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AC Milan Ghana midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng (second from right) is flanked by his teammate Mathieu Flamini as he gestures towards the crowd in Busto Arsizio, near Milan on Jan. 3, 2013. A friendly match between AC Milan and lower division club Pro Patria was abandoned after racist chants directed at Milan's black players, the latest incident of racial abuse that continues to blight the sport. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** A girl sits on a Newtown bus leaving the new Sandy Hook Elementary School after the first day of classes in Monroe, Conn., on Jan. 3, 2013. The Sandy Hook students started that day in their new school, formerly called Chalk Hill School in Monroe. It was renamed Sandy Hook Elementary and overhauled especially for the students from the Sandy Hook School shooting. (Associated Press)
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A bus traveling from Newtown, Conn., to neighboring Monroe stops in front of 26 “angels” along the roadside on the first day of classes in Monroe on Thursday for Sandy Hook Elementary School students. A vacant Chalk Hill School in Monroe was overhauled especially for the students after the Sandy Hook School shootings that killed 26 on Dec. 14. (Associated Press)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, applauds after handing the gavel to House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, who was re-elected as House Speaker of the 113th Congress, on Jan. 3, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press)
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House Speaker John A. Boehner enters the U.S. House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, after surviving a roll-call vote for re-election in the newly convened 113th Congress. He is escorted by Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy and Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (front row), California Democrat, poses with other female House members on the steps of the U.S. House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, before the official opening of the 113th Congress. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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In “Promised Land,” John Krasinski is an activist who sees risks in allowing a gas company to start fracking on town-owned land. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this Nov. 10, 2011, file photo, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett makes remarks during a news conference after a Penn State Board of Trustees meeting in State College, Pa. Corbett said Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, he plans to sue the NCAA in federal court over sanctions imposed against Penn State in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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** FILE ** In this Dec. 18, 2012, file photo, a school bus rolls toward a memorial in Newtown, Conn., for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Nearly three weeks after the shooting rampage, classes are starting Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, for the Sandy Hook students at a repurposed school in the neighboring town of Monroe, where the students' desks have been taken along with backpacks and other belongings that were left behind in the chaos following the shooting on Dec. 14. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
