Social Issues

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**FILE** In this photo from Feb. 1, President Obama makes a statement in the Grand Foyer of the White House. From left: Council of Economic Council Chair Christina Romer; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; the president; Budget Director Peter Orszag and chief economic adviser Lawrence Summers. (Associated Press)

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A destroyed home sits abandoned in a low-income neighborhood in Ciudad Mier, Mexico, where a nine-month battle between drug cartels sent most residents fleeing, not to return. Mexicans have been fleeing border towns throughout the Rio Grande Valley. (Associated Press)

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Associated Press A student leader speaks from steps of the Harvard administration building at Cambridge, Mass., in April 1969, as part of a protest against the Reserve Officers Training Corps program at the university. More than 40 years later, will ROTC now be welcomed back at Harvard?

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FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2009 file photo, performers appear on stage at the Miss International Queen 2009 transvestite beauty pageant in Pattaya, Thailand. Thailand's National Film Board has rejected a movie about a transgender father struggling to raise two children, a ban that the director says highlights the conservative side of Thai society despite its freewheeling reputation. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, FILE)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS "A lot of Americans don't make so much money that they itemize their tax returns. But those same Americans own property," said Sen. Max Baucus. "It seems to me that they, too, should have the ability to deduct it."

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Undocumented college student Jorge Herrera, 18, (center) of Carson, Calif., rallies with students and Dream Act supporters in Los Angeles on Dec. 25, 2010. The Dream Act would have given provisional legal status to illegal immigrants brought to the country as children. (Associated Press)

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Victims of a suicide bombing are treated at a hospital in Khar, the main town of Pakistan's Bajur tribal region along Afghan border, on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. A female suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vest, killing scores of people at an aid distribution center, officials said. (AP Photo/Anwarullah Khan)

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Associated Press photographs Demonstrators clash with soldiers Thursday outside the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas. Students protested against a law that increases government powers over the country's universities.

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** FILE ** Census Bureau Director Robert Groves announces results of the 2010 U.S. Census at the National Press Club on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Relatives of people detained in Sunday's opposition protest read information outside the prison walls in Minsk, Belarus, on Wednesday. President Alexander Lukashenko was declared on Monday the overwhelming winner of the presidential election, securing a fourth term in office as truncheon-wielding police arrested hundreds of opposition supporters, including seven other presidential candidates, who were protesting against alleged fraud in the poll.

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** FILE ** U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert M. Groves announces results of the 2010 census at the National Press Club in Washington on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, walks near the Senate floor during an unusual Sunday session on Capitol Hill in Washington Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. Mr. McConnell said he would oppose a nuclear arms treaty with Russia, damaging prospects for President Obama's foreign policy priority in the final days of the post-election Congress. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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BLOOMBERG "This compromise was to help people who were drowning," said Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., defending the compromise President Obama made with congressional Republicans to extend Bush-era tax cuts. The bill also included an extension of unemployment benefits to millions of Americans.

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Firefighters sift through the still-smoldering Bed and Breakfast Pension House in Tuguegarao city in Cagayan province in the northern Philippines after a fire rapidly swept through the budget hotel early Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. The blaze killed 15 people, nine of whom were nursing students in town to take a licensing exam, officials said. (AP Photo)

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Britain's Prince Harry is accompanied by Marion Horn, right, chief editor of Bild newspaper, as he arrives for the German charity event "Ein Herz fuer Kinder" ( A heart for children) in Berlin Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. The Prince receives a Golden Heart award in recognition of his humanitarian work. The German charity organisation Ein Herz fuer Kinder is Germany's biggest television fundraising gala. (AP Photo/Kai-Uwe Knoth)

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Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, walks near the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010, during a rare Saturday session to finish the year's legislative business. The Senate voted to advance legislation that would overturn the military ban on openly gay troops known as "don't ask, don't tell." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Immigrant parents, students and others participate in a candle-light procession and vigil in support of the Federal Dream Act in downtown Los Angeles on Dec. 7, 2010. The Senate on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010, blocked the bill that would have granted legal status to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant children and young adults.(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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A gay rights supporter watches a press conference on the House vote to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy in Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. Congress is one step away from ending the ban on gays serving openly in the military, with the Senate ready for a landmark vote that could deliver a major victory to the homosexual community, liberals and President Obama. (AP Photo/File)

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In this film publicity image released by The Weinstein Company, Colin Firth portrays King George VI, left, and Helena Bonham Carter portrays the Queen Mother in a scene from, "The King's Speech." British filmmakers must now meet new targets for ethnic minority, gay and female characters on and off screen if they wish to continue receiving funding from the British Film Institute, which backed "The King's Speech" in 2010. (AP Photo/The Weinstein Company, Laurie Sparham)

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Carmel Stewart, a lawyer of the three women victims of restrictions on abortion in Ireland, reads the judgment from the European Court of Human Rights in the Grand Chamber Thursday Dec. 16, 2010, in Strasbourg, eastern France. Ireland's constitutional ban on abortion violates the rights of pregnant women to receive proper medical care in life-threatening cases, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday in a judgment that harshly criticized Ireland's long inaction on the issue. (AP Photo/Christian Lutz)