Bachmann reticent to talk about Cain controversy

Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., talks with Iowa State student Kelly Sebetka, left, about student loans after making an economic policy address, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., talks with Iowa State student Kelly Sebetka, left, about student loans after making an economic policy address, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

(AP) ? Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann says she has no "inside information" on the sexual harassment allegations swirling about GOP rival Herman Cain and says it's unfortunate the controversy is overshadowing discussion of how to fix the economy.

The Minnesota congressman tells NBC's "Today" show "you won't find any surprises with me." Otherwise, she refuses to talk publicly about the allegations against the Georgia businessman.

Bachmann says people want to know "when in the world are we going to see this economy turn around."

She said her proposals would make the tax system simpler, fairer and more equitable. Bachmann also says that the political furor surrounding Cain is "garnering a lot of attention" but at the cost of a meaningful discussion on how to get people back to work.

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Derailed by Cancer at the Height of the Recession (ContributorNetwork)

With one year to go before the 2012 general election and on the heels of October's jobless report, Yahoo! News asked readers and contributors to share their personal employment stories. Below is one perspective.

FIRST PERSON | In late 2006, I was a busy massage therapist working in a hospital for a program I had helped start. Between my 32-hour week at the hospital, my private clients, and some child support, I had a decent income for a single mom in San Mateo, Calif.

I had excellent health care benefits, without which I am sure I would not be alive today. My income was right around the median of $60,000 a year. Supporting my two children on this was tight in this expensive part of the world, but we managed.

In early 2007, I was diagnosed with Stage IIIC Inflammatory Breast Cancer and knocked abruptly out of the working world. The next 14 months were devoted to fighting for my life. I had aggressive treatment, and my oncologist did not want me exposed to the germs my clients would bring me. Fortunately, I was immediately qualified for disability, evidently because I was not expected to live.

In early 2008, I jubilantly rejoined the work force, cancer-free, just as the recession was gathering momentum. The massage department shut down. I had to have health insurance because I knew I was at high risk for recurrence and no private insurer would cover me. I became a secretary for another department, and the long hours at the computer were disastrous. I developed lymphedema in my left arm, which caused it to ache and swell. In August of 2009, that department shut down. My disability resumed, and the hospital's insurer, MetLife, supplied the difference between what Social Security Disability paid and two-thirds of my previous income.

I haven't had even a half-time job since.

Now, in 2011, I have patched together a work life of several jobs that allows me to work within my limitations. With the current national unemployment rate at 9 percent, I am just happy to work at all. When I lost my secretarial job, my fiance and I moved up our wedding date and I was able to get health insurance. I shudder to think of what could have happened to me otherwise, if my cancer had come back! MetLife decided after two years that my memory problems (chemo-brain) and gimpy left arm allowed me to work as a file clerk for 40 hours per week, and informed me two weeks after they sent their last check. They declined to clarify where I could actually find this job.

I currently provide massage therapy to children at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital for about 20 hours a month. I teach theater arts to children. I visit elderly people with mild dementia and keep them engaged. I blog and advocate for the end of breast cancer. I see the occasional private client and elevate my arm afterward. I earn about one-third of what I earned before. I hope that 2012 will open doors to more hours, more jobs, or both.

My husband is still supporting his own children, so our combined income is barely sufficient. We are fed, clothed and sheltered, but braces for my teenagers will have to wait.

This Saturday I celebrate my 50th birthday and I'm still here. For now that's enough.

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Column: Appreciate Pacquiao without Mayweather

Manny Pacquiao, of the Philippines, trains during his media workout at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011. Pacquiao is scheduled to fight Juan Manuel Marquez in a WBO Welterweight title bout in Las Vegas on Nov. 12. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Manny Pacquiao, of the Philippines, trains during his media workout at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011. Pacquiao is scheduled to fight Juan Manuel Marquez in a WBO Welterweight title bout in Las Vegas on Nov. 12. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Manny Pacquiao, of the Philippines, looks on during his media workout at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011. Pacquiao is scheduled fight Juan Manuel Marquez in a WBO Welterweight title bout in Las Vegas on Nov. 12. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Manny Pacquiao, center right, of the Philippines, practices with his trainer, Freddie Roach, during his media workout at the Wild Card Boxing Club Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011, in Los Angeles. Pacquiao is scheduled to fight Juan Manuel Marquez in a WBO Welterweight title bout in Las Vegas on Nov. 12. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

(AP) ? By now the routine is a familiar one for Manny Pacquiao.

Twice a year he leaves his native Philippines ? where he doubles as a congressman ? to train with Freddie Roach in a Los Angeles gym. He goes on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" to croon a tune or two, then heads to this gambling city.

Come fight night, high rollers and celebrities will jostle for the best seats ringside on the glittering Las Vegas Strip. Back home, a nation will watch and wait.

