Heading east along the I-81, I catch fleeting glimpses of familiar country music scenes: countless fluttering Stars and Stripes flags, pick-up trucks outside shabby roadhouses.

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Mr. DON CHEADLE (Actor): You are what you have to defend, because it doesn't matter that I'm 19 percent European, 81 percent African.

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"I have no earthly knowledge of it, " said the 81-year-old, listed as chairman emeritus and a director for Stanford Financial Group.

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