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(CNN) -- Toulouse striker Andre-Pierre Gignac has been handed his first call-up to the France squad for their two World Cup qualifiers against Lithuania.

Gignac has been rewarded for his superb form this season with a first call-up to the France squad.

The 23-year-old forward is the top scorer in French Ligue 1 with 17 goals this season -- and has been selected by coach Raymond Domenech ahead of Paris St-Germain striker Guillaume Hoarau.

Defenders Patrice Evra and Ladil Rami return, but fellow-defenders Eric Abidal (Barcelona), Jean-Alain Boumsong (Lyon) and Julien Escude (Sevilla) are all ruled out through injury.

There is also no place in the squad for captain Patrick Vieira, who has struggled to find his best form for Inter Milan this season.

France are currently third in European Group Seven with just one win to show from their first three matches. They trail Serbia and Lithuania by five points but have a game in hand on both nations.

France initially face Lituania in Kaunas on March 28, with the return match at the Stade de France in Paris on April 1.

France squad:

Goalkeepers: Hugo Lloris (Lyon), Steve Mandanda (Marseille), Cedric Carrasso (Toulouse).

Defenders: Gael Clichy (Arsenal), Rod Fanni (Rennes), William Gallas (Arsenal), Philippe Mexes (Roma), Bacary Sagna (Arsenal), Sebastien Squillaci (Sevilla), Patrice Evra (Manchester United), Adil Rami (Lille).

Midfielders: Alou Diarra (Bordeaux), Lassana Diarra (Real Madrid), Yoann Gourcuff (Bordeaux), Samir Nasri (Arsenal), Jeremy Toulalan (Lyon), Abou Diaby (Arsenal), Franck Ribery (Bayern Munich).

Forwards: Nicolas Anelka (Chelsea), Karim Benzema (Lyon), Jimmy Briand (Rennes), Thierry Henry (Barcelona), Andre-Pierre Gignac (Toulouse).

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(CNN) -- As Iraqi officials speak loftily of ethnic and political reconciliation, Abu Wissam seethes.

In April 2006, two Iraqis mourn a relative slain in sectarian violence in the city of Falluja.

He wants cold, hard justice for the killers of his son, Raed, a 25-year-old business school graduate, "cut to pieces" by Mehdi Army militia members in their Baghdad neighborhood.

The Wissams are among the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis caught in the maelstrom of the militia violence that rippled across Iraq after the 2006 bombing in Samarra of the Askariya Mosque, a Shiite shrine.

The kind of trauma and pain endured by the Wissam family is kindling an interest in a social healing process adopted by countries around the world -- truth commissions. They are bodies across the globe that have provided a forum for victims and perpetrators to give cathartic public testimony on human rights abuses and come up with policy recommendations to correct the root cause of the abuses.

"Iraq, like many Arab cultures, is an intensely rich narrative culture," said Miranda Sissons, Iraq director of the International Center for Transitional Justice, which helps countries pursuing accountability for past mass atrocities and human rights abuses. "The idea of standing up and witnessing is tremendously appealing, the kind of act and mechanism they can understand."  Watch how the "business of death" continues to thrive Â»

The U.S. Institute of Peace -- one of the independent agencies behind the all-important Iraq Study Group report in 2006 -- is backing an initiative in Iraq to generate understanding and "spark public dialogue on the usefulness of the truth commission process."

The institute is teaming up with Iraq's Ministry of Human Rights to screen a USIP film across Iraq about the work of four different commissions.

Called "Confronting The Truth: Truth Commissions and Societies in Transition," the film -- produced by York Zimmerman and Peter Ackerman -- explores the workings of such commissions in South Africa, Peru, Morocco and East Timor. The film is getting some good reviews among Iraqis.

"The truth commission process is one in which you encourage folks to directly confront that past and how to get behind it," said Sermid Al-Sarraf, the executive director of the International Institute for the Rule of Law, a group that manages USIP's rule of law programs in Iraq.

Truth commissions and other conflict-resolution strategies have been on Iraq's radar for years.

Oral history projects have emerged, one being the Iraq History Project -- which "gathers and analyzes personal narratives from victims, their families, witnesses, perpetrators and others" about the "torture, massacres, assassinations, rape, chemical weapons attacks, disappearances, and other acts of systematic repression" during the Saddam Hussein regime. That project is managed by the International Human Rights Law Institute of DePaul University College of Law in Chicago and is run by an all-Iraqi in-country staff.

