Thompson's portfolio and you'd think you're looking at a bunch of injured and aching players in the trainer's room: Cardinal Health, Viacom, Coca-Cola, Pfizer, even scandal-besmirched Tyco International.

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U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security, said the attempted act of terrorism would be the focus of an oversight hearing next month.

CNN: Source: Terror suspect's father tried to warn authorities

Thompson kept thinking of what one student's mother had told her: She'd dreamed of education for her girls in Afghanistan but then the Taliban came.

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