The pilot who posted the videos requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

"I was trying to bring up the obvious, ludicrous TSA-type of security," he told CNN.

The pilot said he didn't think much about posting his videos online in late November, but that within a matter of days his chief pilot called him to ask him to remove them because they were "stirring a commotion."

In its statement Saturday, the airport defended its practices, stressing that there are variances in the security system based on various factors and that many layers of protection cannot easily be seen.

"Proper and effective security requires multiple layers of systems, procedures and policies that are interlaced and constantly monitored," the airport said. "The vast majority of the widespread layers of this security program are behind the scenes and transparent to casual observers."

A few days after the pilot posted the videos, he said, the Transportation Security Administration told him he was being suspended from the Federal Flight Deck Officer program. As an officer in that program, the federal agency had deputized him, among others, to carry a handgun in the cockpit.

The pilot said four air marshals and two local deputies then showed up at his home near Sacramento to personally confiscate his weapon.

The only answer he could get from the security agency as to why he was suspended from the program was that he may have violated a regulation, the pilot said.

The TSA said that it holds those serving as federal flight deck officers to "the highest ethical standards," and said it took action because the pilot was in the program.

"(Participants in the flight deck officer program) must be able to maintain sensitive security information," said the agency's spokeswoman Sarah Horowitz. "As the issuing authority of credentials and firearms, TSA reviews each possible violation of those standards and acts accordingly up to and including removing an individual from the assigned role."

In the aftermath of the incident, the pilot said he resigned from the program. He added that he didn't consider that divulging such sensitive information online would stir controversy.

"I didn't think anything would come of it," said the 50-year-old pilot, a veteran who was a maintenance test pilot.

"This is really about getting the message out and demanding intelligent security," Don Werno, the pilot's attorney, told CNN. "No state secrets are being shown here. What's being shown here is a lack of security."

But the airport disagrees.

"San Francisco International Airport is proud to both an innovator and a trendsetter in aviation security," it said in its statement. "SFO meets, and in many cases, exceeds every federal security requirement."

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question: At which airport was the video taken?

answer: San Francisco International

text: San Francisco International

question: What did the pilot claim?

answer: shortcomings in security.

text: shortcomings in security.

question: What does the airport say about the video?

answer: posted by a U.S. airline pilot, presents false and misleading information on SFO's security program,"

text: posted by a U.S. airline pilot, presents false and misleading information on SFO's security program,"

question: Who has the TSA suspended?

answer: pilot

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question: What airport was in the video?

answer: San Francisco International

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question: What does the video show?

answer: shortcomings in security.

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Editor's note: Reza Sayah is one of the few Western journalists reporting from Tehran after the Iranian government placed restrictions on coverage.

A man in the crowd holds up a photo of Ahmadinejad during Khamenei's address at Friday prayers.

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- People in the crowd sang songs of tribute as they waited.

When he arrived, they stood and welcomed him in unison: "Praise be to God and to his prophet, Mohammed."

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader for two decades, took the stage during Friday prayers at Tehran University with a few notes on small pieces of paper in his left hand. He leaned on the lectern with his right arm, crippled in an 1981 assassination attempt.

He was ready to put an end to a week of unrest.

First, a sermon about the dangers of division and disunity, using the language of Islam. Then came secular sentences, decidedly direct.

He praised the huge turnout at the polls as a victory for Iran but criticized post-election turmoil as the work of Iran's enemies -- the United States, Israel and Britain.

"The enemies want to destroy our confidence. They want to create doubt about the election," Khamenei said.

A full hour passed before he delivered a verdict that supporters of opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi did not want to hear.

"Eleven million votes difference?" he asked. "Sometimes there's a margin of one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand, or one million, maximum. Then one can doubt, be concerned that there has been some rigging or manipulation.

"But there's a difference of 11 million votes. How can vote rigging happen?"

To be clear, he reminded the crowd of the victor at the polls. It was the man sitting in the front row: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

He was the "the absolute victor," Khamenei said.

"If political elites want to ignore or break the law and willy-nilly take wrong measures which are harmful, they will be held accountable for all violence and  blood and rioting."

