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** FILE ** In this March 13, 2012, file photo Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., joins students at a Capitol Hill news conference to announce the collection of more than 130,000 letters to Congress to prevent student loan interest rates from doubling this July. The Senate planned a Tuesday May 8, 2012, roll call on a plan, which would extend today's 3.4 percent interest rates on subsidized Stafford loans for another year. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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A worker assembles tweeters for speakers at Burmester Audiosysteme in Berlin, which sells top-of-the-line sound systems starting at $4,000 and rising to $460,000. The company is designing exclusive surround-sound systems for Porsche. (Daniel Pilar/Special to The Washington Times)
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A worker assembles tweeters for speakers at Burmester Audiosysteme in Berlin, which sells top-of-the-line sound systems starting at $4,000 and rising to $460,000. The company is designing exclusive surround-sound systems for Porsche. (Daniel Pilar/Special to The Washington Times)
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Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, sings with University of Nebraska cheerleaders prior to the annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb., Saturday, May 5, 2012. Berkshire Hathaway is holding it's annual shareholders meeting this weekend. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a social media wunderkind who turns 28 this month, reportedly will take Facebook public on the stock market May 18 in one of the most highly anticipated tech initial public offerings since Google went public in August 2004. Facebook's offering values the company at $76 billion to $95 billion, based on the expected number of Facebook shares after the IPO. (Associated Press)
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Marine Le Pen of the National Front party ran for president on a platform of scrapping the euro currency in France and quashing "Islamization." She received 18 percent of the vote in the first round.
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Former Sen. John Edwards and his daughter Cate Edwards enter the federal courthouse in Greensboro, N.C., on Thursday, May 3, 2012, for his trial on campaign finance violations. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chuck Liddy)
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A Safeway online shopping advertisement is shown at a Safeway store in San Francisco on April 26, 2012. (Associated Press)
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Chinese President Hu Jintao (left) shakes hand with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner during the opening ceremony of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse in Beijing on Thursday, May 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
