TASK DEFINITION: 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].
PROBLEM: (CNN) -- In June, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the proposed ground zero mosque, was asked on live radio if he believed Hamas is a terrorist organization. This isn't a difficult question: Hamas employs suicide bombers and fires incendiary rockets at civilian targets within Israel. It calls for the destruction of the Jewish state followed by the establishment of a potentially fundamentalist and repressive regime. Governments all over the world, including the United States and the European Union, rightfully consider Hamas to be a terrorist organization that willfully and indiscriminately targets innocent civilians. Yet Imam Rauf, after being asked this simple, straightforward question, refused to state whether or not he believed Hamas to be a terrorist organization. He said: "I will not allow anybody to put me in a position where I am seen by any party in the world as an adversary or as an enemy."Rick Lazio says the Imam behind the planned Islamic Center refused to call Hamas terroristLazio: Other associations also make him wary of center's funding sourcesHe says New Yorkers have a right to know where money is coming from to feel safeLazio: The state attorney general should request Cordoba Initiative open its books 
 Question:Now _ wants to build and lead a $100 million, 13-story community center and mosque.

SOLUTION: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf

PROBLEM: Moscow (CNN) -- Russia's upper house of parliament voted Wednesday to revoke the right of President Vladimir Putin to use troops in Ukraine as efforts continue to calm a separatist uprising in Ukraine's east. The Federation Council had approved Putin's request for a resolution allowing the use of force on March 1. But Tuesday, Putin sent a letter to the speaker of the upper house seeking to cancel the resolution. One lawmaker voted against revoking the powers Wednesday, with 153 in favor. Putin's request was made in light of ongoing talks on how to settle the crisis in Ukraine's eastern regions, said presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov.NATO agrees to a package of support to help Ukraine defend itselfRussia's Federation Council cancels resolution authorizing use of troops in UkrainePresident Vladimir Putin asked for the step in light of peace talks, his spokesman saysJohn Kerry and other NATO foreign ministers are meeting in Belgium 
 Question:The parliamentary action is a positive step, _ said, but it could be easily reversed.

SOLUTION: John Kerry

PROBLEM: (CNN) -- In just four days, Chris Picco went from husband and expectant father to a man without a family. His wife Ashley died November 8; their newborn son, delivered by emergency cesarean section, died three days later. In August, Ashley and Chris Picco celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary by posting a photo to Facebook. In the image, a tiny pair of fur-lined baby booties stands empty between the Southern California couple. "Coming Soon" is inscribed above. It is still Ashley's cover photo. Ashley was a mother for only a few short hours before she died. She left behind "harmonies that will continue to resonate in our hearts and memories," her family and friends posted online.The baby was born to a dying woman via emergency C-sectionThe grieving father plays "Blackbird" for his infant son, LennonThe baby died late Tuesday night in his father's arms 
 Question:The video shows Chris seated next to a whirring, clicking incubator, baby _ swaddled in blankets and surrounded by tubes.

SOLUTION:
Lennon