Last year, Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari's Crisis Management Initiative and a conflict-resolution initiative at the University of Massachusetts Boston were behind an effort to forge the so-called Helsinki agreement -- a statement of reconciliation principles among a wide range of Iraqi politicians. That process was notable because former antagonists in Northern Ireland and South Africa worked with the Iraqis.

Padraig O'Malley, a UMass conflict-resolution professor involved in the Helsinki process, is planning a three-day forum in April for "divided cities," where officials from ethnically tense Kirkuk in Iraq will discuss common problems with officials from Derry/Londonderry and Belfast in Northern Ireland, Nicosia in Cyprus, and Mitrovica in Kosovo.

The International Center for Transitional Justice says Coalition Provisional Authority officials initially proposed a "truth-seeking commission" for Iraq in 2003 but eventually decided to "delay the process" in order for Iraqis to rigorously study other truth-telling efforts, as advocated by the center. In 2005, the center also discussed the establishment of a center for the missing and disappeared.

As for truth commissions today, some observers say there hasn't been the political will on the part of the national government to pursue one. So says Joost Hilterman, International Crisis Group deputy program director for the Middle East and North Africa. He has argued in the past for the establishment of a truth commission process and believes such a process, for example, would have been the proper way to deal with the challenge of de-Baathification.

"I'm not against floating the idea," Hilterman said, but there's "no chance in hell" it would happen anytime soon.

Eduardo Gonzalez, the Americas deputy director of the transitional justice center, had been a staffer on the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, where he was responsible for public hearings and victims and witnesses protection. He was interviewed in the USIP video, which featured touching testimony from victims of the warfare between government troops and Shining Path guerrillas between 1980 and 2000.

Gonzalez stressed the need to produce an accurate account of abuses, provide explanations for what happened, provide the proper opportunity for victims to be recognized, and help the society steer a new course for the future. Truth commissions don't function as courts, and there are only rare occasions, such as in East Timor, where punishment would be meted out.

"Truth commissions, done right, could created a public dialogue," he said.

He thinks a national Iraqi truth commission would probably be a few years down the road. But he thinks it's more likely that a particular city, province or region could pursue them.

One particular truth commission, in Morocco, has been cited as one that Iraq could study. That's because it was the first one in the Arab world and it detailed human rights abuses from 1956 to 1999 under King Hassan II.

Gonzalez said Iraq can benefit from studying all models, but he notes they share one thing -- a commitment to objectivity.

The ICTJ's Sissons notes that the British explored the idea of a truth commission as well, but experts told them Iraqis and not outsiders are the ones who need to pursue such an idea. She also said "the scale of violence" in Iraq and the "nature and complexity" of it "is so vast" that the German war crimes tribunals after World War II and the reparations to Holocaust victims come to mind.

But if a truth initiative is to be effective, it would have to be rigorously designed and properly framed, with a "distinct focus" and an "achievable mandate," she said. There must be commitment, goals, dedication and governmental support in areas such as subpoenaing records.

"You don't just tell the truth, hold hands and sing 'Kumbaya,' " she said.

But they can be very useful in Iraq, an "evidence-rich environment." She said truth-telling commissions there could lead to many improvements in society, such as better detention registration policies, higher forensic standards, a freedom of information law, and a far-reaching reparations strategy.

As for the man on the street, people who gather at Abu Wissam's house to talk about the violence they've endured don't talk of forgiveness. They want the killers of their kin to be put to death.

Al-Sarraf and others all agree justice must be served in cases of heinous crime. But he seized on the concept of forgiveness. It's an Islamic virtue, and it could play a powerful role in a truth-telling initiative.

"Even though there is the principle of 'eye for an eye,' there is also the higher ideal of mercy," he said.

CNN's Arwa Damon contributed to this report.

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JUAREZ, Mexico (CNN) -- Jose Molinar knew something wasn't right. He hadn't heard from his wife for a few hours, which was not sitting well with him.

Marisella Molinar was killed while driving her boss, a target of cartels, across the border into El Paso, Texas.

Marisella Molinar worked as a secretary for a top prosecutor in Juarez, Mexico, Jesus Huerta Yedra. She was employed in the office for more than 10 years and though she lived across the border in El Paso, Texas, with her husband, she drove about 20 minutes over the Juarez-El Paso border every day to the job she loved.

