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Washington Redskins S Reed Doughty (37) takes down New York Giants WR Domenik Hixon (87) after a gain of 9 yards during the 1st quarter at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. Sunday, September 11, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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Washington Redskins S Oshiomogho Atogwe (20) takes to the field before playing the New York Giants during the 1st quarter at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. Sunday, September 11, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr. / The Washington Times)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS A customer at a shopping mall in Hong Kong looks at shirts at a shop of Kent & Curwen, an English clothing label that started out making school, club and regimental military ties in 1926. Asians have been buying or licensing fashion labels brands, many of them European, with long and rich histories.

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International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Christine Lagarde, left, talks with Tunisian Finance Minister Jelloul Ayed during the group photo at the Deauville partnership meeting in Marseille, southern France, Saturday, Sept.10, 2011. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

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Hugo Camacho, left, and his son Daniel Camacho, 5, emerge from a 7-11 with Gatorade and Cheetos late Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, in San Diego. The store was only letting only a few customers in at a time and limiting the number of items they could purchase since transactions had to be cash. A power outage accidentally triggered by an Arizona utility company worker darkened a broad swath of the Southwest and Mexico on Thursday. (AP Photo/The San Diego Union-Tribune, Peggy Peattie)

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Wal-Mart is rolling out a layaway option from Oct. 17 through Dec. 16 after ending the pay-as-you-go plans in 2006. The company is introducing the option at a time when many of its shoppers are trying to cope with high unemployment and rising costs. (Associated Press)

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Construction of the One World Trade Center continues Sept. 1, 2011, at ground zero in New York. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Richard A. Clarke, the country's top bureaucrat on counterterrorism before the attacks, says arguments for more security spending aren't necessarily tied to effectiveness.

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke addresses the Economic Club of Minnesota on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, in Minneapolis. (Associated Press)

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Ryan Homes is building 81 town homes and condominiums at Market Square at Frederick in Frederick. The Mozart model town home, with 1,709 square feet, is priced from $269,990.

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PHOTOGRAPH PROVIDED BY THE U.S. NAVY The USS New York, with more than 7 tons of steel from the World Trade Center built into its bow, is carrying families of 9/11 victims and first responders from Norfolk, Va., to New York for the 10th anniversary of the attacks.

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A crane collapses at Washington National Cathedral causing one injury and damage to a nearby building and crushing parked cars in Washington, DC, Wednesday September 7, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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A crane collapses at Washington National Cathedral causing one injury and damage to a nearby building and crushing parked cars in Washington, DC, Wednesday September 7, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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Pedestrians are reflected on an electronic stock indicator in Tokyo on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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Six months after a tsunami and nuclear disaster wiped out the fishing industry in northeastern Japan and scared domestic and foreign consumers away from Japanese seafood, Ofunato's fish market is bustling again. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)

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Assemblyman Das Williams, D-Santa Barbara, left, prepares to battle the "Privatization Beast," at a Capitol news conference to promote his measure that would place restrictions on the privatization of public libraries, in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Aug. 22, 2011. If approved by the Senate and signed by the governor, Williams bill, AB438, would require contractors to prove they would save taxpayers money should they take over a library. It would also require the contracts be put out to competitive bidding and the winning companies would be subjected to financial and performance audits. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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THE WASHINGTON TIMES "In this era of high taxes, high spending and high borrowing, [residents] like the image of the comptroller as a penny pincher," Maryland Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot says.

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European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet (right) listens to Mario Draghi, next to take the helm of the bank, during a conference on the European debt crisis on Monday in Paris. Mr. Draghi called for a "quantum" leap toward economic integration. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Two of Norway's previous North Sea oil discoveries are substantially bigger than first thought. That's a bonanza at a time of high oil prices that are likely to increase even more.

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"He's a young player and he might take some time to get back into the swing of things. He has so much talent and everyone is looking forward to his return." Theadocia Austen CQ WHOLE NAME, Capitol Hill, public events coordinator