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Georgetown's Sugar Rodgers steals the ball from Maryland's Alyssa Thomas during the first half of a second-round game in the NCAA women's college basketball tournament Tuesday, March 22, 2011, in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
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Butler University basketball coach Brad Stevens answers questions about his team in Indianapolis on Monday, March 21, 2011. Butler is scheduled to play Wisconsin on Thursday in the NCAA college basketball tournament Southeast regional in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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A plea to keep Bruce Pearl as coach of the Tennessee men's basketball team is painted on a rock on school's campus Sunday, March 20, 2011, in Knoxville, Tenn. The NCAA has charged Pearl with unethical conduct and other recruiting violations after he revealed he lied during an investigation into recruiting. The rock is regularly painted with messages by students. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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DePaul head coach Doug Bruno talks to his team during a break in the second half in the first round of the NCAA women's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 19, 2011 in State College, Pa. DePaul defeated Navy 66-43. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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Rina Hirano (left), a Japanese Embassy worker, and Ian Rinehart, a George Washington University graduate student, write messages of support on Japanese flags at the fundraiser Sunday at Cafe Asia in Arlington. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Raymond Clark III pleaded guilty Thursday to the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le. (Connecticut Department of Correction via Associated Press)
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Raymond Clark III (right), a former animal research technician at Yale University, pleaded guilty on Thursday, March 17, 2011, to the murder and sexual assault of Yale graduate student Annie Le (left) in 2009. (AP Photo)
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Isma'il Clayton, 13, and his father Kyle talk about Isma'il's experiences being bullied by his classmates because of his Asperger's Syndrome during a Congressional briefing on Bullying of Children with Special Needs Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Mr. Clayton is demanding a zero-tolerance policy on bullying in schools. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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President Obama walks off after signing his name during a visit to a music classroom at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Va., on Monday. The students had done a presentation on jazz legend Duke Ellington. Mr. Obama called for more education spending. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** President Obama speaks March 14, 2011, about revising the No Child Left Behind education law during an address at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Va. (Associated Press)
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In this Feb. 27, 2011 photo, Philadelphia Eagles kicker David Akers, left, is seen with TobyMac at the Cherokee High School Performing Arts Center in Marlton, NJ. (AP Photo/Tom Cunningham) NO SALES
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Libyan students shout slogans during a pro-Gadhafi rally in the parking lot of the Rixos Hotel, where the foreign press is staying, in Tripoli, Libya, on Monday, March 14, 2011. Teachers brought the students from neighborhood schools to demonstrate. The signs read, "God, Moammar and Libya." (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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George Mason players cheers teammates during Game 9 against VCI in the NCAA college Colonial Athletic Association college basketball tournament in Richmond, Va., Sunday, March 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Scott K. Brown)
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George Mason players cheers teammates during Game 9 against VCI in the NCAA college Colonial Athletic Association college basketball tournament in Richmond, Va., Sunday, March 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Scott K. Brown)
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Rep. Peter T. King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, questions witnesses Abdirizak Bihi (left), director of the Somali Education and Social Advocacy Center, and Melvin Bledsoe, whose son converted to Islam during college and left for Yemen, during a hearing on the radicalization of Muslim Americans on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, March 10, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Kaya Henderson was named permanent chancellor of D.C. Schools, despite the absence of a national search to replace Michelle A. Rhee. (Rod Lamkey Jr./Special to The Washington Times)
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President Obama greets students Tuesday after speaking at TechBoston Academy in Massachusetts. He lauded the pilot school as a national example of successfully targeted investments and local flexibility. (Associated Press)
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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray wants $76 million in new public school spending for the next fiscal year, but more budget cuts are possible. (Associated Press)
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Maryland head coach Gary Williams gestures during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Virginia, Saturday, March 5, 2011, in College Park, Md. Virginia won 74-60. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
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FILE - In a Jan. 15, 2011 file photo, Texas Tech coach Pat Knight, right, is held by assistant coach Stew Robinson after being called for a technical foul during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Kansas State, in Manhattan, Kan. Texas Tech has fired coach Pat Knight. School spokesman Blayne Beal said Monday, March 7, 2011 that Knight will coach the Red Raiders at this week's Big 12 tournament and then will step down. Knight is in his third year as head coach. He took over the program from his famous father, Bob Knight, midseason in February 2008. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)
