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FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 file photo, Chinese director Zhang Yimou arrives to attend Daejong Film Festival in Seoul, South Korea. Zhang must pay more than $1.2 million in fines for having three children in violation of China's strict family planning rules, officials said Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
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FILE - In this June 26, 2010 file photo, Warren Haynes, right, performs with Derek Trucks during the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago. Haynes and Trucks are leaving the Allman Brothers Band at the end of the year. A statement released by the band's spokeswomen Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014, says the guitarists are leaving the band to spend more time with their families. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
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In this Jan. 8, 2014, photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a Cuban-American, speaks about the "American dream" on the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s first State of the Union address in 1964, where LBJ committed the government to a war on poverty, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rubio’s speech was hosted by the conservative American Enterprise Institute. Dealing with an empathy gap, Republicans are trying to forge a new image before the 2014 midterm elections as a party that helps the poor and lifts struggling workers into the middle class. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
