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This image made from video released by CNBC, shows President Barack Obama getting ready to smack a fly dead during an interview with CNBC correspondent John Harwood, left, in the White House on Tuesday June 16, 2009 in Washington.

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  1. NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 16: CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo and rapper Calvin 'Snoop Dogg' Broadus prepare to ring the opening bell at the start of 'Mentoring Madness' at the New York Stock Exchange on November 16, 2009 in New York City.
  2. Microsoft Corporation founder Bill Gates listens to a question as he appears with investor Warren Buffett for a town hall style meeting with business students broadcast by the financial television network CNBC at Columbia University in New York November 12, 2009.
  3. BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 30: CNBC journalist Ross Westgate holds a copy of The Sun newspaper outside the Grand Hotel at The Labour Party Conference on September 30, 2009 in Brighton, England. The Sun, Britain's biggest selling daily newspaper, has switched it's support for the governinig Labour Party to the opposition Conservative Party. A general election is due sometime in 2010.
  4. NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 25: CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo hosts a panel on finance at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) September 25, 2009 in New York City. The fifth annual meeting of the CGI gathers prominent individuals in politics, business, science, academics, religion and entertainment to discuss global issues such as climate change and peace in the Middle East. The event, founded by Clinton after he left office, is held the same week as the General Assembly at the United Nations, when most world leaders are in New York City.

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  1. RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2009 - A passenger, wearing a thermo blanket walks away from a Turkish Airlines passenger plane which crashed while attempting to land at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport February 25, 2009. The plane broke up when it hit the ground next to the runway with the tail section of the fuselage broken off, and a wide crack in the fuselage just behind the cockpit. The jetliner did not appear to be on fire. As many as 50 passengers escaped injury, the CNBC Turkey channel said. Officials at Istanbul's Ataturk airport said the plane had departed earlier from Istanbul.
  2. NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 16: CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo prepares to ring the opening bell at the start of 'Mentoring Madness' at the New York Stock Exchange on November 16, 2009 in New York City.
  3. NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 16: Rapper Calvin 'Snoop Dogg' Broadus, center, stands with dignitaries including CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo and Starwood Capital Group Chairman and CEO Barry Sternlicht as they prepare to ring the opening bell at the start of 'Mentoring Madness' at the New York Stock Exchange on November 16, 2009 in New York City.
  4. NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 16: Rapper Calvin 'Snoop Dogg' Broadus, center, stands with dignitaries including CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo and Starwood Capital Group Chairman and CEO Barry Sternlicht as they prepare to ring the opening bell at the start of 'Mentoring Madness' at the New York Stock Exchange on November 16, 2009 in New York City.
  5. NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 16: CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo and TOMS Shoes Founder Blake Mycoskie prepare to ring the opening bell at the start of 'Mentoring Madness' at the New York Stock Exchange on November 16, 2009 in New York City.
  6. NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 16: Rapper Calvin 'Snoop Dogg' Broadus stands with CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo and TOMS Shoes Founder Blake Mycoskie, on left, as they prepare to ring the opening bell at the start of 'Mentoring Madness' at the New York Stock Exchange on November 16, 2009 in New York City.
  7. U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (L) greets U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ)(2nd L), House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH)(2nd R) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) after a meeting between Congressional leadership and President Barack Obama on Afghanistan and Pakistan at the White House in Washington, October 6, 2009.
  8. L-R: House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-OH, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-MD, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, and Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member John McCain walk on a path on the North Lawn of the White House following a meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan with US President Barack Obama October 6, 2009 in Washington, DC.
  9. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, speaks to reporters as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, looks on in front of the West Wing after a meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan with US President Barack Obama October 6, 2009 at the White House in Washington, DC. Obama Tuesday sat down with senior lawmakers driving a raging debate on US Afghan strategy, as he works towards a decision on whether to send thousands more troops to war. Democratic and Republican leaders plus top members of key congressional committees met the president at the White House touting sharply conflicting visions of the next steps in the unpopular eight-year US military operation. Obama is methodically working through an internal policy review after US commander General Stanley McChrystal warned the war could be lost within a year without more troops, and reportedly asked for 40,000 more men.
  10. House Minority Leader John Boehner (C), R-OH, chats with Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member John McCain (L), R-AZ, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, near the West Wing after a meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan with US President Barack Obama October 6, 2009 at the White House in Washington, DC. Obama Tuesday sat down with senior lawmakers driving a raging debate on US Afghan strategy, as he works towards a decision on whether to send thousands more troops to war. Democratic and Republican leaders plus top members of key congressional committees met the president at the White House touting sharply conflicting visions of the next steps in the unpopular eight-year US military operation. Obama is methodically working through an internal policy review after US commander General Stanley McChrystal warned the war could be lost within a year without more troops, and reportedly asked for 40,000 more men.
  11. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 06: U.S Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (R) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) (L) walk away from reporters after talking outside the White House following a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama along with other members of Congress October 6, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama met with Congressional leadership and the chairs and ranking members of the relevant committees to discuss planning for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
  12. U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) speak about their meeting between Congressional leadership and President Barack Obama on Afghanistan and Pakistan at the White House in Washington, October 6, 2009.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.

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