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the "fiscal cliff" and sent it to the House, which approved it in a late-night vote. In Maryland, same-sex marriage became legal in the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line. In Pakistan, gunmen on motorcycles sprayed a van carrying employees from a community center with bullets, killing five female teachers and two aid workers. A New Year's stampede in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, claimed 64 lives. No. 8 Stanford held off Wisconsin 20-14 in the 99th Rose Bowl. Singer Patti Page, 85, died in Encinitas, Calif.
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• Today's Birthdays: Former Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., is 92. Actor Ty Hardin is 84. Documentary maker Frederick Wiseman is 84. Actor Frank Langella is 76. Rock singer-musician Country Joe McDonald is 72. Writer-comedian Don Novello is 71. Actor Rick Hurst is 68. Country singer Steve Ripley (The Tractors) is 64. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., is 60. Rapper Grandmaster Flash is 56. Actress Ren Woods is 56. Actress Dedee Pfeiffer is 50. Actress Embeth Davidtz is 48. Country singer Brian Flynn (Flynnville Train) is 48. Actor Morris Chestnut is 45. Actor Verne Troyer is 45. Actress Eden Riegel is 33.
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• Thought for Today: "The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes." - G.K. Chesterton, English poet-essayist (1874-1936).
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