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(CNN) -- In Europe, the English have a reputation. They are notorious for prodigious drinking at Mediterranean resorts, a complete inability to master other languages and the habit of recalling World War Two every time England plays Germany at football -- or when it's time to remind the French of their spineless defeatism.

In turn, the words "perfidious Albion" have for centuries been part of a deep-seated French distrust of the English. "The English lie at mid-point between men and beasts," wrote the French author Robert-Martin Lesuire in 1760. Much more recently, French politicians have railed against "Anglo-Saxon" free-market capitalism as being responsible for the global financial meltdown. Just two weeks ago, French President Nicolas Sarkozy complained that globalization and free trade were at the root of the Eurozone crisis.

For their part, Germans are puzzled by the endless fascination of the British with the wars of the 20th century. "The older generation in particular see it as the last great act of national collective effort and self-assertion, the final episode in the history of the Empire before its imminent dissolution," writes the philosopher Gunnar Beck. He's not making it up. In 2010, an astonishing 850 books about the Third Reich were published in Britain.

Germans are relieved that the French don't have such visceral memories of war but wish they'd have more financial rectitude and a little less flamboyance. The Germans have fond memories of the deutsche mark, which rose out of the ashes with West Germany and was sacrificed for the euro. Chancellor Angela Merkel is conscious of a growing resentment among Germans that they must constantly open their wallets to support the more profligate Europeans.

This strange triangular relationship is often played out in the councils of Europe. But frequently Britain is the odd man out -- the semi-detached and half-hearted member of the European Union. The United Kingdom has always looked across the Atlantic as much as across the Channel to pursue its interests -- a sentiment only reinforced by memories of wartime Atlantic convoys that resupplied Britain and by the allied landings in Normandy.

By contrast, visionaries like Jean Monnet of France and Konrad Adenauer of West Germany, looking out at the ruins of Europe in the late 1940s, sought ways to bind together former enemies. The First World War had supposedly been the "war to end all wars." But this time, when they said "never again," they meant it. "Make men work together. Show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest," Monnet said.

Last week, both Merkel and Sarkozy have summoned the ghosts of conflict to galvanize support for the European ideal, with Merkel warning the continent faces its gravest hour since 1945.

The ideal they are trying to save began modestly enough, with the formation of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952: a single market for the coal and steel of six countries. But that common market was soon extended to become the European Economic Community (EEC), and gradually more aspects of national sovereignty were pooled. It was a Franco-German dream. Britain was too busy divesting itself of empire.

And when it turned from colonies to Europe, it bumped up against Charles de Gaulle, who dominated French politics for much of the post-war period. De Gaulle was innately suspicious of Britain and its "special relationship" with the United States. He twice vetoed British applications to join the evolving common market; and pulled France out of NATO's military command.

Once de Gaulle was gone, Britain -- under the leadership of the pro-European Conservative Edward Heath -- was finally accepted into the EEC. But Heath was in a minority among Britain's Conservatives, who would spend the next generation arguing over Europe.

The centrists saw Europe as essential to Britain's trading and financial future in a world of titans. The "Little Englanders" as they were often scornfully described, thought Europeans elitist, given to endless bureaucracy and determined to undermine a millennium of English self-rule.

And the Germans and the French were usually the villains. When Jacques Delors, a Frenchman who was president of the European Commission, advanced the cause of deeper union, Margaret Thatcher famously told the House of Commons, "No, no, no." The tabloid Sun newspaper joined in with one of its most famous splash headlines: "Up Yours Delors."

It was no surprise, then, that Britain opted out of joining a single European currency under Thatcher's successor, John Major. The alternative was the implosion of the Conservative party. The euro (whose very name was squabbled over for months) was another Franco-German enterprise, but its backers had different motives.

For President Francois Mitterrand of France, it further bound Germany into a closer European union just when German unification -- after the collapse of the Berlin Wall -- threatened to make Germany the dominant continental power. For Helmut Kohl, then German chancellor, closer integration in defense, security and foreign policy was a prize worth the sacrifice of the deutsche mark (though few Germans agreed with him.)

Which brings us full circle. The euro came into being in 1999, but other targets (inflation, public debt, deficits) were at best patchily met. Europe had monetary union, but no fiscal union or convergence among national economies.

