Education

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** FILE ** President Obama wipes away sweat during a speech at Georgetown University on June 25, 2013. (Associated Press)

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Mike Wazowski (above), voiced by Billy Crystal, is a striver after he hits the college campus in "Monsters University." There he meets Sully (left, center). (Disney-Pixar via Associated Press)

President Obama helps 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, Monday, June 17, 2013. (Associated Press)

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At a U.N.-sponsored school, Guor Mading meets with pupils who are curious about his improbable story of escaping the horrors of war and becoming an Olympic runner. (Photograph provided by U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees)

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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)