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The Washington Monument is barricaded with police tape in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, August 22, 2012. Anti-crime programs in the District are heavy on government bureaucracy and short on human interaction, according to a new coalition of neighborhood leaders who see mentoring and directly intervening with troubled teens and young people as more effective. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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President Barack Obama gestures while speaking at a campaign stop, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

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In this citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a destroyed house from Syrian government forces shelling, at Jouret al-Shiyah, in Homs province, Syria, Thursday Oct. 18, 2012. Syrian activists say a string of government airstrikes on rebel areas in the country's north has killed at least 20 people, leveled buildings and forced residents to dig through mounds of rubble in search of survivors. (AP Photo/Lens Yong Homsi)

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In this citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a general view of destroyed houses which was damaged by Syrian government forces shelling, at Baba Amr neighborhood, in Homs province, Syria, Thursday Oct. 18, 2012. Syrian activists say a string of government airstrikes on rebel areas in the country's north has killed at least 20 people, leveled buildings and forced residents to dig through mounds of rubble in search of survivors. (AP Photo/Lens Yong Homsi)

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A representative of Amnesty International holds petitions signed by 100,000 people around the world to demand the freedom of Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo Thursday Dec. 9, 2010 outside te Chinese Embassy in Oslo, Norway. A day before the Nobel committee honors Liu, an imprisoned Chinese dissident with its peace prize, China ratched up the rhetoric calling the award "an interference" in its internal affairs. (AP Photo/John McConnico)

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Pro-democracy protesters display a picture of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo with words "Releasing Liu Xiaobo" during a candlelight vigil demonstration in Hong Kong Tuesday, Nov.2, 2010. A human rights watchdog has slammed the U.N. secretary-general for failing to press China's president to release an imprisoned Nobel Peace laureate, accusing Ban Ki-Moon of caring more about his own re-election than the protection of dissidents. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

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** FILE ** Protesters opposed to abortion hold placards outside a Marie Stopes clinic in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

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In this citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, this general view shows destroyed houses that were damaged by Syrian government forces shelling, at Baba Amr neighborhood, in Homs province, Syria, Thursday Oct. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Lens Yong Homsi)

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A wounded protester holds up his shoe in front of Muslim brotherhood supporters, not seen, after scuffles broke out between groups of protesters in Tahrir square when chants against the new Islamist president angered some in the crowd in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. Thousands of supporters and opponents of Egypt's new Islamist president clashed in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday, hurling stones and concrete and swinging sticks at each other in the first such violence since Mohammed Morsi took office more than three months ago. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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A protester throws a stone as others take cover after scuffles broke out between groups of protesters in Tahrir square when chants against the new Islamist president angered some in the crowd in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. Thousands of supporters and opponents of Egypt's new Islamist president clashed in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday, hurling stones and concrete and swinging sticks at each other in the first such violence since Mohammed Morsi took office more than three months ago. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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A protester throws a stone after scuffles broke out between groups of several hundred protesters in Tahrir square when chants against the new Islamist president angered some in the crowd in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. The scuffles between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi reflect deep political divisions among the countryÃs 82 million people, more than a year after the popular uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Protesters gather in Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. Thousands of supporters and opponents of Egypt's new Islamist president clashed in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday, hurling stones and concrete and swinging sticks at each other in the first such violence since Mohammed Morsi took office more than three months ago. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)