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in concert to show that violence in the country will worsen if most coalition troops leave.
• The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Joseph Dunford, also rejected the charges Karzai made Sunday as "categorically false."

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• Batman's mythology, history getting new boost from DC Entertainment, writer Scott Snyder
• Batman's transformative years are getting a few new twists.
• DC Entertainment is going back into Bruce Wayne's past to see how he began his transformation from socialite with money to the scourge of Gotham's criminal underworld.
• But key elements of the character's history are staying the same -- the murder of Wayne's parents, for example -- says Scott Snyder, the writer of "Batman" since its relaunch debuted in 2011.
• "It's not 'let's redo the origin,'" he said Monday. "It's time for a new story showing how Batman became who he is in the New 52."
• Instead, Snyder said readers will see how the

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