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Mikhail Khodorkovsky stands behind bars in a courtroom in Moscow on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010, where a Russian judge convicted him on theft and money-laundering charges. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

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A woman walks along 72nd Street in New York on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010, in the midst of a blizzard that hammered New York and much of the Northeast. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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In this Dec. 22, 2010 photo, attorney Daniel Balsam, who hates spam so much that he launched a Website Danhatesspam.com, poses outside in San Francisco. From San Francisco Superior Court small claims court to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, San Francisco-based Balsam has been wielding a one-man crusade against e-mail marketers he alleges run afoul of federal and state anti-spamming laws with dozens of lawsuits filed even before he graduated law school in 2008. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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Undocumented college student Jorge Herrera, 18, (center) of Carson, Calif., rallies with students and Dream Act supporters in Los Angeles on Dec. 25, 2010. The Dream Act would have given provisional legal status to illegal immigrants brought to the country as children. (Associated Press)

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Victims injured in a suicide bombing are treated at Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. A woman detonated an explosives-laden vest in a crowded aid distribution center in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 45 people and wounding dozens waiting for food stamps, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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An undated image released by the British Transport Police on Thursday Dec. 23, 2010, of a 1697 Stradivarius violin. Three people were arrested for stealing a 1.2 million-pound ($1.85 million) antique violin from a musician while she stopped for a snack at a London sandwich bar, British police said Thursday. South Korean violinist Min-Jin Kym was eating inside the sandwich shop outside Euston station on Nov. 29 when she noticed that her black violin case _ whch contained the 300-year-old Stradivarius as well as two expensive bows _ was missing, police said. The violin, made in 1696, is one of only around 400 in the world. It was stolen along with a Peccatte bow, valued at 62,000 pounds, and another bow worth more than 5,000 pounds. (AP Photo/British Transport Police)

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** FILE ** In this Oct. 21, 2010, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson, listens during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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** FILE ** A woman pulls her travel bag in the International terminal at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu

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A passer-by walks past water-damaged carpet outside a business on Forest Avenue as Laguna Beach, Calif., cleans up and businesses open downtown on Thursday morning, Dec 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Ken Steinhardt)

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Titik Yuniarti is treated Dec. 15 in a Langsa, Indonesia, hospital for her injuries after she was beaten by a mob accusing her of attempting to abduct a child while searching for her daughter, who went missing in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

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Police officers and a firefighter stand outside the Chilean Embassy in Rome on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010, after a pair of package bombs exploded at the Swiss and Chilean embassies, injuring the two people who opened them, officials said. Police ordered checks at all embassies after a false alarm also was reported at the Ukrainian Embassy. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

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Forensic officers of the Carabinieri inspect the area inside the Swiss Embassy compound in Rome, where a package exploded on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Angelo Carconi)

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Associated Press photographs Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican, is seen here campaigning in Anchorage on Nov. 1, the day before the election in which she ran a write-in campaign. She won a state Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday.

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Alaska Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller (right) confers on Friday, Dec. 17, 2010, with his attorney, Thomas Van Flein.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Relatives of people detained in Sunday's opposition protest read information outside the prison walls in Minsk, Belarus, on Wednesday. President Alexander Lukashenko was declared on Monday the overwhelming winner of the presidential election, securing a fourth term in office as truncheon-wielding police arrested hundreds of opposition supporters, including seven other presidential candidates, who were protesting against alleged fraud in the poll.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Relatives of people killed during Argentina's dirty war rejoice Wednesday in Cordoba after former dictator Jorge Videla was sentenced to life in prison for the torture and murder of 31 prisoners in 1976.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Bruce Turnidge is led away in chains after a jury decided the fate of the convicted bank bombers at the Marion County Circuit Court on Wednesday in Salem, Ore. He was called "a murderer with no remorse."

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Joshua Turnidge (center) stands with his attorneys on Wednesday in Marion County Circuit Court in Salem, Ore. A jury has handed down death sentences for Bruce Turnidge and his son, Joshua.

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** FILE ** In this July 20, 2010, file photo, Lindsay Lohan is shown in court in Beverly Hills, Calif. Lohan is being investigated for possible misdemeanor battery against a female staffer at a rehab facility where she is receiving treatment. Deputy Herlinda Valenzuela with the Riverside County Sheriff's Department says deputies responded to a Betty Ford Center facility on Dec. 12 for an incident involving Lohan. (AP Photo/Al Seib, file)

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Homer Ryan, son of jailed former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, is comforted by his wife, Amy, as he speaks to reporters about a judge's denial of his father's bid for early release to be with his dying wife. (Associated Press)