A Christian pilgrim lights a candle at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher during Palm Sunday vigil on March 15, 2008 in Jerusalem?s Old City, where according to Christian tradition, Jesus Christ rose on the third day following his crucifixion. Christian believers across the world will mark the Holy Week of Easter which celebrates the Resurrection of Christ after his crucifixion on Good Friday. By Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty.
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Cpl Albin Ash swings five-year-old Mia Melugin, whose father GySgt Andy Melugin is serving in Iraq, as Albin and other Marines and Sailors of the 1st Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company (ANGLICO) deploy to Iraq for a seven-month tour in the Al Anbar Province on March 13, 2008 at Camp Pendleton, California. By David McNew/Getty.
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A demonstrator dresses as a ‘detainee’ during a rally to ‘demand Congressional action to stop torture’ by The Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture on Capitol Hill March 10, 2008 in Washington, DC. The ‘spiritually-rooted’ ceremony protested against President George W. Bush’s veto of H.R. 2082 that would prohibit all U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA, from subjecting detainees to waterboarding, stress positions, hypothermia, and other forms of torture. By Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
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Children look out from a gate in the Doura neighborhood March 7, 2008 in Baghdad, Iraq. As the five year anniversary of the ground war approaches, neighborhoods like Doura have witnessed huge improvements in security, with families returning and attacks on American soldiers significantly down from last year. By Spencer Platt/Getty Images.
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World War I veteran Frank Woodruff Buckles, 107, talks with members of the news media after a ceremony unveiling his portrait at the Pentagon March 6, 2008 in Arlington, Virginia. Buckles, who enlisted in the U.S. Army on August 14, 1917, is the last known WWI survivor living in the United States. Buckles’ picture is one of nine portraits of WWI veterans taken by photographer David DeJonge, who has donated them to the Pentagon for permanent display. By Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
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Dennis Choban looks up while he holds a sign while supporters and opponents of marriage equality protest March 4, 2008 in San Francisco, California. The California Supreme Court heard challenges to the law defining marriage as the union between a man and a woman and heard challenges to the law from four lawsuits, three filed by nearly two dozen same sex couples and the fourth by the city of San Francisco. A decision is expected by the California Supreme Court in 90 days. By David Paul Morris/Getty Images.
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The body of five-month old Mohammad Naser Al-Buri lies in the morgue at the Al-shifa hospital before during his funeral February 28, 2008 in Gaza City, Gaza. Al-Buri, who is the son of the UNRWA of Al-shati primary school doorkeeper Naser Al-Buri, was killed while he was sleeping at his home following an Israeli aircraft strike on the home of his family’s neighbor belonging to the Hamas Government’s Interior Minister, Palestinian medical sources said. By Abid Katib/Getty Images.
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A man is blindfolded and detainded by the Iraqi Army for questioning after securing a village thought to be a haven for insurgents February 27, 2008 in Diyala Province, Arab Jabar, Iraq. Diyala Province was until recently the geographical headquarters of al Qaeda in Iraq, where they terrorized citizens and used the strategically located city as a base for operations. With the surge in U.S. troops coupled with the nascent anti-al Quaeda Sunni groups, security in Diyala has improved. By Spencer Platt/Getty Images.
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Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai attends the opening of the The Global Seed Vault on February 26, 2008 in Longyearbyen. The Global Seed Vault has been built in a mountainside cavern on the island of Svalbard, around 1000 km from the North Pole, to store the world’s crop seeds in case of a disaster. By Daniel Sannum Lauten/AFP/Getty Images.









