After the Pakistan Cricket Board released Hameed's statement, Pakistan one-day captain Shahid Afridi described the batsman as having the mental age of a teenager.

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"In this day and age, no one should be allowed to possess nuclear-weapons-usable material without providing an armed defense of that material, " said Edwin Lyman, a nuclear physicist with the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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One who helped take Notre Dame to an undefeated season -- rare, in this day and age -- and to the national championship game.

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