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Former businessman Herman Cain has said he would change some of the U.N.'s rules. Mr. Cain, a GOP presidential hopeful, says he admires the hard-line foreign-policy views of a former U.S. envoy to the U.N.
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David Diggs, of Washington, D.C., ties up the skates for his daughter, Josie. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)
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Republican Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling's profile will rise in the next General Assembly with his role as tiebreaker in the evenly divided state Senate. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Popular Party candidate Mariano Rajoy waves to gleeful supporters in Madrid on Sunday. With his party winning a huge majority in the Spanish parliament, Mr. Rajoy is set to become the nation's next prime minister. (Associated Press)
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Egyptian riot police advance during clashes Sunday with protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square. They battled for a second day with thousands of demonstrators demanding that a date be set for the handover of power from the military to a civilian government. (Associated Press)
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The 42-year marriage of Danuta and Lech Walesa was strained as when his leadership of Poland's Solidarity movement took him away from their family. Mrs. Walesa says in an upcoming autobiography that she paid a huge price for her husband's struggle against communism, talking publicly for the first time about her loneliness and fear for the family's unity as her husband gained worldwide recognition with his political work. (Associated Press)
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Republican Presidential hopeful Texas Rep. Ron Paul answers a question during a campaign event Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, at the Lawrence Community Center in Anamosa, Iowa. (AP Photo/The Gazette, Brian Ray)
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Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero leaves after voting and giving a speech at a voting station in Madrid, Sunday, Nov, 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
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The U.S. Capitol building is seen Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011, in Washington. The six Democrats and six Republicans on the supercommittee, as it's familiarly called, have until next Wednesday, Nov. 23, to come together on a deficit reduction plan. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem speaks during a press conference, in Damascus, Syria, on Monday Nov. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)
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Virginia players celebrate their 14-13 victory over Florida State on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011, in Tallahassee, Fla.(AP Photo/Steve Cannon)
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Virginia players celebrate their 14-13 victory over Florida State on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011, in Tallahassee, Fla.(AP Photo/Steve Cannon)
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**FILE** Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (left) speaks Nov. 12, 2011, during the CBS News/National Journal foreign policy debate at the Benjamin Johnson Arena in Spartanburg, S.C., as fellow candidate and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney listens. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Attendees at the Retreat Session of the East Asia Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, on Nov. 19, 2011, include (from left) U.S. President Barack Obama, Myanmar President Thein Sein (rear), Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Vietnamese President Nguyen Tan Dung, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. (Associated Press)
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Grover Norquist, president of a taxpayer advocacy group, Americans for Tax Reform, center, meets with a group of millionaires discuss issues related to the debt supercommittee, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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** FILE ** Members of the House Republican freshman class, led by class President Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., center, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011, to discuss a Balanced Budget Amendment. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
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A pro-Syrian regime protester, waves a Syrian flag from a fountain during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday Nov. 16, 2011, to protest against the Arab League meeting being held in Morocco. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)
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U.S. President Barack Obama stands with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as he announces that she will travel to Myanmar, on the sidelines of the ASEAN and East Asia summit in Nusa Dua, on the island of Bali, Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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The campaign of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., a Republican presidential candidate, received some much-needed help with a massive ad purchase by a supportive super-PAC. (Associated Press)
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