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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)
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Joel Klein, a former New York City school chancellor, in a report released Tuesday concluded the nation's education system is becoming a national security issue. (Associated Press)
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Maryland guard Kim Rodgers reacts after scoring a 3-pointer in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against North Carolina in College Park, Md., Friday, Feb. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Pupils of the Georges Brassens College in Paris and their head teacher, Marianne Dodinet (center), hold a minute of silence on Tuesday, March 20, 2012, the day after a gunman on a motorbike opened fire at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, and killed a rabbi, his two young sons and a third child. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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Maryland's Alyssa Thomas (25) drives to the basket as Louisville's Becky Burke defends during the first half of an NCAA tournament second-round women's college basketball game, Monday, March 19, 2012, in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
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Britain's Duchess of Cambridge meets Bethany Woods in a music class on March 19, 2012, during a visit to The Treehouse in Ipswich, England. The Duchess of Cambridge visited to formally open The Treehouse, a children's hospice service for Suffolk and Essex. (Associated Press)
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Police officers gather at the site of a shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, on Monday, March 19, 2012. A father, his two sons and another child died when a gunman opened fire in front of the school. (AP Photo/Bruno Martin)
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Alton Burke (left), 17, a senior at South Hagerstown High School in Hagerstown, Md., talks with student intervention specialist Heather Dixon on Wednesday, March 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Kimberly Hefling)
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Police officers and firefighters gather near a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, on Monday, March 19, 2012, after a gunman killed a man, his two sons and one other child outside the school. (AP Photo/Bruno Martin)
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Competitors in the High School division pat Forrest Johnston, 11, on the back and applaud for him when it becomes obvious, by process of elimination, that he has won first place in the Junior division of the National Trumpet Competition on Sunday, March 18, 2012 at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks during a campaign appearance at Herrin High School in Herrin, Ill., on Saturday, March 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Alan Rogers, The Southern)
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Maryland's Alyssa Thomas shoots as Navy's Alix Membreno defends during the second half of an NCAA tournament first-round women's college basketball game Saturday, March 17, 2012, in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
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Melissa Jenkins sits with her mother Diana, right, on her childhood bed where she has been sharing her old room with her younger sister on Saturday, April 19, 2008, in North Reading, Mass. Melissa moved back home to live with her parents to find work after graduating college last year. (AP Photo/Greg M. Cooper)
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Ice Cube (left) is the surly commander of the Jump Street police division, which sends Jonah Hill (center) and Channing Tatum undercover in high school to find youth crime. (Columbia Pictures-Sony via Associated Press)
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**FILE** Attorney General Eric Holder speaks March 5, 2012, at the Northwestern University law school in Chicago. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** The gates of Harvard University lead to a school with a $13 billion endowment and a ranking as the university with the best reputation in the world. (Associated Press)
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Lydia Bauer holds a trophy and her sister, Audrey, holds a plaque after winning a tournament with their grade-school team at St. John's Lutheran School in Libertyville, Ill., coached by dad Andrew Bauer. Their mom was a high school coach. (Bauer family)
