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• 'A horror movie and a snuff movie'

  "I'm angry at having presided over the first genocide of the 21st century," said Mukesh Kapila, a British doctor and former U.N. official. He was referring to what he considers the world's ineffective response to mass atrocities in Darfur, Sudan's western region. "What happened in Darfur would be classified as obscene," he told CNN's Christiane Amanpour. "It's a combination of a horror movie and a snuff movie."

  
  

• Car dealers get creative

  A newspaper ad for a Miami car dealership reads more like a coupon for bags of potato chips: "Buy one, get two!" "The first thing people think when they come in is, 'It's a fake ad. It's a normal car dealer ad. It's a gimmick.' But it's not," said Ali Ahmed, sales manager at Rob Lambdin's University Dodge in Miami. The ad speaks to the desperation of dealers as automakers beg for bailout money to survive a huge sales slump.

  
  

• Rogue FBI agent breaks silence

  Former FBI agent John Connolly, whose fall from mob-buster to paid gangland flunky played out in a South Florida courtroom, broke his long silence today in a packed courtroom. Connolly denied having any role in a 1982 mob hit, telling the family of slain businessman John Callahan: "It's heartbreaking to hear what happened to your father and to your husband. ... My heart is broken when I hear what you say."

  
  

• Clinton's nomination: Popular, but constitutional?

  Polls show that Americans overwhelmingly approve of Sen. Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, but will the founding fathers veto this popular addition to Barack Obama's "team of rivals"?

  
  

• Businessman wants inauguration open to all

  As Washington gears up for January's presidential inauguration with high-priced tickets to fancy affairs, one businessman is making sure that some of the less fortunate will have a chance to share in the festivities.