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(CNN) -- Long a pillar of Hosni Mubarak's three-decade rule over Egypt, Omar Suleiman now sits at the top of the pyramid as its de facto president.

Under pressure from street demonstrations calling for his ouster, Mubarak named his veteran spymaster to the long-vacant vice presidency in late January. Suleiman quickly became the face of the government's reform pledges, announcing talks with opposition leaders and promising swift reforms.

But Mubarak's February 1 announcement that he would step down when his term ends in September failed to satisfy the crowds in Cairo's Tahrir Square and other cities. Attacks on demonstrators by pro-government crowds in the following days failed to dislodge the demonstrators, whose ranks were bolstered when thousands of workers in several industries went on strike Thursday.

After a day of intense speculation, Mubarak repeated that he would remain in office to serve out his term -- but he announced that he was delegating power to Suleiman, who quickly urged Egyptians to go home and get back to work.

"We call upon you to unite, and to think rationally and to look forward to the future," Suleiman said in a televised speech that followed Mubarak's.

But the vice president, whose agents are among the fingers of Mubarak's iron hand, wasn't seen as much of an improvement by opposition figures.

"Mubarak is only one part of this regime," human rights activist Gigi Ibrahim, one of the Tahrir Square protesters, said. "People have been here for 17 days, and they are not for Suleiman either. Mubarak has lost all legitimacy, and now him handing over the power to the vice president is as illegitimate as Mubarak being in power."

And in Alexandria, protesters met the announcement with chants of "No to Mubarak, no to Suleiman."

A former general who trained under both the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War, Suleiman took over Egypt's Mukhabarat intelligence agency in 1993. He is credited with leading Mubarak's efforts to crush an Islamic insurgency in the 1990s. That earned him the ear of Western intelligence officials thirsting for vital information about regional terrorist groups, and he became a key intermediary in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

"He is basically your main go-to guy in Egypt," former Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin said. Suleiman has been "helpful in many arenas," including the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. McLaughlin said.

A 2006 cable from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, disclosed by the WikiLeaks website in January, called intelligence collaboration with Suleiman "probably the most successful element" of the U.S. relationship with Egypt. But that relationship is "a little like being in bed with the Mafia," author Ron Suskind told CNN's "Parker Spitzer."

"If someone knocks on your door at night and you disappear, Omar Suleiman is probably behind it," said Suskind, whose 2006 book "The One Percent Doctrine" detailed the Bush administration's post-9/11 counterterrorism policies. "He is a feared man, and certainly not a man with any legitimacy when it comes to rule of law or any of the principles we prized in America."

In 2002, al Qaeda captive Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi "was tortured rather dramatically" by Suleiman's agents, Suskind said, yielding a "confession" that Iraq had trained the terrorist group in the use of chemical and biological weapons. His assertion was a key point in the Bush administration's arguments for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but he recanted it once back in U.S. hands.

That sort of history leaves an opening for critics to question U.S. support for democratic change in Egypt, Suskind said.

"The fact is, we are allied with the people they're trying to overthrow, and right now the United States hasn't done much to separate those bonds," he said.

Suleiman had long been mentioned as a possible successor to Mubarak, along with the aging ruler's son, Gamal. A 2007 U.S. cable called his loyalty to Mubarak "rock solid," and some analysts viewed his vice presidential appointment as a way for Mubarak to make a graceful exit.

Suleiman is even credited with saving Mubarak's life. On a state visit to Ethiopia in 1995, Mubarak was to have traveled in a normal vehicle but Suleiman insisted that the president's armored Mercedes be flown in from Cairo.

Accounts of an assassination attempt on Mubarak vary but it's believed that Suleiman was sitting next to Mubarak when a hail of bullets pinged off the car. The bond forged that day cemented their relationship.

But Suleiman's attempts at dialogue with opposition parties were derided by protesters, and the Obama administration criticized the talks for including too few opposition groups. Vice President Joe Biden told Suleiman on Tuesday that Egypt needed "immediate, irreversible progress" toward meeting protesters' demands, and leading opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei said Suleiman and Mubarak "are twins."

"This is an act of deception at a grand scale," ElBaradei said.

Nathan Brown, a professor of Middle Eastern politics at George Washington University, said Mubarak's Thursday speech did him little good. Not only was it too little, too late, he said, but his announcement that he was ceding power to Suleiman was buried in an "incredibly patronizing" speech.