The growing violence over rival drug cartels had concerned the couple, but Mexico was a part of their lives and they were sure the violence stayed between rival drug gangs, who were fighting over a lucrative drug route into the United States.

Without fail, Marisella Molinar would call her husband every day when she arrived to work, went out for lunch and when she was leaving the office.

But on December 3, 2008, by around 5:30 p.m., Jose Molinar still hadn't heard from his wife. He called the office in Mexico and was told she was giving her boss a ride over the border so he could do some Christmas shopping. Jose Molinar turned on his television, and his life changed forever.

"As soon as the image came up, I saw her truck," said Molinar, who was watching the news out of Juarez, "and I knew what happened right then and there."  Watch Jose Molinar talk about the moment he knew his wife was killed Â»

Marisella Molinar was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Her passenger, Jesus Huerta Yedra, was a target of the cartels that day. As Molinar's car was about a mile away from the border crossing back to the United States, gunmen walked up to her car and fired 85 rounds from an AK-47 into their intended target. One shot hit Marisella Molinar, a mother of two and proud grandmother, in the chest, killing her instantly.

"She wasn't involved, she didn't have anything to do with this!" said Jose Molinar in a recent interview with CNN. "She was the guy's secretary and she was giving him a ride to meet his wife here in El Paso who was Christmas shopping."

But instead of making it home to help her husband hang Christmas lights, Marisella Molinar became yet another victim in the drug war taking place just steps from the U.S. border.

The violence generated by the war of the drug cartels for control of drug routes translated last year into some 6,000 killings. More than 1,600 of them occurred in Juarez, three times more than the most murderous city in the United States. This year, in two months, the body count in Juarez is 400.

Mexican military and police in riot gear now patrol the once popular streets of Juarez. Gone are the Americans shopping, dining and partying. The bars and restaurants are shuttered -- many closed for good. Americans don't come here anymore.

In March 2008, the Mexican military joined with Mexican states and local law enforcement in the fight against drug cartels in border cities. Mexican President Felipe Calderon has waged a war against business as usual with the cartels who controlled drug routes through Mexico and into the United States. The fallout has led rival drug gangs to launch all-out war not only with the military, but also with each other, because the once-established drug routes are now up for grabs.

The violence has been the worst in Juarez, where cartels have killed police officers, forced the chief of police to resign and threatened public officials.

"They started killing police officers, and not when they were doing police work, but when they were coming out of their homes and getting into their cars to go to the police station," said Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz, whose own family has recently received death threats.

At the city's only morgue, bodies are piling up. The mayor said there are far too many dead for the small facility to handle. The majority of the dead are unidentified members of the cartels. Just last week, the mayor said, 50 corpses were buried in mass graves because no one claimed the bodies.

Officials from both sides of the border said the drug war may go on for years. Beheadings, bodies riddled with gunfire and blood-stained streets will continue daily, they said.

They added that the appetite for illegal drugs is too great in the United States, and the drug routes are too lucrative for the battles to end.

"It's not going to be won quickly," said Enrique Torres, a spokesman for the Mexican government, adding that the Mexican president is committed to fighting the cartels. "He can't talk about a time frame in this type of situation. We know the monster is big, but we don't have an idea of how big it is."

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question: who was killed?

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question: Where was she killed?

answer: El Paso, Texas.

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question: what have the cartels done?

answer: violence generated by the war of the drug

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question: how many deaths in juarez last year?

answer: 6,000 killings.

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MUNICH, Germany (CNN) -- Juliane Koepcke is not someone you'd expect to attract attention. Plainly dressed and wearing prescription glasses, Koepcke sits behind her desk at the Zoological Center in Munich, Germany, where she's a librarian.

Juliane Koepcke fell more than 3kms after the plane in which she was traveling broke up in midair.

Yet this unassuming middle aged woman has one of the most exciting and unbelievable stories of tragedy and survival to tell.

It was Christmas Eve, 1971, when Koepcke, then aged 17, and her mother boarded a Lockheed Electra turboprop for a flight from Lima, Peru, to Pucallpa in the Amazonian rainforest. Her parents, both famous zoologists, ran a research station in the jungle studying wildlife.

The airline, LANSA, had already lost two aircraft in previous crashes. "We knew the airline had a bad reputation," Koepcke told CNN, "but we desperately wanted to be with my father for Christmas, so we figured it would be alright."

The flight was supposed to last for less than an hour and for the first 25 minutes everything was fine, Koepcke recalled.

