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The White House is seen at dusk as illuminated by lights from the North Lawn in Washington, DC, on October 7, 2008. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

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A row of portable toilets line the National Mall near the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

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The Pride of Baltimore II is a modern re-creation of a typical early United States privateering vessel. Civilians who took up privateering could hope to gain huge wealth while wreaking havoc on English commerce.

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Then-D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (left), Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier and then-City Administrator Dan Tangherlini huddle during a news conference on D.C.'s preparations for Inauguration Day. (Michael Connor/The Washington Times/File) **FILE PHOTO**

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** FILE ** Then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton confers with Sen. Charles E. Schumer before her confirmation hearing for secretary of state on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. (The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Members of the 111th Congress are sworn in on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Jan. 6, 2009.

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** FILE ** In this April 8, 2008, file photo Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington from Gen. David Petraeus. From the disappointment of a failed White House bid, Clinton is on the threshold of the world's stage as chief diplomat for the Democrat who defeated her.

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Agence france-presse/getty images Prince Harry says of his deployment to Afghanistan that he sometimes he had to "take a life to save a life."

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Queen Rania of Jordan speaks to reporters during a meeting of U.N. regional chiefs in Amman Monday. Rania called for emergency financial aid to U.N. agencies assisting the Palestinian refugees in Gaza. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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An Iranian girl and women react as they attend a religious procession to mark Ashura in Ardebil, Iran, in 2009. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

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**FILE** Hu Jintao is president of China, which has a one-child policy to control population growth. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS President-elect Barack Obama and his family will move this weekend into a suite at the Hay-Adams hotel across from the White House. **FILE**

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Associated Press Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama - who campaigned on "change we can believe in" - spoke to supporters at a primary night rally in St. Paul, Minn.

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** FILE ** Dick Clark brings in the New Year from New York's Times Square on "New Year's Rockin' Eve" in this undated photo. (AP Photo/ABC, Donna Svennevik)

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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, daughter Chelsea and husband Bill attend a New Year's Eve rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on Dec. 31. ASTRID RIECKEN/THE WASHINGTON TIMES

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** FILE ** Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (right) acknowledges Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during the 2008 funeral of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II at the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

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A ceremony is held Friday before a Chinese naval fleet set sail from Sanya city, in China's southernmost island province of Hainan. The warships, carrying special forces, helicopters and armed with guided missiles, were dispatched to Somalia for anti-piracy duty. (Associated Press)