FILE -- In this Jan. 20, 2009 file photograph provided by Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. , right, poses for a picture with his son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I. , at the inauguration of President Barack Obama at the Capitol in Washington. Congressman Kennedy took out a half-page ad inside front section of Sept. 6, 2009 edition of The Providence Journal thanking his Rhode Island constituents for their support and sympathy after his father's death. AP Photo logo AP Photo 2 months ago

FILE -- In this Jan. 20, 2009 file photograph provided by Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. , right, poses for a picture with his son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I. , at the inauguration of President Barack Obama at the Capitol in Washington. Congressman Kennedy took out a half-page ad inside front section of Sept. 6, 2009 edition of The Providence Journal thanking his Rhode Island constituents for their support and sympathy after his father's death.

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  1. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 28: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), former Senator Edward William Brooke (R-MA), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and Vicki Reggie Kennedy, wife of late Sen. Edward Kennedy, gather onstage after a ceremony to honor Brooke with the Congressional Gold Medal in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on October 28, 2009 in Washington, DC. Brooke, a two-term Republican senator from 1967-1979, was the first African-American elected to the senate by popular vote.
  2. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 09: Vicki Kennedy, wife of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), waits for U.S. President Barack Obama to arrive for a joint session of the U.S. Congress at the U.S. Capitol September 9, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama was scheduled to address the joint session to urge passage of his national health care plan, the centerpiece of his domestic agenda.
  3. FILE -- In this Jan. 20, 2009 file photograph provided by Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., right, poses for a picture with his son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., at the inauguration of President Barack Obama at the Capitol in Washington. Congressman Kennedy took out a half-page ad inside front section of Sept. 6, 2009 edition of The Providence Journal thanking his Rhode Island constituents for their support and sympathy after his father's death.
  4. Visitors pay their respects at the grave of US Senator Edward Kennedy a day after his burial August 30, 2009 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Kennedy died August 25 after a year-long battle with brain cancer.
  5. A cross marks the grave of US Senator Edward Kennedy a day after his burial August 30, 2009 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Kennedy died August 25 after a year-long battle with brain cancer.
  6. A cross marks the grave of US Senator Edward Kennedy a day after his burial August 30, 2009 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Kennedy died August 25 after a year-long battle with brain cancer.
  7. Indonesian activists wear masks featuring US President Barrack Obama (L), Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2nd L), President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso(2nd R) and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during a protest against biodiversity offset programs, in Jakarta on November 18, 2009. Scores of environment activists held a protest against the program of biodiversity offset as they believed that biodiversity offsets are conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects, and is not the real solution and will ruin ecological dignity of developing countries.
  8. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: In this photo illustration, a copy of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' sits on end on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  9. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) open boxes of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' as other books sit on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  10. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Matt Cross (R) puts copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  11. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  12. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  13. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 25: (L-R) Edward Kennedy Jr., Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), Kara Kennedy, Sen. Paul G. Kirk Jr. (D-MA), Gail Kirk and Vice President Joseph Biden gather for a photo during a mock swearing-in ceremony at the US Capitol building on September 25, 2009 in Washington, DC. Senator Kirk, will fill the Senate seat of Sen. Ted Kennedy who died on August 25 of brain cancer.
  14. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 25: Vice President Joseph Biden (L) talks with Sen. Paul G. Kirk Jr. (D-MA) (R), as Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) (2nd-R) and Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) stand nearby during a mock swearing-in ceremony at the US Capitol building on September 25, 2009 in Washington, DC. Senator Kirk, will fill the Senate seat of Sen. Ted Kennedy who died on August 25 of brain cancer.
  15. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I. gestures during a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009.
  16. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I. speaks during a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009.

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  9. ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 28: Giant Pandas Wang Wang and Funi arrive in a crate at Adelaide Airport on November 28, 2009 in Adelaide, Australia. The pandas have travelled from their home in China after the Wenchuan earthquake in May 2008 destroyed the research centre where they resided. Today the duo begin a ten year stay at Adelaide Zoo, with their exhibit being officially opened on December 13. They will be the only Giant Pandas in the Southern Hemisphere and the first to live permanently in Australia.
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