The New York Times Agency May 2010

Brooke Astor's son, Anthony Marshall, center, with his wife, Charlene, as they leave the courthouse in New York after the verdict on Thursday, Oct. 8,...

Brooke Astor's son, Anthony Marshall, holds hands with his wife, Charlene, as they leave the courtroom in New York after the verdict on Thursday, Oct....

Brooke Astor's son, Anthony Marshall, holds hands with his wife, Charlene, as they leave the courthouse in New York after the verdict on Thursday, Oct...

Brooke Astor's son, Anthony Marshall, with his wife, Charlene, right, leaves the courthouse in New York after the verdict on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. M...

Charlene Marshall places a hand on the shoulder of her husband, Anthony Marshall, son of legendary society matriarch Brooke Astor, as the verdict is r...

Brooke Astor's son, Anthony Marshall, holds hands with his wife, Charlene, as they leave the courthouse in New York after the verdict on Thursday, Oct...

Cindy Davis, a nurse in M.D. Anderson Cancer Center's breast cancer clinic in Houston on Oct. 8, 2009. Davis said, "It feels sometimes like the entire...

Ana Roman, an employee, cleans a handrail at the Marriott Marquis in New York on Oct. 7, 2009. Hotels across the country are ramping up the cleaning o...

A poster at a Walgreen's store in New York urges shoppers to get a flu shot on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009. New York City is conducting an extensive immun...

Geraldine James, left, as Gertrude, and Jude Law as Hamlet in William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" at the Broadhurst Theater in New York, Sept. 16, 2009. (S...

From left, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), the House minority leader, confers with Sen. John McCaine (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the Senat...

Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), the House minority leader, speaks to reporters after a meeting at the the White House with President Barack Obama on Tuesd...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) answer questions from reporters after a meeting at the the White...

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) speaks to reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009. Rockefeller is one of four members of the Senate Finance C...

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) leaves a Democratic Party policy luncheon at the Capitol on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009. Lincoln is one of four members of th...

Patients and family members outside M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX on October 5, 2009. The center, which has over 17,000 employees, is th...

Virginia Montes heading for treatment at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston on Oct. 5, 2009, where 90,000 patients will be seen this year. The ce...

Indonesian search and rescue teams move through the rubble of a landslide triggered by the earthquake around Lubuh Lawek village in Padang Pariaman, o...

A man looks out over the rubble of a landslide triggered by the earthquake around Lubuh Lawek village in Padang Pariaman, outside Padang, Indonesia, ,...

President Barack Obama heads to the podium deliver remarks on health care reform to an audience of doctors and health care workers in the Rose Garden...

President Barack Obama delivers remarks on health care reform to doctors and health care workers in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington,...

President Barack Obama heads to the podium deliver remarks on health care reform to an audience of doctors and health care workers in the Rose Garden...

A boy and his friends looked for the bodies of missing friends and relatives in in Lubuh Lawek village in Padang Pariaman, outside Padang, Indonesia,...

President Barack Obama shakes hands with audience members after delovering remarks on health care reform to doctors in the Rose Garden of the White Ho...

President Barack Obama shakes hands with audience members after delivering remarks on health care reform to doctors in the Rose Garden of the White Ho...

President Barack Obama shakes hands with audience members after delivering remarks on health care reform to doctors in the Rose Garden of the White Ho...

Anthony D. Marshall, right, the son of Brooke Astor, the legendary New York society matriarch, and his wife Charlene, at the courthouse on Thursday, O...

Dr. Martin Raber, an oncologist and cancer patient at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston on Sept. 29, 2009. Dr. Raber says the disease has made hi...

Mindy Lanoux, 35-year-old mother of three, being treated at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston on Sept. 29, 2009. The center, which has over 17,00...

Workers at American Apparel in Los Angeles Sept. 9, 2009. The clothing maker with a vast garment factory in downtown Los Angeles is firing about 1,800...

Workers at American Apparel in Los Angeles Sept. 9, 2009. The clothing maker with a vast garment factory in downtown Los Angeles is firing about 1,800...

Workers at American Apparel in Los Angeles Sept. 9, 2009. The clothing maker with a vast garment factory in downtown Los Angeles is firing about 1,800...

A woker at American Apparel in Los Angeles Sept. 9, 2009. The clothing maker with a vast garment factory in downtown Los Angeles is firing about 1,800...

A worker at American Apparel, center, who was given notice to leave his job as a supervisor because of illegal papers and immigration status, intervie...

Daniel Craig, left, and Hugh Jackman play Chicago police officers, who have been friends from childhood, in "A Steady Rain" at the Gerald Schoenfeld T...

President Barack Obama meets with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, Tuesday Sept. 29,...

President Barack Obama gestures during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday, S...

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking minority member, speaks during a meeting of the Senate Finance Committee in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 2...

Senators Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), left, and Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) leave the committee room after a Senate Finance Committee meeting in Washington...

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks during a meeting of the Senate Finance Committee in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. After a half-day of an...

Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) works during a meeting of the Senate Finance Committee in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. After a half-day of animated d...

Senate Finance Committee member Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., during the markup of health care legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Se...

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Me.) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) listen during a meeting of the Senate Finance Committee in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2...

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) speaks at a Senate Finance Committee meeting as Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), center, and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iow...

Senators Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), left, and Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) leave the committee room after a Senate Finance Committee meeting in Washington...

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking minority member, takes his seat for a meeting of the Senate Finance Committee in Washington on Tuesday, Se...

Senate Finance Committee member Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), during the markup of health care legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 2...

Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) looks on as Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) speaks during a meeting of the Senate Finance Committee in Washington on Tuesday,...

Senators Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), left, and Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) leave the committee room after a Senate Finance Committee meeting in Washington...

Senators from left: Kent Conrad (D-ND), Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), Max Baucus, Charles Grassley (R-IA), and Orrin Hatch (R-UT), during a meeting of the S...