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The school's trustees are also launching their own investigation into the allegations that a former assistant football coach sexually abused young boys — and that some school officials had been told but didn't alert police.

Karen Kraushaar hoped details of her harassment claim would stay secret. She didn't want controversy. Meanwhile, the AP has details of a complaint she filed against another employer. And a Cain aide falsely claimed Kraushaar's son works for Politico.

Historian Jill Lepore writes about the early history of the birth control and abortion movements in this week's New Yorker. "I think it's easy to lose perspective [that] actually the arguments made by one side or another have switched sides over time more than once," she says.

A new U.N. report presents more evidence than ever before that Iran's nuclear program is geared toward military purposes. Yet the country has been hampered by both regional rivalries and its own economic and political problems.

The police department is investigating, a spokesman says. Meanwhile, it has released videos of its own showing protesters threatening officers during recent clashes.

Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story, came out in 2001. Co-author Kip Richeal says he never saw Sandusky do anything inappropriate with young boys.

Italy's borrowing costs spiked Wednesday, pushing the country into bailout territory. But Italy is too big to be saved by Europe's bailout fund. Although the same story has played out in other European countries, an Italian default could be catastrophic.

Alice Eastman, a single mother living in Wheaton, Ill., tried to make ends meet on unemployment while she hunted for a job in her field after being laid off in 2010. After a long, fruitless search, Eastman, a once highly paid professional, took a minimum-wage job at Target.

Dissatisfaction with both parties is at an all-time high, and trust in Washington is at an all-time low — exactly the kind of environment that is welcoming for an alternative to the Democrats and the Republicans. "There's too much opportunity, too much anger with politics," says one pollster.

Gingrich may have found his voice by turning the tables on the political press. Republicans have been doing this fourth-estate two-step for decades — quite explicitly at least since Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew in 1968. That might work for the back of the pack, but how will it play for a front-runner?