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    The Week In Pictures

    Slideshow • News • ISSUE 48•19 • May 14, 2012
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    • Paula Deen Sponsors .05K Walk For Diabetes Research

      SAVANNAH, GA—Celebrity chef and restaurateur Paula Deen announced Monday that her recently launched Step for a Cure Foundation would host its first annual .05K fun walk on May 20 to raise money for Type 2 diabetes research. The star of the Food Netw...
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    • In Bipartisan Spirit, Obama Makes Deal To Get Kicked In Balls

      President Obama works out an agreement to have Republicans in Congress kick him in the balls in exchange for nothing.
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    • Rajon Rondo: 'I Have Too Many Father Figures On This Team'

      BOSTON—At a press conference last week discussing his suspension for bumping a referee, Celtics guard Rajon Rondo blamed his conduct on having "too many role models and people to look up to" on the team to get a coherent idea of how h...
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    • Maya Angelou Thought She’d Be Invited To More White House Stuff

      WINSTON-SALEM, NC—Saying that she didn’t want to be presumptuous but had thought her celebrated literary career, numerous academic honors, and tireless political activism would put her "pretty high up" on guests lists, Maya Ange...
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    • This Week In History: Sears Tower Constructed With Bold Challenge To God Engraved On Roof (1972)

      The Onion reflects on the discovery of the first lesbian, the joyous Hindenburg explosion, and the Sears Tower's challenge to God
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    • Steve Nash Has Emotional Goodbye With Host Family

      PHOENIX—With his Suns season over and a new team likely in the future for free agent Steve Nash, the Canadian point guard spent an emotional final day with his American host family, the Berkleys, Sunday. "Steve has been such a joy to have ...
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    • Obama Blasts Obama's Evasive Stance On Gay Marriage

      'The President Needs To Come Clean On His Views,' Obama Says

      WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama lashed out at President Barack Obama's seemingly evasive stance on gay marriage Tuesday, calling the head-of-state's cagey position on the issue both "cowardly" and "an example of faile...
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    • Nation's Moms Invent New Recreational Drug To Worry About

      DENVER—A new illicit drug that is incredibly cheap, highly addictive, and extremely easy to produce is appearing in school yards across the country, the fevered imaginations of the nation's mothers who need something to fret over confirmed today. Th...
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    • Ahmadinejad Kind Of Getting Back Into Old R.E.M. Again

      TEHRAN—Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told reporters Thursday he was kind of getting back into old R.E.M.
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    • 5-Year-Old Announces Circle No Longer Her Favorite Shape

      ALLENTOWN, PA—Radically reversing nearly three weeks of precedent, local 5-year-old Tricia Billings announced Saturday that the circle was no longer her favorite shape. "Circles aren't my favorite anymore," said Billings, denouncing t...
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