And, as always, he'll fight someone not named Floyd Mayweather Jr.

The routine won't change this time. A week from Saturday, Pacquiao will get in the ring with Juan Manuel Marquez, a fine Mexican lightweight who is probably the closest thing to an actual rival that Pacquiao has faced.

Unlike Mayweather's last fight ? a farce with Victor Ortiz ? no one is going to get cheated out of the $59.95 they spend to buy the bout on pay-per-view. The two fighters have already gone 24 very close rounds together, and appear eager to do it again.

Still, it's not the fight that fans really want to see. It's not the fight fans deserve to see.

It's also not Pacquiao's fault.

He wants to match skills with the fighter who claims to be one of the best ever. He welcomes the opportunity to make $40 million or so in what would be boxing's richest fight ever.

When it comes to negotiations, though, no one is answering the phone at Money Mayweather's world headquarters.

"Why isn't that fight happening?" promoter Bob Arum asked Wednesday. "Because Floyd knows he's going to get beat."

That's the prevailing theory in the Pacquiao camp, anyway. No reason for Mayweather to fight Pacquiao, they believe, when he can make $25 million or so for fighting guys like Ortiz when his schedule permits.

Just what Mayweather thinks is hard to say. He couldn't be reached Wednesday and his manager, Leonard Ellerbe, promised to return a call but didn't.

Mayweather, though, claimed before fighting Ortiz in September that he was more than willing to fight Pacquiao, as long as there was Olympic-style drug testing for both fighters.

"I'm not ducking and dodging," Mayweather said. "I'm not hiding from any opponent. If you're the best, take the test and it will happen."

It's a line Mayweather keeps repeating. It's also a line he should retire.

Because Pacquiao is willing to take the test. Anytime and anywhere.

"Let me put it in the clearest terms possible," Arum said. "We're willing to agree to Olympic drug testing without any conditions. We're ready to make the fight ? assuming Manny wins this one ? without any conditions."

The first order of business for Pacquiao, of course, is beating Marquez, something that isn't exactly a lock. He knocked Marquez down three times in the first round when they met seven years ago at 125 pounds, only to barely escape with a controversial draw. In their rematch at 130 pounds in 2008, he won a split decision by the narrowest of margins on ringside scoring cards.

The rubber match will be at a catch weight of 144 pounds, which should be an advantage for Pacquiao because he has been campaigning as a welterweight in his last four fights while Marquez has fought only once above 140 pounds in a losing effort to Mayweather.

"I never underestimate Marquez, but it's a big difference in the last three years," Pacquiao said. "I changed a lot and I think I improved a lot. My right hand, my power, it's a big difference."

Pacquiao should be able to get by Marquez, but that doesn't mean a Mayweather fight will be any closer to happening. It may never happen, because Pacquiao's current plans are to fight into 2013 and retire after 18 years as a pro.

That leaves four more fights after Marquez, four chances to cap a remarkable career that began in 1995 when Pacquiao was a 16-year-old who weighed 106 pounds. After that he plans to give up his seat in congress and run for governor of Sarangani province in the Philippines.

If one of those four fights is against Mayweather, then great. Boxing would certainly be better for it. So would the bank accounts of both fighters.

In a sport where common sense doesn't always prevail, though, maybe it's time to stop worrying about who Pacquiao hasn't fought and appreciate who he is.

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Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberg(at)ap.org or at http://twitter.com/timdahlberg

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Iran suspends 2 players for 'immoral' celebration

updated 11:11 a.m. ET Oct. 31, 2011

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iranian state TV says two players have been suspended from the country's professional soccer league for an "immoral" goal-scoring celebration.

The report Monday says Mohammed Nosrati of Persepolis squeezed the backside of teammate Sheis Rezaei while the Tehran team's players celebrated a goal against Damash Gilan. After Persepolis scored again in the 3-2 victory, YouTube footage appears to show Rezaei squeezing an unidentified teammate.

Nosrati and Rezaei say they did not intend to offend. Iran TV said they were indefinitely banned from entering any stadium and could face more sanctions.

Saturday's game was broadcast live to millions in the Islamic country that for years has tried to curb rowdy on-field behavior and foul language by players and spectators.

