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BLOOMBERG NEWS - Former Enron Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey K. Skilling and his lead trial counsel, Daniel Petrocelli, return to the courthouse in 2006.

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** FILE ** About 30,000 participants run along the Potomac River near the Lincoln Memorial during the annual 26.2-long Marine Corps Marathon in 2008. (The Washington Times)

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Paul Krugman, a Princeton University professor of economics and a New York Times columnist, is applauded by Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman after winning the Nobel Prize in economics. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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A U.S. Secret Service officer watches the crowd who wait to shake Sen. Biden's hand after the rally. (Mary F. Calvert/The Washington Times)

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AmeriCorps member Samantha Royes (right) helps Fayvin Bowens, 11, a student at Noyes Elementary School, with her homework at the Youth Gateway Program, an initiative of the Community Preservation and Development Corps., in Washington D.C., Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Getty Images Officials from the International Monetary Fund - who were visiting the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik, on other business - met with government officials about the economic crisis. Iceland, which has not decided whether to seek IMF help, has a long economic reach because of global investments.

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A television screen at the New York Stock Exchange shows the decision of the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, Wednesday Oct. 8, 2008. The emergency cut led by the Federal Reserve will at least temporarily provide relief for investors who have been battered this week. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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**FILE** House Financial Services Committee ranking Rep. Spencer Bachus (right), Alabama Republican, speaks Oct. 2, 2008, during a news conference on the financial market turmoil on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)

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A newspaper box near the Washington Mutual Tower in downtown Seattle displays editions of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer with a front-page story on the bank's seizure and sale.**FILE**Associated Press

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**FILE** Steve Forbes, chairman and CEO and editor in chief of Forbes, talks to reporters after addressing the Ad Week Washington conference in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 17, 2008. (The Washington Times)

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John Hofmeister, former head of Shell Oil and current founder and CEO of Citizens for Affordable Energy, told The Washington Times on Monday that he believes there are plenty of sources of energy out there. (The Washington Times, file) ** FILE **

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The Pentagon is shown after terrorists crashed an American Airlines Boeing 757 into the building on Sept. 11, 2001. (The Washington Times)

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Ben Stein

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**FILE** The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., commonly referred to as Freddie Mac, is headquartered in McLean, Va.

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NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON The Continental Congress included among American grievances that King George III (in coronation robes) hired mercenaries.

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John Naland, president of the American Foreign Service Association, says that diplomats have no intention of complaining about the ban on business class travel. Photo courtesy of AFSA.org.

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The J. Edgar Hoover Building, which opened to employees in 1974, dominates the nighttime cityscape on Pennyslvania Avenue NW. ** FILE **

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SPEAKING UP: Conservative singer Pat Boone says that "word is getting out that there's many of us in this business." Watch: www.washingtontimes.com/media/video.(PETER LOCKLEY/THE WASHINGTON TIMES)