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| Leadership scramble: GOP rivals vie for title
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| Coll. of Charleston's Cremins takes medical leave
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 AP - The Republican presidential contenders are making a pitch to voters that sounds a lot like a children's game: Follow the leader.
|  AP - Bobby Cremins' assistant says the veteran basketball coach hasn't looked well the past few weeks and Friday evening the College of Charleston announced Cremins will miss the rest of the season because of a medical problem.
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| Feisty Gingrich stakes campaign on electability
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| Djokovic wins marathon match to set up Nadal final
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 AP - Newt Gingrich has staked his presidential bid on one idea: that he is best positioned to defeat President Barack Obama. Even some of his supporters seem to be struggling to buy the former House speaker's claim, an indication that chief rival Mitt Romney's efforts to undercut him may be working.
|  AP - If anyone knows how Novak Djokovic feels after sweating and scrapping for almost five hours in the Australian Open semifinals, it's his next opponent — Rafael Nadal.
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| AP Interview: Roubini warns of tough times ahead
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| Manning, Irsay insist they are on same page
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 AP - Economist Nouriel Roubini, nicknamed "Dr. Doom" for his gloomy predictions in the run-up to the financial meltdown four years ago, says the fallout from that crisis could last the rest of this decade.
|  AP - Peyton Manning and Colts owner Jim Irsay insist they are just fine after a week filled with complaints and comments suggesting a rift had developed following one of the most miserable seasons in team history.
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| Despair, crackdowns breed more violence in Tibet
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| Broncos hire Jack Del Rio as defensive coordinator
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| AP - A young man posts his photo with a leaflet demanding freedom for Tibet and telling Chinese police, come and get me. Protesters rise up to defend him, and demonstrations break out in two other Tibetan areas of western China to support the same cause. | AP - John Fox and Jack Del Rio are together again. |
| Need for courtroom artists fade as cameras move in
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| US women's soccer team qualifies for Olympics
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 AP - One marker in hand and one in his mouth, Lou Chukman glances up and down from a sketchpad to a reputed Chicago mobster across the courtroom — drawing feverishly to capture the drama of the judge's verdict before the moment passes.
|  AP - In the end, what matters is that the U.S. women's soccer team is going to the Olympics. What the players won't soon forget is how hard they had to work get there.
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