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A once-popular nightclub sits abandoned in Cuidad Juarez. The owner said he closed the bar after it was set on fire three times because he refused to pay extortion fees to cartel enforcers. (Associated Press)
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People wait in line in front of the Supreme Court. Sweeping marble staircases, sculptures, manicured gardens and ornate doors beckoned citizens of the past. Now most stand empty and sealed, a forbidden welcome. (Associated Press)
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Patrick Orlando-Cachay (left) and David Orlando-Cachay speak to reporters outside criminal court in New York on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, after the arraignment of Nicholas Brooks, who is accused of murdering their sister Sylvie Cachay. Mr. Brooks pleaded not guilty to murdering his swimsuit-designer girlfriend in a trendy Manhattan hotel. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard speaks during an interview at the Federal Correction Institution in Butner, N.C, on Friday, May 15, 1998. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker)
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This Oct. 13, 2009, file photo of a courtroom sketch shows Luis Armando Pena Soltren listening to the proceedings at his hearing on hijacking charges at U.S. Federal Court in New York. Pena Soltren was sentenced to 15 years Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, in New York in the hijacking of Pan American Flight 281 to Cuba on Nov. 24, 1968. (AP Photos/Elizabeth Williams, File)
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This undated photo provided by the Innocence Project shows Cornelius Dupree Jr. and his wife, Selma Perkins Dupree. A DNA examination has exonerated Dupree in a 1979 rape and robbery in Dallas that put him in prison for 30 years, more than any other DNA exoneree in Texas. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Innocence Project, ho)
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** FILE ** In this Nov. 20, 2010, file photo, Salman Taseer, governor of Pakistani Punjab Province, talks to reporters after meeting with Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi, not in photo, at a prison in Sheikhupura near Lahore, Pakistan. Taseer was shot dead Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, by one of his guards in the Pakistani capital, apparently because he had spoken out against the country's controversial blasphemy laws, officials said. (AP Photo/File)
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** FILE ** In this May 17, 1994 file photo, John Wheeler III touches the name of a friend engraved in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. Wheeler's body was discovered on Dec. 31, 2010, at the Wilmington, Del.-area landfill. His death has been ruled a homicide. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi, File)
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UNDER ARREST: Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov displays a protocol paper as he is escorted to court in Moscow. (Associated Press)
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A woman lights a candle among pictures of slain Iraqi Christians at Our Lady of Salvation church in Baghdad on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. Muslim militants took 120 hostages at the church on Oct. 31 in a siege that left 68 dead. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Vincent C. Gray takes the oath of office as he is sworn in by Eric Washington, Chief Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, left. (Rod Lamkey Jr / for The Washington Times)
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With his daughter Jonice Gray Tucker, left, looking on, Vincent C. Gray, center, gets a hug from Eric Washington, Chief Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, after taking the oath of office of mayor. Mayor Gray, a native of D.C., is the sixth elected mayor of the District of Columbia, and succeeds Mayor Adrian Fenty. (Rod Lamkey Jr / for The Washington Times)
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A worker with U.S. Environmental Services, a private contractor, picks up a dead bird in Beebe, Ark., on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011, as more can be seen on the street behind him. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said more than 1,000 dead blackbirds fell from the sky in Beebe on Friday night. (AP Photo/The Daily Citizen, Warren Watkins)
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** FILE ** Iranian Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, arrives for a news briefing in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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Notre Dame wide receiver Theo Riddick, right, evades Miami tackler Vaughn Telemaque during the Sun Bowl NCAA college football game on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010, in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo/El Paso Times, Mark Lambie)
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FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2010, file photo, Michael Haywood answers questions after he was introduced as Pittsburgh's new football coach in Pittsburgh. Haywood is jailed on a domestic violence charge after a struggle at his South Bend, Ind., home. Assistant St. Joseph County Police Chief Bill Redman says Haywood was arrested about 3 p.m. Friday, Dec. 30, after a custody issue developed with a woman with whom Haywood has a child. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
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The remains of a home, foreground, and a fire station, background, are shown after a tornado tore through the small town of Cincinnati, Ark., early in the morning on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/April L. Brown)
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A victim of a bomb explosion lies on a stretcher in the Asokoro General Hospital, Abuja, Nigeria, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. A bomb blast tore through a beer garden at a Nigerian army barracks where revelers had gathered to celebrate New Year's Eve, witnesses said, and state-run television reported Friday that 30 people died, though police immediately disputed that. (AP Photo/Felix Onigbinde)
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Barbara Izzarelli, a Connecticut smoker who developed larynx cancer and won $8 million against a tobacco company last May in the first such jury award in New England, has been awarded another $4 million in punitive damages. (AP Photo/Norwich Bulletin, John Shishmanian, File)
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Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash reacts after getting called for a technical foul during the fourth quarter against the Philadelphia 76ers in an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