John Major recently revisited the "folly" of the scheme in an op-ed for the Financial Times. The "convergence of the powerful northern economies with southern Europe was unlikely," he wrote. Bad politics had taken precedence over sensible economics.

The British, of course, usually have a sporting metaphor for these European crises. After Major won an opt-out from the single currency and a "social chapter" aimed at establishing, for example, common labor standards, he declared, "game, set and match" for Britain. The prominent Conservative politician Boris Johnson said Prime Minister David Cameron "had played a blinder" (a uniquely Anglo-Saxon compliment) in Brussels -- after Cameron had refused to countenance a European financial services tax.

The Sun took aim at Sarkozy Friday: "Who do you think EU are?" screamed its headline.

As one European official puts it, the Brussels summit has given the European Union a vague road map and a not terribly accurate compass. Just who is coming along for the ride is not entirely clear, but Europe's third largest economy (or second if you use sources preferred by the British) is clearly not.

The words of German Chancellor Adenauer, spoken in 1954, are about to get one of those stress tests that banks are getting used to: "The unity of Europe was the dream of a few. It became the hope of many. Today it has become a necessity for all of us."

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question: Explain how has Britain been the odd man out?

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L'AQUILA, Italy (CNN) -- The youngest hadn't lived half a year. The oldest had lived nearly a hundred.

A rescue worker Friday kisses the coffin of a child killed by this week's earthquake in central Italy.

The official government list of victims from this week's earthquake in central Italy reached 287 on Friday, as Italians held a mass state funeral to lay the victims to rest.

They included Antonio Loavan Ghiroceanu, who was born December 11. He would have been  6 months old on Saturday.

The oldest-known victim of the quake was Evandro Testa, 96, who was born in 1913.

More than 200 caskets were lined up at the funeral, draped with flowers. At least one small white coffin belonging to a child sat atop a larger coffin, a baby's pastel outfit hanging off the side.

The funeral was being held outside a hangar in Coppito, a town adjacent to the earthquake's epicenter of L'Aquila.

Officials elected to hold the Mass in the open air to avoid the risk of injury from falling debris. Aftershocks continue to shake the region more than four days after the earthquake, and some were even felt during Friday's funeral.

All of the area's cardinals and bishops, along with 100 priests, attended the special funeral Mass. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was also there, greeting and embracing some of the thousands of mourners before the service.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone presided over the Mass as an envoy from Pope Benedict XVI, who plans to visit the region after Easter.  Watch Italy bury its dead Â»

Bertone said the funeral was a "precious moment" to understand the meaning of life and death.

"Everything can stop in a second -- projects, plans -- everything finishes. All that remains is love," he said. Watch more on funeral

Mourners, who were transported to the funeral on buses, dabbed their eyes and noses. Some stared at the ground or held each other. Few appeared focused on anything but remembering the victims.

"I feel rebirth in the heart, because below that rubble there is a will to rebuild, to start again, to plan and to dream," Bertone said, offering a message of hope.

The towns of L'Aquila and the surrounding region, he said, "will come back stronger, will have more courage and give life to these places with that power and strength and dignity of the soul that distinguishes them."

As well as sending Bertone to deliver his message, the pope sent holy oils to L'Aquila and a chalice with which to take Communion.

Archbishop Giuseppe Molinari of L'Aquila also planned to deliver a message.

The 6.3-magnitude quake Monday morning left about 30,000 people without their homes. Almost 20,000 of them are braving chilly nights in tents while about 11,000 others are staying in hotels, said Agostino Miozzo, a spokesman for the Italian Civil Protection Agency. Watch more on the aftermath

Recovering from such losses and rebuilding the city of L'Aquila will take several years, according to Miozzo. The medieval city is about 120 km (75 miles) northeast of Rome.

Berlusconi has said rebuilding will cost several billion euros.

Aftershocks have heightened anxiety in the area -- including a moderate 5.6 magnitude tremor that struck the area Tuesday.

"The mood is a little bit afraid," said Marco Volponi of the Civil Protection agency. He was working in a tent camp, housing people whose homes were inhabitable.

In the nearby village of Onna, 40 people -- more than one out of every eight residents in the town of 300 -- were killed in the earthquake. On some streets, every single home was destroyed.

Anna Rita Difilice lost her son, Fabio, 20, to the quake -- the deadliest to strike Italy in decades and the first major quake in the country in seven years.

