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PROBLEM: Tensions between Republicans and Democrats over the investigation of Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election intensified Sunday  with President Donald Trump demanding to know why his campaign is under federal scrutiny while his former opponent Hillary Clinton is not.
Democratic lawmakers mostly stayed out of the Sunday fray after a week in which  Clinton 's 2016 campaign came under fresh scrutiny. The campaign funded political opposition research into Trump that helped create a highly publicized "dossier" on the Republican candidate and fueled some allegations now under scrutiny by Mueller.
It's unclear how much the  Clinton  campaign and Democratic National Committee paid for the opposition research by Fusion GPS  a Washington  D.C.  firm that conducts investigations for private clients. The  Clinton  campaign paid $5.6 million in legal fees to a law firm from June 2015 to December 2016  according to campaign finance records  and the DNC paid the firm $3.6 million in "legal and compliance consulting'' since November 2015. It's impossible to tell from the filings how much of that work was for other legal matters and how much of it related to Fusion GPS.
Trump tweeted Sunday morning that the dossier  which he called " Clinton  made Fake Dossier " could have cost as much as $12 million  although he did not explain how he reached that number.
In April 2016  an attorney representing  Clinton 's presidential campaign and the DNC hired Fusion GPS  which then hired Steele. Brian Fallon  a former spokesman for the  Clinton  campaign  said he learned about Steele and the dossier after the election. People familiar with the matter told The Washington Post that the  Clinton  campaign and the DNC did not direct Steele's activities.

SOLUTION: As Russia case unfolds Trump and Republicans go to battle with Clinton and Democrats

PROBLEM: EASTERN GHOUTA  Syria (Reuters) - His brow dripping with blood and his skin caked with brick dust   Abu Abdallah  was pulled out from under the rubble of  his  house near Damascus after  it  was blown up in an air raid.
 He  was lucky to survive the bomb that fell while  he  was having breakfast  dropped by one of the countless warplanes that emergency workers say have pounded the rebel-held Syrian enclave of Eastern Ghouta in recent days.
 His  three-year-old son was not so fortunate.
âWe were sitting around  eating â said Abu Abdallah - a sobriquet meaning â Abdallah âs fatherâ - as  he  recalled Tuesdayâs strike. âMy son wanted to use the toilet  so his mother took him. Then the missile came down.â
âI was under the rubble... and my head was bent down  I couldnât raise it â said  Abu Abdallah   who declined to give  his  full name. âI said thatâs it  this will be the end of  me .â
Abu Abdallah  26  who was rescued from under the rubble after an airstrike  is seen at a relative's home in the Saqba area  in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta  Syria  January 11  2018. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh
 Abu Abdallah  26   comes from the eastern Ghouta village of Marj al-Sultan  which the Syrian army recaptured from insurgents in late 2015.  He  had moved deeper into the enclave to the town of Saqba with  his  family to try to escape the bombing.
âNow itâs still not clear what we will do â  he  said.  His  family is staying with relatives while  he  recovers from a head injury and a back strain.
âThe (world) should have mercy on these children and women because they have nothing to do with the fighting â Abu Abdallah said. âIf they want to fight  let them go fight on the frontlines. But why are they bombing us?â

SOLUTION: A Picture and its Story: Syrian pulled from rubble mourns 'martyred' young son

PROBLEM: Back in 2000   Rich Cohen  went on a mission.
The magazine writer  put on the literary map two years earlier with the book "Tough Jews " flew to Chicago to chronicle the legendary losing of  his  favorite baseball team for the esteemed pages of Harper's. It was such an unlikely assignment that the Cubs' hitting coach  Hall of Fame slugger Billy Williams  was convinced there was no such magazine as Harper's;  Cohen  must have made it up to get free tickets.
 Cohen 's observations included Mark Grace's smoking habits (a cigarette at his locker before and after every game)  Joe Girardi's naked body ("old-fashioned  a body from the Great Depression: thick torso and heavy arms  social realism  a WPA poster")  and Sammy Sosa's daily boombox battles with his teammates. They liked loud Pearl Jam. He liked even louder salsa music.  Cohen  wrote: "Today  and each day  it ended with the Pearl Jam turned down and turned off. It was not hard to tell how Sosa's teammates felt about this."
The Cubs lost seven straight games while  Cohen  was on their trail  reinforcing everything  he  was there to see: misery  piled up for generations. The piece is essential reading for any Cubs fan  precisely because  Cohen  is one of us  trying to make sense of it all: "For every Cub fan  there is a season  an inning  an at bat  when all hope is lost  when  at long last  he becomes disillusioned and realizes with dread certainty that no matter how good its prospects the team will never win."
Now  at last   Cohen  gets to update the story.
But how did we get here? Why did such futility endure? What scars were wrought across generations of the fan base? These are the questions  Cohen  takes up  and  he  hints at  his  own scars as early as the dedication. It is to  his  four sons  who "will grow up with the nonsensical idea that the Chicago Cubs are a great baseball team."
To those of us who suffered long enough —  Cohen   me  probably you (any White Sox fan stumbling onto this presumably bailed paragraphs ago) — it still sometimes doesn't quite seem possible. That shared sentiment is part of the book's power.  Cohen  tells a story that is all of ours: "When I was 13  I began going to Cubs games on my own. This was my first taste of adulthood. I've associated Wrigley Field with freedom ever since."
Jessica Medoff / Farrar  Straus and Giroux Magazine writer Rich Cohen chronicles the Cubs’ journey to a World Series championship in “The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse.” Magazine writer Rich Cohen chronicles the Cubs’ journey to a World Series championship in “The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse.” (Jessica Medoff / Farrar  Straus and Giroux) (Jessica Medoff / Farrar  Straus and Giroux)
Weaving between history lesson  memoir and fairly faithful sports reporting  "The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse" is a brisk and engaging read. It's hard to say much new or novel about the Cubs — probably no team has had more words spent in a bid to understand it — but  Cohen  does  his  best and employs an advantage even beyond  his  skilled storytelling:  He  has lived a life of good fortune.
Not only has  he  been on the front lines for Harper's  Sports Illustrated  Vanity Fair  Rolling Stone and The New Yorker  but also we learn that  Cohen 's father  legendary negotiation expert Herb Cohen  was friendly with former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda (we get an amusing personal anecdote from it) and Ernie Banks (an even better personal anecdote).
Along the way   Cohen  grapples with the hiccups — '84  '89  '03  '07 and '08 — along with the question of why the Cubs could never pull it out. The answer  of course  is not a literal curse. There may be no single answer  but  Cohen  sifts through a handful of compelling options. The "schizo" ballpark  which offered no true home field advantage. Bad ownership (meaning  in part  the Tribune Company — sorry everyone!). Bad organizational culture. It's not a new insight  but it's a fascinating one: In Chapter 11  current Cubs owner Tom Ricketts says winning the World Series is a fluke. Once you're in the playoffs  he says  any team can win it: "The fact is  when you go back and look  you'll see there's little correlation between how many games you win during a season and how far you go in the postseason. Almost zero." Simply  all the Cubs needed to do all these years was build a core of talent to consistently reach the playoffs. Then a World Series would inevitably have happened. Instead  the franchise was doomed by a lack of vision.

SOLUTION:
'The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse' weaves history memoir as only a fan could