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• Rogue FBI agent breaks silence
Former FBI agent John Connolly, whose fall from mob-buster to paid gangland flunky played out in a South Florida courtroom, broke his long silence today in a packed courtroom. Connolly denied having any role in a 1982 mob hit, telling the family of slain businessman John Callahan: "It's heartbreaking to hear what happened to your father and to your husband. ... My heart is broken when I hear what you say."
• Brown: Bailout plan doesn't make sense
It goes without saying that there is a lot of confusion about just how the $700 billion in federal bailout money is being spent.
• Car dealers get creative
A newspaper advertisement for a Miami car dealership reads more like a coupon for bags of potato chips: "Buy one, get two!"
• 'Bombs for peace' stopped the slaughter
It was a "genuine crime against humanity," said Richard Holbrooke, who thought that only a U.S.-led military intervention would stop the slaughter. After years of lobbying -- and a massacre of 8,000 men and boys -- he would be proved right.
• Bergen: How to fight al Qaeda
The Mumbai attacks remind the world that the intertwined problems of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan will be the most extreme foreign policy challenge that President Obama will face as he assumes office.
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