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Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Cookie Monster (center) eats the statuette given for the Lifetime Achievement Award for 'Sesame Street' at the Daytime Emmy Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles.

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** FILE ** Actor Don Cheadle arrives at the Los Angeles Film Festival Awards Night, Sunday, June 29, 2008, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Gus Ruelas)

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Actress Megan Fox

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getty images President Obama downplays the angry health care debate, telling conservative radio talk-show host Michael Smerconish on Thursday that "passing a big bill like this is always messy."

President Barack Obama awards the Medal of Freedom to acclaimed tennis player Billie Jean King during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House, Wednesday, August 12, 2009. Among the honorees are theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the late Harvey Milk, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and actor Sidney Poitier. (Allison Shelley / The Washington Times)

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Actress Ashley Judd speaks to the Associated Press during an interview on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 23, 2009, in Washington. Judd and TV personality Jeff Corwin are urging Congress to spend $7 billion a year to help safeguard America's wildlife from the impact of global warming. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Jon Stewart of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" enjoys debating current issues with conservative guests. (Associated Press)

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North Idaho College student Ashley Kelley shops for textbooks at the community college's bookstore in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Rose Byrne and Hugh Dancy star in "Adam," which depicts a young man's struggle with Asperger's syndrome.

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President Obama made time for a 2009 beer summit with Sgt. James Crowley and Henry Louis Gates Jr. — but not for the funeral of a slain Chicago girl who'd played with her high school band at the president's 2013 inauguration.

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NOT THIS Jeremey Renner, actor; Brigadier General Loree Sutton, M.D., director of Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury; and Brandon Millet, president of the GI Film Festival answer questions from audience at a screening of The Hurt Locker. (Photo by Renae Kleckner)

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Associated Press photographs. *FILE* Jim Hill (above) looks after the marijuana he grows for medicinal purposes at his farm in Potter Valley, Calif., and shows the roots (left) of one plant.

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Joel Ng, 5, joins her dad, Ulane Eng (second from left), for meditation Sunday on the Mall as Falun Gong practitioners and their supporters mark the 10th anniversary of a Chinese crackdown on the spiritual movement. It has gained millions of followers since its 1992. founding. (By Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times/File)

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Former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden (Associated Press)

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Def Leppard's band mates are (from the left) Rick Savage, Phil Collen, Joe Elliott, Rick Allen and Vivian Campbell.

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FILE: ASSOCIATED PRESS/BRITISH LIBRARY A reader examines a page from the earliest surviving Christian Bible. The book, known as the Codex Sinaiticus, was divided among four repositories around the world, but it has been reunited digitally for online research.