"Then we flew into heavy clouds and the plane started shaking. My mother was very nervous. Then to the right we saw a bright flash and the plane went into a nose dive. My mother said, 'This is it!'"

An accident investigation later found that one of the fuel tanks of the Lockheed Electra had been hit by a bolt of lightning which had torn the right wing off.

"We were headed straight down. Christmas presents were flying around the cabin and I could hear people screaming."  Watch Koepcke tell her dramatic survivor's story Â»

As the plane broke into pieces in midair, Koepcke was thrust out into the open air:

"Suddenly there was this amazing silence. The plane was gone. I must have been unconscious and then came to in midair. I was flying, spinning through the air and I could see the forest spinning beneath me."

Then Koepcke lost consciousness again. She fell more than three kilometers (two miles) into the jungle canopy but miraculously survived with only minor injuries. Ninety-one other people aboard Flight 508 died.

Koepcke says she is not a spiritual person and has tried to find logical explanations for why she survived.

"Maybe it was the fact that I was still attached to a whole row of seats," she says. "It was rotating much like the helicopter and that might have slowed the fall. Also, the place I landed had very thick foliage and that might have lessened the impact."

In any case she survived with only minor injuries. Her collarbone was broken, her right eye swollen shut, she was suffering concussion and had large gashes on her arms and legs.

"I didn't wake up until nine o'clock the next morning. I know this because my watch was still working. So I must have been unconscious the whole afternoon and the night. When I came to I was alone, just me ... and my row of seats."

Her ordeal was far from over. Rescue planes and search crews were unable to locate the crash site and Koepcke was stranded in the jungle alone. But she had spent years on the research station with her parents and her father had taught her how to survive in the rainforest -- she knew how to cope in that environment.

""He said if you find a creek, follow it because that will lead to a stream and a stream will lead to a bigger river and that's where you'll find help."

The day after the crash she found a creek and started to wade down stream, but it was tough going. The only food she had was some candy she had found at the crash site and her wounds were quickly infested with parasites.

"I had a cut on my arm and after a few days I could feel there was something in it. I took a look and a fly had laid her eggs in the hole. It was full of maggots. I was afraid I would lose my arm. Later, after I was rescued it was treated and more than 50 maggots were found inside. I still wonder how so many maggots could have fitted into that little hole, it was no bigger than a one euro coin."

As she travelled downstream, Koepcke discovered more wreckage from the plane -- and found some of the crash victims.

"I found another row of seats with three dead women still strapped in. They had landed head-first and the impact must have been so hard that they were buried almost two feet into the ground.

"I was horrified -- I didn't want to touch them but I wanted to make sure that my mother wasn't one of them. So I took a stick and knocked a shoe off one of the bodies. The toe nails had nail polish on them and I knew it could not have been my mother because she never used nail polish."

Juliane continued through the rainforest, wading through jungle streams infested with crocodiles, piranhas and devil rays.

"Sometimes I would see a crocodile on the bank and it would start into the water towards me, but I was not afraid. I knew crocodiles don't tend to attack humans."

After 10 days, starved and exhausted, Koepke finally came upon a small boat and a hut on the river. She stayed there, hoping to be rescued. The next day a group of Peruvian lumberjacks found her and brought her to the next town.

She became known as the miracle girl and was hounded by Peruvian media, receiving hundreds of letters from people she had never met before.

"It was so strange," she says, smiling. "Some of the letters were simply addressed 'Juliane -- Peru' but they still all found their way to me."

The events of 1971 still haunt Koepcke and she says the memories are especially clear when she is confronted with airline disasters like last month's Air France crash off the coast of Brazil.

"It just horrifies me. I only hope it all went quickly for those on board."

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text: exhausted

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text: a

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text: the

text: river

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text: next

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text: miracle

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text: of

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text: memories

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text: Air

text: France

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text: the

text: coast

text: of

text: Brazil

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text: me

text: I

text: only

text: hope

text: it

text: all

text: went

text: quickly

text: for

text: those

text: on

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question: What was the survivor's name?

answer: Juliane Koepcke

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question: how many dead there were

answer: Ninety-one

text: Ninety-one

question: Who was the only survivor?

answer: Juliane Koepcke

text: Juliane Koepcke

question: How many days did she survive alone?

answer: 10

question: How far did Koepcke fall?

answer: 3kms


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Editor's note: Rachel Motte blogs at www.evangelicaloutpost.com and writes for Wheatstone Academy, a Christian educational program for high school students. She is a graduate of Biola University and the Torrey Honors Institute.

