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Former FEMA director Michael D. Brown has written "Deadly Indifference: The Perfect (Political) Storm: Hurricane Katrina, The Bush White House, and Beyond." (Rowan Littlefield Publishing Group)
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President Obama introduces (from third from right) Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Adm. James A. Winnefeld, the new vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs; and Gen. Ray Odierno, the next Army chief of staff, during a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House in Washington on Monday, May 30, 2011. Also pictured are (from left) National Security Adviser Tom Donilon and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures during a press conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Angered by civilian casualties, Mr. Karzai said he no longer will allow NATO airstrikes on houses. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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The legislation would ban free abortions at government-run clinics and prohibit the sale of the morning-after pill without a prescription. -- Russian lawmaker Yelena Mizulina
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A demonstrator, lifted by others in the crowd in Sanaa, Yemen, on Monday, shouts demands for Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign. Government forces attacked militants in the south. (Associated Press)
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has backed away from his earlier embrace of "cap-and-trade" programs to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and his earlier support of abortion rights, gun control and gay rights. (Associated Press)
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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray gestures to the crowd as he cruises down Constitution Avenue during the National Memorial Day Parade, in Washington, D.C., Monday, May 30, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Members of the U.S. Marine Corps Band from Quantico, Va., march down Constitution Avenue during the National Memorial Day Parade, in Washington, D.C., Monday, May 30, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times) ** FILE **
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From left, Carolyn and Ken Farley, of Manassas, Va., warm up with the Fifes and Drums of Prince William III group, before the National Memorial Day Parade, in Washington, D.C., Monday, May 30, 2011. The group is in conjunction with the National Society, Sons of American Revolution. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Waiting for the National Memorial Day Parade to start, Dan LeFevre sits in his World War II era jeep that he spent three years restoring, in Washington, D.C., Monday, May 30, 2011. LeFevre collects World War II era uniforms and attire from the war. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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From left, Helen Hassell, Pat Tyson and Judy Williams, wear their Civil War era clothing as they wait for the National Memorial Day Parade to start, near the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Monday, May 30, 2011. The women are with the group "FREED" - Female Re-enactors of Distinction, from the African-American Civil War Memorial and Museum in D.C. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Sierra West, 9, of Longmont, Colorado, cools off near a fire hydrant that was let loose on Constitution Avenue during the National Memorial Day Parade, in Washington, D.C., Monday, May 30, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Students in the marching band and color guard from Wilmot High School in Wisconsin march down Constitution Ave. during the National Memorial Day Parade, in Washington, D.C., Monday, May 30, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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The Maryland Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans prepare for the start of the National Memorial Day Parade, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Monday, May 30, 2011. The only qualification for membership into the group is you must be able to trace back to an ancestor that fought in the Confederate Army. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Las Vegas Mayor Oscar B. Goodman, who won a third term with 84 percent of the vote, is losing to term limits. Wife Carolyn is running to succeed him. (Associated Press)
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni (center) arrives for the inauguration ceremony of Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan at the main parade ground in Nigeria's capital of Abuja on May 29, 2011. (Associated Press File)
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Soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) run to rescue a colleague stuck under debris after a suicide attack in Herat, Afghanistan, on Monday, May 30, 2011. The attacker blew up an explosives-packed car at the gates of an Italian military base, killing several people, officials said. (AP Photo)
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** FILE ** President Obama, with Maj. Gen. Karl Horst (left), commander of the U.S. Army's Military District of Washington, places a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns during a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on Monday, May 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Obama introduces (from left) Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Adm. James A. Winnefeld, the new vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs; and Gen. Ray Odierno, the next Army chief of staff, during a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House in Washington on Monday, May 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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** FILE ** The nuclear plant in Neckarwestheim, Germany, will be shut down by 2022 in a plan announced by Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government on Monday, May 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)
