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Minnesota Timberwolves' Kevin Love, top, and Philadelphia 76ers' Elton Brand battle for a rebound in the first half of an NBA basketball game, Friday, March 4, 2011, in Philadelphia. Philadelphia won 111-100. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates (right) talks with U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus upon the Pentagon chief's arrival in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, March 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Defense Department/Cherie Cullen)
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FILE-This June 15, 2009 file photo shows former New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress arriving at Manhattan criminal court in New York. Burress will get out of prison in June, ending his sentence in a gun case a few months early. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano,File)
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U.S. Air Force honor guard members carry a casket containing the remains of Vietnam veteran Leroy Earl Brumbaugh at Arkansas Veterans Cemetery in North Little Rock, Ark., on Friday. Hundreds of people attended his funeral. Mr. Brumbaugh served 20 years in the Air Force. (Associated Press)
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Mississippi head coach Andy Kennedy reacts during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Auburn on Wednesday, March 2, 2011, in Auburn, Ala. (AP Photo/ Leffie V. Dailey)
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** FILE ** Judy Gross, wife of U.S. government contractor Alan Gross, and U.S. lawyer Peter J. Kahn arrive at the courthouse where Mr. Gross is on a trial accused of "acts against the integrity and independence" of Cuba, in Havana on Friday, March 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
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Protesters celebrate inside of the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Thursday, March 3, 2011, after a judge ordered the Department of Administration to open the Capitol to normal business hours starting Monday, March 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)
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'THE LIES WORKED': Former Rep. Steve Driehaus will see the Susan B. Anthony List in court in a "false statements" case. (Associated Press)
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'THE LIES WORKED': Former Rep. Steve Driehaus will see the Susan B. Anthony List in court in a "false statements" case. (Associated Press)
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Security is beefed up Thursday outside the central jail in Lahore, Pakistan, where a trial court said it would proceed with the murder trial of CIA contractor Raymond Allen Davis. (Associated Press)
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International Criminal Court Prosecutor Louis Moreno-Ocampo presents an overview of alleged crimes committed in Libya since Feb. 15 during a press conference at the ICC in The Hague on Thursday, March 3, 2011. Mr. Moreno-Ocampo said he will investigate Col. Moammar Gadhafi and his inner circle, including some of his sons, for possible crimes against humanity in the violent crackdown on anti-government protesters. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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Rexhep Uka (left), 70, and his son Behxhet, 48, speak at their home in Mitrovica, Kosovo, about family member Arid Uka, who is suspected of killing two U.S. airmen and wounding two others at Frankfurt Airport in Germany on Wednesday, March 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
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A Pakistani man examines the blood-stained car of Shahbaz Bhatti, minister for minorities affairs and the only Christian in the Cabinet, on Wednesday in Islamabad. Mr. Bhatti was fatally shot in the car near his mother's house. (Associated Press)
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Albert Snyder (center), flanked by his attorneys, walks to a news conference after the Supreme Court's 8-1 ruling in favor of Westboro Baptist Church ended Mr. Snyder's suit against the church for emotional distress after church members marched at the 2006 funeral Mass of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder and carried signs with anti-gay, anti-military and anti-Catholic messages. (Associated Press)
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People from the Pakistani Christian community rally to condemn the death of Shahbaz Bhatti, minister for minorities affairs, during a rally in Lahore, Pakistan, on Wednesday. Gunmen fatally shot Mr. Bhatti, the latest attack on a high-profile Pakistani figure threatened by Islamist militants for urging reform of harsh blasphemy laws that impose the death penalty for insulting Islam. (Associated Press)
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Margie Phelps, second from right, a daughter of Fred Phelps, and the lawyer who argued the case for of the Westboro Baptist Church, of Tokepa Kan., walks from the Supreme Court, in Washington on Oct. 6, 2010. The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, March 2, 2011, that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount attention-getting, anti-gay protests outside military funerals. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Shahbaz Bhatti, then head of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance, displays a threatening letter which a Christian resident of Charsadda town received, during a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, on May 16, 2007. Mr. Bhatti, now a federal government minister, was shot and killed by gunmen on Wednesday March 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)
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A paramilitary soldier examines the damaged car of slain Pakistan's government minister for religious minorities Shahbaz Bhatti, outside the emergency ward of a local hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Gunmen shot and killed Mr. Bhatti Wednesday, the latest attack on a high-profile figure threatened by Muslim militants for urging reform of harsh blasphemy laws that impose the death penalty for insulting Islam. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
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Banker Bradley Birkenfeld, a whistleblower implicated in a tax evasion case against Swiss bank UBS AG (left) and Stephen Kohn, executive director of the National Whistleblowers Center, hold a press conference in January 2010 before Birkenfeld reports to a federal prison. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, said Tuesday that a Pew Hispanic Center report showed more than 7 million people are working in the country illegally and noted that the unemployment rates in minority communities are well above the national average. (Associated Press)
