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CURTIS LOVELL Escape artist Curtis Lovell has advice for voters who suddenly feel trapped by the election, politics and media coverage.
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** FILE ** A red pickup truck is moved from the scene of a incident after a chase between law enforcement and suspected human smugglers north of La Joya, Texas, on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. A Texas Department of Public Safety sharpshooter opened fire on an evading vehicle loaded with suspected illegal immigrants, leaving at least two people dead, sources familiar with the investigation said. (AP Photo/The Monitor, Joel Martinez)
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Mitt Romney speaks Monday at Avon Lake High School in Ohio. He has knocked President Obama’s use of waivers for welfare laws and No Child Left Behind but has said he would issue a blanket waiver to block much of the health care law. (Associated Press)
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Louise Pardee, 81, calls fellow senior citizens from a Shoreview, Minn., phone bank to urge them to vote against a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage on the statewide ballot next week. Getting the support of older voters could be a key bloc in the four states with such measures up for voter approval. (Associated Press)
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Delegate Neil Parrott , R-Washington Co., speaks during a news conference Thursday, June 30, 2011 in Annapolis, Md. The Republican-led group is trying to repeal the controversial new state law granting new benefits to illegal immigrants and is nearing the signatures required. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
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Refugees gather at the Thechaung camp set up for Rohingya Muslims who took refuge there after a previous wave of violence in June. Human rights groups say Myanmar’s failure to address the root causes of the crisis means the situation may get worse. (Associated Press)
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Muslim refugees arrive by boat in Thae Chaung, in western Myanmar, on Sunday. They walked to the nearby Thechaung camp, a place that’s home to thousands of refugees. (Associated Press)
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The Champs for Charity game at AllState Arena in Rosemont, Ill., raised $323,500 for Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland & Northwest Indiana.
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A Rakhine refugee lies on a bed Oct. 26, 2012, under medical treatment at Sittwe hospital in Sittwe, Rakhine State in western Myanmar. The death toll from recent ethnic violence in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine has surpassed 100, an official said Friday, as the government warned that the strife risks harming the country's reputation as it seeks to install democratic rule. (Associated Press)
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Bodies of suicide attack victims are covered in white cloth in the courtyard of a hospital in Maymana, Faryab province, northwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing dozens of people and wounding scores, government and hospital officials said. (AP Photo/Qawtbuddin Khan)
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Amra Babic, mayor of a Bosnian town, is hopeful about tolerance. “Finally we have overcome our own prejudices,” she says. “The one about women in politics, then the one about hijab-wearing women — and even the one about hijab-wearing women in politics.” (Associated Press)
