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A desk serving as the "authorized poll watchers" station sits empty in the pre-dawn hours at Randle Highlands Elementary School precinct in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Associated Press photographs A woman is comforted Monday after a shooter at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., killed at seven people and wounded three more. The school's founder said the shooter was a former nursing student.
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Police cover the bodies of shooting victims at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., after gunfire erupted at the school Monday morning. The suspect is an Asian male in his 40s who was taken into custody at a shopping center in the neighboring city of Alameda.
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Police cover the bodies of shooting victims at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., after gunfire erupted at the school Monday morning. The suspect is an Asian male in his 40s who was taken into custody at a shopping center in the neighboring city of Alameda. (Associated Press)
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A woman is comforted Monday after a shooter at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., killed at seven people and wounded three more. The school's founder said the shooter was a former nursing student. (Associated Press)
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Andrew Luck is still finishing school, so he has not attended the Indianapolis Colts' mini-camp this week. (Associated Press)
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Sally Kim takes notes during a physics class at Columbia Independent School in Columbia, Mo., on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2012. Miss Kim's parents, who live in South Korea, sent her to live with relatives in Columbia for a better education that provides more collegiate opportunities. (AP Photo/Grant Hindsley)
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., talks March 28, 2012, to students during his stop at the Boys Club in Sioux City, Iowa. (Associated Press/Sioux City Journal)
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FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2012 file photo, Minnesota Twins pitcher Carl Pavano works out during baseball spring training in Fort Myers, Fla. A high school classmate of Minnesota Twins pitcher Carl Pavano threatened to reveal an alleged homosexual relationship they had and to write a book about it unless Pavano apologized to him and bought him a navy Range Rover SUV with tan leather, according to a search warrant affidavit filed by police in Connecticut. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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Madonna prepares to cut the ribbon at the October 2009 groundbreaking for the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls in Lilongwe, Malawi. Her foundation has since announced that instead of building the academy, it will donate money for 10 schools in the country. (Associated Press)
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Allen Prue, who faces a charge of second-degree murder in the death of a Vermont prep school teacher, attends a court hearing on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, in St. Johnsbury, Vt. (AP Photo/Caledonian Record, Michael Beniash, Pool)
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Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice (right) joins Kathryn Juric, vice president of the SAT program for the College Board, in Mineola, N.Y., on Tuesday as they announce a security overhaul to prevent cheating on the SAT exams.
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Alex Libby of Edmond, Okla., is one of the bullied students whose experiences are documented in "Bully." The filmmakers followed him at Sioux City East Middle School in Iowa to show the physical and verbal abuse he suffered from other students. (The Weinstein Co. via Associated Press)
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German screenwriter/director Veit Helmer came up with idea for 2011's adventure-comedy "Baikonur" after running workshops for film students in Almaty. The film revolves around a French "space tourist" who falls from the sky into the life of a young Kazakh villager. (Kazakhfilm)
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Gretchen Midgley, left, and Jonathan McGee, both students at Catholic University, pray with the U.S. Capitol in the background during "Encircle the Court in Prayer," an event led by Christian faith organizations. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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**FILE** Dr. Jim Kim is introduced as the next president of Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., on March 2, 2009. (Associated Press)
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A French police officer inspects a window at Mohamed Merah's apartment in Toulouse on Thursday after the Islamic extremist, wanted in the deaths of three paratroopers, three Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi, died in a shootout with police. He was shot in the head as he jumped out of his apartment window after a 32-hour standoff. (Associated Press)
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A French police officer inspects a window at Mohamed Merah's apartment in Toulouse on Thursday after the Islamic extremist, wanted in the deaths of three paratroopers, three Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi, died in a shootout with police. He was shot in the head as he jumped out of his apartment window after a 32-hour standoff. (Associated Press)
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, center, with Frederic Pechenard, director of the French police, left, arrives to meet soldiers and police officers close to the apartment building where a suspect in the shooting at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school is barricaded in Toulouse, Southern France, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Police officers and firefighters stand near a building in Toulouse, France, Wednesday, March 21, 2012, where a suspect in the shooting at he Ozar Hatorah Jewish school has been spotted. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
