Politics

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An Afghan police officer gestures for an oil tanker carrying fuel for NATO forces to enter Afghanistan through Pakistan's border crossing at Torkham on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. Pakistan reopened the key border crossing to NATO supply convoys on Sunday, ending an 11-day blockade imposed after a U.S. helicopter strike killed two Pakistani soldiers. (AP Photo/Qazi Rauf)

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** FILE ** This Oct. 14, 1950, file picture shows Gen. Douglas MacArthur, left, and President Harry Truman in an automobile during a meeting on Wake Island to discuss the Korean War. Truman later told reporters the atomic bombing of North Korea was under consideration. MacArthur had a plan to drop 30 to 50 of the bombs, the general told journalists after the war. Sixty years after the start of the Korean War, recently released declassified documents have helped fill in the history of U.S. nuclear threats against North Korea over the decades. (AP Photo/WA, File)

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Local residents look to burning oil tankers after a militant attack in Mithri, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) east of Quetta, Pakistan, on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. Gunmen armed with a rocket torched 29 NATO oil tankers in southwestern Pakistan before dawn Saturday, the latest attack on the supply line for international troops in Afghanistan since Pakistani authorities closed a key border crossing amid a dispute with the United States. (AP Photo)

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President Obama stands with outgoing National Security Adviser James Jones, left, and his replacement, Tom Donilon, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Former president and UN special envoy to Haiti, Bill Clinton, arrives to visit people who were displaced by the earthquake at the Petionville Golf Club that is being used as a camp for the displaced in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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This Oct. 28, 2008, file photo shows Liu Xiaobo, right, reading a letter beside the grave of Bao Zunxin, a Chinese historian and political dissident who was arrested and jailed for his role in the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy protests in Beijing, China. Mr. Liu won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday Oct. 8, 2010. (AP Photo, File)

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Rep. John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks on the economy at a rally, Friday, Oct. 8, 2010, at United Group Services in West Chester, Ohio. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

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Palestinian supporters of the Islamic group Hamas raise their right index fingers in the air as a sign of loyalty during a rally to protest the killing of two Hamas militants in Hebron, in the Jebaliya refugess camp, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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** FILE ** In this May 27, 2009, file photo, National Security Adviser James Jones delivers remarks on national security to the Atlantic Council in Washington. Two senior administration officials say Jones is resigning as National Security Adviser. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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A 1964 file photo shows then U.S. Attorney Gen. Robert F. Kennedy in his office in Washington, D.C. Kennedy owned one of 48 printed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation that were signed by Lincoln, and now the copy Kennedy purchased in 1964 is being sold by his widow, Ethel, in a Dec. 10 sale at Sotheby's. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

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FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2010 file photo, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., talks during a discussion on workforce development held at Local 51 facility in East Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Stew Milne, file)

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FILE - In this July 13, 2010 file photo, Girlicious member Natalie Mejia arrives to the Jersey Shore Soundtrack Release Party in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)

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Rep. Henry Cuellar, Texas Democrat (right), and Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez discuss the disappearance of David Hartley in Mexico. (Associated Press)

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CURRENCY EVENTS: World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick rallied for more international cooperation. (Bloomberg)

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"Today, we face currency tensions. Tensions can lead to trouble if not properly managed," said World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick, who was a top U.S. trade official in the George W. Bush administration, after the opening news conference for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Washington. (Associated Press)

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Mr. O'Malley speaks at his gubernatorial rally in Bowie on Thursday. Democratic Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer and Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski also stumped for the governor.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS "As long as I'm your president and Martin O'Malley is your governor, we will not allow politicians ... to sacrifice your education for tax cuts we cannot afford," President Obama said at a campaign rally for Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on Thursday at a rally at Bowie State University.