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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker addresses the media at a news conference at Colgan Air Services at the La Crosse Municipal Airport in La Crosse, Wis., on Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. The governor called on the missing Democratic state senators to return to Madison, the state capital. (AP Photo/La Crosse Tribune, Erik Daily)
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Former Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, is taking over as head of the Motion Picture Association of America, the group announced Tuesday, March 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican, stands next to a painting of American Republican presidents during an interview with the Associated Press in his office on Capitol Hill on Sept. 21, 2010. (Associated Press/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington on Tuesday, March 1, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Libyan anti-government protesters, some carrying monarchist-era flags, chant slogans as they demonstrate against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, in the southwestern town of Nalut, Libya, Tuesday, March 1, 2011. The town is currently in control of the Libyan anti-government forces. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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A Libyan anti-government protester, holds a monarchist-era flag, and a poster expressing his accusations, during a demonstration against Libyan leader Moamar Gadhafi, in the southwestern town of Nalut, Libya, Tuesday, March 1, 2011. The town is currently in control of the Libyan anti-government forces. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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** FILE ** Mahdi Karroubi (right) and Mir Hossein Mousavi, leaders of the Iranian opposition, talk in Tehran in October 2009. (AP Photo, File)
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An anti-government protester reacts as he and other demonstrators shout slogans during a rally demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, on Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Yemen's embattled president has accused the United States and Israel of trying to destabilize his country and the rest of Arab world. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Libyan anti-government protesters, some carrying monarchist-era flags, chant slogans as they demonstrate against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, in the southwestern town of Nalut, Libya, Tuesday, March 1, 2011. The town is currently in control of the Libyan anti-government forces. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011, as Congress resumes work on a spending plan to avoid a government shutdown. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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** FILE ** German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg arrives for the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011. Mr. Guttenberg, Germany's most popular minister, resigned on Tuesday, March 1, 2011, over allegations of a plagiarized doctoral thesis. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
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Soldiers and dozens of tanks from the Libyan military's elite Khamis Brigade, led by Moammar Gadhafi's youngest son Khamis Gadhafi, take positions and check vehicles after arriving hours earlier on the road in Harshan, 6 miles east of Zawiya, in Libya, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Chicago Bulls' Carlos Boozer (5) scores against Washington Wizards' JaVale McGee (34) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Washington, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Andrew Auernheimer leaves the Martin Luther King, Jr. Courthouse after posting bail, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011, in Newark, N.J. Auernheimer had been in federal custody since his arrest in Arkansas on Jan. 18, on suspicion of stealing more than 100,000 e-mail addresses of Apple iPad users. He and San Francisco resident Daniel Spitler face one count each of fraud and conspiracy to access a computer without authorization. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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President Obama speaks during a bipartisan meeting of governors in the State Dining Room of the White House on Monday. The president told members of the National Governors Association about "innovation waivers" that would allow states to opt out of parts of the health care law. (Associated Press)
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Michael G. Vickers, assistant secretary of defense for special operations, said the Pentagon was not the appropriate agency to assess economic warfare and financial terrorism risks. (Associated Press)
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'TEAR DOWN THIS WALL': President Reagan gets a rousing response to his speech at the Brandenburg Gate in June 1987, two years before the divide between East and West Berlin was destroyed. (Associated Press)
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Libyans wave the country's monarchist-era flag Monday on a monument in the southwestern town of Nalut. The town is now under the control of Libyan anti-government forces. The protesters hope to take control of the entire country without outside intervention. (Associated Press)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday. The 27-nation bloc agreed on sanctions against Libya. (Associated Press)
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"Honestly, I think this two-week business is not the way to go. I think there should be a longer-term agreement, hopefully through the end of the year," said Sen. Kent Conrad, North Dakota Democrat. (Associated Press)
