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Surrounded by lights, performers sing from high above the crowd during the 2011 Living Christmas Tree program "Christmas Is Relative" at the First Baptist Church of Alexandria on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. The production features traditional and contemporary holiday music and a 25-foot Christmas tree filled with 100 singers and more than 50,000 synchronized lights. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Mary, played by Sara Butler, waves to children en route to the stage for the performance of the 2011 Living Christmas Tree program "Christmas Is Relative" at the First Baptist Church of Alexandria on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. Mrs. Butler's husband, David, plays Joseph. The production features traditional and contemporary holiday music and a 25-foot Christmas tree filled with 100 singers and more than 50,000 synchronized lights. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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TRANSFORMATIVE: Management guru W. Edwards Deming, seen here in February 1987, found an eager student during the last years of his life in the 1990s in Newt Gingrich. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Rabbi Abraham Shemtov (from right); Jacob Lew, director of the Office of Management and Budget; and Rabbi Levi Shemtov light the National Menorah on the Ellipse in Washington on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011, to mark Hanukkah. (The Washington Times)

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Rabbi Abraham Shemtov, center, waits to enter the grounds of the National Chanukah Menorah Lighting on the Ellipse. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)

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Rabbi Levi Shemtov, from left, Jacob J. Lew, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Rabbi Abraham Shemtov light the National Chanukah Menorah on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 20, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times) **FILE**

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Egyptian women angered by recent violence leveled against them in clashes between army soldiers and protesters demonstrate in Cairo on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. One protester carries a poster that reads in English: "Down with military rule, Military are liars and We will cut your hand." (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

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FILE- This Wednesday, June 8, 2011 file photo shows David Archuleta as he arrives at the 2011 CMT Music Awards in Nashville, Tenn. Utah's favorite son and 2007 American Idol runner-up David Archuleta says he'll take a break from his singing career to serve a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, FILE)

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Air Force Brigadier General Select Peter Masciola surprises his 10 year old son Kevin and 12 year old daughter Tamara at Saint Columbus School. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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Egyptians stand on a barrier set up by the military to separate army troops from demonstrators near Tahrir Square in Cairo. Hundreds of soldiers in riot gear swept through the square early Monday and opened fire on protesters who demanded an immediate end to military rule. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A line forms for entry into the Plaza 23 Event Center in Temple Hills. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Pope Benedict XVI spent more than an hour Sunday at Rome's Rebibbia prison meeting with detainees and calling for greater dignity for inmates everywhere. (L'Osservatore Romano via Associated Press)

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Egyptian protesters protect themselves behind makeshift shields during clashes with army troops near Tahrir Square in Cairo on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abu Zaid)

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** FILE ** President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the 71st General Assembly of the Union for Reform Judaism, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, in National Harbor, Md. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

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President Obama speaks on Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, during the 71st General Assembly of the Union for Reform Judaism at National Harbor in Oxon Hill. (Associated Press)

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Archbishop of Utrecht Wim Eijk speaks Dec. 16, 2011, during a press conference in Zeist, Netherlands. (Associated Press)

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This image released Dec. 14, 2011, by Time Magazine shows the Person of the Year issue featuring "The Protester." The magazine cited dissent across the Middle East that has spread to Europe and the U.S. and says these protesters are reshaping global politics. (Associated Press/Time Magazine)

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The minaret of a vandalized mosque in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood is seen Dec. 14, 2011, after unknown arsonists torched the inactive mosque, provoking calls in Israel for a more effective crackdown on Jewish extremists suspected in a string of increasingly brazen acts of violence. (Associated Press)

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Protesters in Oregon set up a picket line at a Port of Portland terminal on Monday, a "day of action" on the West Coast that affected shipping from California to British Columbia. The anti-Wall Street protesters had the idea that if they cut off the ports, they cut into corporate profits. (Associated Press)