"Had he done this a couple of weeks ago, it actually may have done something," Brown said. But now, he said, "All the constitutional, legal tools are in their hands, and it doesn't' do them any good. So I don't think they're sure what to do."

CNN's Matt Smith, Saad Abedine and Moni Basu contributed to this report.

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(CNN)  -- It is a boarding pass unlike any other. It's a memory of a day that nearly was his last on earth.

US Airways passenger Barry Leonard now has the other half of his boarding pass from the fateful flight.

When a FedEx package arrived at Barry Leonard's home recently, he had no idea it contained items from his flight that ended up in the Hudson River.

Leonard was seated at the front of US Airways Flight 1549, and when pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger amazingly landed the plane in the river, Leonard left everything he had behind and dove into the frigid water.

He thought all he had left from that January day were the clothes he had on, including a pair of jeans he still wears.

But recently the package with most of his left-behind belongings showed up at his Charlotte, North Carolina, home.

"Everything from the Wall Street Journal of that day to my W-2 form that I didn't even realize was in this package," he says. "You know my briefcase that I'd had for decades, it was all of those things."  Watch as Leonard brings out the items recovered from the water Â»

As he showed CNN the contents he discovered another item -- a memorable slip of paper.

"This is actually the other part of my boarding pass from January 15. As you can see here January 15, flight 1549 and my seat number 1C," he says.

To help return personal items to its passengers, US Airways hired Global-BMS, a Texas-based company that recovers and restores items from large disasters.

Global-BMS sorted through nearly 30,000 items from the flight, cleaning them in a slow, tedious process that often involved freeze-drying items to preserve them while they waited to be processed.

"Passengers' emotional ties to their possessions because of a traumatic incident like this, it's highly emotional. So we just want to make it available," Mark Rocco, a senior vice president of Global-BMS, tells CNN.

Some of the items that were returned to the 150 travelers were unusable after being submerged, especially electronic items like headphones and music players.

But for a lot of folks, personal effects show a little damage but are still good.

Vicki Barnhardt tried on her running shoes, and though they were a little tight at first, she wears them now when she goes jogging in Huntersville, North Carolina.

She tells CNN that she evacuated the plane only with her cellphone, leaving behind her purse,  her wallet, driver's license, some flash drives and other items.

She got most of her possessions from the plane back -- a coat, a pair of gloves and her cash are still missing -- and the items in the boxes seem in pretty good shape.

The flash drives still work, though you can see some "corrosion" on them. She also got back a three-ring binder, and all her notes are still readable.

Maryann Bruce found her diamonds in the parcel that was returned to her in Cornelius, North Carolina. It brought back memories of the landing in the river and made her thankful to be alive.

"I just focused on wow, you know, I got all this stuff back," she says.

"I can't believe I got all this stuff back, and I'm here to get the stuff back, versus the alternative where they would've been giving it to my loved ones. I didn't relive the anguish; I relived the 'Wow, I'm here to get it.' "

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(CNN) -- Authorities who seized $8,500 and assorted jewelry from a Tennessee man after a traffic stop in east Texas have agreed to return the property after his case drew attention from CNN.

Police in the small East Texas town of Tenaha are accused of unjustly taking valuables from motorists.

Roderick Daniels said police in Tenaha, Texas, took the money in October 2007 after they stopped him for doing 37 mph in a 35-mph zone. He said police threatened him with money-laundering charges and promised not to prosecute if he signed over the cash, which Daniels said was to buy a new car.

Daniels and other motorists who have been stopped by Tenaha police are part of a lawsuit seeking to end what plaintiff's lawyer David Guillory calls a systematic fleecing of drivers passing through the town of about 1,000. On Friday, after Shelby County District Attorney Lynda Russell refused repeated requests to discuss cases like Daniels' with CNN, her office filed papers dropping its claim on his property.

"I just feel blessed," Daniels said. "I am happy everything is going good right now. ... I just want to celebrate."

Texas law allows police to confiscate drug money and other personal property they think is used in the commission of a crime. If no charges are filed or the person is acquitted, the property has to be returned.

Russell issued a statement through her attorneys denying impropriety, and George Bowers, Tenaha's longtime mayor, says his police follow the law. But Guillory, who brought the lawsuit challenging the seizures, called cases like Daniels' "a shakedown" and "a piracy operation."

Guillory said authorities in Tenaha, about 180 miles east of Dallas, seized $3 million from 2006 to 2008. In about 150 cases, virtually all involving African-American or Latino motorists, the seizures were improper, he said.

