The Ticker: Global Get, Rooney Apology…

> CNN’s Cal Perry writes about “an interview that was more than three years in the making.” He and correspondent Nic Robertson sat down with the top Hamas leader, in a secret location in Syria. “A man Israel would prefer dead,” Perry writes.

> 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney is apologizing for a line he wrote in recent column about the current state of Major League Baseball. “I know all about Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, but today’s baseball stars are all guys named Rodriguez, to me.”

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