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Members of the U.S. Army Old Guard place a flag at each of the over 220,000 graves of fallen U.S. military service members buried at Arlington National Cemetery, May 24, 2012. Memorial Day will be commemorated this weekend across the United States. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: MILITARY)

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Members of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels fly over the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan as part of the 25th annual Fleet Week celebration in New York, May 23, 2012. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (UNITED STATES - Tags: MILITARY ANNIVERSARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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Students show emotions at the 2012 Joplin High School commencement ceremony inside the Leggett and Plant Athletic Center at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, Missouri, May 21, 2012. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION)

The Class of 2012

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Cuba lose super-heavyweight Alfonso

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BEIJING | Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:58pm EDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Super-heavyweight Robert Alfonso became the first Cuban to bow out of the Olympic boxing competition when he was outpointed by Ukraine's Vyacheslav Glazkov on Wednesday.

Alfonso, who looked sluggish on his way to a 5-3 points defeat, leaves the superpower of amateur boxing with nine boxers out of 10 going into the second round, which starts on Thursday.

(Reporting by Patrick Vignal, Editing by Jeremy Laurence)
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