She said she doesn't know what comes next for her. Her village has become populated with tents, fold-up beds and feeding stations handing out food, water and other supplies for survivors.

But she said she knew one thing: she's not going anywhere.

"My son died here," she said. "There is no way I'm leaving this town -- not ever."

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text: oldest

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text: 's

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text: a

text: mass

text: state

text: funeral

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text: victims

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text: Mass

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text: open

text: air

text: to

text: avoid

text: the

text: risk

text: of

text: injury

text: from

text: falling

text: debris

text: Aftershocks

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text: region

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text: days

text: after

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text: earthquake

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text: area

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text: cardinals

text: and

text: bishops

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text: priests

text: attended

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text: special

text: funeral

text: Mass.

text: Italian

text: Prime

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text: Silvio

text: Berlusconi

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text: and

text: embracing

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text: service

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text: Mass

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text: Pope

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text: region

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text: Easter

text: Watch

text: Italy

text: bury

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text: Bertone

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text: funeral

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text: precious

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text: the

text: meaning

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text: life

text: and

text: death

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text: second

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text: love

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text: funeral

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text: noses

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text: victims

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text: heart

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text: a

text: will

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text: and

text: to

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text: a

text: message

text: of

text: hope

text: The

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text: of

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text: the

text: surrounding

text: region

text: he

text: said

text: will

text: come

text: back

text: stronger

text: will

text: have

text: more

text: courage

text: and

text: give

text: life

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text: strength

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text: dignity

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text: soul

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text: Bertone

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text: deliver

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text: message

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text: pope

text: sent

text: holy

text: oils

text: to

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text: a

text: chalice

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text: which

text: to

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text: Communion

text: Archbishop

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text: Molinari

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text: L'Aquila

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text: planned

text: to

text: deliver

text: a

text: message

text: The

text: quake

text: Monday

text: morning

text: left

text: about

text: people

text: without

text: their

text: homes

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text: of

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text: are

text: braving

text: chilly

text: nights

text: in

text: tents

text: while

text: about

text: others

text: are

text: staying

text: in

text: hotels

text: said

text: Agostino

text: Miozzo

text: a

text: spokesman

text: for

text: the

text: Italian

text: Civil

text: Protection

text: Agency

text: Watch

text: more

text: on

text: the

text: aftermath

text: Recovering

text: from

text: such

text: losses

text: and

text: rebuilding

text: the

text: city

text: of

text: L'Aquila

text: will

text: take

text: several

text: years

text: according

text: to

text: Miozzo

text: The

text: medieval

text: city

text: is

text: about

text: km

text: miles

text: northeast

text: of

text: Rome

text: Berlusconi

text: has

text: said

text: rebuilding

text: will

text: cost

text: several

text: billion

text: euros

text: Aftershocks

text: have

text: heightened

text: anxiety

text: in

text: the

text: area

text: including

text: a

text: moderate

text: magnitude

text: tremor

text: that

text: struck

text: the

text: area

text: Tuesday

text: The

text: mood

text: is

text: a

text: little

text: bit

text: afraid

text: said

text: Marco

text: Volponi

text: of

text: the

text: Civil

text: Protection

text: agency

text: He

text: was

text: working

text: in

text: a

text: tent

text: camp

text: housing

text: people

text: whose

text: homes

text: were

text: inhabitable

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text: the

text: nearby

text: village

text: of

text: Onna

text: people

text: more

text: than

text: one

text: out

text: of

text: every

text: eight

text: residents

text: in

text: the

text: town

text: of

text: were

text: killed

text: in

text: the

text: earthquake

text: On

text: some

text: streets

text: every

text: single

text: home

text: was

text: destroyed

text: Anna

text: Rita

text: Difilice

text: lost

text: her

text: son

text: Fabio

text: to

text: the

text: quake

text: the

text: deadliest

text: to

text: strike

text: Italy

text: in

text: decades

text: and

text: the

text: first

text: major

text: quake

text: in

text: the

text: country

text: in

text: seven

text: years

text: She

text: said

text: she

text: does

text: n't

text: know

text: what

text: comes

text: next

text: for

text: her

text: Her

text: village

text: has

text: become

text: populated

text: with

text: tents

text: fold

text: up

text: beds

text: and

text: feeding

text: stations

text: handing

text: out

text: food

text: water

text: and

text: other

text: supplies

text: for

text: survivors

text: But

text: she

text: said

text: she

text: knew

text: one

text: thing

text: she

text: 's

text: not

text: going

text: anywhere

text: My

text: son

text: died

text: here

text: she

text: said

text: There

text: is

text: no

text: way

text: I

text: 'm

text: leaving

text: this

text: town

text: not

text: ever

question: how many dead?

