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A man drinks coffee outside of the state Capitol on Thursday in Madison, Wis., as campers wake up after spending the night. Demonstrators are in their 16th day of protests. (Associated Press)
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Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell wants to boost Alaska's declining energy production with tax cuts on oil and gas companies. His proposal, which modifies a tax structure implemented by former Gov. Sarah Palin, passed a House committee 7-2 this week. (Associated Press)
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the iPad 2 in San Francisco on Wednesday. It was his first public appearance since he began medical leave in January, and it prompted a standing ovation. (Bloomberg)
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Apple Inc. Chairman and CEO Steve Jobs stands under images of the iPad 2, left, and the iPad at an Apple event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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RESOLUTE: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke recommends against deep spending cuts this year. (Associated Press)
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Banker Bradley Birkenfeld, a whistleblower implicated in a tax evasion case against Swiss bank UBS AG (left) and Stephen Kohn, executive director of the National Whistleblowers Center, hold a press conference in January 2010 before Birkenfeld reports to a federal prison. (Associated Press)
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The new Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 is on display at the Chicago Auto Show on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011, in Chicago. General Motors' U.S. car and truck sales jumped 49 percent in February, aided by sweeter financing and lease deals. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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** FILE ** Rajat Gupta, chairman of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, listens to a statement during a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in June 2009. Federal regulators on Tuesday, March 1, 2011, charged Mr. Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs board member, with insider trading. (AP Photo/Keystone/Alessandro Della Bella, File)
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** FILE ** Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, March 1, 2011, before the House Financial Services Committee. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011, as Congress resumes work on a spending plan to avoid a government shutdown. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Barbara Barclay of Tobii Technology, Inc. demonstrates a prototype laptop that tracks and can be controlled by the eye movements of the user in New York, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Musician Peter Yarrow performs for a crowd of environmental activists across from the Frank E. Moss Federal Courthouse Monday, Feb. 28, 2011, in Salt Lake City. Hundreds of demonstrators showed up to march and support Tim DeChristopher on the opening day of his federal trial on charges of bidding up prices at an auction of land leases that he couldn't pay for. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart)
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Cuban chef Alfredo Varela prepares Super Romero, a vegetarian dish at El Romero last month. El Romero charges its Cuban clients just a fraction of the menu's list price. Still, despite its success, 90 percent of El Romero's clients remain foreigners, mostly tourists from Britain, Germany and Holland. (Associated Press)
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Williama Bozeman was stunned was stunned when the government's central bank in 2017 went to war with him "out of nowhere" by filing a federal lawsuit and two challenges to his patents with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. (Associated Press/File)
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Blogger Andrew Breitbart's new book is set for publication on tax day, April 15. (Hachette Book Group)
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** File ** Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny addresses party members at the Burlington Hotel on Dublin on Feb. 26, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Shakira, Colombian born Grammy-winning singer and songwriter, talks with Harvard reacts to a performance, by student at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, where she was named the Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)
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Shakira, center, Colombian born Grammy-winning singer and songwriter, sings one of her songs with members of the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team after the team's performance at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, where Shakira was named the Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)
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** FILE ** Joe Torre looks on during a news conference to announce his new position as Major League Baseball's Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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FILE- In this file photo from Tuesday Jan. 30, 1996, Rupert Murdoch, right, Chairman and CEO of The News Corporation Limited, listens as Roger Ailes speaks during a New York news conference after he was named chairman and CEO of News Corp. Ailes told a former publishing executive to lie to federal investigators who vetted now-disgraced ex-New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik for a Cabinet post in 2004, according to court documents cited in a news report Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
