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Kevin Mochen, of Laconia, NH, listens as Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum delivers his campaign speech and fields questions from the audience at the Merrimack Valley Railroad Company in Northfield, NH, Thursday, January 5, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr/ The Washington Times)
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Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum addresses the Queen City Rotary Club at the Puritan Backroom restaurant. (Rod Lamkey Jr/ The Washington Times)
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Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum arrives to deliver his campaign speech at the Merrimack Valley Railroad Company in Northfield, NH, Thursday, January 5, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr/ The Washington Times)
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Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum stops for a brief moment to talk with reporters as he makes his exit after addressing the Queen City Rotary Club at the Puritan Backroom restaurant in Manchester, NH, Thursday, January 5, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr/ The Washington Times)
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Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum fields questions from the audience during his speech at a "Faith, Family and Freedom" town hall meeting at the Rockingham County Nursing Home Hilton Auditorium in Brentwood, NH, Wednesday, January 4, 2012, which lasted almost two hours. (Rod Lamkey Jr/ The Washington Times)
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Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum delivers his speech to a mixed crowd of younger and older people during a "Faith, Family and Freedom" town hall meeting at the Rockingham County Nursing Home Hilton Auditorium on Wednesday, January 4, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr/ The Washington Times)
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Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum talks about the social security surplus during his speech to a mixed crowd of younger and older people, for a "Faith, Family and Freedom" town hall meeting at the Rockingham County Nursing Home Hilton Auditorium in Brentwood, NH, Wednesday, January 4, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr/ The Washington Times)
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'TRUST': "I've never been for government-run health care," Rick Santorum told the Queen City Rotary Club on Thursday. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Mike Ahern (left) of Plymouth, N.H., asks GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum about the lack of jobs not related to stores that pay minimum wage that make it hard for people to succeed financially during a lunchtime visit to the Tilt'n Diner. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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In 1960, members of the African National Congress take part in a day of mourning at Orlando East, near Johannesburg. Against all odds, the party of Nelson Mandela is celebrating its 100th anniversary in Bloemfontein on Sunday. The building in the background says, "Away with Verwoerd." H.F. Verwoerd was South Africa's prime minister and a strong proponent of the racial policies that led to a mass shooting at Sharpesville. (Associated Press)
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President Obama, joined by Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (third from left), Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey (center) and various senior Defense Department and military officials, discusses the Defense Strategic Review and a military strategy that will include large defense cuts at the Pentagon on Thursday. (Associated Press)
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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta stands by President Obama as he explains changes to military force and strategy that will result in the biggest defense cuts since the end of the Cold War. (Associated Press)
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was indicted Thursday on corruption charges for allegedly seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. (Associated Press)
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Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin has 24 goals and 45 points this season. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
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The Financial Times referred to the U.S. Embassy being built in London as the "glazed green cube embassy." (State Department photo)
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The new U.S. Embassy in Malta is being built several miles from the Mediterrean island nation's capital, Valletta. (State Department photo)
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The design of the new U.S. Embassy in Berlin, a brooding structure completed in 2008, drew the scorn of German newspapers as grim and uninviting. (State Department photo)
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** FILE ** An anti-ballistic missile then under development by the U.S. and Israel lifts off in a test just off the California coast in July 2004. (Associated Press)
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First lady Michelle Obama talks with Jerry Trainor in an episode of Nickelodeon's "iCarly." The episode, premiering Jan. 16, centers on Carly's reaction when her military dad is redeployed. (Nickelodeon via Associated Press)
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President Obama, accompanied by Richard Cordray, visits a home in Cleveland on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012. In a defiant display of executive power, Mr. Obama bucked Senate Republican opposition to appoint Mr. Cordray as the nation's chief consumer watchdog. (Associated Press)
