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Anna Gristina, who has been charged with promoting prostitution, appears in court in New York on Monday, March 12, 2012, with Peter Gleason, one of her lawyers, who has offered to put up his own apartment as bail for her. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)
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George Clooney answers questions from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on horrors he saw while visiting Sudan. With him are human rights activist John Prendergast (center) and Jonathan Temin of the United States Institute of Peace. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum gives a thumbs up during his election night party, Tuesday, March 13, 2012, in Lafayette, La. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Katy Butler, 17, a high school student, from Ann Arbor, Mich., poses by the petitions she delivered to the Motion Picture Association of America, Wednesday March 7, 2012, in Los Angeles. Butler is urging the MPAA to change the "R" rating to a "PG" for the "Bully" film. With her petition, Butler said that she was speaking out for all students who suffer every day from bullying. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A young woman carries a water canister to make bricks for her new house in a camp for internally displaced people in North Darfur, Sudan. Severely injured and disfigured 10 years ago by the long-running violence in the region of the African nation, she is trying to rebuild her life with her sister in the refugee camp.
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In this Monday, March 12, 2012, photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum campaign in Montgomery, Ala. Santorum won the Republican presidential primary Tuesday, March 13, in Alabama (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 and released by the United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), Kaltoum Yakoub Issa, 19, carries a water jerry can to make bricks for her new house in Abu Shouk camp for internally displaced people (IDP) in North Darfur, Sudan. (AP Photo/UNAMID, Albert Gonzalez Farran)
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Dharun Ravi listens to testimony March 12, 2012, during his trial at the Middlesex County Courthouse in New Brunswick, N.J. Ravi, 20, is accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man. His roommate, Tyler Clementi, committed suicide in September 2010, just days after the alleged spying. (Associated Press/The Star-Ledger)
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"Hispanics disproportionately lack either a driver's license or a personal identification card issued by [the state's Department of Public Safety]," Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez said in a letter. (Associated Press)
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was one of the dignitaries on hand as President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act on March 23, 2010. The Supreme Court will start hearing arguments on the law's insurance mandate on March 26. (Associated Press)
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Logo for the Cartoon Network's "Stop Bullying: Speak Up" initiative, for which President Obama will deliver a message.
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Greece's Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos speaks March 10, 2012, during a conference of the PASOK socialist party at Faliro, near Athens. (Associated Press)
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A poster hanging on the wall in the D.C. Superior Court building in Washington, D.C. shows "Black Women Paving the Way to Greatness in Politics." It curiously includes Ms. Davis. (The Washington Times)
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Egyptian activist Samira Ibrahim attends a rally in downtown Cairo on Thursday, March 8, 2012, to mark International Women's Day. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks during the Cape County Republican Women's Lincoln Day Dinner on Saturday, March 10, 2012, in Cape Giradeau, Mo. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Senate Minority Leader Richard L. Saslaw, Fairfax Democrat, left, and Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment, Jr., James City Republican, right, confer as the Senate met at the State Capitol in Richmond, Va. Thursday, March 8, 2012. The budget deadlock in the Senate continues. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Bob Brown).
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** FILE ** Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich smiles during a March 8, 2012, rally in Jackson, Miss. (Associated Press)
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House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said that conversations would continue in the House about a longer term approach to the nation's transportation needs. For now, he said he is willing to take up a Senate transportation bill. (Associated Press)
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Activist Loretta Nall, founder of the U.S. Marijuana Party, says it was unfair to not include her in the debates. "It's hard to overcome not being on the stage with the other contenders," she says. (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. Also pictured is Delegate Michael Hough, R-Frederick Co. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