answer: 287

question: how many victims?

answer: 287

question: When did the earthquake take place?

answer: this week's

text: this week's

question: Who has gathered to say farewell to victims?

answer: All of the area's cardinals and bishops, along with 100 priests, attended the special funeral Mass.

text: All of the area's cardinals and bishops, along with 100 priests, attended the special funeral Mass.

question: how many in hotels?

answer: about 11,000

text: about 11,000


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(CNN) -- The deep financial mess at the U.S. Postal Service has revealed a deep fault line in America about whether we even need the postal system.

This week we heard from the "let 'em shut down, I do all my communicating online" group. And there are those who want to "save the art of writing a letter by hand and mailing it."

We're going to get beyond this divide, right here, right now, with a real-life love story that gets to its destination, as most love stories do, through a route that's never been traveled before.

The letter

Our love story begins with a guy in a rush.

"Gimme a ticket for an aer-o-plane.

Ain't got time to take a fast train.

Lonely days are gone.

I'm a-goin' home."

Why is this guy in such a hurry?

"My baby just-a wrote me a letter."

The letter. That's why.

His baby didn't send him an e-mail.

She wrote him a letter. By hand. Put it in an envelope.

Found a stamp buried in her drawer. Took it to a mailbox. Double checked, I'm sure, to make sure it dropped in all the way.

"The Letter," performed by The Box Tops, Joe Cocker and other artists, is one of the 500 most popular American songs.

To get to the bottom of the story, I made a long distance phone call to Wayne Carson, the man who wrote "The Letter."

The back story

I asked Carson if he could imagine the guy in his song rushing to the airport -- paying full fare to get home to his baby, who seems to have sent him packing -- if she had sent an e-mail or a tweet.

He says he never thought of it. He wrote the song in 1967.

Who was the guy, I asked. Was it you?

No.

"My dad was in show business for 50 years," Carson tells me. "He fancied himself as a songwriter. Never wrote a hit. He would get into the story. He didn't know when to quit. By the time he got the story told he had four or five pages. He didn't have a song. He had a short story."

Carson's father handed him one of those "short stories" called "Her Last Letter" and told him to see if he could do something with it.

There was one phrase in there that stuck in Carson's mind that he'd one day come back to. Halfway down the third page. The phrase was "Ticket for an aer-o-plane."

And that's the way aer-o-plane was spelled.

One day, in his small kitchen, Carson swiveled his chair to his pump organ and just banged out the melody and the lyrics in one take. "I just put the words together as they came to me. All because of that one word, aer-o-plane, that my dad wrote in the middle of that damn story." Just a songwriter in the zone.

The plot gets hot

One more question for Carson.

"Do you have a favorite among all the songs you've written? "

"My favorite song," he says, "is always the last one I wrote. ... I don't have a favorite kid or dog. I have a favorite wife. But then again she's the last one I married."

Uh oh. I guess I have a couple more questions.

How many times have you been married, Wayne?

Three, he tells me. His first wife died too young. His second marriage didn't work out. But this marriage...

"What brought us together was songwriting. We wrote two songs together before we actually met in person."

They did not, if you're wondering, send their lyrics back and forth through the mail.

They had a friend in common, a Nashville guitarist, who was the intermediary. The messenger.

And then, one night, after one of Carson's shows, a woman comes up to him and says she has a song she'd like him to look at.

"Oh no," he said. "Not another one."

And then she told him. Her name was Wyndi. Wyndi Harp. The woman he'd been writing songs with.

They kept in touch. "One morning," says Harp, "he called me up and said, 'Would you like to do some writing today?' "

They'd ride around for hours in Carson's blue-green Oldsmobile Silhouette minivan just writing songs. Any car can be romantic when you're making music together. Harp comes up with some priceless titles.

"My Baby's been Fiddlin' With a Brand New Bow." That was one of their first together.

"Free Me When You Go."

"I'm Not Really Talkin', It's Just My Heart Thinkin' Out Loud."

Carson and Harp have been married 14 years now. And writing songs together for longer than that.

