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FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 12, 1993 file photo, University of North Carolina Chancellor Paul Hardin III, right, stands with President Bill Clinton as he goes over a book of essays at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, N.C., before taking part in the opening ceremonies of the school's bicentennial observance. Hardin, who led the school into its third century while increasing faculty diversity, died on Saturday, July 1, 2017. He was 86. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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This photo taken June 19, 2017, shows Woodinville High School graduate Esteban Underwood being greeted by Tulalip Police's Jeff Jira along with many other law enforcement officers from various departments at his school's graduation ceremony at Xfinity Arena on Monday, June 19, 20017 in Everett, Wash. Underwood's father, a Des Moines police officer, was shot and killed in the line of duty in 2001. (Ian Terry/The Herald via AP)
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West Goshen Police Chief Joseph Gleason speaks to the media during a news conference outside police headquarters, Friday, June 30, 2017, in West Goshen, Pa. A man driving down a Pennsylvania highway shot recent high school graduate Bianca Roberson, 18, in the head, killing her, as the two tried to merge into a single lane, authorities said. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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West Goshen Police Chief Joseph Gleason speaks to the media during a news conference outside police headquarters, Friday, June 30, 2017, in West Goshen, Pa. A man driving down a Pennsylvania highway shot recent high school graduate Bianca Roberson, 18, in the head, killing her, as the two tried to merge into a single lane, authorities said. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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Russia unveiled a high-tech combat suit prototype at its National University of Science and Technology (MISIS) in Moscow, June 29, 2017. (YouTube, RT)
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FILE - In this May 16, 2016, file pool photo Owen Labrie is escorted out of the Merrimack County Superior Courtroom in Concord, N.H., after a judge agreed to new bail conditions. Labrie, a prep school graduate, was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old freshman girl as part of a game of sexual conquest called Senior Salute. Labrie was cleared of felony rape but convicted of misdemeanor sex offenses. The Concord Monitor reported Friday, June 30, 2017, that boys in a St. Paul's School dorm apparently competed to have their names put on a crown. The school said Friday that it's investigating "improper behavior" by students, but it didn't elaborate. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, Pool, File
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FILE - This Feb. 26, 2016 file photo, shows the entrance to St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. New Hampshire police say they've learned of a new game of sexual conquest at the elite prep school where a student was charged in 2014 over a game called the "Senior Salute." The Concord Monitor reported Friday, June 30, 2017, that boys in a St. Paul's School dorm apparently competed to have their names put on a crown. The school said Friday that it's investigating "improper behavior" by students, but it didn't elaborate. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
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Fangqin Wan, a graduate student at the University of Illinois, walks for Yingying Zhang, a Chinese scholar who went missing three weeks ago, Thursday, June 29, 2017, in Urbana, Ill. Illinois students and others from the wider community are gathering at the Urbana-Champaign campus to show support for the Chinese scholar who disappeared three weeks ago. (Holly Hart/The News-Gazette via AP)
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In this Friday, June 23, 2017 photo, junior high school student Gavin Norman explains his technique he invented to put out a fire with dry ice at his home in Stansbury Park, Utah. Norman was a state level winner in a national science contest. (Jeffrey D. Allred/The Deseret News via AP)
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Republican Sens. John Braun and Ann Rivers talk to the media about the agreement reached on an education funding plan, Thursday, June 29, 2017 in Olympia, Wash. Lawmakers say their budget compromise satisfies a state Supreme Court ruling that says the state must spend more money on schools. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)
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Democratic Sen. Christine Rolfes and Sen. Kevin Ranker talk to the media about the agreement reached on education funding, Thursday, June 29, 2017 in Olympia, Wash. Lawmakers say their budget compromise satisfies a state Supreme Court ruling that says the state must spend more money on schools. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)
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Illustration on the unwise course of Democrats in their attacks on President Trump by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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In this June 22, 2017 photo, Kathy White, an assistive technology specialist with the Janesville School District, and her dog, Nahla, sit on the porch at White's home in Delavan, Wis. Nahla is retiring from her career as a therapy dog. (Angela Major/The Janesville Gazette via AP)
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In this Monday, June 19, 2017 photo, board members of the new Christian Academy for the Deaf, look on as chairman Lewis Lummer, right, uses sign language to discuss the potential site of the new school, in Waco, Texas. Lummer comes from four generations of deafness, and he's leading an effort to offer a Christian school experience for deaf children. (Jerry Larson/Waco Tribune-Herald via AP)
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In this May 12, 2017 photo, Herschel Johnson steps out of a former one-room schoolhouse for black students known as the Stanley Institute in Cambridge, Md. "We are so proud of it," Herschel said of the school that educated the local black community for nearly 100 years, and that is now a stop on the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway that makes a big impression on visitors. "They are amazed that they can look back and see, especially children," Johnson said. "The questions that we get from children, for instance, we've had children ask us: 'Where is the gym? Where do you eat lunch?" (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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This undated photo provided by the University of Illinois Police Department shows Yingying Zhang. Police said the FBI is investigating the disappearance of Zhang, a Chinese woman from a central Illinois university town, as a kidnapping. Zhang was about a month into a yearlong appointment at the University of Illinois' Urbana-Champaign when she disappeared June 9, 2017. (Courtesy of the University of Illinois Police Department via AP)
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In this June 8, 2017 photo, high school junior Johnson Guo, center, and classmates leave New York's Joyce Theater after performing in Ballet Tech's end-of-year Kids Dance program. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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In this June 8, 2017 photo, ballerinas, from left, Joyce Ha, Asia Yiu, Megan Eng, and Tobi Lee perform "Pointing, " choreographed by Eliot Feld, at the Joyce Theater in New York. Feld founded Ballet Tech to provide tuition-free dance training along with academics. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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In this June 7, 2017 photo, Ballet Tech public school eighth grader D-Lonzo Callwood performs in "Meshugana Dance," at New York's Joyce Theater. Ballet Tech provides tuition-free dance training along with academics for students in grades 4 through 8, with about 50 fourth-graders admitted each year out of the thousands who audition. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
