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I'm not thinking to cut my beard, because I'm accustomed to my beard and my beard means many things to my country. When we have fulfilled our promise of good government I will cut my beard."

— Castro in 1959, interviewed by CBS's Edward Murrow

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An Afghan laborer makes sweets at a traditional candy factory in the old city of Kabul, on Jan. 30, 2008. It is estimated that as much as 80 percent of Afghanistan's economic activity is undertaken by similarly informal workers.

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Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) personnel wearing protective body gear guard a landing strip as a helicopter carries VIPs at JMSDF Yokosuka Base on January 24, 2008 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan.

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BERLIN, GERMANY- German-born Turk Murat Kurnaz, a former detainee at the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay prison, as he waits for the beginning of his hearing at the German Parliament in Berlin to give evidence at a parliamentary inquiry.

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A US officer with the 101st Airborne Division learns Arabic at a combat outpost in the northern Iraqi town of Baiji, near the oil city of Kirkuk.

I guess this is the type of thing U.S. officials are talking about when they say the goal is now "Iraqi solutions."

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An Iraqi army soldier eats a freshly killed rabbit as troops show their warfare skills during a ceremony marking the first anniversary of authority transfer to Iraqi forces in the Shiite Shrine city of Najaf, 10 January 2008.