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Actress Mia Farrow is seen in an image taken from TV as she testifies at the Charles Taylor war crimes trial in Leidschendam, Netherlands, on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone via APTN)

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Adnan Shukrijumah, 35, is a suspected al Qaeda operative who lived for more than 15 years in the U.S. The FBI says he has become chief of the terror network's global operations. (FBI via Associated Press)

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FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2010 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is photographed in her chambers in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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Beatrice Munyenyezi, 40, bought this three-bedroom house on Howe Street in Manchester, N.H., in 2003 for $190,000. Federal prosecutors say Mrs. Munyenyezi directed kidnapping, rape and murder during the genocide in Rwanda in 1998. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

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** FILE ** Canadian defendant Omar Khadr is shown at a hearing at the Camp Justice compound at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba in this April 28, 2010, photo of a sketch drawn by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool, File)

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Casslyn Welch is a suspected accomplice in the escape of three convicted murderers from a northwest Arizona prison on Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohave County [Ariz.] Sheriff's Office)

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Tracy Province (left), John McCluskey (center) and Daniel Renwick are shown in a combination of undated photos provided by the Mohave County (Ariz.) Sheriff's Office. New Mexico State Police say Province, McCluskey and Casslyn Welch, who allegedly helped the three men escape from prison, have been linked to a couple's killing. (AP Photo/Mohave County [Ariz.] Sheriff's Office, File)

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This undated booking photo released by the Prince George's County Police shows 43-year-old Darrell Lynn Bellard, of Dickinson, Texas. Bellard and 18-year-old Tkeisha Nicole Gilmer, of Texas City, Texas have each been charged with murder in the slayings of two women and two children found in a trash-filled apartment in the Washington area. (AP Photo/Prince George's County Police)

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This undated booking photo released by the Prince George's County Police shows 18-year-old Tkeisha Nicole Gilmer, of Texas City, Texas. Gilmer and 43-year-old Darrell Lynn Bellard, of Dickinson, Texas, have each been charged with murder in the slayings of two women and two children found in a trash-filled apartment in the Washington area. (AP Photo/Prince George's County Police)

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Elena Kagan is sworn in as the Supreme Court's newest member as Chief Justice John Roberts, right, administers the judicial oath, at the Supreme Court Building in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. The Bible is held by Jeffrey Minear, center, counselor to the chief justice. Kagan, 50, who replaces retired Justice John Paul Stevens, becomes the fourth woman to sit on the high court, and is the first Supreme Court justice in nearly four decades with no previous experience as a judge. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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President Barack Obama applauds Elena Kagan during a ceremony to mark her confirmation to become the next Supreme Court justice, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. Kagan is the first Supreme Court nominee in nearly 40 years with no experience as a judge, and her addition will mark the first time that three women will serve on the nine-member court together. She was sworn in Saturday as the successor to retired Justice John Paul Stevens. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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U.S. solicitor general Elena Kagan smiles in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010, during a ceremony with President Barack Obama after her confirmation as Supreme Court justice by the Senate on Thursday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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People attend a rally in the Castro district celebrating a federal judge's decision overturning California's same-sex marriage ban in San Francisco, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker made his ruling in a lawsuit filed by two gay couples who claimed the voter-approved ban violated their civil rights. The sign at left makes reference to attorney David Boies who represented challengers to the ban in the case. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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Kasey Kahne, right, signs a car for Chris Holzschuh before practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series' Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen auto race in Watkins Glen, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/ David Duprey)

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Claes Borgstrom, lawyer for the two women who claim to have been sexually assaulted by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Sweden in August, talks to media at his office in Stockholm Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010. Borgstrom, whose office is under police protection, denied that the case had anything to do with WikiLeaks or the current U.S. interest in Assange. (AP Photo/Anders Wiklund) SWEDEN OUT

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A home in Lanham, Md., Friday, Aug. 6, 2010, where the bodies of two women and two children were found dead. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Shirin Nariman, a former Iranian political prisoner, speaks out on Thursday, August 5, 2010, against the Iranian regime's executions and methods of torture to a group of about 15 Iranian activists while some stand behind her, holding posters of political prisoners sentenced to death.

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Graphic compares the BP oil spill with other sources of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, such as natural seepage and leaks

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Associated Press YOUNGEST MEMBER: Elena Kagan is scheduled to be sworn in Saturday for a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Karen Cunagin Sypher (right) gets a show of support outside the federal courthouse in Louisville, Ky., on Thursday after she was convicted of extortion.