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Kevin Payne is stepping down as D.C. United's president and CEO. He'll reportedly join Toronto FC as team president. (D.C. United)

A riot police officer is engulfed by petrol bomb flames thrown by protesters in front of the parliament during clashes in Athens on Wednesday Nov. 7, 2012. Greece's fragile coalition government faces its toughest test so far when lawmakers vote later Wednesday on new painful austerity measures demanded to keep the country afloat, on the second day of a nationwide general strike. (AP Photo Dimitri Messinis)

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Protesters march during a protest commemorating the student uprising against a military dictatorship in 1973, at the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Saturday, Nov. 17 2012. The banner is reading "Against Government - IMF - EU. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)

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Protesters chant slogans during a protest commemorating the student uprising against a military dictatorship in 1973, at the northern city of Thessaloniki Greece, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)

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Musicians from a municipal band play during a protest march to the ministry of Administrative Reform in central Athens, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Several hundred people took part in the peaceful demonstration. Greek municipal workers have occupied hundreds of town halls across the country to protest against government plans to suspend 2,000 civil servants for potential dismissal due to state budget cuts. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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Egyptian protesters attend an opposition rally in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Thousands flocked to the central square for a protest against Egypt's president in a significant test of whether the opposition can rally the street behind it in a confrontation aimed at forcing the Islamist leader to rescind decrees that granted him near-absolute powers. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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An Egyptian protester blows a stadium horn as he gestures at a cordon of security forces near Tahrir Square, where an opposition rally has been called to voice rejection of President Mohammed Morsi's seizure of near-absolute powers, in Cairo on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Demonstrators and police clashed just hours ahead of a planned mass rally by opponents of the country's Islamist president, who are demanding he rescind decrees that granted him near-absolute powers. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Egyptian security forces arrest a protester during clashes near Tahrir Square in Cairo on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Demonstrators and police clashed just hours ahead of a planned mass rally by opponents of the country's Islamist president, who are demanding he rescind decrees that granted him near-absolute powers. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Egyptian protesters chant slogans at rally in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Egyptians flocked to Cairo's central Tahrir square on Tuesday for a protest against Egypt's president in a significant test of whether the opposition can rally the street behind it in a confrontation aimed at forcing the Islamist leader to rescind decrees that granted him near absolute powers. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

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Egyptian protesters carry large national flags in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Thousands of demonstrators flocked to the central square for a protest against Egypt's president in a significant test of whether the opposition can rally the street behind it in a confrontation aimed at forcing the Islamist leader to rescind decrees that granted him near absolute powers. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Egyptian protesters chant slogans against President Mohammed Morsi in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Demonstrators flocked to the central square for a protest against Mr. Morsi in a significant test of whether the opposition can rally the street behind it in a confrontation aimed at forcing the Islamist leader to rescind decrees that granted him near absolute powers. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Egyptian protesters chant slogans against President Mohammed Morsi in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Egyptians flocked to the central square for a protest against Egypt's president in a significant test of whether the opposition can rally the street behind it in a confrontation aimed at forcing the Islamist leader to rescind decrees that granted him near absolute powers. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)