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FILE - In this March 20, 2011 file photo combo, shows the logos of the communications company AT & T and Deutsche Telekom. AT&T said Monday, December 19, 2011, it is ending its attempted purchase with T-Mobile USA. (AP Photo/dapd, Seth Perlman, Roberto Pfeil)

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Jerome Isaac (center), the suspect in the burning death of 73-year-old Deloris Gillespie, is led from the 77th Precinct in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea)

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South Korean conservative protesters shout slogans during a rally in downtown Seoul on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, to mark the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. North Korean state media announced his death Monday. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

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South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (second from right) presides over an emergency meeting of the National Security Council at the Blue House in Seoul on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, after North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's death. (AP Photo/Yonhap)

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North Korean diplomatic staff lower their national flag to half-mast on the roof of their embassy in Beijing on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, to mourn the death of the country's leader, Kim Jong-il. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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In this image made from Associated Press Television News, North Koreans mourn the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in front of a mural depicting Mr. Kim and his father, Kim Il-sung, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/APTN)

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North Koreans cry and scream in a display of mourning for their leader, Kim Jong-il, at the foot of a giant statue of his father, Kim Il-sung, in Pyongyang, North Korea, after Kim Jong-il's death was announced on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/APTN)

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In this image made from television and provided by CCTV, China's state broadcaster, a North Korean man reacts to the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/CCTV)

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North Koreans in the capital, Pyongyang, cry after learning on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, of the death of their leader, Kim Jong-il. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

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** FILE ** In this July 26, 2001, photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il rings a bell that was presented to him at the Khasan railway station. (AP Photo/Igor Kochetkov, File)

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Puzzles Event Center in Suitland closed Aug. 4 for operating outside of its use-and-occupancy permit, but reopened the next day after an appeal. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Teenagers were caught drinking by undercover security outside Plaza 23 Event Center in Temple Hills in mid-October. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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People surround St. Wenceslas statue at Wenceslas Square in Prague on Sunday to pay tribute to Vaclav Havel. The former Czech president died early Sunday morning at his country home in Hradecek, northeast of Prague. He was 75. (Associated Press)

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Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant exits one station to complete a television promotion to go to another during the Lakers' media day in El Segundo, Calif., Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)

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** FILE ** Members of the U.S. Marine Corps carry the casket of Marine Pvt. Jonathan Lee Gifford at the Maranatha Assembly of God in Decatur, Ill., in April 2003. Gifford, 30, was killed just two days into the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

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Longwood guard Tristan Carey (12) shoots in front of Virginia center Assane Sene (5) during the first half, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Andrew Shurtleff)

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** FILE ** U.S. political activist Lori Berenson speaks to the Associated Press at her home in Lima, Peru, in this Nov. 9, 2010, file photo. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro, File)

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**FILE** Ethnic Uzbeks walk on Uzbekistan territory on June 18, 2010, after crossing the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border near the southern city of Osh as Uzbek border guards look on. (Associated Press)

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An Iraqi man stands on the head of a statue of Saddam Hussein as U.S. Marines occupy the center of Baghdad on April 10, 2003. But pockets of resistence remained in the northern part of the city and sniper fire could be heard everywhere. The war was far from over. (J.M. Eddins/The Washington Times)

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at Bayliss Park Hall in Council Bluffs, Iowa, during a campaign stop Wednesday. All of the GOP candidates were in Sioux City for the final scheduled debate of the year Thursday night. (Associated Press)