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President Obama speaks during a "Moving America Forward" rally at Cleveland State University in Ohio on Sunday.
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Peter Diamond, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor, beams during a Cambridge, Mass., news conference shortly after he won the 2010 Nobel Prize in economics on Oct. 11.
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Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert address thousands gathered for The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the National Mall in Washington on Saturday.
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Cargo planes sit on the tarmac of Dubai airport Saturday, the day after a parcel bomb was intercepted in Dubai on a cargo plane originating from Yemen.
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Lynda Lovejoy waves to the crowd during the Navajo Nation Fair parade in Window Rock, Ariz., on Sept. 11. Lovejoy is seeking to become the tribe's first female president.
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