Delivery

Now, the final, final question. Have Carson and Harp ever gone to a mailbox and sent each other a letter?

"We've never written each other a letter," says Carson, "because we've never really been apart that long since we met. ... Two weeks was about as long as I could stand to be away from her."

There's a song there.

The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Michael Schulder.

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Jerusalem (CNN) -- Two barrels filled with explosives washed up on beaches in Israel on Monday, according to Israeli authorities.

Authorities disposed of both without injury.

Islamic Jihad, the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and the Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades issued a leaflet in Gaza claiming responsibility for sending three explosive devices to Ashkelon and Ashdod.

A large barrel filled with explosives was found on a beach in the Ashkelon area Monday morning. The beach was closed.

Policemen and bomb disposal experts neutralized the explosives, according to police spokesman Miki Rosenfeld.

A second barrel filled with explosives was discovered later in the day on the shore of the city of Ashdod.

Authorities conducted a controlled explosion on the second barrel. Police were combing the beaches, and nearby areas were closed to the public. Authorities have not discussed a third device.

The Israel Defense Forces, in a statement Monday, said several Palestinian groups had claimed responsibility January 29 for a maritime terrorist attack after the detonation of two sea-born explosive devices about two kilometers (1.24 miles) off the coast of Gaza.

Hamas, the movement controlling Gaza, has been vowing retaliation since one of the founding members of its military wing, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, died last week in Dubai.

Al-Mabhouh's brother, Fayek al-Mabhouh, said that preliminary results of Hamas' investigation of the death showed his brother was killed by electrocution and strangulation with a piece of cloth.

Hamas officials accused Israel of assassinating Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. Israeli officials have not responded to those charges.

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(CNN) -- Authorities have issued sketches of three people sought in connection with the spate of eastern Texas church fires.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives released the drawings Friday at a news conference in Tyler, Texas.

We have a serial arsonist out there," said Robert Champion, special agent in charge of ATF's Dallas, Texas, office. "We need help from the public."

There have been a total of 11 church fires so far this year, 10 of them found to be deliberately set.

There is no clear theme linking the fires, which have struck churches of different denominations, including Baptist, Methodist and Church of Christ Scientist, on different days of the week and at different times of the day.

While the churches are located in small towns, not all of them are in remote locations.

Police patrols have been stepped up near churches, and in some cases church members are staying at their churches to protect them or patrolling around the churches themselves.

"I think maybe I would characterize the mood of our people as perplexed," Randy Daniels, mayor of Athens, Texas, told CNN earlier this week. Athens, a town of about 12,000 people, has had three of its church set on fire.

In Tyler, Texas, the Tyland Baptist Church was among those set ablaze. Pastor David Mahfood told CNN on Wednesday there was nothing left from the January 16 fire -- "not a Bible, not a hymnal. We've got some bricks. That's it."

At another destroyed church, Russell United Methodist Church in Wills Point, Texas, members are trying to salvage what they can from the ashes.

A large brass cross that hung over the church's choir loft was recently found, church member Kay Crosby told CNN. "It was kind of twisted, but we're going to have it restored," she said.

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Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Jesse James' Nazi hat was a gift from a Jewish mentor and does not make him a neo-Nazi, his lawyer said Wednesday.

James is at a treatment facility "to deal with personal issues" in a bid to save his marriage to actress Sandra Bullock, a spokeswoman for James said.

"He realized that this time was crucial to help himself, help his family and help save his marriage," she said.

A photo recently surfaced of James wearing the German Nazi hat as he raised his right arm in a salute. The hat may have been in poor taste, but it was given to James as a gag gift by his Jewish godfather, attorney Joe Yanny said.

Possessing Nazi memorabilia does not make someone a neo-Nazi, he said.

As evidence that James is no anti-Semite, Yanny said James lived for nearly a month in an Israeli kibbutz. His lawyer would not disclose what kind of treatment the famous motorcycle designer is seeking.

"I would request that his rights in regards to privacy and his medical matters be respected," said Yanny.

James has been the target of controversy and publicity since his separation with Bullock soon after she won a best actress Oscar earlier this month.

Yanny refused to talk about the condition of the James-Bullock marriage, which came under question when several women went public with claims they were involved with him.

"I understand people's desire in newsworthy stories, but I would hope that by now this wasn't such a newsworthy story such that his basic rights and privacy aren't continuously invaded in an improper manner," Yanny told CNN.

