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Judson Phillips, the organizer of the National Tea Party Convention, talks during a news conference in Nashville, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)

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U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Joseph Anderson, left, serves a hot Thanksgiving meal to Larissa Huhn, age 12, at Salvation Army headquarters, in Colorado Springs, Colo., Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. Military volunteers from the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division, which General Anderson commands, cooked 3000 hot turkey dinners which were then donated to The Salvation Army. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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U.S. soldiers, part of NATO forces, play ultimate football to mark the Thanksgiving at the U.S.-led coalition base in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012.(AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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**FILE** Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray tosses the coin before the game as Anacostia High School faces Dunbar High School for the 43nd Annual DCIAA Turkey Bowl Varsity Football Championship at Eastern High School in Washington, D.C., Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi on Thursday granted himself far-reaching powers, prompting critics to call him the new “pharaoh.” A day earlier, he achieved a cease-fire to end eight days of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians. (Associated Press)

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President Obama returns a greeting to Bun Rany, wife of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, (center) before a gala dinner in Phnom Penh on Monday. Mr. Obama was in Cambodia on the final leg of his three-country tour of Southeast Asia. Below: Hun Sen, here in 1996, examines a grenade launcher reportedly surrendered by Khmer Rouge rebels. Hun Sen’s reputation for violence owes much to the fact that he staged a 1997 coup against his own coalition government. (Associated Press)

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Georgetown crew coach, Giuseppe Lanzone, trains his team on the Potomac River, Washington, D.C., Oct. 26, 2012. (Craig Bisacre/The Washington Times)

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Georgetown Crew team on the Potomac River, Washington, D.C., Oct. 26, 2012 (Craig Bisacre/The Washington Times)

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Georgetown crew coach, Giuseppe Lanzone, trains his team on the Potomac River, Washington, D.C., Oct. 26, 2012. (Craig Bisacre/The Washington Times)

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Georgetown Crew team on the Potomac River, Washington, D.C., Oct. 26, 2012 (Craig Bisacre/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** This Oct. 14, 2011, file photo shows actor Chevy Chase arriving at The Clinton Foundation Gala in Honor of “A Decade of Difference," at The Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo/Kristian Dowling, file)

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Israeli army vehicles form a convoy as soldiers prepare to drive out of southern Israel, near the Israel Gaza Strip Border, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. A cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers took effect Wednesday night, bringing an end to eight days of the fiercest fighting in years and possibly signaling a new era of relations between the bitter enemies. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)