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December 10, 2012 | | JUSTICE Savannah Dietrich says she was furious when she blasted out a defiant tweet this summer, naming two boys who had sexually assaulted her. “Lock me up. I’m not protecting anyone that made my life a living Hell,” the 16-year-old wrote. Now her furious tweets have upended the courts—highlighting the strange new world of legal hurdles that social media bring. In her first extended interview, Dietrich talks to Abigail Pesta in Newsweek. HERO A member of SEAL Team 6, the elite unit that took out Osama bin Laden last year, was killed in a recent mission to rescue a kidnapped doctor in Afghanistan. A Pentagon official confirmed that the team member was killed during a mission on Sunday to save Dr. Dilip Joseph of Colorado Springs, Colo., who was being held by Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan. Six people were reportedly killed in the course of the mission, and two Taliban leaders captured. The identity of the SEAL team member who was killed in action has not been released. Royal Prank Fallout It appears nurse Jacintha Saldanha killed herself because she feared being ridiculed after she was duped in a Kate Middleton prank. The Daily Beast’s Dr. Kent Sepkowitz on how humiliation has joined factors like depression and financial problems in pushing people over the edge. FATE That’s the ticket—for 47 percent of Americans. The number that has come to hang spectral over the grave of Mitt Romney’s presidential bid struck again, this time in a new poll by Politico and George Washington University. The study found that 47 percent of Americans—precisely the number that the onetime presidential hopeful had said were dependent on the government—look upon Romney and former running mate Paul Ryan favorably. “The Republicans are in real need of a leader,” said Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster who worked on the study. Fifty-two percent of Americans said President Obama is doing A-OK. TICKLED Those Tickle Me Elmo toys just seem dirty now. A fourth man has accused former Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash of sexual abuse, filing a lawsuit Monday in Miami. Under the name John Doe, the accuser claims Clash befriended him in the mid-1990s, when Doe was 16 or 17, and that Clash paid for him to fly from Miami to New York “for the purpose of satisfying his sexual interests.” The lawyer of the latest accuser also represents Clash’s second accuser, Cecil Singleton, and his third accuser, another “John Doe.” Clash’s reps have not commented on this latest sexual harassment suit. Though Clash resigned from Sesame Street roughly a month ago, his voice will still stick around for another two years, as he has already taped episodes to air through 2014. | | 
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