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Palestinian medics wheel a wounded man to the treatment room of Shifa hospital on March 12, 2012, following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, pose for photos while campaigning for the presidency at Rockefeller Center in New York in June 1960. (AP Photo)
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Greece's Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos speaks March 10, 2012, during a conference of the PASOK socialist party at Faliro, near Athens. (Associated Press)
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A Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant talks March 12, 2012, during a press conference in Gaza City. Israeli airstrikes killed two Palestinian militants and a schoolboy in the Gaza Strip earlier in the day and Palestinian rocket squads barraged southern Israel, in escalating fighting that has defied international truce efforts. (Associated Press)
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Free Syrian Army fighters take cover during fierce fighting against government troops in Idlib, Syria, on Saturday, March 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, got worked up over who deserves credit for a bill that assists community banks.(Associated Press)
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Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg, New Jersey Democrat, returned to the Senate after an absence of two years. Now, former senator Bob Kerry of Nebraska, with whom Lautenberg served, is attempting a comeback. (Associated Press)
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In this photo taken Jan. 31, 2012, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sunday, March 4, 2012, Cantor, the second-ranking Republican in the House said he is throwing his support behind Mitt Romney in the GOP presidential race. He said Romney is the only candidate who has come out with "a bold pro-growth, pro-jobs plan for the future." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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In 2004, Sen Robert Bennett (left) and Sen. Orrin G. Hatch participated in the state Republican convention in Sandy, Utah. Disgruntled conservatives planted the seeds for Mr. Bennett's 2010 defeat, and now some of them hope to replicate their success against Mr. Hatch. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rick Santorum listens to his wife, Karen, as he is introduced during the Cape County Republican Women's Lincoln Day Dinner on Saturday in Cape Giradeau, Mo. He won the Kansas caucuses Saturday. (Associated Press)
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Former Sen. Rick Santorum won union support after helping push through federal funding for new sports stadiums in Pittsburgh and a tunnel leading to them. (Associated Press)
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Kristin Chenoweth appears in "GCB," which has been criticized by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Mr. Gingrich cited an anti-Christian bias. (Photo courtesy ABC)
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Washington Capitals right wing Joel Ward (42) goes for the puck as Toronto Maple Leafs right wing Nikolai Kulemin looks on during the second period on Sunday, March 11, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Lynetta Kizer came off the bench to score 11 points in Maryland's ACC title-clinching victory over Georgia Tech on March 4. She has averaged 11.4 points this season. (Associated Press)
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An Afghan soldier speaks to civilians gathered outside a military base in Panjwai, Afghanistan, on Sunday, March 11, 2012, after a U.S. service member allegedly killed 16 Afghans, including nine children and three women. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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The Israeli anti-missile system known as "Iron Dome" launches a rocket in Ashdod, Israel, to intercept a missile fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy waves after a re-election campaign speech in Villepinte, France, north of Paris, on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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Dr. Ahmed Adel, an Egyptian army physician who was charged in the forced virginity-tests case on female Egyptian protesters last year, speaks during a press conference at a military court in Cairo on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo)
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Robert Fico (center), chairman of the Smer-Social Democrats (Smer-SD), celebrates with party members in the early morning of Sunday, March 11, 2012, in Bratislava, Slovakia, after the party won early elections on Saturday with a comfortable majority in parliament. (AP Photo/CTK, Jano Koller)
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks during the Cape County Republican Women's Lincoln Day Dinner on Saturday, March 10, 2012, in Cape Giradeau, Mo. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
