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Herbie Hancock Jazz Tribute in Los Angeles
Recording Academy President & CEO Neil Portnow arrives Sunday evening at the Kodak Theater. Neil Portnow is attending the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition and Tribute Concert to Herbie Hancock on October 28, 2007. (UPI Photo/Scott Harms)

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Flags-In Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery
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Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Roskos with the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, "The Old Guard," participates in the annual Flags-In ceremony, May 23, 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Soldiers place American flags in front of more than 260,000 gravestones in the cemetery in honor of Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietsch