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**FILE** In this photo taken May 8, 2009, anti-abortion protestors led by Alan Keyes cross the path of pro-Obama Notre Dame students in South Bend, Ind. (Associated Press)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Provost Peter Salovey center, and University President Richard Levin, left, at the Yale University commencement in New Haven, Conn. Monday, May 25, 2009. Clinton is a Yale Law School graduate and met Bill Clinton there in 1970.
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Norma McCorvey (bottom center) is confronted by police Sunday after marching on campus at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. At least five anti-abortion activists, including McCorvey, were led away in handcuffs Sunday from campus, where President Barack Obama was also to receive an honorary degree. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** The Susan B. Anthony Middle School is pictured on Thursday, May 14, 2009, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/David Karp)
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High school students have been investigated over "sexting" scandals.
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**FILE** In this April 21, 2008, file photo, Professor Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge makes remarks at an event marking the 50th anniversary of NASA, at George Washington University in Washington. (Associated Press)
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Connecticut Hall, one of the original buildings on Yale University's Old Campus, housed patriot Nathan Hale as an undergraduate. (AP Photo)
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A police car is parked out front of Ballou Senior High School in southeast Washington, DC on the first day of classes on Wednesday, September 1, 2004. ( Angela Kershner / The Washington Times )
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Students head back to school Tuesday morning, May 5, 2009, at Rocori Middle School in Cold Spring, Minn., after the school closed last week due to a case of the swine flu. It was the state's only confirmed swine flu case so far. Orono High School will remain closed for another day, as will Emerson Spanish Immersion School in Minneapolis, where suspected cases have been reported. State health officials are backing away from earlier recommendations to shut down schools where suspected cases have been reported. (AP Photo/The St. Cloud Times, Kimm Anderson)
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** FILE ** Monsignor David M. O'Connell, former president of Catholic University of America, speaks last month during the Catholic University of America commencement ceremony. He has been replaced by John Garvey, the former dean of Boston College Law School.
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Middle school students in Hacienda Heights, Calif., learn Chinese language and culture as part of the Confucius Classroom grant program. The middle-class town, about 16 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, has a history of racial tensions between longtime residents and relatively recent Chinese newcomers. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Eric Harris (left) and Dylan Klebold, carrying a TEC-9 semi-automatic pistol, are seen in a photo made from a security camera image in the cafeteria at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., during their shooting rampage on April 20, 1999. (AP Photo/Jefferson County Sheriff's Department)
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University of North Dakota students and nickname supporters rally on April 9, 2010, at Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks, N.D. The event was held one day after the North Dakota Board of Higher Education directed the university to begin retiring the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo. (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama points to the crowd before signing the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria Tuesday, March 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Graduates of the seminary program at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola officiate the prison's 18 inmate churches and do one-on-one ministry and grief counseling. Some graduates act as missionaries in eight satellite prisons in the state. Jan. 6, 2010 (Associated Press FILE)
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A Gallaudet University student looks on as his dogs greet a visitor to his apartment on West Virginia Avenue across the street from the university in the District. (The Washington Times) **FILE**
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**FILE** Attendees observe the anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings on April 16, 2008, that a year earlier took the lives of 33 faculty and students. (The Washington Times)
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Michael Mann, director of Pennsylvania State University's Earth Systems Science Center (Greg Grieco/Special to The Washington Times)
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Shanice Ambrose (right), 10, and Melkaha Farmer, 5, hold their signs as they join former D.C. Council member and Chair of the Council's Education Committee Kevin Chavous as he leads a short rally and an attempt at public disobedience by trying to get himself and five others arrested for blocking the entrance to the U.S. Department of Education in D.C. on Sept. 8, 2009, to protest the elimination of the DC school voucher program. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times) **FILE**
