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U.S. basketball player Kobe Bryant, center, leaps in excitement, as teammates celebrate after the U.S. defeated Spain to win the gold medal in men's b...

Members of the Brazilian women's volleyball team celebrate winning the gold medal after their match against the United States at the Beijing Institut...

Heather Bown, left, of the United States women's volleyball team comforts teammate Logan Tom, right, as they received their silver medals after the te...

USA's Michael Phelps with his 7th gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China, Aug. 16, 2008. (Doug Mills/ The New York Times)

A woman watches police and residents of the Matahre slum try to put out a fire set ablaze during running battles between members of the Kikuyu and Luo...

A young girl sells umbrellas on a rainy day in Peshawar, in January, 2008. The proximity of Peshawar to the tribal areas between Pakistan and Afghanis...

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, Sept. 15, 2008. Nervous investors tried to make sense of a rapidly changing financial...

A busy street in Peshawar, in January, 2008. Situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, Peshawar is a gateway from Pakistan to Afghanistan. (T...

Sanya Richards, left, of the U.S. 4x400 meter relay team celebrates their gold medal win, as Russia's Anastasia Kapachinskaya, right, follows in secon...

Lawyers were met with tear gas in Karachi, Pakistan in February, 2008, as they rallied to demand the reinstatement of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as th...

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi at the annual Arab summit meeting in Damascus, Syria, March 29, 2008. (Bryan Denton/The New York Times)

Cup cakes decorated with gender symbols wait to be handed out to same-sex couples being married in West Hollywood, Calif., June 16, 2008. (Monica Al...

Singer Billy Joel at his summer home in Sag Harbor, N.Y., where he keeps his collection of restored vintage motorcycles, June 30, 2008. Joel was playi...

A man believed to be a pirate is seen imprisoned in the main jail in Boossaso, Somalia, seen Oct. 15, 2008. Somalia is in chaos, countless children ar...

The hands of the The chief executives of the Big Three automakers, left, and in the right frame, those executives, from right, General Motors Chief Ex...

A member of the local awakening council, Sons of Iraq, placed his thumb print on a form before receiving his salary at an Iraqi army base in Mada'an,...

A guard house at Delta Camp, a part of the prison facility at the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, July 23, 2008. (Fred R. Conrad/The New Yor...

The Wall Street sign with the New York Stock Exchange in the background, Sept. 30, 2008. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)

Roger Clemens leans back to confer with Rusty Hardin, one of his lawyers, during a hearing on use of steroids in Major League Baseball, on Capitol in...

Tori, left, and Kate Kuykendall married June 17, 2008, in West Hollywood, Calif. Their baby daughter, Zadia, also dressed for the event. Gay marriage...

Soldiers of Apache Troop, a cavalry unit in the U.S. Army's First Infantry Division, fire 120mm mortars at insurgents from Combat Outpost Lowell, near...

President Bush conducts the United States Marine Band in "Stars and Stripes Forever" during the White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington, April...

President Bush is hugged by his wife, first lady Laura Bush, as he gives an emotional wave of appreciation after delivering a statement on transitioni...

(NYT1) MUMBAI, India -- Dec. 7, 2008 -- INDIA-MUSLIMS -- Islamic seminary students join other groups of Muslim demonstrators gathering at Victoria Ter...

(NYT2) MUMBAI, India -- Dec. 7, 2008 -- INDIA-MUSLIMS-2 -- Islamic seminary students join other groups of Muslim demonstrators gathering at Victoria T...

(NYT26) MUMBAI, India -- Dec. 7, 2008 -- INDIA-MUSLIMS-3 -- Islamic seminary students and other groups of Muslim demonstrators march to the Oberoi Hot...

(NYT23) NEW ORLEANS -- Dec. 6, 2008 -- LA-HOUSE-RACE -- Congressman-elect Anh J. Cao outside a coffee shop in New Orleans, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008, one d...

(NYT24) NEW ORLEANS -- Dec. 6, 2008 -- LA-HOUSE-RACE-2 -- Congressman-elect Anh J. Cao outside a coffee shop in New Orleans, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008, one...

(NYT25) NEW ORLEANS -- Dec. 6, 2008 -- LA-HOUSE-RACE-3 -- Congressman-elect Anh J. Cao autographs a newspaper for Alejandra Sanchez, seated, outside...

