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indication that he feels a great personal and spiritual continuity with them.
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• HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The night before Maren Sanchez was fatally stabbed inside her high school, she asked to take a break from her drama group for a nail appointment. The junior prom she helped plan was the next day, and she wanted to look her best.
• Sanchez, a 16-year-old junior, was attacked Friday in a school hallway, and a boy who's a student there has been charged with murder.
• Instead of the prom that night, students gathered for a candlelight vigil and counselors were available for anyone who needed their help. They planned to be on hand Saturday as well, WFSB television station in Hartford reported. The prom was postponed indefinitely.
• Police are investigating whether Sanchez was stabbed after turning down an invitation to the prom, an event she had been looking forward to attending with her boyfriend.
• Family members and friends at the Jonathan Law High School in Milford were left reeling from the attack on Sanchez, an outgoing member of the National Honor Society who played guitar and was active in drama and other school activities.
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• CHEBAA, Lebanon (AP) -- This small, scenic patch of land where the frontiers of Syria, Lebanon and Israel converge has long been a flashpoint, with Hezbollah fighters and Israeli troops positioned face to face in close quarters across undefined and disputed borders.
• The Syrian civil war has made the region known as Chebaa Farms even more dangerous.
• Rival sides in Syria's conflict crisscross it smuggling weapons and fighters, and sectarian tensions are rising as Chebaa's mainly Sunni residents, joined by thousands of Sunni Syrian refugees, turn against Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah group because of its support for Syrian President Bashar Assad.
• Even in a country with as many potential triggers for violence as Lebanon, Chebaa's unique geographic location brings together a collection of particularly bitter

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