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Rancic (RAN'-sihk) over Kwame Jackson during a segment that was telecast live.
• Five years ago: Whipped up by conservative commentators and bloggers, tens of thousands of protesters staged "tea parties" around the country to tap into the collective angst stirred up by a bad economy, government spending and bailouts. A U.S. Army master sergeant was convicted of murder at a court-martial in Vilseck, Germany in the 2007 killings of four bound and blindfolded Iraqis. (John Hatley initially received life in prison, but had his sentence later reduced to 40 years.) Pirates released the Greek-owned cargo ship Titan that had been hijacked off the Somali coast on March 19.
• One year ago: Venezuela's electoral council quickly certified the razor-thin presidential victory of Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor, Nicolas Maduro. North Koreans celebrated the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung, by dancing in plazas and snacking on peanuts. The Denver Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colo., while The New York Times captured four awards for reporting on a harrowing avalanche, the rise of a new aristocracy in China and the business practices of Apple and Wal-Mart. Adam Johnson's "The Orphan Master's Son" won the Pulitzer for fiction, while Ayad Akhtar's "Disgraced" won the drama prize.
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• Today's Birthdays: Country singer Roy Clark is 81. Author and politician Jeffrey Archer is 74. Rock singer-guitarist Dave Edmunds is 71. Actor Michael Tucci is 68. Actress Lois Chiles is 67. Writer-producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason is 67. Actress Amy Wright is 64. Columnist Heloise is 63. Actress-screenwriter Emma Thompson is 55. Bluegrass musician Jeff Parker is 53. Singer Samantha Fox is 48. Olympic gold, silver and bronze medal swimmer Dara Torres is 47. Rock musician Ed O'Brien (Radiohead) is 46. Actor Flex Alexander is 44. Actor Danny Pino is 40. Actor Douglas Spain is 40. Actor Luke Evans is 35. Rock musician Patrick Carney (The Black Keys) is 34. Actor-writer Seth Rogen is 32. Actress Alice Braga is 31. Rock musician De'Mar Hamilton (Plain White T's) is 30. Actress Emma Watson is 24.
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• Thought for Today: "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980).
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