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ASSOCIATED PRESS From left, Washington Wizards' Gilbert Arenas, Brendan Haywood, Caron Butler watch the action from the bench in the fourth quarter in an NBA basketball game against the Phoenix Suns Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009, in Phoenix. The Suns defeated the Wizards 121-95.
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** FILE ** Rep. Mike Pence, Indiana Republican, stresses the importance of state fiscal responsibility. (Michael Connor/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Former Georgia Rep. Bob Barr takes part in a debate titled "Does Security Trump Freedom?" Friday, Feb. 19, 2010, during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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** FILE ** Thai Buddhist monks pray for peace as anti-government demonstrators gather to shout insults at police outside police headquarters on Friday, April 9, 2010, in Bangkok. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
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From left, National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Intelligence Reform. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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** FILE ** President Obama reviews the honor guard with Afghan President Hamid Karzai (left) at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, during Mr. Obama's unannounced visit on Sunday, March 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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**FILE**Transportation Security Administration's Behavior Detection Officer Terrence McClain (right) watches United Airlines passengers checking in for the morning flight at Washington's Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on April 8, 2010. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, who is chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, announces a financial reform package on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Barack Obama acknowledges the applause of the crowd as he arrives Sunday for commencement ceremonies at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Nigeria's acting president, Goodluck Jonathan (right), takes the oath of office in front of Chief Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu (left) to become the nation's next leader, at the presidential villa in Abuja, Nigeria, on Thursday, May 6, 2010. Mr. Jonathan was sworn in just hours after the death of the oil-rich country's elected leader, whose long illness had sparked a leadership crisis. (AP Photo)
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**FILE** A British Airways aircraft prepares to taxi at Heathrow Airport in London on Aug. 13, 2005. (Associated Press)
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President Obama, followed by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (center) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, arrive Friday to make a statement on Iran's nuclear facility during the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh. (Associated Press)
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Illustration: Reagan tax reform by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times.
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President Obama, chiding the Supreme Court justices sitting before him, claimed falsely during his 2009 State of the Union address that "even foreign corporations" could influence U.S. elections. (Associated Press/File)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Provost Peter Salovey center, and University President Richard Levin, left, at the Yale University commencement in New Haven, Conn. Monday, May 25, 2009. Clinton is a Yale Law School graduate and met Bill Clinton there in 1970.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (left), Kentucky Republican, listens as Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, talks to the media after the Senate Democratic caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Illustration: Wall Street by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times.
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In this file photo, President Barack Obama waved May 17 as he arrived to deliver the commencement speech during the 2009 graduation ceremony at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. This Friday, he will address graduates of the Naval Academy. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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In this file photo from Aug. 22, 2003, comedian Bill Cosby (left) joins Ben Ali (right) and Ali's wife Virginia during a celebration on the 45th anniversary of Ben's Chili Bowl Restaurant in Washington. Ben Ali, founder of the restaurant which became a Washington landmark, died Wednesday at his home in Washington. He was 82. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS People walk outside the United States embassy, a concrete-and-glass building by modernist architect Eero Saarinen, in central London. The U.S. government said Tuesday it has agreed to sell its vast embassy building to a Qatari government-owned company.
