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Posted: 6/9/2011 1:34:51 AM EST
Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) talks with Prime Minister Naoto Kan before a regular session at the lower house of parliament in Tokyo June 9, 2011. Noda, an advocate of a higher sales tax to fix state finances, emerged on Thursday as a possible frontrunner to replace Kan as premier after a newspaper said ruling party executives would back his candidacy. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (JAPAN - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS)
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Posted: 6/9/2011 1:32:20 AM EST
Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda (2nd R) talks with Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) as lawmakers walk past them before a regular session at the lower house of parliament in Tokyo June 9, 2011. Noda, an advocate of a higher sales tax to fix state finances, emerged on Thursday as a possible frontrunner to replace Kan as premier after a newspaper said ruling party executives would back his candidacy. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (JAPAN - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS)
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Posted: 6/9/2011 1:29:55 AM EST
Prime Minister Naoto Kan (L) stands up to let Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda pass through before a regular session in the lower house of parliament in Tokyo June 9, 2011. Noda, an advocate of a higher sales tax to fix state finances, emerged on Thursday as a possible frontrunner to replace Kan as premier after a newspaper said ruling party executives would back his candidacy. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (JAPAN - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS)
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Posted: 6/9/2011 1:11:51 AM EST
Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) and Prime Minister Naoto Kan attend a regular session in the lower house of parliament in Tokyo June 9, 2011. Noda, an advocate of a higher sales tax to fix state finances, emerged on Thursday as a possible frontrunner to replace Kan as premier after a newspaper said ruling party executives would back his candidacy. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (JAPAN - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS)
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Posted: 6/9/2011 1:10:31 AM EST
Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) talks with Prime Minister Naoto Kan prior to a regular session at the lower house of parliament in Tokyo June 9, 2011.
Noda, an advocate of a higher sales tax to fix state finances, emerged on Thursday as a possible frontrunner to replace Kan as premier after a newspaper said ruling party executives would back his candidacy. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (JAPAN - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS)
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Posted: 6/9/2011 1:09:08 AM EST
Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) and Prime Minister Naoto Kan attend a regular session in the lower house of parliament in Tokyo June 9, 2011. Noda, an advocate of a higher sales tax to fix state finances, emerged on Thursday as a possible frontrunner to replace Kan as premier after a newspaper said ruling party executives would back his candidacy. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (JAPAN - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS)
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Posted: 6/8/2011 9:05:39 PM EST
Japan's newly appointed Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda reacts during a group interview at the ministry in Tokyo in this June 9, 2010 file photo. Noda, a fiscal hawk, is emerging as a frontrunner to replace Naoto Kan as prime minister and head of the ruling Democratic Party, a newspaper reported on June 9, 2011. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao/Files (JAPAN - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS HEADSHOT)
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Posted: 5/27/2011 1:05:47 PM EST
FILE - In this May 21, 2011, file photo, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney shakes hands with people at Farm Boys restaurant during a visit in Chapin, S.C. Republican presidential frontrunner Romney is heading to Iowa on Friday, May 27, for the first time this year. The early caucus state was key to his 2008 campaign strategy, and he invested a ton of money and manpower to do well. But he ended up losing the caucuses, on his way to losing the GOP nomination. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
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Posted: 5/26/2011 1:40:46 PM EST
FILE - In this May 21, 2012, file photo, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney shakes hands with people at Farm Boys restaurant during a visit in Chapin, S.C. Republican presidential frontrunner Romney is heading to Iowa on Friday, May 27, for the first time this year. The early caucus state was key to his 2008 campaign strategy, and he invested a ton of money and manpower to do well. But he ended up losing the caucuses, on his way to losing the GOP nomination. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
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Posted: 5/18/2011 11:55:51 AM EST
In this May 16, 2011, photo, Mitt Romney, left, greets supporters during a phone bank fundraiser in Las Vegas. Romney has all the trappings of a GOP presidential frontrunner except for one important thing: enthusiasm from party activists. Romney raised a remarkable $10.25 million on May 16; Republican officials from across the nation meeting the next day in Dallas mostly shrugged. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Posted: 5/17/2011 12:51:07 PM EST
