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Moderator Bob Schieffer addresses the audience before the third presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Moderator Bob Schieffer, right, watches as President Barack Obama, center, shakes hands with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney during the third presidential debate at Lynn University. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Workers pose for a photo with a life-sized cutout of President Barack Obama at a presidential debate fair on the campus of Lynn University, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, in Boca Raton, Fla., where President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will hold their final debate. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Lynn University student Matt Alleva uses patriotic tubes to float on the water during a pre-debate pool party on campus, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, in Boca Raton, Florida. President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will hold their final debate at Lynn University Monday. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Moderator Bob Schieffer, right, watches as President Barack Obama, center, shakes hands with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney during the third presidential debate at Lynn University, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, in Boca Raton, Fla. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Moderator Bob Schieffer addresses the audience before the third presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at Lynn University, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, in Boca Raton, Fla. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Brookfield Police Chief Dan Tushaus briefs reporters in an evening news conference in Brookfield, Wis., on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. A man who had been accused of domestic violence and slashing his wife's tires took a gun into the spa where she worked and shot seven women, three fatally, before killing himself, Tushaus said. The shootings set off a confusing, six-hour search Sunday for the gunman that locked down a nearby mall, a country club adjacent to the spa and the hospital where the survivors were taken. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)

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A cyclist starts off on his 100-miles ride at the Livestrong Challenge Austin charity event on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, in Austin, Texas. Lance Armstrong greeted about 4,300 cyclists at his Livestrong charity's fundraiser and then retreated into privacy as cycling officials got set to announce if they will appeal his lifetime ban and loss of seven Tour de France titles ordered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. (AP Photo/Michael Thomas)

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Riders begin their 100-mile ride at the Livestrong Challenge Austin charity event on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, in Austin, Texas. Lance Armstrong greeted about 4,300 cyclists at his Livestrong charity's fundraiser and then retreated into privacy as cycling officials got set to announce if they will appeal his lifetime ban and loss of seven Tour de France titles ordered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. (AP Photo/Michael Thomas)

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Bike riders begin their 100-mile ride in the Livestrong Challenge Austin charity event on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, in Austin, Texas. Cyclist Lance Armstrong greeted about 4,300 cyclists at his charity's fundraiser and then retreated into privacy as cycling officials got set to announce if they will appeal his lifetime ban and loss of seven Tour de France titles ordered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. (AP Photo/Michael Thomas)

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Portland attorney Kelly Clark holds a letter at an Oct., 18, 2012, press conference in Portland, Ore., to the U.S. Congress regarding some of the 14,500 pages of previously confidential documents created by the Boy Scouts of America concerning child sexual abuse within the organization. The documents were publicly released despite The Boy Scouts' fight to keep those files confidential. (Associated Press)

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Portland attorney Paul Mones (right), with Kelly Clark, talks at a Oct., 18, 2012, press conference in Portland, Ore., about some of the 14,500 pages of previously confidential documents created by the Boy Scouts of America concerning child sexual abuse within the organization. The documents were publicly released despite The Boy Scouts' fight to keep those files confidential. (Associated Press)

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Boy Scout abuse victim Tom Stewart poses Aug. 16, 2012, for a photo with his old Scout uniform outside the Boy Scout Camp Kilworth in Federal Way, Wash. Former Boy Scouts still struggle to cope with the abuse they suffered at the hands of Scout leaders, and those who are willing to tell the stories of their abuse have come to feel abandoned by an organization considered a pillar of American society. "There are so many victims who have suffered in silence. Marriages and relationships with their kids have suffered," said Stewart, a 46-year-old engineer for Boeing. (Associated Press)

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Portland attorney Kelly Clark examines Oct., 16, 2012, in his office in Portland, Ore., some of the 14,500 pages of previously confidential documents created by the Boy Scouts of America concerning child sexual abuse within the organization. The documents were released two days later, despite The Boy Scouts of America's fight to keep those files confidential. (Associated Press)

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Brookfield Police Chief Dan Tushaus briefs reporters in an evening news conference in Brookfield, Wis., on Oct. 21, 2012, after a man who had been accused of domestic violence and slashing his wife's tires took a gun into the spa where she worked and shot seven women, three fatally, before killing himself. (Associated Press)