He said "99 percent" of what has published about James in recent weeks is untrue.

CNN's Brittany Kaplan contributed to this report.

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN)  -- Questions swirled Friday about the possible role prescription medications may have played in the death Thursday of pop idol Michael Jackson, people close to him said.

The cause of pop star Michael Jackson's death has not been determined after Friday's autopsy.

His autopsy was completed, but further tests must be carried out before the cause of death can be determined, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Coroner said.

Craig Harvey said the tests would take four to six weeks, after which "we anticipate being able to close the case and issuing a final cause of death." Among the tests to be carried out, he said, are neuropathology (brain) and pulmonary (lung) tests.

Harvey added, "We know that he was taking some prescription medications," but said he was not able to divulge what.

The possibility that Jackson may have been taking medication that could have contributed to his death at the age of 50 weighed heavily Friday on a number of people close to the star.  Watch coroner's office discuss Jackson's death. Â»

In 2005, after he was cleared on charges of child molestation, Jackson spent a week at a center run by Dr. Deepak Chopra, a physician who focuses on spirituality and the mind-body connection.

During that week, Jackson asked Chopra for a prescription for a narcotic, the doctor told CNN. "I said, 'What the heck do you want a narcotic prescription for?' And it suddenly dawned on me that he was probably taking these and that he had probably a number of doctors who were giving him these prescriptions, so I confronted him with that. At first, he denied it. Then, he said he was in a lot of pain."

Chopra said he responded to Jackson that there were plenty of other ways for him to handle his pain, but that the arguments were not persuasive.  Watch CNN's Sanjay Gupta discuss Jackson's death Â»

"For a while, I lost him," he said. "I have had that happen with me with other celebrities in Hollywood. There's a plethora of doctors in Hollywood, they're drug peddlers, they're drug pushers, they just happen to be having a medical license and I hope that this episode today, this tragic death of a great human being, will bring to light the huge problem we have in Hollywood with some of the medical establishment, the celebrity doctors, who not only initiate people into the drug experience, but then they perpetuate it so that people become dependent on them."

Chopra said Jackson had recently gone on a diet to prepare for his planned comeback tour, which was to have begun next month in England, and was excited about his planned resumption of his performing career.

"He was practicing, he was fasting, and yet he wasn't physically in the condition to do this, and he was not confronting his drug addiction, which is the big problem," Chopra said.

He blamed Jackson's death on drug abuse, though he offered no direct evidence. "When you have enough drugs in your system, your heart goes into an arrhythmia and your respiration stops," he said. "I think the drugs killed him."

Chopra said he had known Jackson to take the opium-derived painkiller OxyContin at one time, as well as injections of the narcotic pain reliever Demerol "and other narcotics, and I was really desperate to try to help him, but you know you can't help somebody who would go into denial."  Watch crowds gather at the hospital. Â»

Jackson typically would refuse to call Chopra for several weeks at a time, the doctor said. "Then he would call me two or three weeks later and say he was sorry, that he had been busy and it wasn't the drugs -- but it was the drugs."

Chopra, who said he knew Jackson for more than two decades, described him as "my little brother -- I feel very bad for him."

Brian Oxman, a former attorney for the Jackson family who was with the family in the hospital emergency room on Thursday, also expressed concern about medications the pop star was taking.

"I talked to his family about it, I warned them -- I said that Michael is overmedicating and that I did not want to see this kind of a case develop," Oxman told CNN's "American Morning" on Friday.

He referred to Anna Nicole Smith, the former model and reality TV show star who died of an overdose in 2007.

"I said, 'If that's what's going to happen to Michael, it's all going to break our hearts.' And my worst fears are here."

Oxman emphasized that he did not know what killed Jackson, and was not making accusations against any individual.

Jackson's ex-wife, Lisa Marie Presley, said in an online blog posted Friday that she was not surprised by Thursday's news.

She said she divorced him in January 1996, after less than two years of marriage, because she was "in over my head in trying" to save Jackson "from the inevitable, which is what has just happened."

Jackson talked with her about his death during "a deep conversation" 14 years ago about "the circumstances of my father's death," she wrote, referring to Elvis Presley. The singer collapsed in the bathroom of his Memphis, Tennessee, mansion -- Graceland -- on August 16, 1977, at the age of 42. While his death was ruled the result of an irregular heartbeat, the autopsy report was sealed amid accusations that abuse of prescription drugs caused the problem.

