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50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- John Parke Wright, a Florida cattle farmer, rode with a Cuban farmer, one of the diversions for visitors t...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- Jamar Williams, 27, of Brooklyn, left, with Tahirah Benyard, second from left, of Newark, N.J., along with...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- A long shadow trails Cuban leader Fidel Castro as he walks near the beach of Santa Maria del Mar, a beach...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- Cuban President Fidel Castro in the front seat of his car during a visit to a school in Ciudad Libertad in...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- Cuban President Fidel Castro during a visit to a school in Ciudad Libertad, Cuba, in 1964. Castro's revol...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- The first article on Fidel Castro's rebels by correspondent Herbert Matthews as it appeared in the New Yor...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- Fidel Castro in 1964 with his trademark cigar during an interview in one of his Havana apartments. Castro'...

(NYT14) WASHINGTON -- Dec. 9, 2008 -- CONGRESS-FANNIE-FREDDIE-2 -- Former chief executive officers of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac testify at a House Ov...

(NYT15) WASHINGTON -- Dec. 9, 2008 -- CONGRESS-FANNIE-FREDDIE-3 -- The bag of former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines, as he testified before the House...

(NYT9) CHICAGO -- Dec. 9, 2008 -- ILL-GOV-ARREST-5 -- U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald during a news conference where he discussed the charges against...

(NYT11) CHICAGO -- Dec. 9, 2008 -- OBAMA-2 -- President-elect Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President-elect Joe Biden, left, and former Vice President...

(NYT12) CHICAGO -- Dec. 9, 2008 -- OBAMA-3 -- President-elect Barack Obama, with former Vice President Al Gore, right, at the Obama transition office...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- Cuban rebel leader Fidel Castro, right, during an interview by New York Times correspondent Herbert L. Mat...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- Members of the Cuban military raise Cuban flags on 138 posts near the U.S. Interest Section in Havana (bui...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- Some 1,500 Cuban doctors called up by Cuban leader Fidel Castro sit at the ready with their backpacks wait...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- Yoani Sanchez at her home in Havana in May, 2008. "There's a very intelligent repression here, a scientifi...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- A portrait of Fidel Castro at the entrance of the Camilo Cienfuegos refinery in Cienfuegos, Cuba, Dec. 20...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- Postcards of Cuban Revolutionary hero Che Guevara at a tourist shop in Santa Clara, Sept. 23, 2007. Castr...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- Oswaldo Paya, organizer of the Varela Project, a petition calling for a referendum on democratic change, s...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- Tourists have their photo taken with Maydalis Cepero, an employee at the souvenir shop of the museum which...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- A portrait of Che Guevara looks out over the crowd marching in Havana to mark Labor Day, May 1, 2002. Thro...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- Spanish tourists watch a man work on his vintage car on a street in Havana, Oct. 23, 2008. Through a laby...

(NYT13) WASHINGTON -- Dec. 9, 2008 -- CONGRESS-FANNIE-FREDDIE -- Former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines, foreground, during testimony before the House...

(NYT6) CHICAGO -- Dec. 9, 2008 -- ILL-GOV-ARREST-3 -- U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, center, leaves a news conference where he discussed the charge...

(NYT7) CHICAGO -- Dec. 9, 2008 -- ILL-GOV-ARREST-4 -- U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald during a news conference where he discussed the charges against...

(NYT17) CHICAGO -- Dec. 9, 2008 -- ILL-GOV-ARREST-5 -- Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois, right, arrived at his home in Chicago after being arrested...

(NYT10) CHICAGO -- Dec. 9, 2008 -- OBAMA -- President-elect Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President-elect Joe Biden, left, and former Vice President A...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- The Capitol building in Havana in February, 2008. El Capitolio, as it is known, was the seat of government...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- Trabajadores, one of the Cuban government's newspapers, headlining the story of Raul Castro being picked a...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- Fidel Castro, the Cuban rebel leader with New York Times reporter Herbert Matthews in the late 1950's. Ma...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- A portait of Fidel Castro is seen next to the entrance to a warehouse in Guira de Melena, west of Havana,...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- A man reads Granma, the newspaper of Cuba's Communist Party, announcing that President Fidel Castro was st...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- An unidentified young Cuban shows USB flash memory sticks he sells on a rooftop in Havana, March 3, 2008....

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- A kiss on a Havana street in February, 2008. Through a labyrinth of rations, regulations, two currencies a...

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- Raidel Figueroa uses a candle to read his school book at his home in Marianao, Cuba, Oct. 3, 2004. Blackou...

A U.S. soldier stands guard during an art exhibit at the Engineering College in the once violent Baghdad neighborhood of Dora, in Baghdad, Nov. 30, 20...

A screen shows the 228-205 tally of the vote on the financial bailout legislation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 29, 2008. In a moment of histo...

A protester against the financial bailout plan stands near the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street, Sept. 26, 2008. (Librado Romero/The New York Ti...

A pedestrian stops to read a sign set up on a sidewalk in New York's financial district, Sept. 15, 2008. The churn of a rapidly changing financial la...

Laura Caputo, a financial job recruiter, was handing out her card to employees of Lehman Brothers as they left the company's New York headquarters, so...

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson during a press briefing at the White House, Sept. 15, 2008. Paulson tried to reassure the general public as well as t...

A news headline referring to Gov. Eliot Spitzer scrolls above a billboard advertising "America's Next Top Model" in New York's Times Square, March 10,...

Comedian and author George Carlin in New York in 2004. Carlin, the Grammy-Award winning standup comedian and actor who was hailed for his irreverent s...

Surinder Singh Chawla, a farmer, holds wheat grains from his farm in Punjab, India, in April 2008. The water table under land owned by Chawla has fal...

Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as an activist, race car driver, popcorn impresario and the anti-hero of such fi...

Tim Russert, then counsel to New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, in New York in a Dec. 8, 1982 file photo. Russert, who pointedly but politely questioned hundr...

Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson during an interview October 21, 2008. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)

Author and conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr. in his office at the National Review in New York in 1965. Buckley, who became famous for hi...

Keith Johnson and his daughter Karydis in his muffin car during the 3rd Annual Bay Area Makers Faire in San Mateo, CA with on May. 3, 2008. (Peter Da...

Mays Island in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, site of the City Hall, right, is covered by floodwaters on June 13, 2008. Flooding in Iowa reached record levels....