Social Issues

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Police patrol the streets of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, across the border from El Paso, Texas, in December. More than 3,000 people were killed there in 2010, and mayhem spread by drug cartels has caused residents to flee and businesses to close. (Associated Press)

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, during a gathering to mark the seventh anniversary of the adoption of the Afghanistan Constitution. The writing behind him says, "Welcome to the adoption day of Afghanistan's Constitution." (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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"I'm the most qualified candidate for the job of mayor of Chicago — make no mistake about it," says Carol Moseley Braun, the first black woman to become a U.S. senator. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2010, file photo, Michael Haywood answers questions after he was introduced as Pittsburgh's new football coach in Pittsburgh. Haywood is jailed on a domestic violence charge after a struggle at his South Bend, Ind., home. Assistant St. Joseph County Police Chief Bill Redman says Haywood was arrested about 3 p.m. Friday, Dec. 30, after a custody issue developed with a woman with whom Haywood has a child. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

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Tiger Woods pauses during a news conference, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla on Feb. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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Russian arms trafficking suspect Viktor Bout, center, is in U.S. custody after being flown from Bangkok to New York in a chartered U.S. plane, extradited in manacles to face terrorism charges despite a final outraged push by Russian diplomats to persuade Thailand to release him on Nov. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Drug Enforcement Administration, File)

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** FILE ** Dan Choi (center) falls as he is arrested for handcuffing himself to the fence outside the White House in Washington during a protest against the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on Nov. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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Rep.-elect, Tim Scott, R-S.C., left, leads following a Republican news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 18, 2010. From left are Scott, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, House Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner of Ohio, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Rep.-elect Kristi Noem, R-S.D. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

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FILE - This Monday, Oct. 18, 2010 file picture shows Nancy O'Dell at the Ninth Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation benefit 'An Enduring Vision' in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

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Seven state-history-themed paintings hang in the lobby of the Georgia Department of Agriculture in Atlanta. Incoming Georgia agriculture Commissioner Gary Black wants to remove them as racist. (Associated Press)

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Fred Wemer stands outside his home in Seattle, in this photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010. Wermer is a retired dentist and says Medicare pays his medical bills well enough, but he thinks there's a lot of waste in the program and doubts it will be there for his grandchildren. He opposes turning Medicare into a voucher plan for the purchase of private insurance because he doesn't trust the insurance companies. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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** FILE ** The Rev. Francois Houtart, a Belgian priest and Third World activist, admitted in a newspaper interview to having sexually abused a minor 40 years ago. (AP Photo/Roosewelt Pinheiro, Agencia Brasil, HO)

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**FILE** In this photo from Feb. 1, President Obama makes a statement in the Grand Foyer of the White House. From left: Council of Economic Council Chair Christina Romer; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; the president; Budget Director Peter Orszag and chief economic adviser Lawrence Summers. (Associated Press)

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A destroyed home sits abandoned in a low-income neighborhood in Ciudad Mier, Mexico, where a nine-month battle between drug cartels sent most residents fleeing, not to return. Mexicans have been fleeing border towns throughout the Rio Grande Valley. (Associated Press)

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Associated Press A student leader speaks from steps of the Harvard administration building at Cambridge, Mass., in April 1969, as part of a protest against the Reserve Officers Training Corps program at the university. More than 40 years later, will ROTC now be welcomed back at Harvard?

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FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2009 file photo, performers appear on stage at the Miss International Queen 2009 transvestite beauty pageant in Pattaya, Thailand. Thailand's National Film Board has rejected a movie about a transgender father struggling to raise two children, a ban that the director says highlights the conservative side of Thai society despite its freewheeling reputation. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, FILE)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS "A lot of Americans don't make so much money that they itemize their tax returns. But those same Americans own property," said Sen. Max Baucus. "It seems to me that they, too, should have the ability to deduct it."

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Undocumented college student Jorge Herrera, 18, (center) of Carson, Calif., rallies with students and Dream Act supporters in Los Angeles on Dec. 25, 2010. The Dream Act would have given provisional legal status to illegal immigrants brought to the country as children. (Associated Press)

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Victims of a suicide bombing are treated at a hospital in Khar, the main town of Pakistan's Bajur tribal region along Afghan border, on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. A female suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vest, killing scores of people at an aid distribution center, officials said. (AP Photo/Anwarullah Khan)

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Associated Press photographs Demonstrators clash with soldiers Thursday outside the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas. Students protested against a law that increases government powers over the country's universities.