Few in the crowd were disappointed with the cleric's words. "Death to America!" the people chanted repeatedly, interrupting Khamenei's speech. "Death to Israel."

Noticeably absent Friday was Moussavi, the man who had sparked Iran's unrest by calling for a recount of the votes. Absent, too, were Moussavi's supporters, who did not take to the streets to protest as they had done in previous days. There were no signs and placards on the streets. Or people clamoring for change.

The tens of thousands who showed up for Friday prayer were a stark contrast to the demonstrators. They were mostly religious conservatives, supporters of Ahmadinejad.

And they had a message for the president's opponent, though it was not always consistent. Some were conciliatory. "The nation should come together," one said. "We are all one."

Others took a hard line: "They must stop with the demonstrations, otherwise there will be consequences."

Just what those consequences might be may become apparent Saturday afternoon, when the demonstrators are expected again on the streets of Tehran.

But for now, Iran's supreme leader had issued his warning clearly: Enough is enough.

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(CNN) -- New details have emerged about a Jewish immigrant who fled Austria as World War II was brewing, lived frugally in New York and left an estate whose size -- $300,000 -- astounded some.

Ida Blumin fled Austria in 1938 for the U.S. and married Walter Fischer, who earned money performing odd jobs.

In a story published Monday, CNN and other news organizations reported neither the woman's name nor much else about her, except for the fact that she had donated half of her estate to Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a school with which she had had no known contact.

Since then, CNN has contacted two of her friends and a relative, who have identified her as Ida Fischer, who was born Ida Blumin in 1911 in Vienna. They said she was neither a concentration camp survivor nor had she ever been homeless, as the school originally reported.

Her life story, however, was still remarkable.

In 1938, she, her mother, her sister and her sister's husband fled Austria, said Peter Last, a Jewish collectible coin and banknote wholesaler who lived on East 32nd Street and befriended Fischer 20 years ago, when she lived a block away.

The Blumins made their home in New York, where they had relatives. The 5-foot-2-inch immigrant married Walter Fischer, another Austrian, who earned money performing odd jobs. The couple lived with Fischer's mother; Ida Fischer earned money from a variety of office jobs.

Fischer, who was in her mid-70s when Last met her in the late 1980s, gave the impression that she was just scraping by, he said. "She hung around on the street and talked to everybody and people gave her food and clothes," he said. "She was very thrifty."

She once traveled with her mother to Israel, but did not appear particularly religious, Last said.

Gabor Szanto, who met Fischer nearly 40 years ago upon his arrival in the United States from Hungary by way of Italy, disagreed, saying his friend observed all the high holidays.

"I used to take her to the synagogue," said the hair colorist who has a shop on the Upper West Side and cut Fischer's hair for free. He received 25 percent of her estate. "She was a great believer in God."

He described her as "a free spirit."

"She would say she liked weak men and strong coffee," he said. "She was always being taken out to eat by one person or another; people bought her things, bought her food, bought her newspapers. But she wasn't a down-and-out bag lady with a pushcart like the people in the movie. She was very neat, clean and she was a decent person."

He said her penny pinching was understandable "because she lived through the Depression."

Last said that, throughout the years he knew Fischer, she lived on East 31st Street in a 10th-floor, sparsely furnished one-bedroom apartment in a building for senior citizens.

Her rent -- about $145 per month -- was even lower than it would have been because she reported housing code violations in her apartment to authorities, who then declined to approve rent hikes, Last said.

But Fischer spent much of her time outside the building, where she sat on a bench dressed in old clothes and carried on a busy social life. "Everyone knew her," he said. "Everybody in the diner on the corner knew her."

Among her coterie was Rue McClanahan, who played Blanche Devereaux on "The Golden Girls" and lived on the block, he said.

Neighbors would sometimes give her items they no longer wanted. Fischer's frugality was legend: She recycled greeting cards, crossing off the name of the original recipient and replacing it with the new one. "She'd write on the top of it: 'From Ida,'" Last said.

Instead of paying extra to get an unlisted telephone number, she simply listed it under someone else's name, he said.

Occasionally, Last, now 74, would treat his neighbor to a meal at the diner or a nearby delicatessen, where her favorite dishes included lox. Though she was not thin, she would rarely finish what was on her plate. "A lot of it, she would take home," he said. "She'd take all the sugar and all the napkins; she'd bring extra jars to take coffee home in."