The similarity to the "King of Rock" apparently resonated with the "King of Pop." "At some point he paused, he stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, 'I am afraid that I am going to end up like him, the way he did,' " Presley said.  Watch crowds gather at the hospital. Â»

"I promptly tried to deter him from the idea, at which point he just shrugged his shoulders and nodded almost matter of fact as if to let me know, he knew what he knew and that was kind of that."

That conversation haunted Presley as she watched television coverage of Jackson's death Thursday, she said.

"I am sitting here watching on the news [as] an ambulance leaves the driveway of his home, the big gates, the crowds outside the gates, the coverage, the crowds outside the hospital, the cause of death and what may have led up to it and the memory of this conversation hit me, as did the unstoppable tears," she wrote.

"A predicted ending by him, by loved ones and by me, but what I didn't predict was how much it was going to hurt when it finally happened."

Her blog can be found online at http://blogs.myspace.com/lisamariepresley

CNN is seeking response from the family.

Meanwhile, police -- who had spoken Thursday with Dr. Conrad Murray, who was with Jackson when he died -- were trying to reach him again Friday.

A car that Murray had parked at Jackson's home was impounded and may contain medications pertinent to the investigation, said Detective Agustin Villanueva of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Public records show the impounded car was registered to a Texas woman who is an associate of the cardiologist, who is licensed in California and Texas and also has an office in Las Vegas, Nevada.

CNN's calls to Murray's office were not returned Friday.

AEG Live, the promoter of Jackson's planned tour, said their deal with the singer included a dedicated private physician of his choosing and that Jackson chose Murray, his physician of three years.

A source close to the family said Murray spent much of the last two months with Jackson, as he prepared for his upcoming concert series. The doctor is said to be cooperating with officials.

Jackson was in cardiac arrest when paramedics took him Thursday from his home to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where the music idol was pronounced dead at 2:26 p.m. (5:26 p.m. ET).  Listen to the 911 call Â»

He had been preparing for a comeback tour -- aimed at extending his legendary career and helping him to pay off hundreds of millions of dollars in debt.

Jackson began his professional work at age 5, singing with his brothers, before shooting to superstardom as a solo singer. He had numerous No. 1 hits -- the best known being "Thriller," the best-selling album of all time, at an estimated 50 million copies worldwide.

After dominating the popular music scene for years, Jackson became reclusive and mired in scandals that included child molestation charges. He reached a settlement with one accuser and was acquitted in another case after a highly publicized trial in Santa Maria, California, in June 2005.

Jackson is survived by his three children, Prince Michael I, Paris and Prince Michael II.

Condolences and appreciations continued to pour in Thursday from around the world. President Obama said he considered Jackson a "spectacular performer" and expressed his condolences to the Jackson family, the White House said Friday.

At a briefing with reporters, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said he spoke with the president Friday morning about the death of the pop superstar.

"He said to me that, obviously, Michael Jackson was a spectacular performer, a music icon. I think everybody remembers hearing his songs, watching him moonwalk on television during Motown's 25th anniversary."

But Gibbs said the president also noted that "aspects of his life were sad and tragic. His condolences went out to the Jackson family and to fans that mourned his loss."

In a written statement, Jackson's second ex-wife, Debbie Rowe Jackson, said, "Though Michael is now at peace, the world has lost a beautiful and loving soul. I appreciate the outpouring of support and prayer for Michael, all of his family, me and our children, and hope our privacy can be respected at this difficult time."

CNN's Alan Duke and Drew Griffin contributed to this report.