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Palestine becomes member of UN cultural body

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki, left, is seen with historian and Ambassador for Palestine at UNESCO Elias Sanbar, left, during a session of UNESCO's 36th General Conference, in Paris, Monday Oct. 31, 2011. The U.N. cultural agency is weighing a request to admit Palestine as a full member, a highly divisive bid that's part of the Palestinians' broader push for greater international recognition. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki, left, is seen with historian and Ambassador for Palestine at UNESCO Elias Sanbar, left, during a session of UNESCO's 36th General Conference, in Paris, Monday Oct. 31, 2011. The U.N. cultural agency is weighing a request to admit Palestine as a full member, a highly divisive bid that's part of the Palestinians' broader push for greater international recognition. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki, center, talks with Organization of Islamic Conference Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, left, and historian and Ambassador for Palestine at UNESCO Elias Sanbar, right, during a session of UNESCO's 36th General Conference, in Paris, Monday Oct. 31, 2011. The U.N. cultural agency is weighing a request to admit Palestine as a full member, a highly divisive bid that's part of the Palestinians' broader push for greater international recognition. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki, right, talks with Organization of Islamic Conference Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, left, during the session of UNESCO's 36th General Conference, in Paris, Monday Oct. 31, 2011. The U.N. cultural agency is weighing a request to admit Palestine as a full member, a highly divisive bid that's part of the Palestinians' broader push for greater international recognition. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki, center right, talks with Organization of Islamic Conference Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, center left, during the session of UNESCO's 36th General Conference, in Paris, Monday Oct. 31, 2011. The U.N. cultural agency is weighing a request to admit Palestine as a full member, a highly divisive bid that's part of the Palestinians' broader push for greater international recognition. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki, is seen during the session of UNESCO's 36th General Conference, in Paris, Monday Oct. 31, 2011.The U.N. Cultural Agency's members vote on whether to accept a Palestinian state as a full member part of a series of such requests by Palestinians pressing their bid for international recognition. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

(AP) ? Palestine became a full member of the U.N. cultural and educational agency Monday, in a highly divisive move that the United States and other opponents say could harm renewed Mideast peace efforts.

U.S. lawmakers had threatened to withhold roughly $80 million in annual funding to UNESCO if it approved Palestinian membership. The United States provides about 22 percent of UNESCO's funding.

Huge cheers went up in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization after delegates approved the membership in a vote of 107-14 with 52 abstentions. Eighty-one votes were needed for approval in a hall with 173 UNESCO member delegations present.

"Long Live Palestine!" shouted one delegate, in French, at the unusually tense and dramatic meeting of UNESCO's General Conference.

While the vote has large symbolic meaning, the issue of borders of an eventual Palestinian state, security troubles and other disputes that have thwarted Middle East peace for decades remain unresolved.

Palestinian officials are seeking full membership in the United Nations, but that effort is still under examination and the U.S. has said it will veto it unless there is a peace deal with Israel. Given that, the Palestinians separately sought membership at Paris-based UNESCO and other U.N. bodies.

Monday's vote is definitive. The membership formally takes effect when Palestine signs UNESCO's founding charter.

The U.S. ambassador to UNESCO, David Killion, said Monday's vote will "complicate" U.S. efforts to support the agency. The United States voted against the measure.

Israel's ambassador to UNESCO, Nimrod Barkan, called the vote a tragedy.

"UNESCO deals in science, not science fiction," he said. "They forced on UNESCO a political subject out of its competence."

"They've forced a drastic cut in contributions to the organization," he said.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton last week called UNESCO's deliberation "inexplicable," saying discussion of Palestinian membership in international organizations couldn't replace negotiations with Israel as a fast-track toward Palestinian independence.

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Associated Press writer Angela Charlton contributed.

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Freese wins World Series MVP after magical October (AP)

ST. LOUIS ? David Freese gave credit to Albert Pujols for setting him on the right path. He praised manager Tony La Russa for believing in him. He thanked Mark McGwire for the swing tips that paid dividends few could have imagined.

Just maybe, Freese should give a little credit to himself.

The hometown kid who once quit baseball finished off an October to remember with the MVP of the World Series on Friday night. The St. Louis Cardinals wrapped up their 11th championship in dramatic fashion, a 6-2 victory over the Texas Rangers in the first Game 7 since 2002.

Freese batted .348 for the series, with seven RBIs, three doubles and one big homer. He's the fourth Cardinals player to win the MVP award, joining Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson in 1964 and '67, catcher Darrell Porter in 1982 and David Eckstein in their 2006 victory over Detroit.

Freese drove in 21 runs in the postseason, shattering the previous record.

"I've had plenty of days of my life where I thought I wouldn't be even close to being a big leaguer," Freese said. "I'm here because of everybody around me. They've put so much trust in me to accomplish not only baseball but just stuff in life, and to do this is ? I'm just full of joy, finally."

Freese was burned out on baseball after a standout career in suburban St. Louis, so he decided to spurn a scholarship offer from Missouri to simply be a college student. He even rebuffed the Tigers' coaches when they called midway through his first semester to see whether he'd changed his mind.

It wasn't until about a year out of high school that the itch to play finally returned.

