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Saudi women look at jewelry at a gold fair last month in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Female activists in the religiously conservative kingdom are hoping for more rights in a country where women are segregated from men in nearly all aspects of public life. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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**FILE** In this photo from June 3, 2008, an employee takes a drag on a cigarette at Morgan's Place bar and restaurant in Harrisburg, Pa. (Associated Press)

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A Mexican marine patrols near the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Tijuana, Mexico, on March 18, 2009. The administration of President Obama is preparing to send federal agents to the U.S.-Mexico border as reinforcements in the fight against Mexican drug cartels. The Obama administration is preparing to send federal agents to the US-Mexico border as reinforcements in the fight against Mexican drug cartels. (Associated Press)

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Caravaggio's 1602 painting entitled "The Taking of Christ" which will go on display at Washington's National Gallery of Art. To Christians it's one of the most dramatic moments of their faith, the kiss of Judas and the arrest of Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane. To art lovers it's the depiction of that moment by one of the greatest of Italian artists, Michaelangelo Meerisi, better known as Caravaggio. (AP Photo/National Gallery of Art)

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James Stewart in "Mr. Smith goes to Washington," as the model citizen.

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**FILE** School voucher rallies take place in February 2009 outside the Supreme Court building in Washington, where a hearing was held on Cleveland's test program. Groups for and against vouchers held competing rallies during the hearing. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** An employee collects carts outside a Walmart Supercenter in Kilmarnock, Va., on January 13, 2009. (The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Thousands of people turned out Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009, for a federal government job fair at the Atlanta Federal Center (the old Rich's building) in downtown Atlanta. The fair, sponsored by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Atlanta District), was for jobs with federal agencies such as Justice, Labor, Commerce, Social Security, FBI, and Food and Drug, just to name a few. (AP Photo/The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Rich Addicks)

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** FILE ** Lisa Valentine is pictured at her home in Douglasville, Ga., on Dec. 17, 2008. Court and city employees in Douglasville will undergo sensitivity training and signs will be posted advising visitors of court decorum a week after police arrested a Muslim woman who refused to remove her head scarf before attending a hearing. (Associated Press)

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In this image released by MSNBC, Rachel Maddow from MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," is shown on Sept. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/ MSNBC, Ali Goldstein) ** ARCHIVE OUT, NO SALES, FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY **

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Paul M. Weyrich addresses the National Press Club in December 1988. He joined consumer advocate Ralph Nader (left) to denounce pay raises for members of Congress. Mr. Weyrich died Thursday in Fairfax after a long illness. He was 66. (The Washington Times)

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Seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

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** FILE ** U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald talks about the criminal complaint against then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich during a news conference in Chicago in 2008.

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CUSA saw 1.2 million foreign nationals become U.S. citizens in 1996. Many of them later were identified as convicted criminals. (Rod A. Lamkey Jr. / The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Solar panels are seen outside the offices of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008. (Associated Press)

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Claus von Bulow, shown at his trial in 1982. Associated Press

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*** FILE *** A photo-radar camera on the 700 block of Florida Avenue Northeast, D.C. (The Washington Times)

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GETTY IMAGES Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (left) picked up a lawsuit by New Jersey lawyer Leo Donofrio, who argues that Barack Obama is ineligible to be president, and referred it to the full court after Justice David H. Souter (right) had refused it. The court Friday is to vote whether to accept the case.

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Rachel Maddow from MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" (Associated Press/MSNBC, Ali Goldstein)