He always picked up the tab. "There was never any question," he said. "I don't think she ever bought anything."

Last, who was also born in Austria, helped Fischer increase her monthly pension from the Austrian government. He also helped her augment her income, giving Fischer $5 to sit in his Peugeot on days when the street sweeper went by so that he would not get a parking ticket.

One day, Fischer asked Last about a flier she had received offering to help residents write their will for free.

"I looked into it and I found that this was the Brooklyn Law School; they would send a lawyer who would take two students to people's houses and do their wills, so I said, 'It's OK.'"

Fischer asked Last to serve as executor and he agreed. She also told him that she would leave him money, but Last was unimpressed. "I never thought she had any real money," he said. "She was enough of a pest that I told her, 'No, I don't want it.'"

She took him at his word. Instead, she left a quarter of her $300,000 estate to Last's wife, Silvia, a quarter to Szanto and half to Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where a spokesman said the school was grateful for the donation, but had no idea what inspired it.

Though Fischer remained alert until the end, she faltered physically during her final months, when she "very reluctantly" hired a woman to take care of her. "She didn't want to pay for it," Last said.

Fischer died in 2007 of heart failure, he said.

Last said Fischer had told him she had no relatives, but he discovered after her death that she had not been truthful.

"It turned out there was a sister and a nephew that she wasn't on speaking terms with," he said.

Even after Fischer died, Last continued to learn about his friend's penurious ways. When he went to a bank to carry out his duties as executor of the will, a vice president told him Fischer had taken advantage years before of a promotional offer of a year's free access to a safe deposit box, Last said. But after the year elapsed, she refused to pay the $100 annual fee, he said.

So the banker told him he kept Fischer's Series E savings bonds for $60,000 in his desk drawer, Last said.

Though the size of her total savings surprised him, Last said her dogged thrift could have explained it.

He calculated that -- between her pension from Austria and her $800 monthly check from Social Security -- her monthly income was about $2,000, of which she spent only about $500.

Fischer's sister -- from whom she had long been estranged -- died a few months ago, said Fischer's nephew, Peter Lynwander, who lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey. He said he last saw his aunt more than three decades ago at a family get-together.

"She was a live wire," quick to pound out a waltz on the piano or to dance. He was not surprised at the sum of her savings: "She worked all her life and she didn't live high. So I don't think that's all that unusual."

CNN's story published Monday quoted a spokesman for the school as saying Fischer had survived a concentration camp and lived homeless on the streets of New York. Her friends and her nephew said neither was true.

On Friday, school spokesman Richard Dukas said the discrepancies were the result of a miscommunication.

Hebrew University "regrets misinterpreting the facts about Ida's amazing and generous story," he said. "What is clear is that Ida was a remarkable woman who has made a difference by supporting research and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, something that will have an impact far beyond the borders of the state of Israel."