All defendants in the lawsuit deny wrongdoing. In a written statement, Russell's attorneys said the prosecutor "has used and continues to use prosecutorial discretion ... and is in compliance with Texas law, the Texas constitution and the United States Constitution."

But the attention paid to Tenaha has led to an effort by Texas lawmakers to tighten the state's forfeiture laws.

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answer: Roderick Daniels

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question: What speed was Daniels driving?

answer: 37 mph in a 35-mph zone.

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question: What was the man stopped for?

answer: doing 37 mph in a 35-mph

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question: What did police confiscate?

answer: $8,500 and assorted jewelry

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question: What year was the money confiscated?

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(CNN) -- A freak fall snow storm slammed the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Saturday, leaving three people dead, more than 2 million households without power and thousands of air travelers stranded.

An 84-year-old man was napping in a recliner at his home in Temple, Pennsylvania, on Saturday afternoon when part of a large, snow-filled tree fell into his house and killed him "instantly," according to a state police report. With numerous downed trees in the area, rescue crews took two hours to "safely remove the victim."

Another person died while driving in Hebron, Connecticut, state emergency spokesman Scott Devico said.

A third person was killed in Springfield, Massachusetts, when a man in his 20s ignored police barricades surrounding downed power lines and touched a metal guard rail, which was charged, said city fire department spokesman Dennis Legere.

Predicting the system could dump as much as 18 inches of snow in some spots, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy joined New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick in issuing emergency declarations for their respective states.

"It's like a blizzard, you can't see far at all," CNN iReporter Alban Ajro, 32, said Saturday night from Watertown, Connecticut. "This is the first time that I can ever recall this kind of storm happening before Halloween."

All domestic flights out of New Jersey's Newark International Airport were canceled around 4 p.m. Saturday, according to an announcement made at the airport. Frustrated passengers filled an array of long lines, trying to change their tickets in light of the storm.

Overheard: Storm sparks discussion about new grid

Another airport in the Garden State, Teterboro, closed just after 2 p.m. before reopening hours later, the Federal Aviation Administration reported on its website. The FAA also reported major delays of, at times, over 5 hours at New York's two airports, John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia.

Richard Roth, a CNN correspondent, was among those affected when his Syracuse-to-Kennedy flight was diverted to Hartford because of the storm. He sat with his fellow passengers on the runway at Bradley International Airport for about four and a half hours, and -- roughly eight hours after arriving -- he was still stuck in the terminal.

"We're here in the dark now," Roth said Saturday evening. "There's no hope, at the moment, in sight."

The Connecticut governor acknowledged that conditions "are not very pleasant" at Bradley, where 23 flights have been diverted. He added, "They're trying to get people off their planes as rapidly as they can."

The early season snowstorm was the result of unseasonably cold air mixing with a storm system on the East Coast.

iReport: Winter weather near you

As of 8 p.m., the storm had already dumped 10 inches of snow in places as far afield as Ridgefield, Connecticut; Ogletown, Pennsylvania; and Terra Alta, West Virginia, according to the National Weather Service. Parts of New York and New Jersey especially got buried, including 15.5 inches in West Milford, New Jersey, and 12 inches in Harriman, New York.

Lesser, albeit still significant amounts were measured in other locales around the northeast, including 1.3 inches of snow in New York's Central Park as of 8 p.m. -- the most ever for this date since record-keeping began in 1869. Snow continued to fall Saturday night as the system moved over New England.

The storm's timing made it unique and caught some off-guard.

"We're used to a lot of snow here, but not this early," CNN iReporter Michael Majosky, 34, said from Windber, Pennsylvania. "We don't mind the snow -- it's pretty neat having it around Halloween."

Winter storm warnings were in effect Saturday evening for a swath of states, from Pennsylvania to eastern Maine. Along with heavy snow, high winds gusting up to 50 mph were possible.

Forecasters' predictions of power outages and downed trees in some areas bore fruit, as hundreds of thousands were without electricity as of Saturday afternoon. The reason is that the moisture content -- thus density -- of the falling snow was particularly high given temperatures hovering around the freezing point.

'Occupy' demonstrators face bite of wintry storm

Malloy, the Connecticut governor, said early Saturday night that 50,000 to 70,000 customers were losing power every hour, with the leading utility Connecticut Light and Power reporting on its website about 550,000 without service at 9 p.m. Saturday. The governor cautioned that power crews are not out on the roads, and won't return until road conditions improve markedly.

