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President Barack Obama lays a wreath at the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York, Thursday, May 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Barack Obama arrives to lay a wreath at the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York, Thursday, May 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Barack Obama meets with police officers and first responders at the First Precinct before visiting the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York, Thursday, May 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Barack Obama meets with police officers and first responders at the First Precinct before visiting the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York, Thursday, May 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to firefighters at the headquarters of Engine Company 54, Ladder Company 4 and Battalion 9, in New York, U.S., on Thursday, May 5, 2011. The firehouse lost 15 members, the single largest loss of life of any firehouse among the 343 firefighters who died during the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Obama will go to New York's "Ground Zero" today, seeking to provide some closure to the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil now that the world's most hunted terrorist, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, won't be "walking on this earth again." Photographer: John Angelillo/Pool via Bloomberg
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President Barack Obama pauses after laying a wreath at the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York, Thursday, May 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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U.S. President Barack Obama, center, views a memorial honoring deceased members of the New York City Fire Department during a visit to the headquarters of Engine Company 54, Ladder Company 4 and Battalion 9, in New York, U.S., on Thursday, May 5, 2011. The firehouse lost 15 members, the single largest loss of life of any firehouse among the 343 firefighters who died during the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Obama will go to New York's "Ground Zero" today, seeking to provide some closure to the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil now that the world's most hunted terrorist, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, won't be "walking on this earth again." Photographer: John Angelillo/Pool via Bloomberg
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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to firefighters at the headquarters of Engine Company 54, Ladder Company 4 and Battalion 9, in New York, U.S., on Thursday, May 5, 2011. The firehouse lost 15 members, the single largest loss of life of any firehouse among the 343 firefighters who died during the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Obama will go to New York's "Ground Zero" today, seeking to provide some closure to the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil now that the world's most hunted terrorist, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, won't be "walking on this earth again." Photographer: John Angelillo/Pool via Bloomberg
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Capitals player Jason Arnott talks with the media at the Kettler Ice Complex in Arlington on Thursday, May 5, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Capitals player Jason Arnott talks with the media at the Kettler Ice Complex in Arlington on Thursday, May 5, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Capitals player Carl Alzner talks with the media at the Kettler Ice Complex in Arlington on Thursday, May 5, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Capitals player Mike Knuble talks with the media outside the locker room at the Kettler Ice Complex in Arlington on Thursday, May 5, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Capitals player Alex Ovechkin talks with the media at the Kettler Ice Complex in Arlington on Thursday, May 5, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Capitals player Alex Ovechkin talks with the media at the Kettler Ice Complex in Arlington on Thursday, May 5, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Capitals player Alex Ovechkin talks with the media at the Kettler Ice Complex in Arlington on Thursday, May 5, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Capitals general manager George McPhee talks with the media at the Kettler Ice Complex in Arlington, Va., on May 5, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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President Obama pauses Thursday after laying a wreath at the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. meets on Thursday, May 5, 2011, with congressional Republicans and Democrats at the Blair House in Washington in hopes of striking a deal on deficit reduction. From left are House Assistant Minority Leader James Clyburn, South Carolina Democrat; House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican; Mr. Biden; and Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, Hawaii Democrat, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee. (Associated Press)
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President Obama and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (right) meet Thursday with firefighters and first responders at Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9 before visiting the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York. (Associated Press)
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Pakistani police officers stop a foreign journalist on Wednesday, May 4, 2011, at a checkpoint on a road leading to the compound where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The residents of Abbottabad still are confused and suspicious about the killing of bin Laden, which took place in their midst before dawn Monday. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)