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** FILE ** President Obama (center) reacts as the sun comes out as he and British Prime Minister David Cameron (left) help students as they work on a school project about the G-8 summit during a visit to the Enniskillen Integrated Primary School in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on June 17, 2013. The visit took place before leaders from the G-8 nations were to gather to discuss the ongoing conflict in Syria and free-trade issues. (Associated Press)
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Spam-o-Rama is a caricature of the school nerd with the confidence to ask out the head cheerleader. . . and get a date! (Credit: World's Ugliest Dog Competition)
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The International Club of DC Great Gatsby Ball presented with the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat, has taken the lead for her party in crafting a solution to the student loan interest rate dilemma. "Students, parents, families are asking for help. They don't have time for politics," she said. The issue is too serious to risk not doing something before the deadline before interest rates go up, she added. (Associated Press photographs)
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** FILE** Televangelist Pat Robertson in his senior year at the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn., 1946. (AP Photo)
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Televangelist Pat Robertson in his senior year at the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn., 1946. (AP Photo)
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A gender-neutral restroom at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt., is seen here in 2007. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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In Mohmand Agency, a teacher reads the lesson to her students. The government-run girl’s primary school does not exist anymore, as it was destroyed in a bomb attack by the militants who oppose education for girls. Now these girls come to our house and my mother teaches them at home. Photo / Hina Gul Mohmand
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After school, boys head home in Murree. These two brothers hold hands, expressing friendship and bonding. Photo / Faryal Mohmand
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Children playfully work on their homework after school. They sit in the fields in the evening near their house in a village near Peshawar. Photo / Shah Jehan
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**FILE** Kansas state Sen. Steve Abrams, an Arkansas City Republican, argues in favor of a bill to pause implementation of the multi-state, Common Core standards for reading and math in public schools before his colleagues approve it on June 1, 2013, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Abrams is a former State Board of Education chairman. (Associated Press)
