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When I covered the siege of Sarajevo, I heard stories about a slim, tall renegade Saudi prince who reportedly went there a couple of time bearing sacks of money."

On Friday, I talked to the pastor of a church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

"Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event)."With that fairly innocent sounding post on Twitter, Shohaib Athar became, in his own words, "the guy who live-blogged the Osama raid without knowing it."

I think people in war zones sometimes speak more freely to photographers than they do to reporters. Microphones and notepads can make people conscious of what they're saying. But photographers can talk to them as people, not names in their stories.

It's been a great NBA playoff season so far — something for everyone, you might say.You want nail-biters between classic rivals? We give you the Celtics and Knicks. The C's have won the first two games by a combined five points.

I have one more thought about the budget deal agreed to over the weekend.If you tuned in earlier in the program, you heard from Congress' representative from the District of Columbia, the nation's capital, about specific steps taken by budget negotiators that will deny the District the right to use