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SANTIAGO, Chile  Chile's former army chief is acknowledging he handed over 
to nuns the child of two left-wing activists killed after the 1973 
military coup.Juan Emilio Cheyre now heads Chile's electoral service. He 
told the newspaper El Mercurio on Tuesday that he gave 2-year-old Ernesto 
Lejderman to a convent. In his first time speaking publicly about the 
case, he said he was just following orders.Lejderman was raised by his 
grandparents in Argentina. He says Cheyre shouldn't face charges. But human 
rights group are calling for Cheyre to quit his electoral post.Lejderman's 
parents sought to escape with their son after Gen. Augusto Pinochet's coup 
but were killed by a military patrol on the outskirts of a 
northern city.Chile's government estimates 3,095 people were killed during 
Pinochet's 1973-90 dictatorship.
http://www.facebook.com/denver.booneIs a cartoon-like college mascot reminiscent 
of Daniel Boone -- right down to the legendary coonskin cap -- 
racist, sexist or otherwise offensive?Officials at the University of Denver 
seem to think so. Theyve announced they wont reinstate Denver Boone, who 
was retired in 1998 as mascot for the UD Pioneers, despite calls 
to bring him back.Boone originally had been replaced by a red-tailed hawk 
named Ruckus but the bird never soared high with the student body 
and was scrapped in 2007, leaving the school without a mascot. Fast 
forward and the school decided to put together a committee last spring 
to determine the new mascot, but Boone was not even considered.Boone was 
a polarizing figure that did not reflect the growing diversity of the 
UD community, but rather was an image that many women, persons of 
color, international students and faculty members found difficult to relate 
to as defining the pioneering spirit, Chancellor Robert Coombe said in a 
March letter to the school community.University officials also claim that 
Boone was not up for consideration because of a consensus by the 
student body that it wanted an entirely new mascot  despite numerous 
Facebook postings to the contrary.It was really about moving forward, Theresa 
Mueller, a spokeswoman for the University of Denver, told FoxNews.com. The 
students wanted a new mascot and didnt want to look towards the 
past.Mueller added that they intend togi
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