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text: close

text: to

text: the

text: family

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text: Murray

text: spent

text: much

text: of

text: the

text: last

text: two

text: months

text: with

text: Jackson

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text: he

text: prepared

text: for

text: his

text: upcoming

text: concert

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text: doctor

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text: said

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text: be

text: cooperating

text: with

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text: Jackson

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text: in

text: cardiac

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text: when

text: paramedics

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text: him

text: Thursday

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text: home

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text: had

text: been

text: preparing

text: for

text: a

text: comeback

text: tour

text: aimed

text: at

text: extending

text: his

text: legendary

text: career

text: and

text: helping

text: him

text: to

text: pay

text: off

text: hundreds

text: of

text: millions

text: of

text: dollars

text: in

text: debt

text: Jackson

text: began

text: his

text: professional

text: work

text: at

text: age

text: singing

text: with

text: his

text: brothers

text: before

text: shooting

text: to

text: superstardom

text: as

text: a

text: solo

text: singer

text: He

text: had

text: numerous

text: No

text: hits

text: the

text: best

text: known

text: being

text: Thriller

text: the

text: best

text: selling

text: album

text: of

text: all

text: time

text: at

text: an

text: estimated

text: million

text: copies

text: worldwide

text: After

text: dominating

text: the

text: popular

text: music

text: scene

text: for

text: years

text: Jackson

text: became

text: reclusive

text: and

text: mired

text: in

text: scandals

text: that

text: included

text: child

text: molestation

text: charges

text: He

text: reached

text: a

text: settlement

text: with

text: one

text: accuser

text: and

text: was

text: acquitted

text: in

text: another

text: case

text: after

text: a

text: highly

text: publicized

text: trial

text: in

text: Santa

text: Maria

text: California

text: in

text: June

text: Jackson

text: is

text: survived

text: by

text: his

text: three

text: children

text: Prince

text: Michael

text: I

text: Paris

text: and

text: Prince

text: Michael

text: II

text: Condolences

text: and

text: appreciations

text: continued

text: to

text: pour

text: in

text: Thursday

text: from

text: around

text: the

text: world

text: President

text: Obama

text: said

text: he

text: considered

text: Jackson

text: a

text: spectacular

text: performer

text: and

text: expressed

text: his

text: condolences

text: to

text: the

text: Jackson

text: family

text: the

text: White

text: House

text: said

text: Friday

text: At

text: a

text: briefing

text: with

text: reporters

text: White

text: House

text: spokesman

text: Robert

text: Gibbs

text: said

text: he

text: spoke

text: with

text: the

text: president

text: Friday

text: morning

text: about

text: the

text: death

text: of

text: the

text: pop

text: superstar

text: He

text: said

text: to

text: me

text: that

text: obviously

text: Michael

text: Jackson

text: was

text: a

text: spectacular

text: performer

text: a

text: music

text: icon

text: I

text: think

text: everybody

text: remembers

text: hearing

text: his

text: songs

text: watching

text: him

text: moonwalk

text: on

text: television

text: during

text: Motown

text: 's

text: anniversary

text: But

text: Gibbs

text: said

text: the

text: president

text: also

text: noted

text: that

text: aspects

text: of

text: his

text: life

text: were

text: sad

text: and

text: tragic

text: His

text: condolences

text: went

text: out

text: to

text: the

text: Jackson

text: family

text: and

text: to

text: fans

text: that

text: mourned

text: his

text: loss

text: In

text: a

text: written

text: statement

text: Jackson

text: 's

text: second

text: ex

text: wife

text: Debbie

text: Rowe

text: Jackson

text: said

text: Though

text: Michael

text: is

text: now

text: at

text: peace

text: the

text: world

text: has

text: lost

text: a

text: beautiful

text: and

text: loving

text: soul

text: I

text: appreciate

text: the

text: outpouring

text: of

text: support

text: and

text: prayer

text: for

text: Michael

text: all

text: of

text: his

text: family

text: me

text: and

text: our

text: children

text: and

text: hope

text: our

text: privacy

text: can

text: be

text: respected

text: at

text: this

text: difficult

text: time

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Alan

text: Duke

text: and

text: Drew

text: Griffin

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: The Physician's car may contain what?

answer: ain medications pertinent to the investigati

text: ain medications pertinent to the investigati

question: What spokesman said about Jackson`s death?

answer: further tests must be carried out before

text: further tests must be carried out before

question: What caused the death to "King of Pop" comparing to Deepak Chopra?

answer: prescription medications

text: prescription medications

question: what does the car conrain

answer: and may contain medications pertinent to the investigati

text: and may contain medications pertinent to the investigati

question: what does chopra believe

answer: . "I think the drugs killed him.

text: . "I think the drugs killed him.

question: Who believes prescription drugs killed the "King of Pop?"

answer: a number of people

text: a number of people

question: What did the spokesman say?

answer: His autopsy was completed, but further tests must be carried out before the cause of death can be determined,

text: His autopsy was completed, but further tests must be carried out before the cause of death can be determined,