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In this Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 photo, Immigration attorney Ira Kurzban is shown in his office in Miami. Kurzban co-founded Immigrants List, the nation's first major pro-comprehensive reform PAC. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

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Pro-immigration ... In this Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 photo, Immigration attorney Ira Kurzban is shown in his office in Miami. Kurzban co-founded Immigrants List, the nation's first major pro-comprehensive reform PAC. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Vicki Kennedy de... In this photo taken Nov. 20, 2009 and released by Harpo Productions, Inc., talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, right, talks with Vicky Kennedy, wife of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, in her first television interview since her husband's passing during taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." The episode will air on Wednesday, Nov. 25. (AP Photo/Harpo Productions Inc., George Burns)
Shuttle Atlantis... This image from NASA TV shows the Space Shuttle Atlantis doing it's fly around passing behind the Russian segment of the International Space Station shortly after undocking from the International Space Station early Wednesday Nov. 25, 2009. The Poisk can be seen at right. The shuttle is scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center, Friday morning. The (AP Photo/NASA)
Salvation Army's... Seth Trumbley, 6, of Colorado Springs, Col., prepares to drop a few coins into a Salvation Army red kettle on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. The city is one of 30 nationwide to add card readers for donations with credit or debit cards as fewer shoppers carry cash. But so far, most donors continue dropping change or small bills in the kettles. (AP Photo/Kristen Wyatt)
Americans search... Todd Marzano, wipes his eyes while waiting in line for tickets at Denver International Airport during the busy Thanksgiving holiday travel season in Denver, Colo., on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Chris Schneider)
Mom of teen set ... Valerie Brewer speaks about the recovery of her son Michael, 15, who was burned over 65 percent of his body after being doused with rubbing alcohol by a group of bullies, during an interview at Jackson Memorial hospital in Miami Wednesday Nov 25, 2009. (AP Photo/David Adame)
Gay marriage mom... In this photo taken Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 Drew Grande, of Manchester, N.H., left, Nicole Wilson, of Providence, R.I., center, and Josh Atwood, of Hampden, Maine, right, participate in a candlelight vigil in front of the Statehouse, in Providence. The vigil, sponsored by several groups that support equal rights for same-sex couples, was meant to draw attention to a failed bill that would have given equal rights to same-sex partners following the death of a partner or loved one. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Lambert says he ... Singer Adam Lambert appears on CBS's' "The Early Show" in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)
Authorities: Han... Kentucky State Police Capt. Lisa Rudzinski shows how "fed" was written from the bottom up as she answers questions regarding the death of Kentucky census worker Bill Sparkman Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, at the Kentucky State Police Central Forensic Laboratory in Frankfort, Ky. The Kentucky census worker found naked, bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree with "fed" scrawled on his chest killed himself but staged his death to make it look like a homicide, authorities said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Brian Bohannon)
Panel 1st up in ... FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 file photo, South Carolina's Gov. Mark Sanford listens as his attorney Butch Bowers talks about the actions of the Ethics Commission during a news conference, at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina legislators upset with Gov. Mark Sanford's summer disappearance to see his lover in Argentina on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, began debating a measure that ultimately would remove him from office. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
New details emer... This undated family photo made availableby his family in Minneapolis shows Mohamud Said Omar. In custody in the Netherlands at the request of U.S. authorities, officials say Omar is being held in connection with the FBI's investigation into the disappearance of up to 20 young Somali men who left the Minneapolis area over the last two years for Somalia. Documents unsealed Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 allege he was involved with many of the young men who left Minneapolis in waves - from December 2007 through November 2008. (AP Photo/Family of Mohamud Said Omar)
Paltry sale for ... FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2005, file photo, the Silverdome is seen in Pontiac, Mich. A judge has cleared the way for the city to sell the stadium that was once home to the NFL's Detroit Lions to a Canadian company for $583,000. The Lions abandoned the 80,300-seat Silverdome in 2002, when they moved to Detroit's Ford Field. Pontiac has been spending $1.5 million a year to maintain the largely unused stadium. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
Tamiflu-resistan... Orlando Magic forward Rashard Lewis, right, backs into Charlotte Bobcats forward Stephen Jackson during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Orlando, Fla., Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
Mother of missin... In this undated photo provided by the City of Fayetteville Police Department, Antoinette Nicole Davis. Davis, the mother of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis, faces a child abuse charge involving prostitution as well as filing a false police report, according to a news release from the Fayetteville Police Department. (AP Photo/City of Fayetteville Police Department)
AP: Palin book g... In this book cover image released by Harper, "Going Rogue: An American Life," by Sarah Palin, is shown. (AP Photo/Harper)
Evangelist sente... FILE - In this Tuesday, July 14, 2009 file photo, Evangelist Tony Alamo, center is led from the federal courthouse in downtown Texarkana Ark. The aging preacher, 75, faces up to a 175-year sentence from U.S. District Judge Harry F. Barnes when he returns to a Texarkana, Ark., federal courtroom on FridayNov. 13. A jury convicted him in July of 10 counts of taking underage girls as young as 8 across state lines for sex. (AP Photo/Texarkana Gazette, Evan Lewis) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALES
Chesapeake crabb... Joe Palmer, owner of Joey's Crab Company, sets out in his skiff for a day of crabbing on Lynnhaven bay in Virginia Beach, Va., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Report: 10 state... FILE - In this Friday, July 19, 2009 file photo, security guard Suresh Sonpaki walks in front of the doors of a closed Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office in San Francisco. California's ongoing fiscal crisis has attracted national attention, but a study warns that nine other states are barreling toward similar economic disaster. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Navajo Code Talk... In this Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009 photo, Keith Little, 85, of Crystal, N.M., attends a book signing with fellow Navajo Code Talkers in Albuquerque, N.M. Little will join 12 other Navajo Code Talkers in the New York City Veteran's Day Parade on Wednesday, Nov. 11. Navajo Marines helped the U.S. prevail at Iwo Jima and other World War II Pacific battles with an unbreakable code that stymied the Japanese. The code of Navajo language-encrypted military terms used to transit secret tactical messages was classified for decades after the war - and was so complex that even Navajos Marines who weren't in the elite unit could't decipher it. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)
Rihanna talks ab... Singer Rihanna poses for a portrait in New York Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri)
AP Top Entertain... FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2009, file photo House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Md. speaks during a news conference about health care on Capitol Hill in Washington. "We're very close" to having enough votes to prevail, said Hoyer of the health care reform bill Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, although he added a scheduled Saturday vote could slip by a day or two. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, FILE)
Stepfather convi... Royce Clyde Zeigler II, left, enters the 10th District Court in Galveston, Texas on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. Zeigler is accused of killing Riley Ann Sawyers, whose unidentified body was dubbed "Baby Grace" when found in a plastic container in Galveston Bay. (AP Photo/Jennifer Reynolds, Pool)
Crowds roar, con... New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez, right, and teammate Francisco Cervelli wave from a float during a ticker-tape parade along Broadway celebrating their 27th World Series championship on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
Texas sect man g... Raymond Jessop, left, the first man to face criminal charges following the raid of a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch in April, 2008, is seen outside the courtroom during a recess in his trial in Eldorado, Texas on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. He could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison if convicted of sexual assault of a child, a charge stemming from his alleged marriage to an underage girl. His father, Merril Jessop, is in the background. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)
Former HP CEO Fi... FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2008, file photo Carly Fiorina, former chairwoman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. speaks at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. After months of speculation but few public appearances, Fiorina was expected to announce her plans Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, for the U.S. Senate seat held by liberal stalwart Barbara Boxer of California. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)