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Clinton wins Puerto Rico but Obama gains delegates (U.S., 40 articles)
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Hillary Clinton has said her fight for the Democratic presidential nomination will go on after winning a largely symbolic victory in Puerto Rico. The AP tracks the delegate races by calculating the number of national convention delegates won by candidates in each presidential primary or caucus, based on state and national party rules, and by interviewing unpledged delegates to obtain their preferences. The results pushed Obama closer to the magic number of 2,118 delegates needed to become the nominee, and the Illinois senator already has turned his attention to a general election fight with McCain. At a raucous all-day meeting of the party's rules panel, which was frequently interrupted by Clinton's supporters, the panel agreed on Saturday to seat the delegations from both states but cut their voting power in half. Clinton who trails Obama in delegates and would benefit from validated victories in those two states wants all of Florida's and Michigan's delegates to have votes at the party convention. WASHINGTON Hundreds of angry voters many of them Clinton campaign volunteers demonstrated outside the Democratic National Committee meeting today, demanding that the party's rules committee honor all the primary votes and pledged delegates from Florida and Michigan.
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Celtics, Lakers centerstage again for NBA finals (Sports, 21 articles)
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After struggling through the first four games of the series, Ray Allen resurrected himself in Game 5, scoring 29 points for the Celtics in a 106-102 win over the Detroit Pistons tonight at the TD Banknorth Garden. In Orlando, Fla., to attend the annual predraft camp, Celtics general manager Danny Ainge spent much of Friday with his college scouts, " just getting better acquainted with the possible draft picks. Frank Ramsey was a Hall of Fame forward on the Boston Celtics in the 50s and 60s, an era when Bill Russell ruled in the paint and the Celtics won 11 NBA titles in 13 years.
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Soccer overseers allow Iraq to resume World Cup bid (World, 7 articles)
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But many Iraqis as well as U.S. officials and private security analysts are uncertain whether the current lull signals a long-term trend or is simply a breathing spell like so many others before. Talks on returning Sunnis to the government broke down this week, and tensions among rival Shiite parties remain high despite a May 11 truce that ended weeks of bloody fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City district. WASHINGTON - Violence against civilians and U.S. and Iraqi military forces dropped to some of the lowest levels of the war during May even as Iraqi troops are leading offensives in three major cities.
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THE MONKEY KING (Entertainment, 11 articles)
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STORY SO FAR: Jade Emperor, learning of Monkey's great mischief, sends Vaisravana, his best general, and thousand of soldiers to Earth, with orders to arrest Monkey. LED by Vaisravane, one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers arrived at the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits and surrounded Monkey's Cave of the Water Curtain. Ten thousand monkeys were fanned out in front of his palace under a red and gold flag upon which was written: MAGNIFICENT MONKEY KING, GREATEST OF ALL.
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Yves Saint Laurent, at 71; legendary fashion designer (Entertainment, 11 articles)
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Yves Saint Laurent, the French fashion designer who created a bold new dress code for women during the feminist revolution of the 1970s and helped launch the era of the celebrity designer with his jet-set lifestyle, died Sunday at 71. The death of the reclusive fashion great was announced by la Fondation Berge-Saint Laurent, the body he created with Pierre Berge, his business partner and lover. Forty years of fashion were paraded in a 300-piece retrospective that blurred the boundaries of time, mixing his creations of yesterday and today in one stunning tribute to the endurance of Mr. Saint Laurent's style.
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