Rachel Motte says Rush Limbaugh still can animate conservative popular opinion.

(CNN) -- It's no secret that liberals throughout the nation are rejoicing at Rush Limbaugh's supposed status as leader of the Republican Party. I can see why. He's easy to pick on.

His rhetoric is extreme, and his personal life has at times been less than picture-perfect. I've heard some pundits refer to Vice President Joe Biden as "the gift that keeps on giving." I imagine the left feels the same way about Limbaugh.

Rush was an integral part of my childhood. I must have been 6 or 7 when I started listening in the late 1980s. I remember that my parents and their friends found him refreshing, and I remember that he made them laugh.

I memorized his song parodies and even tried to write a few of my own based on the events I heard him talk about. When I was 11, I once spent several hours trying to call his show, redialing after every busy signal, over and over. I never got through. It's probably just as well; I think I had planned to try to talk him into running for president. I no longer think he'd make a good president -- we're all much better off when he sits behind the EIB microphone.

Rush taught me a lot about personal responsibility, the value of freedom of speech and the love of country. At 26, I've outgrown many of my childhood habits, but I never outgrew Rush.

Have conservatives outgrown him? Is it time to distance ourselves by dismissing him as just "an entertainer," as Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele initially did before apologizing?

My friend John Mark Reynolds wrote recently that Rush is "a shallow thinker" who will alienate today's young adults rather than draw them in. He argued that Rush's "insider lingo" and harsh demeanor are problematic at a time when the Republican Party is losing the young adult vote.

Is he right? Has Rush Limbaugh outlived his usefulness to the conservative movement? Should we take a cue from the Democrats' glee and relegate El Rushbo to a back room like an aging and unpopular distant relative?

Not by a long shot.

Rush doesn't need to be removed as leader of the Republican Party, because he's never held that position, much as Democrats would like you to think he has. He's a vitally necessary part of the conservative movement, but he's no one's leader. Don't give him more credit than he deserves, and don't fall prey to the Democrats' carefully planned attempts to inflate his authority.

Steele learned the hard way a few days ago that the opposite extreme is also not true -- Rush is not a mere entertainer.

One of his most important contributions to the conservative movement has been his ability to energize the base. This is particularly vital now given the recent election results. Someone has to keep the troops from giving up, and like it or not, for now that someone is Rush. It doesn't really matter whether he's a shallow thinker. What does matter is that he knows how to prod people into action.

That's all well and good, but is it sustainable? What works for me and for the many other "Rush babies" out there may not work for our younger siblings.

Thanks to the Obama campaign, new activists aren't going to be as easily attracted by witty aphorisms and wordplays as previous demographics were.

President Obama's impressive rhetorical skills appeared to raise the level of public discourse during the campaign. As far as I can tell he didn't actually say anything new, but so many things sounded new when he said them.

I don't think he changed the content of the age-old feud between right and left, but he did change the style, providing a stark contrast to the admittedly strident tones of some on the right. That's going to change the way young people all over will approach the political process; after all, 66 percent of the 29-and-under crowd voted for Obama.

Rush's personal influence will decline because of this shift in rhetorical style, but we're not yet at the point where it is unimportant. The current crop of college students may not call themselves "dittoheads," but their mentors and heroes within the movement still do, and that will continue to be significant for a while yet.

Do we need leaders who can inspire the next generation of young conservatives? Absolutely. Is Rush the best man for that job? At this point, yes, though that will probably change in the next few years.

One thing is likely -- the next big conservative leaders who do resonate well with the age group that favors Obama will cite Rush as a major influence. His work won't end with him. And that's as it should be.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Rachel Motte.

