In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

Q: Palmyra, Syria (CNN) When does it take almost seven hours, several armored vehicles and attack helicopters to get to a classical concert? The answer: When you have to travel through half of Syria and the concert is held in a newly liberated area with ISIS nearby. The Russian military put around 100 journalists on five buses, sent a convoy of armored vehicles and fighting vehicles and drove the reporters from Latakia in northwestern Syria to Palmyra, the ancient heritage site in the central desert. As our convoy slowly made its way down the Syrian coast and then made an eastward turn toward Homs and then Palmyra, Russian attack helicopters circled overhead, looking out for any threats.Fred Pleitgen and other journalists attended under Russian military escortThe orchestra performed in a Roman ampitheater, the scene of an ISIS massacre 
 Question:_ TV set up a state of the art stage and broadcast facility, complete with a crane-mounted camera and a drone.

A: Russian
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Q: How could Manchester United go from being champions in 2013 to being so unrecognisably bad now? Yes, Louis van Gaal is the first stop when it comes to taking responsibility for the current blunders but there is more to it than that. I'm wondering if Sir Alex Ferguson is ready to put his hand up and accept some of the blame. It seems a bit too easy to trot out the standard lines: 'Van Gaal is useless' or 'it's Wayne Rooney's fault'. Some are so incredibly rude they're declaring Van Gaal is too old. Sharper analysis is required. For such a great club to have fallen on such hard times (by their own extraordinarily high standards) and look so devoid of the verve and energy they used to have, must be down not just to what the current manager is doing. No, it must also involve more long-term mistakes and misguided thinking.Manchester United were beaten 2-1 by Bournemouth on Saturday eveningLouis van Gaal has come in for a lot of criticism in the aftermath of defeatBut Sir Alex Ferguson failed to leave a legacy when he left Old TraffordLegendary boss had lost touch with the modern game in his later yearsUnited's entire youth system has been left with an inferiority complexDouble your Fantasy Football points with Power Play code sanchez69Get an extra Fantasy Football transfer this week with the code henderson61 
 Question:Manchester City, on and off the field, are leaving _ behind.

A: Manchester United
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Q: San Diego (CNN) -- I bet it sounded like a good idea at the time. Now, not so much. "It" was the ill-conceived decision by GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry to hitch his wagon to the clownish Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, an opportunist who in recent years has taken to rounding up illegal immigrants and parading them outside his jail to catch the attention of television cameras. How did Perry get mixed up with that circus? Simple. The Texas governor got into a political scrape, and made the mistake of overcompensating. He was looking for quick validation from his party's nativist fringe because he had gotten hammered by GOP rivals for signing, in 2001, a reasonable bill in the Lone Star State that allows illegal immigrants who go to college to pay what other residents pay: in-state tuition.Ruben Navarrette Jr.: Rick Perry has hitched his wagon to Arizona Sheriff Joe ArpaioPerry was foolishly looking for quick validation from his party's nativist fringe, Navarrette saysJustice Department has accused Arpaio of discrimination and racial profiling, he saysA once-promising candidate has lost his bearings, Navarrette says of Perry 
 Question:In a futile attempt to get them up again, _ underwent a radical makeover.

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Rick Perry
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