Larry Summers, director of the National Economic Council, attends a meeting with US President Barack Obama and representatives of the major credit card companies in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, April 23, 2009. By Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty.
Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) hears testimony from Obama Administration cabinet members during a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill April 22, 2009 in Washington, DC. According to current and former National Security Agency officials, Harman was recorded during intercepted telephone calls allegedly agreeing to seek easy treatment from the Bush administration for two pro-Israel lobbyists who were under investigation for espionage. By Chip Somodevilla/Getty.
Marine Corps League Commandant Dennis Brockland of Morgantown, North Carolina observes Memory Day ceremonies near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial April 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. By Win McNamee/Getty Images.
Mathilda paints a chalk drawing in a backyard in Halle/Saale, eastern Germany, on April 19, 2009. Spring brought a warm and sunny day to wide parts of the country. By Jens Schlueter/AFP/Getty Images.
Orthodox Christian pilgrims run their hands through the flames of burning candles during the Holy Fire ceremony in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on April 18, 2009 in Jerusalem's Old City. By David Silverman/Getty.
A Greek Orthodox priest holds a cross before an image of Jesus during the Apokathelosis, which marks the removal of Christ's body from the Cross which forms a key part of Orthodox Easter, in a ceremony at the Church of the Dormition of the Virgin in Penteli, north Athens on April 17 2009. Millions of Greeks flock to churches around the country this week to celebrate Easter, the country's foremost religious celebration. By Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images.
Archbishop Timothy Dolan greets a procession of catholic clergy outside St. Patrick's Cathedral before his Installation Mass April 15, 2009 in New York City. Dolan, 59, the former Milwaukee archbishop, is taking over the nation's second-largest diocese from Cardinal Edward Egan who is retiring as New York's archbishop after nine years. He becomes the 13th Pastor of the Archdiocese of New York. By Mike Segar-Pool/Getty Images.
Iraqi Kurdish four-year-old Shwen screams during her circumcision in Suleimaniyah on April 14, 2009. The parliament in Iraq's northern autonomous region of Kurdistan is preparing to outlaw female circumcision, according to a woman MP and a doctor who had long battled to halt the widespread practice. The German non-government group Wadi carried out research in 201 villages in the autonomous provinces and in the predominantly Kurdish Kirkuk area in September. It found that 3,502 out of 5,628 women and girls surveyed had been mutilated — an average of more than 62 percent. While widespread in the African continent, it is not known how female circumcision was introduced into northern Iraq. The practice, encouraged by some clerics, does not appear to exist in other parts of the country. By Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images.
A Georgian masked activist attends an anti-Saakashvili rally in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi on April 13, 2009. Georgia's opposition vowed to boost pressure on President Mikheil Saakashvili with round-the-clock protests outside his office as up to 20,000 rallied for a fifth day to demand his resignation. By Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty.
Top Afghan Shiite cleric Mohammad Asif Mohseni speaks during a press conference in Kabul on April 11, 2009. Afghanistan's top Shiite cleric defended a new law said to oppress women and accused Western critics of the controversial legislation of 'cultural invasion' and violating the democracy they introduced. Mohammad Asif Mohseni also rejected a ministry of justice review of the law ordered by President Hamid Karzai, saying any changes would violate a constitutional provision for Shiites to have their own jurisprudence. By Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images.
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