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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)
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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)