"If you are without power, you should expect to be without power for a prolonged period of time," Malloy said.

About 715,000 customers were without power late Saturday in New Jersey, in addition to 333,000 in neighboring New York, according to figures reported Saturday evening by power companies in those states. Another 360,000 didn't have electricity in Pennsylvania due to the storm.

Other states were affected as well, including at least 7,000 households in Maryland, 6,300 in Virginia who get service from Dominion, and 1,400 Allegheny Power customers in West Virginia.

The storm had wreaked havoc on the roads, with Malloy noting "a large number of spin-outs and vehicles going off the road" in his state. He noted that -- in addition to the fatality -- a state trooper was injured in a crash.

And in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, CNN meteorologist Chad Myers warned that the wet snow would turn to ice in many spots overnight due to freezing temperatures, making road conditions even more perilous.

One positive is that the wintry weather shouldn't last too much longer.

By Sunday afternoon, the storm is expected to have passed the United States. Temperatures should warm by then -- including a high of 49 forecast for Sunday in New York, warming into the high-50s over the course of the week.

CNN's Greg Botelho, Greg Morrison, Sara Weisfeldt, Elizabeth Cherneff and Sean Morris contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- Iran should release seven Baha'i prisoners accused of espionage because it does not have any evidence against them, their lawyer Shirin Ebadi told CNN on Saturday.

Attorneys Abdolfattah Soltani, left, and Shirin Ebadi, shown in Tehran in 2004.

"In the files, in the case basically, there is nothing, no reason that basically convicts them," said Ebadi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

The trial will begin Tuesday despite the fact that one of their lawyers is behind bars and Ebadi is outside the country.

Other attorneys can be appointed, Hassan Haddad of the Prosecutor's Office in Tehran told the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.

But the court must recognize the replacements, who are colleagues of Ebadi at her Tehran-based Defenders of Human Rights Center, not appoint other lawyers, Ebadi said.

The imprisoned lawyer, Abdolfattah Soltani, is a well-known advocate with the human rights center. He was arrested in the aftermath of Iran's disputed June 12 presidential election and is being held at Evin prison, the same place where his clients are detained, according to the International Campaign for Human Rights.

He is being held on charges of taking "measures against national security," Ebadi said. "Mr. Soltani is completely innocent."

Soltani had an opportunity to leave prison, but under conditions he chose not to accept, Ebadi said.

Along with not giving any interviews after his release, Soltani would also have to end his work with the human rights center and no longer support Ebadi, she said.

In another attack on the law firm, a lawyer was arrested after agents entered the center with guns, searched each room and then declared that they found opium on the premises, Ebadi said.

That lawyer, whose family had been harassed by police, accused the agents of planting the opium, she said.

Ebadi was on a speaking tour when Soltani was arrested and has not returned to Iran.

The firm founded by Ebadi took up the case of the seven Baha'is last year. They are accused of spying for Israel, spreading propaganda against the Islamic republic and committing religious offenses. The Baha'i International Community, which has a delegation to the United Nations, denies the allegations.

The evidence against the defendants includes communication from Israel, but that is because the Baha'i World Center has its headquarters in Israel, said Kit Bigelow, director of external affairs at the American Baha'i Community. Prosecutors are calling that communication espionage, she said.

Human rights groups have demanded the release of the prisoners and accused the government of targeting them because of their religious beliefs.

The Baha'i faith originated in 19th-century Persia, and while modern-day Iran does not recognize it, the government denies any mistreatment of the members of the largest non-Muslim religious minority.

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has reported a rise in persecution of Baha'is in recent years, including cemetery desecration, arbitrary detention, home raids, property confiscation, work expulsion and denial of basic civil rights.

The case of the seven Baha'is has drawn global attention. Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist freed from Evin prison earlier this year, spoke on their behalf, as have Human Rights Watch and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent bipartisan federal commission.

The defendants face the death penalty if convicted.

Six of the defendants were arrested in May 2008 at their Tehran homes, and one was arrested in the eastern city of Mashad in March 2008, said Diane Ala'i, the Baha'i International Community's representative to the United Nations. The defendants were held under solitary confinement for the first five months of their incarceration, she said.

The investigation into the charges against the prisoners concluded months ago and the trial was initially scheduled to start in July. Iran has continued to hold them in Evin prison without access to their lawyers and with minimal contact with their families, Ala'i said.

