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FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2010, file photo, Michael Haywood answers questions after he was introduced as Pittsburgh's new football coach in Pittsburgh. Haywood is jailed on a domestic violence charge after a struggle at his South Bend, Ind., home. Assistant St. Joseph County Police Chief Bill Redman says Haywood was arrested about 3 p.m. Friday, Dec. 30, after a custody issue developed with a woman with whom Haywood has a child. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
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The remains of a home, foreground, and a fire station, background, are shown after a tornado tore through the small town of Cincinnati, Ark., early in the morning on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/April L. Brown)
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A victim of a bomb explosion lies on a stretcher in the Asokoro General Hospital, Abuja, Nigeria, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. A bomb blast tore through a beer garden at a Nigerian army barracks where revelers had gathered to celebrate New Year's Eve, witnesses said, and state-run television reported Friday that 30 people died, though police immediately disputed that. (AP Photo/Felix Onigbinde)
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Barbara Izzarelli, a Connecticut smoker who developed larynx cancer and won $8 million against a tobacco company last May in the first such jury award in New England, has been awarded another $4 million in punitive damages. (AP Photo/Norwich Bulletin, John Shishmanian, File)
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Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash reacts after getting called for a technical foul during the fourth quarter against the Philadelphia 76ers in an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky (right) reacts after being sentenced to six more years in prison in a courtroom in Moscow on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan laughs on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 29, 2010, while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on her nomination. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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** FILE ** Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, with his wife, Patti, talks to members of the media in Chicago on Aug. 17, 2010, after a federal jury found him guilty of one count of lying to FBI agents. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
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Frank Wallace, who has been unemployed since May of 2009, holds a sign during a rally organized by the Philadelphia Unemployment Project, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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A girl suffering cholera symptoms receives treatment at the Doctors Without Borders temporary hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Nov. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
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TRAPPED: Mikhail Khodorkovsky stands in a locked glass cage in the courtroom where a judge Thursday added six years to the prison term the oil tycoon is already serving. (Associated Press)
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Rev. Dr. Louis D. Jones eulogizes Chicago firefighter Corey Ankum during Dec. 30 funeral services in Chicago. Ankum was one of two firefighters killed last week when a roof collapsed after a fire. (Associated Press)
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Chicago firefighters carry the casket containing the body of firefighter Corey Ankum to a fire truck after Dec. 30 funeral services in Chicago. Ankum was one of two firefighters killed last week when a roof collapsed after a fire. (Associated Press)
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Chicago firefighters place the body of firefighter Corey Ankum on a fire truck after funeral services Dec. 30 in Chicago. Ankum was one of two firefighters killed last week when a roof collapsed after a fire. (Associated Press)
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Chicago firefighters salute as others place the casket of firefighter Corey Ankum on a fire truck after funeral services on Dec. 30 in Chicago. Ankum was one of two firefighters killed last week when a roof collapsed after a fire. (Associated Press)
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Anders Hogstrom (right) of Sweden listens during a court session in Krakow, Poland, on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Judge Jaroslaw Gaberle sentenced Hogstrom to two years and eight months in prison for instigating the theft a year ago of the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work Sets You Free") sign from the Auschwitz death camp memorial. (AP Photo/Jerzy Rucinski)
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Police forensic experts gather evidence at the scene of a motorcycle bomb blast that damaged two court administration buildings in Athens on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. No injuries were reported. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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Afghan men mourn the victim of a roadside bomb blast in Lashkar Gah in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. The bomb blew up next to a minibus at a crowded intersection on a major highway, killing at least 14 civilians, officials said. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky (left) and his co-defendant, Platon Lebedev, talk behind a glass enclosure in a courtroom in Moscow on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Khodorkovsky, 47, was sentenced to six more years in prison following a trial seen as payback for his defiance of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr.)
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Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav (center) leaves a court in Tel Aviv Thursday after being convicted of two charges of raping an employee when he was a Cabinet minister. They are the most serious criminal charges ever brought against a high-ranking Israeli official. (Associated Press)
