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Hamidullah of Paktia Province, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 9, 2011. After several attacks using explosives hidden in a turban, a rule on searching the...

Judy Dushku, who viewed Mitt Romney as someone who was full of himself during his time as a bishop, in Watertown, Mass., Oct. 14, 2011. From 1981 thro...

King Harald V of Norway in his office in Oslo, Oct. 11, 2011. King Harald served as a symbol of patriotism after the July killings, as his grandfather...

King Harald V of Norway in his office in Oslo, Oct. 11, 2011. King Harald served as a symbol of patriotism after the July killings, as his grandfather...

King Harald V of Norway in his office in Oslo, Oct. 11, 2011. King Harald served as a symbol of patriotism after the July killings, as his grandfather...

Dan Candura, a 20-year veteran of Ameriprise Financial's predecessor companies, in Braintree, Mass., Oct. 14, 2011. Ameriprise, the country's largest...

Russell Banks, the author of the novel "Lost Memory of Skin," in Miami, Sept. 26, 2011. Banks based his new novel on a group of homeless sex offenders...

Peggy Payne, the author of "Sister India," at her office in Raleigh, N.C., Oct. 11, 2011. Payne wasn't chosen to attend a camp for brainy teenagers wh...

Toshiyuki Hattori, chief of the Tachikawa city Nishiki-cho Sewage Treatment Plant, stands surrounded by radioactive contaminated sludge in an undergro...

Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez speaks to reporters following the death of Laura Pollan, founder of the Ladies in White, Friday night in Havana, Oct. 14,...

Russell Banks, the author of the novel "Lost Memory of Skin," in Miami, Sept. 26, 2011. Banks based his new novel on a group of homeless sex offenders...

Bob Plybon, chief executive of Plybon & Associates, an insurance agency and wealth adviser who says it now makes sense to think of insurance as an ass...

A vendor at the Owino Parkyard Market in Kampala, Uganda, Sept. 14, 2011. The Ugandan shilling is one of the world's worst-performing currencies again...

People near a taxi park in Kampala, Uganda, Sept. 14, 2011. The Ugandan shilling is one of the world's worst-performing currencies against the dollar...

A man carries goods through the Kiseka Market in Kampala, Uganda, Sept. 15, 2011. The Ugandan shilling is one of the world's worst-performing currenci...

A man welds at Kiseka Market in Kampala, Uganda, Sept. 15, 2011. The Ugandan shilling is one of the world's worst-performing currencies against the do...

Men clean spare parts at Kiseka Market in Kampala, Uganda, Sept. 15, 2011. The Ugandan shilling is one of the world's worst-performing currencies agai...

Children look for metal scraps to sell in a canal near Kiseka Market in Kampala, Uganda, Sept. 15, 2011. The Ugandan shilling is one of the world's wo...

A street vendor prepares a rolled egg or "Rolexes," a popular snack, in Kampala, Uganda, Sept. 15, 2011. The Ugandan shilling is one of the world's wo...

Samuel L. Jackson, left, and Angela Bassett in Katori Hall's play "The Mountaintop" at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater in New York, Sept. 21, 2011. "The...

Samuel L. Jackson, left, and Angela Bassett in Katori Hall's play "The Mountaintop" at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater in New York, Sept. 21, 2011. "The...

Samuel L. Jackson, left, and Angela Bassett in Katori Hall's play "The Mountaintop" at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater in New York, Sept. 21, 2011. "The...

Samuel L. Jackson in Katori Hall's play "The Mountaintop" at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater in New York, Sept. 21, 2011. "The Mountaintop" takes place...

Angela Bassett, left, lights Samuel L. Jackson's cigarette in Katori Hall's play "The Mountaintop" at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater in New York, Sept....

Angela Bassett, who is opposite Samuel L. Jackson, in Katori Hall's play "The Mountaintop" at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater in New York, Sept. 21, 201...

Elizabeth Olsen in New York, Sept. 7, 2011. Olsen, younger sister to Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen, has five movies in the can, including the Sundance hi...

Elizabeth Olsen in New York, Sept. 7, 2011. Olsen, younger sister to Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen, has five movies in the can, including the Sundance hi...

Elizabeth Olsen in New York, Sept. 7, 2011. Olsen, younger sister to Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen, has five movies in the can, including the Sundance hi...

Director J.C. Chandor in SoHo in New York, Sept. 28, 2011. The film "Margin Call," from the first-time writer and director Chandor, reflects his exper...

From left: Elaine May, Ethan Coen and Woody Allen on the stage where their play "Relatively Speaking" will premiere at the Brooks Atkinson Theater in...

Elizabeth Olsen in New York, Sept. 7, 2011. Olsen, younger sister to Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen, has five movies in the can, including the Sundance hi...

Director J.C. Chandor in SoHo in New York, Sept. 28, 2011. The film "Margin Call," from the first-time writer and director Chandor, reflects his exper...

Elizabeth Olsen in New York, Sept. 7, 2011. Olsen, younger sister to Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen, has five movies in the can, including the Sundance hi...

Director J.C. Chandor in SoHo in New York, Sept. 28, 2011. The film "Margin Call," from the first-time writer and director Chandor, reflects his exper...

Elizabeth Olsen in New York, Sept. 7, 2011. Olsen, younger sister to Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen, has five movies in the can, including the Sundance hi...

Mia Yoo, who is the new artistic director of La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, at the theater in New York, Oct. 6, 2011. La MaMa has been a locus of...

A product shot of the first iMac in an undated photo. Innovation and refinement seem to be a pattern at Apple, and the iPhone 4S -- despite disappoint...

St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, Oct. 3, 2011. Since being laid in 1858m, the original cornerstone for the cathedral has been missing, but the det...

Chris Mulllin, a retired NBA All-Star, foreground, coaches the cast of the musical comedy, "Lysistrata Jones," on the game of basketball, in New York,...

Bob Gruen, a photographer of rock bands, at his studio, with his portraits of John Lennon in New York, Sept. 30, 2011. Gruen was so deeply embedded wi...

Rapper ASAP Rocky in New York, Sept. 8, 2011. Rocky has a soon-to-be-released debut mixtape. (Chad Batka/The New York Times)

Rapper ASAP Rocky in New York, Sept. 8, 2011. Rocky has a soon-to-be-released debut mixtape. (Chad Batka/The New York Times)

Rapper ASAP Rocky in New York, Sept. 8, 2011. Rocky has a soon-to-be-released debut mixtape. (Chad Batka/The New York Times)

A U.S. Border Patrol agent scouts the fence along the Mexican border in Naco, Ariz., Sept. 26, 2011. The area, which used to be one of the major cross...

A product shot of the 2004 iMac in an undated photo. Innovation and refinement seem to be a pattern at Apple, and the iPhone 4S -- despite disappointm...

Joe Girardi, manager of the New York Yankees, during a news conference at Yankee Stadium in New York, Oct. 11, 2011. During the annual end-of-season c...

Police watch protesters in the street during a demonstration outside Bank of America in Chicago, on Oct. 11, 2011. Demonstrations fueled by the one th...

An Occupy Boston protester stretches among tents in Dewey Square in Boston, on Oct. 11, 2011. Demonstrations fueled by the one that began near Wall St...

President Barack Obama during a meeting of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness at the IBEW Local No. 5 Training Center in Pittsburgh,...

President Barack Obama delivers an address at the IBEW Local No. 5 Training Center in Pittsburgh, Oct. 11, 2011. The president visited the union facil...