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**FILE PHOTO** (NYT24) NEW YORK --Feb. 8, 2009 -- OBIT-DEARIE-4 -- Blossom Dearie performs with Dave Silliman on drums and Ray Kilday on bass at the...

(NYT24) NEW YORK -- Feb. 7, 2009 -- DOG-SHOW-FAMILY-2 -- Clint, left, and Brian Livingston on Feb. 4, 2009, with 10 dogs they brought to the Westminst...

(NYT3) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 7, 2009 -- ECON-STIMULUS -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) returns to the Senate floor on Friday, Feb. 6, 20...

(NYT13) JOUNIEH, Lebanon -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- LEBANON-PUPPETEER -- The marionette head for Charbel Khalil's character sits in its box in the prop room...

(NYT8) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- OBAMA-ECON-STIMULUS-2 -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, second from left, looks towards President Obama, ri...

(NYT9) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- OBAMA-ECON-STIMULUS-3 -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, standing, during the announcement of the establishm...

(NYT11) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- OBAMA-ECON-STIMULUS-4 -- President Barack Obama during the announcement of the establishment of the Economic Re...

(NYT12) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- OBAMA-ECON-STIMULUS-5 -- President Barack Obama during the announcement of the establishment of the Economic Re...

(NYT40) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- OBAMA-ECON-STIMULUS-6 -- President Barack Obama steps up to the podium as Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Preside...

(NYT3) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- SENATE-ECON-STIMULUS-1 -- Sens. Susan Collins, R-Me., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa., answer a reporter's question as t...

(NYT5) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- SENATE-ECON-STIMULUS-3 -- Sens. Susan Collins, R-Me., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa., before getting on an elevator aft...

(NYT45) FARADJE, Congo -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- CONGO-UGANDA-REBELS-2 -- Burned out buildings and huts in Faradje, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan. 28, 2...

(NYT46) FARADJE, Congo -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- CONGO-UGANDA-REBELS-3 -- Burned out buildings and huts in Faradje, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan. 28, 2...

(NYT47) FARADJE, Congo -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- CONGO-UGANDA-REBELS-4 -- A child looks at the remains of a burned out building in Faradje, Democratic Repub...

(NYT72) FARADJE, Congo -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- CONGO-UGANDA-REBELS-5 -- Christine Ataputo at her hotel and restaurant in Faradje, Congo, Jan. 28, 2009. At...

(NYT65) JERUSALEM -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- ISRAEL-ELECTIONS-2 -- Campaign posters in Jerusalem for, from left, Benjamin Netanyahu of the right-wing Likud P...

(NYT51) JOUNIEH, Lebanon -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- LEBANON-PUPPETEER-6 -- Charbel Khalil, works on a puppet's head in his production studios in Jounieh, Leb...

(NYT77) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- SENATE-ECON-STIMULUS-7 -- Senator Max Baucus, D-Mt., talks to reporters on his way back to the Senate floor as t...

(NYT78) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- SENATE-ECON-STIMULUS-8 -- Senator Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., heads back to the floor to the Senate floor as the ne...

(NYT79) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- SENATE-ECON-STIMULUS-9 -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., heads back to the floor to the Senate...

(NYT2) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 2, 2009 -- CIA-PANETTA-1 -- Leon Panetta, President Barack Obama's nominee to be director of Central Intelligence, during hi...

(NYT41) DUNGU, Congo -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- CONGO-UGANDA-REBELS -- A man recovers in Dungu Referral Hospital, foreground right, after he was attacked by...

(NYT30) UNDATED -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- GENERATION-B-ADV08 -- Investment papers from the Bernard L. Madoff investment firm. Caroline Jacobson, a Madoff vic...

(NYT31) NEW YORK -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- GENERATION-B-ADV08-2 -- Bernard L. Madoff arrives at Federal Court in lower Manhattan for a bail hearing on Wednes...

(NYT7) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- OBAMA-ECON-STIMULUS-1 -- President Barack Obama prepares to sign an executive order in the East Room of the White...

(NYT6) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- SENATE-ECON-STIMULUS-4 -- Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., talks to reporters as she heads into a meeting with Major...

(NYT10) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- SENATE-ECON-STIMULUS-5 -- Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., talks to his Democratic colleague from Nebraska, Sen. B...

