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The Quai Branly exhibit includes busts, photos and old film reels illustrating the treatment of dark-skinned people by whites as objects of curiosity. "For the visitors of this era, it was a way ... to see what was happening elsewhere in the world. Except that visitors weren't totally aware that it was a spectacle, that it was a fabricated difference," fabricated to make the viewer feel superior, said scientific curator Nanette Jacomijn Snoep. (Associated Press)

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The Dixie Chicks' VH1 "Storytellers" 2006 segment is newly available on DVD. Here the Chicks, Emily Robison, Natalie Maines and Martie Maguire, perform in 2007. (Associated Press)

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Dunder Mifflin is not just the name of the fictional paper company where Steve Carrell works in NBC's "The Office." It's a new copy-paper brand as well, produced by the Staples-owned Quill.com and packaged with slogans from the show. (NBC Universal via Associated Press)

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Charles Frazier, the author of "Nightwoods" and "Cold Mountain," spends time in the record store of his friend, musician Jack White, in Nashville, Tenn. Like the written word, music is a big part of Frazier's life. He has begun assembling a soundtrack to give him inspiration for his next book. (Associated Press)

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Nine Turkish immigrants, including five children, were killed in an apartment fire on Feb. 3, 2008, in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Authorities have reopened the case and suspect it is the work of a small band of neo-Nazis. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2011 file photo, a Los Angeles police officer looks at tents set up outside Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles. Occupy LA, a 485-tent camp surrounding City Hall downtown, has marched to a different beat in its drum circle. Protesters, police and city officials early on established a relationship based on dialogue instead of dictate. As camps in other cities degenerated into unrest and led to mass arrests, Occupy LA has remained largely a bastion of peaceful pot smokers with city leaders determined that Los Angeles would emerge from the shadow of Rodney King once and for all. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

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Volunteer Emmy Ridings, 8, wheels a dessert cart through the Salvation Army Community Thanksgiving dinner at the First Presbyterian Church in Winchester, Va., Thursday Nov. 24, 2011. Nearly 1,000 meals were served during the dinner. (AP Photo/The Winchester Star, Scott Mason)

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Musician Neil Diamond rides a float during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. (AP Photo/Andrew Burton)

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** FILE ** Cheerleaders from the Alabama's Homewood High School Patriot Band march and cheer during Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Cheerleaders from the Alabama's Homewood High School Patriot Band march and cheer during Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Judah Friedlander, who plays Frank Rossitano on NBC's '30 Rock,' delivers his deadpan standup routine Friday and Saturday at the DC Improv.

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Kevin Kline's impending visit to D.C. will not see him promote the latest in desert solar power or international adoption policies, but rather, his bread and butter: Acting — Monday at Shakespeare Theatre Co., Sidney Harman Hall.

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Sets, such as this one decorated for the CBS show "Mike & Molly" by Lynda Burbank, use colors, accessories and telling details to help flesh out characters. (Associated Press)

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Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw speaks during a baseball news conference at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. Kershaw won the National League Cy Young Award on Thursday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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Gowns worn by American first ladies, long a popular feature at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, is part of the new "First Ladies" galleries there. The exhibit also focuses on how the presidents' wives have defined and changed that role. (Photo provided by Smithsonian National Museum of American History)

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Saad Saif, 25, gets a tattoo done by Mohammed Abass, 28, in Baghdad. He is one of many young Iraqis who have adopted the ways of some of the U.S. soldiers who have been in their country for eight years. For them, rap music, tattoos and American slang are part of what the departing forces are leaving behind. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Nov. 2, 2011, photo, a Los Angeles police officer looks at tents set up outside Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles. The Occupy Los Angeles encampment around City Hall will be cleared sometime next week, a city official and a lawyer for demonstrators said Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)