Education

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Washington Nationals starting pitcher Matt Purke (50) pitches against Georgetown University during spring training at Space Coast Stadium, Viera, Fla., Friday, March 2, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Maryland Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Garagiola, Montgomery County Democrat and candidate for Congress, is interviewed by a television crew at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Md., on April 3, 2012, the day of Maryland's primary election. Garagiola has been in a tight race with opponent John Delaney. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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D.C. Council member Yvette Alexander, Ward 7 Democrat, casts her ballot at the Randle Highlands Elementary School 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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D.C. Council member Yvette Alexander arrives to vote at her Ward 7 precinct at Randle Highlands Elementary School 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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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)