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Police block the street in front of the headquarters of the Discovery Channel networks building in Silver Spring, Md., Wednesday Sept. 1, 2010. Police say a gunman has taken at least one person hostage in the building. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Police push people back from near the front of the headquarters of the Discovery Channel networks building in Silver Spring, Md., Wednesday Sept. 1, 2010. Police say a gunman has taken at least one person hostage in the building. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Police evacuate the street near Silver Plaza in the Silver Spring Downtown complex across the street from the headquarters of Discovery Communications in Silver Spring, Md., on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. Police say a gunman has taken at least one person hostage in the building. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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A police officer looks through binoculars from the street in front of the headquarters of the Discovery Channel networks in Silver Spring, Md., on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. Police say a gunman has taken at least one person hostage in the building. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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This photo combo shows an undated file photo of the driver for the BBC motoring programme Top Gear "The Stig" left, and Ben Collins seen at the High Court in London Wednesday Sept. 1, 2010. The opaque visor of one of Britain's most famous helmets has been lifted. The identity of The Stig, the always-anonymous test driver on "Top Gear," the wildly popular British television show about cars, has long been kept secret. The BBC had asked Britain's High Court for an injunction blocking the publication of an autobiography revealing The Stig's identity. But lawyers for publishers HarperCollins said Wednesday it was not granted. The publishers said in a statement that "Ben Collins has a great story to tell about his seven years as The Stig." (AP Photo/ PA)
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In this Tuesday, July 27, 2010, file picture founder and editor of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, faces the media during a debate event, held in London, England. The lawyer for Mr. Assange said his client has been questioned by Swedish police regarding allegations of molestation. Leif Silbersky said Mr. Assange was questioned by police in Stockholm for about an hour late Monday and was formally informed of the suspicions against him.(AP Photo/Max Nash)
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** FILE ** Afghan central bank Gov. Abdul Qadir Fitrat gestures during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. Mr. Fitrat expressed confidence in the solvency of Kabul Bank, the nation's biggest bank, which has been the target of allegations of mismanagement and illegitimate activities. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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** FILE ** Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell speaks during a town-hall-style meeting at the Bristol Public Library in Bristol, Va., on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. (AP Photo)
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Federal police stand guard by Texas-born kingpin Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez during his presentation to the press in Mexico City on Tuesday. Valdez, who was captured on Monday by federal police, faces drug-trafficking charges in the U.S. and has been blamed for a vicious turf war that has included bodies hung from bridges and shootouts in central Mexico. Some of that violence has spilled over the border. (Associated Press)
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Cpl. Chester Nez, also an Original 29, looks over an old photo with his grandson in Albuquerque, N.M. (Associated Press)
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Daniel Lipsic, Slovak minister of the interior, speaks at a news conference in Bratislava, Slovakia, on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, about the killing of six people and the wounding of 15 others in a Bratislava suburb on Monday. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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A concierge and a valet assist a shopper in loading purchases into her car at the Americana at Brand Mall on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, in Glendale, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Jack Smith, the Department of Justice's chief of the Public Integrity Section, has been brought in to restore the elite unit's credibility. "I left the dream job for a better one," he said.
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Candles are lit during a service to celebrate Shabbat in Blackrock City during the Burning Man celebration. Focusing on "radical self-reliance," participants must provide their own food, water and trash disposal as they camp in the desert environment, where daily temperatures routinely reach 110 degrees. (The Washington Times)
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In this image made on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, from China Central Television footage, North Korea's Kim Jong-il (third from left) applauds with Chinese President Hu Jintao (right) during a banquet in Changchun, in northeast China's Jilin province, on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/CCTV via APTN)
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In this photo taken Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks with road makers, not seen, while traveling on a newly opened highway Chita- Khabarovsk, in Russia's Far Eastern region of Amur, some 3,800 miles southeast of Moscow. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)
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In this Tuesday, June 7, 2005, file photo, human rights defender Saad Eddin Ibrahim, from Egypt, speaks at a conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta. The Egyptian-American dissident and former advocate against heredity succession in Egypt has signed a petition backing the president's son Gamal Mubarak to run in next year's elections. (AP Photo/Ric Feld, File)
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President Obama greets patrons and staff at the Parkway Bakery and Tavern in New Orleans on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010, the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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In this Aug. 16, 2010 photo, Mort Walker, the artist and author of the Beetle Bailey comic strip, speaks in his Stamford, Conn., studio about his decades of work, in this case a caricature he and other cartoonists drew of President Lyndon Johnson (Walker describes drawing Johnson's ears) when Johnson attended a gathering at the National Press Club in Washington while president. Walker spoke of his work and experiences as Beetle Bailey's 60th anniversary on Labor Day approaches. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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Gary Officer (left), CEO of Rebuilding Together, and Shaun Donovan (right), secretary of housing and urban development, escort homeowner Ruthie Lee Jones, whose home is one of 50 being rebuilt in five days by volunteers from around the country as part of Rebuilding Together's Fifty for Five in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. Ms. Jones has not been in her home since Katrina devastated the New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in 2005. (Cheryl Gerber/AP Images for Rebuilding Together)
