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A woman wearing a security jacket walks past students as they gathered at the entrance to Millard South high school in Omaha, Neb., early morning Friday, Jan. 7, 2011, before classes resume for the first time since a 17-year-old student shot two administrators, killing one, before fleeing and committing suicide. (AP Photo/ Nati Harnik)
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Students hug at Millard South high school in Omaha, Neb., early Friday, Jan. 7, 2011. Classes resumed Friday after a 17-year-old student shot two administrators, killing one, before fleeing and committing suicide. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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A Omaha police officer stands with a rifle as parents wait for students of Millard South high school to be released after a school shooting Wednesday Jan. 5, 2011, in Omaha Neb. Police say 17-year-old Robert Butler Jr. opened fire Wednesday at Millard South High School, wounding the school's principal and vice principal. The vice principal died in hospital hours later. (AP photo/Chris Machian)
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The row home at 3023 O St. NW in the East Village of Georgetown was built around 1905 and completely renovated and reconstructed in 2006 and 2007. It is on the market for $2,050,000.
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Outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California reacts to the applause, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011, during the first session of the 112th Congress. Assistant House Minority Leader-designate James Clyburn of South Carolina is at left, House Minority Whip-designate Steny Hoyer of Maryland is second from left. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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NEW MINORITY: Outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and outgoing House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland prepare Tuesday for changes on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)
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Incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia discusses the vote to repeal the health care law on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. "The repeal bill is going to be a very straightforward document. It is going to reflect what I think most people inside the Beltway and outside the Beltway understand about the health care bill that was passed — it is a job-killing health care bill that spends money we don't have," he said. (Associated Press)
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Indictments tying Hezbollah to the 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri in a suicide bombing that killed 22 others would hit the group's image as strictly a resistance force. (The Washington Times)
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Police patrol the streets of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, across the border from El Paso, Texas, in December. More than 3,000 people were killed there in 2010, and mayhem spread by drug cartels has caused residents to flee and businesses to close. (Associated Press)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, during a gathering to mark the seventh anniversary of the adoption of the Afghanistan Constitution. The writing behind him says, "Welcome to the adoption day of Afghanistan's Constitution." (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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"I'm the most qualified candidate for the job of mayor of Chicago — make no mistake about it," says Carol Moseley Braun, the first black woman to become a U.S. senator. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2010, file photo, Michael Haywood answers questions after he was introduced as Pittsburgh's new football coach in Pittsburgh. Haywood is jailed on a domestic violence charge after a struggle at his South Bend, Ind., home. Assistant St. Joseph County Police Chief Bill Redman says Haywood was arrested about 3 p.m. Friday, Dec. 30, after a custody issue developed with a woman with whom Haywood has a child. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
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Tiger Woods pauses during a news conference, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla on Feb. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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Russian arms trafficking suspect Viktor Bout, center, is in U.S. custody after being flown from Bangkok to New York in a chartered U.S. plane, extradited in manacles to face terrorism charges despite a final outraged push by Russian diplomats to persuade Thailand to release him on Nov. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Drug Enforcement Administration, File)
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** FILE ** Dan Choi (center) falls as he is arrested for handcuffing himself to the fence outside the White House in Washington during a protest against the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on Nov. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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Rep.-elect, Tim Scott, R-S.C., left, leads following a Republican news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 18, 2010. From left are Scott, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, House Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner of Ohio, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Rep.-elect Kristi Noem, R-S.D. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
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FILE - This Monday, Oct. 18, 2010 file picture shows Nancy O'Dell at the Ninth Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation benefit 'An Enduring Vision' in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
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Seven state-history-themed paintings hang in the lobby of the Georgia Department of Agriculture in Atlanta. Incoming Georgia agriculture Commissioner Gary Black wants to remove them as racist. (Associated Press)
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Fred Wemer stands outside his home in Seattle, in this photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010. Wermer is a retired dentist and says Medicare pays his medical bills well enough, but he thinks there's a lot of waste in the program and doubts it will be there for his grandchildren. He opposes turning Medicare into a voucher plan for the purchase of private insurance because he doesn't trust the insurance companies. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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** FILE ** The Rev. Francois Houtart, a Belgian priest and Third World activist, admitted in a newspaper interview to having sexually abused a minor 40 years ago. (AP Photo/Roosewelt Pinheiro, Agencia Brasil, HO)