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text: same

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text: events

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text: heard

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text: EIB

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text: just

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text: Committee

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text: Rush

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text: shallow

text: thinker

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text: Rush

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text: insider

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text: harsh

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text: time

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text: Republican

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text: young

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text: usefulness

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text: conservative

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text: a

text: cue

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text: Democrats

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text: relegate

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text: Rushbo

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text: an

text: aging

text: and

text: unpopular

text: distant

text: relative

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text: a

text: long

text: shot

text: Rush

text: does

text: n't

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text: to

text: be

text: removed

text: as

text: leader

text: of

text: the

text: Republican

text: Party

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text: he

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text: never

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text: of

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text: conservative

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text: he

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text: no

text: one

text: 's

text: leader

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text: him

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text: he

text: deserves

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text: do

text: n't

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text: prey

text: to

text: the

text: Democrats

text: carefully

text: planned

text: attempts

text: to

text: inflate

text: his

text: authority

text: Steele

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text: the

text: hard

text: way

text: a

text: few

text: days

text: ago

text: that

text: the

text: opposite

text: extreme

text: is

text: also

text: not

text: true

text: Rush

text: is

text: not

text: a

text: mere

text: entertainer

text: One

text: of

text: his

text: most

text: important

text: contributions

text: to

text: the

text: conservative

text: movement

text: has

text: been

text: his

text: ability

text: to

text: energize

text: the

text: base

text: This

text: is

text: particularly

text: vital

text: now

text: given

text: the

text: recent

text: election

text: results

text: Someone

text: has

text: to

text: keep

text: the

text: troops

text: from

text: giving

text: up

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text: like

text: it

text: or

text: not

text: for

text: now

text: that

text: someone

text: is

text: Rush

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text: does

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text: really

text: matter

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text: he

text: 's

text: a

text: shallow

text: thinker

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text: does

text: matter

text: is

text: that

text: he

text: knows

text: how

text: to

text: prod

text: people

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text: 's

text: all

text: well

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text: good

text: but

text: is

text: it

text: sustainable

text: What

text: works

text: for

text: me

text: and

text: for

text: the

text: many

text: other

text: Rush

text: babies

text: out

text: there

text: may

text: not

text: work

text: for

text: our

text: younger

text: siblings

text: Thanks

text: to

text: the

text: Obama

text: campaign

text: new

text: activists

text: are

text: n't

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: as

text: easily

text: attracted

text: by

text: witty

text: aphorisms

text: and

text: wordplays

text: as

text: previous

text: demographics

text: were

text: President

text: Obama

text: 's

text: impressive

text: rhetorical

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text: raise

text: the

text: level

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text: public

text: discourse

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text: the

text: campaign

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text: can

text: tell

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text: did

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text: actually

text: say

text: anything

text: new

text: but

text: so

text: many

text: things

text: sounded

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text: he

text: said

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text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: think

text: he

text: changed

text: the

text: content

text: of

text: the

text: age

text: old

text: feud

text: between

text: right

text: and

text: left

text: but

text: he

text: did

text: change

text: the

text: style

text: providing

text: a

text: stark

text: contrast

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text: admittedly

text: strident

text: tones

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text: some

text: on

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text: right

text: That

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text: going

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text: the

text: way

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text: political

text: process

text: after

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text: of

text: the

text: under

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text: Rush

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text: personal

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text: decline

text: because

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text: point

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text: current

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text: of

text: college

text: students

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text: not

text: call

text: themselves

text: dittoheads

text: but

text: their

text: mentors

text: and

text: heroes

text: within

text: the

text: movement

text: still

text: do

text: and

text: that

text: will

text: continue

text: to

text: be

text: significant

text: for

text: a

text: while

text: yet

text: Do

text: we

text: need

text: leaders

text: who

text: can

text: inspire

text: the

text: next

text: generation

text: of

text: young

text: conservatives

text: Absolutely

text: Is

text: Rush

text: the

text: best

text: man

text: for

text: that

text: job

text: At

text: this

text: point

text: yes

text: though

text: that

text: will

text: probably

text: change

text: in

text: the

text: next

text: few

text: years

text: One

text: thing

text: is

text: likely

text: the

text: next

text: big

text: conservative

text: leaders

text: who

text: do

text: resonate

text: well

text: with

text: the

text: age

text: group

text: that

text: favors

text: Obama

text: will

text: cite

text: Rush

text: as

text: a

text: major

text: influence

text: His

text: work

text: wo

text: n't

text: end

text: with

text: him

text: And

text: that

text: 's

text: as

text: it

text: should

text: be

text: The

text: opinions

text: expressed

text: in

text: this

text: commentary

text: are

text: solely

text: those

text: of

text: Rachel

text: Motte

question: Who did Rachel Motte grow up listening to?

answer: Rush

text: Rush

question: Who does Limbaugh appeal to?

answer: the conservative movement

text: the conservative movement

question: What type of voters does Obama win over?

answer: 29-and-under

question: Who's style has a great appeal to conservatives?

answer: Rush Limbaugh

text: Rush Limbaugh

question: What group does Limbaugh appeal to?