CNN's Moni Basu contributed to this report.

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Los Angeles (CNN) -- A 35-year-old Florida man accused of being a "hackerazzi" pleaded not guilty Tuesday in federal court to charges of hacking into celebrities' e-mail accounts.

Christopher Chaney of Jacksonville, Florida, is accused of hacking into e-mail accounts and devices belong to more than 50 people, including entertainers Scarlett Johansson, Christina Aguilera, Mila Kunis, Simone Harouche and Renee Olstead, prosecutors said.

During Tuesday's arraignment in Los Angeles, the federal judge increased Chaney's bail to $110,000 from $10,000 in the wake of three new accusations of cyberstalking -- including one celebrity victim who wasn't identified and was allegedly cyberstalked after authorities seized Chaney's computer earlier this year. Two other victims, including a 13-year-old, have told authorities that they were cyberstalked before the computer seizure, prosecutors said.

Chaney was expected to post bail after his mother indicated she would put up the family home as collateral. If he posts bail, Chaney will be subject to electronic monitoring and can't possess any computers, the judge said.

The judge set a December 27 trial date.

Chaney allegedly accessed nude photos of some of the celebrities during the hacking, and a recently circulated nude photo of Johansson is part of the federal investigation, prosecutors said.

Chaney also allegedly used public sources to mine data about his victims, which included both males and females, all associated with the entertainment industry, authorities said.

Authorities allege that once Chaney hacked into a celebrity's e-mail account, he would use the contact lists to find other celebrities' e-mail accounts. This allowed him to add new victims, authorities charge.

Johansson told Vanity Fair magazine she is not ashamed of the photo.

"I know my best angles," she said in an article published Tuesday. "They were sent to my husband. ... There's nothing wrong with that."

Johansson is now divorced from her husband at the time, Ryan Reynolds.

Chaney has been indicted on nine counts of computer hacking for gain, eight counts of aggravated identify theft and nine counts of illegal wiretapping, prosecutors said.

If convicted of the 26 counts, Chaney would face a maximum of 121 years in federal prison, prosecutors said. The aggravated identity theft charge alone carries a mandatory two-year prison sentence, prosecutors added.

Last month, Chaney said he became "addicted" to the intrusion and "didn't know how to stop."

"I deeply apologize. I know what I did was probably one of the worst invasions of privacy someone could experience," Chaney told CNN affiliate WAWS/WTEV in Jacksonville, Florida, last month.

"And these people don't have privacy to begin with. And I was in that little sliver of privacy they do have," he said.

In the interview, Chaney said the hacking "started as curiosity and it turned into just being, you know, addicted to seeing the behind-the-scenes of what's going on with these people you see on the big screen every day."

"It just happened and snowballed," he said, adding that he wishes it had never begun.

Chaney said he felt "almost relieved months ago" when authorities seized his computer because "I didn't know how to stop doing it myself. I wasn't attempting to break into e-mails and get stuff to sell or purposely put it on the Internet. It just -- I don't know."

Authorities allege that Chaney distributed photos of the celebrities that he obtained illegally and offered them to various celebrity blog sites, but he didn't seek money in exchange.

Some of the illegally obtained files, including private photographs, were ultimately posted online "as a result of Chaney's alleged activities," authorities said in a statement.

"I've had like six months to think about it," Chaney said, "It eats at me... When you're doing it you're not thinking about what's going on with who you're doing it to."

CNN's Carey Bodenheimer contributed to this report.

