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A traditional fence in the Shpati region of central Albania is seen here. (Eckehard Pistrick/Special to The Washington Times)

The original icons at the Church of St. Martin in Joronisht, Shpati, were destroyed during the communist regime and have been replaced with cheap copies. (Eckehard Pistrick/Special to The Washington Times)

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The village photographer in Selta, Albania, poses with a basket of colored Easter eggs — a tradition that was strictly forbidden under the communist regime. (Eckehard Pistrick /Special to The Washington Times)

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Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, a former House speaker, speaks to a full house at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington's Lumina Theater in Wilmington, N.C., on Wednesday, April 4, 2012. (AP Photo/The Star-News, Paul Stephen)

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**FILE** National Public Radio's Studio 4A in Washington, D.C. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Hundreds of Egyptian supporters of Muslim Brotherhood presidential hopeful Khairat el-Shater surround his car outside the Higher Presidential Elections Commission in Cairo on April 5, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left), the U.N.-Arab League special envoy to Syria, poses with Maj. Gen. Robert Mood of Norway before a meeting at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva on Wednesday, April 4, 2012. Gen. Mood is heading a planning team for a possible deployment of a U.N. supervision and monitoring mission in Syria. (AP Photo/Keystone/Martial Trezzini)

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Hundreds of supporters of Muslim Brotherhood presidential hopeful Khairat el-Shater gather April 5, 2012, outside the Higher Presidential Elections Commission in Cairo. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Richard M. Daley, then the mayor of Chicago, points to a .50-caliber assault weapon during a news conference in 2005. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

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In this undated photo, Reema Abdullah, striker of Jeddah Kings United all female team, poses in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Abdullah, Saudi Arabian female sports commentator and an amateur football player in the ultraconservative Muslim country, says she will be one of the 8,000 people who will carry the Olympic flame for the 2012 London Games. (Associated Press/Reema Abdullah)

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, answers questions March 23, 2012, on Capitol Hill from reporters about challenges facing President Obama's health care overhaul law in the Supreme Court. (Associated Press)

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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League special envoy for Syria, awaits the arrival of Maj. Gen. Robert Mood from Norway at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva on Wednesday, April 4, 2012. Gen. Mood will lead a team to negotiate the possible deployment of U.N. monitors for any cease-fire between Syrian troops and rebel forces. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

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** FILE ** Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, meets in July 2006 with a delegation of 160 officials and lawmakers from northern Uganda and representatives of non-governmental organizations in Congo near the Sudan border. (Associated Press)

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GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney takes his turn speaking to the American Society of News Editors on Wednesday, a day after President Obama told his side of the story. (Associated Press)

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Former Sen. George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, arrives for the funeral Mass for R. Sargent Shriver, Mr. McGovern's vice presidential running mate, at Our Lady of Mercy Church in Potomac, Md., on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011 (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, Pool)

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Job seekers pass a military jet during a job fair for veterans on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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In this Wednesday, April 4, 2012, photo, Syrians raise their hands vowing to continue fighting until President Bashar Assad's regime falls during a protest in a neighborhood in Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo)

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The U.S. State Department has placed a $10 million bounty on Hafiz Mohammad Saeed (center), who founded the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. (Associated Press)

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Cristina Rivera of St. Louis, Mo., right, holds an L.E.D. candle as dignitaries lead a candle light vigil at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Dignitaries including Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (fifth from right), D.C. Democrat; Christine Chavez (sixth from right,), the granddaughter of Cesar Chavez; Arun Gandhi (fifth from right), the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi; Harry Johnson (right), president and CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Project; and Marc Morial (second from right), president of the National Urban League, lead a candlelight vigil at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)