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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano speaks with Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (right), Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, prior to her testimony before the panel on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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U.S. Marine Gen. John R. Allen, the top NATO commander in Afghanistan, gives an interview to the Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican, introduced the amendment to block the U.S. Department of Agriculture from limiting potatoes or other vegetables in school lunches. She cited additional costs on school districts that would result. (Associated Press)
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Marcus Johansson (90) of the Washington Capitals scores against the Florida Panthers in the first period as the Capitals host the Panthers at the Verizon Center in Washington,D.C., Tuesday, October 18, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)
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Released Hamas militant Fakhri Barghouti waves to the crowd after arriving in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. The Hamas militant group released an Israeli soldier Tuesday more than five years after his capture, turning him over to Egyptian mediators in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Sentenced to life for killing an Israeli, Barghouti had spent 34 years in prison, making him one of the longest-serving inmates. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, left, stands with released Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Al Hasani, center, among others as they celebrate during a welcoming ceremony, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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Palestinians dance and wave various flags, at the Bourj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday Oct. 18, 2011. The group gathered to celebrate the release of hundreds of Palestinian detainees from Israeli jails in a prisoners exchange with Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, between the Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel. ( AP Photo/Ahmad Omar)
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Palestinian youths celebrate the release of prisoners at the Rafah border crossing in southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)
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Freed Palestinian prisoner Palestinian Khalil Abu Alba who deliberately drove a bus into a crowd of Israelis killing 8 people, is greeted by Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh during a rally celebrating the release of Palestinian prisoners in Gaza City, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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Freed Palestinian prisoner Palestinian Yehiye Sinwar, a founder of Hamas' military wing, center, is greeted by Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh during a rally celebrating the release of Palestinian prisoners in Gaza City, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. Sinwar, a founder of Hamas' military wing, told the crowd that Palestinian militant groups must win freedom for the remaining prisoners by "all necessary means. Sinwar, among those freed Tuesday, had been sentenced to life for his role in the abduction and killing of two Israeli soldiers in the 1980's. He stopped short of calling for new abductions in his speech, but did so in interviews earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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Freed Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails flash "V" signs as they bear from their bus while they leave the Egyptian terminal of the Gaza Egypt border crossing of Rafah, Egypt Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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Released Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit (second from right) walks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second from left), Defense Minister Ehud Barak (left) and Israeli Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz at the Tel Nof Air Base in southern Israel on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Israeli Defense Ministry)
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Released Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, is escorted by his father Noam Schalit, right, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense minster Ehud Barak as he arrives at Tel Nof Air base in southern Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/ GPO, HO)
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Released Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, left, shakes hand with Defense Minister Ehud Barak as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, smiles at the Tel Nof Air base in southern Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/ Defense Ministry, Ariel Hermoni, HO)
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Released Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit walks down the stairs into his home in Mitzpe Hila, northern Israel, after over five years in captivity, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/ IDF)
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Noam Schalit, right, and Aviva Schalit, third right, parents of Israeli captured soldier Gilad Schalit walk together with their son Yoel, fifth right, and his girlfriend Yaara Winkler, fourth right, along with Israeli army officers towards an Army helicopter, not seen, in Tefen, northern Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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An Israeli military Helicopter carrying released soldier Gilad Schalit lands in Mitzpe Hila, northern Israel,Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011 . (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Released Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit is escorted by members of Hamas and Egyptian mediators on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing, Monday, Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Khalid Farid)
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Associated Press Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Leopoldo Lopez greets supporters as wife Lilian Tintori holds daughter Manuela, 3, at a Sept. 24 rally in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Republican presidential candidates Herman Cain, left, shakes hands with Texas Gov. Rick Perry, right, as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney looks on before a Republican presidential debate Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)