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text: belong

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text: more

text: than

text: people

text: including

text: entertainers

text: Scarlett

text: Johansson

text: Christina

text: Aguilera

text: Mila

text: Kunis

text: Simone

text: Harouche

text: and

text: Renee

text: Olstead

text: prosecutors

text: said

text: During

text: Tuesday

text: 's

text: arraignment

text: in

text: Los

text: Angeles

text: the

text: federal

text: judge

text: increased

text: Chaney

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text: bail

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text: from

text: in

text: the

text: wake

text: of

text: three

text: new

text: accusations

text: of

text: cyberstalking

text: including

text: one

text: celebrity

text: victim

text: who

text: was

text: n't

text: identified

text: and

text: was

text: allegedly

text: cyberstalked

text: after

text: authorities

text: seized

text: Chaney

text: 's

text: computer

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text: this

text: year

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text: other

text: victims

text: including

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text: old

text: have

text: told

text: authorities

text: that

text: they

text: were

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text: before

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text: computer

text: seizure

text: prosecutors

text: said

text: Chaney

text: was

text: expected

text: to

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text: after

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text: mother

text: indicated

text: she

text: would

text: put

text: up

text: the

text: family

text: home

text: as

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text: If

text: he

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text: monitoring

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text: computers

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text: judge

text: set

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text: December

text: trial

text: date

text: Chaney

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text: photos

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text: and

text: females

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text: entertainment

text: industry

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text: allege

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text: once

text: Chaney

text: hacked

text: into

text: a

text: celebrity

text: 's

text: e

text: mail

text: account

text: he

text: would

text: use

text: the

text: contact

text: lists

text: to

text: find

text: other

text: celebrities

text: e

text: mail

text: accounts

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text: to

text: add

text: new

text: victims

text: authorities

text: charge

text: Johansson

text: told

text: Vanity

text: Fair

text: magazine

text: she

text: is

text: not

text: ashamed

text: of

text: the

text: photo

text: I

text: know

text: my

text: best

text: angles

text: she

text: said

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text: published

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text: my

text: husband

text: There

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text: is

text: now

text: divorced

text: from

text: her

text: husband

text: at

text: the

text: time

text: Ryan

text: Reynolds

text: Chaney

text: has

text: been

text: indicted

text: on

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text: counts

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text: computer

text: hacking

text: for

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text: counts

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text: aggravated

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text: counts

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text: illegal

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text: counts

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text: a

text: mandatory

text: two

text: year

text: prison

text: sentence

text: prosecutors

text: added

text: Last

text: month

text: Chaney

text: said

text: he

text: became

text: addicted

text: to

text: the

text: intrusion

text: and

text: did

text: n't

text: know

text: how

text: to

text: stop

text: I

text: deeply

text: apologize

text: I

text: know

text: what

text: I

text: did

text: was

text: probably

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: worst

text: invasions

text: of

text: privacy

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text: could

text: experience

text: Chaney

text: told

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text: affiliate

text: WAWS

text: WTEV

text: in

text: Jacksonville

text: Florida

text: last

text: month

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text: people

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text: n't

text: have

text: privacy

text: to

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text: I

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text: in

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text: sliver

text: of

text: privacy

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text: do

text: have

text: he

text: said

text: In

text: the

text: interview

text: Chaney

text: said

text: the

text: hacking

text: started

text: as

text: curiosity

text: and

text: it

text: turned

text: into

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text: you

text: know

text: addicted

text: to

text: seeing

text: the

text: behind

text: the

text: scenes

text: of

text: what

text: 's

text: going

text: on

text: with

text: these

text: people

text: you

text: see

text: on

text: the

text: big

text: screen

text: every

text: day

text: It

text: just

text: happened

text: and

text: snowballed

text: he

text: said

text: adding

text: that

text: he

text: wishes

text: it

text: had

text: never

text: begun

text: Chaney

text: said

text: he

text: felt

text: almost

text: relieved

text: months

text: ago

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text: authorities

text: seized

text: his

text: computer

text: because

text: I

text: did

text: n't

text: know

text: how

text: to

text: stop

text: doing

text: it

text: myself

text: I

text: was

text: n't

text: attempting

text: to

text: break

text: into

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text: mails

text: and

text: get

text: stuff

text: to

text: sell

text: or

text: purposely

text: put

text: it

text: on

text: the

text: Internet

text: It

text: just

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: know

text: Authorities

text: allege

text: that

text: Chaney

text: distributed

text: photos

text: of

text: the

text: celebrities

text: that

text: he

text: obtained

text: illegally

text: and

text: offered

text: them

text: to

text: various

text: celebrity

text: blog

text: sites

text: but

text: he

text: did

text: n't

text: seek

text: money

text: in

text: exchange

text: Some

text: of

text: the

text: illegally

text: obtained

text: files

text: including

text: private

text: photographs

text: were

text: ultimately

text: posted

text: online

text: as

text: a

text: result

text: of

text: Chaney

text: 's

text: alleged

text: activities

text: authorities

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: statement

text: I

text: 've

text: had

text: like

text: six

text: months

text: to

text: think

text: about

text: it

text: Chaney

text: said

text: It

text: eats

text: at

text: me

text: When

text: you

text: 're

text: doing

text: it

text: you

text: 're

text: not

text: thinking

text: about

text: what

text: 's

text: going

text: on

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text: who

text: you

text: 're

text: doing

text: it

text: to

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Carey

text: Bodenheimer

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: Who does not embarrasses Johansson?