answer: the conservative movement

text: the conservative movement

question: Motte said who set a new bar for public discourse?

answer: President Obama's

text: President Obama's

question: What did Motte say about Obama?

answer: campaign, new activists aren't going to be as easily attracted by witty aphorisms and wordplays

text: campaign, new activists aren't going to be as easily attracted by witty aphorisms and wordplays

question: Who did Rachel Motte listen to?

answer: Rush Limbaugh

text: Rush Limbaugh


text:
(CNN) -- Hurricane Ida moved into the southern Gulf of Mexico Sunday, prompting a declaration of emergency in Louisiana and concern along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

The storm regained hurricane intensity overnight Saturday, becoming a Category 2 hurricane, but forecasters said it is expected to weaken as it moves north. Ida drenched Nicaragua after making landfall last week as a Category 1 hurricane, then weakened to a tropical storm before resuming strength.

In El Salvador, at least 91 people died in flooding and mudslides, according to the government, but a low-pressure system out of the Pacific -- not Hurricane Ida -- triggered the disaster, forecaster Robby Berg of the National Hurricane Center said Sunday.

A hurricane warning, meaning hurricane conditions are possible within 24 hours, extends from Pascagoula, Mississippi to Indian Pass, Florida, forecasters said.

From Grande Isle, Louisiana, to west of Pascagoula, Mississippi, a tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch are in effect. This area includes New Orleans, which the center earlier excluded from the watch, and Lake Pontchartrain, the hurricane center said.

In anticipation of the storm's arrival, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency Sunday afternoon.

Hurricane Ida "threatens the safety and security of those citizens" along the state's southeast coastline, he wrote in the declaration. The declaration gives the director of the governor's office of emergency preparedness authority "to undertake any activity authorized by law which he deems necessary and appropriate" to prepare for the possibility of a hurricane.

Track Ida's progress, potential path

Alabama's Baldwin County commission urged that residents living in mobile homes, coastal communities or low-lying, flood-prone areas voluntarily evacuate. The county is under a local state of emergency and opened a shelter, according to a Sunday night statement from the county commission.

As of 10 p.m. ET Sunday, Ida had maximum sustained winds near 105 mph (165 km/hr) with higher gusts. But the storm was expected to weaken on Monday and possibly begin losing tropical characteristics on Tuesday, the hurricane center said.

The center of Ida was located about 400 miles (645 km) south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River, forecasters said. It was moving north-northwest at nearly 14 mph (22 km/hr) and was expected to increase in speed. The storm was expected to be near coastal areas of the northern Gulf by Monday night or early Tuesday, the hurricane center said.

As Ida moves in the Gulf of Mexico, conditions are expected to be unfavorable for any additional development, said CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen. Ida is expected to weaken because of a combination of wind shear, cooler water temperatures and the storm's interaction with a strong frontal system pushing off the Gulf Coast, he said.

But Ida is forecast to remain a hurricane as it moves in the northern Gulf toward the U.S. coast, the center said.

Florida's Division of Emergency Management asked residents to have disaster plans in place.

"Whether Ida maintains a storm or loses tropical characteristics, the Florida Gulf Coast region has the potential to see several inches of rain, strong winds, isolated tornadoes and dangerous surf and coastal flooding beginning Monday evening and continuing into Wednesday," the office said in a statement.

The area stretching from Indian Pass, Florida, to Aucilla River, Florida, is also under a tropical storm warning. Tropical storm conditions are possible within 24 hours, the center said.

Ida could drop between 1 and 3 inches of rain on portions of western Cuba, with isolated amounts of 8 inches possible in some spots, forecasters said. The central and eastern areas of the Gulf Coast northward to eastern Tennessee Valley and southern Appalachian Mountains could see 3 to 5 inches of rain with some areas getting as much as 8 inches, the center said.

Ida is the Atlantic region's ninth named storm. The Atlantic hurricane season ends November 30.

CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras and journalist Merlin Delcid in El Salvador contributed to this report.

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question: what has the governor declared

answer: state of emergency Sunday afternoon.

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question: Who declares Emergency?

answer: Louisiana

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question: How many deaths were in El Salvador?

answer: at least 91

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question: When did the govenor declare emergency?

answer: Sunday afternoon.

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question: What is Ida expected to do?

answer: weaken as it moves north.

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question: What expected weaken?

answer: Hurricane

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question: how many deaths have occured so far

answer: 91