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Press Defensive Player of Year award. Former Attorney General Griffin B. Bell died in Atlanta at age 90. Retired Lt. Gen. Harry W.O. Kinnard, a paratroop officer who'd suggested the famously defiant answer "Nuts!" to a German demand for surrender during the World War II Battle of the Bulge, died in Arlington, Va., at age 93. Former Universal Pictures and Paramount chairman Ned Tanen died in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 77.
• One year ago: President Barack Obama hailed a last-minute deal that pulled the country back from the "fiscal cliff," but warned in his Saturday radio and Internet address that he would not compromise over his insistence that Congress lift the federal debt ceiling. An apparently coordinated wave of bombings targeting Shiite Muslims killed at least 78 people in Iraq.
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• Today's Birthdays: Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale is 86. Actor Robert Duvall is 83. Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Chuck Noll is 82. King Juan Carlos of Spain is 76. Talk show host Charlie Rose is 72. Actress-director Diane Keaton is 68. Actor Ted Lange (lanj) is 66. Rhythm-and-blues musician George "Funky" Brown (Kool and the Gang) is 65. Rock musician Chris Stein (Blondie) is 64. Former CIA Director George Tenet is 61. Actress Pamela Sue Martin is 61. Actor Clancy Brown is 55. Singer Iris Dement is 53. Actor Ricky Paull (correct) Goldin is 49. Actor Vinnie Jones is 49. Rock musician Kate Schellenbach (Luscious Jackson) is 48. Dancer-choreographer Carrie Ann Inaba is 46. Actress Heather Paige Kent is 45. Rock singer Marilyn Manson is 45. Actor Shea Whigham is 45. Actor Bradley Cooper is 39. Actress January Jones is 36. Actress Brooklyn Sudano is 33.
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• Thought for Today: "Wisdom is divided into two parts: (a) having a great deal to say, and (b) not saying it." - Author unknown.
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