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Helen Kilgere with the Dubuque Rotary Club gets squeezed by reporters and videographers trying to get close to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich following his campaign speech to the civic organization at the Dubuque Golf & Country Club in Dubuque, Iowa, on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his wife, Callista, depart after a Christmas Mass celebrated by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011, in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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A veteran sitting onstage behind Rep. Ron Paul, a GOP presidential candidate, raises a fist of support as Mr. Paul delivers a speech highlighting veterans at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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President Obama speaks Feb. 28, 2012, at the United Auto Workers conference in Washington. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum greets diners at New Beginnings Restaurant in Kentwood, Mich., on Feb. 28, 2012. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (right), accompanied by Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 28, 2012, before the Senate Budget Committee on the Pentagon's fiscal 2013 budget. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Members of the United Auto Workers rally Feb. 24, 2012, outside Ford Field in Detroit before Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney addresses the Detroit Economic Club. (Associated Press)
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Fayssal al-Hamwi, Syria's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, delivers Feb. 28, 2012, his statement to the debate on Syria during the 19th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva. (Associated Press/Keystone)
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President Obama speaks Feb. 27, 2012, before the National Governors Association at the White House. (Associated Press)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convenes the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012. Netanyahu says Iran's nuclear program will take center stage in his upcoming talks with North American leaders. (AP Photo/Jim Hollander, Pool)
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A woman passes by posters of Vojislav Seselj, the leader of the ultra-nationalist SRS-Serbian Radical Party, that read "Serbia doesn't want the EU — Serbia wants Seselj", in Belgrade, Serbia, on Feb. 28, 2012. European Union foreign ministers will decide Tuesday whether Serbia should become a candidate for membership in the bloc after it reached a key agreement with its former province of Kosovo. (Associated Press)
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The stricken Costa Allegra cruise ship is seen at sea near the Seychelles on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, in a photo taken by the Indian navy. (AP Photo/Indian navy via the Seychelles Office of the President)
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A Free Syrian Army fighter runs as Syrian government troops advance toward the town of Sarmin, in northern Syria, on Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney addresses supporters at the Royal Oak Music Theatre in Royal Oak, Mich., on Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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** FILE ** Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney signs autographs outside his campaign bus after a campaign rally at Tri-City Christian Academy in Chandler, Ariz., Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks at the Livonia Chamber of Commerce breakfast in Livonia, Mich., on Monday as he makes a pitch for votes the day before Michigan voters go to the polls.
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President Obama told his audience at a gathering of the National Governors Association at the White House Monday that higher education includes a community college degree for a skilled manufacturing job and not just a four-year degree. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has received the endorsements of immigration hard-liners such as Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, former California Gov. Pete Wilson and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally in Albion, Mich., Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
