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In this Nov. 7, 2010 photo, new Afghan police recruits attend a literary class at Central Training Center on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. According to the NATO training mission, only 11 percent of the enlisted personnel in the army and police can read and write, compared to 35 percent for non-commissioned officers and 93 for the officer corps. About 74 percent of the population is illiterate, but the percentage in the security forces tends to be higher since fewer educated Afghans are willing to sign up. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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In this Nov. 7, 2010 photo, a new Afghan police recruit attends a literary class at Central Training Center on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. According to the NATO training mission, only 11 percent of the enlisted personnel in the army and police can read and write, compared to 35 percent for non-commissioned officers and 93 for the officer corps. About 74 percent of the population is illiterate, but the percentage in the security forces tends to be higher since fewer educated Afghans are willing to sign up. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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In this photo taken Nov. 7, 2010, new Afghan police recruits leave after attending a literary class at Central Training Center on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. According to the NATO training mission, only 11 percent of the enlisted personnel in the army and police can read and write, compared to 35 percent for non-commissioned officers and 93 percent for the officer corps. About 74 percent of the population is illiterate, but the percentage in the security forces tends to be higher since fewer educated Afghans are willing to sign up. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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Sinn Fein hold a protest outside government buildings, Dublin, Ireland, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010 during a demonstration calling for the Irish Prime Minister to resign. Ireland's banks will be pruned down, merged or sold as part of a massive EU-IMF bailout, the government says as a shellshocked nation comes to grips with its failure to protect its financial institutions. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
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A motorcycle police officer holds back Sinn Fein protesters who broke through the gates at Government Buildings, Dublin, Ireland, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. The Sinn Fein protesters were calling for the Irish Prime Minister to resign, less than 24 hours after Irish cabinet ministers agreed to ask the International Monetary Fund and Europe for a multibillion bail-out. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
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Sinn Fein protesters outside Leinster House, which serves as the parliament building, in Dublin, Ireland, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Sinn Fein supporters protested the government's handling of the economic crisis and called on the Irish Prime Minister to resign. Ireland's banks will be pruned down, merged or sold as part of a massive EU-IMF bailout, the government says as a shellshocked nation comes to grips with its failure to protect its financial institutions. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
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A protester holds a banner reading 'Fianna Fail (Ireland's governing party) Traitors Out now. Elections before negotiations' outside government buildings, Dublin, Ireland, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Ireland's banks will be pruned down, merged or sold as part of a massive EU-IMF bailout, the government says as a shellshocked nation comes to grips with its failure to protect its financial institutions. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
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A Irish Army Military police officer confronts Sinn Fein protesters who broke through the gates at goverNment buildings, Dublin, Ireland, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010 as they called for the Irish Prime Minister to resign. Ireland's banks will be pruned down, merged or sold as part of a massive EU-IMF bailout, the government says as a shellshocked nation comes to grips with its failure to protect its financial institutions. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
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Irish police officers remove Sinn Fein protesters from inside the gates of government buildings in Dublin, Ireland, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. The Sinn Fein protesters are calling for the Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen to resign over the unfolding financial crisis. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
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John Gormley, Irish Green Party leader and Environment Minister, speaks at a press conference in Dublin, Monday Nov. 22, 2010, where he called for a general election. Gormley's call comes less than 24 hours after Irish cabinet ministers agreed to ask the International Monetary Fund and Europe for a multibillion bail-out - a plea described as humiliation for the country.(AP Photo/Julien Behal-pa)
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A man walks past a mural in South Dublin, Ireland, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Ireland's banks will be pruned down, merged or sold as part of a massive EU-IMF bailout taking shape, the government said Monday, as a shell shocked nation came to grips with its failure to protect and revive its banks. Crucially, some experts say the rescue may have come too late to save the next weak link, Portugal, from a similar fate. Ireland's crisis also appears likely to force the early departure of its deeply unpopular government, calling into doubt the credibility of Prime Minister Brian Cowen's four-year austerity plans.(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
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Visitors stand at a security fence in front of the Reichstag building, Germany's house of parliament, in Berlin on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, left, and Finance Minister Brian Lenihan speak to the media at the government building in Dublin, Ireland, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010. Debt-crippled Ireland formally applied Sunday for a massive EU-IMF loan to stem the flight of capital from its banks, joining Greece in a step unthinkable only a few years ago when Ireland was a booming Celtic Tiger and the economic envy of Europe. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
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Danish model Helena Christensen poses for photographs as she arrives for a press conference in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Christensen spent three days in villages in southern Nepal as part of her campaign to highlight the effect of global warming on poor and rural communities. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)
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King Abdullah, center, of Saudi Arabia arrives at his palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. The Saudi Press Agency said Abdullah entered a hospital on Friday due to complications in the back pain suffered by them and the doctors advised him to rest. (AP Photo/Saudi Press Agency)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS STOP AND GO: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she wouldn't submit to a body scan "if I could avoid it." TSA Administrator John Pistole (center) is reviewing airline security policies. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says checking passenger information is not profiling.
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PHOTOGRAPH BY J.M. EDDINS JR./THE WASHINGTON TIMES Robert Hildum, interim director at the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, is bothered by the notion that there still are not enough "eyes on the kids."
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Rep. Jeff Flake, Arizona Republican, says of earmarks: 'I'm simply going to veto bills that have these projects in them."
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (left) and Texas Gov. Rick Perry share a moment on stage at the Republican Governors Association meeting Wednesday in San Diego. Mr. Barbour is the outgoing chairman of the association and Mr. Perry is the incoming chairman.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Britain's Prince William and his fiancee, Kate Middleton, arrive at St. James' Palace in London on Tuesday after they announced their engagement. The couple are to wed in 2011.
