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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, right, talks to U.N.-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi, left, as they wait for lunch during a break in the peace talks in Montreux, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. International peace talks to address Syria's almost three-year-old civil war opened in Montreux near Geneva on Wednesday with a speech by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. (AP Photo/Arnd Wiegmann, Pool)
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FILE - This Oct. 18, 2013 file photo shows the White House in Washington. This is a year of auditioning, positioning, networking and just plain hard work for people who are considering running for president in 2016. You could see them stirring in 2013 as they plugged holes in resumes, took preliminary steps to build potential campaign organizations and made carefully calibrated moves to get better known by Americans generally and key constituencies in particular. Most _ but not all _ are ticking off items on what could be called the presidential prep checklist. And they’ve got baggage to deal with. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)