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A Santa Claus joins shoppers looking at a holiday window display in Juneau, Alaska, on Dec. 3, 2010. The display, at the REACH building, which provides services to assist individuals and families experiencing developmental delays or disabilities, is created each season by REACH facilities director Dan Elstad. (AP Photo/Juneau Empire, Klas Stolpe)
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A cyclist rushes out of the way of hundreds of protesters marching through the city center to protest against the detention of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, in Brisbane, Australia, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard)
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Outside a Beirut church, foreign domestic workers from Ethiopia say they work hard so they can send money to their families at home. They don't want to talk about abuses. (Heather Murdock/Special to The Washington Times)
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Mounted police officers clash with protesters as thousands of students demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament in London in a protest against increase in tuition fees Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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British police officers clash with protesters as thousands of students demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament in London in a protest against an increase in tuition fees Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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Protesters cry out as they stand on the statue of Winston Churchill at Parliament Square in London, as thousands of students demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament in a protest against an increase in tuition fees, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. The House of Commons voted Thursday to increase tuition fees. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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A police officer kicks a demonstrator during a protest against an increase in tuition fees on the edge of Parliament Square in London, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. Police clashed with protesters marching to London's Parliament Square as lawmakers debated a controversial plan to triple university tuition fees in England. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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British police medics carry an injured protester away, as thousands of students demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament in London Thursday Dec. 9, 2010, during a protest against an increase in university tuition fees(AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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A mounted police officer pushes protesters back during a protest against an increase in tuition fees on the edge of Parliament Square in London, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. Police clashed with protesters marching to London's Parliament Square as lawmakers debated a controversial plan to triple university tuition fees in England. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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A police officer pushes a protester during a protest against an increase in tuition fees on the edge of Parliament Square in London, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. Police clashed with protesters marching to London's Parliament Square as lawmakers debated a controversial plan to triple university tuition fees in England. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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British police medics carry an injured protester away, as thousands of students demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament in London Thursday Dec. 9, 2010, during a protest against an increase in university tuition fees(AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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Claes Borgstrom, the lawyer for the two women who claim to have been sexually assaulted by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Sweden in August, talks to media at his office in Stockholm on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010. Mr. Borgstrom, whose office is under police protection, denied that the case had anything to do with WikiLeaks or the current U.S. interest in Mr. Assange. (AP Photo/Anders Wiklund)
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POINTED REMARKS: At a news conference Tuesday, President Obama likened the GOP to hostage-takers, hearkening back to his accusations that Republicans were holding middle-class tax cuts "hostage." (Associated Press)
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Sen. George V. Voinovich, Ohio Republican, a budget hawk, said he will vote against the compromise. (Associated Press)
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Entertainer Bill Cosby, left, and broadcaster Tom Brokaw talk during a news conference for the 2010 National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Awards, in New York, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010. Cosby, who played football at Temple University is the 2010 NFF Gold Medal recipient. Brokaw is the 2010 NFF Distinguished American Award recipient. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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WikiLeaks founder Julian P. Assange (head turned) is driven into Westminster Magistrates Court in London on Tuesday after being arrested on a European Union warrant. He appeared for an extradition hearing in connection with sexual assault allegations in Sweden involving two women. He vowed to fight extradition and was ordered held. (Associated Press)
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Palestinian refugees in Lebanon displaced by war more than three years ago live in temporary apartments that residents say are cramped, musty and bug- and rodent-infested. The U.N. relief agency is far short of the funding needed to rebuild. (Heather Murdock/Special to The Washington Times)
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Few residents of the haphazard refugee camp have any hope of moving home someday, but many still hold on to keys to the houses their families fled in the wars of 1948 and 1967. (Heather Murdock/Special to The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Jeffrey Zarrillo (left) and Paul Katami, plaintiffs in the Proposition 8 gay-marriage case, are seen outside the federal courthouse before a hearing in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Protesters clash with riot police during a rally in Athens on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. Youths hurled rocks and oranges at a government building in central Athens during a student protest to mark two years since the fatal police shooting of a teenage boy that sparked Greece's worst riots in decades. Police closed roads and deployed several thousand officers around the city but maintained a minimal presence at the site where some 1,500 students gathered outside Athens University's main buildings. (AP Photo/Alkis Konstantinidis)
