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** FILE ** In this Sept. 15, 2011 file photo, Rep. Todd Platts, Pennsylvania Republican, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Platts is leaving Congress after 12 years, saying he's a believer in term limits. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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Anthony McIntyre, a former IRA member is seen in Drogheda, Ireland, last week. Ed Moloney, a former Belfast journalist, and the former IRA member who collected the interviews, Mr. McIntyre, go to court on Tuesday in Boston seeking to persuade Judge William Young to let Boston College keep the audiotapes out of the hands of Belfast police who are probing the Irish Republican Army's 1972 killing of Jean McConville, the Belfast mother 10. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Jeff Zients, deputy director for the Office of Management and Budget, briefs reporters March 2, 2011, at the White House. (Associated Press)
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King Mohammed VI (right) met with Abdelilah Benkirane, Morocco's new prime minister, days after elections in November. All eyes will be on Mr. Benkirane and how he reacts to the growing power of the king's men. The king has made a flurry of appointments to his royal Cabinet in recent weeks, men who look poised to challenge the new government's power. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns Jan. 17, 2012, at the Florence Civic Center in Florence, S.C. (Associated Press)
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White House press secretary Jay Carney gives his daily briefing on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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Yemeni protestors chant slogans Jan. 16, 2012, during a demonstration demanding the prosecution of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen. (Associated Press)
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks Jan. 16, 2012, during the South Carolina Republican presidential candidate debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. (Associated Press)
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination at the Florence Civic Center in Florence, S.C., on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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A color-coded chart at a detention center in Imperial Beach, Calif., details procedures for agents to follow in the U.S. Border Patrol's new Consequence Delivery System, part of the agency's strategy for dealing with migrants caught illegally crossing the border with Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Texas Rep. Ron Paul speaks Jan. 16, 2012, during the Republican presidential candidate debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. (Associated Press)
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Texas Rep. Ron Paul speaks Jan. 16, 2012, during the Republican presidential candidate debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. (Associated Press)
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A freed Syrian prisoner (left) hugs a relative after being released from Adra Prison on the northeast outskirts of Damascus, Syria, on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. SANA, the state news agency, said Sunday that President Bashar Assad had granted a general amnesty for crimes committed during the unrest of the past 10 months. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)
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A former Taliban militant (center) holds the national flag of Afghanistan as other militants stand with faces covered during a joining ceremony with the Afghan government in Ghazni, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. About 25 former Taliban members handed over their weapons and joined with the Afghan government as part of a peace-reconciliation program. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Naikzad)
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Yang Hyong-sop, vice president of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, meets with a delegation from the Associated Press at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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From left, GOP presidential hopefuls Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich take the stage for a debate at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center, Myrtle Beach, S.C., Monday night. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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A boy lays down on the lap of a man in the audience as Republican presidential hopefuls Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich speak at a Presidential Debate held by The South Carolina Republican Party, Fox News Channel, The Wall Street Journal, and Twitter at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center, Myrtle Beach, SC, Monday, January 16, 2012.(Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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Video cameras capture the Republican presidential hopefuls Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich at a Presidential Debate held at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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Members of the audience applaud as Republican presidential hopefuls Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich attend a Presidential Debate held by The South Carolina Republican Party, Fox News Channel, The Wall Street Journal, and Twitter at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center, Myrtle Beach, SC, Monday, January 16, 2012.(Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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Members of the audience listen as Republican presidential hopefuls Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich speak at a Presidential Debate at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
