Politics

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (left) speaks with British Foreign Minister William Hague (right) during a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

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** FILE ** Passing pedestrians are reflected in the window of a Starbucks store in Atlanta in January 2011. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center, attends a meeting of the Palestinian leadership at his compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Dec 4, 2012. Israel’s latest settlement plans will destroy any lingering hopes of setting up a Palestinian state next to Israel, a senior Palestinian official warned, as international anger over such construction snowballed. (Associated Press)

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Egyptian protesters chant anti-Muslim Brotherhood slogans outside the presidential palace in Cairo on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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The 2009 Kennedy Center Honorees Robert De Niro, left; Grace Bumbry, bottom left, Dave Brubeck, bottom right; Bruce Springsteen, second from right; and Mel Brooks, right, pose with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for a photo at the State Department following the Kennedy Center Honors Gala Dinner on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

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President Bill Clinton, right, shakes hands with jazz musician and composer Dave Brubeck during the 1994 National Medals of Arts ceremony at the White House, Friday, Oct. 14, 1994, Washington DC. The President presented Brubeck and others with at the 1994 National Medals of Arts. First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton looks on at center. Woman on far left is unidentified. (AP Photo/Joe Marquette)

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Dave Brubeck arrives at the Kennedy Center for the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, DC, on December 6, 2009. (Katie Falkenberg / The Washington Times)

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George Osborne (left), Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, walks with Danny Alexander, chief secretary to the treasury, to deliver the half-yearly budget statement to Parliament in London on Dec. 5, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's supporters beat an opponent, center, during clashes outside the presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. Wednesday's clashes began when thousands of Islamist supporters of Morsi descended on the area around the palace where some 300 of his opponents were staging a sit-in. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's supporters, background, clash with opponents, foreground, outside the presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. Wednesday's clashes began when thousands of Islamist supporters of Morsi descended on the area around the palace where some 300 of his opponents were staging a sit-in. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's supporters try to detain an opposition protester during clashes outside the presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. Wednesday's clashes began when thousands of Islamist supporters of Morsi descended on the area around the palace where some 300 of his opponents were staging a sit-in. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)