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** FILE ** Former Pakistani Information Minister Sherry Rehman listens to reporters in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. Pakistan has appointed Ms. Rehman, a democracy advocate who has faced militant death threats, as its new ambassador to the United States. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
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**FILE** Children line up Jan. 19, 2012, to receive a meal at a food distribution center for those displaced by last year's famine or by conflict, in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Associated Press)
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A Syrian rebel looks out after government tanks enter the northwestern city of Idlib, Syria, on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. (AP Photo)
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Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping reviews the troops during a full honors ceremony on Feb. 14, 2012, at the Pentagon in Arlington. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** U.S. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testifies Feb. 14, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Armed Services Committee to outline the Pentagon's budget. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** President Obama speaks at the Old Executive Office Building on Tuesday to urge Congress to extend the payroll-tax cut and unemployment insurance through the end of the year. (Associated Press)
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Democratic Delegates Bonnie L. Cullison (left), of Montgomery County, and Jill P. Carter, of Baltimore, exult after a bill to legalize same-sex marriage jointly passed two Maryland House committees Tuesday. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Indian police officers check out an Israeli diplomat's car that was damaged in an explosion Tuesday in New Delhi. Indian investigators suspect that a motorcycle rider attached the bomb to the car. (Associated Press)
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Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter reacts to the crowd as he and his wife Lori, right, take the stage for a rally with Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, in Elko, Nev. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Riot police look out for Bahraini anti-government protesters on Tuesday in Sanabis, on the edge of the capital of Manama. Clashes and attempts to march toward the well-barricaded hub of last year's pro-democracy protests marked the first anniversary of the uprising in the Gulf kingdom. (Associated Press)
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Point guard John Wall looks is averaging 16.2 points and 7.4 assists per game for the 6-22 Washington Wizards. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)
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Oscar Goodman, a former mob lawyer and three-time mayor of Las Vegas, stands outside the new museum, housed in a former federal courthouse where one of 14 Senate hearings on organized crime was held in the early 1950s. (Associated Press)
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British Prime Minister David Cameron says the Church of England should lead a revival of traditional Christian values to counter the nation's "slow-motion moral collapse." (Scanpix Sweden via Associated Press)
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Rick Berman, President and CEO, Berman and Company, takes time for a portrait in his office on Vermont Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, February 14, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr/ The Washington Times)
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President Obama meets with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Feb., 14, 2012, at the White House. (Associated Press)
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Syrian rebels are seen after government tanks entered the northwestern city of Idlib, Syria, on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. (AP Photo)
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President Obama pushes Congress to extend the payroll-tax cut and unemployment insurance through the end of the year during a speech on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. meets with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Police officers stand around an Israeli diplomat's car that was damaged in an explosion in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. Indian investigators were searching Tuesday for the motorcycle assailant who attached a bomb to an Israeli diplomatic car in the heart of New Delhi in an attack the Jewish state blamed on Iran or its proxies. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)
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Virginia House clerk G. Paul Nardo (left) listens Monday to Delegate Jennifer L. McClellan (second from right) as she speaks with House Speaker William J. Howell (third from right) at the Capitol in Richmond. The Republican party has enjoyed a banner first half of the General Assembly session, pushing through far-reaching legislation. (Associated Press)
