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Bonnie And Clyde's Guns, Other Items Go On Auction

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Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are seen in an undated photo. The couple captured headlines with a long crime spree before being shot to death in an ambush in Louisiana.

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Bonnie Parker had this Colt Detective Special .38 revolver (top) strapped to her thigh when she was killed. Frank Hamer took Clyde Barrow's Colt Government Model 1911 .45 caliber pistol from the waistband of Barrow's body after an ambush on May 23, 1934. The weapons are not shown in accurate scale.

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Undated photos show Bonnie and Clyde posing in front of the Ford V8 "flathead" car they favored. The photographs are among the couple's memorabilia up for auction.

By Todd Bookman

Originally published on Wed September 26, 2012 10:22 am

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Nearly 80 years after the deaths of bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde, a few, shall we say, "tools of their trade" are going up for auction. Among them are his Colt .45 and her .38 Special, which could each go for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

When former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer eventually caught up with Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in 1934, a newsreel announcer declared "the inevitable end: retribution. Here is Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, who died as they lived: by the gun."

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After 48 Years Of War, Colombians Plan Peace Talks

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A member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, runs to take position during a firefight with the Colombian army in the mountains of Cauca state on July 12. For now, fighting continues even as the two sides prepare for peace talks.

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Nohemi Caicedo holds her grandson, Christian Camilo, in the kitchen of her home in Marquetalia, the birthplace of the FARC, in Colombia's Tolima state. Her 18-year-old son was killed in the insurgency after he was forcibly recruited to the FARC. She wants to give peace a chance, for the sake of her other children.

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Army Col. Jairo Leguizamon (second from left) commands a mobile insurgency brigade in Planadas. Though the military has made inroads in rebel areas, the guerrillas continue to launch attacks.

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Colombian soldiers patrol the town of Planadas on Sept. 6. The military has stepped up its presence in Tolima state.

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Farmers bring goods to town in the hamlet of Villanueva in Tolima state on Sept. 7. Travel in this mountainous region usually takes place by mule or horse.

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Originally published on Wed September 26, 2012 9:36 am

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After fighting for power for nearly 50 years, a Colombian rebel group is now opting to negotiate a peace deal with President Juan Manuel Santos' government and bring the country's slow-burning but brutal conflict to an end.

Most of Colombia's 47 million people are supportive of talks, which begin soon in Oslo, Norway, before moving to Havana.

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Wed September 26, 2012

Brother Ali: A Voice For The Suffering

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Brother Ali's fifth studio album, Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color, came out last week.

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Originally published on Wed September 26, 2012 9:36 am

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Tue September 25, 2012

RG3: A Game Changer For 'Thirds' Everywhere

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Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III watches from the sidelines. RG3 as he is known has a fan in other thirds like Frank Deford.

By Frank Deford

Originally published on Wed September 26, 2012 9:36 am

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We're all familiar with the many sports terms that have moved into general usage: "par for the course," "slam-dunk," "curveball," "photo finish" and so on.

Curiously, though, every now and then something of the inverse occurs, and we get an expression which is commonly used that has been derived from sport, but never used in sport.

For example, that awful, overdone cliche, "level playing field." Never in my life have I ever heard anyone in sport — that is, somebody actually right there on the level playing field — say, "I'm glad we're playing on a level playing field."

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Tue September 25, 2012

Obama: No Video Justifies Attack On Embassy

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Originally published on Thu October 4, 2012 10:45 am

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At the United Nations today, President Obama told world leaders that there's no place for violence and intolerance. The president has been struggling to contain widespread anger in the Muslim world, sparked in part by an anti-Islam video.

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