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** FILE ** Jewish women and children deported from Hungary, separated from the men, line up for selection on the selection platform at the Auschwitz camp in Birkenau, in Nazi-occupied Poland, 1944. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** This Jan. 15, 2007, file photo shows New Orleans Saints football coach Sean Payton listening to a question at a news conference in New Orleans. The suspended New Orleans Saints head coach has agreed in principle to a multiyear contract extension, according to two people familiar with the deal on Friday Dec. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)

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Rev. Mel Kawakami (center) of the Newtown United Methodist Church and Rabbi Shaul Praver (right) of Congregation Adath Israel in Newtown speak in Newtown, Conn., at an interfaith prayer vigil to remember the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings on Dec. 28, 2012, two weeks after a gunman killed 20 children and six educators at the school. (Associated Press/Danbury News-Times)

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An Indian police officer (left) sports a cricket helmet Dec. 27, 2012, as fellow policemen stand near barricades and stop protesters on their way to India Gate while protesting against a gang-rape of a young woman in a moving bus in New Delhi. (Associated Press)

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Jewish women and children deported from Hungary, separated from the men, line up for selection on the selection platform at Auschwitz camp in Birkenau, Poland, in May 1944. (Associated Press/Yad Vashem Photo Archives)

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George Bush, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, looks through papers during the adoption of the agenda at the United Nations General Assembly at the headquarters in New York, Sept. 22, 1971. The U.S. and 16 other countries called on the General Assembly to seat Communist China in the United Nations while permitting Nationalist China to remain. (AP Photo)

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Naftali Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party, speaks in Ashdod, Israel, on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Mr. Bennett, the charismatic new leader of Israel's Jewish religious right, is siphoning a large chunk of votes from the prime minister's party, according to polls ahead of Jan. 22 election. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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This Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 photo shows a damaged hall at Trinity Episcopal Church as residents clean up and assess the damage from a Christmas Day tornado in Mobile, Ala. (AP Photo/G.M. Andrews)

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The Catholic archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, greets the choir as meals are provided to church attendees after Mass on Christmas Day at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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A processional makes its way to the altar as Catholic Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl (below) celebrates Mass for more than 3,500 — including Chidubem Nwabineli (right), 6, and his sister, Chinemelum, 8, of Bowie — on Christmas Day at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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A church attendant closes her eyes in prayer as Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington, celebrates the Solemn Mass of Christmas Day at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington on Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)