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Elizabeth Taylor's ruby and diamond necklace, a gift of Mike Todd, estimated at $200,000 to $300,000, is shown in this photograph at Christie's, in New York, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2001. Christie’s auction house is selling her complete jewelry collection in New York on Dec. 13-14. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Indian police secure the scene of a blast outside the High Court in New Delhi on Sept. 7, 2011. A bomb apparently hidden in a briefcase exploded outside a gate crowded with petitioners waiting to enter the building. (Associated Press)
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Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe (left) appears Sept. 6, 2011, on Capitol Hill before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee as the panel examines the economic troubles of the Postal Service, a self-funded federal agency in decline because of the Internet and advertising losses. (Associated Press)
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Teresa Milanich, visiting from Argentina, is engulfed by an umbrella as her son, Franco Molina, guides her in a crosswalk at 14th and F streets Northwest during one of several downpours Tuesday afternoon. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe appears Tuesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee as the panel examines the serious funding woes of the Postal Service. (Associated Press)
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Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg warms up near the warning track Sept. 6, 2011, as the Nationals host the Los Angeles Dodgers at Nationals Park in D.C. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos walks by at right, pitcher Stephen Strasburg warms up as the Nationals host the Los Angeles Dodgers at Nationals Park in Washington, DC, Tuesday, September 6, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Mayor Edwin Cox Elorde of Bunawan township in Agusan del Sur province in southern Philippines on Sunday pretends to measure a huge crocodile that was captured by residents and a crocodile-farm staff along a creek in Bunawan late Saturday. Mr. Elorde said Monday that dozens of villagers and experts ensnared the 21-foot male crocodile along a creek in his township after a three-week hunt. It was one of the largest crocodiles to be captured alive in the Philippines in recent years.
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Washington Redskins wide receiver Terrence Austin (18) pulls down a pass during training camp at Redskins Park in Ashburn, Va, Wednesday, August 10, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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New York artist Miya Ando shows her sculpture made from steel recovered from the remnants of the twin towers. "After 9/11" was commissioned by the 911 London Project. (Associated Press)
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Senate Facilities Services technician Carlos Abarca delivers cases of bottled water to the Appropriations Committee in July. One internal cost-saving measure Congress hasn't yet availed itself of is to opt instead for D.C. tap water. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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President Obama tries to get a high-five from a young boy after arriving at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Mich., on Monday, Sept. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)
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This image displayed on the public relations website of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency shows al Qaeda member Younis al-Mauritani on Monday, Sept. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Inter-Services Intelligence Public Relation Department)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Jeff Thigpen, a registrar in Guilford County, N.C., shows a group of signatures on loan documents all "signed" by one person in Charlotte, N.C. Counties across the United States are discovering that illegal or questionable mortgage paperwork is far more widespread than first thought.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn (right), former head of the International Monetary Fund, and his wife, Anne Sinclair, gesture to the media upon their arrival at their home in Paris on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
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Abdul Basr, 45, center, chats with his neighbour as he sits in front of his damaged pizzeria on Tripoli street in Misrata, Libya, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (center left) leads advisers as he arrives to speak to the media in Ankara, Turkey, on Sept. 2, 2011. (Associated Press)
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DAILY CHRONICLE VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS Kathy Hines, a U.S. Postal Service employee in Clare, Ill., processes a customer's order Aug. 23. The office is on a Postal Service list to be evaluated for possible closure as the agency continues to move toward bankruptcy.
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BARBARA L. SALISBURY/THE WASHINGTON TIMES The doors to Shaw's Tavern in the District closed Saturday after the upscale restaurant had several missteps in its efforts to obtain permits from the city. The residents of the Shaw neighborhood have rallied behind the tavern in hopes it will reopen, but the process could take months.
