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(CNN) -- Greg Mortenson, under fire for allegedly fabricating details in his best-seller "Three Cups of Tea," agreed in a settlement to give the charity he co-founded more than $1 million, nearly a year after Montana's attorney general began investigating the organization's financial affairs.

The report issued Thursday notes the "accusations of inaccuracies and falsehoods in the narratives" of his books "were not the subject" of the investigation. But Attorney General Steve Bullock said his office's investigation did find "serious internal problems in the management" of the Bozeman, Montana-based Central Asia Institute that Mortenson helped create.

Under the terms of the deal, Mortenson must repay more than $1 million to the charity within three years.

This comes after state investigators determined Mortenson was "double-dipping" when he didn't reimburse the institute for travel expenses he got from sponsors. Their report also stated he did not pay the charity promised royalties and charged it "substantial personal expenses" -- like "L.L. Bean clothing, iTunes, luggage, luxurious accommodations and even vacations."

"When employees challenged him by attempting to get him to provide documentation to substantiate expenditures or otherwise to comply with sound management practices, he resisted and/or ignored them," the report's authors wrote. "Some of them ended up leaving."

While he can remain an employee of the Central Asia Institute, Mortenson can "no longer oversee financial aspects of the charity or serve as a voting member of the board of directors," according to the attorney general's office.

The Central Asia Institute's two other board members will step down after a transitional period of 12 months and a new seven-member board will be appointed in its place, according to the settlement. Its interim director, Anne Beyersdorfer, a "longtime family friend of Mortenson," will eventually give way to a new chief executive, Bullock told reporters Thursday.
1. How much money does Mortenson need to give back?
2. With in what time period?
3. What charity did he help create?
4. Where was it located?
5. What was the title of his book?
6. What office did Steve Bullock hold?
7. What sort of problems were in management?
8. Were they minor?
9. What can he no longer preside over in his charity?
10. How long will the transitional period be?
11. How many board members will there be after that?
12. Who is the interim director?
13. Was she a friend of Mortenson?
14. When was the report issued?
15. In what city in Montana was the charity based?
16. What term was used to indicate Mortenson failed to reimburse an entity?
17. Who was he supposed to have reimbursed?
18. For what?
19. That he received from whom?

Numbered answers:
1. $1 Million
2. Three years
3. Central Asia Institute
4. Montana
5. Three Cups of Tea
6. Attorney General
7. Internal
8. No
9. Financial aspects
10. 12 months
11. Seven
12. Anne Beyersdorfer
13. Yes
14. Thursday
15. Bozeman
16. Double-dipping
17. The Central Asia Institute
18. Travel expenses
19. Sponsors

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Bekaa Valley, Lebanon (CNN) -- He escaped the war, but life's no happier now for Omar. The 8-year-old Syrian refugee longs for friends back in Qusayr, hard hit by a civil war that grinds on. He also misses days in school -- when the most he had to worry about was finishing his homework.

"I work so I can bring money for my family," says Omar. His mother, like other refugees, asked that their last names not be used as they are worried for their safety.

Eddie Izzard: In Syrian refugee camps, another day of childhood is lost

I met Omar on a hot, dusty day in Lebanon's wind-swept Bekaa Valley. We were interviewing his mother when Omar and his 14-year-old brother came zooming by on a motorbike. They had just finished gathering eggs at a nearby farm -- what little money the kids make is the only way their family is able to survive.

The job is hard, but Omar went through an even more difficult experience recently.

"They hit us," he says timidly, describing how Lebanese boys his age beat him up.

"They said to me," he adds, embarrassed and close to tears, " 'Damn every Syrian.' "

Omar now faces a different kind of brutality -- a harsh reality reflected in the weary faces of kids all around. Their eyes make them seem far older. There's no childhood spark, with smiles few and far between.

I ask a 15-year-old girl what life's been like for her here.

"Life?" She asks unbelievingly -- as if the question were a farce.
1. Who escaped war?
2. How old is he?
3. where is he from?
4. Does he miss someone?
5. Who?
6. From where?
7. Is it a peaceful town?
8. Why?
9. Does he have perfect attendance?
10. What does he do to help his family?
11. What is his moms name?
12. Who did he meet?
13. Does he enjoy his childhood?
14. How old is he?
15. Does Omar have siblings?
16. How old
17. Was the job easy for him?
18. Were they nice to him?
19. What did they do?
20. Was there a girl?

Numbered answers:
1. Omar
2. Eight
3. Syrian
4. yes
5. his friends
6. Qusayr
7. no
8. Civil War
9. No
10. he works
11. unknown
12. Eddie Izzard
13. no
14. unknown
15. yes
16. 14
17. No
18. no
19. Hit them
20. Yes

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It is estimated that in the 11th century Ashkenazi Jews composed only three percent of the world's Jewish population, while at their peak in 1931 they accounted for 92 percent of the world's Jews. Immediately prior to the Holocaust, the number of Jews in the world stood at approximately 16.7 million. Statistical figures vary for the contemporary demography of Ashkenazi Jews, oscillating between 10 million and 11.2 million. Sergio DellaPergola in a rough calculation of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews, implies that Ashkenazi make up less than 74% of Jews worldwide. Other estimates place Ashkenazi Jews as making up about 75% of Jews worldwide.

In the Yoma tractate of the Babylonian Talmud the name Gomer is rendered as Germania, which elsewhere in rabbinical literature was identified with Germanikia in northwestern Syria, but later became associated with Germania. Ashkenaz is linked to Scandza/Scanzia, viewed as the cradle of Germanic tribes, as early as a 6th-century gloss to the Historia Ecclesiastica of Eusebius. In the 10th-century History of Armenia of Yovhannes Drasxanakertc'i (1.15) Ashkenaz was associated with Armenia, as it was occasionally in Jewish usage, where its denotation extended at times to Adiabene, Khazaria, Crimea and areas to the east. His contemporary Saadia Gaon identified Ashkenaz with the Saquliba or Slavic territories, and such usage covered also the lands of tribes neighboring the Slavs, and Eastern and Central Europe. In modern times, Samuel Krauss identified the Biblical "Ashkenaz" with Khazaria.
1. What is Ashkenaz linked to?
2. What was it seen as the cradle of?
3. How early in time?
4. When was it associated with Armenia?
5. Who identified it with Khazaria?
6. What percentage did Ashkenazi Jews make up of the world's Jewish population in the 11th century?
7. By 1931, were there more of them or fewer of them?
8. What percentage did they make up?
9. How many were there before the Holocaust>
10. And what about today>
Numbered answers:
1. Scandza/Scanzia
2. the cradle of Germanic tribes,
3. 6th cnetury
4. 10th century
5. Yovhannes Drasxanakertc'i
6. 3 percent
7. more
8. 92 percent
9. 16.7 million
10. 10 to 11.2 million