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Heather Locklear ($1,000)
Jada Pinkett Smith ($36,600)
Scott Glenn ($250)
Billy Joel ($13,550)
Tracy Chapman ($37,800)
Sam Seder ($2,050)
Robert Redford ($47,500)
Mark Peel ($7,303)
Elisabeth Shue ($7,500)
Wendie Malick ($9,050)
Robert Duvall ($1,000)
Peter Chernin ($265,713)
John Wells ($209,650)
Ellen DeGeneres ($3,000)
Ally Sheedy ($5,100)
Cedric 'the Entertainer' Kyles ($2,500)
Joe Scarborough ($9,562)
Jessica Lange ($8,800)
Mike Farrell ($10,700)
Joe Dumars ($1,000)
David Toms ($2,000)
M Night Shyamalan ($5,900)
Kal Penn ($4,155)
Bill Bidwell ($2,000)
Muhammad Ali ($3,000)
Deborah Norville ($1,000)
Owen Wilson ($6,400)
Dean Cain ($3,000)
Tracey Edmonds ($36,475)
Tom Selleck ($10,500)
Mariel Hemingway ($1,750)
Brian Grazer ($133,492)
Robert Greenwald ($46,761)
Joely Fisher ($5,800)
Donald Sterling ($6,000)
Kurt Busch ($1,000)
Tina Brown ($1,000)
Larry Mize ($2,250)
George Bodenheimer ($73,080)
Laurie David ($308,500)
Felicity Huffman ($7,750)
Brad Grey ($190,550)
Rose McGowan ($800)
Marla Maples ($29,800)
Boyd Tinsley ($84,650)
Carson Kressley ($250)
Peter Buck ($12,092)
Topher Grace ($6,600)
Lindsay Wagner ($2,100)
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ARCHER DANIELS MIDLANDS DECATUR, IL 62525 DSCC NON-FEDERAL CORPORATE$25,000 primary 11/08/96
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AP NewsAlert
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Astronauts Surprised by Holiday Turkey Dinners 11:56 AM Dubai Debt Fears Hit World Markets Hard 11:55 AM Obama and GOP Differ Over Recipe for Jobs, Economy 11:47 AM Palin Spends Thanksgiving With Family in Richland 11:45 AM Project Promotes Talking, Not Shopping, on Friday 11:44 AM Freed Foreign Journalists in Kenyan Hospital 11:36 AM Touched by NC Girl’s Death, Shaq Pays for Funeral 11:31 AM Ex-UK Envoy: US Focused on Iraq Hours After 9/11 11:29 AM IAEA Chief: Iran Investigation at ‘Dead End’ 11:21 AM
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US WAR SHEET
Iraq
Afghanistan
Days
2,444
2,972
GIs Killed in Action
3,478
659
DoD
Non-Hostile GI Deaths
891
190
DoD
GIs Severely Wounded
13,877
2,678
DoD
Current Troop Deployment
124,000
68,000
AP
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Total Cost (approved through Sept 30, 2009)
$711 Bln
$219 Bln
AP
Cost Per Day (Avg)
$298 Mil
$75.2 Mil
casualty status updated November 25, 2009
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