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  • Currently the world's No. 14 team, the U.S. must finish in the top two among Germany (No. 2), Portugal (No. 5) and Ghana to advance. Another group will pit England against Italy, Uruguay and Costa Rica. The tournament begins in Brazil in June.
  • In John Sandford's new thriller Broken Prey, middle-aged Minneapolis police officer Lucas Davenport takes time out from crime-solving to compile a list of the top 100 rock songs for a road trip.
  • While the number of Asian-American lawyers and law students increased greatly in recent decades, there are few Asian-American lawyers in top positions in the legal field.
  • The country's top track and field athletes are competing in Eugene, Ore., over the next several days — running, jumping and throwing for a chance to represent the U.S. in this year's summer Olympics.
  • "Never before have we seen our babies slaughtered," Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said today on MSNBC. "This has changed the dialogue and it should move beyond dialogue. We need action," he added. Manchin is a member of the National Rifle Association and a hunter.
  • Al Feldstein, who edited the iconic satire magazine from 1956-1984, turned it into a must-read for baby boomer-era adolescents.
  • President Obama's visit to South Dakota will allow him to brag that he has set foot in each of the 50 states — only three other U.S. presidents can make that claim.
  • ANNE and her son PATRICK MAGUIRE were part of the Maguire Seven, the family who was wrongfully arrested in 1974 on suspicion of manufacturing bombs for the Irish Republican Army. The family was tortured, tried, convicted, and jailed, and was not reunited for eleven years. ANNE spent eight years in prison, in what Sir John May called the "worst miscarriage of justice I have ever seen." PATRICK spent four years in prison after being convicted at the age of 13. ANNE MAGUIRE has written a book about their experience, "Miscarriage of Justice: An Irish Family's Story of Wrongful Conviction as IRA Terrorists" (Roberts Rinehart Publishers).
  • To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we look at the effect those events and their aftermath had on the U.S. and Afghanistan.
  • A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Randy Voepel, Mayor of Santee, Calfornia; Melissa Gern, a sophomore at Santana High School, where this week's deadly school shooting took place; San Diego County District Attorney Paul Pfingst on 15-year-old Charles Andrew Williams, who is in jail on murder and other charges; Vice President Dick Cheney and one of his cardiologists, Dr. Jonathan Reiner of George Washington University Hospital; Florida Judge Joel Lazarus sentencing 14-year-old Lionel Tate to life in prison after Tate's conviction for first-degree murder; President George W. Bush announcing a 60-day cooling-off period for Northwest Airlines and its mechanics union; O.V. Delle Femine, National Director of the Airline Mechanics Fraternal Association; Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (Republican, Illinois) and Representative Charles Rangel (Democrat, New York) on this week's passage by the House of part of President Bush's tax plan.
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