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Col. Wm. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) "The Last Farewell" From: The New York Times Photo Archives

Women's Strike for Equality, New York August 26, 1970 Credit: William E. Sauro/The New York Times

BUSHAGRICULTURE2.JPG 6/18/01 WASHINGTON/ NATIONAL w/SPEND BY SHENON: In East Room, President Bush urged leaders of agriculture industry to supp...

(NYT13) NEW YORK -- June 28, 2001 -- BROADWAY-DANCE -- If you want to come and hear those dancing feet on Broadway, the listening will be easy. Exper...

(NYT1) PALMYRA, N.Y. -- July 20, 2001 -- VATICAN-MORMON-BAPTISM -- The Vatican has ruled that Mormons must be rebaptized before the convert to Catholi...

(NYT17) NEW YORK -- Aug. 27, 2001 -- TEN-US-OPEN-1 -- Clara Hinchcliffe, 7, of Larchmont, N.Y., and her friend Kilby Featherton, 8, of Rockaway Park...

(NYT46) BAYINDELIGAR, China -- Sept. 24, 2001 -- CHINA-INNER-MONGOLIA -- Ethnic Mongolians account for a good share of the herders in the central pas...

(NYT34) UNDATED -- Sept. 16, 2001 -- TERROR-NY-MISSING -- From left to right: Shreyas Ranganath, John F. Iskyan, Katie Marie McCloskey and L. Russell...

(NYT44) MOORPARK, Calif. -- Sept. 14, 2008 -- CALIF-TRAIN-FAMILIES -- Gonzalo Villalobos Cedillo holding a photo of his daughter, Maria Elena Villalob...

Members of the U.S. Army's 2nd Platoon, B Company 1-26, during a memorial service for Pfc. Richard Dewater, 21, at their outpost in Afghanistan's Kore...

Members of the U.S. Army's 2nd Platoon, B Company 1-26, during a memorial service for Pfc. Richard Dewater, 21, at their outpost in Afghanistan's Kore...

With less than an hour left to cast their vote, Indians stand in line at the polls in the city of Bhubaneswar, in the state of Orissa, one of India's...

INDIAN ELECTIONS--BHUBANESWAR, INDIA-- THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2009--As time at the polls draws to a close Indians continue to wait in line to vote in th...

A woman marks her ballot at a polling station in the city of Bhubaneswar, in the state of Orissa, one of India's poorest states, Thursday, April 23, 2...

A woman enters a booth to mark her ballot at a polling station in the city of Bhubaneswar, in the state of Orissa, one of India's poorest states, Thur...

A billboard promoting leaders of India's Congress party on a street in Bhubaneswar, in the state of Orissa, one of India's poorest states, Thursday, A...

People flip through a book listing voters to find out where they are assigned to cast their ballots at a school turned into a polling station in Bhuba...

President Obama is seen projected on the back of a digital camera as his picture is taken by an audience member while delivering remarks to small busi...

President Barack Obama returns to the White House on Monday, Feb. 16, 2009, after a weekend trip to Chicago. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

News coverage of President Barack Obama's message to the people of Iran plays on televisions displayed in a store in Manam, Bahrain, March 20, 2009....

President Barack Obama arrives at a news conference at the White House on March 24, 2009. In his opening remarks, Obama said, "We are beginning to see...

President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev during their meeting in London on April 1, 2009. Both leaders, in London for the G-20 sum...

President Barack Obama looks on as President Hu Jintao of China greets Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithne...

Former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) is trailed by reporters in Washington after meeting with members of the Senate Finance Committee on Feb. 2, 2009. Da...

President Barack Obama, accompanied by his wife, Michelle, daughters Malia, and Sasha, foreground, and mother-in-law Marian Robinson, far right, head...

President Barack Obama and Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia during their visit to a highway construction site near Springfield, Va., Feb. 11, 2009. (Ruth...

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in his office in Washington in February 2009. Geithner and a skeleton crew of unofficial senior advisers have been...

President Barack Obama with members of the audience in Columbus, Ohio, where he addressed a group of recruits for the Columbus Police Department, Marc...

President Barack Obama during the Abraham Lincoln Association Banquet to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth in Springfield, Illinois...

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, left, with Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, prior to their hearing on Capitol Hill, March, 24, 200...

President Barack Obama arrives for a news conference at the White House, March 24, 2009. In his opening remarks, Obama said, "We are beginning to see...

First lady Michelle Obama raises her arms as she tells schoolchildren "They let us out of the White House!" as she and President Barack Obama drop by...

Vice President Joseph Biden and President Barack Obama at the White House on Jan. 30, 2009. (Stephen Crowley/The New York Times)

Among the executive orders signed within his first 100 days in office, President Barack Obama, from top, ordered the closing of the Guantanamo detenti...

Cameras and mobile phones capture a dance by President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle during the Youth Inaugural Ball at the Washington Hilton Hot...

President Barack Obama, center, back to camera, greets members of the audience after delivering a speech to more than 20,000 people in Prague, April 5...

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, along with Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah Brown, wave to reporters after arrivi...

President Barack Obama boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base March 16, 2009. Always close behind, a U.S. service member, on this day a U.S. M...

The pen that President Barack Obama used to sign his executice order freezing pay to his top aides and limiting lobbying on the White House, is seen o...

Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama's chief of staff, along with Robert Gibbs, left, press secretary, and David Axelrod, right, background, Obama's...

A U.S. soldier sweeps a nearby ridge while on patrol in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley on April 22, 2009. U.S. troops are searching for weapons caches...

U.S. soldiers on patrol in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley on April 22, 2009. U.S. troops are searching for weapons caches in the area, a sanctuary for...

A U.S. soldier is comforted by a comrade after he was struck by a dislodged boulder while on patrol in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley on April 22, 2009...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton cups her ear to hear a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee greet her as she prepared to testify before t...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington on Wednesday, April 22, 2009. By trying t...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington on Wednesday, April 22, 2009. By trying t...

Latin American workers at a town hall meeting in Hamamatsu, Japan, where officials laid out a plan to pay workers to return to their home countries,...

Sergio Yamaoka, left, and his wife, Rita, at a town hall meeting in Hamamatsu, Japan, where officials laid out a plan to pay workers like them to retu...

Latin American workers at a town hall meeting in Hamamatsu, Japan, where officials laid out a plan to pay workers to return to their home countries,...

Rick Ross in New York on April 1, 2009. Ross is the embodiment of the current state of rap-as-theater, thanks to his huge personality (and physique),...