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his party's 2016 presidential nominee.
• "There is a plan" for losing weight, Christie acknowledged, adding: "Whether it's successful or not, you'll all be able to notice."
• He has never publicly revealed his weight.
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• Ringleader, family members face sentencing for beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio
• CLEVELAND (AP) -- Prosecutors hope the ringleader of beard- and hair-cutting attacks on fellow Amish will receive a life prison term Friday when he's sentenced in a case that shed unwelcome light on discipline and dissent in a community that tries to stay apart from modern culture.
• The ringleader, Samuel Mullet Sr., and 15 members of his extended family face sentencing in U.S. District Court and could receive more than 10 years in prison.
• The 10 men and six women were convicted last year in five attacks in Amish communities in northeast and eastern Ohio in 2011.
• The government says the attacks were retaliation against Amish who had defied or denounced Mullet's authoritarian style. The 67-year-old Mullet called it an internal faith matter that didn't rise to a hate crime.
• Mullet's attorney asked for a sentence of two years or less.
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What's it like being a Mandela? Icon's granddaughters reveal their lives in reality TV show
• NEW YORK (AP) -- The newest reality television show is in some ways like any other: mother and daughters, sibling rivalry, family gossip and talk of Big Grandpa, who is very strict but loves it when his great-grandchildren are around making a racket. But that's where the twist comes in: Big Grandpa is Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid legend.
• "Being Mandela," a new series premiering Sunday on COZI TV, invites U.S. audiences into the lives of Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway and Swati Dlamini, the fashionable, 30-something granddaughters of Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. The 94-year-old former South African president, who recently was treated for a lung infection and had surgery to remove gallstones, does not appear in the series but his controversial ex-wife -- "Big Mommy" to her grandchildren -- does and seems to relish it.
• If the Mandela clan seems like an odd subject for a reality show, the grand (Continued on page 41)
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