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Harry Potter fans, right, Ross Peters, 17, Lauren Furness, 16, both from Nottinghamshire and Jodie Thornes, 18, from the Isle of Wight, centre, join fans waiting at Trafalgar Square, London, a day before the World Premiere of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the last film in the series, Wednesday, July 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)

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Nearly one-fourth of the money raised by Tim Kaine's campaign in three months came from ActBlue, a political action committee. (Associated Press)

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Bill Gaytton and Susanna Venegas (above) accept applause after Monday's debut of the Christian Dior Fall-Winter 2011-2012 collection (examples at right) in Paris. Mr. Gaytten was put in charge of fired artistic director John Galliano's signature line last month, but Dior executives were quick to stress at the show that a permanent replacement had not been found. (Associated Press)

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"I'd want to know how the money is being monitored. Is it actually staying in the city? This could be a positive thing, but it's doing to be difficult to keep track of." Donna Stout, Capitol Hill, theater

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**FILE** In a June 2001 photo, Jane Scott, a critic for the Plain Dealer, poses for a picture in the newspaper studio in Cleveland. Scott, a rock music critic who followed everyone from the Beatles to Britney Spears during a long career that she continued into her 80s, has died. She was 92. (Associated Press/The Plain Dealer, Larry Hamel-Lambert)

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An Iraqi man inspects the scene of rocket attack at a residential complex in Baghdad on July 5, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Anne Byrd Fickling, 7, of Fredericksburg, Va., waits for the sun to set and the fireworks to start at the base of the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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The Palisades Pop Stars, including Lily Shafroth (center), 18, of Washington, dance their way down MacArthur Boulevard Northwest in Washington on Monday, July 4, 2011, as part of the Palisades July Fourth parade. The girls decided it would be fun to march, so they donned costumes and called themselves the Pop Stars. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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"D-Rock" conducts the Different Drummers band as they march in the 45th annual Palisades July Fourth parade. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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DREW ANGERER / THE WASHINGTON TIMES Anne Byrd Fickling, 7, of Fredericksburg, Va., waits for the sun to set and the fireworks to start at the base of the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington.

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Gilda Lorena Martinez's series of paintings called "City of Sand and Blood" shows ghostly figures with anguished faces in beige and gray, accented with blood red. She lives in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Ricardo Delgado Herbert, in his Mexico City atelier, talks about a series of portraits of monsterlike hit men that he calls "Glorious Pistols From the A to the Zetas," referring to the infamous drug gang, and exhibited in Miami Beach in March. "CVC" (below) got its name from the initials of a drug-cartel member. Mexican artists in many fields are protesting and reflecting violence in their work.