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On this day of the Padres season home opener, our legal update salutes sports fans. They cheer, they moan, they celebrate victory and they take defeat on the chin, along with the occasional foul ball. They also, occasionally sue. Our legal analyst Dan Eaton is here to explain how the law gets involved when bad things happen to good fans.

President Bush is in New Orleans for the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. He and wife Laura Bush are expected to mark the day at a New Orleans charter school and at a community center in Mississippi. Officials continue to bicker over who's to blame in the aftermath of the storm.

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Two years ago, the European Union agreed to formally open talks on Turkey joining the EU. Now the agreement is in jeopardy. One obstacle is Turkey's relationship with the island of Cyprus. The EU has given Turkey until mid-December to allow trade with Cyprus or likely face a cut-off of talks in certain areas.

Last week, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai took the title for the world's tallest building. Visitors to the observation deck ascended 124 floors in less than a minute, breaking records for speed. Most remarkable, however, was what passengers neither felt or saw: an ultra-high-tech elevator brain able to predict human behavior with eerie precision.

President Obama is expected to announce next week his plan to overhaul the nation's dysfunctional financial system. One financial expert predicts tweaking, rather than sweeping change, this year in the face of strong opposition from the financial sector.

Chuck Palahniuk's tenth novel is a biting cultural satire narrated by Pygmy, a 13-year-old terrorist who has infiltrated the US disguised as a foreign exchange student. Written as a series of dispatches from Pygmy, the prose doesn't follow grammatical rules or sentence structure, but includes Palahniuk's propensity to push the boundaries.

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For second-generation Indian Americans, returning to their parents' home country can be a cultural odyssey. As the Indian economy booms, however, there are other reasons to return to their roots. The country that many of their parents fled for lack of opportunity now needs their skills.

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