AP Photos: Finalists for the Heisman Trophy

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AP Photos: Finalists for the Heisman Trophy
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FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2012 file photo, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o (5) celebrates with teammate Stephon Tuitt (7) after an interception against Oklahoma in the fourth quarter of an NCAA college football game in Norman, Okla. Te'o is a finalist for the Heisman Trophy, which will be awarded Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2012 file photo, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o (5) celebrates with teammate Stephon Tuitt (7) after an interception against Oklahoma in the fourth quarter of an NCAA college football game in Norman, Okla. Te'o is a finalist for the Heisman Trophy, which will be awarded Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2012 file photo, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o waits for the snap during the second half of Notre Dame's 21-6 win over Boston College in an NCAA college football game in Boston. Te'o is a finalist for the Heisman Trophy, which will be awarded Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2012 file photo, Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel (2) reacts after a touchdown run during the second quarter of an NCAA college football game against Florida in College Station, Texas. Manziel could become the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy when the award is presented Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Dave Einsel, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2012 file photo, Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel throws a short pass in the first quarter of an NCAA college football game against Mississippi in Oxford, Miss. Manziel could become the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy when the award is presented on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2012 file photo, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o (5) walks off the field during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Wake Forest in South Bend, Ind. Te'o is a finalist for the Heisman Trophy, which will be awarded Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File )

Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o will try to become the first defense-only player to win the Heisman Trophy, going up against a couple of quarterbacks Saturday night in Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel and Kansas State's Collin Klein.

Manziel is trying to be the first freshman to win the award and Klein would be Kansas State's first Heisman winner.

Here are some photos of the finalists in action.

Associated Press

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Italian tax police visit Facebook's Milan offices

MILAN? - Italian police have been carrying out checks at the Milan offices of Facebook to assess whether it regularly declared its income in Italy, an investigative source and the U.S. company said on Friday.

Italian officials have stepped up their efforts to collect taxes in recent months and have already targeted other big corporate names such as Google to check whether they are paying their dues.

The investigative source said tax officials first went to the offices of Facebook in Milan nearly a month ago to collect documents.

"Facebook pays taxes in Italy as part of its business activity in the country and strictly complies with Italy's fiscal rules," Facebook said in an emailed statement.

"Facebook has fully cooperated with tax police during the investigation and intends to continue to do that."

Italian police opened a new tax probe into Google Italy last week, five years after an earlier investigation into transfer pricing.

Google has said it complies with the tax laws in every country in which it operates.

(Reporting by Emilio Parodi and Claudia Cristoferi, Writing by Antonella Ciancio; Editing by Greg Mahlich)

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Pearl Harbor?s role in historic Supreme Court decision

One of the most controversial decisions in Supreme Court history was caused by aftershocks of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and it?s still being debated today.

On December 7, 1941, Japanese military forces attacked the United States base in Hawaii without warning. More than 2,000 Americans died in the attack, and a united Congress answered President Franklin Roosevelt?s request for war.

In early 1942, President Roosevelt issued Presidential Executive Order 9066, after fears generated by the Japanese attack made the safety of America?s West Coast a priority.

The order started a process that gave the military power to exclude citizens of Japanese ancestry from regions called ?military areas.?

Under another provision, called Exclusion Order No. 34, a Japanese-American citizen named Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu was arrested for going into hiding in Northern California after refusing to go to an internment camp.

There were 10 camps set up nationally, and about 120,000 people were interned in the camps during the war. About two-thirds of them were Japanese-Americans who were born in the United States.

Korematsu appealed his conviction through the legal system, and the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case in late 1944.

The court had heard a similar case in 1943, Hirabayashi v. United States, and decided that Gordon Hirabayashi, a college student, was guilty of violating a curfew order.

The Korematsu v. U.S. case in 1944 decision referenced the Hirabayashi case, but it also ruled on the ability of the military, in times of war, to exclude and intern minority groups.

The court ruled by a 6 to 3 vote that the government had the power to arrest and intern Korematsu. Justice Hugo Black, writing for the majority, included a paragraph that is still debated today:

?It should be noted, to begin with, that all legal restrictions which curtail the civil rights of a single racial group are immediately suspect. That is not to say that all such restrictions are unconstitutional. It is to say that courts must subject them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antagonism never can,? Black said.

Later in the decision, Black argued the necessity of the military?s decision.

?Korematsu was not excluded from the Military Area because of hostility to him or his race. He was excluded because we are at war with the Japanese Empire, because the properly constituted military authorities feared an invasion of our West Coast and felt constrained to take proper security measures, because they decided that the military urgency of the situation demanded that all citizens of Japanese ancestry be segregated from the West Coast temporarily,? he said.

In subsequent years, the American internment policy has been met with harsh criticism.

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One 1948 law provided reimbursement for property losses incurred by interned Japanese-Americans. In 1988, Congress awarded restitution payments of $20,000 to each survivor of the 10 camps.

As part of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, Congress apologized ?on behalf of the people of the United States for the evacuation, relocation, and internment of such citizens and permanent resident aliens.?

President Bill Clinton awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Korematsu in 1998, and President Barack Obama bestowed the same honor on Hirabayashi in 2012.

During the 1999 ceremony, Clinton said, ?In the long history of our country?s constant search for justice, some names of ordinary citizens stand for millions of souls?Plessy, Brown, Parks. To that distinguished list today we add the name of Fred Korematsu.?

President Obama awarded the medal posthumously to Hirabayashi in May.

?In Gordon?s words, ?It takes a crisis to tell us that unless citizens are willing to stand up for the [Constitution], it?s not worth the paper it?s written on.? And this country is better off because of citizens like him who are willing to stand up,? Obama said at the ceremony.

