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• Five years ago: Iran rejected a six-nation offer of incentives to stop enriching uranium, prompting President George W. Bush and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to jointly warn Tehran anew during a news conference in Paris against proceeding toward a nuclear bomb.
• One year ago: In dueling speeches in the battleground state of Ohio, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, speaking in Cincinnati, described the Obama administration as the very "enemy" of people who create jobs; President Barack Obama, going second in Cleveland, asked the nation to buy into his vision for four more years or face a return to the recession-era "mistakes of the past."
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• Today's Birthdays: Actress Marla Gibbs is 82. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., is 74. Writer Peter Mayle is 74. Actor Jack Bannon is 73. Country-rock musician Spooner Oldham is 70. Rock singer Rod Argent (The Zombies; Argent) is 68. Real estate mogul and TV personality Donald Trump is 67. Singer Janet Lennon (The Lennon Sisters) is 67. Rock musician Barry Melton is 66. Rock musician Alan White (Yes) is 64. Actor Eddie Mekka is 61. Actor Will Patton is 59. Olympic gold-medal speed skater Eric Heiden (HY'-dun) is 55. Singer Boy George is 52. Rock musician Chris DeGarmo is 50. Actress Traylor Howard is 47. Actress Yasmine Bleeth is 45. Actor Faizon Love is 45. International Tennis Hall of Famer Steffi Graf is 44. Screenwriter Diablo Cody is 35. Actor J.R. Martinez is 30. Actor-singer Kevin McHale is 25. Actress Lucy Hale is 24. Actor Daryl Sabara is 21.
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• Thought for Today: "I am not the flag; not at all. I am but its shadow." - Franklin Knight Lane, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1864-1921).
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