French writer Tristane Banon leaves the office of her lawyer David Koubbi in Paris May 17, 2011. Banon is considering filing a legal complaint over an alleged sexual incident involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2002, her lawyer said on Monday. Accusations of a plot designed to bring down the frontrunner in the 2012 presidential election flourished on the right and left following Strauss-Kahn's weekend arrest in New York on accusations of trying to rape a hotel maid. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW HEADSHOT)
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Posted: 5/17/2011 12:48:44 PM EST
French writer Tristane Banon (L) walks with her lawyer David Koubbi as they leave his office in Paris May 17, 2011. Banon is considering filing a legal complaint over an alleged sexual incident involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2002, her lawyer said on Monday. Accusations of a plot designed to bring down the frontrunner in the 2012 presidential election flourished on the right and left following Strauss-Kahn's weekend arrest in New York on accusations of trying to rape a hotel maid. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW)
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Posted: 5/17/2011 12:45:18 PM EST
French writer Tristane Banon leaves the office of her lawyer David Koubbi in Paris May 17, 2011. Banon is considering filing a legal complaint over an alleged sexual incident involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2002, her lawyer said on Monday. Accusations of a plot designed to bring down the frontrunner in the 2012 presidential election flourished on the right and left following Strauss-Kahn's weekend arrest in New York on accusations of trying to rape a hotel maid. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW HEADSHOT)
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Posted: 5/17/2011 12:42:03 PM EST
French writer Tristane Banon leaves the office of her lawyer David Koubbi in Paris May 17, 2011. Banon is considering filing a legal complaint over an alleged sexual incident involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2002, her lawyer said on Monday. Accusations of a plot designed to bring down the frontrunner in the 2012 presidential election flourished on the right and left following Strauss-Kahn's weekend arrest in New York on accusations of trying to rape a hotel maid. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW HEADSHOT)
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Posted: 5/17/2011 12:38:50 PM EST
David Koubbi, lawyer of French writer Tristane Banon, arrives at his office in Paris May 17, 2011. Banon is considering filing a legal complaint over an alleged sexual incident involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2002, her lawyer said on Monday. Accusations of a plot designed to bring down the frontrunner in the 2012 presidential election flourished on the right and left following Strauss-Kahn's weekend arrest in New York on accusations of trying to rape a hotel maid. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW HEADSHOT)
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Posted: 5/17/2011 12:33:13 PM EST
David Koubbi, lawyer of French writer Tristane Banon, arrives at his office in Paris May 17, 2011. Banon is considering filing a legal complaint over an alleged sexual incident involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2002, her lawyer said on Monday. Accusations of a plot designed to bring down the frontrunner in the 2012 presidential election flourished on the right and left following Strauss-Kahn's weekend arrest in New York on accusations of trying to rape a hotel maid. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW)
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Posted: 5/17/2011 12:29:03 PM EST
French writer Tristane Banon leaves the office of her lawyer David Koubbi in Paris May 17, 2011. Banon is considering filing a legal complaint over an alleged sexual incident involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2002, her lawyer said on Monday. Accusations of a plot designed to bring down the frontrunner in the 2012 presidential election flourished on the right and left following Strauss-Kahn's weekend arrest in New York on accusations of trying to rape a hotel maid. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW)
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Posted: 5/17/2011 12:27:01 PM EST
French writer Tristane Banon (L) walks with her lawyer David Koubbi as they leave his office in Paris May 17, 2011. Banon is considering filing a legal complaint over an alleged sexual incident involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2002, her lawyer said on Monday. Accusations of a plot designed to bring down the frontrunner in the 2012 presidential election flourished on the right and left following Strauss-Kahn's weekend arrest in New York on accusations of trying to rape a hotel maid. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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Posted: 5/17/2011 12:23:08 PM EST
French writer Tristane Banon (L) walks with her lawyer David Koubbi as they leave his office in Paris May 17, 2011. Banon is considering filing a legal complaint over an alleged sexual incident involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2002, her lawyer said on Monday. Accusations of a plot designed to bring down the frontrunner in the 2012 presidential election flourished on the right and left following Strauss-Kahn's weekend arrest in New York on accusations of trying to rape a hotel maid. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW)
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Posted: 5/17/2011 12:21:04 PM EST
French writer Tristane Banon leaves the office of her lawyer David Koubbi in Paris May 17, 2011. Banon is considering filing a legal complaint over an alleged sexual incident involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2002, her lawyer said on Monday. Accusations of a plot designed to bring down the frontrunner in the 2012 presidential election flourished on the right and left following Strauss-Kahn's weekend arrest in New York on accusations of trying to rape a hotel maid. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW HEADSHOT)