President Obama is congratulated by third-grader Luis Avilar-Turcios, 8, after signing the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 at Harriet Tubman Elementary School in the District. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut Democrat (left), and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat (second from left), also attended. (Associated Press)
Elite gendarme officers release children from a school, after an hostage taking in Besancon, eastern France, Monday Dec.13, 2010. Gendarmes entered the pre-school where a 17-year-old armed with swords was holding several small children and their teacher hostage in eastern France. A city official says police have detained the 17-year-old, and that all the children have been released safely. (AP Photo)
Elite police take position at a school during an hostage taking in Besancon, eastern France, Monday Dec.13, 2010. Gendarmes entered the pre-school where a 17-year-old armed with swords was holding several small children and their teacher hostage in eastern France. A city official says police have detained the 17-year-old, and that all the children have been released safely. (AP Photo)
An elite police climbs into a school during an hostage taking in Besancon, eastern France, Monday Dec.13, 2010. Gendarmes entered the pre-school where a 17-year-old armed with swords was holding several small children and their teacher hostage in eastern France. A city official says police have detained the 17-year-old, and that all the children have been released safely.(AP Photo)
Relatives of children and onlookers react outside a school, during an hostage taking in Besancon, eastern France, Monday Dec.13, 2010. Gendarmes entered the pre-school where a 17-year-old armed with swords was holding several small children and their teacher hostage in eastern France. A city official says police have detained the 17-year-old, and that all the children have been released safely. (AP Photo/Str)
Former Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, Delaware Republican, contributed two of the quotes on a Yale Law School librarian's "top-10 quotes of the year." (Associated Press)
Art teacher Nafeesah Shabazz instructs drawing student Mignon Hemsley, a 17-year-old senior, at the Thurgood Marshall Academy in Anacostia on Wednesday. (J.M. Eddins/The Washington Times)
In this Thursday Dec. 9, 2010 photo, Charlie Gilmour, the son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, is seen participating in a demonstration in central London against government plans to triple tuition fees. Charlie Gilmour has issued a public apology for climbing on top of one of Britain's most important war memorials and trying to rig a British flag during the violent student protests against rising university fees. He added in a statement Friday Dec. 10, 2010 that he was ashamed for his 'moment of idiocy' and he did not realize the Cenotaph in central London commemorates Britain's war dead. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Auburn quarterback Cameron Newton is pictured at the university in Auburn, Ala., Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010. Newton is a finalist for the Heisman Trophy which is awarded to the nation's top college football player each year. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
