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Nor is he likely to be seen again on CNN. The network is planning to exercise an exit clause in Mr. (Peter) Arnett's contract in July, Mr. Arnett said, effectively dismissing him with more than two years left on his five-year agreement. Two CNN executives, speaking on the condition of anonymity, also said Mr. Arnett's contract would be terminated. Other CNN executives refused to discuss any aspect of Mr. Arnett's status. Tom Johnson, the chairman and chief executive of the CNN News Group, did not return phone calls seeking comment. But the love is apparently no longer mutual. The decision to terminate Mr. Arnett's contract ends the career at CNN of one of the best-known of television correspondents. The move comes nine months after Mr. Arnett played a prominent role in what became an embarrassing debacle for the network, when a much-publicized investigative report for the inaugural edition of CNN's prime-time news magazine ''CNN Newsstand,'' blew up in the network's face.

The Olympic torch relay has crystallised worldwide anger at China's human rights abuses. But that's not how the locals see it, says veteran war correspondent Peter Arnett. --- IF I spend a year or two in Iraq, I become more sympathetic to Iraqis. If I'm in Afghanistan, I tend to start seeing the world from the Afghan viewpoint. It's not difficult to develop sympathies. And in China in particular - where I love the food - Shantou is a city of five million with the greatest restaurants you'd want to find. This university is like living in a garden. There's greenery, there are beautiful modern buildings; the students are young, attractive and enthusiastic. I really like being in China. Looking beyond my personal pleasure in being here, I'm no more sympathetic to the Chinese view than I have been in the past. I don't think there's any chance in hell that China is going to give up its control of Tibet - that border is too important. But I don't see why the Chinese couldn't give more autonomy to Tibet. I say that to my students if they ask me. THIS PAST year has been one of the few in my career since the late 50s where I haven't been under hostile fire from somewhere or another. I gave up reporting in October of 2006 - I'd been in Baghdad for four years. I'm writing a book about the last days of Saddam Hussein and his family, so I'm also here to do my writing and further research. I'll be out of here by the end of 2010.

In 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to a friend, \"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.\" In 1909, 259 men were killed when fire erupted inside a coal mine in Cherry, Ill.

PULITZER Prize-winning war correspondent Peter Arnett returns home from China to deliver this year's Anzac Address for Maori Television. Southland-born Arnett has been reporting on war from Vietnam to Iraq for more than 40 years. Currently a professor of journalism at China's Shantou University, Arnett says he feels privileged and honoured to deliver this year's Anzac Address.