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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Cheat Sheet - Bernice King: My Father's Dream Lives On

Today: Syria Warns U.S.: Don't Get Involved , Ban E-Cigarettes? The Anti-Smoking Lobby's Clueless Crusade , All 5 Suspects Arrested in Mumbai Rape
Cheat Sheet: Morning

August 25, 2013
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In an interview with The Daily Beast's Allison Samuels, Bernice King talks about her father's legacy, civil rights today and the Trayvon Martin case.

QUAGMIRE

Days after an alleged deadly nerve gas attack in Syria, the government of Bashar al-Assad on Sunday warned the U.S. not to intervene, claiming that the rebels were behind the poisonous gas attack that left hundreds dead. Further, the Syrian government warned that an intervention would end any tenuous peace in the Middle East. Violence from the bloody two-year civil war has already spilled over into Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, and Israel-occupied Golan Heights—and Syria is allied with Iran, Lebanese Hezbollah, and Palestinian militant groups. Meanwhile, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 60 percent of Americans think the U.S. should not intervene in Syria, with just nine percent supporting action. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, speaking in Kuala Lumpur, refused to speculate on what action the U.S. would take.

ZEALOTS

The anti-smoking movement is going after e-cigarettes, the harmless inhalers that help people kick the habit. The Daily Beast's Nick Gillespie on why their single-minded zealotry has gone too far.

QUICK ACTION

All five men suspected of raping a photojournalist have been arrested, Indian police said on Sunday. The woman, believed to be a 22-year-old intern at a British magazine, was attacked at Shakti Mills, an abandoned textile mill in the center of the city, on Thursday. She had gone to shoot photos with a male colleague, who was beaten during the assault. The woman, who is in the hospital recovering from her injuries, said she wanted the "strictest punishment" for her attackers, but she wants to return to her work. "Rape is not the end of life," she said. A 19-year-old unemployed man from south Mumbai was the first arrested on Friday, and police made two more arrests on Saturday, followed by an arrest in Delhi on Sunday.

NOT A PHONY

Great news for angsty teens everywhere: there are more JD Salinger books coming—and we'll find out new details about what happened to Holden Caulfied (don't disappear!), the Glass family, and more.  A new documentary about JD Salinger, who died in 2010, claims that there are at least five unpublished books by the author that could be released as soon as 2015. The film is set to air in September. The works were largely written before 2008, when Salinger assigned his output into a trust. One collection will be called The Family Glass (does this mean we'll find out who won the Yale game?), and another called The Last and Best of the Peter Pans, will focus on the Caulfields (hopefully Phoebe), the clan at the center of Salinger's best-known work, The Catcher in the Rye.


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Zimmerman Visits Gun Factory
Even his lawyer admits it could be "inappropriate."
SEX BOXES
Swiss City to Open Prostitution Drive-Thrus
Zurich has banned streetwalkers.
YOU'RE FIRED
NY AG: Trump University Is Fake
Files a $40 million lawsuit against the Donald.
IT'S A GIFT
Actress Julie Harris Dies
Had won a record five Tony Awards.
AW
National Zoo Panda Gives Birth to Stillborn
One day after healthy cub born.
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