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Two years later, Syrian revolutionaries reflect
on their cause, the costs
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Two years ago, the Syrian revolution erupted with
a full-throated scream of defiance. "The first
protest was so great when we screamed and said
'the people want to overthrow the regime,'"
recalled Media Daghestany. The popular unrest
following the first protests on March 15, 2011
has challenged, but not even come close to
overthrowing, the dynastic dictatorship that has
ruled Syria for years. The Syrian security forces
cracked down hard, with waves of arrests,
systematic use of torture and repeated use of
deadly force. Today, Syria is being torn apart by
a civil war that has killed more than 70,000
people and forced more than one million Syrians
to flee the country. The conflict threatens to
spill across borders to destabilize neighbors in
an already turbulent Middle East.
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In Other News

• Samsung's Galaxy S IV is here. As expected, it's
  built to vie for the position of best smartphone
  in 2013. How it will compare with Apple's next
  iPhone or Google's future Nexus flagship phone
  remains to be seen. But after a few minutes
  playing around with the Galaxy S IV, it's easy to
  see how this smartphone could end up in the same
  conversation.
• Philadelphia -- Caroline Pla just won her fight
  to get back on the field. Pla has been playing
  football since kindergarten, and for the past two
  years, the 11-year-old has been holding her own
  on the gridiron. Her playing time with the
  Catholic Youth Organization ended after last
  season when the Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  enforced its "boys only" policy for football,
  sidelining the All-Star guard and defensive end.
  On Thursday Archbishop Charles Chaput ordered the
  archdiocese to allow girls to play CYO football.
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