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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish schoolgirls stand on rooftops in Jerusalem on Thursday, June 17, 2010, to watch a mass demonstration against an Israeli Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of a religious girls school. Jerusalem police said about 100,000 people converged in in the city's center to support the parents who oppose integration and are to be jailed for two weeks for defying the integration efforts by keeping their daughters from school. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men escort parents (center) who oppose the integration of a religious girls school as they make their way to police headquarters in Jerusalem, where they are to be arrested on Thursday, June 17, 2010. Israel's Supreme Court ruled Sunday that the school must be integrated and ordered the dozens of parents, who have defied the integration efforts by keeping their daughters from school, to be jailed for two weeks, a decision that brought mass demonstrations by the ultra-Orthodox community. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in Jerusalem watch, through the windows of a building under construction, a mass demonstration against an Israeli Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of a religious girls school on Thursday, June 17, 2010. Police said about 100,000 people converged in downtown Jerusalem to support the parents who oppose integration and are to be jailed for two weeks for defying the integration efforts by keeping their daughters from school. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men demonstrate in Bnei Brak, Israel, on Thursday, June 17, 2010, to protest an Israeli Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of a religious girls school. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Jewish girls look out the window of the Beit Yakov School in the Jewish West Bank settlement of Emanuel, near Nablus, on Thursday, June 17, 2010. Ultra-Orthodox Jews have called mass demonstrations Thursday to protest an Israeli Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of the religious girls school. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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New Orleans Saints fullback Heath Evans displays his Super Bowl championship ring in New Orleans on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. The Saints defeated the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in Super Bowl XLIV to attain the team's first championship in franchise history. (AP Photo)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men run during a protest against the removal of ancient tombs in the neighborhood of Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Israeli police say they have arrested several dozen people in a violent protest by ultra-Orthodox activists opposed to an excavation they say is disturbing Jewish grave sites. Five police officers and ten demonstrators were lightly wounded. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pause during a protest against the removal of ancient tombs in the neighborhood of Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Israeli police say they have arrested several dozen people in a violent protest by ultra-Orthodox activists opposed to an excavation they say is disturbing Jewish gravesites. Five police officers and 10 demonstrators were slightly wounded. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men scuffle with mounted police officers during a protest against the removal of ancient tombs in the neighborhood of Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Israeli police say they have arrested several dozen people in a violent protest by ultra-Orthodox activists opposed to an excavation they say is disturbing Jewish gravesites. Five police officers and 10 demonstrators were slightly wounded. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man lies on the ground with blood on his face after a scuffle with border police officers during a protest against the removal of ancient tombs in the neighborhood of Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Israeli police say they have arrested several dozen people in a violent protest by ultra-Orthodox activists opposed to an excavation they say is disturbing Jewish gravesites. Five police officers and 10 demonstrators were slightly wounded. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Romanian protesters hold up impaled effigies depicting the country's president and government members during a protest in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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A protester steps on an effigy depicting Romanian President Traian Basescu during a protest in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Megan Bradley, 3, great-niece of Jim Wray, gathers in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, June 15, 2010, with other relatives of those shot dead on Bloody Sunday in 1972. The British government is releasing the long-awaited Saville Report, which investigated Bloody Sunday, on which 13 Catholic demonstrators were killed by British troops. The investigation began in 1998 and became the most expensive in British legal history as it gathered evidence from 2,500 witnesses, including troops who opened fire that day. (AP Photo/Paul Faith/PA Wire)
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Relatives of those shot dead on Bloody Sunday march in silence in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, June 15, 2010, ahead of the release of the long-awaited Saville Report. The British government is publishing the findings of the investigation into Bloody Sunday, the 1972 killing of 13 Catholic demonstrators by British troops. The investigation began in 1998 and became the most expensive in British legal history as it gathered evidence from 2,500 witnesses, including troops who opened fire that day. (AP Photo/Paul Faith/PA Wire)
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The congregation is led in corporate prayer at the Falls Church in Falls Church, Va., June 3, 2010, each person praying so that all prayers sound like a murmur in the room. (Michelle Phillips/The Washington Times)
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Bangladeshi Muslim protesters shout slogans as they burn a Swedish flag during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh on May 28, 2010, against social networking website Facebook for holding a competition on caricatures of Prophet Mohammed. (Associated Press)
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An elderly Maronite woman holds a rosary during Mass at Saint George's Cathedral in the Maronite Catholic village of Kormakitis in the remote northwestern tip of divided Cyprus. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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** FILE ** Israeli police walk through the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, also known to Jews as the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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Church of Scientology lawyer Patrick Maisonneuve, left, speaks to reporters after a court returned a verdict of fraud against the group, at a Paris courthouse on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
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** FILE ** Worshippers attend Mass at St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral in Dublin on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009, after an expert commission reported that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin had covered up decades of child abuse by priests because bishops wanted to protect the church's reputation at the expense of victims. (AP Photo/Press Association, Niall Carson)
