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** FILE ** In this Oct. 28, 2006, file photo, musician Whitney Houston arrives at the 17th Carousel of Hope Ball benefiting the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes in Beverly Hills, Calif. An autopsy report shows that cocaine was found in Houston's system and that investigators recovered white powdery substances from her hotel room. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)

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Former Sen. George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, arrives for the funeral Mass for R. Sargent Shriver, Mr. McGovern's vice presidential running mate, at Our Lady of Mercy Church in Potomac, Md., on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011 (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, Pool)

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First lady Michelle Obama gets a high five from Eun White, seated with his father, Army Maj. Eunotchol White, during the first lady's visit to Fisher House at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda on Wednesday. (Associated Press)

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The crowd shares in a light moment during remarks about a funny story involving Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during the Fair Housing Month 2012 Wreath-Laying Ceremony for the 44th anniversary of the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)

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B.J. Douglass, Senior Project Officer, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Center for Faith-Based & Community Initiatives, sings during the 44th anniversary of the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)

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Dr. Xernona Clayton, President & CEO Trumpet Awards Foundation, Inc., (left) gets a hug from Harry E. Johnson, Sr., President, Washington D.C. Martin Luther KIng Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc. (right) prior to the 2012 Wreath-Laying Ceremony for the 44th anniversary of the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)

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The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is seen on the 44th anniversary of the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** The Food and Drug Administration has warned doctors that a second counterfeit version of the best-selling cancer drug Avastin has been found in the United States, packaged as Altuzan, the Turkish brand of the medication, which is not approved for use in the U.S. The agency said any packages or vials labeled with the lot number B6021 should be considered counterfeit. (AP Photo/U.S. Food and Drug Administration)

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"There is development within North Korea of a road-mobile [ICBM] system that we've observed," says Adm. Robert F. Willard, U.S. Pacific Command chief. (Associated Press)

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Tom Hanks in "Saving Private Ryan." (Associated Press)

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Associated Press photographs A woman is comforted Monday after a shooter at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., killed at seven people and wounded three more. The school's founder said the shooter was a former nursing student.

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A woman is comforted Monday after a shooter at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., killed at seven people and wounded three more. The school's founder said the shooter was a former nursing student. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Former nurse Kimberly Saenz, shown in a 2009 police photo, was convicted in Lufkin, Texas, on Friday, March 30, 2012, of killing five kidney dialysis patients and deliberately injuring five others by injecting them with bleach. (AP Photo/Angelina County Sheriff's Office)

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"Marble Madness" from 1992 for the Sega Master System requires the player to guide an on-screen marble through six obstacle courses within a time limit. (Photograph provided by the Smithsonian American Art Museum)

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Sen. Scott P. Brown, Massachusetts Republican, has transferred from his state's National Guard to a unit in Maryland, which allows him to serve in the Pentagon. (Associated Press)

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Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II filed suit on behalf of the state against the federal government over the health reform act. He spoke to tea party activists gathered on the Mall on Saturday. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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"The Great Depression informed the Fed's actions and decisions in the recent crisis," Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said at George Washington University, noting the Fed's multiple missteps during the 1930s in failing to stem the financial panics, bank runs and economic downspiral that created such desperate conditions. (Associated Press)

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Dr. Bill Lumsden, Head of Distilling and Whisky Creation at the Glenmorangie Company sips the scotch style single malt whiskey that he and two other master distillers from Scotland created using colonial style stills at George Washington's reconstructed distillery with the help of Mount Vernon's historic distillers, Mount Vernon, Va., Wednesday, March 28, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Sen. Charles E. Schumer points to a countdown clock on the transportation bill on Capitol Hill, pushing the House to pass the Senate bill. Sens. Mark Begich and Barbara Boxer are behind him. "Speaker [John A.} Boehner has once again been painted in a corner by the tea-party wing of his caucus," Mr. Schumer said Wednesday. (Associated Press)

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Former Presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) chats with Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex) as they wait to speak to a crowd during a Tea Party Patriots rally in front of the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, March 28, 2012, as the nation's high court takes up arguments regarding President Obama's health care overhaul. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)