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RG ENTERTAINMENT LTD. Animated versions of President Obama and Ronald Reagan argue economic philosophy in "I Want Your Money."

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A Hungarian soldier, wearing protective gear, looks on while cleaning streets covered by toxic red sludge in Devecser, Hungary, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. The population of the neighboring town of Kolontar was evacuated Saturday and Devecser with a population of 5,300 is also in the likely path of a possible new sludge deluge. Hungary's prime ministers says police have taken into custody the managing director of the company which owns the metals plant where a broken reservoir flooded several towns with toxic red sludge and water.(AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS "We need a new majority in Congress that will stand up to President Obama and insist that he starts listening to the American people," House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said at a rally at a manufacturing facility in his home state.

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A portrait of Sladjana Vidovic, who committed suicide in 2008, sits in the living room of her family's home in Mentor, Ohio, on Sept. 1. Sladjana was one of four Mentor High School teenagers who died within 2½ years. Friends and family say bullying drove most of them to kill themselves. (Associated Press)

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With a portrait on the side table of Sladjana, who committed suicide in 2008, mother Celija, father Dragan and sister Suzana, still grieve their loss. (Associated Press)

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French teacher Justin Lyot (left) talks to Roma children, including Abel Bot, 8, (center) as they leave school in Choisy-le-Roi, France. Education woes include segregated schools in Eastern Europe and the systematic misdiagnosis of mental disabilities. (Associated Press)

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Police attempt to detain a man during anti-gay riots intended to disrupt a gay pride march in Belgrade, Serbia, on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

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Serbian riot police gather as a gay price parade goes moves along a street in Belgrade, Serbia, on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. More than 140 people were hurt and more than 200 arrested, officials said, as police clashed with hundreds of far-right protesters who tried to disrupt the march. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

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Brian Cepeda (right), 16, and eight others face charges including robbery, assault and unlawful imprisonment as hate crimes in the torture of two teenage boys and a man in an anti-gay attack last week. (AP Photo/Uli Seit)

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Former president and UN special envoy to Haiti, Bill Clinton, arrives to visit people who were displaced by the earthquake at the Petionville Golf Club that is being used as a camp for the displaced in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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Rep. Henry Cuellar, Texas Democrat (right), and Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez discuss the disappearance of David Hartley in Mexico. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS "As long as I'm your president and Martin O'Malley is your governor, we will not allow politicians ... to sacrifice your education for tax cuts we cannot afford," President Obama said at a campaign rally for Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on Thursday at a rally at Bowie State University.

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**FILE** Rep. Charles Djou, Hawaii Republican and the former Honolulu city councilman who recently replaced Rep. Neil Abercrombie, attends his first meeting on the House Budget Committee on June 9, 2010. (Associated Press)

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Escorted by Texas Parks and Wildlife officials, Tiffany Hartley (center) and family members lay a wreath on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010, near the site where her husband, David Hartley, was shot last week. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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This undated photo from the biography section of CNN's website, shows former CNN news anchor Rick Sanchez. CNN fired Sanchez on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010, a day after he called Jon Stewart a bigot in a radio show interview where he also questioned whether Jews should be considered a minority. (AP Photo/CNN)

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In this photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009, U.S. Marines with Alpha Company-Task Force Raider, 2nd Recon Battalion lie down inside a small patrol base during a pause in an all night mission in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. Task Force Raider is a strike force which conducts raids targeting Taliban networks in the Helmand province. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

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STUMPING: Ryan L. Frazier (right), GOP candidate in Colorado's 7th Congressional District, chats with Andrew Bryce in Wheat Ridge, Colo. Minorities are running strongly as Republicans. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this April 20, 2005 file photo, student Marissa Manzi wears a condom costume at an AIDS Awareness Day rally outside the state Capitol in Hartford, Conn. The male-female orgasm gap. The sex lives of 14-year-olds. An intriguing breakdown of condom usage rates, by age and ethnicity, with teens emerging as more safe-sex-conscious than boomers. That's just a tiny sampling of the data being unveiled Monday, Oct. 4, 2010 in what the researchers say is the largest, most comprehensive national survey of Americans' sexual behavior since 1994. (AP Photo/Bob Child, File)

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HOLD FOR RELEASE UNTIL 12:01 A.M. EDT ON MONDAY; graphic shows results of a new survey about sexual practices