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A military honor guard awaits the arrival of President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. Tainted by a flawed election an...

President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak fielding questions during a press conference at the Blue House in Seoul, Thursday, Nov...

President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak embrace after a press conference at the Blue House in Seoul, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009....

President Barack Obama, right, is escorted by President Lee Myung-Bak during a welcoming ceremony in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. O...

President Barack Obama arrives to address U.S. troops at Osan Air Base outside Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. Earlier on Thursday, Ob...

President Barack Obama waves as he boards Air Force One after speaking to U.S. troops at Osan Air Base outside Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, Nov. 1...

President Barack Obama walks to a waiting vehicle at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland upon his return from his Asia trip on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009....

Cloaked in a brown wool shawl and carrying a walking stick, the figure of a man emerges from a dense early-morning fog near Raiwind, Pakistan, in earl...

Worshippers leave Raiwind following the three day gathering of Tabligh Jamaat in early November, 2009. The missionary movement that spreads revivalist...

Followers of Tabligh Jamaat perform ablution prior to prayers in Raiwind, Pakistan, in early November, 2009. The Tabligh Jamaat missionary movement th...

Followers of Tabligh Jamaat in Raiwind, Pakistan, in early November, 2009. The Tabligh Jamaat missionary movement that spreads revivalist Islam throug...

Followers of Tabligh Jamaat arrive in Raiwind, Pakistan, in early November, 2009. The Tabligh Jamaat missionary movement that spreads revivalist Islam...

In Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Nov. 13, 2009, partly obscured graffiti, in background, reads "Go America" in Urdu and thanks people for taking part in a...

Attorney General Eric Holder prepares to testify before a session of the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. Speaking...

President Barack Obama during a tour of the Badaling setion of the Great Wall of China in Bejing, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. (Stephen Crowley/The New Y...

Attorney General Eric Holder testifies during a session of the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. Speaking about tryi...

President Barack Obama during a tour of the Badaling setion of the Great Wall of China in Bejing, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. (Stephen Crowley/The New Y...

Attorney General Eric Holder testifies during a session of the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. A video view for th...

A protester holds a sign behind Attorney General Eric Holder as he prepares to testify before a session of the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washingt...

President Barack Obama greets South Korean officials as President Lee Myung-Bak of South Korea, second from left, greeted Jeff Bader, senior director...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is joined by, from left, Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Christopher Dodd (D-...

One of several photographs seized by Pakistani forces during operations in South Waziristan, the remote tribal area of Pakistan where Pakistani soldie...

One of several photographs seized by Pakistani forces during operations in South Waziristan, the remote tribal area of Pakistan where Pakistani soldie...

One of several photographs seized by Pakistani forces during operations in South Waziristan, the remote tribal area of Pakistan where Pakistani soldie...

One of several photographs seized by Pakistani forces during operations in South Waziristan, the remote tribal area of Pakistan where Pakistani soldie...

One of several photographs seized by Pakistani forces during operations in South Waziristan, the remote tribal area of Pakistan where Pakistani soldie...

President Barack Obama during a tour of the Forbidden City in Beijing, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. (Stephen Crowley/The New York Times)

President Obama tours the historic Forbidden City in Beijing on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, during a break from meetings with Chinese leaders. Obama and...

President Barack Obama, right, signs a guest book after touring the Forbiddden City in Beijing on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Obama and President Hu Jinta...

Final preparations are made before a meeting between President Barack OBama and President Hu Jintao of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijin...

Selected Chinese students at a town hall meeting in Shanghai had a chance to ask President Obama questions on Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. Whether by White...

A Chinese military honor guard stands at attention in front of a mural depicting the Great Wall during a welcoming cereony for President Barack Obama...

President Obama and President Hu Jintao of China in Beijing, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. After their meeting in the Great Hall of the People the leaders i...

President Barack Obama is escorted by Chinese officials as he tours the Forbidden City in Beijing on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Obama and President Hu Ji...

Chinese police officers take a break as President Barack Obama tours the Forbidden City in Beijing on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Obama and President Hu J...

President Barack Obama, third from right, meets with President Hu Jintao of China, second from left, in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tue...

One of several photographs seized by Pakistani forces during operations in South Waziristan, the remote tribal area of Pakistan where Pakistani soldie...

One of several photographs seized by Pakistani forces during operations in South Waziristan, the remote tribal area of Pakistan where Pakistani soldie...

One of several photographs seized by Pakistani forces during operations in South Waziristan, the remote tribal area of Pakistan where Pakistani soldie...

Pakistani soldiers in Sararogha on Nov. 17, 2009. The Pakistani Army recently took control in Sararogha, a town in the South Waziristan region that mi...

A Pakistani soldier in Sararogha on Nov. 17, 2009. The Pakistani Army recently took control in Sararogha, a town in the South Waziristan region that m...

One of several photographs seized by Pakistani forces during operations in South Waziristan, the remote tribal area of Pakistan where Pakistani soldie...

One of several photographs seized by Pakistani forces during operations in South Waziristan, the remote tribal area of Pakistan where Pakistani soldie...

One of several photographs seized by Pakistani forces during operations in South Waziristan, the remote tribal area of Pakistan where Pakistani soldie...

Travis Bryant shows page from a book on his iPhone in Hoover, Ala., in November 2009. Many people who want to read electronic books are discovering t...

Travis Bryant reading a book from his iPhone to his daughter in Hoover, Ala., in November 2009. Many people who want to read electronic books are disc...

Congressional Budget Office Director Doug W. Elmendorf in his office in Washington in November 2009. Most people have never heard of Elmendorf. But al...

Congressional Budget Office Director Doug W. Elmendorf, foreground, and Tom Barthold, chief of staff, Joint Committee on Taxation during a Senate hear...

Dr. John Boockvar, left, watcheding as Dr. Howard Riina and Jared Knopman injected drugs into Dennis Sugrue's skull at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cor...

Dr. Howard Riina at New York Hospital looking at X-rays during a procedure performed on Dennis Sugrue, 50, who has glioblastoma, the cancer that Senat...