Top three news stories 12/13/11
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-Sandusky waives preliminary hearing: Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky pledges to "fight for four quarters" as case moves to trial.
-UN: 5,000 killed in Syria's crackdown: The death toll from Syria's crackdown on a 9-month-old uprising has exceeded 5,000 people, the top U.N. rights official said Monday, as Syrians closed their businesses and kept children home from school as part of a general strike to pressure President Bashar Assad to end the bloodshed.
-Afghan women begin fight for Olympics: In Afghanistan during the 1990s, the Taliban stripped women of nearly all of their rights. They couldn't work outside the home, or even get an education.But now, more than 10 years later, the Taliban is no longer in power, and two young women are trading in burkas for boxing gloves.

Three stories i saw this morning before school: Tinyiest baby born in russia weighing les than a pound, 2 men plan to sue syracuse head coach, Texas students hit by hunters shots.