Ladarius Beal, 17, a student at Julian High School on Chicago's South Side, sits in the school library in Chicago, Monday, March 10, 2008, with a political handbook provided to him by the Mikva Challenge, a local organization that encourages students to become politically active. A young Republican, Beal says he's surrounded by Democrats at his school, which is in the heart of presidential candidate Barack Obama's home turf. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

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