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Bill Clinton, 65, the former president, encouraged graduates of Redondo Union High School in Redondo Beach, Calif., where his nephew Tyler Clinton was graduating, to take chances, saying he feels sorriest for his classmates “who had dreams and did not try to achieve them.”

Christine Lagarde, 56, head of the International Monetary Fund, urged world business leaders to pressure world leaders gathering today for the Group of 20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, to address restoring investor confidence in the world economy.

Candace Conti, 26, was awarded $28 million in damages by a jury in her lawsuit alleging the Jehovah’s Witnesses allowed an adult member of a Fremont, Calif., church to molest her when she was a child in the mid-1990s.

Aung San Suu Kyi, 66, a Burmese legislator and Nobel laureate, in an address to Burmese refugees in Bergen, Norway, said exiles could play a greater role in healing divisions that have sparked violent clashes between majority Buddhists and minority Muslims that have driven an estimated 30,000 Muslims from their homes.

President Barack Obama, 50, celebrated Father’s Day with a golf getaway with friends at Beverly Country Club in Chicago.

Moncef Marzouki, 66, Tunisia’s president, is skipping a trip to Senegal and a conference in Rio de Janeiro to assess recent violence in Tunisia.

Moon Jae In, 59, a South Korean lawmaker with the opposition Democratic United Party, plans to run in December’s presidential election and says he’ll fight for fairness and justice in an effort to create “a country where owners are ordinary people, not a privileged handful.”

Max Young, 67, of Sacramento, Calif., is expected to return home next week after a freighter bound for Panama rescued him from his 50-foot sailboat, which was hit by a whale and took on water about 40 miles west of La Playa, Mexico.

Richard Schoenfeld, 57, who has served 35 years in prison for helping kidnap and hide a busload of schoolchildren for ransom in 1976, is set to be released this month by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation after the state’s Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to a ruling that his release date was unfairly set for 2021 even though a parole board concluded he wasn’t a threat to society.