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Elvis tribute artist Marcos Santos gives a personal serenade to Louise Smith of Southaven, Miss., during a performance in the Graceland Entertainment Pavilion on Monday night before the annual vigil.

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** FILE ** A convoy of trucks carries U.S. equipment in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Jan. 17, 2010. (Associated Press)

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President Obama stops for breakfast on Aug. 16, 2011, with small business owners at Rausch's Cafe in Guttenberg, Iowa, during his three-day bus tour devoted to the economy. (Associated Press)

Ryan Rhodes (right) and another member of the Iowa Tea Party Revolution (left) speak Aug. 15, 2011, to President Obama at a town hall meeting in Decorah, Iowa, during the president's three-day economic bus tour. (Associated Press)

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Antonio Rodriguez and Rutha Pryputniewicz, visiting from Wyoming, take in the view of the Potomac River from Great Falls National Park in McLean on Monday. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Visitors of Great Falls National Park, in McLean, Va., get a view of the Potomac River from an outcropping of rocks Monday. Virginia officials are considering a proposal to stop paying dues to a regional compact to preserve and maintain the river. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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associated press Nationals starter John Lannan has had to learn how to stay mentally focused and trust his best stuff.

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GOING GOURMET: Executive chef Richard Cook (above left) and market manager Sergio Rarujo arrange the main display case at BlackSalt in the Palisades, one of many new restaurants that have enlivened the D.C. dining scene. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

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Executive chef Daniel Bortnick, searing a piece of salmon for a dish in his kitchen at Firefly, represents a growing trend of chefs at restaurants that have brought new eating options to the District and prospered amid the nation's weak economy.(Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

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President Barack Obama waves before boarding his bus after having lunch and greeting people at The Old Market Deli, Monday, Aug. 15, 2011, in Cannon Falls, Minn., during his three-day economic bus tour. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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President Obama waves as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Aug. 15, 2011, for a three-day bus tour through Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. (Associated Press)

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Black-Eyed Susie's on 14th Street in Northwest offers a selection of vintage shoes, jewelry and other merchandise. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Marquis Miles, of Falls Church, browses the shoe selection at Rock It Again in Columbia Heights. He said he comes to the District several times a month to shop at vintage clothing stores. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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President Obama will hold a town-hall meeting in Minnesota on Monday and then travel by bus to Iowa before concluding his Midwest trip in Illinois. The White House is billing the trip as an "economic bus tour," but Republicans are blasting it as a taxpayer-funded campaign swing. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** President Barack Obama leaves the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, on his way to play golf at Andrews Air Force Base. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Members of a Pakistani family (top) displaced by last's year flooding, erect their tent in Charsada, one of many villages in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province devastated by water that in some places was 15 feet deep. Others find shelter in the ruins of a house in Charsada. In the village of Nowashera, flies gather on a little girl's face while she naps in a tent. In the nearby village of Wairar Sibra, however, locals are preparing to move into new houses, complete with electricity and courtyards, thanks to the largess of the man who owns the power plant looming over the settlement.