Social Issues

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Election official Bob MacCallum reads a book while awaiting voters at the Greenspring retirement community in Springfield on Tuesday. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Supporters (above) of India's anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare rally to his cause Monday in New Delhi. Mr. Hazare, who has been fasting since last Tuesday, is unhappy with the Indian government's response to his proposed reform legislation. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (top) appeared resolute in not giving in to the activist's demands for a powerful watchdog office to stamp out graft and corruption. Top: Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare acknowledges the crowd as he returned to the stage after a break, in front of the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi at the Ramlila Grounds in New Delhi, India, Monday, Aug. 22, 2011. Hazare, who has entered the seventh day of his fast, is unhappy with the Indian government's response, aides said Monday, as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appeared staunch against caving to the activist's demands for a powerful anti-graft watchdog office. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)

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Nafissatou Diallo, the hotel housekeeper who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her, listens as her lawyer Kenneth Thompson speaks to the media following a meeting at the Manhattan prosecutor's office on Aug. 22, 2011. (Associated Press)

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The Mayor wants use the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial dedication as a platform for arguing state rights for the District. What's up with that? "I'm not sure I see the connection between Martin Luther King and states rights. In my mind Martin Luther King was very much about the federal government being fair to everyone. States rights are about imposing rules on some." Sun King Davis, actor, Southwest

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Grocery workers from Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons began voting on Friday in San Diego to reject a health care package proposed by the chains. Thousands of Southern California grocery workers voted overwhelmingly to reject a health care proposal from major supermarket chains and authorize their union leaders to call a strike, a spokesman said Sunday. (Associated Press)

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The Mayor wants use the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial dedication as a platform for arguing state rights for the District. What's up with that? "They're separate issues, but I think we should address [state rights] now. It takes one person to mess things up, but if everyone is involved we can get something done." Kenneth Grant, Capitol Hill, on disability

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The Mayor wants use the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial dedication as a platform for arguing state rights for the District. What's up with that? "They're separate issues, but I think we should address [state rights] now. It takes one person to mess things up, but if everyone is involved we can get something done." Kenneth Grant, Capitol Hill, on disability

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**FILE** Immigrant rights groups and community members call in Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 2011, for an end to the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Secure Communities program, which was created in 2008 and calls for police to submit suspects' fingerprints to DHS so they can be cross-checked with federal deportation orders. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Immigrant rights groups and community members rally in Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 2011, for an end to the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Secure Communities Program, which was created in 2008 and calls for police to submit suspects' fingerprints to DHS so they can be cross-checked with federal deportation orders. (Associated Press)

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Art Plotka (holding bullhorn), of Windsor, N.J., and other striking Verizon workers protest during a candlelight vigil at the home of Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam in Mendham, N.J., on Aug. 18, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Exhibit: "IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas" Through Feb. 22, 2012, at the National Museum of the American Indian

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A statue of former Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin stands guard outside the Treasury Building in Washington.

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Phil Soriano is outnumbered by women during choir practice at Leisure World retirement community north of Silver Spring, where two-thirds of the residents are women. Among Langley Park's recent immigrants from South America, women are a small minority. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS A towing-service employee wades through floodwaters to reach disabled cars on Amboy Road in Staten Island, N.Y., on Sunday. The weather service says showers and thunderstorms are expected to dump 2 more inches of rain on top of nearly 8 inches of rain that fell on New York City on Sunday. No deaths were reported.

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Confetti falls as Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, and her husband, Marcus, rally supporters at the Iowa Republican Party's Straw Poll in Ames, Iowa, on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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In this image taken on a cellphone by a citizen journalist and provided by Shaam News Network, protesters against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad hold up an Arabic banner reading, "Enough killing, will not bow," during a demonstration in the village of Maarat Harma in northern Syria's Edlib province on Friday, Aug. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network)