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Molly Munger is a wealthy civil rights attorney and key advocate behind Proposition 38, which would raise California taxes specifically for education. (Associated Press)
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Fairfield University students leave the campus in Fairfield, Conn. Sunday Oct. 28, 2012. Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate coastal areas Sunday as big cities and small towns across the U.S. Northeast braced for the onslaught of a superstorm threatening some 60 million people along the most heavily populated corridor in the nation. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Cathy Zuraw)
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg arrives 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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A public shelter in Seward Park High School on the lower east side begins to fill in preparation of the storm in New York. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)
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D.C. Department of Public Works employees, including Monique Hicks (right), load sandbags into D.C. residents’ cars outside of Coolidge High School in the District on Sunday. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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D.C. Department of Public Works employees, including Monique Hicks, right, load sand bags into District residents' cars outside of Coolidge High School in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. DPW handed out some 10,000 bags at RFK on Saturday and had 5,500 more to hand out on Sunday. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Department of Public Works employees get sandbags out of red trailers outside of Coolidge High School in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 to hand out to District residents. DPW handed out about 10,000 bags Saturday at RFK and had an additional 5,500 on Sunday. D.C. residents were entitled to five sandbags each for each residence. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Department of Public Works employee Bobby White, left, hands Norman Wood a sandbag to place into a District resident's car outside of Coolidge High School in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Residents waited in long lines for their allotted five sandbags to try to protect against flooding from Hurricane Sandy, the so-called "Frankenstorm" that is going to hit the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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A long line of cars waits outside of Coolidge High School in Washington, D.C. to pick up sandbags from the Department of Public Works on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 in anticipation of high water levels from large amounts of rain due to Hurricane Sandy. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Department of Public Works employees stack up sandbags outside of Coolidge High School in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. DPW gave out some 10,000 bags Saturday at RFK to District residents and had 5,500 more on Sunday. People were allowed five bags per residence. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Professor Meredith Richards Martin lectures as a Navy veteran listens during a history class at Collin College in Frisco, Texas, earlier this month. Colleges are starting to offer veterans-only classes that cater to populations that tend to be older and more experienced. (Associated Press)
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Boston College linebacker Tim Joy (33) tackles Maryland quarterback Caleb Rowe (7) on a carry in the fourth quarter of an NCAA college football game in Boston, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. Boston College won 20-17. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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A member of Metropolitan Police Department recruit class 2012-3 holds his badge in his hand while being administered the oath of office during a graduation ceremony from the police academy on Oct. 26, 2012. Fifteen new officers joined the MPD after seven months of training. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Members of the Metropolitan Police Department recruit class 2012-3 place their hats underneath the stairs at the Metropolitan Police Academy before their graduation ceremony on Oct. 26, 2012, in Southwest Washington. Fifteen recruits became police officers following seven months of training at the academy. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Officer Meghan Murdock (left) helps Officer Nicole Copeland adjust her shirt before the two women graduate from the Metropolitan Police Academy in Washington on Oct. 26, 2012. Fifteen new officers from the recruit class 2012-3 joined the MPD. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney takes the stage as he campaigns at the football stadium at Defiance High School in Defiance, Ohio, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at the football stadium at Defiance High School in Defiance, Ohio, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Madalyn Ruggiero)