(NYT11) MACHU PICCHU, Peru -- Dec. 7, 2008 -- PERU-MACHU-PICCHU -- A tourist walks through the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, Dec. 3, 2008. From the post...

(NYT12) MACHU PICCHU, Peru -- Dec. 7, 2008 -- PERU-MACHU-PICCHU-2 -- Tourists walk through the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, Dec. 3, 2008. From the post...

(NYT13) MACHU PICHHU, Peru -- Dec. 7, 2008 -- PERU-MACHU-PICCHU-3 -- A guard on the grounds of the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, Peru. Dec. 3, 2008. (...

(NYT14) MACHU PICHHU, Peru -- Dec. 7, 2008 -- PERU-MACHU-PICCHU-4 -- Tourists on the grounds of the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, Peru. Dec. 3, 2008....

(NYT15) MACHU PICHHU, Peru -- Dec. 7, 2008 -- PERU-MACHU-PICCHU-5 -- Llamas on the grounds of the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, Peru, Dec. 3, 2008. (Mo...

(NYT30) MANNAR, Sri Lanka -- December 5, 2008 -- SRI-LANKA-WAR -- A herd of cows run across a road between government soldiers in the Mannar district...

(NYT39) MANNAR, Sri Lanka -- December 5, 2008 -- SRI-LANKA-WAR-2 -- An abandoned Christian shrine along the A32 road which is now part of government h...

(NYT) WASHINGTON -- Dec. 4, 2008 -- AUTOS-BAILOUT-1 -- General Motors CEO Richard Wagoner, left, arrived on Capitol Hill in a hybrid vehicle for a hea...

(NYT2) WASHINGTON -- Dec. 4, 2008 -- AUTOS-BAILOUT-2 -- Richard Wagoner, CEO of General Motors, right, with Ron Gettelfinger, president of the United...

(NYT11) WASHINGTON -- Dec. 4, 2008 -- AUTOS-BAILOUT-3 -- Executives of the Big Three automakers appear before the Senate Banking Committee in Washingt...

(NYT12) WASHINGTON -- Dec. 4, 2008 -- AUTOS-BAILOUT-4 -- Executives of the Big Three automakers appear before the Senate Banking Committee in Washingt...

(NYT13) WASHINGTON -- Dec. 4, 2008 -- AUTOS-BAILOUT-5 -- General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner, left, chats with Ron Gettelfinger, president of the United A...

(NYT14) WASHINGTON -- Dec. 4, 2008 -- AUTOS-BAILOUT-6 -- Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Doddd (D-Conn.), left, confers with Sen. Richard Shel...

(NYT15) WASHINGTON -- Dec. 4, 2008 -- AUTOS-BAILOUT-7 -- Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) listens to testimony during a hearing before the Senate Banking Com...

(NYT16) WASHINGTON -- Dec. 4, 2008 -- AUTOS-BAILOUT-8 -- Rep. Sandy Levin (D-Mich), second from left, and his brother, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), thir...

(NYT17) WASHINGTON -- Dec. 4, 2008 -- AUTOS-BAILOUT-9 -- Executives of the Big Three automakers appear before the Senate Banking Committee in Washingt...

(NYT18) NEW YORK -- Dec. 4, 2008 -- LIZA-MUSIC-REVIEW -- Liza Minnelli honors a mentor, Kay Thompson, at the Palace Theater in New York on Wednesday...

(NYT19) NEW YORK -- Dec. 4, 2008 -- LIZA-MUSIC-REVIEW-2 -- Liza Minnelli honors a mentor, Kay Thompson, at the Palace Theater in New York on Wednesd...

(NYT5) HEBRON, West Bank -- Dec. 4, 2008 -- MIDEAST-ISRAEL-1 -- Fire emerges from a Palestinian's house as Jewish settlers riot in Hebron, on the West...

(NYT6) HEBRON, West Bank -- Dec. 4, 2008 -- MIDEAST-ISRAEL-2 -- Fire emerges from a Palestinian's house as Jewish settlers riot in Hebron, on the West...

(NYT8) HEBRON, West Bank -- Dec. 4, 2008 -- MIDEAST-ISRAEL-3 -- A Jewish settler shouts at police after Israeli troops forcibly evicted about 200 hard...