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    Morin, who has been at The Miami Herald since 1978, was awarded the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1977 and 1990. His cartoons appear in The Miami Herald five days a week.

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In a historic step, the government will take an ownership stake in American banks.

US Meltdown Paulson

The government will buy an ownership stake in a broad array of American banks for the first time since the Great Depression, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said late Friday, announcing the historic step after stock markets jolted still lower around the world despite all efforts to slow the selling stampede.

  • St. Thomas Aquinas running back Jamal Wilson runs against Cooper City's defense on Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 at Cooper City. The Raiders won the game 55-0.

    ST. THOMAS AQUINAS 55, COOPER CITY 0

    St. Thomas Aquinas is unstoppable

    Next. No one at St. Thomas Aquinas is actually saying that, but they might want to make bumper stickers or at least plaster that message on some of those pep rally banners that hang in the school.

  • Mitchell Gold, left, holding his book, and his father, Jack.

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    Averting crisis: Mitchell Gold on growing up gay in America

    Decades before Mitchell Gold became a famous furniture mogul, he considered ways to kill himself. ''I debated how to do it. An overdose of sleeping pills seemed somewhat painless,'' Gold writes in his new book, Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America. ``I considered other tactics -- driving a car off a cliff, running in front of a train, jumping off a building -- but I knew I didn't have the guts.''

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    Even Britney looks down on Britney

    If you're wondering what was going through Britney Spears' head during her erratic era, you are not alone -- so does she. 'I sit there and I look back and I'm like, `I'm a smart person. What the hell was I thinking?' '' Spears said in an interview that will air on MTV on Nov. 30, two days before the release of her sixth album, Circus.


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