Reagan's body will lie in state in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol this week before being returned to California for a private funeral at his presidential library.

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So after having, he explains, "endured years of misery and gone to enormous lengths to live a lie, " Collins became the first active player in one of the four major U.S. pro sports leagues to come out as gay.

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Now Mali's hopes lie with the French, who intervened on Friday January 11, after months of diplomatic wrangling at the U.N. and elsewhere.

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