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Playwright Jordan Harrison on the stage at Playwrights Horizons where his "Maple and Vine" is playing, in New York, Nov. 19, 2011. The play follows a...

Steve McQueen, left, the director of "Shame," with actor Michael Fassbender in New York, Nov. 16, 2011. McQueen's film, a wrenching saga of sex addict...

Jose Pimentel during his arraignment at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Nov. 20, 2011. Law enforcement officials believe Pimentel, who was arres...

Jose Pimentel during his arraignment at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Nov. 20, 2011. Law enforcement officials believe Pimentel, who was arres...

Jose Pimentel, right, represented by attorney Joseph Zablocki, during his arraignment at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Nov. 20, 2011. Law enfo...

Singer Debbie Harry performs at a benefit gala that was designed by Marina Abramovic at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Nov. 12, 2011....

Marina Abramovic, center, a performance artist, and singer Debbie Harry, right, prepare to cut life-size cakes of themselves at a benefit gala Abramov...

Gary Chapman, a Southern Baptist pastor and best-selling author of "The Five Love Languages," conducts a marriage seminar at the Eagleville Bible Chur...

Marina Abramovic, a performance artist, left, and singer Debbie Harry talk after rehearsal for a benefit gala for the Museum of Contemporary Art in L...

Marina Abramovic, a performance artist, while rehearsing cutting a pastry version of herself before a benefit gala for the Museum of Contemporary Art...

Actress Rose McGowan is helped into a lab coat, which all guests were instructed to wear, during a benefit gala Marina Abramovic performed at for the...

Marina Abramovic, a performance artist, speaks with Museum of Contemporary Art Director Jeffrey Deitch, during a benefit gala Abramovic performed at f...

Dr. Dre at a media party for his product, Beats by Dr. Dre, in New York, Oct. 11, 2011. With his line of headphones approaching $500 million in annual...

Steven Chu, Secretary of the Department of Energy, testifies to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Energy and Commerce Comm...

Steven Chu, Secretary of the Department of Energy, testifies to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Energy and Commerce Comm...

Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross in "Private Lives" at the Music Box Theater in New York, on Nov. 11, 2011. Richard Eyre's revival of Noel Coward's 1930s c...

Mayor Mia Love, a Mormon who has appeared in a video ad for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, at her office in Saratoga Springs, Utah,...

Mayor Mia Love, a Mormon who has appeared in a video ad for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, at her office in Saratoga Springs, Utah,...

Herman Cain, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, sits down for an interview with a local television station in Nashua, N.H., on No...

Ted Cruz, a candidate in the Republican primary for the Senate race in Texas, speaks at the Tarrant County U.S. Senate Forum at Richland Hills United...

French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello in Paris, Nov. 10, 2011. Bonello's new film, "House of Pleasures," which is set in a turn-of-the-20th-century French...

French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello in Paris, Nov. 10, 2011. Bonello's new film, "House of Pleasures," which is set in a turn-of-the-20th-century French...

Rapper-singer Drake in State College, Pa., Nov. 11, 2011. On "Take Care," Drake's second album, he explores moodier emotional terrain in a range of st...

Rapper-singer Drake in State College, Pa., Nov. 11, 2011. On "Take Care," Drake's second album, he explores moodier emotional terrain in a range of st...

Rink Dickinson, president of Equal Exchange, an importer of fair trade goods, in a coffee warehouse in West Bridgewater, Mass., on Nov. 17, 2011. Fair...

Lauren Remington Platt, who founded Vensette, a hair and makeup artist booking service, in New York, on Nov. 17, 2011. Platt is one of several sociali...

Ann Patchett, a best-selling novelist, in her bookstore, Parnassus Books, in Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 12, 2011. Patchett, whose bookstore will open on W...

Ann Patchett, a best-selling novelist, right, and her business partner, Karen Hayes, in their bookstore, Parnassus Books, in Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 12...

Mohamed Mahmoud, who served a four-year prison term in Austria for active support of al-Qaida and its affiliate groups, in Vienna, on Oct. 12, 2011. I...

Ann Patchett, a best-selling novelist, right, and her business partner, Karen Hayes, in their bookstore, Parnassus Books, in Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 12...

A rye whiskey and Italian amaro cocktail in New York, Nov. 9, 2011. Wine is the typical drink of choice around most Thanksgiving tables, but ciders, r...

Ann Patchett, a best-selling novelist, left, and her business partner, Karen Hayes, in their bookstore, Parnassus Books, in Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 12,...

Mohamed Mahmoud, who served a four-year prison term in Austria for active support of al-Qaida and its affiliate groups, in Vienna, on Oct. 12, 2011. I...

Terrill Swift, who spent 15 years in prison on charges of rape and murder, is now awaiting a judge's ruling on DNA evidence that could vacate his conv...

Terrill Swift, who spent 15 years in prison on charges of rape and murder, is now awaiting a judge's ruling on DNA evidence that could vacate his conv...

Terrill Swift, right, who spent 15 years in prison on charges of rape and murder, with his lawyer. Joshua Tepfer, in Woodridge, Ill., Nov. 10, 2011. O...

Workers at the oil refinery in Zawiya, Libya, Nov. 14, 2011. Although Libya's overall oil production remains at about 40 percent of the level that it...

A pedestrian outside the mall in Doha, Qatar, Nov. 15, 2011. Despite being a wealthy city, Doha continues to search for an identity. (Bryan Denton/The...

Pedestrians in the Suq Waqif area of Doha, Qatar, Nov. 15, 2011. Despite being a wealthy city, Doha continues to search for an identity. (Bryan Denton...

Qatari men at a mostly empty cafe in the Suq Waqif area of Doha, Qatar, Nov. 15, 2011. Despite being a wealthy city, Doha continues to search for an i...

Belal Al Ameer, who worked as a top reporter for Al Rasheed television for the last three years, in Haditha, Iraq, Nov. 15, 2011. Despite the uncertai...

A geography class at a private girls' school opened by Ali al-Subiahi, a former exile, in Baghdad, Nov. 15, 2011. Subiahi returned from his family's s...

Jeremy Breaux, an animal trainer, injects a chimpanzee housed at the New Iberia Research Center in New Iberia, La., Oct. 28, 2011. A major push by adv...

A Syrian girl works at a board in the children's school tent in a refugee camp run by the Turkish Red Crescent near the border with Syria in Boynuyogu...

A lunar base camp model in the "Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration" exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York,...

The Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 14, 2011. On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to President Obama's...

Students at St. Mary's College of Maryland move their belongings onto the Sea Voyager cruise ship, in Lexington Park, Md., Nov. 1, 2011. After an outb...

A man walks past one of many large inspirational English words placed in various spots along the promenade, with the skyline in the background, in Doh...

Jolie Glaser, who supported President Barack Obama in 2008, in Las Vegas, Nov. 4, 2011. Interviews across the country suggest that most of Obama's col...

Marlon, 10, a chimpanzee, in his outdoor cage at the New Iberia Research Center in New Iberia, La., Oct. 28, 2011. A major push by advocacy groups cou...