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text: longer

text: wanted

text: Fischer

text: 's

text: frugality

text: was

text: legend

text: She

text: recycled

text: greeting

text: cards

text: crossing

text: off

text: the

text: name

text: of

text: the

text: original

text: recipient

text: and

text: replacing

text: it

text: with

text: the

text: new

text: one

text: She

text: 'd

text: write

text: on

text: the

text: top

text: of

text: it

text: From

text: Ida

text: Last

text: said

text: Instead

text: of

text: paying

text: extra

text: to

text: get

text: an

text: unlisted

text: telephone

text: number

text: she

text: simply

text: listed

text: it

text: under

text: someone

text: else

text: 's

text: name

text: he

text: said

text: Occasionally

text: Last

text: now

text: would

text: treat

text: his

text: neighbor

text: to

text: a

text: meal

text: at

text: the

text: diner

text: or

text: a

text: nearby

text: delicatessen

text: where

text: her

text: favorite

text: dishes

text: included

text: lox

text: Though

text: she

text: was

text: not

text: thin

text: she

text: would

text: rarely

text: finish

text: what

text: was

text: on

text: her

text: plate

text: A

text: lot

text: of

text: it

text: she

text: would

text: take

text: home

text: he

text: said

text: She

text: 'd

text: take

text: all

text: the

text: sugar

text: and

text: all

text: the

text: napkins

text: she

text: 'd

text: bring

text: extra

text: jars

text: to

text: take

text: coffee

text: home

text: in

text: He

text: always

text: picked

text: up

text: the

text: tab

text: There

text: was

text: never

text: any

text: question

text: he

text: said

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: think

text: she

text: ever

text: bought

text: anything

text: Last

text: who

text: was

text: also

text: born

text: in

text: Austria

text: helped

text: Fischer

text: increase

text: her

text: monthly

text: pension

text: from

text: the

text: Austrian

text: government

text: He

text: also

text: helped

text: her

text: augment

text: her

text: income

text: giving

text: Fischer

text: to

text: sit

text: in

text: his

text: Peugeot

text: on

text: days

text: when

text: the

text: street

text: sweeper

text: went

text: by

text: so

text: that

text: he

text: would

text: not

text: get

text: a

text: parking

text: ticket

text: One

text: day

text: Fischer

text: asked

text: Last

text: about

text: a

text: flier

text: she

text: had

text: received

text: offering

text: to

text: help

text: residents

text: write

text: their

text: will

text: for

text: free

text: I

text: looked

text: into

text: it

text: and

text: I

text: found

text: that

text: this

text: was

text: the

text: Brooklyn

text: Law

text: School

text: they

text: would

text: send

text: a

text: lawyer

text: who

text: would

text: take

text: two

text: students

text: to

text: people

text: 's

text: houses

text: and

text: do

text: their

text: wills

text: so

text: I

text: said

text: It

text: 's

text: OK

text: Fischer

text: asked

text: Last

text: to

text: serve

text: as

text: executor

text: and

text: he

text: agreed

text: She

text: also

text: told

text: him

text: that

text: she

text: would

text: leave

text: him

text: money

text: but

text: Last

text: was

text: unimpressed

text: I

text: never

text: thought

text: she

text: had

text: any

text: real

text: money

text: he

text: said

text: She

text: was

text: enough

text: of

text: a

text: pest

text: that

text: I

text: told

text: her

text: No

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: want

text: it

text: She

text: took

text: him

text: at

text: his

text: word

text: Instead

text: she

text: left

text: a

text: quarter

text: of

text: her

text: estate

text: to

text: Last

text: 's

text: wife

text: Silvia

text: a

text: quarter

text: to

text: Szanto

text: and

text: half

text: to

text: Hebrew

text: University

text: in

text: Jerusalem

text: where

text: a

text: spokesman

text: said

text: the

text: school

text: was

text: grateful

text: for

text: the

text: donation

text: but

text: had

text: no

text: idea

text: what

text: inspired

text: it

text: Though

text: Fischer

text: remained

text: alert

text: until

text: the

text: end

text: she

text: faltered

text: physically

text: during

text: her

text: final

text: months

text: when

text: she

text: very

text: reluctantly

text: hired

text: a

text: woman

text: to

text: take

text: care

text: of

text: her

text: She

text: did

text: n't

text: want

text: to

text: pay

text: for

text: it

text: Last

text: said

text: Fischer

text: died

text: in

text: of

text: heart

text: failure

text: he

text: said

text: Last

text: said

text: Fischer

text: had

text: told

text: him

text: she

text: had

text: no

text: relatives

text: but

text: he

text: discovered

text: after

text: her

text: death

text: that

text: she

text: had

text: not

text: been

text: truthful

text: It

text: turned

