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By MATT APUZZOand LARA JAKES JORDAN
The Associated Press
 WASHINGTON
— President-electObama’s advisers are crafting plansto close the Guantanamo Bay prisonand prosecute terrorism suspects inthe U.S., a plan that the Bush ad-ministration said Monday was eas-ier said than done.Under the plan being crafted in-side Obama’s camp, some detainees would be released and others wouldbe charged in U.S. courts, wherethey would receive constitutionalrights and open trials. But, under-scoring the difficult decisionsObama must make to fulfill his pledge of shuttingdown Guantanamo, the plan could require the cre-ation of a new legal system to handle the classified
By NICK McCORMAC
 Special to The State
 When Davis Borucki is working on a sudoku puz-zle, something deep and insightful is taking place in-side his head.Eyes locked to the puzzle, henotices number patterns the casualplayer might not pick up on, whichallows him to complete even themost complicated puzzles quickly.“I try to look over the wholepuzzle and anticipate what num-bers might go where,” he said.“Looking ahead lets me get throughthem quickly.”That attentiveness and intellecthelped the 14-year-old Richland Northeast HighSchool student clinch the championship title in the13- to 14-year-old division of the 2008 Philadelphia
By MIKE MEYERS
 Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
MINNEAPOLIS
— Suppose everything you know is wrong.Consider the commonly held belief that corporate America is headed intoa recession, tapped out for cash.Not so. Cash compared with totalcorporate debt is near a 50-year high.Certainly consumer debt appears un-manageable, with late payments near-ing record levels on credit cards andreal estate, right?Not true. The percentage of homeloans 30 days or more past due, whilerising, is nowhere near record levels. You say troubled home and autoloans are dragging down the economyas never before? Wrong again. While together suchloans lopped 1.5 points off U.S. eco-nomic growth in recent quarters, it hasbeen worse. In the final three monthsof last year, housing and auto pared
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Chapin resident Fred Shealy is the third soldier from the right on the front row in this photograph taken in France in1945. Shealy will be on Saturday’s inaugural Honor Flight to Washington, D.C.
GERALD HERBERT/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
President-elect Obama and President Bushtalk Monday at the White House, where theydiscussed the transition of power, theeconomy and other issues. Story, Page A3
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 World War II heroes to watch parade in VIP area
Honor Flight in spotlight
Solving sudokusnot so puzzlingto national champ
Maybe the economy isn’t so bad after all
Obama’splan: Closethe prison,hold trials
U.S. Rep. JohnSpratt
is being consideredfor directorof theOffice of Manage-ment andBudget.
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These are the World War II veterans chosen for the inaugural Honor Flight who have been featured in The State’s series.Following each name is the date the veteran’s story appeared.
RUSSELL V.MEYNE (AUG.31) ANNA BELL ‘WENDY’WENDELBURGZEIGLER (SEPT.8)FREDERICK ‘FRITZ’GRAY (SEPT.15)IRVINGLEVINE (SEPT.22)SOLOMON BRIGHT (SEPT.29)FRED ANDREWSHEALY (OCT.6)THOMAS E.GROVE (OCT.13) WILLIAM C. WILDMAN (OCT.20)MARY CRUM (OCT.27)HENRY AUSTINBROWDER (NOV.3)NEALY ADOLPH SWEAT (NOV.10)
 VETS FEATURED IN THE STATE:
By JEFF WILKINSON
 jwilkinson@thestate.com
 When the annual Veterans Day paraderolls down Sumter Street in Columbia to-day, it will be viewed by some very specialguests.Each of the 91 World War II veterans who will be on the inaugural Honor Flightto visit Washington memorials Saturdayhas been invited to sit in a special VIParea to view the parade.“They are special; they did somethingextraordinary for South Carolina and the world,” said Yvette Stribling of the Colum-bia Action Council, which puts on the pa-rade. “You can’t repay them for their timeor service. But the parade is one way togive back.”On Saturday, the veterans will board achartered US Airways jet to visit the Na-tional World War II Memorial in Washing-ton. The tour will include stops at Arling-ton National Cemetery and the (Iwo Jima)Marine War Memorial. And Honor Flight organizers hope toraise $300,000 to fly up to 600 veterans to Washington for free over the next year sothey can see the new memorial erected intheir honor.The first flight is full. But two more
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PARADEFOR VETS
Columbia’s Veterans Day Parade will begin at 11 a.m. at Laurel and Sumter streets. A pre-parade ceremony will be held at 10:30 at Washington and Sumter streets.
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