TASK DEFINITION: You will be given three sentences. Read them, then identify a noun phrase (person, place, or thing) or event that is shared between all three sentences. As the output, write the span of the text corresponding to that phrase in each sentence. Keep the order of the sentences, that is, your answer should look like: 1: *a phras from sentence 1e* 2: *a phras from sentence 2* 3: *a phrase from sentence 3*
PROBLEM: 1: The weekend apology came days after the conservative Christian school in South Carolina received a petition asking for an apology for a statement Jones made to the Associated Press in 1980 at the White House . 2: The petition by BJUnity , a group that bills itself as a network  for lesbian , gay , bisexual , transgender , queer , questioning , intersex and straight affirming people affected by fundamentalist Christianity ,  garnered more than 1,900 signatures . 3: A petition asking for an apology gathered 1,900 signatures .

SOLUTION: 1: a petition asking for an apology 2: The petition by BJUnity 3: A petition asking for an apology

PROBLEM: 1: ( CNN ) In 2011 , journalists flocked to Kinshasa , the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , to cover the presidential election and the violence leading up to the vote . 2: Photographer Leonard Pongo had different plans . 3: Photographer Leonard Pongo documented daily life in the Democratic Republic of the Congo .

SOLUTION: 1: journalists 2: Photographer Leonard Pongo 3: Photographer Leonard Pongo

PROBLEM: 1: In doing so , the 36 year old says he 's fulfilling the wishes of the two eldest of his five children . 2: I want you to fight Mayweather . ' 3: Pacquaio says his two oldest children are desperate for him to fight Mayweather .

SOLUTION:
1: the 36 year old 2: you 3: Pacquaio