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how he was the victim of a cruel hoax about a dead girlfriend who never existed.
• He still has questions to answer, with many wondering whether he was a victim or participant in the scam. Those doubts even extended to his own campus, where he is one of the most popular players in Notre Dame's storied history.
• "Whenever Manti decides to speak I'll bet the entire campus will stop what they're doing and watch what he has to say," Notre Dame student body president Brett Rocheleau said Thursday. "I think the majority of students believe in Manti. They just want to hear him answer these final few questions and hear the story from his point of view."
• When Te'o will do that, like so much else about this story, is still a mystery.
• An Associated Press review of news coverage found that Te'o talked about his doomed love in a Web interview on Dec. 8 and again in a newspaper interview published Dec. 10. He and the university said he learned on Dec. 6 that it was all a hoax -- not only was she not dead, she wasn't real.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Friday, Jan. 18, the 18th day of 2013. There are 347 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlights in History:
• On Jan. 18, 1943, during World War II, Jewish insurgents in the Warsaw Ghetto launched their initial armed resistance against Nazi troops, who eventually succeeded in crushing the rebellion. The Soviets announced they'd broken through the long Nazi siege of Leningrad (it was another year before the siege was fully lifted). In the U.S., a ban on the sale of pre-sliced bread - aimed at reducing bakeries' demand for metal replacement parts - went into effect.
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• On this date:
• In 1778, English navigator Captain James Cook reached the present-day Hawaiian Islands, which he named the "Sandwich Islands."
• In 1862, the tenth president of the United States, John Tyler, died in Richmond, Va., at age 71, shortly before he could take his seat as an elected member of the Confederate Congress.
• In 1871, William I of Prussia was proclaimed German Emperor in Versailles (Continued on page 40)
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