answer: Christopher Chaney

text: Christopher Chaney

question: What is Christopher Chaney's age?

answer: 35-year-old

question: What Chaney said?

answer: he became "addicted" to the intrusion and "didn't know how to stop."

text: he became "addicted" to the intrusion and "didn't know how to stop."

question: Which celebrity's email got hacked by Chaney?

answer: Scarlett Johansson, Christina Aguilera, Mila Kunis, Simone Harouche and Renee Olstead,

text: Scarlett Johansson, Christina Aguilera, Mila Kunis, Simone Harouche and Renee Olstead,

question: Johansson says she is not ashamed of what?

answer: of the photo.

text: of the photo.

question: What age is Christopher Chaney?

answer: 35-year-old

question: What he is accused Chaney?

answer: hacking into e-mail accounts and devices

text: hacking into e-mail accounts and devices

question: What is Chaney accused of doing?

answer: "hackerazzi"

text: "hackerazzi"


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(CNN) -- Chinese language media often refer to Jay Chou as the "small heavenly king," but the Taiwan born pop idol is more down-to-earth than the many accolades he receives suggest.

At 29, Jay Chou is already a household name in many Asian countries.

"I think I tend to believe in myself. I don't know....maybe I was born to believe in myself rather than in others. That's why I like to complete my work on my own," the solo singer-songwriter and actor told CNN's Talk Asia.

The 29-year-old has ridden his wave of inner belief to become one of Asia's biggest pop stars, and fostered an image of being something of an anti-hero, neither boastful nor too brash.

His music mixes ballads with urban R&B beats, while he has also taken a march on Asian cinema, writing his own screenplays, directing and appearing in a number of hit films.

Music remains his first love, having found success despite being naturally shy.

He released his first album in 2000, and eight years and seven albums later he still believes he has plenty of material for songs left in him, breaking from the usual Mando- and Canto-pop themes of boy-meets-girl.

In the past his lyrics have ventured into more considered and darker territory with a song about an abusive father and have taken on a variety of themes and genres.

"I think my music is quite different from the Western rap music culture. You won't find bad language in my music. I have this sense of responsibility to add an educational element in my music. That's why I would never write anything about suicide or whatever, because I think we all need the courage to deal with our lives," he said.

Chou was brought up by his mother, a school teacher in Linkou in Taiwan. His parents divorced while he was at a young age.

He began playing the piano as a 3-year-old, continuing to practice daily throughout his school days where despite being a diligent pupil he was academically average.

While a so-so student he developed a way to express himself by focusing on playing the piano, and from it developed a self-reliant streak.

"I think my confidence belongs to the stage or when I'm standing in front of the screen. I'm like two different people on-stage and off-stage," he told CNN's Talk Asia.

Chou's career was given a boost when he was spotted by Taiwanese entertainer Jacky Wu while backstage before a TV talent contest. Wu liked what he saw and introduced Chou to the music industry, at first as a songwriter for others.

"I never aimed to be a pop icon or whatever. My first album was actually a collection of songs that I wrote for other people. They didn't want them, so I made the album myself. The only aim I had was to be a singer-songwriter, not an idol," said Chou.

Despite modest beginnings then he has reached idol status in many Asian countries, having appeared in front of crowds of tens of thousands of people across Asia and on the silver screen to millions.

His huge exposure also ensures he's the sources of constant speculation from the media about his private life.

"I think showbiz in Taiwan, or even in the Chinese-speaking region, is quite different from showbiz in the U.S. The more low-profile and tight-lipped you are, the more the paparazzi runs after you. And I happen to belong in this category," he said.

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text: CNN

text: 's

text: Talk

text: Asia

text: Chou

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text: career

text: was

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text: a

text: boost

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text: he

text: was

text: spotted

text: by

text: Taiwanese

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question: When did his career begin?

answer: 2000,

question: What pop star still lives with his mom?

answer: Jay Chou

text: Jay Chou

question: Who turned to acting and directing?

answer: Jay Chou

text: Jay Chou

question: What has the pop star tried his hand at recently?

answer: screenplays, directing and appearing

text: screenplays, directing and appearing

question: When did the career begin?

answer: 2000,

question: Where did his career begin?

answer: Taiwan

text: Taiwan