(NYT73) DUNGU, Congo -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- CONGO-UGANDA-REBELS-6 -- Congolese men, some armed with worn shotguns and slingshots, stand guard in Dungu, C...

(NYT52) JOUNIEH, Lebanon -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- LEBANON-PUPPETEER-7 -- Puppets of Saad Hariri, right, a Lebanese politician and son of the assassinated le...

(NYT71) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- TAXES-CHANGES-ADV08-2 -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner looks on as President Barack Obama speaks to report...

(NYT1) DEATH VALLEY, Calif. -- Feb. 5, 2009 -- CALIF-DESERT-SPRINGS-1 -- Visitors relax on the hot springs of Saline Valley, Feb 1, 2009. (J. Emilio F...

(NYT5) DEATH VALLEY, Calif. -- Feb. 5, 2009 -- CALIF-DESERT-SPRINGS-5 -- Forgotten log towers that in the early 1900's were part of a steep tram line...

(NYT6) DEATH VALLEY, Calif. -- Feb. 5, 2009 -- CALIF-DESERT-SPRINGS-6 -- Joshua Trees, along Saline road, which leads into the Saline Valley, Feb. 1,...

(NYT2) DEATH VALLEY, Calif. -- Feb. 5, 2009 -- CALIF-DESERT-SPRINGS-2 -- Children gather around a campfire while camping in Saline Valley. , Feb 1, 20...

(NYT3) DEATH VALLEY, Calif. -- Feb. 5, 2009 -- CALIF-DESERT-SPRINGS-3 -- A sign points to the hot springs of Saline Valley, Feb 1, 2009. (J. Emilio Fl...

(NYT4) DEATH VALLEY, Calif. -- Feb. 5, 2009 -- CALIF-DESERT-SPRINGS-4 -- Overall views of the saline valley and the palm oasis where the lower hot spr...

(NYT28) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 5, 2009 -- SENATE-CIA-PANETTA -- Leon Panetta, nominee for Director of Central Intelligence during his confirmation hearing...

(NYT29) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 5, 2009 -- SENATE-CIA-PANETTA-2 -- Leon Panetta, nominee for Director of Central Intelligence during his confirmation heari...

(NYT30) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 5, 2009 -- SENATE-CIA-PANETTA-3 -- Leon Panetta, nominee for Director of Central Intelligence during his confirmation heari...

(NYT40) WASHINGTON -- Feb. 5, 2009 -- SENATE-CIA-PANETTA-4 -- Leon E. Panetta, the White House pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, before a...

(NYT59) WHITE PLAINS, NY -- February 5, 2009 -- US-KENYA-RUNNER -- Since moving in just after Thanksgiving from her home in Kenya, professional runner...

(NYT60) WHITE PLAINS, NY -- February 5, 2009 -- US-KENYA-RUNNER-2 -- Salome Kosgei calls home to Kenya from White Plains, NY, the morning after winnin...

(NYT61) NEW YORK -- February 5, 2009 -- US-KENYA-RUNNER-3 -- Salome Kosgei, a Kenyan running with the Westchester Track Club tains on a wet and cold w...

(NYT62) WHITE PLAINS, NY -- February 5, 2009 -- US-KENYA-RUNNER-4 -- Kenyan runner Salome Kosgei hold fresh snow in White Plains, NY., on Jan. 29, 200...

(NYT1) JERUSALEM -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- ISRAEL-ELECTIONS -- Posters of Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud's candidate for prime minister in Tuesday's election, and...

(NYT50) NEW YORK -- February 4, 2009 -- THEATER-GYLLENHAAL-2 -- Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard onstage in the Classic Stage Company production...

(NYT51) NEW YORK -- February 4, 2009 -- THEATER-GYLLENHAAL-3 -- Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard onstage in the Classic Stage Company production...

(NYT52) NEW YORK -- February 4, 2009 -- THEATER-GYLLENHAAL-4 -- Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard onstage in the Classic Stage Company production...

(NYT53) NEW YORK -- February 4, 2009 -- THEATER-GYLLENHAAL-5 -- Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard in New York on Jan. 27, 2009. The couple is freq...

(NYT54) NEW YORK -- February 4, 2009 -- THEATER-GYLLENHAAL-6 -- Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard in New York on Jan. 27, 2009. The couple is freq...