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This photo provided by Sotheby's shows "9-Part Self Portrait" by Chuck Close. The collage of large-format Polaroid Polapan prints is among 1,000 Polaroid and gelatin silver prints being offered at Sotheby's as part of a bankruptcy court-approved sale June 21-22. (PBE Corp. via Associated Press)
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Members of a delegation from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund leave the Greek Finance Ministry in central Athens on Monday, June 14, 2010. The officials arrived in Greece on Monday for an interim review of the country's efforts to pull itself out of a major debt crisis that pushed it to the brink of default. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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The congregation is led in corporate prayer at the Falls Church in Falls Church, Va., June 3, 2010, each person praying so that all prayers sound like a murmur in the room. (Michelle Phillips/The Washington Times)
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Then-President George W. Bush carries his two dogs, Barney, foreground, and Miss Beazley, background, down the steps of Air Force One on Sunday, Aug. 13, 2006, near Washington. Mr. Bush was returning to Washington after spending 11 days in Texas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **
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**FILE** Retired Marine Corps Gen. James L. Jones testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 6, 2007. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** President Obama signs a presidential memorandum outlining the next steps for cleaner and more efficient vehicles on May 21, 2010, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. From left: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, White House energy czar Carol Browner, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Navistar Chief Executive Officer Daniel Ustian, Waste Management driver Anthony Dunkley and Daimler Trucks North America Chief Executive Officer Martin Daum. (Associated Press)
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The dashboard on the new Sonata Hybrid displays not only gas levels, but economy and electric motor information at the New York International Auto Show in New York, Thursday, April 1, 2010. The Obama administration set tougher gas mileage standards for new cars and trucks Thursday, April 1, spurring the next generation of fuel-sipping gas-electric hybrids, efficient engines and electric cars. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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** FILE ** The new design of the $100 bill was unveiled at the Treasury Department in Washington on Wednesday, April 21, 2010. The folks who print America's money did a high-tech makeover of the bill as part of an effort to stay ahead of counterfeiters as technology becomes more sophisticated and more dollars flow overseas, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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** FILE ** Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, who is chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, announces a financial reform package on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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** FILE ** Stuart Levey, Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, speaks at a news conference at the Treasury Department in Washington in 2008. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
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** FILE ** A Toyota customer in New York shows what he said is a modified gas pedal in his 2009 Toyota Camry on Wednesday, March 3, 2010. The customer said he was preparing to take his Camry back to a Toyota dealership because previous repairs to fix an acceleration problem, including work on the gas pedal, have not solved the issue with his car. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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**FILE** An enormous crowd takes part in the Sept. 12 march on Washington to protest government spending and health care reform proposals. The field plan for a series of grassroots demonstrations Tuesday to push President Obama's health care agenda show the events will be tightly scripted with plans for "escalation," but organizers insist there is no comparison to rowdy town hall meetings and "tea party" protests challenging White House policies that they say conservatives staged. (Mary F. Calvert/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Rep. Mike Pence, Indiana Republican, stresses the importance of state fiscal responsibility. (Michael Connor/The Washington Times)
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Kjetil Tonstad (left), Regional Vice President Middle East of Statoil, shakes hands with Abdul-Mehdi Al-Ami, the Deputy Director-General of the Department contracts after a signing ceremony at the Iraqi Oil Ministry in Baghdad, as Dmitry A. Timoshenko, Lukoil's vice president of strategy and business development, looks on. (Associated Press)
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Workers are pictured on the assembly line of Opel's Insignia model at the company's plant in Ruesselsheim, Germany, in 2008. General Motors announced on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, that it will end shipments of Chevrolet cars to the Continent to focus on the German-based Opel and U.K.-based Vauxhall, its main brands in Europe. (AP Photo/Daniel Roland)
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** FILE ** Bradley Birkenfeld, a whistle-blower in the tax evasion case against Swiss bank UBS AG, holds a news conference outside the Schuylkill County Federal Correctional Institution in Minersville, Pa., Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, before reporting to the federal prison. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Market-Frankford line trains remain idle at a Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) station in Upper Darby, Pa., just outside Philadelphia Tuesday Nov. 3, 2009. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell announced early Monday morning that service would resume after coming to agreement with the transit system's largest union.
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Illustration: Reagan tax reform by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times.
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** FILE ** International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn speaks during at a press conference at the end of the second day of the G-20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors at the World Bank headquarters in Washington on Saturday, April 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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A 2010 Ford Fusion sedan is reflected in the chrome grille of an 2010 Edge at a Ford dealership in Denver on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009. Ford Motor Co. earned $1 billion in the third quarter, fueled by U.S. market share gains, cost cuts and the government's Cash for Clunkers rebates. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