Federal courts had also overturned the original convictions of Hirabayashi and Korematsu.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pearl-harbor-role-historic-supreme-court-decision-114210794.html

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U.S. banks reopened some branches closed by storm

(Reuters) - Major U.S. banks said on Wednesday they had reopened more than half of the branches that were closed as Hurricane Sandy battered the U.S. East Coast earlier this week.

JPMorgan Chase & Co said it had reopened 587 Chase branches, about 55 percent of the total in the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Nearly 60 percent of the New York City-based bank's 3,200 automated teller machines in the area were running.

Citigroup Inc , as of mid-day Wednesday, had re-opened 55 percent of its nearly 300 branches in and around New York City. Some 70 percent of 1,500 automated teller machines in the area were working.

Wells Fargo & Co said that nearly 90 percent of its nearly 1,200 branches in Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut had re-opened.

Bank of America Corp said about 75 percent of its 1,700 banking centers in the Northeast were functioning again. It had 13 branches open in Manhattan and planned to have several more open on Thursday. It was also deploying mobile ATMs in the area.

At least 134 of the 183 Morgan Stanley brokerage offices that were closed had reopened by mid-morning, the company said. The offices that remained closed either lacked electricity or were inaccessible due to flooding or other damage. Most of the closed offices were in New Jersey and New York, with some in Connecticut.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc opened both its headquarters in lower Manhattan and its office across the river at 30 Hudson Street in Jersey City, New Jersey, on Wednesday.

Goldman offices in Princeton, New Jersey, and Greenwich, Connecticut, were open for some employees, while others worked remotely. Staff in the securities division - especially those who live in Manhattan - generally came into the office, though the lack of public transportation and traffic made commutes longer than usual.

Goldman's two main buildings in the New York area, on opposite sides of the Hudson River, sustained some flooding but no serious damage from the hurricane, a representative said.

Citigroup's lower Manhattan buildings used for trading and investment banking remain closed. The company said on Tuesday night that it would update information on access to those Greenwich Street buildings later this week.

A Citigroup spokeswoman said the company is using back-up offices to continue to do business.

Bank of America's 2 and 4 World Financial Center offices in lower Manhattan were closed, but it's One Bryant Park location in Midtown was open.

(Reporting by David Henry in San Francisco, Lauren Tara LaCapra in New York and Rick Rothacker in Charlotte, North Carolina; Editing by Gary Hill, Phil Berlowitz and Leslie Gevirtz)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/banks-report-reopening-local-offices-closed-storm-165037248--sector.html

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Josh Koscheck, Nick Diaz?s camp hoping for a bout

Josh Koscheck's last fight was a loss in May to Johny Hendricks. An injury knocked him off UFC 151 before it was canceled. Now that he is healthy again, he is looking for an opponent. Luckily, Nick Diaz's camp made it easy for Koscheck to come up with someone.

Cesar is calling 4 me the fight Diaz in Feb. Super Bowl weekend! What you guy think? I am DOWN! Don't be scared Homie! #559 lol

? Josh Koscheck (@JoshKoscheck) October 29, 2012

UFC president Dana White said that when Diaz comes off suspension, he will need to win a fight before getting a chance at the belt. Diaz lost a tight decision to Carlos Condit for the interim welterweight belt, then was later suspended when his drug test was found positive for marijuana metabolites.

The suspension means a Super Bowl weekend fight is unlikely. Diaz's suspension ends on Feb. 3, the day after the Feb. 2 date of the event that is normally a huge event for the UFC. But even if it's not that weekend, this is an intriguing fight. The amount of trash talking alone will make it fun, as will watching Diaz try to handle Koscheck's wrestling skill.

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Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/josh-koscheck-nick-diaz-camp-hoping-bout-141328465--mma.html

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Remains of the Day: Comcast Offers Free Wi-Fi in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy

By Whitson Gordon

Comcast opens its hotspots to Eastern states, Google adds AMBER alerts to Search and Maps, Verizon users can charge apps to their wireless bill, and Facebook tests a new one-column Facebook Timeline.

PST: Concern in Seattle over Eddie's hamstring

All eyes and ears around the rave green crowd will be focused on Eddie Johnson?s hamstring today.

The Seattle Sounders leading scorer (14 goals) came off the field in the first half last night with a strained hamstring. Team officials will have a better diagnosis and prognosis following an MRI today. (Whether they will share it with us with 100 percent transparency, who knows?)

Here?s what Johnson said about it last night via the Seattle Times:

I made a couple long runs early in the game and my hammy kind of tightened up on me. My game is (made up) of making hard runs behind the back four, and there was a play where I tried to set the defender up like I was going to come for the ball and check away, and I felt a big cramp in my hamstring.

?I know what that feeling feels like. I was smart. I came out. I didn?t try to force it, but there?s definitely something there. If I had played, I?d have been restricted. The smart thing was for me to do what?s best for the team and come out. We?ll get an MRI on Monday and see what?s going on.?

This will not be devastating news for Seattle, but it?s certainly bad news. The West field is tough. Real Salt Lake is up first, and then a date with the Galaxy in all likelihood.

Fredy Montero is playing well, so the goal-scoring cupboard is hardly bare. But no one who would replace Johnson as the Sounders most advanced striker comes close to offering what the U.S. international and MLS All-Star does, solidly-timed runs into the penalty area and the athletic ability to deliver once he accesses those areas.

There is also concern about center back Jeff Parke, who also left last night?s match, although there is more cover there.

Source: http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/29/concern-raining-down-on-seattle-over-eddie-johnsons-hamstring/related/

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