Politics

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** FILE ** Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (center) is flanked by Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard (left) and school board President David Vitale during a news conference on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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** FILE ** President Obama addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Azmat Allah Kolmahmedov (left), the Russian ambassador to Syria, greets Aref Dalila, a Syrian opposition figure, at the opening session of a conference of some 16 opposition parties headed by the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change in Syria in Damascus, Syria, on Sept. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks to the media at a polling station after voting in parliamentary elections in Minsk, Belarus, on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. The main opposition parties boycotted the vote to protest the detention of political prisoners and opportunities for election fraud. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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An Indonesian police officer stands guard outside the house of a suspected militant after a police raid in Solo, Indonesia, on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012. An elite Indonesian anti-terror squad has arrested 10 Islamic militants and seized a dozen homemade bombs from a group suspected of planning suicide attacks against security forces and the government, police said Sunday. (AP Photo/A.K. Hendratmo)

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President Barack Obama walks from Usinger's Sausage to his car while eating bratwurst, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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President Barack Obama waves as he arrives at General Mitchell International Airport on Air Force One, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney boards his campaign plane in San Francisco, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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In this Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 photo, a Syrian woman holds a bouquet of flowers and rebel flag during a demonstration in the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday that nearly 30,000 Syrians have been killed during the 18-month uprising against the Assad regime. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)