text: out

text: there

text: was

text: a

text: sister

text: and

text: a

text: nephew

text: that

text: she

text: was

text: n't

text: on

text: speaking

text: terms

text: with

text: he

text: said

text: Even

text: after

text: Fischer

text: died

text: Last

text: continued

text: to

text: learn

text: about

text: his

text: friend

text: 's

text: penurious

text: ways

text: When

text: he

text: went

text: to

text: a

text: bank

text: to

text: carry

text: out

text: his

text: duties

text: as

text: executor

text: of

text: the

text: will

text: a

text: vice

text: president

text: told

text: him

text: Fischer

text: had

text: taken

text: advantage

text: years

text: before

text: of

text: a

text: promotional

text: offer

text: of

text: a

text: year

text: 's

text: free

text: access

text: to

text: a

text: safe

text: deposit

text: box

text: Last

text: said

text: But

text: after

text: the

text: year

text: elapsed

text: she

text: refused

text: to

text: pay

text: the

text: annual

text: fee

text: he

text: said

text: So

text: the

text: banker

text: told

text: him

text: he

text: kept

text: Fischer

text: 's

text: Series

text: E

text: savings

text: bonds

text: for

text: in

text: his

text: desk

text: drawer

text: Last

text: said

text: Though

text: the

text: size

text: of

text: her

text: total

text: savings

text: surprised

text: him

text: Last

text: said

text: her

text: dogged

text: thrift

text: could

text: have

text: explained

text: it

text: He

text: calculated

text: that

text: between

text: her

text: pension

text: from

text: Austria

text: and

text: her

text: monthly

text: check

text: from

text: Social

text: Security

text: her

text: monthly

text: income

text: was

text: about

text: of

text: which

text: she

text: spent

text: only

text: about

text: Fischer

text: 's

text: sister

text: from

text: whom

text: she

text: had

text: long

text: been

text: estranged

text: died

text: a

text: few

text: months

text: ago

text: said

text: Fischer

text: 's

text: nephew

text: Peter

text: Lynwander

text: who

text: lives

text: in

text: Ridgewood

text: New

text: Jersey

text: He

text: said

text: he

text: last

text: saw

text: his

text: aunt

text: more

text: than

text: three

text: decades

text: ago

text: at

text: a

text: family

text: get

text: together

text: She

text: was

text: a

text: live

text: wire

text: quick

text: to

text: pound

text: out

text: a

text: waltz

text: on

text: the

text: piano

text: or

text: to

text: dance

text: He

text: was

text: not

text: surprised

text: at

text: the

text: sum

text: of

text: her

text: savings

text: She

text: worked

text: all

text: her

text: life

text: and

text: she

text: did

text: n't

text: live

text: high

text: So

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: think

text: that

text: 's

text: all

text: that

text: unusual

text: CNN

text: 's

text: story

text: published

text: Monday

text: quoted

text: a

text: spokesman

text: for

text: the

text: school

text: as

text: saying

text: Fischer

text: had

text: survived

text: a

text: concentration

text: camp

text: and

text: lived

text: homeless

text: on

text: the

text: streets

text: of

text: New

text: York

text: Her

text: friends

text: and

text: her

text: nephew

text: said

text: neither

text: was

text: true

text: On

text: Friday

text: school

text: spokesman

text: Richard

text: Dukas

text: said

text: the

text: discrepancies

text: were

text: the

text: result

text: of

text: a

text: miscommunication

text: Hebrew

text: University

text: regrets

text: misinterpreting

text: the

text: facts

text: about

text: Ida

text: 's

text: amazing

text: and

text: generous

text: story

text: he

text: said

text: What

text: is

text: clear

text: is

text: that

text: Ida

text: was

text: a

text: remarkable

text: woman

text: who

text: has

text: made

text: a

text: difference

text: by

text: supporting

text: research

text: and

text: education

text: at

text: the

text: Hebrew

text: University

text: of

text: Jerusalem

text: something

text: that

text: will

text: have

text: an

text: impact

text: far

text: beyond

text: the

text: borders

text: of

text: the

text: state

text: of

text: Israel

question: what university did she leave half her estate to?

answer: Hebrew

text: Hebrew

question: Did Ida Fischer leave half her estate to Hebrew University in Jerusalem?

answer: in

text: in

question: what city did fisher live in?

answer: New York

text: New York

question: Who is Ida Fischer?

answer: a Jewish immigrant

text: a Jewish immigrant

question: What did Fischer flee from?

answer: Austria

text: Austria

question: Where does Ida Fischer live?

answer: New York

text: New York

question: Where did she leave half her estate?

answer: to Hebrew University in Jerusalem,

text: to Hebrew University in Jerusalem,

question: how much rent did she pay?

answer: about $145 per month

text: about $145 per month

question: Where did Fischer live?

answer: New York

text: New York