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Rebecca Heim, 3, (left) and Nehemiah Mills, 3, both from Washington, D.C., join other kids from the AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School Lincoln Park Campus for their Halloween parade in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks to the media at Seward Park High School on the lower east side, the site of one of many public shelters set up in preparation of the storm, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)

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Maryland wide receiver Stefon Diggs (1) celebrates his touchdown with teammates Mike Madaras (77) and De'Onte Arnett (70)in the fourth quarter of an NCAA college football game against Boston College in Boston, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. Boston College won 20-17. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

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University students walk to classes as Los Angeles police officers investigate a shooting that occurred Wed. night at a halloween party on the University of Southern California Campus in Los Angeles on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. Los Angeles police say two men apprehended after a Halloween shooting on the USC campus are still being interviewed and three of the four people wounded have been released from the hospital. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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Kids from the AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School Lincoln Park Campus take part in their Halloween parade in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Rebecca Heim, 3, (left) and Nehemiah Mills, 3, both from Washington, D.C., join other kids from the AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School Lincoln Park Campus for their Halloween parade in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Shawn Petty was recruited to Maryland as a linebacker, but injuries have thrust him into the starting job at quarterback, a position he played in high school. (Maryland Athletics)

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Mitt Romney speaks Monday at Avon Lake High School in Ohio. He has knocked President Obama’s use of waivers for welfare laws and No Child Left Behind but has said he would issue a blanket waiver to block much of the health care law. (Associated Press)

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Diana Clarke sits on a cot set up by the Red Cross as she takes shelter from Hurricane Sandy at Weymouth High School in Weymouth, Mass. Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

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Keith Miller waits for the ball snap as a fullback for the school's NCAA college football team at the University of Colorado. Miller has reinvented himself, going from the gridiron to the stage and will appear in Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera," at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. (AP Photo/University of Colorado)

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Keith Miller rushes down the field as a fullback for the NCAA college football team at the University of Colorado. Miller has reinvented himself, going from the gridiron to the stage and will appear in Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera," at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. (AP Photo/University of Colorado)

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**FILE** Claire McCaskill (left), gives the thumbs up to supporters as she holds the hand of her mother, Betty Anne McCaskill, after participating in a debate for U.S. Senate candidates against incumbent Sen. Jim Talent at Clayton High School in Clayton, Mo., on Oct. 11, 2006. (Associated Press)