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Former president and UN special envoy to Haiti, Bill Clinton, right, speaks with people who were displaced by the Jan. earthquake as he visits people who live in 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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"The best thing we can do in Washington is really just to calm down, to quit making sweeping changes," Sen. Bob Corker said. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS President Barack Obama speaks at a fundraising event in Seattle, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010.
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Syrian first lady Asma Assad (left) contacted the Turkish prime minister's wife, Emine Erdogan, to finalize the transfer. Officials say this act of kindness will improve relations between the neighboring countries. (Associated Press)
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President Obama stands with Sen. Patty Murray, Washington Democrat, during a fundraiser Tuesday in Seattle.
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In this undated photo, originally posted on a Facebook page belonging to Eden Aberjil, and taken from the Israeli blog site sachim.tumblr.com, an Israeli army soldier poses in front of blindfolded men identified in the Israeli new media as Palestinian prisoners. Israeli news media and bloggers have identified the soldier in the photos as Aberjil. (AP Photo/sachim.tumblr.com)
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A Palestinian man identified by a Turkish news agency as Nadim Injaz stands in the window of the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries. (AP Photo/Eli Dassa)
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Israeli police officers are seen in front of the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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An Israel border police officer holds his weapon as a paramedic rushes put of the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries. (AP Photo / Ariel Schalit)
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Israeli Police officers are seen in front of the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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A Palestinian man identified by a Turkish news agency as Nadim Injaz stands in the window of the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries. (AP Photo/Eli Dassa)
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Israeli police officers are seen in front of the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
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An Israeli border police officer secures the area in front of the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
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A Palestinian man identified by a Turkish news agency as Nadim Injaz gestures through the window of the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries.(AP Photo/Eli Dassa)
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Israeli police officers are seen in front of the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, speaks during a press conference on energy, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, speaks during a press conference on energy, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Pallbearers carry the casket of former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski into St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in Chicago on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. Hundreds of mourners, including some former congressional colleagues and the city's mayor, packed the church to pay final tribute to the longtime politician. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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In this image from mobile phone video people look on the scene where at least 61 people were killed and 125 wounded in Iraq on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, when a suicide bomber blew himself up among hundreds of army recruits who had gathered near a military headquarters in the capital, Baghdad. (AP Photo)
