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Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, talks about the updated Apple 3GS iPhone at the Apple Worldwide Develop...

(NYT56) AVENAL, CA CAR SAND DRAG RACING 2 Sand drag racing at the National Sand Drag Association's Summer Nationals in Avenal, Calif. on May 17, 20...

Top Alcohol cars competing at the National Sand Drag Association's Summer Nationals in Avenal, CA May 17, 2009. (Max Whittaker/The New York Times)

Geoff Gill, 20, of Visalia, Calif., works on his car at the National Sand Drad Race Association's 2009 Summer Nationals in Avenal, CA May 17, 2009. Gi...

Geoff Gill's mother, Debbie Gill, wiping down his dragster at the National Sand Drag Association's Summer Nationals in Avenal, Calif. on May 17, 2009....

Comedian Stephen Colbert, from the Comedy Central television program, "The Colbert Report," gets a military-style haircut from General Raymond Odierno...

Comedian Stephen Colbert, from the Comedy Central television program, "The Colbert Report," taping the first of several shows in front of American sol...

Comedian Stephen Colbert, from the Comedy Central television program, "The Colbert Report," taping the first of several shows in front of American sol...

A polling station in Paris on Sun., Jun. 7, 2009. Mainsteam liberal politicians failed to turn the global economic crisis into new momentum in the Eur...

Lebanese voters line up outside a balloting center in the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburb of Hret Hreik in Beirut, Sun., Jun. 7, 2009. Lebanese v...

President Barack Obama meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Prefecture in Caen, France on June 6, 2009. President Obama travels back t...

The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville sur Mer, France on June 6, 2009. President Barack Obama participated in the 65th anniversary...

The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville sur Mer, France on June 6, 2009. President Barack Obama participated in the 65th anniversary...

President Barack Obama talks with D-Day veterans Clyde Combs of Houston, left, and Ben Franklin of Knoxville, Tenn., second from left, on an overlook...

(NYT21) NORMANDY, France OBAMA FRANCE 5 President Barack Obama talks with D-Day veterans Clyde Combs of Houston, left, and Ben Franklin of Knoxville...

President Barack Obama's helicopter flying over Pointe du Hoc after attending a 65th D-Day anniversary ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery and...

(NYT30) NEW YORK TONY AWARDS Neil Patrick Harris hosts the 2009 Tony Awards on Sun., Jun. 7 at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan. (Sara Krulwich/Th...

Laura Benanti and Brian Stokes Mitchell during the 2009 Tony Awards from Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan on Sun., Jun. 7. (Sara Krulwich/The New Yo...

Elton John in an opening performance of Billy Elliot during the Tony Awards from Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan on Sun., Jun. 7, 2009. (Sara Krulw...

Will Swenson performing in a scene from "Hair," during the 63rd annual Tony Awards in New York, June 7, 2009. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times )

Liza Minelli performs the opening number at the 63rd annual Tony Awards in New York, June 7, 2009. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times )

Dolly Parton performs from "9 to 5" during the 63rd annual Tony Awards ceremony in New York, June 7, 2009. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times )

The opening number performance during the 63rd annual Tony Awards in New York, June 7, 2009. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times )

A performance by the cast of "West Side Story" during the 63rd annual Tony Awards in New York, June 7, 2009. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times )

Tituss Burgess as Nicely-Nicely Johnson in a musical number from "Guys and Dolls" during the 63rd annual Tony Awards in New York, Sunday, June 7, 2009...

Visitors gather at the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, northwestern France, for a ceremony commemorating the D-Day invasion of Normandy on Sa...

Visitors gather at the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, northwestern France, to commemorate the D-Day invasion of Normandy on Saturday, June 6...

Michel Talon, a French veteran of World War II, covers his face with his hands during a ceremony commemorating the D-Day invasion at the American ceme...

Fighter jets are flown over the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, during a ceremony commemorating the D-Day invasion of Normandy on Sat...

President Barack Obama, third from right, and his wife, Michelle Obama, left, are welcomed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, second from right, and...

President Barack Obama meets with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Caen, France, on Saturday, June 6, 2009. The two men would later join leaders of...

President Barack Obama meets with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Caen, France, on Saturday, June 6, 2009. The two men would later join leaders of...

President Barack Obama meets with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Caen, France, on Saturday, June 6, 2009. The two men would later join leaders of...

D-Day veterans Clyde Combs of Houston, Texas, left, and Ben Franklin of Knoxville, Tenn., seated, describe the Allied invasion of Normandy, France to...

D-Day veterans Clyde Combs of Houston, Texas, left, and Ben Franklin of Knoxville, Tenn., seated, describe the Allied invasion of Normandy, France to...

In this three-picture combo, D-Day veterans Clyde Combs of Houston, Texas, left, and Ben Franklin of Knoxville, Tenn., seated, describe the Allied inv...

President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, are welcomed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, in Caen, Fran...

U.S. President Barack Obama and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a press conference in Dresden, Friday, June 5, 2009. A day after he sought...

President Barack Obama lays a rose on the commemoration marker in front of the gate at the former Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald, Friday, June...

President Barack Obama and Elie Wiesel embrace as German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks on after delivering statements following a visit to the former...

President Barack Obama is flanked by Elie Wiesel and German Chancellor Angela Merkel as they are also accompanied by Bertrand Herz, left, during a wa...

President Barack Obama pauses in silence after laying a rose on the commemoration marker in front of the gate at the former Nazi concentration camp of...

President Barack Obama with Elie Wiesel as they walk with, from left, Bertrand Herz and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as they leave a memorial area...

Roses left by President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Buchenwald survivors Elie Wiesel and Bertrand Hertz, during their visit to...

President Barack Obama is flanked by Elie Wiesel and German Chancellor Angela Merkel as they are also accompanied by Bertrand Herz, left, during a wa...

U.S. President Barack Obama and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a press conference in Dresden, Friday, June 5, 2009. A day after he sought...

U.S. President Barack Obama and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Dresden Palace in Dresden, Friday, June 5, 2009. A day after he sought to...

U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel with Bishop of Saxony Jochen Bohl, fifth from left, and Stanislaw Tillich, prime mini...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks with with Bishop of Saxony Jochen Bohl, fourth from left, the bishop of Saxony, as U.S. President Barack Obama...

Stanislaw Tillich, left, prime minister of the German state of Saxony, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, with U.S. President Barack Obama as he sig...