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Friends speak up for L.A. journalists held by N. Korea

Jun. 10, 2009
Laura Ling and Euna Lee are passionate about their work, friends and colleagues say. The women, seized in March, were sentenced Monday to 12 years of hard labor. Derrick Shore was nervous when he traveled with Laura Ling to Sao Paulo, Brazil's shantytowns several years ago.
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch