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Police officers detain Russian gay rights activist Nikolai Alexeyev during a rally near city hall in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Moscow police has dispersed a gay rally and detained activists protesting homophobic policies of Moscow authorities. Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has called homosexuals "satanic" and routinely thwarted their attempts to hold a gay pride in Moscow. Police officers detained on Tuesday at least a dozen activists in a Moscow square near the city hall minutes after they brought out a papier-mache mummy that resembled Luzhkov and unfurled posters ridiculing him. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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Police officers detain Russian gay rights activist Nikolai Alexeyev during a rally near city hall in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Moscow police has dispersed a gay rally and detained activists protesting homophobic policies of Moscow authorities. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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Police officers detain gay rights activists during a rally near city hall in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Moscow police has dispersed a gay rally and detained activists protesting homophobic policies of Moscow authorities. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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Police officer detains a gay rights activist during a rally near city hall in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept., 21, 2010. Moscow police has dispersed a gay rally and detained activists protesting homophobic policies of Moscow authorities. Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has called homosexuals "satanic" and routinely thwarted their attempts to hold a gay pride in Moscow. Police officers detained on Tuesday at least a dozen activists in a Moscow square near the city hall minutes after they brought out a papier-mache mummy that resembled Luzhkov and unfurled posters ridiculing him. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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Police officers detain a russian gay rights activist Nikolai Alexeyev holding a puppet of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov during a rally near city hall in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept., 21, 2010. Moscow police has dispersed a gay rally and detained activists protesting homophobic policies of Moscow authorities. Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has called homosexuals "satanic" and routinely thwarted their attempts to hold a gay pride in Moscow. Police officers detained on Tuesday at least a dozen activists in a Moscow square near the city hall minutes after they brought out a papier-mache mummy that resembled Luzhkov and unfurled posters ridiculing him. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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Police officers detain gay rights activists during a rally near city hall in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Moscow police has dispersed a gay rally and detained activists protesting homophobic policies of Moscow authorities. (AP Photo / Sergey Ponomarev)
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Police officers detain gay rights activists during a rally near city hall in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept., 21, 2010. Moscow police has dispersed a gay rally and detained activists protesting homophobic policies of Moscow authorities. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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Recording artist Lady Gaga speaks at a rally in support of repealing the so-called "don't ask, don't tell" law, in Portland, Maine, on Monday, September 20, 2010. The current law bars gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military, and a spokesperson said that Lady Gaga wants Maine's Republican senators to cast votes this week to help repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)
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Recording artist Lady Gaga speaks at a rally in support of repealing the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gay service members, in Portland, Maine, on Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)
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Members of the crowd react to recording artist Lady Gaga as she speaks at a rally in support of repealing the so-called "don't ask, don't tell" law, in Portland, Maine, on Monday, September 20, 2010. The current law bars gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military, and a spokesperson said that Lady Gaga wants Maine's Republican senators to cast votes this week to help repeal the military's "don't ask., don't tell" policy on gays in the military. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)
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Recording artist Lady Gaga speaks at a rally in support of repealing the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gay service members, in Portland, Maine, on Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)
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Recording artist Lady Gaga speaks at a rally in support of repealing the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gay service members, in Portland, Maine, on Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)
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In this July 20, 2010, file photo, Lindsay Lohan is shown in court in Beverly Hills, Calif., where she was taken into custody to serve a jail sentence for probation violation. (AP Photo/Al Seib, file)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Red Shirt protesters against the government cheer Sunday during a rally in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand. Thousands of the demonstrators, who are supporters of deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, took part in a rally marking the fourth anniversary of the military coup that ousted Mr. Thaksin from power. Chiang Mai is his hometown.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS In 1960 in her Georgetown home in Washington, Jacqueline Kennedy works on her weekly column. The newspaper column called "Campaign Wife" included discussion of policies and issues with personal stories and Mrs. Kennedy's advice on everyday matters such as child-rearing and shopping.
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Illustration: Abortion by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times
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Associated Press Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell will address social conservatives in Washington this weekend.
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House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio at a press conference with Republican leaders, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS New York state Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. (top) and New York state Sen. Hiram Monserrate were ousted by voters on Tuesday. Mr. Espada's health care clinic in one of New York's poorest neighborhoods is under investigation for $14 million in government grants it received. Mr. Monserrate was convicted in a domestic violence case involving his girlfriend.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS People wait in Trenton, N.J., in July for the office of the state's Division of Pensions and Benefits to open. The number of public employee retirements in New Jersey is up dramatically this year, in part because of concerns that pension benefits could be cut.
