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New Orleans Saints tackle Zach Strief serves Gulf shrimp and andouille sausage skewers in the briefing room of the White House in Washington on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010, after a ceremony in which President Obama honored of the 2009 NFL Super Bowl-winning New Orleans Saints. At left is White House Assistant Chef Sam Kass. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Obama greets guests in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010, after a ceremony in which he honored the 2009 NFL Super Bowl-winning New Orleans Saints. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) prepares to testify before a state-appointed inquiry commission into the Israeli naval raid on a Gaza aid flotilla in Jerusalem on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Ronen Zvulun, Pool)

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Actress Mia Farrow is seen in an image taken from TV as she testifies at the Charles Taylor war crimes trial in Leidschendam, Netherlands, on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone via APTN)

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A South Korean marine surveys the situation behind a vulcan automatic cannon during an exercise on Baengnyeong Island, northwest of Seoul near the border with North Korea, on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. South Korean troops fired artillery and dropped sonar buoys into the Yellow Sea as naval drills kicked off near the spot where a warship sank four months ago. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Seo Myung-gon)

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Carole White the former agent of model Naomi Campbell is seen in this image taken from TV smiles as she gives evidence at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. White and actress Mia Farrow testifed about a gift of uncut diamonds the former Liberian president allegedly gave model Naomi Campbell after a 1997 party. (AP Photo/Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone, Via APTN)

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REMNANTS OF WAR: A South Ossetian honor guard pays his respects at a war memorial in the village of Khetagurovo on Sunday amid the wreckage of cars burned during the brief Russia-Georgia war in August 2008. Russian troops have stayed in South Ossetia to this day. (Associated Press)

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks to Russian troops stationed at the key Black Sea port of Gudauta in Abkhazia. Mr. Medvedev pledged Sunday to provide further support to breakaway Georgian regions on the anniversary of the Russian-Georgian war. He arrived in Abkhazia to hold talks with the Kremlin-friendly separatist government. (Associated Press)

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Adnan Shukrijumah, 35, is a suspected al Qaeda operative who lived for more than 15 years in the U.S. The FBI says he has become chief of the terror network's global operations. (FBI via Associated Press)

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The Washington Times Pro-lifer Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, gets into a shouting match over health care legislation at an August 2009 town-hall meeting held by Rep. James P. Moran, Virginia Democrat, in Reston, Va. A year later, both sides are still shouting.

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Associated Press Arizona Sen. John McCain lends support Sunday in Centennial, Colo., to a fellow Republican, former Colorado Lt. Gov. Jane Norton, in her bid for the party's senatorial nomination in Tuesday's primary.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Dan Coats, Republican nominee for U.S. Senate (right center), speaks with health care professionals during a roundtable discussion on health care at St. Francis Hospital in Indianapolis on Tuesday.

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FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2010 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is photographed in her chambers in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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President Paul Kagame speaks to Rwandans on a campaign stop in Nyagatare. Mr. Kagame is thought to be all but assured of re-election, but opposition leaders say they've been barred from participating. (Associated Press)

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Thomas Grams, 51, a dentist who formerly practiced in Durango, Colo., is shown in an undated photo released by Kay Shaw of Global Dental Relief, a Denver-based group that sends teams of dentists around the globe. He was killed in Afghanistan on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, along with five other Americans, two Afghans, one German and a Briton, Ms. Shaw said. (AP Photo/Global Dental Relief)

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Former student activists and pro-democracy politicians hold a quiet religious ceremony at a Buddhist monastery in an eastern suburb of Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010, to mark the anniversary of the 1988 uprising that was brutally crushed by Myanmar's military. More than a million people rose up Aug. 8 that year to protest an entrenched military-backed regime headed by Gen. Ne Win that had wiped out the savings of many by a sudden demonetization of the currency. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

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** FILE ** President George W. Bush awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Donna Shalala, president of the University of Miami and former secretary of health and human services, in the East Room of the White House in Washington in June 2008. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)