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A joint-services military honor guard carries the casket of Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., Tuesday, July 6, 2010, after a funeral service at the Memorial Baptist Church in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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A military honor guard escorts the casket of Sen. Robert Byrd, Tuesday, July 6, 2010, after a funeral service at the Memorial Baptist Church in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Linda Davidson, Pool)
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** FILE ** This is a July 2, 2004 file photo of the Very Rev. Jeffrey John at St. Albans Abbey in St. Albans, England. The Church of England may be on the verge of promoting a gay priest to bishop, a step that would widen the split over sexuality in the global Anglican Communion. (AP Photo/Michael Stephens/PA File)
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Sri Lankan protesters shout slogans as they clash with police outside the UN office during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Police have broken up a blockade of the U.N. office in Sri Lanka's capital and are escorting employees out hours after they were trapped. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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Sri Lankan protesters clash with police out side the UN office during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Police have broken up a blockade of the U.N. office in Sri Lanka's capital and are escorting employees out hours after they were trapped. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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People in New York protest the proposed construction of a mosque near the World Trade Center site Sunday, June 6, 2010.
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STANDING THEIR GROUND: Protesters object to proposed construction of a mosque near ground zero. Three separate plans to build mosques in the city are being met with anger. (Associated Press)
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A man attending the protest of the proposed construction of a mosque near ground zero holds a sign directed at New York's Mayor near the World Trade Center site in New York Sunday, June 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Swoan Parker)
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People in New York protest the proposed construction of a mosque near the World Trade Center site Sunday, June 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Swoan Parker)
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Pakistani Muslim devotees pray at the shrine of popular saint Data Ganj Baksh in Lahore, Pakistan on Friday, July 2, 2010. Suicide bombers attacked the shrine, killing 42 people and leaving many injured Thursday night. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)
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Protesters, holding a banner that reads "Suicide attacks are forbidden in Islam", rally in Karachi, Pakistan on Friday, July 2, 2010 to condemn Thursday's suicide attacks on the shrine of Sufi Data Ganj Baksh, in Lahore, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Christian Wulff, presidential candidate of the ruling German coalition, react prior to the election of the new German President during the Federal Assembly in the Berlin at the Reichstag parliament building, Wednesday, June 30, 2010. The Federal Assembly had to elect a new president after President Horst Koehler's resignation on May 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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Ethnic Uzbek gatther to attend a Friday prayer in a mosque in Jalal-Abad southern Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 25, 2010. Uzbek neighborhoods of southern Kyrgyzstan have been reduced to scorched ruins by rampaging mobs of ethnic Kyrgyz who forced nearly half of the region's roughly 800,000 Uzbeks to flee for their lives. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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Ethnic Uzbek and Kyrgyz citizens pray together during a Friday prayer outside a mosque at Uzbek ethnic neighbourhood in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 25, 2010. U.S. President Barack Obama said the two had also agreed to coordinate on humanitarian aid for Kyrgyzstan, wracked by turmoil in the wake of the president's ouster. Kyrgyzstan's president was driven from power in April amid corruption allegations, sparking violence that has left about 2,000 people dead and 400,000 ethnic Uzbeks homeless. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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People protesting takeover of land for factories in Nandigram, India, throw logs on the road to prevent entry of policemen. (Sujoy Dhar/Special to The Washington Times)
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D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee said she has some concerns about the D.C. Healthy Schools Act, among them the fact that some schools do not have cafeterias or kitchens. (The Washington Times)
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Joan Woolley, a volunteer with Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Oklahoma, reaches for a tray of lasagne from a portable oven as she and other volunteers prepare meals for the people of Galveston, Texas, in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike in September 2008. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Brett Coomer)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men gather in Bnei Brak, Israel, on Thursday, June 17, 2010, during a demonstration to protest an Israeli Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of a religious girls school. Tens of thousands of black-clad men staged mass demonstrations on Thursday in Beni Brak and Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men gather in Jerusalem on Thursday, June 17, 2010, during a protest against an Israeli Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of a religious girls school. Jerusalem police said about 100,000 people converged in the city center to support the parents who oppose integration and are to be jailed for two weeks for defying the integration efforts by keeping their daughters from school. (AP Photo / Oded Balilty)
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An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man climbs on a pole in Bnei Brak, Israel, on Thursday, June 17, 2010, during a demonstration against an Israeli Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of a religious girls school. Tens of thousands demonstrated in Bnei Brak, and an even bigger protest took place in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
