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President Obama makes an unscheduled stop to visit the La Follette High School Lancers football team in Madison, Wis., on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Barack Obama makes an unscheduled stop and visits the La Follette High School Lancers football team in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Barack Obama speaks at a rally Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010, on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
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University of Texas students gather as police respond to a shooting inside a campus library Tuesday. A gunman later identified by Austin police as a student opened fire, then fatally shot himself. (Associated Press)
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Students among a crowd of 20,000 celebrate as former Cuban President Fidel Castro delivers a speech in Havana during the 50th anniversary of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution, the nation's neighborhood vigilance system. (Associated Press)
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Students Paige Raiczyk, front left, and Veronica Rivera, front right and other University of Texas students and faculty hold their phones for updated text messages inside Benedict Hall on campus in Austin early Tuesday morning Sept. 28, 2010 after a shooting on campus. A gunman opened fire Tuesday inside a University of Texas campus library then fatally shot himself, and police are searching for a possible second suspect, university police said. (AP Photo/The Daily Texan, Tamir Kalifa)
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Students wave a Cuban flag during a speech delivered by Cuba's leader Fidel Castro as part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution, CDR, in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan has spoken positively of the D.C. schools chancellor's reforms. (Associated Press)
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says he won't have any "quick reactions" to Israel's resumption of settlement construction in the West Bank. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Maryland quarterback Danny O'Brien (5) throws a pass against Florida International during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010 in College Park, Md.
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Texas State Board of Education member Lawrence Allen speaks during a meeting of the board to discuss Islam and Christianity in textbooks in Austin, Texas on Friday. The board of education adopted a resolution seeking to curtail references to Islam in textbooks. (Associated Press/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner)
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All vehicles entering the Seton Hall University campus on Saturday evening, Sept. 25, 2010, were stopped at the security gate after five students were shot, one of whom died, at an off-campus party early Saturday in East Orange, NJ. (AP Photo/Joe Epstein)
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File - In this Jan. 22, 2008 file photo, Chinua Achebe, Nigerian-born novelist and poet poses at his home on the campus of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, file)
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Anthony Bruner and Mary Lou Bruner pray at the start of a meeting of the Texas State Board of Education to discuss Islam and Christianity in textbooks in Austin, Texas, on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. The board of education adopted a resolution seeking to curtail references to Islam in textbooks. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner)
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Authorities surround a Bank of America where a robbery may have turned into a hostage situation in Coral Gables, Fla. on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. Coral Gables police were called to the bank near the University of Miami. The university sent an alert to students warning them to stay away from the area near the bank. Administrators reported the incident as a hostage situation. (AP Photo/Edouard H.R. Gluck)
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Women holding a placard reading "Women! Double day, Half pension" during a protest, in Marseille, southern France, Thursday Sept. 23, 2010. French commuters squeezed onto limited trains or fought for rare parking spots Thursday as a second round of strikes against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age to 62 hobbled trains, planes and schools across the country. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
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Jeffrey Sachs, special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (The Earth Institute Columbia University)
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Children study in scant shade in Dertu, where school attendance has doubled for boys and tripled for girls. Their teacher lives in a backpacker's tent and will move with the nomads when they do. (Associated Press)
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Maria Ruskiewicz, a law student at Oklahoma City University, said on Tuesday that Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz, a Wisconsin prosecutor accused of abusing his power to seek relationships with two other women, also sent her sexually harassing text messages in 2008 while helping her seek a pardon for a teenage drug conviction. (AP Photo/Oklahoma City University School of Law, Nathan Gunter)
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Pope Benedict XVI arrives to preside over a celebration of Catholic Education at St Mary's University College, in Twickenham, London, Friday Sept. 17, 2010. Thousands of cheering Catholic schoolchildren feted Pope Benedict XVI with songs and gifts Friday on his second day in Britain, offering a boisterous welcome as the pontiff urged them to ignore the shallow temptations of today's "celebrity culture." (AP Photo/Ben Stansall, Pool)
