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Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton listens to members of the public explain how state budget cuts would affect them at a roundtable discussion on July 13, 2011 at the Rochester, Minn., Senior Citizen Center. (Associated Press/The Rochester Post-Bulletin)

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Cindy Bliss of Plano, Texas, fills out a questionnaire at a EFG Companies recruiting booth during a National Career Fairs job fair on July 13, 2011, in Dallas. (Associated Press)

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A man uses a cellphone to photograph a vehicle burned by angry protesters in Karachi, Pakistan, on Thursday, July 14, 2011. Police say at least 14 people were killed overnight in the southern port city after a prominent politician harshly criticized the head of a rival party. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

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DEVASTATING: A victim of a bomb explosion is carried away moments after detonation at Zaveri Bazaar in Mumbai. Near-simultaneous blasts rocked three upscale neighborhoods during evening rush hour in India's commerce capital Wednesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring 141 others. (Associated Press)

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A large line of attendees wraps around the room as Natalie Burnham (lower left at table) and Tedd Hamlin (lower right at table) sit along side others filling out applications and looking through classifieds during a National Career Fairs job fair on July 13, 2011, in Dallas. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS The lifeless body of Sardar Mohammad, who assassinated Ahmed Wali Karzai, the half-brother of Afghanistan's president, hangs briefly from a building Tuesday in Charso Chowk, Kandahar province.

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai (center) attends the burial Wednesday of half brother Ahmed Wali Karzai in his family's ancestral village of Karz in Kandahar province. The president's half brother was assassinated at his home Tuesday.

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The Nation's Capitol now has an official "native" cocktail - the Rickey, invented locally in 1883, now celebrated with proclamation and fancy plaque. (Image courtesy of Laughingcocktail.com)

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The Nation's Capitol now has an official "native" cocktail - the Rickey, invented locally in 1883, now celebrated with proclamation and fancy plaque. (Image courtesy of Laughingcocktail.com)

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Ted Leonsis, majority owner of the Washington Capitals, Wizards, Mystics and Verizon Center, spoke at the National Press Club on Wednesday. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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The Nation's Capitol now has an official "native" cocktail — the Rickey, invented locally in 1883, now celebrated with proclamation and fancy plaque. (Image courtesy of Laughingcocktail.com)

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ROD LAMKEY JR./THE WASHINGTON TIMES Capitals prospect Mattias Sjogren, 23, is considered more physical than countrymen Nicklas Backstrom and Marcus Johansson.

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Libyan women and children shout as a bus of journalists on a government-sponsored tour pass by in the village of Assabaa, 75 miles southwest of Tripoli, Libya, on Sunday, July 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

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Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, running for California's 36th Congressional District seat, gets hugs and kisses from granddaughters McKenna Yates (left), 8, and Brooklyn Yates, 6, as she addresses the crowd of supporters on Tuesday night, July 12, 2011, at her election party in San Pedro, Calif. (AP Photo/Daily Breeze, Sean Hiller)

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Round bales of hay lie in a field shrouded in fog as the sun rises Tuesday, July 12, 2011, near Glencoe, Ky. High heat and humidity continue to cover much of Kentucky. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)

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As the temperatures neared 100 degrees today, Edwardo Ramos (left) and Robert Velasquez join other men loading sheet rock into a home at 831 Florida Avenue NE in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, July 12, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)

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Katie Valdez, 2, makes a face as she gets splashed with water while her sister Jennifer Valdez, 5, plays in the fountain in Columbia Heights section of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, July 12, 2011. Although the heat advisory was removed, the heat index caused it to feel near 100 degrees, and neighborhood children came here to cool off. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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The Washington Capitals are counting on Mike Green, Nicklas Backstrom, Brooks Laich and Alex Ovechkin to become leaders this season. Do they have what it takes? (Green: Joseph Silverman/The Washington Times), (Backstrom: AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek), (Laich: Associated Press Photographs), (Ovechkin: AP Photo/Alex Brandon)