Richard Hale of Port Angeles, Washington, joined about 30 people on the National Mall near the Washington Monument during an anti-illegal-immigrant rally sponsored by the Minuteman Project June 15, 2007 in Washington, DC. By Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
A protesting Buddhist monk sheds tears for other monks arrested by police in downtown Rangoon, 26 September 2007. AFP/Getty.
The first of my favorite seven "Face Of The Day" photographs from the Dish in 2007. I’ll be posting one each day in Christmas week. Some readers ask my criteria for these shots. I guess I’m looking for faces of human beings not always on the front-pages, new ways to illustrate stories around the world that would not be covered on the blog usually, and images that are simply striking, beautiful, rare or revelatory. I scan the Getty photo service each day for them. It’s one of my favorite Daily Dish-tasks – and made possible by the Atlantic‘s subscription.
Rocky Elsom of the Waratahs lies on the pitch after being knocked out during the round six Super 14 match between the Waratahs and the Bulls at Aussie Stadium March 10, 2007 in Sydney, Australia. By Cameron Spencer/Getty Images.
A customer at St. George Spirits tastes the new St. George Absinthe Verte December 21, 2007 in Alameda, California. St. George Spirits became the first distillery to sell Absinthe in the United States since its ban in 1912 after they sold a token bottle on December 3rd. They released their first production run of 3600 bottles today with a price tag of $75 per bottle. By Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.
Hippies like absinthe?
US President George W. Bush holds a press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room 20 December, 2007 at the White House in Washington, DC. Bush said Thursday that his biggest concern about Afghanistan was that US allies would get ‘tired’ and abandon the strife-torn country. ‘My biggest concern is that people say ‘well, we’re kind of tired of Afghanistan, therefore we think we’re going to leave,” the US president said at a year-end press conference. By Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty.
Zaire, a female gorilla, eats Christmas treats from a stocking at London Zoo’s Gorilla Kingdom enclosure on December 18, 2007 in London. Gorilla Kingdom was opened by The Duke of Edinburgh in March 2007 as part of a three year re-furbishment of the Zoo. By Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images.
Supporters of African National Congress (ANC) deputy President Jacob Zuma are reshowing their support to their candidate on the second day of the ANC 52nd National Congress in Polokwane, 17 December 2007. Jacob Zuma, sacked by Mbeki as deputy head of state in 2005, is the hot favorite to overthrow the incumbent in a move which would severely dent the president’s authority in his last two years as head of state. By Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty.
A tourist enjoys a therapy spa in a hot spring resort, home to ‘Doctor Fish’ on December 15, 2007 in Chongqing Municipality, China. Doctor fish are freshwater fish traditionally used in areas of Turkey for treatment of skin diseases such as psoriasis; they eat the affected and dead areas of the skin, leaving the healthy skin to grow. By China Photos/Getty Images.
A Roma girl covers up in the Cesmin Lug refugee camp in the Serbian district December 12, 2007 in Kosovo province, Serbia. One hundred and fourty-four refugees live in the camp near toxic metal waste left by the Trepca mines, living in extremely poor conditions with no running water. Members of the Roma minority were forced to flee their homes in the Mahala district in southern Mitrovica during the Kosovo war in the 1999. They settled in the Serb-populated northern side of the divided province. By Carsten Koall/Getty Images.
Eleven-year-old Chinese girl Ren Xin, who has an excrescent hand on her back, looks tearful prior to her surgery, at the Armed Police General Hospital on December 12, 2007 in Beijing, China. Ren Xin, who is from the heavily polluted Shanxi Province in northern China, suffers from Congenital Scoliosis and parasitic fetus. Surgeons were preparing to remove the hand today and will perform a scoliosis correction operation in three months time. According to reports, the number of Chinese babies born with birth defects such as cleft lip and palates, and extra fingers and toes, has increased by 6 per cent each year, and babies born with disabilities now accounting for up to 40 per cent since 2001 and there are concerns that this may be related to environmental pollution. By China Photos/Getty Images.
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