Social Issues

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS British riot police officers in central London clash with demonstrators against the coalition government's spending cuts. They were among tens of thousands of mostly peaceful demonstrators who streamed into central London on Saturday to march against cuts for welfare, health care and education, among other services.

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Demonstrators protest against the coalition government spending cuts as they march in London, Saturday, March 26, 2011. Some tens of thousands of mostly peaceful demonstrators streamed into central London on Saturday to march against government budget cuts, with a small breakaway group of demonstrators smashing its way into a bank, breaking windows and spray painting logos on the walls, as police struggle to contain the situation. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)

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A Ministry of Information official, left, tries to grab Iman Al-Obeidi, who said she spent two days in detention after being arrested at a checkpoint in Tripoli, Libya, and was sexually assaulted by up to 15 men while in custody in Tripoli on Saturday, March 26, 2011. She stormed into the hotel's breakfast room to show her wounds to foreign media. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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FILE - This Feb. 2, 2011, file photo shows Memphis Grizzlies' Rudy Gay during the second half of an NBA basketball game against Minnesota, in Minneapolis. Gay needs surgery on his injured left shoulder and will miss the rest of the season. The Grizzlies announced Tuesday, March 22, 2011, the team's physician Fred Azar and orthopedic surgeon James Andrews have recommended surgery for Gay's partially dislocated shoulder. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

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FILE- Britain's Prince Harry talks to journalists whilst his regiment helps out with the rebuilding of a school for disabled children in Batha-Bathe near Maseru, Lesotho, Tuesday, July 8, 2008. Prince Harry announced Friday March 25, 2011, he plans to show his support for wounded Afghanistan war veterans by joining a small group on a segment of their punishing expedition to the North Pole, joining them in northern Norway on upcoming March 29 for three days of training and five days of trekking, to support the Walking With the Wounded charity for wounded Afghanistan veterans. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

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A student is wheeled to a waiting Lifeline helicopter Friday, March 25, 2011, at West Middle School in Martinsville, Ind. A person was shot Friday at the middle school in south-central Indiana and a suspect is in custody, state police said. (AP Photo/Mooresville-Decatur Times, Keith Rhoades)

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A stone monument in Huoshan Park in Shanghai describes the Jewish neighborhood as a "designated area for stateless refugees" during World War II. (Associated Press)

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Dvir Bar-Gal, holding a magazine, talks with a group on a tour at the entrance to Huoshan Park in the Hongkou section of Shanghai. The neighborhood, part of Mr. Bar-Gal's tour of Shanghai's Jewish sites, was home to thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II. (Associated Press)

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A star of David is displayed on a door in the courtyard of the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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Portuguese Finance Minister Fernando Teixeira dos Santos reacts during the parliamentary debate on his minority government's latest austerity package Wednesday, March 23 2011, at the Portuguese parliament in Lisbon. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

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Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus is taking care of business, dining in good company. (Image from Republican National Committee)

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Vice President Biden whispers sweet nothings to President Obama during the health care ceremony at the White House a year ago. (Associated Press)

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Union workers have staged daily rallies this month at the Statehouse in Indianapolis to protest bills they say are unfair to Indiana's union workers. Public employees across the country are feeling the budget squeeze as legislators try to take the knife to their health care and pensions. (Associated Press)

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Slovakian lawyers watches judges entering Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France. Europe's human rights court is hearing a Roma woman's case alleging that she was wrongly and forcibly sterilized by a state hospital in her native Slovakia because of her ethnicity. The European Court of Human Rights opened the hearing Tuesday in the eastern French city of Strasbourg regarding the complaint of the woman who was identified only as "V.C." against Slovakia's government. The court said the woman, who was born in 1980, was sterilized after giving birth in 2000 to her second child. (AP Photo/Christian Lutz)

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A Libyan rebel prays next to his gun on the front line on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya, on Monday. A former Libyan Foreign Ministry official said coalition forces need to take urgent action to protect the population in Ajdabiya. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** President Obama walks with the Chilean Foreign Affairs Minister Alfredo Moreno (center right) and Gen. Marcos Gonzalez (center left) upon his arrival in Santiago, Chile, on March 21. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Feb. 18, 2011, file photo House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. An Italian news agency says that Pelosi was hospitalized briefly in Rome with a minor ailment. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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** FILE ** Kody Brown hugs his wives, (from left) Robyn, Christine, Meri and Janelle. They appear on the reality series "Sister Wives" on TLC. "'Sister Wives' shows that polygamy is rather boring," said Brian Barnard, a Utah-based religious-freedom lawyer. (Associated Press)

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The U.S. Mint issued a commemorative coin to jump-start fundraising for the nonprofit Black Patriots Foundation featuring an image of Crispus Attucks. (U.S. Mint photograph)

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Charlotte Todd stands next to the dress she designed, and which was worn by Kate Middleton during a St Andrew's University charity fashion show in 2002, during a media event prior to its auction, in London, Wednesday, March, 16, 2011. The dress is expected to sell from between 8-10 thousand pounds (US $12,850-16,063, euro 9,200-11,500), when sold at auction Thursday. The photograph at rear shows Middleton wearing the dress at the charity fashion show.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)