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House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill about the House's stopgap spending bill, in Washington, Sept. 23,...

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) takes the stage during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Or...

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Orange County Convention Center...

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), a Republican presidential candidate, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Orange County C...

Paula Radcliffe of England, the world-record holder in the women's marathon and owner of the three fastest times ever run, in Berlin, Sept. 22, 2011....

Paula Radcliffe of England, the world-record holder in the women's marathon and owner of the three fastest times ever run, in Berlin, Sept. 22, 2011....

Israeli soldiers try to contain clashes between Jewish settlers from the settlement of Esh Kodesh and Palestinians from the village of Qusra on the We...

Hamid Biglari, a Citicorp vice chairman and chief of emerging market, who said "you have to figure out how to work with the cultural norms of differen...

Ari Seth Cohen, creator of the blog Advanced Style, at his apartment in New York, Sept. 23, 2011. Unlike countless other street-style bloggers Cohen h...

Kirsten Dunst in New York, July 26, 2011. Dunst's character in "Melancholia," the Lars von Trier film coming out in November, faces the end of the wor...

Kirsten Dunst in New York, July 26, 2011. Dunst's character in "Melancholia," the Lars von Trier film coming out in November, faces the end of the wor...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 22, 2011. A day after the House rejected the Re...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy takes part in a ceremony in anticipation of the 125th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, on Liberty Island in New...

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, testifies before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology about the future of human spa...

Eugene Cernan, who commanded the Apollo 17, testifies before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology about the future of human space flig...

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) at the Florida P5 Faith and Freedom Coalition Kick-Off event at the Rosen Centre Hot...

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican presidential candidate, speaks at the Florida P5 Faith and Freedom Coalition Kick-Off event at the...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg take part in a ceremony in anticipation of the 125th anniversary of...

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan speaks at a school in Pittsburgh, on Sept. 7, 2011. President Obama plans to release states from some of their obli...

FILE -- Gino Quilico as Figaro in "Ghosts of Versailles," written by John Corigliano, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, March 31, 1995. Coriglian...

Rat Island, a 2.5-acre bit of rock near City Island, in New York, Sept. 22, 2011. The owner of Rat Island, which is mostly flooded at high tide, is pu...

Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman, is photographed by members of the media before testifying before a Senate committee on whether Google competes fairly...

Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman, arranges his notes before testifying before a Senate committee on whether Google competes fairly in its various busi...

Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman, is sworn in before testifying on Wednesday before a Senate committee on whether Google competes fairly in its various...

Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman, talks to two Google employees before testifying on Wednesday before a Senate committee on whether Google competes fai...

A woman passes a poster of Burhanuddin Rabbani, the leader of Afghanistan's High Peace Council and former president, in front of his home where mourne...

Mourners gather in front of the home of Burhanuddin Rabbani, the leader of Afghanistan's High Peace Council and former president, the day after he was...

Mourners gather in front of the home of Burhanuddin Rabbani, the leader of Afghanistan's High Peace Council and former president, the day after he was...

The ruins of a small community after the Uganda government and a British forestry company allegedly forced and expelled residents from their homes, in...

William Bakeshisha, who was allegedly forced and expelled from his land by the Ugandan government and a British forestry company, in the Mubende Distr...

A mother stands under a grass thatched hut overlooking a piece of land where she and her family resided before they were allegedly forced and expelled...

Denis Simonet, co-founder of the Pirate Party, which concerns itself with Internet freedom, on the balcony of the Swiss Parliament in Bern, Switzerlan...

Denis Simonet, co-founder of the Pirate Party, which concerns itself with Internet freedom, on the balcony of the Swiss Parliament in Bern, Switzerlan...

FILE -- Conductor James Levine leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York, Feb. 1, 2010. The famed conductor accident this month...

FILE -- Fabio Luisi conducts the Metropolitan Opera at Carnegie Hall in New York, May 15, 2011. Famed conductor James Levine's accident this month and...

FILE -- James Conlon conducts the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall in New York, Oct. 18, 2007. Famed conductor James Levine's accident this...

A copy of "Eve's Diary" by Mark Twain, held by Richard Whitehead, a trustee of the Charlton Public Library, in Charlton, Mass., on Sept. 21, 2011. The...

A copy of "Eve's Diary" by Mark Twain, held by Richard Whitehead, a trustee of the Charlton Public Library, in Charlton, Mass., on Sept. 21, 2011. The...

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FILE -- Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani in his offices at the presidential palace in Kabul, Jan. 3, 2002. An unidentified attacker killed...

President Barack Obama meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the United Nations, Sept. 20, 2011. Obama said Tuesday that the killing of Burhanud...

FILE -- Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani in his offices at the presidential palace in Kabul, Jan. 3, 2002. An unidentified attacker killed...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican presidential candidate, at a hotel during a campaign stop in New York, Sept. 20, 2011. As part of his campaign swi...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican presidential candidate, at a hotel during a campaign stop in New York, Sept. 20, 2011. As part of his campaign swi...

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, center, after a meeting with Libya's National Transitional Council at the United Nations, Sept. 20, 2011...

The children of Jewish settlers wave flags of the State of Israel during part of a march in Itamar on the West Bank, Sept. 20, 2011. At least 200 sett...

President Barack Obama meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the United Nations, Sept. 20, 2011. Obama said Tuesday that the killing of Burhanud...

President Barack Obama meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the United Nations, Sept. 20, 2011. Obama said Tuesday that the killing of Burhanud...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) speaks to the press after a caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Sept. 20, 2011. On Tuesday, R...

Gov. Jerry Brown, of California, who also served as governor 30 years ago, in Sacramento, Calif., Sept. 14, 2011. Ten months after his return to the o...