Social Issues

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** FILE ** Spaniards protest in Madrid's Puerta del Sol plaza on Thursday, May 19, 2011. Spanish university students and youth groups were protesting against a youth unemployment rate of 40 percent and austerity measures taken to end Spain's debt crisis. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Wesleyan University students in Middletown, Conn., pick up cheeses at a co-op in a dorm basement. College students nationwide are becoming more aware of the quality of their food.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele got campaign cash from developer Patrick Q. Ricker through "straw donors." Nothing in his plea agreement indicates they were aware of the illegal nature of the contributions.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told Republican officials they must depend on themselves to raise enough money to carry their states for the GOP in 2012. "The days of you and your state being able to rely on the Republican National Committee for money to get out the vote are over," Mr. Barbour said.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Senate candidate Tim Kaine, a Democrat, has been pressured by Republicans to release documents that could further explain his decision as governor of Virginia to transfer convicted murderer Jens Soering to German custody.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS "To defend my husband I'm ready to fight tooth and nail," Anne Sinclair, wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, once said. The former French television journalist has flown to New York, where her husband is being held on charges he sexually assaulted a hotel maid.

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** FILE ** Approximately 100 sex-abuse victims and their supporters march on Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004, in Boston from the Cathedral of the Holy Cross to the Massachusetts Statehouse to urge Gov. Mitt Romney to appoint a clergy-abuse task force to oversee the church in Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)

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Stanley Thornton Jr., 30, is being fed with a bottle by his roommate, Sandra Dias. They were featured on National Geographic Channel's "Taboo" program. Sen. Tom Coburn is questioning their disability payment eligibility.

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Syrians who fled from violence in their country's western villages along the Lebanese-Syrian border protest against Syrian President Bashar Assad and his regime, in the Wadi Khaled area of Lebanon, about one-half mile from the border, on Monday, May 16, 2011. (AP Photo)

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Rick Welts, 58, president and CEO of the Phoenix Suns, is the first high-ranking executive in a men's major team sport to publicly disclose his homosexuality.

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Young men create their own pointy-toed boots to wear in a dance competition in Matehuala. The boots' popularity spread from Matehuala to nearby cities and then to U.S. cities with many Mexican migrants.

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Israeli troops take positions along the border fence between Israel and Syria after Syrian demonstrators marking the anniversary of the mass displacement of Palestinians surrounding Israel's establishment in 1948 approached the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Height , Sunday, May 15, 2011. Isra(...)

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Israeli soldiers search a house on village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on the border between Israel and Syria after Syrian demonstrators marking the anniversary of the mass displacement of Palestinians surrounding Israel's establishment in 1948 approached the Majdal Shams, Sunday, May 15, 2(...)

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn (second from right), managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is led from a New York police station where he was being held on Sunday, May 15, 2011, on charges of sexually assaulting a hotel maid. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)