Freese gave in and enrolled at St. Louis Community College-Meremec, and his play there caught the attention of the coaching staff at South Alabama. Freese blossomed into the Padres' ninth-round draft pick in 2006, and a trade to the Cardinals eventually brought him home.

"If you wrote a story like that ? a guy gets traded, comes back to his hometown, he's a hero ? if you sent that in the script, it would get thrown back in your face," Commissioner Bud Selig said.

This wasn't a perfect fairy tale, though. That would be too easy.

After he arrived in St. Louis, Freese was arrested for DUI and found to have a blood-alcohol level of 0.232 ? nearly three times the legal limit. He needed season-ending surgery to repair a torn tendon in his right ankle last year, and he broke his left hand when he was hit by a pitch this season. He was hit by another pitch in August and sustained a concussion.

Each time, he came back better than before.

"I'm so proud of him," McGwire said. "I kept telling him it shows character when you start breaking through those walls, those stumbling blocks. There's always something good at the end of the road, and here it is."

Freese hit a three-run homer in Game 6 of the NLCS against Milwaukee, earning the MVP of that series. His performance against the Rangers made him the sixth player to be the MVP of a league championship series and the World Series in a single season.

Down to the Cardinals' final strike in Game 6, Freese delivered a tying two-run triple in the ninth inning Thursday night. Freese then did one better: a leadoff homer in the 11th that gave St. Louis a dramatic victory and forced the first Game 7 since 2002.

"You're Game 6 performance, David, will turn out to be one for the ages," Selig said in announcing the MVP award. "I'm sure this is a dream come true for a St. Louis native."

Often overlooked in a lineup that features Pujols, Matt Holliday and Lance Berkman, Freese left his own impression on baseball's grandest stage out of necessity.

Holliday struggled most of the series before spraining his right wrist during Game 6, taking him off the roster Friday. Pujols was intentionally walked whenever he was a threat.

Freese made the Rangers pay for thinking he was an easy out.

"I said earlier, I don't have a word yet to describe David Freese," Pujols said. "Humble guy, I liked him right away, as soon as we got him. To be able to go through the things he's done in his career, just shows who David Freese is."

In the World Series opener, with the game tied in the sixth inning, Freese delivered a timely double. He alertly moved to third base on a wild pitch, allowing him to score easily for the eventual winning run on Allen Craig's single to right field.

Freese scored the Cardinals' only run in a 2-1 loss in Game 2, and then drove in a pair of runs in a 16-7 victory in Game 3 ? a performance that will be forever overshadowed by Pujols' three homers.

Nobody could overshadow Freese in Game 6.

After committing a critical error when an easy popup bounced out of his glove, Freese more than made up for it with his bat. Down to his final strike, his two-run triple in the ninth forced extra innings, and he joined Bill Mazeroski, Carlton Fisk, Kirby Puckett and Joe Carter as the only players to hit a game-ending homer in Game 6 or later of a Fall Classic.

That's pretty select company.

Much like the company he'll enjoy as MVP of the World Series.

"I've had plenty of days in my life where I'd thought, you know, I wouldn't even be close to being a big leaguer," Freese said. "I'm here because of everyone around me. They put so much trust in me to accomplish, not just baseball, but stuff in life. To do this, I'm just full of joy."

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Box Office Preview: 'Puss' in Loot (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? Paramount Pictures' release of "Puss in Boots 3D" from Dreamworks Animation should easily claw its way to the top of the weekend box office chart with a $35 million debut.

The "Shrek 2" spinoff character was an obvious choice for his own movie, given the appeal and popularity of Puss as effectively voiced by actor Antonio Banderas. Also starring Salma Hayek and Zach Galifianakis, the PG-Rated film will be like catnip to family audiences looking for a fun romp at the multiplex.

"Paranormal Activity 3" from Paramount Pictures shocked everyone last weekend with its $52.57 million debut and it should scare up another $18 million to $20 million this Halloween weekend.

Fox's sci-fi thriller "In Time," starring newly-minted movie star Justin Timberlake, will likely open in third place with a gross in the low teens. Set in a world where people can pay to stop aging when they reach 25 years old, the film shows the unpleasant consequences of what happens when such an unnatural yet irresistible option is made available to the populace.

Debuting in fourth place with a likely $9 million to $12 million take will be a very inebriated Johnny Depp as Journalist Paul Kemp in Film District's adaptation of the Hunter S. Thompson novel "The Rum Diary." Written in 1961 but not published until 1998, the book was shepherded to the big screen by Depp, who previously appeared in another Thompson screen adaptation, 1998's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."

Paramount's "Footloose" will step into fifth place in its third weekend with a gross in the $7 million range after earning solid mid-week numbers.

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Paul Dergarabedian is president of the Box Office Division of Hollywood.com and provides box office analysis for The Associated Press.

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